Chapter 11: 11

As Johann summoned Kuwa Geiger at the start of the battle, she trampled the ferocious players who had made it to the final phase.

“Kuwa Geiger, ‘Discharge’!!”

“GiichiiiiIIIIIII.” Bzz-bzz.

“GYYYAAAAAAAA!”

As of Genesis Omega Online’s latest build, players generally do not have Lightning Attribute attacks that cause Stun (except for Unique Equipment and Unique Skills). Hence, there are almost no players who go out of their way to take anti-stun countermeasures in PVP events. 1

Meanwhile, the appearance of Kuwa Geiger, a monster that relied on its Stun attacks, became a threat to all the players.

With that superior advantage, Johann was steadily burying her enemies beneath her.

However, when there are only a few enemy players left in the field:

“Eh, wait… what is that!?”

From a distance, Johann could see a player swinging his sword. A golden beam was fired from it, flying in a straight line to Kuwa Geiger.

Johann jumps off the top of Kuwa Geiger in a panic. Meanwhile, Kuwa Geiger was hit by the beam and disappeared.

“Ow, ow, ow…” Johann hissed, standing up while rubbing her butt.

When she looked in the direction of the attack, a swordsman wearing silver armor approached her, firing beams in a zigzag pattern. He kills several other players with one blow or two as he passes them by.

“Roland… Level 50… that person is definitely strong,” Johann read aloud as she looked above the player’s head.

With the sense that she will surely be killed at this rate, Johann activates Intangible, however…

(So fast?! He’s already here.)

“I won’t let you escape—Guard Break!!”

Although she was casting Intangible, Roland had already caught up and surprise attacked her.

“’Guts’ Skill has been Activated.”

Somehow, she endured the damage with Guts.

(Guts’ invincibility time is 10 seconds… I could summon a beast in that time… huh?)

Johann tried to summon but Roland swung down his sword regardless. Then, Johann is damaged again, the summoning is canceled.

“’Guts’ Skill has been Activated.”

(Wha-What, why?!) Johann thought. (I should be invincible.)

Johann doesn’t know about it yet, but there are accessories and skills in this game that grant Invincible Piercing attribute to attacks. Roland was a player equipped with the former.

“’Guts’ Skill has been Activated.”

And with that follow-up attack, Guts activates for the 3rd time. Only then did Roland stop his assault.

“Huh… is this your 3rd Guts? Is it a new Unique Skill? Or is it the effect of that Unique Equipment that I’ve never seen before?” Roland asked.

Because of the helmet that covers Roland’s face, you can’t see his expression. However, he noticed that Johann was using Unique Equipment. That calmness makes Johann feel indescribable fear.

“Kuh—Discharge!!”

“Guh–!?”

Johann casts Discharge herself. Even Roland gasps in surprise at this. However, when he defended himself with his sword, he immediately regrouped and launched a counter-attack.

“’Guts’ Skill has been Activated.”

Johann’s torso glows red from damage. This is the 4th Guts activation. Johann is surprised by the strength of her opponent, but at the same time, Roland was also surprised.

How many times will Guts activate? Is this some sort of scripted loss by the developers? Such thoughts revolve around Roland’s head.

“Armor I’ve never seen before,” Roland started. “Using Guts 4 times, summoning the layer boss Kuwa Geiger, and a player who uses Kuwa Geiger’s Discharge. I’ve never heard of anything like any of these. What the hell are you?”

Johann had no good answer.

“E-Even if you say all that… I’m just trying to do my best as a newbie…” Johann said.

“Hahaha, a newbie,” Roland laughed. “You’re a newbie… not.”

Roland swung again. Whether it was the difference in Agility stat or just Roland’s skill as a person, Johann can’t react to any of Roland’s attacks, Guts activated for the 5th time.

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“Kuh…” Roland scoffed. “What in the world do I have to do to defeat you…?”

He’s visibly frustrated.

(This isn’t good…) Johann thought. (If I don’t make a counter somehow, I’ll lose, no contest… I want to summon a Scapegoat to buy time, but this guy’s not going to give me the time to do that… oh, right.)

