Debuff Master

Chapter 193

Chapter 193

A guild’s headquarters was a guild’s most important structure.

One would expect that most guild’s headquarters would be riddled with all sorts of defensive spells against air raids, but the majority of guilds didn’t bother placing those defensive mechanisms.

Why?

It was all because there was no way a player could get their hands on a combat airship.

From the perspective of the guilds, there was no need for them to invest heavily in such defensive mechanisms when the chances of them getting bombarded from the air were nil.

It was the same for the Genesis Guild.

Their headquarters was located in a small castle, and it had no defensive mechanisms against air raids.

‘Strike them where it hurts,’?Siegfried thought. He led his three combat airships above the castle.

“Drop the bombs!” he said.

“Drop the bombs!”

Shwooooong…

Kabooom!

The airships dropped their bombs and unleashed their cannons toward the Genesis Guild’s castle.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

It was super effective!

The Genesis Guild’s castle was defenseless against the air raid without any anti-air defense mechanisms. Naturally, the Genesis Guild members were caught up in the bombardment.

“Kekeke!” Siegfried snickered. The death of the Genesis Guild members from the air raid wasn’t the only reason he was snickering. “How much do anti-air defense systems cost again? I recall they cost a fortune! Kekeke!”

Siegfried used to run his own guild, so he knew how expensive anti-air defense mechanisms were. The cost to install a normal barrier would set a guild back around a thousand gold, but a barrier for air attacks would cost at least eight thousand gold.

However, those numbers were only enough to protect a small building. A larger building was bound to be more expensive to defend. This meant that from now on, Chae Hyung-Seok had no choice but to invest a fortune in anti-air defense mechanisms.

Why?

It was all because there was a chance that Siegfried would visit his guild once again and bombard their headquarters whenever he was bored. Well, it was kind of useless since the castle had already been bombarded, but Chae Hyung-Seok had no choice but to erect a barrier if he wanted to avoid the same losses in the future.

‘Keke! You’ll have to spend a fortune, but I’m not going to bomb you anymore. Then, you’re going to realize that you spent a fortune in vain. I wonder how you’ll feel by then… You’ll have to spend all of the money you’ll get from selling the broadcasting rights for something you won’t need. Kekeke!’?

Siegfried was elated. He felt an adrenaline boost at the thought of draining Chae Hyung-Seok’s wallet.

The Genesis Guild was definitely going to suffer from financial difficulties if Chae Hyung-Seok invested in the anti-air defense mechanisms, and they would definitely find it difficult to recover financially unless the guild managed to increase its revenue.

In the end, their spending would affect other parts of their guild’s operation, which would signal their decline.

Siegfried had definitely dealt a huge blow to Chae Hyung-Seok this time.

“All ships return to base.”

“Returning to base!”

Siegfried issued a command, and the combat airships leisurely flew back to the Proatine Kingdom.

“HAN TAE-SUUUUUNG!”

Chae Hyung-Seok’s ear-splitting cry could be heard in the distance.

“YOU SON OF A BIIIIITCH…!”

How did Siegfried react after hearing that?

“Yes, yes~ I’m a son of a bitch~ Lalala~” Siegfried hummed a tune.

He was on cloud nine.

***

After the bombardment.

“I think I poured enough chili powder… should I get some sleep first?” Siegfried checked the time. He logged out of the game after he was done messing with the Genesis Guild.

“Catch him! Do whatever it takes to catch that bastard!” the furious Chae Hyung-Seok issued his commands.

The Genesis Guild members got busy scurrying around in search of Siegfried while totally oblivious to the fact that Siegfried had already logged out of the game and was having a very nice sleep back in real-life.

Twelve hours later, Tae-Sung recovered and was in peak condition after getting a good night’s sleep, and he logged back into the game to mess with the Genesis Guild once again.

“Ah… I think he’s not in the game… Do we have to keep looking?”

“I’m so tired…”

“All these for one person…”

The Genesis Guild members were exhausted, but they were still looking around their headquarters for Siegfried.

‘Are they NPCs or something…?’?

Siegfried wondered while observing the guild members.

They looked more like NPCs from old-generation games rather than human players at this point. Old-generation games had simple AI that limited them to repetitive and mundane tasks.

Siegfried was planning on assassinating the NPC-like guild members one by one, and he had come up with a straightforward method to do so.

He would pass by them at a secluded place and cut their heads off with his cape, or he would use Lightning’s first form to quickly discreetly stab them while they were in a crowd.

What if his target collapsed and the others saw it?

“S-Someone collapsed! Help!” He would shout like that to avoid suspicion. There had been dangerous moments as well—for example—he was in an alley behind a bustling marketplace.

Chwak!

Siegfried had used his cape to decapitate his target, but the issue was that the guild member possessed extremely high Defense. The ambush dealt critical damage, but Siegfried failed to kill the target in one shot.

Spurt! Spurt!?

The Genesis Guild member glared at Siegfried as blood furiously spurted out of his injured neck.

“Y-You dare… Kuheok!”

