One Man Army

Chapter 126

Chapter 126 [Episode 65] Reverse One 1

The Skyway has opened…..

2nd grade Giant Flight Demon ‘Krakon’ has fallen to Hagye.

In the aftermath of the fall, its health is only 30%, and all the powers he possesses can only reach 40%.

If this condition is not maintained and the players cannot defeat him, this will become a desperate situation.

Note that Krakon has immunity to all kinds of provocation techniques.

As the immense crash wreaked havoc, the large metropolis Tune was almost completely obliterated, and additional event notifications were delivered.

“Argh, Krakon! Yes, it was Krakon.”

In Sang Hyuk’s previous life, Krakon was weakened for about 12 hours.

For 12 hours, a lot of users ran to him, but most of them died.

Even though Krakon could not use all of its skill because it was fatally damaged but the second grade Sky Whale was terribly strong.

In fact, the best way to deal with it was to use ranged attacks from far away.

Despite how Krakon has a strong resistance to ranged attacks of all kinds, even if the damage of ranged attacks is reduced by 80%, it was the wisest way to accumulate points safely.

In previous life, long-distance dealers who worked in this way for a long time got quite high points. But it was true that Sang Hyuk’s choice was too crude.

“In my heart, I want to activate ragna blade once… but there are too many uncertainties, so let’s hold on.”

If only two things were certain, ragna blade could be the strongest and the best weapon in the present situation. In particular, ragna blade ignores all kinds of damage reduction effects, so Krakon’s strong ranged attack resistance was useless.

If Sang Hyuk was certain that Krakon will not disappear with ragna blade and that the damage of ragna blade applies to the official points calculation, then it is right to use ragna blade.

But both were issues that could not be confirmed.

Especially, the damage of ragna blade was very unlikely to be applied at all when calculating the official points. Even if it did, Sang Hyuk’s points could go to other people.

So, Sang Hyuk intends to seal ragna blade thoroughly in this event.

Anyway, even though there was no ragna blade, there was not going to be a problem.

“I have only one goal. The overwhelming first place in official points!”

The aftermath of the crash has not yet subsided, but Sang Hyuk jumped to the giant crater in front of him.

* * * *

“What is all this?”

Adam successfully finished the dawn raid and returned to Tune to rest for a while. He was the main tanker and guild master of ‘Mer’, one of the best EL guilds in France.

As soon as he saw the sudden event notification, he noticed that something incredible has happened.

First, he escaped quickly from Tune once he read the notification that a huge monster was about to crash into Tune, and watched the fall of the monster.

A massive explosion occurred with the fall of the monster, resulting in a huge pit. Inside the pit was a huge monster that was about a few hundred meters long and it was slowly raising its body.

Gegegegege.

“They said to catch that? Is that even possible?!”

In Adam’s view, Krakon seemed unable to be fought in a normal way.

“There’s only one way to get it.”

He opened his mouth with a bitter look as he stared at the thousands of users running towards Krakon.

“Zerg Tactics….. That’s it.”

Zerg Tactics was simple.  The users just keep on running in while the battle continues endlessly.

Of course, users who are hit will die in an instant. However, the users who ran to it was an endless horde anyway.

Even at this moment, the ‘tremendous’ rewards have been brought a vast number of users to this place

If those who ran to it continued to attack the monster, it will become a zerg tactics naturally.

“The issue of it being immune to provocation makes taking the aggro purely by the tanker’s skills impossible…. Isn’t that nonsense? As soon as a user pours an attack at the same time without any planning, the aggro will jump to the user and keeping the aggro itself would be impossible, so what do they want me to do? No, even if I can hit it the second time and even if I retake the aggro miraculously, can I even tank for more than a second against a monster that looks so horrible? Gah, this event will be a nightmare for tankers in many ways.”

Adam made an estimation at once like the Top Rank User he was.

“For now, should I just watch it little bit more?”

Adam did not rush into it stupidly. If he cannot do any proper tanking anyway, he would rather look at the situation first and he was going to find a place where he could participate rather than rushing over and die instantly.

He had to at least figure out the basic attack pattern of Krakon and only then move in.

Kwagwagwagwagwang!

While Adam was thinking about it, Krakon swung its giant tail and swept away the remaining half of Tune, which still had a few buildings still standing. *

It was just swinging its tail lightly, but dozens of users screamed and disappeared.

According to event notifications, Krakon’s capabilities are now only about 40% of the original. Nonetheless, a single casual attack, it looked like it could insta-wipe a full raid team.

“Ugh, how is exactly can we catch such a monster? Tanking is impossible after all…..”

Adam thought that this huge monster that crashed on Tune was the only monster that appeared in this event. But at that very moment Adam witnessed a nonsensical scene.

He doesn’t know where he came from, but suddenly there appeared a black male figure, and something like an elongated string protruded from his hands and struck Krakon’s body.

However, surprisingly at that moment, Krakon’s body wobbled.

“Hmmm?”

Adam thought that it was just a coincidence. No matter he sees it, the mighty Krakon could not have been staggered by the attack of a single user. But the cries that came in shortly broke his thoughts at once.

“Oh, the aggro were caught!”

“Tanker in black Magic Armor! That person got the aggro!”

“The aggro got taken you said? How did he take the aggro of a monster that can not be provoked?”

As the impossible things happened successfully, Adam’s eyes shook sharply.

“Oh? He endured.”

