The Tutorial Is Too Hard Chapter 121:
[The finals for the individual matches will begin soon . ]
“It looks like it is finally going to start . ”
I nodded to Kim Min-hyuk’s words . I got up and stretched my body .
Unlike the main matches and semi-final matches, which took place through the evening, the final match took place after the suppertime .
Because of this, it was hard for me to wait .
I wanted to go get in the action right away, but it was to be held after the dinner time .
[Would you like to move to the arena?]
“I’ll be back . ”
I was about to get on the stage, but Kim Min-hyuk grabbed me from the back . He whispered,
“Hey, I know what Big Bro Jong-shik said earlier, but you need keep it under reasonable extent . You must not destroy him too brutally . ”
“I got it . ”
Depending on how he does .
“Teleport . ”
[Please wait . ]
Is it going to start when Lee Jun-suk also enters the arena?
As soon as I moved to the arena, even at a glance, I could see everyone’s excitement and anticipation for the match .
Almost all seats were completely full .
Actually, during the tournaments through yesterday and today, people were more focused on walking around to meet people or have conversations than watching the matches .
It was obvious . After all, they had been trapped in confining spaces for dozens of days .
However, it seemed they all saw the message about the final match being held . Even the people who were playing outside the building came inside to see the match .
Thanks to all these people, I think the Order will be having an incredibly hard time since they love to check people’s movements .
I can understand why Park Jung-ah couldn’t even show the tip of her nose outside throughout yesterday and today when the tournament was being held .
However, if that’s the case, why is Kim Min-hyuk sitting around there?
If he has nothing to do, he should go help Jung-ah a little .
[The match will begin in 180 seconds . ]
Lee Jun-suk appeared on the arena .
He appears to be full of confidence .
Actually, I can see why he would be .
His blitz skills’ performances were overwhelming in destructive power and speed . Against them, long-range fighters were not able to put up much fight .
Also, close range fighters were not even able to get close to him because they were blocked by his blitz field .
He could achieve flawless victories yawning if he just used the right skills at the right times .
He got up all the way here with such easy victories . I can see why he thinks he stands a chance against me .
“We meet at last . ”
“I see . ”
“I wanted to meet you at the final match, but if I knew I had to wait this long, I think it would had been better if we ran into each other during the preliminaries instead . ”
His attitude is completely different from how it was when I met him last time during the day of the great harmony .
He is like a different person .
“Why? Were you bored?”
“Yes . ”
Lee Jun-suk relaxed his shoulder in an exaggerated motion and said,
“Honestly, it was not just a little disappointing . My body itched because I was forced to move my body to deal with small fry . It was no different from torture . Wasn’t it like that for you too, Big Bro?”
It’s a little different for me .
My body doesn’t even itch from doing that .
“I’m not sure . ”
“Looks like I’ll finally be able to demonstrate my real skills . Do you have any idea how much I had been waiting for this since yesterday? Ugh . I wish the people could just be rated based on their abilities by the system and the system could automatically disqualify anyone who are weak . It was just a waste of time . ”
It looks like you still have a very long way to go .
From him rambling about ranking people based on abilities, I could tell that he is still lacking in experience .
We are in a world where the opponents are wielding weapons and skills are used without any prior indications .
A step or two difference in abilities are meaningless in this place .
In this world, it does not matter who . As long as a blade is pierced through the neck, anyone could die just the same .
Could it be that he is thinking this place is like a game?
The main people of the Korean server, the Order of Vigilance included, were following the mood in the community and intentionally treating the world inside the Tutorial like being inside a video game .
NPC, player, class, profession, rooting, farming… They borrowed terms from video games and encouraged such impressions .
They just wanted to help the newbies adjust to the environment more easily .
However, if a ranker like Lee Jun-suk is living in the Tutorial believing it is a video game, then that was a problem .
At the rate of growth that he has, I’m sure he has never had any serious danger since the early days .
It is not like I cannot understand that .
[The match will begin in 30 seconds . ]
Lee Jun-suk continued to loudly babble on .
He bashed the opponents he met so far, saying that they were pathetically weak . He complained that the tournament was boring . Indirectly, he was boasting just how strong he was in comparison .
As I thought and as Park Jong-shik said, Lee Jun-suk was drunk on his own power .
I think it would be best to make him shut up .
What he was saying was being broadcasted to the entire audience in the arena building .
It seemed he was not even thinking about this . Perhaps he just didn’t care if others who were weaker than him heard it . Anyway…
I brought out the Transmutable Thousand Arms from the inventory and formed a longsword .
That alone made Lee Jun-suk stop talking .
I think it would be definitely a good idea to crush him here once .
He is not just drunk on his own growth and power .
He is giving too much weight and value to strength .
He is thinking that those who are strong should be obviously respected and those who are weak should be patronized and trivialized .
He is asserting his views onto the people .
It was not my job to correct his way of thinking .
That was Park Jong-shik’s job .
My job was, before Park Jong-shik lulls the man after this, firmly stepping on him once .
“Big Bro Jong-shik said this . ”
Slowly, I spoke .
