Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 54
**Parrying.**
In theory, it serves to block all attacks while simultaneously confronting the opponent’s weapon. Since it requires aligning the timing of one’s weapon with the opponent’s attack, it is undoubtedly a difficult technique.
Serin had a firm confidence in her parrying skills, believing herself to be superior to other rankers or professionals in Another World.
The reason she primarily learned to parry was certainly to survive at first. However, after reaching a certain level, she began to enjoy the act of parrying itself.
Parrying, in its own right, had a unique thrill, and the competition of meeting the opponent’s attack was a joy in itself.
Therefore, if one were to reason deeply about why Serin, despite being able to evade, chose to parry, it could be said that she was lost in the sensations felt at the moment of impact and the resulting reaction.
However.
Right now, Serin was not focusing on parrying but instead turned her head away, concentrating on evading the opponent’s attacks.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
“…”
Even while predicting the trajectories and evading, she let out a small sigh. The rank opponent she was matched against this time was a long-range class.
It seemed to be an archer.
Thinking back to when she first logged into Another World and encountered an “Outlaw” who was an archer, she wondered if there was a similarity, but the weapon her opponent wielded was not a gigantic crossbow.
Hand Crossbow.
A small crossbow mounted in one hand. It appeared to sh**t arrows.
A weapon with weak destructive power but extreme utility and convenience.
Moreover, the uniqueness of the game meant that there was no concept of reloading for long-range weapons, which felt even more significant to Serin.
“What kind of weapon is this…”
Muttering in disbelief, Serin quickly moved her feet.
It was fascinating that many weapons that did not exist in the Black Ark world were present in Another World.
However, while that can be refreshing in a pleasant way, Serin did not feel particularly happy at the moment.
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Though the single-shot skills were weak, they seemed to have almost no cooldown, allowing for rapid-fire shots that naturally kept Serin’s arms and legs busy.
—Swish!
Tilting her head to avoid an arrow aimed at her head, she took a step forward.
—Cling! Clang!
While swinging her great sword, she parried one arrow flying in succession and smoothly deflected another with the blade of her sword.
Immediately after, when an arrow was shot at her legs, she stopped in place.
—Swish!
Then, she saw an arrow embedded in the ground where her legs should have been.
[Are you seriously dodging all those arrows just with reflexes?]
[LOL no way, I can’t believe this]
[Is this some kind of absolute defense or absolute evasion?]
[The more I watch, the more you seem like a different species LOL]
[But how can each movement be this natural?]
[If I could just do half of that, I’d easily hit Diamond rank]
Even while glancing at the chat window that caught her attention, she continued to dodge as much as she could and parried a few arrows as she closed the distance.
In fact, getting hit didn’t hurt much, and the damage was definitely not significant.
However. She didn’t even want to accept that.
Just that kind of long-range weapon.
Allowing an opponent wielding a hand crossbow, not a giant crossbow or a longbow, to attack her in the arena.
That thought didn’t sit well with her.
‘Why?’
She didn’t want to give such a cowardly and cheap user any sense of achievement.
If she were to use the “Leap” skill now, she could soar into the air and win instantly by using “Judgment.”
Rationally, she understood that would be the cleanest approach.
But she insisted on dodging or parrying the arrows raining down on her and approaching the opponent.
While it seemed like she was maintaining some distance or spacing, it didn’t feel very natural.
So she thought it was possible to get close enough. She was contemplating that right now.
Clang! Clang!
Though she was just deflecting arrows with her great sword, there was no system that pushed her back against a long-range weapon like a hand crossbow.
That would be unreasonable for the balance between melee and ranged classes.
Thus, even if she deflected arrows with her great sword like this, it didn’t inflict serious damage on melee users.
Simply, the only minor disadvantage was that her stamina visible in the hologram was gradually being drained.
Words like sneakiness, cowardice, and petty were often used as ‘compliments’ within the game.
Feeling that way towards an opponent meant they had sufficiently annoyed or challenged you to that extent.
However, the emotion she was feeling now was.
Truly saying her opponent was ‘petty.’
To melee class users, it was a nightmare of relentless long-range harassment.
Continuous long-range attacks with almost no cooldown, swiftly moving like a rat behind obstacles in the Colosseum.
Just watching was infuriating.
As someone wielding a great sword, she never wanted to describe such an opponent as good.
“…If you run away while keeping your distance, I’ll catch you with Leap and k*ll you in one shot.”
So she spoke up in advance to convey her intentions to the opponent.
She was currently trying to crush them head-on, but at the end of that, she was instructing them not to run away.
To fight back.
Her opponent merely smiled faintly at her words.
Perhaps they thought she was flustered because she was not rushing in immediately—the opponent seemed to feel that way.
No. It wasn’t that she was flustered now.
