Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 79



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Jinseong was looking at Vivi with a subtle feeling.

There have been more than a few things I’ve felt strange since I started moving with her.

The first time was when Vivi was reporting to Zeldin, the captain of the Zodiac Guard.

Vivi’s statement that she had killed the TMH signalman was certainly not a lie.

Because it was definitely her who killed the last cartel member’s radio operator who showed up out of nowhere.

‘But it seems like I didn’t ‘accept’ the quest from the beginning… … Are adventurers who are possessed different from users in that respect?’

In other words, it could be said that the quest’s acceptance and completion were processed simultaneously at the point where Vivi reported on the signalman.

There were many such cases when playing as a user in the game Dungeon & Fighter, but since Jinseong himself had never experienced it as a possessed person, it was just a pity.

If it’s the second time, it’s now.

A quest to support the mercenary group that started fighting on the side of the Imperial Army.

This is because I am currently re-entering the Ghent East Gate, which is considered a dungeon, and fighting the cartels.

“Mr. Jinsang! Please, take care of that side!”

“……, .“

Although skill attack power increased by +19% when using , it is not necessarily for that reason alone.

What on earth is Vivi doing against an enemy that can only be defeated with one hit if you just hit a few skills properly without needing to build a special combo?

She was constantly fiddling with the small controller she was holding.

“ in operation, Sparrow sortie, commence battle!”

And in the meantime, there are skill names that you have to shout out every now and then until your throat is hoarse?

On the surface, it looked like he was working hard to fight the enemies, but to Jinseong, it was just a sigh.

‘ is definitely… … a good skill, though.’

Jinseong has practically leveled up characters from every profession.

There are many characters that I particularly liked and enjoyed playing, so-called ‘main characters’, but I ‘obviously’ know the basic skill compositions, combos, and combinations of other characters.

“Hey, Vivi. I’m not a total expert on female mechanics, but I’ve also soloed the Dark Island Liberation and have quite a bit of fame, so I know. Average-.”

“Concentration- I can’t concentrate! Excuse me, but could you please not talk to me?”

However, it is just a skill combo of a female mechanic that Jinseong himself experienced as a ‘game’.

As someone who has been exposed to it and has used the technology directly, I have come to realize that there is a significant difference, so even as a true believer, I cannot speak too strongly about it.

‘You have to control the machines yourself… … . Hmm, that’s what it’s like until you create a system that makes them attack automatically.’

In a way, this very appearance was the reason why it took her nearly three years to ascend to heaven, and why she was still struggling here.

‘It must be because Vivi’s main character isn’t a female mecha. I literally only understand her skills in ‘theory’.’

How surprised I was to learn that Vivi was one of the first elite members to join Jinseong in the first server raid.

However, Jinseong couldn’t help but be flustered by her subsequent words.

This is because Vivi was one of the users who approached the game Dungeon & Fighter from a different angle than Jinseong himself.

“Me, me! Nenma! At that time, I was the first to create the Infinite Nenguard Eterna setting! You saw me posting about it on the community and contacted me, right?”

“Huh? That, that’s him? Now that I think about it, that voice sounds exactly like the one I heard through the microphone- No, wait a minute. If that’s Vivi, then she must have uploaded the coefficient table every time there was a skill-related job update?”

You could say that this is the moment when it becomes clear that Vivi is a woman.

But that wasn’t the important part.

Because Jinseong himself knew best how great the work Vivi had done outside was.

“Yes! Yes! I’m the one who uploaded the coefficient table and compared them! I looked at the skill coefficient table for each job, compared the perk cooldown, and matched the item settings accordingly! I’m the one who uploaded the table!”

“……omg.”

Which skills are most effective and how should they be used?

What is the attack power and cooldown when the skill is raised to a certain level? Assuming that the same item is equipped, which skill setting is better, skill setting A or skill setting B?

From that perspective, what is the optimal combo setting, including the linkage of each cooldown?

