NOVEL NEXT Chapter 66
[World of Arseria Gallery – General]
[Concept Post]
[Nightmare 10/10/10 Part 1 Boss Jin Chronicle]
Author: ㅇㅇ
That priest who cleared Svalum earlier, that’s them, right? ㅇㅇ
(Nightmare (10/10/10) Jin Chronicle appearance cutscene.mp4)
Is that Ice Spear size for real? Each one is like a guitar!
– Wasn’t that a gimmick that starts with 10% HP loss and stunned? If it hits, you’re done for in one shot!
Yeah, even if you’re a full HP tank with 3000 health, you’d probably be one-shot.
– What’s with this bait? People are talking about the game all over Wagal.
Please just don’t open the gald cup and talk about the game, lol!
Read through the concept post straight.
Ugh, too tedious;;
– If we clear 10/10/10, how much combat power will we get at least?
150,000?
150,000, are you kidding? Even at 120,000 combat power, I can wreak havoc in Challenger!
On a typical Sunday evening, when the largest crowds gather, the ACK Pro Tournament is hosting a match between particularly boring underdogs, causing people to lose interest.
It all started with a post written in the ‘Healer Class’ tab by a famous user.
A streamer is challenging Nightmare 10/10/10 as a priest.
Since this is a common tactic used by streamers to grab attention, people couldn’t find a reason to click the post.
Just as the post seemed to be buried, another flood of new posts appeared one after another.
[I’ve never seen a Priest 10/10/10 before]
[What’s this NoName doing?]
[Wow~~~ Planning to get wrecked by Svalum as a priest, lolololol!]
One or two posts couldn’t capture anyone’s interest.
However, those who couldn’t resist the continued mentions eventually checked the contents.
(Perfect clear photo of the Observatory guard.jpg)
(Video of stabbing a sword into an arm.mp4)
(4 elements joint attack in 5 seconds.mp4)
Sometimes, there have been videos of foreign streamers with sharp minds clearing boss fights using unknown magic through sheer luck.
But right now, this blonde-haired woman was casting magic that was faster and more precise than that.
(Critical damage on a massive attack 1807.jpg)
In just one attack, about a quarter of the boss’s HP vanished.
So, they asked. Who is this girl?
[ㅇㅇ: ipfs://www.twish.ch/noname]
People clicked the link as if enchanted.
Then, the rumor was that the ‘Adella,’ a woman streamer who is well-known in Wagal, was facing the final boss of Part 1, ‘Jin Chronicle.’
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Adella trembled like a quaking aspen.
Her ears flattened back, and her tail elongated.
This was a common behavior seen when someone was engulfed in fear.
– Everyone shut up, everyone shut up, everyone shut up!
– Let’s focus on the battle, kids, pay attention.
– If we clear this, something big is coming.
– I’m curious how strong Jin Chronicle will be.
– Bringing Adella to the boss fight is impressive enough.
– For real, lol, she’s so weak it wouldn’t be surprising if she died anytime!
– I’ve only seen her on V-tube, but here I am watching her live!
– Room leader, how about turning off the chat completely?
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Na-me closed the chat window, considering the viewers’ opinions.
How tough this fight would be remained a mystery.
“You were the culprit behind this incident. If you stayed hidden in the sewer, you would have avoided your future death,” Jin said casually with a barbed comment.
“You definitely drove me away, right?!”
“No, you were unfit. The position was always meant for a hero. And, you know…”
As Jin extended his hand, one Laurel that Na-me had carefully kept flew to him, resonating.
The Laurel of Life that Ciciela had given her.
“There are so many thief cats who covet others’ possessions.”
Jin Chronicle donned the crown on his head.
The crown scattered into thousands of brilliant rays and absorbed into his body.
[Deputy Head of Remnant Academy · Jin Chronicle (0/1)]
“I never granted you a child’s place.”
Jin Chronicle’s pocket watch glimmered.
“Evacuate!”
A thick aura.
Na-me rushed to Adella, rolling on the ground together.
SWISH-!
What sort of magic was this?
Suddenly, a blinding light burst from the watch, cleaving the earth in a straight line.
The true name of the boss appeared above its head, signaling that the battle had long since begun.
– DESTRUCTIVE LASER UP!!!
– Room leader dodged that!
– If you just have a rough idea, you can see and evade it.
– I knew and still got hit by it two times, lol!
Instant death.
A glaring asymmetric power capable of ending the game in one go upon contact.
From now on, Na-me’s party would have to fight against the boss, considering the lasers that returned on cooldown.
“Is this the true power of Yggdrasil… It seems you pathetic beings have no idea about the essence of the Laurel.”
With his synchronization with the Laurel already complete, Jin Chronicle burst into laughter.
The deputy head of the Academy, yet he was always just the second fiddle.
Secret orders from above to seize the Laurel, he left his post without any notice, resulting in severe disciplinary action from the Academy.
Yet his curiosity remained piqued.
He didn’t care about breaking the Academy’s trust when he held something that wasn’t supposed to be in his hands.
Before being a professor, he was simply a scholar, purely intrigued.
