A Basement-Dwelling Loser, the Inquisitor – Chapter 133

[Rene]

[It’s Judgment Time]

[New Dimension | 7361 viewers | 01:15:11]

─ This girl is just ridiculously good at New Dimension, LOL

─ Even wielding a massive great sword in Warhammer… Knows the romance of a man…

─ The ones who said it was a bubble will really be eating their words now.

─ It’s seriously amazing, LOL

“Stop them! We have to stop them no matter what!!!”

With someone screaming, a multitude of arrows and magic filled the sky.

Even if I wore Full Body Armor, it was common sense to die from that level of attack.

Of course, I had no intention of just taking it.

Just like before, a vividly colored curtain surged up in front of me.

It was the alchemist Rebongi’s ‘Mephistos.’

The magic pouring towards me melted away as it hit the brightly colored curtain.

After deflecting the remaining arrows with my great sword, I leaped right into the middle of the heretics’ formation.

There are so many of them.

Unlike us, who are only 22, just counting them roughly shows there’s well over 50.

Considering their mobilizable troops outnumber ours by more than 5 times, that was a given.

But that doesn’t mean it leads to us losing, something I already knew.

“Ugh…”

I parried a scimitar coming from the left and ducked under a punch rushing at me from the front.

Simultaneously, I raised my great sword and charged forward.

Piercing through the body of the heretic standing in front of me, I used him as a shield and continued advancing.

I could allow some attacks from behind to hit me.

My Full Body Armor was tough enough not to be pierced by light attacks, and if I ever faced a dangerous attack, the other Rebongi would block it for me.

Once a path was created.

I pushed away the body of the heretic I had used as a shield and swung my great sword wildly.

A sword is typically a slashing weapon.

But this great sword was—

So large, heavy, and thick it was hard to even call it a great sword.

When I swung it, the feeling of slicing was less dominant than the sensation of tearing it apart.

It felt like hitting someone with a mace.

Pshhh!

With a heavy impact sound, the heretics caught up in my attack rolled on the ground.

Of course, considering there were over 50 troops here, that was a very small number, but in war, momentum was crucial.

No matter how much they knew they had the upper hand, witnessing their comrades collapsing terribly before them would drown them in fear of becoming like that themselves.

The more overwhelming the enemy, the more that held true.

“Sh, shit…!!!”

In the end, this meant that someone would eventually run away.

Of course, I had no intention of letting the fleeing heretics go.

Pshhh! Pshhh! Pshhh!

How many times had I swung this great sword?

Of course, I wasn’t counting each swing meticulously.

Only the fact that all the opposing heretics were rolling on the ground remained.

“Looks like there are quite a few heretics who don’t really understand PVP…”

Fighting multiple opponents on your own was absolutely no easy task.

But it didn’t necessarily act as a disadvantage.

The number of people that can surround one person is typically three. At most, four.

In other words, as long as I could keep winning a 4-on-1 match, the enemy’s numbers wouldn’t matter too much.

Besides, ranged attacks from the enemy could sweep away their allies, so they had to be careful.

Moreover, from the perspective of the majority, they could only aim for one person, so their attack range was limited, but from one person’s side, they could attack anywhere, hence having a relatively wider attack range.

Of course, from the one-person side, there was a disadvantage of having to watch their back, but… that was an area I could adequately cover with skill.

Anyway, as long as I could keep winning the 4-on-1 fight, there was plenty of chance for victory on that side.

If they realized that fact, the heretics must have definitely come with different strategies.

─ Isn’t it kind of weird that you’re all alone beating them up, Rene???

─ Seems like there are a lot of people who dislike PVP AOS, so it’s also a bit convenient?

As the chat said, quite a few New Dimension users hated PVP and AOS modes.

Even if they didn’t hate it, there were still quite a few users who didn’t care about it at all.

And the war going on now was content targeted at general New Dimension users.

Thanks to that, I was able to navigate the significant numerical disadvantage quite smoothly.

〔Elun Cult: 16,333 members〕

〔Scadi Cult: 13,012 members〕

〔3rd Faction – Iya Cult: 3,451 members〕

Thanks to the fact that the two heretical factions were engaged in a full-scale battle against each other, their numbers were decreasing much faster than ours.

