One Man Army

Chapter 153 [Episode 79] Diamond Cut Diamond 1

@ Diamond Cut Diamond

Time was not on Kim Junyoung’s side.

Kim Junyoung knew that too. Of course, even in this situation, he knew better than to be impatient.

‘It is just the first game anyway.’

Kim Junyoung controlled himself, because haste makes mistakes.

His opponent was strong and the game was not going his way. To be honest, it was an unfamiliar situation to Kim Junyoung, but he refused to panic or let his emotions control his actions.

‘There is only one chance!’

As time passed, the defeat of Kim Junyoung was obvious.

That’s why his only chance at victory was in an all-out attack.

Tadadang, tadang!

Meanwhile, Sang Hyuk and Kim Junyoung continued to attack and defend, the speed and power of their swords clashing terrifyingly fierce and intense.

Sang Hyuk continued to defend and attack as efficiently as possible. It was a tactic that denied his opponent any openings.

Of course, in such a situation, it was impossible for Kim Junyoung to take the initiative and have the game that he wanted.

‘Should I solidify my win like this?’

Because he had the advantage, as Sang Hyuk intended, Kim Junyoung would be defeated without even the chance to fight back.

‘I can’t help it!’

In the end, Kim Junyoung gave up waiting for that one chance. If he looked at his opponent’s perfect skills and Sang Hyuk’s effortless moves, it was a 99% certainty that the one chance he was waiting for would not come until the end.

If so, there is one thing left……

It was to force that one chance.

“Huuaaaaaaaaa!”

Kim Junyoung, who took two steps back, gripped the two-handed sword and jumped toward Sang Hyuk with all the power he had!

Kim Junyoung gave up on defense or evasion. Kim Junyoung’s pure attack was brilliant in that he intended to maximize the uncertainty of the game using the technique described simply as ‘You die and I die’.

He made the winning possibility which had fallen towards 0 became 50:50.

Kim Junyoung made a complex situation brutally simple.

However, this technique was one of the many tactics that Kim Junyoung might use that Sang Hyuk had already predicted.

‘Dodge!’

When your opponent comes out with an ‘You die and I die’ attack, it’s best to just run away.

Nothing was as foolish as meeting a Kamikaze attack head on.

For this reason, Sang Hyuk pulled out as much as possible from the Shadow Knight’s final draw, the ‘Shadow Flash Sword’. Obviously there was nothing more foolish than fighting a rampage dog.

Flash! Phaphaphaphat!

Sang Hyuk avoided confrontation at high speed and increased the distance.

Sang Hyuk thought that if it was Shadow Flash Sword, he could shake Kim Junyoung off. Therefore, he was not too afraid when his opponent charged out to attack.

But Sang Hyuk missed one thing.

Phiiing!

Surprisingly, Kim Junyoung caught up with Sang Hyuk, who used Shadow Flash Sword.

As far as Sang Hyuk knew, there were no movement skills among the soul skills that can be learned through the Berserker and Blade Master that could catch the Shadow Flash Sword.

‘What exactly is this….. Ah!’

At the moment Kim Junyoung caught up with him, Sang Hyuk realized which soul skill Kim Junyoung had used.

One of the basic 16-Soul Skills of the Blade Master, the Sword Pull Skill!

Surprisingly, Kim Junyoung cleverly used the Sword Pull Skill to form a powerful ‘attraction’ between Sang Hyuk’s sword and his two-handed sword, and he was able to use that force to narrow the distance in an instant.

Because Kim Junyoung was convinced that Sang Hyuk would abandon defense and run away if he used a ‘You Die and I Die’ attack, so he prepared his counterattack, by triggering Sword Pull even before he started his attack.

If before retreating Sang Hyuk and Kim Junyoung had crossed swords even briefly, then the Sword Pull Skill would have triggered and Kim Junyoung could never have been pulled to Sang Hyuk, as the target sword had touched Kim Junyoung’s sword, fulfilling the termination conditions of the skill.

In other words, it could be said that Kim Junyoung used Sang Hyuk’s terrifying reaction speed rather than the reverse.

“[email protected] it!”

At least for this time, Sang Hyuk was beaten by Kim Junyoung. And this one mistake ultimately decided the winner and loser.

At the moment of crisis Kim Junyoung made a desperate throw of the dice and won.

It worked, and the first game was taken by Kim Junyoung.

