[3rd Named]
[Level 48 Witch Frederica]
[HP 4,992,760/ 50,000,000 (9%)]
The witch’s eyes made of ice turned blood-red.
With bloodshot eyes and a body cracked and broken all over, the witch’s appearance throwing ice blades from within the storm was quite terrifying.
[Attack Stack 8 (1 minute 19 seconds)]
The buff is currently at 8 stacks.
Actually, I buttoned the first button wrong.
If I had done it properly, I would have acquired up to 10 stacks of buff.
The storm could be suppressed by bursting just one white sphere. I should have burst them one by one, precariously maintaining the attack power stack buff.
In the end, right before entering the second special phase, the attack stack was interrupted, leading to facing enrage.
But not much is left.
With the buffs I’ve stacked now, I can definitely take her down.
In the strong cold storm gradually widening its range and ultimately seeming to cover the entire audience chamber, I calmly surrounded myself with invincibility skills.
Placing my body between virtual and reality, I used the bracelet and Astaroth’s abilities in combination.
Crackle, crackle. The ice blades protecting the witch’s body shattered one by one.
And the final Flash Strike struck the cracked and broken face of ‘Witch Frederica’.
Flash!
A thin vertical line was drawn on the witch’s face.
The last expression the witch showed was one of disbelief.
Crack.
“Phew.”
Whoosh.
As a performance, I coolly spun Astaroth once and sheathed it.
Is it first clear?
I opened the area chat window to check the system message.
[‘No Name’ party has successfully achieved first clear of elite dungeon, ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’!]
“Hmm hmm.”
I nodded with a satisfied face.
The first elite dungeon try, solo first clear run broadcast is over.
Though it seems like I cleared it easily, it was by no means easy.
The first Named bosses, Spearman and Shieldbearer, clearly had dangerous patterns too. If I hadn’t gotten information from Cho Hyunsoo’s broadcast, I might have been stiffened by the 4 stack buff. For the last Named boss too, I had to forcibly break through enrage because the attack stack was interrupted in the middle.
Still, should I be glad I didn’t have to retry?
Let’s find meaning in safely finishing it now.
This much should be enough to say I showed a pretty cool appearance.
Thump thump.
When I gently closed my eyes and placed my hand on my chest, I felt it thudding.
Even though it’s just a created body, the small heart clearly revealed its presence.
Well, in a way Seulbi’s body is a created body too.
It’s a slightly different feeling from when I run dungeons alone with no one watching.
Now many people are watching my appearance.
Rather than embarrassment, a strange pleasure comes first.
Was I an attention seeker?
Even so, I definitely couldn’t do a broadcast communicating with people.
Maybe it’s okay to just stream when doing first clear runs.
It feels good.
As expected, I feel most strongly that I’m alive in the midst of battle.
It seems I’m destined to live with a sword after all.
Just as I was about to turn off the broadcast, satisfied with my successful debut in the first public showing of myself:
“Ah.”
I clapped my hands while letting out an exclamation.
I almost forgot the most important procedure.
Pitter patter.
I approached the shattered remains of ‘Witch Frederica’ to check the loot.
The first dungeon of the new expansion pack will bring me enormous profits too.
Pay back Chris unnie’s money, earn gold to operate personally.
And after farming is finished, I need to run buses.
Showing powerful weapon options and pretty costumes will advertise the buses too.
It’s fine to run solo buses while playing safely, or run swift buses together with Chris’s party members.
“Huh?”
But I don’t see a weapon.
This can’t be right.
Weapons are the biggest source of income in early dungeons.
I hurriedly scanned the loot list.
[Ice Palace Mistress’s Soul]
[Elite Grade]
[Witch Frederica’s Unmelting Ice Crystal]
(Tradeable)
“Hmm…”
Instead of an Elite weapon, there was an item I’ve never seen before.
Is this it?
At first I thought it was an item to obtain a unique weapon like the ‘Green Dragon Heart’, but there was no particular reaction when I held it.
I took out the Elite weapon I used before, ‘Ancient Temple Sword’.
“As expected.”
When I put the ‘Ice Palace Mistress’s Soul’ to the ‘Ancient Temple Sword’, a weapon evolution interface popped up.
【Weapon Evolution】
【Ice Palace Mistress’s Soul + Ancient Temple Sword = Ice Palace Mistress’s Sword】
[Ice Palace Mistress’s Sword]
[Elite Grade]
[Attack Power 350]
[‘Moonlight Slash’ Skill Damage 60% Increase]
[Socket1 : EMPTY]
[Socket2 : EMPTY]
[Socket3 : EMPTY]
[Socket4 : EMPTY]
(Bound on Evolution)
Is this the ‘Weapon Evolution System’ that came with the new expansion pack?
The magic stone enhancement level is reset of course, but the skill damage option is inherited, and you can evolve it into your class weapon.
If you have the ‘Ice Palace Mistress’s Soul’, weapon farming is over.
