The Price of Life (1)
1.
Range attacks were troublesome because it was hard to find out when or where the attacks would come from.
On the contrary, range attacks weren’t hard to defend against if a player knew where the attacks would come from.
Then there was only figuring out when they would come.
At this moment, players were divided into two groups. The experienced group and the inexperienced group.
Beginners tried to hide like a turtle hiding inside its shell.
It wasn’t bad like there wasn’t a savage beast trying to bite the turtle’s shell on purpose.
But in the end, a confrontation would happen and the defending player would lose in many ways.
On the other hand, professional players did the opposite.
They pretended not to notice the enemy and gave the enemy some time to pull his bowstring.
It was throwing bait.
Of course, the enemy wouldn’t be stupid, so they’d think.
If they acted poorly, the enemy would find out.
Therefore, this was for players who knew how to play a game.
Midas was obviously one of them.
Cling!
As soon as an arrow flew towards Midas, Gold turned his body and blocked it with his shield.
‘Got him!’
Midas knew that someone was chasing him earlier.
It was obvious why a player followed Midas while keeping his distance in the hunting field. Players were normally busy with their own businesses.
If it was an ordinary hunting field, Midas would run away with all his efforts.
‘I guess he’s after me because it’s the swamp…..’
However, Midas changed his mind since he was at the swamp.
‘You’re fucked up, asshole.’
He decided to hunt the player.
“Fireball and Fire Spear.”
Midas strengthened his determination and prepared to counterattack.
2.
Clang!
As soon as his arrow was suddenly blocked by the guardian’s shield, Lail figured out that he’s the one who bit the bait.
‘I’m trapped.’
That was it.
He was surprised but didn’t fall into a panic.
He started playing God Wars and became one of the main range dealers in the Seven Stars union.
He was too professional to fall into a panic and be flustered.
‘Huh.’
Instead, he pulled his bowstring again.
“Reset Guidance.”
Then he reset the option of the Wiga bow and aimed at the target.
He didn’t need the Guidance since 120 meters was enough for him to hit it.
That was why he was paid several hundred thousand dollars in the game.
“Piercing.”
He was so relaxed while using the skill.
‘It’s going to take more than 30 seconds to come to me in this swamp.’
This was why he chose the swamp to do his side job.
Lail had a very high accuracy rate and range. He could finish whoever came towards him within 120 meters.
The only variable was that the player was second to Lail.
‘You can’t hit me with a magi……’
However, Lail didn’t bear the variable in mind before he saw a fireball flying exactly towards him.
“What?”
Bam!
Soon, the fireball hit Lail’s head right away.
The impact wasn’t that strong.
When compared to a snowball, it was a snowball that had a lump of ice inside.
However, Lail’s body was figuring out it wasn’t an ordinary impact.
[ You have been critically attacked. ]
Even an alert was telling him that the attack wasn’t a joke.
Of course, Lail gathered his senses soon in that situation and let go of the bowstring.
The arrow flew and definitely hit something.
Clang!
“You dare break through me!”
It was Gold’s shield.
That was still amazing because others couldn’t even hit a target that far.
Lail moved his position to the right side of a thick tree after the second attack.
When he finished moving, his bowstring was already pulled.
“Reset Guidance.”
Then he reset the option of the Wiga bow.
He was trying not to hit the guardian but his owner.
‘How dare a magician counterattack against an archer. I’ll make you a hedgehog with my arrows.’
A magician needed to cast a spell and to stand with his or her legs on the ground to do that, unlike Lail.
Plus, Lail had the Wiga’s bow.
Once he hit a target, he didn’t have to aim at it after that.
He only had to pull the bowstring and let go of it.
If he pushed ahead with the number of arrows he had, there was no reason to lose.
Everyone would agree with this.
Of course, Midas knew about that as well.
3.
‘It’s a moron if a magician tries to fight against an archer.’
After Midas figured out how far the opponent was and that the opponent was an archer, he didn’t think about fighting directly.
“Lightning Speed!”
So, he didn’t hesitate to activate the fastest weapon he had.
Woof!
[ All of Lucky’s stats have risen. ]
Lucky was already moving and he started to speed after Midas yelled and his body shined with yellow light.
Lail’s reaction was simple when Lucky appeared.
He ignored Lucky and only aimed at Midas.
Clang!
“My lord, you’re in danger!”
Arrows struck Gold’s shield.
Midas shouted in the back of Gold.
“Gold, move forward.”
“I’ll serve your order!”
Gold didn’t hesitate to walk on the swamp with the shield in front of him and Midas followed him.
Lail couldn’t expect that in the situation.
The moving spell was essential for magicians to move while casting.
Also, the spell was only for players above level 80.
It meant that Midas gave up on casting a spell.
‘He’s going to misunderstand that I’m just earning extra time for cooldown.’
There was only one way that Lail could think of. He would think that Midas was closing the distance and was going to cast a spell whenever the cooldown time was ready.
‘Yeap, I’m earning cooldown time, but I won’t only do that.’
It was literally a trick.
Midas never thought about doing anything while moving.
“Inventory.”
He opened his inventory and put his hand inside.
When he pulled out his hand from it, there was a rock in his hand.
The rock was a perfect size to be a baseball.
‘Let me show you how humanity used a rock first not a bow.’
He grabbed the rock, checked the target’s location, then threw it.
What’s the most important aspect of PK?
Needless to say, it was an item.
The weight class had to be similar to fight. Heavyweight and lightweight couldn’t match.
Then what would be the most important when the weight class was similar?
It would obviously be an ability.
It was normal for a player with a better ability to win.
Midas knew about that so well.
‘If he knew who I am and still came to hunt me alone, he must be so confident in his ability.’
Besides, there was no possibility that the hunter after him would be an amateur.
