"Let's catch a few more and finish it properly."
Tao Xin and Jin Geuk Myung were friends who started EL together since the open beta service. They were Chinese users, and when Eternal Life, which they had been interested in for a long time, started, they started without hesitation.
Both of them had quite high VRA and had a good understanding of the game, so they were able to get a little ahead of the others. However, they made a bad choice in the process, and that was the choice to become an evil user.
"Looks like your income is not very good today."
"The number of bad users has increased these days, so the number of normal users who will rob them has decreased."
Tao Xin shook his head with a sad expression and murmured.
"If not, would even a bad user rob it?"
"I can't get any bad karma or even items, so what are you doing robbing it?"
It was possible for evil users to kill each other. But even if you kill it, you won't get anything.
"Oh, sorry about something."
"I can't help it. If you're an evil user who interferes with our hunt, you should just ignore it."
Taosin and Jin Geukmyung were wandering around the Valley of the Ghosts looking for prey. They were currently level 19, but at this level, it was a fairly high level.
In addition, they also possessed the ancient knowledge of 'archer' and 'swordsman' respectively. Two evil users with high levels and ancient knowledge.
At this level, it could definitely be a scary existence.
"Let's find out some more."
Two evil users looking for prey. They were eagerly roaming the Valley of the Wraith like hyenas on a quest for prey.
"Ugh... Ugh..."
Tao Xin breathed heavily and kept running. As he continued to run like that, he once again recalled what had happened 10 minutes ago to see what was wrong.
A user Tao Xin and Jin Geuk Myung found 10 minutes ago was a perfect prey in their eyes. At least, that's what I thought before that user instantly blew Jin Geuk-myung's head off.
It happened really quickly.
The PK between Tao Xin and Jin Geuk Myung was a pattern in which Tao Xin first fired an arrow from a distance to harass the other party, and in the meantime, Jin Geuk Myung secretly approached and ambush them.
At first glance, it looks fairly simple, but in reality it was a fairly powerful PK pattern. Until now, we have hunted numerous general users through this pattern.
However, that user... easily avoided Taosin's arrows. When Tao Xin's long-range support was not pressed at all, of course, the surprise attack of Jin Geuk-myeong didn't work either. Rather, Jin Geuk-myeong, who rushed to surprise, was hit in reverse.
The user who lightly blocked the surprise attack of Jin Geuk Myung with his sword played with Jin Geuk Myung. Tao Xin tried to somehow make up for the situation by using all of his soul skills and continued to shoot arrows, but rather, the user cleverly pushed Jin Geuk Myung and let Tao Xin's arrow pierce Jin Geuk Myung.
Ironically, both Jin Geuk-myeong and Tao-shin were evil users, so they could hurt each other. In this way, the part that ordinary users did not have to worry about became a fatal weakness for the evil users than expected, and in the end, Taosin and Jin Geukmyung rather became obstacles to each other.
Three quick swings at the last second.
Those three cuts hit Jin Geuk-myeong's arms, body, and neck accurately, and Jin Geuk-myeong collapsed in vain.
Of course, the moment Jin Keoming fell, Tao Xin had no choice but to run away. The user they thought was a prey was not a prey, but a monster, so Taosin ran away like crazy.
'Where on earth did that monster come from?'
Tao Xin had killed countless users so far, but I can assure you that this was the first experience. In fact, the two killed a lot of users who seemed to have a high level and a lot of experience.
I've never had a feeling like this before.
'I can never win this...'
Tao Xin felt sorry for Jin Geuk-myung, but he thought that he had to live on his own. But... that was just his vain hope.
Whiiing, suck!
Suddenly, a shadow fell from the air and hit Taosin's body accurately.
"Gagging."
As he was running, he was hit properly, so Tao Xin had no choice but to fall backwards in an instant. The one who knocked him down was, of course, the user who blew off Jin Geuk-myung's head, no, Sang-hyeok.
Tao Xin thought he could run away from Sang-hyeok, but unfortunately, that was impossible.
Because the Valley of the Ghosts was an area that Sang-hyeok had visited numerous times in his previous life, it was easy to figure out Tao-shin's escape route.
That is why Sang-hyeok was able to easily cross the road and block Tao-sin's way.
"Kkeuh... who the hell are you?"
Tao Xin shouted in Chinese. But Sanghyuk understood what he was saying. This was possible thanks to the simultaneous interpretation system for DN developed five years ago.
The moment Tao Xin spoke, his words were translated naturally and came up as text on the right side of Sang-hyeok's field of vision. Since the post was posted in less than a second, there was no inconvenience in having a real-time conversation.
However, when a large number of people speaking different languages gathered and had a conversation, the conversation could come up so much that it disturbed the view, but it was possible to turn it on/off through a simple setting, so the interpretation function could be turned off at important moments.
"Isn't that important right now?"
Sureureung.
Sanghyuk didn't have time to talk to the evil user, who was not a big deal. His mind was filled only with the thought of winning the title of the first evil hunter by eliminating 100 evil users as quickly as possible.
Thao Xin got up and tried to run away. However, it was faster for Sang-hyeok to close the distance through a quick advance with a low-level charge skill than he could get up.
