TL: Enigma
PR: Hayath
“Chapter 7: Dance of Focus and Fury”
In a fleeting moment of tranquility, Dohyeon closed his eyes.
As he reopened them, inhaling deep, profound breaths while harnessing his focus, the world unfurled before him in a new light.
His vision sharpened, noises receded into the background, and even the minutest details of a person’s appearance became vividly clear.
The shadowy veil over the fur-like scales began to ripple, every slight twitch of the fingers starkly visible.
In this silence so profound that even the whisper of breath seemed to cease, Dohyeon found himself in a state of extreme concentration. With a cool head, he objectively assessed his physical condition.
‘My form is excellent.’
Could this heightened focus be a result of his prolonged absence from gaming?
His usually cluttered mind seemed unusually clear, enhancing his concentration.
A sudden shift in Dohyeon’s aura triggered a violent roar from the creature.
The creature, despite being a formidable boss, had lost all reason, driven purely by instinct, and thus reacted with heightened sensitivity.
With a deep breath, Dohyeon made his move.
In this game of cat and mouse, he sprang into action, eliciting a swift response from the beast. Although the creature’s reaction was quick, its movements were sluggish.
Yet…
Its enormity was such that, even a simple extension of its arm felt like a menacing threat, compelling Dohyeon to dart away with all his might.
[Initiate basic skill ‘Bang’.]
A metallic clang echoed as he rolled, slicing at the creature’s arm.
The sequence of actions flowed seamlessly, like a well-rehearsed dance.
The creature roared in response, flailing its arms in a frenzy.
Dohyeon evaded the brute force of the attack, rolling back and swinging his sword once more.
Retreating from the creature’s reach, with the sound of his plastic sword striking a metal ball still ringing in his ears, Dohyeon confirmed the reduction in its vitality.
-HP: [999,880 / ???]
‘…120.’ He mused, calculating the creature’s HP reduction after his two attacks. One of them was even a hard hit. ‘A hard strike deducts 80, a normal one 40.’
Considering the 12-second cooldown of the hard hit, it would take about 20,000 strikes to bring the beast down. Even with constant hits, the debuff slowed his speed, allowing for a maximum of two hits.
In contrast, Dohyeon would be down in a single hit. He hadn’t tested this theory yet, but he was confident.
-HP: [200 / 200]
He doubted that his meager level 1 vitality could withstand such a massive attack.
He would need to dodge at least 10,000 attacks and land 20,000 of his own, all while being slowed by a debuff.
To achieve this, he would have to roll nimbly to dodge at every opportunity. Yet, he must keep attacking. A single moment’s distraction, a failure to roll in time, and it would all be over.
‘…This is a challenge of the highest order.’
Was this seemingly insurmountable task truly left as a secret challenge to conquer?
He had heard that Godose was managed by artificial intelligence, not humans, but it made him question if it was an AI that had no concept of human limitations.
However, facing such seemingly insurmountable odds, Dohyeon found himself grinning.
‘This is what makes it fun.’
There was a reason Dohyeon clung to Demrok, despite all the grief his unlucky gaming streak had caused him.
The exhilarating thrill of overcoming a seemingly impossible challenge.
The sense of achievement when he finally triumphed.
It was this thrill that had kept him hooked.
What reward would this creature yield upon its defeat?
Surely not something as mundane as bricks, like Demlok.
Even in this situation, there had to be some reward for conquering this hidden challenge.
The creature continued to bellow and flail its arms about, seemingly ready to strike him down at any moment.
In some ways, it was just like a petulant child, but given its size, these tantrums were both its best offense and defense.
Every attack that seemed random, could result in an instant death.
“Dodge 10,000 times, land 20,000 hits… Let’s give it a try.”
With renewed determination, Dohyeon lunged towards the creature once again.
Absolutely, I’ll stick to proofreading your text. Let’s start:
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There are numerous posts on the official Godose website. These range from various information on the events, to the current status of high-ranking users including teenage guilds, and other minor talks.
Like other game communities, the official Godose website was no different. The only distinction is the large scale and the constant influx of newbies even after 1 year and 6 months.
[Godbung started Godose for the first time today, and he’s tired. Is it true that the tutorial’s direction is no joke?]
Therefore, it was common for tutorial-related posts to be posted on the homepage. The first thing newbies encounter is the tutorial, which often garners a lot of comments on such posts.
-John Jam. I think this is why they say “God Oh Se! God Oh Se!”.
-The direction of the goddess coming out and sealing the monster again just before her death is truly amazing…
-It’s really so much fun. At first, I felt a little uncomfortable about killing monsters, but it felt like I was in a real battlefield, so I became completely immersed in it.
-Isn’t Charlie attractive too? He’s very picky and unlucky, but he still takes good care of me. He seems like a tsundere lol!
-You’re such a jerk that I took care of you, but every time I do something, I want to bite my tongue and hit my dog.
-That’s because you’re not very good at games. He’s completely meritocratic, so if you’re good at fighting, he still won’t hold his tongue.
-You’re going to die in the end anyway, so be nice, guys.
-It’s very satisfying to see the sprouts growing… Those innocent kids will soon be shouting about how lucky they are…
Newbies in a similar position sympathize with it, and users who have been playing for a long time find it cute to see newbies getting excited after watching the tutorial.
Tutorials that were hot for a variety of reasons had some common themes.
[Has anyone improved Charlie’s likability rating?]