So, Midas planned tactics to flush the opponent’s plan and make him feel bewildered and tear his hair out.
Bang!
His tactics just hit Lail’s head.
An arrow flew towards Gold at the same time and a heavy hit sounded.
Thud!
But the arrow passed by Gold’s body and hit the muddy ground.
‘Ok.’
The damage from throwing the rock wasn’t that high.
It only worked for goblins or orcs.
In return, it was efficient to mess up with the opponent’s aim.
The small wobble became a miss after 100 meters.
That was the main tactic.
‘I guess he didn’t plan to attack many times because there’s no way Lucky doesn’t know that.’
The opponent must know about Lucky who broke the swordsman’s fastest record for the dungeon in the Dorido mine.
He definitely watched a video of Lucky fighting and finished figuring out a safe distance to run away from Lucky safely in the swamp.
And he probably concluded the number of opportunities to attack BJ Archmage with the distance that he calculated.
The number wouldn’t be many.
It would be a maximum of 7 to 8 times.
Midas only had to make him lose his chances.
‘He’s gotta feel nervous by this attack.’
Lail already lost one chance, so he couldn’t help being more careful the next time.
Being more careful would delay additional time.
While Lail was delaying more time, Midas closed the distance quickly with Gold.
Splash, Splash!
He walked step by step in the swamp where his knees fell into.
Gold perfectly hid his upper body with the shield while his lower body was inside the swamp.
Growl!
In the meantime, Lucky was quickly closing the distance.
The opponent was still wasting his time.
Then, he changed his mind.
He turned around.
It seemed like he realized that the situation turned bad and decided to run away.
‘As I expected!’
At that moment, Midas threw a fire spear that was already cast.
The fire spear flew sharply and soon became a spear shape.
Thwap!
The fire spear reached the target’s back.
Thud!
At the same time, the attack hit him, his body fell to the muddy swamp right away.
‘Ok.’
The game was practically over.
Lail already lost at least 3 to 4 seconds.
Woof!
Lucky was closing the distance within 50 meters, and he could reduce it within 20 meters within the time.
In the situation, Midas started to make him panic more.
“Everyone, I finally caught the bastard who was coming after me!”
He was putting emotional and mental pressure on him while shouting with all his efforts.
At the same time, he was also closing the distance quickly.
Closer he was reaching Lail, more clearly he could see his information.
‘Name, I need the name.’
He checked the character’s name first.
‘I’ll destroy you so that you can’t do this to me again.’
If this side character’s name was the same as his main one, he was going to make him pay for this incident.
Soon, he could check it.
‘The name is Lail-AAAA13……’
At that moment, Midas came up with something.
‘The sniper from the Seven Stars Union, Lola’s previous character?’
Lola.
He knew about him more than anyone.
‘It’s certain. It’s Lola’s first character. I used to hunt with him several times at the Cursed Forest.’
Midas heard a story about him many times since he started God Wars.
That was how Midas knew about Lola’s situation so well.
This character was Lail’s first character, but he created another character called Lola and made it his main one since it got a unique class, a shooter class.
After that, Lail was forgotten from people’s minds, and only Lola was left.
‘Why the hell is he coming after me?’
Midas couldn’t help being shocked.
Why on earth did the man with a six-digit salary log into his side character to kill Midas?
However, he didn’t have time to be relieved from shock.
What he had to know at that moment was a different one.
‘W, wait!’
What would happen to Midas if he killed the main range dealer in the Seven Stars Union, Lola?
‘I’m going to get fucked up if I kill that bastard!’
At least one thing that Midas knew of the Seven Stars Union or the player, Lola, was that they weren’t kind.
If they were, Lola wouldn’t hide with his side character and come after Midas.
When Midas came to the ideas, he shouted, “Lucky, stop!”
Woof?
Lucky left about 5 meters and stopped at his owner’s shout.
“Definitely my lord! I will directly take care of the bastard who impudently threatened you!”
Gold confidently shouted.
“You stop too.”
Of course, Midas shut Gold’s mouth soon.
Midas put his brain to work for a while and then shouted.
“I’ll finish broadcasting for now!”
Then he shouted at the opponent.
“Hey, you. You’re Lola from the Seven Stars Union, right?”
5.
“You’re Lola, right?”
Lail, no, Lola, didn’t answer the question.
Correctly speaking, he couldn’t.
‘H, how?’
He never imagined a situation where the opponent instantly figured out who he was.
Lola got ready to counterattack instead of answering him.
It was to prevent the opponent from doubting his words.
He was going to take the Fifth.
“This character. It’s the character that you used to play with before your shooter class one. Isn’t the character’s name Lail?”
Lola still closed his mouth tight.
And he stopped thinking about counterattacking.
“Oh, this is troublesome. I should’ve let the drunkard know about this.”
Also, he couldn’t take the Fifth anymore after the words because Lola also knew the drunkard.
‘You don’t say, the guild master?’
The Seven Stars Union’s leader, Diony.
He was such an extraordinary existence to other players, but he was called the drunkard by his close acquaintances.
In other words, the nickname was only known by his friends.
“But still, how can he try to kill me with a side character just because I didn’t tell him? Did he tell you to kill me? Did he tell you to make me waste 80 hours?”
As Midas continued talking, Lola was getting confused.
“Or you don’t say, are you secretly doing a part-time job to earn some money? Did somebody say that he’s going to give you $10,000 if you kill me? You received a PK request? That’s definitely going against the rules from the guild.”
However, it was getting even more confusing after that.
Midas threw a critical attack on him.
“Hey, aren’t you going to answer? Are you going to answer me when I talk to your boss directly and face him for real? Do you want me to show you who I am?”
When Midas said that, Lola didn’t take the Fifth anymore.
He opened his mouth.
“Well……… I’m sorry.”
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