…But that didn’t mean we’d won the war, not at all.

This war didn’t end until we annihilated the enemy.

After two hours, the war would automatically end, and the situation would be analyzed to award points, with the faction that had the highest total winning.

So, even if we were performing well now, if we couldn’t earn many points, it was all meaningless.

“It seems like aiming for a big hit is a good idea…”

According to the explanation shown before the war began.

There are important NPCs on the heretic side, and if that NPC is defeated, it would definitely inflict a lot of damage.

That means defeating those important NPCs could earn us enormous points, right?

Of course, it wasn’t a certainty, but it was certainly worth a shot.

However, since that important NPC was likely placed near their main base, I needed to move as quickly as possible from this point on.

“I’m going to speed up a bit now…”

“…Huh?”

─?

─??? : I wasn’t using my full power until now…

─Rene is seriously amazing!

It didn’t feel like I was using my full power, but rather that there were quite a few Rebongi following me now, so I was moving at a speed they could keep up with.

People who had mastered acceleration skills as well as I did were incredibly rare.

But from now on, I had every intention of running without worrying about such things at all.

Naturally, that meant it would be harder to get even minimal support, which would likely increase the probability of danger for me.

But that level of risk was something I had to accept if I wanted to win this war.

This war took place five times over a week.

In other words, it’s a long-term content that spans a month.

And to finally achieve victory here, we had to win at least two wars.

But could our faction really win two of the wars?

At least, I thought I wouldn’t be able to win the second, third, or fourth wars.

Because aside from today and the final war, the Sirius Team wouldn’t participate.

Whether or not our elite pro gamers, all five of them, would assist us would definitely have a significant impact on our chances.

In other words, the opportunities for our faction to win the war were limited to today and the last fifth war.

And even that wouldn’t be easy by any means.

I was definitely in a situation where I had to push myself right now.

“Phew…”

After catching my breath, I started running with all my might, and among the 21 Rebongi, only 3 managed to follow me.

The Rebongi, who provided support from a distance with magic, the martial artist Rebongi who distracted the outer heretics, and the familiar alchemist Rebongi.

…Though the martial artist Rebongi was understandable, how were the other two keeping up?

I glanced over to see a glow of acceleration skill effects surrounding them.

“…Ah. I saw what Rene-nim was doing, and I learned accordingly. My proficiency is quite high too.”

“Me too.”

─Wow, this is true love, LOL

─Rene, your Rebongi really like you that much!

─For them to learn acceleration to that extent…

…No, I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but isn’t the assessment of acceleration skills a bit too poor?

I personally think there are not many better buff skills than this.

People say it’s almost like a guarantee, that if they have such fans, they’re blessed…

No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t seem like that’s the case.

Please stop the acceleration hate…

★

Anyway, the four of us moved forward at the fastest speed we could, defeating heretics along the way.

I wonder if the four of us had taken down over 500 heretics?

Well, I didn’t count precisely, so I can’t be sure, but we had taken down quite a lot of heretics, and luckily no one among us had fallen.

The problem was that we still hadn’t seen any enemy that looked like an important NPC.

Nearly an hour had passed, so I hoped they would show up soon.

〔Elun Cult: 10,235 members〕

〔Scadi Cult: 7,009 members〕

〔3rd Faction – Iya Cult: 2,012 members〕

The war situation among the heretics was maintaining a troop difference of around 3,000.

Even if system buffs applied, 3,000 was by no means a small difference.

They were holding up well.

But the more important matter was our faction.

Starting with 3,612 members, our forces had now decreased to 2,012.

While that was overwhelmingly little damage in terms of proportion, considering there was still nearly an hour left, I couldn’t help but hope for even less damage.

“…Wait a moment, Rene-nim.”

It was the martial artist Rebongi who called me while I was lost in thought.

“I think I found it. The important NPC.”

And at the tip of his pointing finger stood.

[Commander: Hailon]

An NPC with a distinctly different emblem from any I had encountered before was standing there.