Chapter 32

His movement was restricted.

The enemy knew his location, but he didn’t know the enemy’s position.

It was truly an unfavorable situation.

There were only a few ways to overcome this.

‘Either hide.’

Or lure the enemy in.

Seo-jun walked slowly into an alley with fewer people.

And at that moment, the shadow beneath his feet transformed into a hand shape and shot out, grabbing Seo-jun’s ankle.

If he hadn’t stopped his body immediately, he would have fallen over.

Seo-jun spoke with a bewildered expression.

“Uh, how many seconds does this binding last?”

It was a skill used by players in Assassin’s Dawn.

Naturally, Seo-jun had never used it, so he didn’t know the detailed aspects.

“Nameless, remember this. Excessive cosmos blocks personal growth.”

A voice came from behind.

Before any chat could come up to give him information, a threatening axe blade came rushing horizontally toward Seo-jun’s head.

Seo-jun quickly ducked his head to dodge.

With his ankle caught, he couldn’t turn his body.

What kind of assassin uses an axe?

He’s not even a barbarian warrior.

Whoooosh!

The axe that sliced through the air where Seo-jun’s head had been struck the wall, and red bricks shattered and scattered.

“My ankle’s free now.”

Seo-jun immediately spun his body while grabbing the assassin’s head with his hand and slammed it into the wall just the same.

A stun effect was applied.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Normally when a stun effect occurs, they just crouch for a few seconds, but since this was during quest progression, once Seo-jun stunned the NPCs, they didn’t wake up again.

‘This much should be given.’

Seo-jun went deeper into the alley.

-Where’s the streamer going?

-Wouldn’t narrow places be more disadvantageous?

-How can sparrows and swallows understand the hearts of geese and swans? Tsk tsk tsk

-You don’t know either lol

-LOL

Seo-jun went deeper while checking above.

On the rooftop behind Seo-jun, an assassin with a hood pulled up so only his nose and mouth were visible was aiming at Seo-jun with a bow.

“I thought so.”

And looking ahead, another assassin was jumping down toward Seo-jun.

The sight of the assassination blade protruding from the back of his hand and his fluttering sleeves looked like an eagle.

“First.”

He parries the falling sword.

How?

As long as you hit the tip of the blade precisely at the right timing.

Swish.

The shadow that had become a hand again climbed up like a vine and grabbed his ankle.

Seo-jun didn’t mind it and focused on the tip of the sword he was holding.

‘So the direction of force becomes vertical.’

He gripped the sword with both hands, raised it behind his head, then swung it down.

Claaaang!

It hit precisely.

He struck accurately at the needle-thin thickness.

-Ooh

-How does he do that so well?

-A man born for parrying

Creak creak creak.

The faint sound of a bowstring being drawn was heard.

Since this was virtual reality, individual senses could be considered virtually identical between people.

This was because set signals were transmitted directly to the brain rather than each individual’s sensory organs.

Because of this, perhaps Seo-jun, with his low synchronization rate, might actually hear worse than others.

But Seo-jun caught faint sounds better than others.

The reason was simple.

Because he knew which sounds among the incoming information to focus on.

Swoosh!

The arrow was shot instantly and Seo-jun moved his head to the side to dodge.

The arrowhead grazed Seo-jun’s cheek shallowly and stuck in the ground.

Swish.

The shadow gripping his ankle disappeared.

Seo-jun moved again.

“This is endless.”

To Seo-jun, who had experienced much worse situations, this wasn’t much, but to the viewers it looked like an incredible crisis.

-Seriously

-Scary, so scary

-I’m confident I’d die at the first attack.

-Hurry up and let the Assassins catch you so the quest fails, streamer!

A foul stench pierced his nose.

The streets were getting narrower.

The attacks became more frequent.

Seo-jun threw a dagger he’d farmed from an assassin toward the rooftop, but they nimbly dodged.

It was difficult to hit NPCs who were sufficiently on guard.

‘I can’t make the dagger faster either.’

And he couldn’t go up either.

Because parkour was blocked due to the penalty from his injured leg.

“It’s blocked.”

Seo-jun looked at the wall blocking his path.

He had finally reached a dead end.

He couldn’t move any further.

The enemies also knew this, as they slowly began revealing themselves in a threatening manner.

“Give up, Nameless.”

From the shadows on the ground and walls, from the wall behind him, from the second floor.

Three assassins on the rooftop were aiming at Seo-jun with bows.

They all stood before Seo-jun, ready to attack, waiting for orders from the assassin who had stepped forward to attempt conversation.

-It’s a trap…

-Damn!

-This is what assassins are like!!!!! The dogs of the Order, the streamer seduced by Christina’s looks should hurry up and die!

-Assassin! Assemble!

-Did the Assassins guys do a drive hunt?

Seo-jun read the chat and chuckled.

What drive hunt?

“I came here on purpose, everyone.”

Roughly dozens of people were surrounding Seo-jun.

Among them, the most troublesome were the snipers on the rooftop.

The assassin who appeared to be the leader took a step closer to Seo-jun.

“Chaos is the confusion and fear that blooms from our ignorance. People don’t want to take responsibility and are afraid to go outside. Chaos is the unknown. That’s why people seek cosmos. They want to be controlled by an existence that will protect them. But.”

Click.

An assassination blade protruded from his sleeve.

“That way will make people careless. They’ll fall into comfortable lives and lose their potential. They’ll live lives no different from livestock receiving feed. So.”

I see.

Like a character in a game, he was extreme.