The game had been determined already, but the unbelievable skills shown by both of them attracted more attention. Everyone who watched the game said that Immortal and Master K were the Absolutes of EL.

There were almost no one who called the defeated Immortal’s ability “hype” except a few diehard haters.

However, Sang Hyuk, who lost his first game, focused more on the war than on a single battle.

In the end, a single, almost completely unavoidable mistake caused a defeat, but the main thing was that he lost.

The second game started just after five minutes.

Sang Hyuk, surprisingly, chose Shadow Knight and Buffer again.  On the other hand, Kim Junyoung, who won the first game, switched to Blade Knight and Elemental Magic (Flame).

Normally, it is supposed to be the losing side that changes tactics while the winning side keeps it, but Sang Hyuk or Kim Junyoung regardless of the outcome of the game, they chose the ancient knowledge according to their own thoughts.

The second game followed the selection.

The second game took place on an endless desert terrain.

* * * *

In the second game, Sang Hyuk, motivated by the first defeat, showed a perfect run without making a single mistake and won at the end of a long battle.

The score was ‘1:1’, but the atmosphere was not good on Kim Junyoung’s side.

The reason was simple. Kim Junyoung lost to his opponent, even though he had drawn the magic knight he was confident on.

Of course, the biggest reason why Kim Junyoung lost was because of Sang Hyuk’s familiarity with Kim Junyoung’s magic knight through his previous life experience.

Kim Junyoung hadn’t noticed yet, but choosing magic knight against Sang Hyuk was suicide.

Sang Hyuk was completely familiar with Kim Junyoung’s magic knight’s tactics, choice of soul skills, and his proficiency using his soul skills.

Sang Hyuk made the choice to play with Kim Junyoung’s psychology in the third game.

Because he was almost 100% sure that Kim Junyoung, who was proud, would choose magic knight again, so he chose ‘Hell Hunter’, a combination of Gunner and the ‘Curse Magician’, which could be called the ‘Nemesis’ of Kim Junyoung’s Magic Knight.

The reason for Hell Hunter was the ‘Nemesis’ of Kim Junyoung’s Magic Knight was simple.

First, Gunner itself was a highly powerful Ancient Knowledge, with high-speed ranged attacks that were the bane of the melee professions and the Curse Magician was able to ‘nullify’ the flame-based magic that Kim Junyoung used as his main magic.

If Sang Hyuk fought by neutralizing the flame-magic by using ‘Attribute (Flame) Magic Nullification’ while using hit and run tactics using the double pistols then it will be horribly frustrating from the magic knight’s viewpoint.

The biggest difficulty in this style of combat was ‘distance control’ and Sang Hyuk’s sense of distance was unrivaled so even if it was Kim Junyoung, he had no choice but to helplessly stand there and take it.

With that the third game has ended with Sang Hyuk’s effortless victory.

Kim Junyoung was pushed into a corner with the score at 2:1.

Even in this disadvantageous situation, Kim Junyoung persisted in choosing magic knight. And Sang Hyuk again chose the Shadow Warrior (Shadow Knight+Buffer), which was his main pick.

The result was a victory for Sang Hyuk again.

Even if it was Kim Junyoung, with magic knight he couldn’t beat Sang Hyuk.

There was virtually no difference in terms of skill. Sang Hyuk could ‘read’ Kim Junyoung with flawless accuracy, and Kim Junyoung knew nothing about Sang Hyuk before, so it made all the difference in the world.

Kim Junyoung laughed as he rose from the capsule at the moment the Immortal’s advancement to the final has been decided with 3 victories to 1.

‘I lost. How long has it been for me to lose as badly as this?’

It’s not that he was feeling the bitterness of defeat, but he was just calming his pounding heart.

‘The Immortal… Amazing!’

Kim Junyoung got up from his seat and quietly watched Sang Hyuk, who was getting up from the front booth.

At that moment, just like him, Sang Hyuk lifted his head and looked at Kim Junyoung and their eyes met.

Ssk, ck!

Kim Junyoung gave a thumbs-up as he looked at Sang Hyuk.

He truly enjoyed today’s game.

‘I’ve sensed it since the previous life, but that dude is really crazy.’

Sang Hyuk can’t help but laugh as he looked at Kim Junyoung.

The final game was not held today, but was scheduled to take place next week with victory requiring 4 wins out of 7 games.

But those who watched Sang Hyuk and Kim Junyoung in today’s semi final didn’t have much expectations for the final.

