Chapter 35 : I don’t forgive bad quality

An enormous sound comes from behind me. A heavy, colossal thing is destroying the ground as it chases me. It sounds like something weighing at least hundreds, if not thousands, of tons is moving.

I keep running, kicking off the ground.

“Damn it, you bear-headed bastard, you run away like a little rat. Come here!”

“If you subscribe and like, maybe I will.”

“Die, damn it, die!”

The skeleton chasing me from behind shouts in a voice full of spite. My, how vicious. As expected, all the bad skeletons should be ruined in the early game.

[Ughㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[But you found it too late;;]

[If you find an Overlord when your growth is almost at its end, it’s GG]

[Real]

‘I found it too late.’

Unfortunately, I discovered the Overlord very late in the game. Looking at the damage, it seems like it farmed very well, secretly stealing creeps without getting caught. That guy, he’s lucky too.

For some reason, as soon as it saw me, it got really angry and used its ultimate first… It seems like it’s someone who’s been beaten by me before.

Well, there’s no way normal, good people would play such a bloodsucking character. Isn’t Overlord played by vicious skeletons?

“Hey. You’re not supposed to play the game emotionally.”

“What do I care!”

The situation, objectively, isn’t looking good.

[But this is really difficult]

[A well-farmed Overlord in the final three teams is hopeless]

[Too bad]

[No, AI can overcome this level of crisis]

[It’s a person ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

Overlord’s creep growth is too good. It might be possible for Minder, but it’s not easy for Blinker to assassinate Overlord.

Both are similar assassin heroes, but…

‘Blinker is a close-combat martial arts assassin.’

Wait, is Minder not an assassin?

Well, anyway.

It’s too far to ask for help from my allies. Besides, my allies are also engaged with the opposing team.

And there’s no reason to ask for help in the first place.

“SeongWon. Keep luring the Overlord! If it’s 3v3, we can handle it.”

“That bastard is a moronic troll! Just keep luring him!”

If an Overlord had grown this much, it should be solo disrupting the enemy formation and causing havoc, but this guy’s gone crazy, even using his ultimate and just chasing me.

As expected, there are no normal people among those who play skeletons.

‘Dirty bloodsucking character. Die, die.’

Actually, I’m doing my part right now.

‘…But I don’t want this kind of contribution.’

It’s not like I’m contributing through cooperation with my allies, I just got caught up in the mess that a troll blew up.

Being swayed like this isn’t my style.

“I’m a little annoyed.”

[Real, it’s annoying to be treated like this]

[But wow, there’s a guy like this even in high rank…]

[What’s different about high rankers ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Real, beating up someone you don’t like is the same everywhere]

[High rankers are at the level where they keep meeting the same people, so it’s probably more common to just grab and hold onto a damn guy]

So.

“I can do it.”

I repeated that to myself and turned my body.

[?]

[You shouldn’t use that spell]

[No!!!!]

[‘Cursed Language’]

“Hey, are you that good at the game? Huh?”

“I’m here because I’m good, right?”

I gave a thumbs-up like a bear and looked up at him.

“So what! Succumb to the 700 stacks of ‘Strength’ and ‘Wisdom’!”

At the same time.

‘Warp’

The view changes in an instant. I can see the Overlord looking around below. It probably expected me to warp somewhere nearby, given the viewing angle…

“I’m up here.”

I just went to the maximum vertical coordinate of Blinker’s warp range that I calculated while running away earlier.

Free-falling as it is.

‘If I can’t kill him instantly at this height, I’ll die instantly too.’

However, I lacked confidence.

Confidence that I couldn’t kill.

‘Judgment’

When I cast the skill at the calculated time, a long iron spike appeared in my hand.

I fell straight down on top of his head and teleported the iron spike to the exact point at the exact moment.

“Ugh?”

Each iron spike teleported into the joints applies a movement restriction debuff to the Overlord. Only then did the Overlord realize my location and try to attack me by controlling its ultimate skill, ‘Jormungandr’…

‘It’s too close to hit with that, right?’

It’s already too close.

It’s too close to stop it with the ultimate.

Overlord’s ultimate is for wreaking havoc, anyway.

Then, the guy flicks his hand.

As if to say even rotten food has its uses, the Overlord, befitting a high-ranker, immediately changes his countermeasure and summons ‘Death Knight’.

The Death Knight draws its sword as soon as it appears and aims it at me. It’s no lie that it stacked 700, its summoning speed and AI reaction speed are top-notch.

But.

‘That’s all it is.’

There are roughly three reasons why Overlord is one of the heroes that never appears in Soul Frame professional matches.

The biggest reasons are that it needs to suck blood to perform, and the standard growth formula involves abandoning allies…

But the last reason cannot be ignored.

This guy is a hero who fights by summoning summons.

But those summons are all controlled by AI.

‘A guy who relies on AI can’t beat a human who shows top-level performance, obviously, right?’

Of course, there are people who show worse performance than AI, but there are almost none at the top rating.

‘The Axe’

Two hand axes appear in my hands with the skill activation.

I threw one axe and struck the blade of the Death Knight that was about to swing its sword at me. The Death Knight staggers. I pressed down on its face with my knee.

I took some fall damage, but I’ll ignore it.

And then.

‘Recall’

I retrieved the axe I threw earlier.

“Oh, shit!”

Startled, the Overlord flicks his hand and summons two more Death Knights. One is under me, and the other is next to Jormungandr, so he’s pulled out all four.

“Just die already! It’s 700 stacks!”

