Chapter 32: 33

[Evil Player Yuri-chan!]

“—Haa… haa… I can see it. I can see it now… a new style to take revenge on the devs…!” I grinned in the center of the Training Ground. Hundreds of battered training scarecrows piled up in front of me.

The Training Ground was a convenient place. Order it, and it would spawn you any number of mobs. At the reception, you could also choose to use the General Training Ground or the Individual Training Ground.

I was using the latter. It was meant for people who wanted to improve their fighting style in secret. The former, on the other hand, was more of a place used to train your basics by having mock battles with others. I heard the number of new users had increased by more than 50,000, so maybe I should hit it up to give them some advice. Like teaching bow users how to throw punches.

Well, let’s put that aside for now.

“…The best fighting style is to attack, attack, and attack, after all. Just because I can no longer withstand multiple fatal wounds in a row and my firepower has dropped doesn’t mean I have to go on the defensive.”

Yes, if you’re a man, you can only attack. If you killed your enemy before they attacked you, they wouldn’t be able to attack you; as they say, the strongest offense was the best defense.

With that in mind, I looked over some damage-increasing skills, but none of them clicked with me. The damage multiplier was now limited to 10x in the first place.

After a little hour of anguish—I finally decided to rely on the strategy guide site.

I was still pissed off at it for deceiving me, but I couldn’t deny that it was incredibly useful.

While gritting my teeth at the comments of “Summoner+Bow+Luck, from broken to trash! Hurrah~!” here and there, I opened up the page called ‘Strongest Limited Skill Ranking’.

I scrolled down from the upper ranks, where skills with high versatility were lined up, and eventually reached the lowest rank, where the ones with limited uses were… and there I found it. A ‘shitty skill’ that would allow me to break through my predicament!

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Summoner-only skill, ‘Arms Barrier’. Required event points: 150 (max)

・When HP is below 10%, summon weapons around the user instantly.

However, the summoned weapon returns to the item box in 3 seconds.

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This was the limited skill I acquired.

I had no idea since I had nearly thirty thousand points, but for normal players, 150 points for a skill that could only be activated in certain situations was pretty expensive and not appealing at all. They had to defeat just as many players, after all.

“‘Arms Barrier’, Summoner-only skill. It sure seems quite inconvenient to use normally.”

I tried to use it the way the devs designed it. A summoning formation appeared at my feet, and my Beginner Bow popped out from it, disappearing soon after.

Seemed like I could use it to defend if I timed it with the enemy’s attack.

It would likely be very useful for players with a great sword with a wide blade, but… the weapon I chose when creating my character was the ‘bow’. Thin and light, it would prove pretty useless for defense.

That was why I thought it was a shitty skill at first, but then a thought came to me: That reminds me, what would happen if I used weapons other than the one I’d chosen initially?

And so I bought a sword, and when I tried to hold it—funnily enough, it flew out of my hand.

It was meaningless to hold it tightly. With the desperate will to never let itself get equipped, the sword would always fly out of my hand every time I tried to hold it.

While nodding at the result, this time I used ‘Arms Barrier’ to summon the sword at my feet.

…Then it flew upward like a rocket without acting as a shield in front of me.

Seeing this gave me an idea: What would happen if I summon the sword horizontally from behind me instead?

I tried it and received an interesting result. It flew forward like the sword had been shoot out.

But perhaps because it had been launched by the system, its accuracy sucks. The flying sword missed the training scarecrow before falling to the ground. Well, I guess it’s only to be expected.

However… In that case, I can just shoot Pontaro and the gang after surprising the enemy with the flying sword, thinking that, I materialized my bow and tried to summon the sword again, but something surprising happened.

It was a very pleasant surprise. ‘Magic Bullet Shooter’ suddenly activated. This skill added the homing ability to thrown/shot items, and thanks to it, the sword accurately stabbed itself into the training scarecrow!

…I ended up finding a surprising loophole. Apparently, when I made something fly while holding a bow, the system recognized it as a ‘shooting attack’.

And because it was treated as my attack, it also triggered my damage-increasing skills, courtesy of my extreme Luck.