From this expansion pack, the time it takes to obtain a class weapon with desired options has been significantly reduced.
“Tsk.”
I clicked my tongue.
Making it possible to inherit the weapon class and skill option is clearly a user-friendly patch.
However, it’s not all positive functions.
The lifespan of content is reduced.
Along with it, the lifespan of buses, my main source of income, will be reduced too.
With a regretful heart, as I was carefully examining the ‘Ice Palace Weapon’ evolution information, I soon discovered an interesting fact in the ‘Magic Stone Enhancement’ section.
I smirked.
“These guys.”
As expected, ‘Hana Games’ was absolutely not easy when it comes to controlling content consumption speed.
Obtaining an Elite weapon is not the end.
You need to raise the weapon level through magic stone enhancement to bring out its full performance.
But.
【Enhancement Materials – (Normal, High, Top Grade) Magic Stone + Ice Palace Essence】
[Ice Palace Essence]
[Material Item]
[Can be obtained by disassembling Ice Palace accessories, daily quests]
(Untradeable)
From this weapon on, ‘Ice Palace Essence’ is included as an enhancement material item.
It’s even an untradeable item.
To enhance weapons, you must run the ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’ to obtain essence.
“Good.”
With this, expansion pack bus money-making is safe too.
Before turning off the streaming screen, I took out the soul and essence and approached the screen.
* * *
“…So, here you use Backward Evasion facing backwards to enter the storm first. Just before the invincibility time ends, use Counterattack, then Flash Strike, dealing damage while simultaneously getting out of the storm range.”
“Playing it at 0.25x speed makes it a bit visible. Rain-nim is perfectly calculating when each skill’s invincibility time ends.”
“After getting out like this, launch sword energy from the edge of the storm. This is probably the Swordsman’s new skill that can be obtained from the Ice Spire Tower. Use the 5th hit to distance yourself then cooldown reset, enter again with Backward Evasion. After that it’s repeated.”
[What is Mr. WeGotMarried doing?]
[Analyzing the white kid’s battle]
[If you could do it by analyzing, you would have done it]
[Isn’t Swordsman OP? Does it make sense to do elite dungeon first clear solo?]
[The gallery is half amazed half rioting kekeke]
[Foreign forums are in an uproar too]
[Hana Games probably can’t just let this slide]
[They need to re-investigate the white kid’s synchronization rate issue too]
[You guys still don’t understand it’s not a synchronization rate problem?]
[Kekeke Even if you guys played with 100% synchronization rate, you’d get instantly killed by Orc1 when entering Astria Online~ It’s only because there are skills and stats that you can barely manage]
[True keke]
[Mob1 keke]
[Even if we can’t copy the movements, we could benefit from reaction speed at least]
[Let’s say you hack the capsule to raise synchronization rate without getting caught. What about the pain?]
[Yeah you could get mentally ill if you’re not careful]
[I tried hacking my capsule to 50% before and immediately lowered it after getting slightly hurt by a slime;;]
[I don’t know, Swordsman just needs to be nerfed]
[How do they balance this]
[Absolutely no solo nonono]
[How can you look at the average based on the highest point of the class]
[If they do a patch targeting the white kid, all Swordsmen will die]
[Hana Games said they absolutely won’t do nerf patches]
[It seems like they need to reduce the gap between physical monsters and ordinary users though]
[It could be roughly solved by giving more status effect and invincibility skills to each class?]
[Yeah since the white kid avoids a lot with physical ability too]
.
.
[What is the white kid doing now?]
[I want to see the white kid]
[Go to the white kid’s room. Seems she’s checking items now]
[Can’t chat there]
[White kid-nim let’s communicate]
[I’m fine with watching the analysis too]
[Can’t you show what items dropped?]
The chat window started getting noisy.
It’s because WeGotMarried’s conquest analysis content got long.
“Ah, it seems she’s checking drop items for a moment so I rewound. Rain-nim is still streaming.”
WeGotMarried switched the replay screen to the real-time screen.
Soon the screen showed the figure of a girl holding two items.
“…She seems to be saying something…”
For some reason she was hanging her head, mumbling softly with her face slightly flushed red.
From the screen with the volume raised, Rain’s voice started coming through clearly.
-…This is the weapon evolution item that drops here, and you can use this to evolve Ancient Temple weapons into Ice Palace weapons. But to enhance Ice Palace weapons, you need to run this place for farming. You can’t buy Ice Palace Essence from the auction house.
WeGotMarried’s expression became strange.
“…It sounds like product promotion?”
Rain soon raised her head to look straight at the screen and concluded firmly.
-So, please use Chris’s bus a lot.
[Gaaaah!]
[Huaaah kekekeke]
[I’m going to ride the bus right now]
[Hey white kid you need to give time to farm kekekeke]
[Wait…! I’ll buy gold and come…!]
[Forgiven because she’s cute]