The Death Knights instantly try to attack. Their reaction speed is incredibly fast. I don’t think the guy I lost to before stacked this much.

I heard that the computational limit of the AI is strengthened every 100 stacks… 700 stacks is really a lot.

‘To not have ruined this guy until now.’

What the hell are the guys in this game doing?

Thinking that, I smoothly block the swords that thrust in an instant. Thrusts with an upward strike, swings with a parry. And then I rush in and kick one away.

Since I went for a full damage build, the Death Knight fell under Jormungandr. It’s not unsummoned, but since it fell from above, it’s the same as being out of the fight.

[Wow what was that just now]

[ㅗㅜㅑ]

[Reaction speed lol]

[Would it be okay to use Yeo Dong-bin at this level?]

In the meantime, I felt the Death Knight I had pressed down with my knee stand up. I evaded the attack from the Death Knight behind me by bending my back. I saw the Overlord user’s pupils tremble.

The Overlord lamented.

“No, I’m pissed. I stacked 722, okay?”

“Well, you should have subscribed, liked, and turned on notifications.”

“You b*tch.”

“If you make sure to do it after today, I’ll let you off next time.”

Thus, a fierce battle with the two Death Knights began. Actually, I didn’t bleed, and the Death Knights’ health kept getting chipped away, so it was probably closer to an execution than a fierce battle.

While that was happening, I briefly saw in my field of vision the Overlord wiggling and trying to go down under Jormungandr.

[Uh oh, that guy is running away]

[Is he running for his life lol]

[I’d run away too if I saw this;;;]

[Pure terror]

But, I’m a Blinker?

‘Warp’

I instantly broke through the Death Knights with a short-range warp. Then, I ran straight and grabbed the back of the Overlord’s head, tripped him, and made him fall under Jormungandr.

“Aaaagh!”

The Overlord, smashed into the ground, screamed.

Too bad, but the real screaming starts now?

“Today, we’re doing a cooking show. The ingredient is this person.”

“Ah, shit, are you streaming right now?”

“Ingredients don’t speak.”

-Crunch!

[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Treating him like bone brothㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]

[Is this a bone-removal show?]

[No, it’s a cooking show, they’re making bone broth soup]

[Treating him like an ingredient so naturallyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

Like that, another bad skeleton ascended to heaven today.

It’s a good thing.

*

I finished the broadcast and came out of the virtual machine.

Mm, this refreshing feeling. It feels so good not playing Minder. I’m not even sweating.

As I hummed, Miley handed me a melon bar that was frozen solid as if it had just been taken out of the refrigerator.

As I crunched on the cold melon bar, Miley handed me a file.

“Master, this is the lawsuit you mentioned before.”

“Ah, that.”

The guy who reported me to the National Intelligence Service as a Soviet AI and gave me a real hard time. It was too easy to identify him since he didn’t even use a VPN and reported me from his house.

‘I decided to sue for defamation.’

But the results are already out?

“His parents are asking for a settlement. They’re asking for leniency since he’s only nineteen…”

“What leniency?”

Leniency, my ass.

I almost got ripped off for trillions of won due to double taxation.

“What settlement? We’re going to file both criminal and civil charges.”

The lawyer fees might be more, but what do I care?

I have a lot of money anyway. And my lawyer’s fee of 100 million won will be less painful than the 1 million won that the vicious troublemaker will lose? It won’t even end with 1 million won, anyway.

“Tell them there’s no settlement. They have no conscience.”

“Yes. I also think that’s the right punishment. But I still need to confirm with you.”

“Just handle it yourself, Miley. Anyway, there’s also stuff like sexual harassment directed at me, right? Throw all of that in too if it crosses the line.”

I’m willing to let some things slide.

I’ve already been told by CEO Cha that I should treat that kind of thing as light jokes and endure it when I start activities with my face revealed.

But not now. The moment it crosses the line, it’s all lawsuits.

“More importantly… is Park & Jeong useful?”

Miley smiled coldly.

“It’s a useful knife. They don’t question the cases we commission. I was satisfied with that attitude.”

“Then that’s good.”

I threw the stick of the finished melon bar towards the trash can. The stick flew in a spin and went into the trash can.

“Let’s keep giving them work. We’re not planning to gather lawyers under us anyway, right? Not a law firm. It’s easier to manage by outsourcing than paying a salary.”

“I understand, Master.”

At that moment, the door to the broadcasting room opened, and CEO Cha came in.

“Ah, Butler Mackey. You’re already here. Have you already explained to the Chairman?”

Miley shook her head.

“That’s CEO Cha’s area of responsibility.”

“Ah, yes.”

Mm, what’s the matter this time?

I crossed my legs in the chair and asked.

“What’s going on?”

“The video editor for the broadcast has been decided.”

Oh. Finally.

I don’t know how many weeks we’ve been discussing this issue.

It took a while, but it’s finally decided.

“So, what kind of person is it?”

“Ah, it’s not an individual. It’s a company. The amount of video footage from the Chairman’s broadcast is too large, and there are some unusual points… And we have to think about the future.”

“Mm, that’s true.”

Especially the Minder videos would be a real headache. And when I think about doing various games or outdoor live broadcasts later, it would be better to use a company than an individual.

CEO Cha said that and handed me a file.

“Here it is.”

I received the file and read it, then my face hardened.

“…Is this really okay?”

CEO Cha avoided my gaze.

“…That’s the top in the industry right now.”

I pressed my forehead. I had a headache.

The name of the company written in the file was Moscomedy.

The problem is, this is a Russian Soviet Federal company.

“I’m going to be called a commie again…”

I’m really going crazy.