Krai, who was the first to reach the final, was significantly less skilled than Kim Junyoung and of course than Sang Hyuk. This was something that anyone could clearly see, so all the experts predicted the winner of the final to be Immortal.

The problem was that Sang Hyuk who made it to the final was also not interested.

Rather, Sang Hyuk was more interested in the defeated Kim Junyoung.

‘Considering his character, he is going to run around like crazy in limited mode for the time being.’

Kim Junyoung who disliked losing.

That part was almost similar to Sang Hyuk. As a result, Sang Hyuk was able to easily predict Kim Junyoung’s next move.

‘Unfortunately, I have to focus on sailing again until the final game, so I will have to let him run the limited mode alone.’

He wanted to run with all his heart and fight as much as he could with Kim Junyoung, but when he thought that Gye Baek and Dark Knight waiting for him, he couldn’t do it.

Sang Hyuk declined to do all except for a minimal interview that he had to do. He didn’t hate the attention, but he just didn’t want to get the attention for this tournament, which was just a qualifying tournament.

Sang Hyuk’s goal was to defeat and win against all the pro-gamers at the first LGN EL Battle of the Kings.

When that happens, he can enjoy the attention as much as he wants.

* * * *

Sang Huk spent a week exploring the Sky-sea.

And a week later, he easily won the EL Tournament.

Winning didn’t make much of a difference. Sang Hyuk competed in this tournament just to get the chance to compete in the Battle of the Kings, so when he was asked about winning, “thank you” was all.

In fact, there were four players in the EL Tournament, so he didn’t need to win. It just because he didn’t like to lose, so as he kept working hard, he won.

Since the EL Tournament was broadcasted live on LGN from the semi-final, there has been a lot of reaction online.

Naturally, the live channel ‘One’ also helped with the viewership. Unfortunately, the video of the competition was copyrighted to LGN, so Sang Hyuk could not sell or take advantage of it.

In any case, Sang Hyuk won 5 million won and one of the four seeds of the first EL Battle of the Kings held on LGN.

There was a big difference between him and the second to fourth place winners who only qualified.

Battle of the Kings was scheduled to take place exactly a month later. Originally, Sang Hyuk had intended to play in unlimited mode, but now that plan was changed.

As he focused on the limited mode, he suddenly lost his interest in the unlimited mode.

When he lost his interest, it became meaningless to Sang Hyuk.

Sang Hyuk was an extreme ‘gaming’ addict, so he decided not to pay attention to unlimited mode at least until he became interested again.

* * * *

“I think we’ll be able to find out important information about the Immortal in the near future.”

Chen Kai, who hadn’t given an order, but none the less expected something, opened his mouth with a surprised expression when he heard the sudden report from the general secretary.

“What is it? I thought you had given up on it?”

“I did….. But he showed up at an unexpected place.”

“Did you succeed in hacking?”

“No, we didn’t need to hack anything. He…appeared in a broadcast competition in Korea.”

“Huh! Are you sure it was the One Guild’s Immortal?”

“Yes, all the confirmations have been done. Since I have put a person on the LGN side, we’re going to start tailing him right away as soon as he’s back on LGN. Apart from that, I have tried to hack LGN to find out his information…. but unfortunately I couldn’t find it. ”

“Tsk, tsk, until 15 years ago, there was no place that couldn’t be penetrated by Chinese hackers….anyway, I’m glad that you got a lead.”

With the development of DN technology over time, an almost invulnerable firewall technology has been developed using DN technology. Because of this technology, the hackers  had to give up one by one, and now, due to sheer attrition, the good hackers themselves are retired, or in jail.

“If you wait for a bit longer, I’ll definitely take care of it and let you know.”

“Okay. But as I said last time, keep your guard on. If you get caught, or cause a public incident, then you’re burning down the house just to catch a rat.”

“I will keep it tight and discreet, so you don’t need to worry.”

When the general secretary finished the report and left, Chen Kai rose from his seat and walked toward the luxuriously decorated high-end DN capsule in the middle of the office.

“Immortal….. you’re not going to be able to be the best forever. And it’s both in the game and in reality.”

Chen Kai opened the capsule and laughed cruelly.

He happily laid into the capsule and immediately connected to EL.

Chapter 153 [Episode 79] Diamond Cut Diamond 1 – End

Edited By: Userunfriendly

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