Johann had been at a loss but figured out a plan. She was hoping to buy herself some time using Scapegoat and Multiply, but couldn’t she do it herself? And at that moment:

“TIME TO FINISH THIS!” Roland roared.

He slashed at her. But then:

“No way—Multiply!!”

Johann herself activates Multiply. While evading Roland’s attacks, she created two clones.

“Kuh… just what is going on with you?!” Roland yelled.

He was astonished but he aimed at the correct Johann. However, perhaps because of the shock, this attack didn’t have the same speed as before. It gives Johann just enough time to activate another skill.

“Decoy!!”

The tip of Roland’s sword suddenly redirects and plunges into a clone. And then he killed it… or so he believed.

“’Guts’ Skill has been Activated.”

“You’re kidding me?!”

Surprisingly, the clone also activates Guts. It escaped destruction with 1 HP left. And that was the first opportunity for Johann.

“Now! Black Flame!”

“Guh… you’re insane… but, an interesting insane,” Roland groaned.

Johann thought Roland’s HP would drop to 0 with that one hit, but 1 remained. It seemed Roland also had Guts. Johann doesn’t have Invincible Piercing. Roland realized that and took advantage of the 10 seconds of invincibility to get some distance…

“Johann-san, tonight was a fun fight,” Roland said, pleased. “If you ever get the chance, let’s please do this again.”

And with that, he sheathed his sword.

“Wait a minute, the fight is still…” Johann said.

“GAME, SET, MATCH! Good job, everybody.”

At that moment, an announcement was made announcing the end of the final phase. It seems that time was up.

“Huh, I see, it’s over already?” Johann said.

While she was still blinking in confusion, Roland took off his helmet and walked up with a smile on his face. He was a handsome man with long black hair and a chiseled face. He asked for a handshake, and Johann obliged him, thinking that her little sister would be ex-treme-ly pleased to have seen him herself.

By the way, since Johann hasn’t unequipped her equipment, she still looks like the Jet-Black Final Boss. The glint in Johann’s visor shone with a poisonous purple color and reflected off of Roland’s armor, to those who didn’t know anything about it, it would look like Johann’s gaze was about to shoot through her opponent at any moment.

That glint would have frightened an average player, but Roland didn’t even pay attention to it.

“Johann-san. I’ll make sure to remember your name,” Roland said.

“Eh, hold up?!” Johann cried.

“Recently, GOO’s high-ranking members have been static, the meta for the strongest builds and tactics seemed carved in stone. 2 However, today’s battle with you was full of surprises. Blow after blow, constantly swinging my sword down, I was impressed by your unfathomable strength. Now I feel saddened that that overwhelmingly enjoyable time has passed. Ah, what a sweet and stimulating battle we’ve had, yeah? What do you think? Would you like to join our guild, ‘Swords of the Farthest Reach’?”

“Guild?” Johann said.

“Yes, it’s a guild,” Roland said. “I want to fight with you more. I want to talk to you. I want to get to know you better. If you don’t want to join immediately, I’d like to start by adding you as a friend, then we can go ‘Let’s put all those other players in their places!’, yeah?!”

Roland’s enthusiastic solicitation was interrupted by an announcement. Roland disappears from before Johann’s eyes, and Johann herself is transferred to the square where she was before. And after that, Johann logs out and wakes up in the real world.

“Hmm, even though he’s so handsome, he’s kind of scary, isn’t he? But he was strong.”

She stretched out and lightly rubbed her shoulders, then Kei stood up.

“There’s someone higher than me, huh? Well, I don’t think we’ll see each other anymore,” Kei said.

Then, she headed to the bathroom while basking in the afterglow of the event.

“By the way… what is a guild?”

Unfortunately, Johann didn’t know anything about guilds.

Footnotes

Terrible as a game design as it is, it mitigates the worst aspect of Stun as it’s implemented in GOO: the 10-second lack of control. It would have been better if Stun was much shorter and also available to players, but this is a very janky in-universe game. “Meta” is short for “Meta Game,” an analysis of the objective strengths of tactics, equipment, items, stats, and characters. “Meta” is oftentimes used for the most powerful and most commonly used of these, as they’re the strongest build for the game as it was then or now.

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