As soon as the conversation ended, the assassin gave a signal and arrows were shot.

“Die!”

Seo-jun moved forward.

Thunk thunk thunk.

Three arrows stuck into the spot where he had been.

Seo-jun ran to the nearest assassin, parried, snatched a smoke bomb hanging from his pants, and immediately used it.

Poof!

Thick fog concealed Seo-jun’s body.

A momentary lull was created.

No, only the assassins mistakenly thought it was a brief lull.

“Aaagh!”

“Urgh.”

“Where is he!”

The alley was narrow, but wide enough for several people to walk in a line.

That meant Seo-jun could move freely.

While the snipers on the rooftop couldn’t get their bearings and were just moving their bowstrings around, something flew from within the fog.

Whoooosh!

Before using the smoke bomb, these were three daggers Seo-jun had thrown at the snipers’ shoulders to subdue them after identifying their positions beforehand.

‘Got it.’

A total of three screams were heard.

‘Now that I’ve dealt with the most troublesome ones.’

Now it was his time.

In the fog, you could only partially see the heads and shoulders of people in close proximity.

And for Seo-jun, that was enough.

He began knocking out the enemies.

Thwack!

Even when another assassin spotted him, Seo-jun hid somewhere again.

Thwack!

Another assassin collapsed with his head against the wall, unconscious.

-Seo-jun hyung… I’m getting dizzy……

-Something’s there then falls, then falls again, what is this?

-Isn’t the streamer the only one without smoke?

-No no, you can see silhouettes clearly, it’s just that the screen moves so quickly that it’s hard to make out

When the smoke bomb’s effect wore off, more than a third of the assassins were unconscious.

And Seo-jun smiled and waved his hand.

“I have one more.”

-Finally we can see!

-But what’s that?

-Look at that habit LOL

-LOL is this for real?

In his hand was another smoke bomb.

Poof!

Thick fog filled the alley again and screams rang out.

-This is comedy right? LOL

-Assassins <— Legendary bubble organization

-A whole branch getting wiped by just one person LMAO

-No matter how you think about it, Seo-jun-hyung is in a league of his own.

-The guys who were just posturing and trying to gang up dozens to one are pitiful LOL

-How do assassins lose at stealth? LOL

-The streamer is the real assassin!

Seo-jun quickly finished off all the assassins.

The alley was filled with fallen assassins.

Suddenly, this thought occurred to him.

“This is chaos right here.”

What’s so special about chaos?

-For real lol

-Chaos incarnate

-I was deeply moved by the sight of the Assassins becoming chaos themselves.

-Consistency in words and actions

[You have satisfied the conditions for Hidden Quest ‘Hunt’.]

[Return to the abandoned factory to meet Arthur]

[You have satisfied the conditions for Affection Quest ‘Mercy’.]

[Meet Christina for conversation]

A notification appeared.

“Oh, looks like I caught all the assassins. As expected, luring the enemy in is the most reliable and comfortable method. What? Of course it was intentional.”

He had thought the number of assassins he just caught seemed high, but the quest was completed.

It was fortunate that things went as planned.

If there had been about one assassin left and that assassin was a sniper, it would have been quite troublesome.

Now that the quest was complete too.

“Everyone, if I turn off the game now, does quest progress get saved?”

Seo-jun was thinking of ending the stream.

The timing was perfect.

-????

-Why now of all times?

-Are you sane?

-No no no no no no no absolutely not

-If you turn it off during quest progression, you have to start over like seriously

-If you do that again, honestly it’s hard work, just go to the abandoned factory and stream a bit more

-Christina’s quest only has one chance. If you turn it off here, it’s gone.

He could see right through them.

Christina’s quest was appearing for the first time anyway, so how would they know that information?

“Really? I’ll just do it one more time next time, it’s not even difficult.”

-Seo-jun hyung… are you really flipping out?

-LOL

-Everyone’s lost it!

-Are you really doing this? Seriously?

-Hyung. Am I holding my breath again? If I die, it’s only your loss?

The scroll went down at incredible speed.

But Seo-jun ignored it all and shouted.

“Later!”

* * *

The homeless viewers had an obvious place to go.

[What happens when you collect all the Cosmos Fragments]

[Christina’s affection quest appears!!!]

[Ah lol if Seo-jun had just shown the Christina quest reward, I’d collect Cosmos Fragments, but since he didn’t show it, I’m not planning to collect them]

-Can’t X Won’t O

[He’s doing stream ending there, he’s a demon]

[People going to gang up on the bastard who got a hand kiss from Christina (1/9999)]

[Jin Seo-jun you bad guy. If you’re handsome and popular, go play in real life. Leave games for us to enjoy, please.]

-For real lol

-This one seems kinda real lmao

└Real!

└It’s an act, you idiots (OP)

[Those assassin bastards lmao. Can’t come to their senses, huh?]

-The academic consensus is that the hidden quest wasn’t meant for users to experience being assassinated, but to give a chance to wipe out the Assassins too

[Reason the Assassins always loses to the Order: They’re a small business that fails at assassinating even one person]

-Small business lmao

└Aren’t you embarrassed toward small businesses? Those are just thugs.

└Info) The Order bastards couldn’t properly beat them either.

└But the Order guys lost fair and square in one-on-one fights.

[Breaking) Nameless’s’ iTube video uploaded]

-Ah lol tomorrow’s wait was fucking boring, going to binge rewatch right now

-People who haven’t seen the edited video must watch it, I haven’t seen it yet either but it’ll be fucking amazing

└For real lol

[This man, how would he be in online games?]