I was speaking slowly, but clearly .
When I was a professional gamer, I remember going up against new players who were on the stage for the first time .
I relaxed my right hand that was holding the long sword .
I completely relaxed my arm .
With the tip of the fingers, I grabbed the handle of the sword and swung it forward and backwards .
I swung it like a bag of groceries .
The new players were usually the same when it came to their conditions during their stage debut .
Extreme excitement and nervousness .
Once they stepped on the stage, all the practice and advice from the coaching staffs went down the drain .
They moved like stupid robots following the scenarios that they became accustomed to .
They never came prepared with a gamble .
It was a debut stage . No player ever brought a move that bet it all on luck . No coach advised people to do that either .
So, it was so simple to fight newbies like that .
First, draw the opponent’s attention .
“Of all Hard Difficulty challengers, you are…”
I picked a line that would make Lee Jun-suk react to .
It seemed like Lee Jun-suk found satisfaction in constantly comparing himself to others and putting himself above others .
In that case, Korean server’s Hard Difficulty, the place that he belongs and where all of his competitors are, would be the one that would matter the most to him .
A newbie player whose vision had narrowed due to excitement and nervousness falls for an unexpected attempt at drawing attention .
They are taught not to fall for this, but they don’t remember . What they do know regarding this won’t come to their minds either .
They just focus on that trivial attempt at drawing their attention .
[The match will begin . ]
If I succeeded in drawing his attention, then…
Cheese rush .
After I said “you are,” at an odd timing, the message appeared to signal the start of the match .
It is obvious .
I had been counting the remaining time mentally as I said those words .
Lee Jun-suk is so focused on what I’m going to say next . His response is slow .
The longsword was swinging from my fingers like a swing set . The sword was tossed toward Lee Jun-suk’s face in a fluid motion .
It was flying through the air like how a longsword should .
The swinging motion of the long sword, the line I recited just before and up to the start of the match, and the match time counting were all executed perfectly .
It was a small accomplishment, but I felt pretty good about this . It was like brewing tea perfectly by timing it to perfection .
It was a surprise attack, but the longsword was flying toward him slowly . There was no way that Lee Jun-suk would not be able to stop it .
He was a breath too slow . No, he was half a breath slower, but he will stop it .
So, what I should do next is charging forward .
I charged in like an arrow that was just launched from the bow and grabbed the handle of the longsword midair .
Lee Jun-suk just brought out a spear from the inventory to block the long sword . I swung my sword at him .
Kang!
Our weapons clashed .
Although I didn’t put much strength into the strike, his spear was pushed way down .
As this case demonstrated, one’s stance is important .
With his spear lowered, Lee Jun-suk’s face was defenselessly exposed . I headbutted him .
This is the end .
It was the end when the cheese rush succeeded .
Newbie players never expect that the opponent would use extreme tactics from the start .
Although they obviously could use such, the newbie players are convinced that their opponents would never use them .
It is the power of the prejudiced thinking .
They probably won’t, right? A veteran at the top won’t go for an all-in tactic at the start of the game against some newbie, right? The newbies think like this .
Lee Jun-suk is thinking the same .
He was thinking that I would never do this .
Would I suddenly drop the conversation and throw a surprise attack as soon as the start message comes up?
Newbies who are stabbed in their weak point like this try hard afterwards to put out the fire .
After that, with the game’s lead handed to the opponents, they are dragged around by the collar and lose .
After the headbutt, Lee Jun-suk’s head rapidly bobbed backwards .
This rascal is closing his eyes .
He is focused on long-range attacks . Is he lacking in close-range experience because of this?
I placed my hand at his chest . I put weight on my hand and pushed him to the back of the arena .
Lee Jun-suk took a step back and held on so he won’t fall . However, he just ended up moving to the perfect position for me to attack .
He was still defenseless . I kicked his knee .
I didn’t hear any bone-cracking noise, but I am sure that I dislocated his knee .
Lee Jun-suk fell down, but it seemed he still used a skill . A lightning sphere was formed midair .
Lee Jun-suk didn’t even recover his sight yet . There is no way I would get hit .
I dodged his blind attacks and positioned myself behind Lee Jun-suk .
He was still defenseless . I struck his back with the handle of the long sword .
Enduring the pain, he reactively turned around and tried to use the same skill again .
Of course, I could watch him do all that slowly . When he turned around, at the right timing, I kicked him right in the pit of the stomach .
He rolled and rolled towards the edge of the arena .
I think that should do it .
“Jun-suk . ”
“Kuhek . Kek . ”
He sounded like a typical individual who just got struck at the pit of the stomach .
“You lost, right?”
“Kek . Uuhek . ”
He was still almost but not quite throwing up, so there was no response .
It meant he didn’t receive enough of a beating .
I should give him a stronger beating and then ask again .
* * *
Lee Jun-suk diligently resisted .
Unlike the beginning, where I just shook him while grabbing him by the collar, I gave him chances to counter attack . This was why he could .
However, his range attacks were blocked by the Talaria's Wings . As for the blitz field which usually prevented the opponent from approaching, I ignored it and charged in . Lee Jun-suk didn’t have any way of fighting me .