Rather than being flustered, irritation was rising, but nonetheless, she insisted on approaching head-on.
Representing all melee class users facing long-range opponents.
She wanted to show them the punishment of confronting such cowardly users who resort to dirty tactics like using a hand crossbow.
She checked the broadcast window positioned in her peripheral vision.
The chat was rising rapidly even now, but more than that, she checked the viewer count below.
24,215 viewers.
She couldn’t believe the number herself, but she thought most of her viewers were users of Another World.
Then among those viewers, there must be plenty of melee class users.
They would undoubtedly be stressed fighting long-range opponents, and she had a broadcasting desire to show them the performance of smashing the opponent head-on.
And more than that, she wanted to smash that user.
At that moment.
The user holding the hand crossbow raised it toward the sky of the Colosseum. The sleek black hand crossbow, resembling a creation of modern civilization, began to transform peculiarly.
—Click. Tink. Clink.
The clusters of white light surrounding the hand crossbow didn’t look good.
It was likely a sign that a big skill was about to be used.
As she grasped her great sword, she watched it.
The sweet temptation to use Leap right now and smash her opponent was compelling her.
Click!
But in the end, she didn’t use Leap; she dashed quickly across the ground instead.
While giving her opponent time to execute their skill, her plan to crush them head-on remained valid.
Clink. Click!
As the opponent wasted time producing several sounds, they soon completed the transformation and began to aim the now-massive weapon that was once a hand crossbow at Serin.
“Ha.”
Serin, who had been approaching, couldn’t help but chuckle in disbelief at the result.
No matter how much it was a game and a technique, she thought this didn’t make sense.
The weapon that was supposed to be a hand crossbow had transformed into a gigantic weapon.
‘Ballista.’
Commonly referred to as a large siege weapon.
In the Black Ark world, it was a large monster-exclusive siege weapon installed in significant cities.
She knew its destructive power from having witnessed it several times and feeling it in battle.
Swooshhhh!
A massive arrow, shot at an entirely different speed.
Quickly, she twisted her head and threw her body to the side.
At that moment, Serin’s silver hair was dramatically streaking through the air.
Boom!!!
Turning her head slightly, she saw a massive arrow embedded in the ground, creating a giant crater.
It was incomparable to the light arrow volley that had been shot from the hand crossbow earlier.
[Unbelievable LOL]
[It’s more ridiculous that Lin managed to dodge that from that distance LOL]
[Isn’t that an awakening skill? d*mn LOL]
[No, I’m more amazed that Lin waited for that archer’s awakening skill]
[Isn’t this the awakening skill sealed by those cowardly archers using a hand crossbow?]
[I never thought I’d see that being used so openly LOL]
[Ballista is one of those techniques that secretly makes cowardly archers dream LOL]
Minimizing the chat window that entered her view for a moment, she quickly dashed across the ground.
While she had uttered words meaning to fight back and not run away, she certainly hadn’t expected the opponent to respond with such absurdity.
With her grip tightening on the great sword, she focused intently on the direction of the ballista.
It was aiming directly at her heart with a precision that was almost unsettling.
Watching that, she heightened her concentration to the limit and prepared to parry.
It was undoubtedly a reckless and absurd notion, but her desire to distort the face of the opponent smiling while preparing to unleash the ballista was too strong.
The archer’s awakening skill.
Surely, when the most potent skill of the opponent was being countered.
Would they still be able to smile like they were now?
Swooshhhh!
The massive arrow from the ballista was fired again.
The speed was much faster than she had expected for a simple parry to strike.
It was truly rushing forth as if it would pierce through her.
Still, she saw it.
The moment it registered in her mind, she immediately activated her skills.
—Charge.
—Judgment.
As she unfurled the two techniques in succession, at the precise timing when the ballista would reach her, she swung her claymore with both hands.
The technique Charge quickly traverses a short distance.
Judgment strikes horizontally, sweeping the great sword across at a large 180-degree angle.
As if Serin was approaching d*ath itself, she threw her body toward the massive arrow from the ballista, executing a large horizontal slash with her claymore to cut through the air.
—Clang!
A remarkably clear sound resonated as a burst of bright light erupted.
Click!
“Crazy…!”
Click!
As she heard the shocked disbelief of the archer user, who was filled with distrust, Serin was already leaping over the obstacles of the Colosseum, approaching the archer.
Perhaps realizing the danger too late, the archer, with a panicked expression, made a small gesture. A small explosion erupted from beneath the archer’s feet, which had been pre-set.
Clang!
While minimizing the explosion’s damage with her great sword, Serin’s expression turned cold.
The archer, who had distanced themselves greatly, was about to exhale a sigh of relief.
That was when her bright red lips began to move.
“…Leap.”