He was aware of what a Laurel was, but the value of such an item was questionable to him.
Yet, the astute Jin Chronicle would come to realize the truth swiftly.
“A ticket to inter-dimensional travel. If you know the way, you could use infinite magic.”
Manipulating worlds and histories would not be an empty boast.
“Were the followers of Yggdrasil worshippers of reason?”
Once again, a red light shot from the pocket watch.
This time in an X shape, then in a T shape.
Holding the dazed Adella, Na-me leaps through the safe zone.
– This is seriously intense!
– What does Chronicle mean by that?
– It’s mentioned that later things will unfold, but he’s basically referring to how the magic principles of the world and ours differ.
– Is it similar to the Fourth Wall or something?
– No, they didn’t go that deep on the story.
– But why can we not cast infinite magic even with the Laurel?
– Ugh, we have to think about balance, you know?
– If you have a head, at least use it!
– Look at that person getting all mad while kindly answering all questions, lol!
– Can you really dodge just by seeing it?
– Who knows? I’m starting to m-m-miss my safety!
“Forest Keeper. Did you think you could hide the truth forever? When you all finally realize that everything we’ve learned, that all the knowledge humanity has built to be a lie, a delusion, a distortion of truth…”
The lethal light replaced the full moon.
“Did you think we would simply fall into despair?”
Jin Chronicle’s attacks couldn’t be avoided if they wanted to win.
The intensity of the light increased, and the mastery of the Laurel grew every moment.
How would they break through the time limit?
The standard was to patiently wait for openings between each attack to accumulate damage steadily.
The first part boss was testing players on ‘evasion’ and ‘distance control.’
Each character would gain experience regarding their range and speed and learn how to deal with enemies exceeding their power.
Above all, the most important quality was to make swift decisions without hesitation.
The delay in judgment could lead not to a stalemate but a significant setback in the battle.
Seeing only evasion from Na-me, viewers had presumed a limit.
Soon, there would be 4, 5, then ten lasers flying in as time passed, making it physically impossible for her to dodge even if she could foresee the future.
“Such a complete newbie.”
That was the first thing Na-me said.
“Now that I can finally handle some magic, I’m so excited, right?”
Mixed with annoyance and frustration, it was a phrase she hadn’t meant to say, yet her words alone sparked a discussion among the viewers.
– ?????
– What’s with the sudden boast?
– Calling a professor a newbie, lol!
– A priest overturning the world?!
– I’ll give an F to the professor since she failed to teach me!
– Then it’s not an evaluation of lectures but an evaluation of the student, lol!
– Professors who get a score of 1 every time don’t get kicked out, so what’s the problem?
– Hearing the room leader say that somehow makes it sound cool.
– Not cringy at all!
“Are you being reckless, Forest Keeper? I’m getting bored of playing with you.”
The accumulated damage Na-me inflicted hardly reached half.
In contrast, Jin Chronicle’s laser skill attacks had surpassed system limits, each hit capable of delivering instant death.
– It’s really over.
– Honestly, getting close is hard. Jin has low health, so it shouldn’t be that much.
– Wasn’t he higher than the chunkier Svalum from earlier?
– Don’t be ridiculous, lol, how much more can I hit than this?
Once you’ve learned, you realize your shortcomings, and only after teaching do you understand the stagnation.
The limits of the Laurel that Na-me had painstakingly analyzed were indeed inevitable.
Na-me understood what magic the boss was using.
This is not a laser.
Normal lasers aren’t strong enough to cleave through the ground. Furthermore, due to diffraction limits, the effective range is theoretically limited.
Noticing that the ground was suspiciously split without any embers on the grass, she crouched down and touched the creviced earth.
Surprisingly, the ground felt slick, like it had just rained.
“You had mastered water-type magic, hadn’t you?”
Jin Chronicle, though lengthy in his words, couldn’t escape the patterns he had grown accustomed to.
Indeed, lasers are concepts that a novice encountering magic might not conjure up.
The mechanism was the smile-cum-duplication propulsion spell masquerading as a laser.
Accelerating water particles to the utmost limit, enhancing their cutting force, repetitively clashing them in the forward direction until they collided with the enemy, was the setup embedded in his pocket watch.
As electromagnetic waves cause electric fields and magnetic fields to create a chain reaction and travel in a straight line, two parallel cluster spells would automatically generate the next magic circle, creating an illusion of a laser stretching straight.
What a deflating trick if we know how it works.
It was merely a powerful water cannon, and my condolences go out to all those who thought they were casting reflection magic, mistaking it for a laser.
Na-me stood still, waiting for the next attack.
“To annihilate all descendants of Yggdrasil.”
Just as Ballum had said, Jin Chronicle’s final line was revealed.
With the system’s help, the skill’s range was marked in red.
A circle with a radius of 25m. Cast time: 1 second.
A no-refund ability.
Na-me’s eyes slowly closed, recalling the runes in her mind.
The viewers squinted at the scene unfolding.
The ferocious wave of mana rushed forward, yet,
[DISPEL: Atomic Demolition]
The laser was helplessly obliterated by the 18 Division Hydrogen Disintegration Spell.