‘It’s gotten a bit better recently. There are now some standard character skill trees and equipment, and there’s a lot more reference material. If you think about it, ever since that person started writing analysis articles in earnest, other users have also started to examine it with their own analyses.’

Moreover, at the time when Vivi uploaded such analysis, there was not even any proper reference material.

In some ways, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he is a more famous user than Jinseong himself, who ran the ‘Education College’.

With her overwhelming analytical skills, she has been leading the efficient and rational play style of the game Dungeon & Fighter.

‘Yes, it’s been a little over two years since such a post was posted in the community. If you look at it from that point of view, the timing is right.’

And in recognition of his abilities, he was selected by Nemer and possessed as a [True Adventurer]!

‘It couldn’t possibly be him!? The person in front of me right now, struggling to even properly use the female mecha skill combo… …!’

So Jinseong had no choice but to ask.

Why would a master analyst choose a profession he was unfamiliar with?

She was definitely a master of analysis.

“But, why don’t you play Nenma? I thought you’d play other characters besides Nenma.”

“At that time, in my analysis, the female mecha was the one with the best perk. And since the damage structure was far away, I thought it would be safe?…”

“So you’re saying you’re going to do a female mecha that you’ve never even tried?”

“I regret it too. I should have played Nenma or Blade……”

The only regret is that it is only a theoretical price.

Jinseong chuckled as he recalled her mentioning the blade profession of the female swordsman as if she was talking to herself.

‘I shouldn’t have said it would have been more dangerous if I had chosen the blade. Phew.’

Vivi spoke as if she had read Jinseong’s thoughts.

“I understand that you find me laughable, but you’re not the best among the possessed people, are you?!”

Even while frantically firing an automatic pistol and haphazardly controlling the skills of a female mechanic, you still have to worry about that.

As for Jinseong, he didn’t laugh at her, but the situation was absurd, but from Vivi’s perspective, he couldn’t help but feel ashamed.

“Huh? Oh, well, I guess so. And I wasn’t laughing-”

She said.

“Two weeks! The person I met just before Jinsang said he came to heaven after two weeks!”

It was a bombshell statement that sent shivers down Jinseong’s spine once again.

The first thing that surprised me was, of course, the speed.

* * *

“…2 weeks? You finished Sky Castle, Lotus, Diregie, and Skasa in just 2 weeks?”

Although I mentioned four big keywords, it is by no means a simple matter.

The countless things he had to go through in between were not ordinary things for Jinseong himself to solve as a ‘tongs’.

You became an ‘adventurer’ and finished it in two weeks?

‘No, is that even possible? I was the ‘tongs’, so until the work was done – there was also time wasted wandering around looking for contaminants… … .’

If you were an adventurer, that is, if you were a party to the matter, you could have immediately completed the quest with just one conversation with the NPCs in the game Dungeon & Fighter.

‘It’s like when Vivi talks to Zeldin, the quest is accepted and completed at the same time.’

If you are someone who actively utilizes such a system, a period of two weeks is not impossible.

If Jinseong himself wasn’t a swindler.

If only I could be a true adventurer, possessed by Arad, and solve everything at my own pace and taste.

“I think it might be possible to stretch it out for more than two weeks.”

It may not be impossible.

Above all, since Jinseong himself knows the entire flow of the main scenario quest, he can finish it in ten days at the latest.

[Keep kek kek… … Are you trying to claim a mental victory by just imagining it without even trying, Jinseong?]

“That, that’s not it, it’s really possible- No, don’t interfere when you don’t even know what you’re talking about, you punk.”

[I know for sure that you lost, haha.]

Black Goo answered Jinseong’s mumbling, small soliloquy.

The reason why Black Goo feels so annoying is because he can’t come up with a plausible rebuttal, and it requires too much explanation to do so.

‘Heukgu’s words make sense. According to the original DnF settings, it would have taken over a year. If I remember correctly, it took quite a while even based on the Arad calendar year in which each incident occurred, but it was done in two weeks… ‘

Budadadadadadang-!