“Wow daebak(jackpot)! What are the healers doing? All of you pour heals to the users!!”

“Heal shower! Heal shower!”

Even the user in the black Magic Armor was enduring the Krakon’s attack.

“What the hell is going on?”

Adam opened his mouth half and looked at the user in the black Magic Armor who was holding up the Krakon’s aggro while tanking.

“Is is true that we can deal damage?”

“Nonetheless, with tanker provocation skills not working, won’t the aggro switch as it rises up?

“Hoi! Stop attacking there!”

Dealers who gathered near Krakon were divided into two categories. The dealers who had the idea to stop the attacks for a while due to the aggro problem and the dealers who hadn’t bothered to read the event notification and kept on doing damage without thinking.

The dealers without a clue were much more than expected. Hundreds of users did not care about the aggro, but they poured out their attacks with all their might.

However, really strangely, the aggro did not switch at all.

Even at this moment, the aggro was rock solid.

“What? Why is the aggro like that? Did they not make this monster provocation immune?”

“It is immune. Many users have already used provocation skills and it has not responded at all.”

“But how can these aggro became so stable? Even if it cannot be helped, but I think about 300 people are recklessly pouring the attacks…..”

“I do not know that. By the way, are you going to just keep watching? If you do it like that, all the official points will be taken by other users.”

“Tsk, I cannot help it.”

Originally, those who were clueless had to follow those who read the notification, but as the situation is going strangely, inevitably, the smart people followed the lead of the idiots. *

Even the users who were mindful of the aggro and stopped dealing damage started attacking, one or two at a time. Then in a flash, more than a thousand dealers poured the attack on Krakon.

However, the aggro still did not rise up at all.

Rather, it has become more stable than before.

Watching this situation from the very beginning, Adam gave the unbelievable face and looked at the Giant Flight Demon, which is a Disaster Incarnate, then he looked at the user who was tanking it perfectly.

“He’s a dealer….. That crazy user is keeping the aggro now by dealing damage?!”

Adam has figured out the situation more than anyone else this time.

“Is that even possible? Can he deal an attack that is strong enough to take care the aggro alone, damage which has to exceed the powerful damage being dealt by thousands of dealers, while at the same time using tanking skills that is strong enough to withstand the monster’s attacks,  which are as strong as a few raid monsters combined? Even explaining that he is actually doing such an absurd thing….”

If that person did not wear the Magic Armor, he would have have thought that person was an NPC and not a user. But that person was wearing Magic Armor.

Fyi, Magic Armor was an item that only users could wear. At least in the Lower Third World.

So, Adam knew that person was a user. But he could not believe it. No matter how great one’s skills at evasion-tanking, it was impossible to tank Krakon without 100% evasion rate.

Since the evasion rate is 30% when the diminishing effects begins to be applied, and when the evasion rate reaches 70%, the evasion rate almost does not increase even if evasion rate related items are worn.

In other words, realistically it means that the maximum evasion rate is 70%. Actually, the achievable evasion rate was only 50%, even though one is wearing items which increase evasion rate, minimum unique grade, on the body.

Therefore, the avoidance tanker among tank users was known as the wild apricot that looks more delicious. (T/L note: looks may deceiving, the better looking apricot is more sour than the regular one.)

Adam knew this very well because he was a tanker to the core. So, he could not even understand the man in the black Magic Armor who is now tanking Krakon.

“…. is that a monster blocking a monster?”

Adam muttered a little while looking at the user in black Magic Armor. It’s already been 10 minutes since the user in black Magic Armor, who was tanking Krakon while still maintaining the aggro…. In Adam’s eyes, he was also seen as a monster as mighty as the huge monster that fell from the sky.

* * * *

The attack that Sang Hyuk needed to lock the aggro to himself was only one hit.

Of course, it was not an ordinary hit, but the first attack.

As soon as the very first hit struck to the Krakon’s body, while making sure that ragna blade does not trigger, the aggro locked on to Sang Hyuk for sure.

After that there was nothing difficult. Sang Hyuk has survived Krakon’s attack using his high evasion ability and numerous damage reduction skills.

And with that enormously powerful attack, the other dealers kept trying to exceed an attack that they could not even imagine

It was impossible to steal aggro from Sang Hyuk in the first place. No matter how many thousands of dealers poured in the attacks at the same time and distracted the aggro, it was hard to switch the aggro from Sang Hyuk who boasted an unrivaled attack. *

It was a fact that would not change even though thousands of people would change to tens of thousands.

Of course, no matter how thoroughly and perfectly the evasion ability and damage reduction skills are used, Sang Hyuk sometimes had his health drop to a dangerous level.

But the important thing was not to fall to zero. If only it doesn’t fall to zero, hundreds of healers was pouring heals to Sang Hyuk without worrying about overhealing and he was able to recover all of his health in a single second.

It was not that difficult to endure if only Sang Hyuk could keep the all-important aggro…

Chapter 126 [Episode 65] Reverse One 1 – End

Editor’s Notes: Not anymore… ?

Editor’s Notes: I cracked up when I read this part. ?

Editor’s Notes: While the author fails to talk about how aggro works in EL, we can deduce that like in other games, the strongest attack by a single player locks aggro.  Therefore, to switch aggro to someone else, someone else has to have a stronger attack than Sang Hyuk…pffttt!!! ?

Editor: Userunfriendly the dodge-tanker.