At that moment, I thought: This’s gonna be interesting!

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Back to the present.

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Through trial and error, I was able to devise a way to make up for my lost firepower and moves.

“Come out, Training Goblin Kings!”

[Gobu gobu!]

Ten Goblin Kings appeared before me. Although they were fake, their stats were the same as the real ones.

They raised their clubs and rushed toward me.

Since ‘Tenacity’ had been weakened, I’d die if I got hit twice in a row.

“I’ll wipe you all out. Activate skill, ‘Arms Barrier’!”

At that moment, countless summoning formations appeared behind me like a mandala[1].

Super-heavy ‘magic swords’ and ‘magic spears’ shot out from them, all at the same time. The Goblin Kings were pierced one after another, and what was more, they got afflicted with various status ailments such as Burn and Poison before dying and vanishing.

None of the weapons were possessed by Living Weapons, but they still delivered.

“It’s finished…”

This was my new power, my new fighting style.

There was a limit to the number of monsters that could be summoned. Pontaro and the gang wouldn’t be enough to possess all my new arrows/weapons.

With that being the case, their trait of ‘add Strength to the possessed weapon’s attack power’ couldn’t be used, so the damage the weapons dealt to my enemies would be low.

But if so,

“The weapons are shot by the system, so their weight doesn’t matter. With that being the case, I can just shoot weapons with insane weight or status ailment effects.”

I used my event points to buy all sorts of high-end limited weapons to make them my ‘arrows’.

What was more, since I had a lot of rare items stocked up thanks to the effect of my extreme Luck, I sold them and grabbed many of the highest-quality weapons from weapon shops around the city.

The result was this new style—Summoner+Bow+Luck: Killing Enemies By Showering Them With Weapons.

Pleased with the fruits of my labor, I shouted “Hell yeah!” and laughed, “Haha! Well, I can only carry up to 50 items. Not that I can crush my enemies with an infinite number of weapons, but with this, I can fight again!”

There were still issues left, but at least now I could move forward.

I brought up the menu window before me.

There was an announcement from the devs: “In one week we will hold a battle event: Great Guild War! Countless guilds together with their guild houses would be summoned to a special space where they would crush each other until their guild houses are destroyed.”

Considering the content of the last event was tens of thousands of players killing each other, the devs sure were audacious. Honestly, it was rather crude, but as much as I hated to admit it, it was right up my alley.

“Okay… so I’ll be needing a guild house to participate in this. Oh yeah, I’ve got ‘Guild House Establishment Permit’ as the winning prize.”

However, the explanation of the guild system stated that a ‘lot’ would be required separately.

It seemed you had to obtain it through a quest or purchase it. Once you had both the ‘Guild House Establishment Permit’—which could also be bought for an expensive price—and a lot, you could set the lot as your house, then you’d be able to use various guild-limited features.

Closing the menu window, I made a decision.

“When it comes to lots, the bigger the better, isn’t it? –Okay, I’ll try to get a ‘town’, then!”

I know that I‘m saying something absurd, but if you’re a man, then you have to aim big!

My grandpa, who liked yakuza movies but was actually very kind and worked at a money-lending company, once said: “Don’t believe in the word impossible. Even people who always complain about impossible this and impossible that can produce something if you wring them out.” So, I was sure it was only a matter of spirit and guts.

Yup, even if a goal seemed impossible to achieve, if you worked hard until you achieved it, an impossible goal would become a ‘possible goal’, meaning the concept of impossible actually didn’t exist in this world! Humans could do anything!

It was all about spirit and guts! As long as you had them, you’d surely be able to achieve your goal somehow!

“As a hero who stood up against the evil devs, I have to get a huge house to not disappoint everyone! Alright, I’ll try to get a castle at least!”

And then, I’d go on a rampage in the upcoming guild event. After getting myself tons of event points, I’d exchange them for limited items, sell them, and then use the in-game currency-to-real currency convert feature to steal tons of money from the devs and make them suffer! Let’s go!!!

I left the training ground with my heart beating with excitement.

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