One Man Army - Chapter 11

Chapter 11

“Let’s finish up after killing a few more.”

Both of them had pretty high VRA measurements and had quite good understanding of games so they could rush ahead of the others. However, they took one wrong path and it was to become a malefactor.

“There are so many malefactors nowadays that the number of users we can rob have decreased.”

“Should we rob a malefactor instead then?”

Malefactors could kill each other. However, there was nothing to be gained from doing that.
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“We can’t help it. Other than malefactors that get in our way, we need to ignore the rest of them.”

On top of that, they had the Ancient Knowledge ‘Archer’ and “Swordsman’ respectively. Two high-level malefactors with Ancient Knowledge.

“Let’s look around a little more.”
The two malefactors went around looking for prey. They went around the Valley of the Dead like hyenas looking for prey.

“Pant…… pant…….”

The user that Tao Xin and Qin Jiming had found around 10 minutes ago was a perfect prey in their eyes. Well, they thought so until that user instantly slashed Qin Jiming’s head off.

Tao Xin and Qin Jiming’s PK style was that usually Tao Xin would shoot an arrow first to harass them and Qin Jiming would ambush the player.

However, that user…… easily dodged Tao Xin’s arrow. With Tao Xin’s long-range harassment not working, Qin Jiming’s ambush naturally failed as well. In fact, Qin Jiming was defeated instead.

Ironically, both Qin Jiming and Tao Xin were malefactors so they could hurt each other. Like that, an element that normal users wouldn’t have to worry about became a fatal weakness to the malefactors and in the end, Tao Xin and Qin Jiming became hindrances to each other.

Those three slashes easily hit Qin Jiming’s arm, body and neck and he was defeated that easily.

‘Just where the hell did such a monster pop out from?’
Tao Xin had killed a fair share of players until now, but this was a first time for him. In fact, the two had killed users that were pretty high level and had a lot of experi

ence.

‘No one can win against this…….’

*Swoosh, crack!*

“Errgh!”

Tao Xin thought that he’d be able to run away from Sanghyuk, but unfortunately, that was impossible.

So, Sanghyuk took a shortcut and blocked Tao Xin’s front.

Shouted Tao Xin in Chinese. However, Sanghyuk understood his words. This was possible thanks to the real-time interpretation system for Dream Network, developed 5 years ago.

The moment Tao Xin spoke, his words would naturally be translated and would appear on the right of Sanghyuk’s vision. Since it took less than 1 second for the text to appear, there were no hindrances in real-time conversation.

“That’s not the important thing right now, is it?”

Sanghyuk had no time to have a chat with a malefactor. His head was currently filled with the thoughts to kill 100 malefactors as quickly as possible and acquire the First Malefactor Hunter title.

And a follow up Triple Slash!

“Urgh!”

It wasn’t like Tao Xin’s health had dropped completely so he tried to fight back. The white light scattering from various parts of his body signified that his state wasn’t good, but it wasn’t enough to make him collapse yet.

In the end, Tao Xin couldn’t even last one minute.

Even Qin Jiming couldn’t last 3 minutes with his ‘Swordsman’ Ancient Knowledge, it was natural for Tao Xin to last even less.

In the end, The moment Tao Xin’s life became 0, Sanghyuk’s Traveller’s Treasure sword pierced his heart.

“This is the forty-seventh…….”

There were 53 remaining now, and at this pace, he would be able to finish all 100 in 4 days.

Half the users he discovered were malefactors.

‘Looks like I should commission the miscellaneous items in Falcon City and come back again.’

Since Sanghyuk intended to hunt them down anyway, everything was a profit. Actually, killing malefactors was a quicker way to gather karma.

“There were no fatal bugs, and there were four cases of minor NPC AI errors. Those four were already fixed by ‘Chaos’ with its internal correction program.”

Since this was a meeting to check everything after the official launch, team leaders of all departments had participated via video calls.

Chaos was the single greatest artificial intelligence program developed by Raonsoft through 10 years of research. In fact, EL was born practically thanks to Chaos alone.

Of course, just because Chaos was there didn’t mean that the development team was unnecessary. Chaos itself needed to be managed by the development team, so President Seo Wontae of Raonsoft always looked after the development team.

“It’s increasing rapidly. Since there were praises after praises of EL’s game elements in almost all existing communities, the number of users are expected to increase even faster in the future.”

“Yes, as long as the number of users increases, there will be plenty of companies wanting to advertise in our game.”

Smiled Seo Wontae lightly. At first, even the invincible president was nervous, but right now, he was sure that EL was a huge hit.

“The number of increasing malefactors is a slight concern.”

“We cannot interfere with the game just because the number of malefactors increased. I will repeat this again, but Eternal Life pursues infinite freedom. So the number of malefactors should be overcome by the users themselves.”

“Sheesh, you still don’t get it. Did I say that you had to stay still? We may not be able to interfere with the actual game, but we can from outside the game. For example, if you secretly leak the information on how you can get large rewards by killing malefactors on several online communities, this will no longer be a problem. Do I really need to tell you this? I already allowed controlling the game balance in a way that it doesn’t impact the game much.”

“The operation team too. Don’t just fool around because you don’t need to monitor the game much and look into the direction that the users are going towards by looking at various online communities. We need to be aware of all the changes that are occurring within the game.”

Direct intervention in the game wasn’t allowed, but indirect control from outside the game was allowed. This was how he operated EL.