“You need to apply pressure on that!” Siegfried shouted. He immediately went to press down on the Adventurer’s neck. Then, he tore his shirt to create a makeshift bandage and wrapped it around the Adventurer’s neck.

The passersby thought that Siegfried was performing first aid on an injured individual, so they applauded him for his actions. However, the victim broke out into a cold sweat after witnessing Siegfried’s capability to manipulate people.

Why?

Kwak!

Siegfried was acting like he was saving the Adventurer, but he was actually choking him to death with the bandage. However, what really gave the Adventurer the chills was that Siegfried wore an expression that no one else could see other than him.

Smirk…!

Siegfried was smirking as he whispered, “Why aren’t you dying? Hurry up and die.”

Was he the embodiment of evil itself…?

‘This… This bastard is scary…!’?The Adventurer felt like he was watching a horror movie instead of playing an MMORPG.

Thud…

The Adventurer was logged out after dying, and he dropped an item to the floor.

“Ah… I was too late with my first aid…” Siegfried lamented so brazenly.

“Wow~ That item looks expensive.”

“Does anyone know the guy? Maybe they can return the item to him.”

“Hmm…”

The Genesis Guild members were busy eyeing the item that the Adventurer had dropped rather than looking for the culprit.

“Rock paper scissors!”

The person who would get to pick up their deceased comrade’s item was decided on a game of rock paper scissors.

‘Wow… These guys are a different kind of trash…’?

At the sight, Siegfried realized that the entire Genesis Guild was composed of unsalvageable trash.

[Alert: 99% Experience Points!]

Siegfried’s hunt brought him to the doorsteps of Level 200.

***

“Instruct all guild members below Level 250 to log out until the guild war.” Chae Hyung-Seok finally surrendered.

It was an unavoidable decision. Siegfried was simply too cunning and slippery. In addition, it seemed that he possessed an item that allowed him to hide from the Rune of Insight, so it was impossible to find him.

There was nothing else the Genesis Guild could do aside from becoming sitting ducks against Siegfried’s guerilla tactics.

Who was going to be at a disadvantage between someone prepared and someone caught by surprise? There was no need to answer such an obvious question.

The scariest part was that Siegfried was quite experienced when it came to guerilla tactics. In fact, most of the tactics he had employed in the past against the Genesis Guild were guerilla tactics.

In other words, the Genesis Guild stood nothing to gain but everything to lose if they were to continue fighting the cunning and stubborn insect.

The Genesis Guild was confident that they could wipe the Proatine Kingdom off of the face of the continent in a head-on confrontation, but that wasn’t an option because the kingdom was still under the protection of the emperor.

“Just wait and see, Han Tae-Sung…! I’ll crush you again one day…!” Chae Hyung-Seok gnashed his teeth and swore to get his revenge.

***

In a secluded alley, Siegfried finally reached Level 200 after hunting another player.

[Alert: You have reached Level 200!]

[Alert: You are now able to learn a new skill! You may check the new attainable skills on the ‘My Skill’ page on your status screen!]

[Alert: The experience points required to level up will drastically increase from Level 200, but you will gain more stat and skill points in return!]

Siegfried checked the stat and skill points he had obtained after reaching Level 200.

‘As expected… They gave me a lot,’?he thought.

It seemed that the saying about how the real journey in BNW started on Level 200 didn’t become popular in vain. In Siegfried’s case, he would obtain much more stat and skill points compared to other Adventurers per level due to his perks as a hidden class user.

‘This is where the real fun begins…’?

He smirked while roaming the alley in search of a new target.

Then, he suddenly noticed something, ‘Oh, so you’re not going to face me, is that it?’

He noticed that the number of Genesis Guild members out in the open had reduced dramatically, and the only members he could see were high-level members of the guild.

What about his main targets, the Buffers? Not a single one of them was in sight.

‘I’m certain that they left only the strong ones and told everyone else to log out. They aren’t planning on dealing with me right now, but I’m sure that bastard is gnashing his teeth in anger. Keke!’?Siegfried accurately read Chae Hyung-Seok’s thoughts.

‘I think I’ll have to go back now…’?

He was about to turn around.

However, a voice interrupted him. “Who are you?”

“You’re that bastard, right?” they asked.

“…” Siegfried remained silent.

“I guess I’m right,” they said.

They were currently in a small alley, and there was a deceased Genesis Guild member right behind Siegfried.

‘Ah, I got caught.’?Siegfried realized. In that case, he had no other choice but to catch the Genesis Guild member off guard rather than trying to talk his way out of this situation.

Whoosh!

Siegfried shot out like lightning and swung his hammer at the Genesis Guild member’s face, but the Genesis Guild member raised their weapon and successfully parried the attack.

Clang!

Siegfried’s hammer and the Genesis Guild member’s weapon collided.

Crack… Clang!

Siegfried’s hammer shattered, and its fragments fell to the ground.

‘Weapon Aura…!’?

Siegfried was shocked to see a powerful light surrounding the Genesis Guild member’s weapon.