The sound of a motorcycle disturbs Jinseong’s mind, lost in thought.

The boss of this dungeon, the leader of the Kartel Mobile Division, Schroed, and his men approached Jinseong and Vivi on modified motorcycles and shouted.

“Didn’t you hear who I am? Or were you so shocked that you couldn’t run away? I’ll have to drag your body around and show it to the Gents!”

Even in front of them, who surrounded him and circled him, Jinseong was just lost in thought.

Viviman quickly used her skills and called out to Jinseong, but Jinseong did not respond specifically.

“Hey, Mr. Jinsang?! Don’t just look, before we get surrounded-.”

“, .”

“-He’s already out.”

Genuine mobility skills that are much faster than the motorcycles of cartel members.

With that, he had to stick out his tongue as he watched the real thing fight against them, having already escaped the encirclement.

“Even the real Jinsang is really an old-timer! The adventurers’ quests are much more difficult than the epic quests for regular users – and the monsters have also become much stronger and are incredibly – Ugh! , manual control mode sortie!”

Only after hearing her shouts while she was struggling to fight the enemy did Jinseong tilt his head.

That was somewhat surprising even to Jinseong.

The ‘epic quest’ she mentioned refers to the ‘main scenario quest flow’ of the game Dungeon & Fighter.

In the game Dungeon & Fighter, before Jinseong was possessed, the epic quests were on the easy side.

It was close to showing the flow of the main scenario and the flow of the story, and because it was basically a level of difficulty where you could clear the dungeon quickly without dying, even when the monsters in the dungeon, including the apostles, appeared as boss monsters.

But does that mean that such difficulty level does not apply to those who are called ?

‘Come to think of it, that Ranger, that guy was like that too. The story related to Frey-Isis could have been handled just by pushing the epic quest, but why bother… ? ‘

Only after hearing that story did Jinseong think about it.

Jinseong himself had refused to clear the Ranger Possessor, whom he had seen through the monitor, saying that it was an easy way to clear the ‘parallel world dungeon’ or something.

‘I may have just tried to explain it easily, but I guess it’s not like the quest flow is one where you die in one normal attack. In order to check for contamination… or to move on to ‘next’, do you have to go through a difficulty level similar to that of a Legion dungeon or a raid dungeon?’

As a true adventurer, to become a forged blade.

To follow Hilda’s arrangement based on .

Even if it is Hilda’s trick and Nemer’s grand scheme, shouldn’t adventurers at least grow and train themselves to the point where they can deal with them?

So it’s understandable that the difficulty of the quests you experience in the game is different from the difficulty of what you experience as an actual adventurer.

The difficulty of the Legion dungeons and raids in the Dungeon & Fighter game that Jinseong himself had guessed would be even more brutal and daunting than what he would experience in the real Arad.

“Do you think the difference in difficulty is noticeable, Vivi?”

Although he thought so in his head, Jinseong confirmed it with her again.

I knew it would be more difficult than the typical main scenario quest flow, but there was only one reason I asked.

“That, that’s right! It’s not because I’m not familiar with the game mechanics that it took me nearly three years. In reality, the adventurers I’ve met, and the people I’ve been possessed by, all complained that the dungeons were tough – like a four-person party with stamina? No, it’s more like the highest difficulty level when you choose a difficulty level back in the day, several times that level? That’s about it!”

“It’s just that we’re possessed, not because it’s reality?”

“I said no. Really!”

But Vivi answered confidently.

Although she struggles with the practical operation of female mechanics, her analytical skills cannot be denied.

Moreover, if we add the testimonies of other people she met, it means that their claims are correct.

So Jinseong scratched his head.

‘… … I think I was just okay. Was it different because I was a swindler?’

Whether that difficulty level does not apply to you.

If not that… … .

“Heh heh.”

Jinseong had to let out a proud yet awkward smile.

It was literally the leisure of an ‘old hand’.