And the following three-step cutting!
Sang-hyeok's sword passed through Tao-sin's body and arm in an instant.
"Keugh!"
Of course, I didn't feel any pain. But instead, I felt very uncomfortable. This unpleasant feeling was a sensation that users felt instead of pain in DN's games, and it was roughly similar to the unpleasant feeling of being covered with filth.
Taoxin did not run out of life yet, so he tried to fight somehow. The white light powder oozing from all over his body told him that he wasn't feeling well, but he wasn't about to collapse just yet.
But no matter how hard he tried, Sanghyuk was on top of his head. To be precise, after dodging Tao God's monotonous melee attack so easily, he continued to leave a definite sword mark on Tao God's body.
In the end, Tao Xin barely lasted a minute.
In the first place, it was impossible for Taosin, who chose 'archers' with long-range attack skills as ancient knowledge, to withstand Sanghyeok's attacks.
Jin Geuk-myeong, who chose the ancient knowledge 'Swordsman' and chose melee attack ability, couldn't last 3 minutes, but it was natural that Tao Xin couldn't last 1 minute.
Whirik, Fuuk!
In the end, the moment Taosin's vitality decreased to 0, the traveler's treasured sword that Sanghyeok was holding pierced Taosin's heart.
Taosin didn't even know exactly how he died because he had set the death skip setting.
"Forty-seventh..."
Sang-hyeok muttered softly as he got up from his seat after defeating Taosin. Taosin was the 47th villain he killed.
There are now 53 left. At the current rate, it seemed like it could be filled in four days.
To be honest, there are a lot of bad users now.
It was like a situation that is often said to be 'half water, half meat'.
Sanghyeok picked up all the items that Taosin had dropped. He didn't drop Jin Geukmyeong or Tao Xin or very expensive items, but they weren't trash items to the point of throwing them away.
'I have a lot of japtem, so I'll have to go to Falcon City and sell all of them on consignment.'
Apart from getting the title of the first evil hunter, it was very exciting not only to catch the bad guys and get a lot of karma, but also to bring and sell the items they dropped.
Since it was the beginning and because of the nature of the bad users, they couldn't use the bank's common warehouse, so they had no choice but to carry all the items. As a result, I often dropped quite expensive items.
Of course, all of this was a considerable benefit to Sang-hyeok, who hunts the wicked. Even catching the wicked was able to accumulate karma faster than the usual method.
* * * *
"There were no fatal bugs, only four minor NPC AI glitches. All four of them were fixed by 'Chaos' using its own error fixing program."
Finally, the report from the development team is over.
Team leaders from all departments participated in the video conference because it was a meeting held at the level of overall inspection after the formal service was performed.
"Anyway, Chaos will solve all errors that occur inside the game, so the development team should be more aware of outside attacks or illegal programs."
Chaos was the best artificial intelligence program that Raonsoft completed after 10 years of research. In fact, it was correct to say that EL was born thanks to this chaos.
Chaos could be said to be the creator god of EL. Chaos managed this world, watching everything that happened in Eternal Life through the eyes of God.
Of course, the existence of Chaos did not mean that the development team was not needed. Since managing Chaos itself was the responsibility of the development team, Seo Won-tae, the president of Raonsoft, always directly took care of the development team.
"Operations team, how is user inflow?"
"It is growing at a rapid pace. Since almost all existing communities continue to praise EL's game quality, the number of users will continue to increase rapidly."
"Good. If the number of users increases, the PPL problem will naturally be solved, right?"
"Yes, if the number of users increases, there will probably be a line of companies that want PPL advertisements on their own without us talking."
"Take it slow. We are in no hurry anyway."
Seo Won-tae laughed lightly and spoke. He was nervous at first, even though he was Seo Won-tae of the world. However, now I could be sure that EL would be a great success unconditionally.
"Is there anything else that could be a problem?"
"It takes a bit that the number of bad users is increasing too much these days."
The head of the game balancing team spoke in a cautious voice. Raonsoft's basic policy itself was 'non-intervention' when it comes to games, so the head of the balancing team had no choice but to be careful when he said such a thing.
"It is absolutely forbidden for us to intervene internally in the game just because the number of bad players has increased. As we have repeatedly emphasized, Eternal Life pursues unlimited freedom. That's why the number of bad users has increased, and users have to overcome it on their own."
"However, if the number of bad users increases too much, normal users will suffer great damage..."
"It is very frustrating. Who told you to just watch? You may not be able to intervene inside the game, but you can intervene outside the game. For example, this problem can be solved by just leaking information on various community sites that secretly catching a lot of bad users can get a big reward. Do I have to tell you the answer to each of these? Didn't I allow it from the beginning to adjust the balancing using small information like this to the extent that it doesn't have a big impact on the game?"
When Seo Won-tae talked like he was frustrated, the team leader of the balancing team could only say sorry.
"As for the operation team, don't be fooled by the fact that you don't have to monitor the inside of the game, but apart from that, keep looking at various communities to keep track of users' trends. We have to be aware of all the changes that happen in the game."
Seo Won-tae's principle was simple.
It does not directly intervene inside the game, but indirectly regulates the inside outside the game. This was the way he ran EL.