Despite this, Lee Jun-suk tried all sorts of methods to turn the tide of the match . However, in the end, they were all for naught .
“… I lost . I surrender . ”
In the end, he lay on the ground with all of his arms and legs fully stretched out and declared surrender .
[Congratulations . You won the individual part of the tournament . ]
[As the reward, you acquired 7800 points . ]
[God of Adventure is overjoyed . ]
[God of Slowness is watching you . ]
[God of Duel is intrigued to watch you . ]
[God of Death is disappointed . ]
[God of Goodwill is feeling bad about someone . ]
[You acquired a mysterious medicine . Please check your inventory . ]
The congratulatory message was brief . However, my view was filled with messages about the gods’ responses .
Unlike when I won the tournament last time, the God of Duel, God of Death and God of Goodwill were all present .
Who is God of Goodwill feeling bad about this time?
I wonder why that **** is always feeling bad about someone?
I checked all of the messages and looked at Lee Jun-suk .
Unlike the usual, the loser was not sent to the spectator seats . Instead, he remained at the arena .
It’s probably because the loser is also getting rewards for being the runner-up .
“Jun-suk, you still have a long way to go, right?”
“… Yes . ”
His voice was lacking sincerity .
Still, the attitude is not bad considering that it’s his first beating in a while .
At the very end, I gave him opportunities to put up proper resistance using all of his strength . Despite that, he lost . Is that why his tone of voice sounds despondent?
“Jun-suk, if this was a real battle, then you would have died when you got headbutted in the beginning . Also, that was something that anyone could have done . I didn’t even use any skill . I didn’t use much more strength in particular either . I could have done that much even when I just cleared the First Floor . Actually, the end result would have been similar if you fought the version of me from that time . ”
Ah, of course, the version of me from that time would not have beaten the **** out of someone without an ounce of hesitation like this . Anyway…
I lowered my back and used my sleeve to wipe off the blood from his face . I continued .
“The battle is not decided by the power of skills alone, especially against opponents like you who completely let go of their minds and are completely careless . You see that, right?”
Lee Jun-suk nodded as if he just chewed on something unpleasant .
The sides of his cheeks were swelled up, so he actually did look like he was chewing on something .
“Jun-suk, you still have a long way to go . Try harder and be more careful . You can’t afford to die so easily and pointlessly, right?”
“Okay…”
I think that should do it .
Park Jong-shik will console him and talk to him about the rest .
I thought I lulled him pretty well . I looked at the spectator seats .
I am not expecting praises, but I think they will tell me that I did pretty well .
However, the look on Kim Min-hyuk and Park Jong-shik’s faces were not very good .
* * *
[TL: This section is in Park Jung-ah’s perspective . ]
It seemed our visitor was feeling a little anxious about the situation . The visitor was shaking a little . To calm the visitor, I asked Lee Yuu-jung to get us some tea .
Lee Yuu-jung was sitting next to me . She brought out the utensils for the tea and started to boil water .
I was thinking perhaps we should bring out some snacks and fruits as well, but a message came .
“Please wait for a bit . ”
I asked for understanding from the visitor and then checked the message .
It was from Kim Min-hyuk .
He was asking how the conversation went with the person who came to report crimes .
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: Yes, we are going to start talking about it now . There aren’t any problems at the arena, right?]
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: Nothing big . Your boyfriend is beating Lee Jun-suk to pulp, and that is a problem, but…]
There was a pretty serious problem .
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: Can you stop them?]
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: How are we supposed to stop someone who is on the arena? Also, it seems he must be thinking that he is going easy on Lee Jun-suk’s discipline . It is just that, that Ho-jae rascal’s standard is too tough, so…]
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: Just how bad is it?]
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: The spectators left the seats, saying they could not bear to watch it anymore . That bad . ]
It was a serious problem .
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: Were there any movements from anyone? Complaints from the Japanese people perhaps?]
If the people from the Japanese server saw this and judged that it was excessively cruel, then it would become a serious problem .
It is an act that the Order of Vigilance forbid, yet the Order committed the act .
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: Fortunately, there hasn’t been any . That lunatic… Ho-jae **** is beating the **** out of the kid, but instead, they were saying advisory stuff like focus, watch the steps, skill distribution order is wrong, and the movement is too big . So, instead of thinking that he was attacking with malicious intent, they think he is just insane . Lee Jun-suk is not surrendering and foolishly hanging on too . It would be easier if he just surrendered quickly, but that guy’s head is not right either . ]
It worked out well . It was not a big problem .
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: Ah, also, Lee Hyung-jin said he wants to help you guys . ]
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: Lee Hyung-jin, one of the Hell Difficulty challengers? Why all of the sudden? I remember him being not all that interested in the Order’s business?]
[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th Floor: Ho-jae won’t be participating in the group round . So, it looks like he was going to give lessons to Lee Hyung-jin whenever he finds the time . I think Lee Hyung-jin is scared of this and trying to make a run to your side . ]
[Park Jung-ah, 44th Floor: I see . Please tell him no . ]