[Was there such a thing as likability toward that man?]
[I heard that if you reach the max level of favorability, you will receive some kind of reward.]
[Can you fill it?]
One of them was the knight commander, Charlie. Unlike other games where actions are predetermined, Godose’s artificial intelligence is not much different from humans.
As a result, the behavior toward newbies was different depending on the level of likability, and people began to take interest in likability. However, what was initially an interest gradually degenerated into something more.
[This is Red Fingers Guild. If you have raised your favorability rating more than twice during the tutorial, please contact us. We promise to treat you well.]
[We are recruiting for at least three favorable ratings. We will serve you under the best conditions.]
[Please refer to the simple test and tutorial video.]
What a compliment Charlie gave in the tutorial. How did you increase the likability of that difficult gentleman?
It soon became evidence of skill, and many medium-sized and large guilds that wanted skilled players treated users based on that.
It’s become a career of sorts.
As a result, increasing Charlie’s favorability among general users was something to brag about to friends, and not only newbies but also old people became interested in the tutorial.
-Is there someone whose likability rating was fully raised?
-I don’t know? Perhaps all of the top 10 guild masters have been filled?
-It looks like the owner of the armory couldn’t fill it.
-I’m a little suspicious of him. He’s the type to push with money.
-These days, there is no one with a full level of likability.
-There is nothing we can do because the talented people have already started a long time ago.
However, compared to the early and middle stages when many talented people appeared, at this point, a year and a half later, no one with the full level of likability has appeared.
It was a natural thing to do.
People who played a lot of games started playing Godose a long time ago, and among them, only a handful of people achieved full likability.
Out of 1 billion users, there are at most 10,000.
Now that they were all in one place, they all had one thing to say.
“Can you catch the tutorial boss? Are you crazy?”
“You can never catch it. It wasn’t made to be caught.”
“Don’t even mention whether it’s the Iron-Blooded Demon Dragon or the Ji-X species. Because it gives me goosebumps.”
For some reason, they despised the tutorial boss more intensely than regular users.
Since no detailed explanation was given when asked why, users could only speculate that it was related to achieving full favorability.
“… Are you talking about the Iron-Blooded Demon Dragon? I don’t think it was a very pleasant memory.”
Among them was even the famous ‘Annihilation’.
His response was vague, but seeing him, who was always so confident, hesitate was a huge shock, and users had no choice but to agree in the end.
[The tutorial boss is not a monster you were made to catch.]
[It’s just an event to show users that there are monsters like this.]
Tutorial boss, Demon Dragon of Sangvis.
That is not a boss monster made to be caught.
[Can’t you defeat the tutorial boss? I heard it takes some damage.]
-Yeah, you can’t catch it. This is a guy who couldn’t even kill someone.
-It seems like the damage was done just for the sake of realism.
-Wow, I still thought about hitting that. I was just dazed and died.
This is why sometimes newbies who don’t know anything ask such a question when they see a guy who can take a lot of damage, but the veterans always answer ‘impossible’.
[uh? What is it? His name changed?]
-??
-What do you mean?
-No, it should be a magic dragon species of iron blood, but it has been changed into some kind of sloth magic dragon species.
-?? omg? What, is it true?
-Can the name of this change?
But today, for the first time, the differences of opinion that had become common sense ever since its release were cracked.
-Why do names change arbitrarily?
-Isn’t this a bug?
-What kind of bug is this in Godose? It is managed by an artificial intelligence that is dozens of times better than RX Go.
-Then what is it? Who caught it?
-omg… really?
That’s because this is the first time changes have been made to the tutorial boss, which has not changed even once since launch.
Accordingly, some expressed the opinion that the boss was finally caught after 1 year and 6 months.
However, that opinion was quickly buried.
-No way… Anyway, that’s not it.
-How can level 1 handle that?
-Someone came and caught something that even Annihilation couldn’t catch? Who?
-If I had caught it, I would have uploaded the video a long time ago.
-There is no evidence that he was caught, right?
-If he was really caught and his name changed, he would become a named boss… Other than the name, doesn’t he look the same as usual?
No matter how much I thought about it, it was something unreasonable.
Even if direct evidence was shown, speculation without any evidence was bound to be unreliable in a situation that could be considered impossible.
“The tutorial boss’s name has changed?”
“… It’s an error.”
“Because we update regularly… It happened to be updated today, so that may have had an impact.”
“You caught him… That doesn’t make sense. Well, it might be possible if we bring back the Kaiser’s party from back then.”
“So you want to become Kaiser? Didn’t you hear me? He said he should bring his party. It’s Kaiser and Nabal, and I can never catch that on my own.”
Even more so, when even the high rankers, who had fully developed Charlie’s favorability, said that, people no longer raised any objections.
The only thing that was annihilated was the silence, but there was no one specifically denying it, and since so many rankers were like that, general users had no choice but to say that it was like that.
Of course, that was it, and honestly, I was curious.
-But if you really catch it, what will you get as a reward?
-This game is difficult at times… Every time that happens, you are rewarded generously, right?
-Well, even if you think it’s like a luck based game, when that happens, you shout out God’s name again.
If you really catch that creepy boss that no one said you could catch…
Then what will you get?
-Well. I don’t know, but wouldn’t we get the best reward in the history of Godose?
It was a story bordering on delusion, and users quickly dismissed it as a joke and moved on.
Because they couldn’t even imagine.
That what they dismissed as nonsense was really happening.
