Your Commander-in-Chief – Chapter 236

“Unbelievable…”

In Deron, my nickname is White Sand, but my real name is Yoon Sung-min.

I frowned as I recalled what had just happened.

A little girl who had stabbed herself in the chest.

I simply couldn’t understand her reaction.

The raid was scheduled for 6:50, but the actual start time was 7:00.

I thought I hadn’t been late.

Therefore, I felt that everything I had just experienced was unfair treatment.

If I had faced unfair treatment in-game, where could I go to complain about it?

I knew exactly where to find those who most resonated with my sentiment.

Digital community

A massive community site known as DC.

I headed straight to the Deron Online gallery there.

It was to expose the unfair treatment I had just suffered and the true nature of the little queen bee.

Upon arriving at the community, I took a screenshot of what had just happened in-game and began writing a post.

Deron Online Gallery

[Newbie Asking: Is the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild a queen bee guild??]

(White Sand being expelled from Soft & Chewy Cow Guild screenshot)

Deron newbie faced the unbelievable.

First of all, I’m a newbie who just started Deron.

I started this season, so my actual playtime isn’t long.

I joined the guild that people recommended, which turned out to be the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild.

At first, it was fine. The guild members were nice and looked after me well.

We went through dungeons together, quickly geared me up, and I even joined the raid party.

But then, out of nowhere, I got kicked from the raid…

When I arrived, there was another guild member occupying my spot.

I had a bad feeling since the guild leader was a woman…

Seems she wanted to fill it with her sycophants…

If that were the case, why the hell did they let me join the raid at all?

I figured she just didn’t like me because I didn’t suck up to her.

When I confronted the guild leader and party leader about it, I got kicked from the guild, stabbed on the spot, and died.

Yeo is really insane…

Everyone, be careful.

I wrote only the facts without any lies.

Yoon Sung-min checked his post again and nodded in satisfaction.

Game community sites were sensitive to certain words.

Newbie and queen bee.

Especially when the two were linked, it could draw a lot of attention at once.

As Yoon Sung-min had anticipated, his post quickly amassed a large view count.

However, the comments pouring in were far from what he expected.

[Comments]

[Is this a troll?]

[Did you do something to get expelled?]

[Yeah, queen bee, she’s super strong. Getting hit by her stinger would blow your head off lol]

[True, she’s crazy lol. Imagine blowing all your gold on World Items.]

[Soft & Chewy Cow guild is a joke lol.]

[Blood Demon King is a joke lol.]

[How did this guy even get into Soft & Chewy Cow? lol]

[For real… I’ve been waiting a week and still can’t get in.]

[Did you really join the raid?]

[For real, kinda suspicious.]

[You infiltrated just to write this? lol]

[Are you a female user or something?]

[qtzzzz]

[I wish all queen bees were like Blood Demon King…]

[For real lol. Let’s trade our queen bees!]

[They let trash like you join, but not me? Blood Demon King… I’m cold…]

[From what I see from your usual posts, I wouldn’t want to accept you either.]

[What did I do?]

[Why do you want middle school girl socks? Are you insane?]

[It’s just a personal preference. Also, isn’t Blood Demon King a high school student now?]

[Wouldn’t want high school stuff?]

[High school students are kind of meh…]

[For real… I don’t think she’s a high school student…]

[What makes you think that?]

[Are you stupid?]

[lol, your nickname gives you away, seems you should just ignore this guy.]

[Self-embarrassment lololololol.]

“What the…?”

Yoon Sung-min was left dizzy as he scrolled through the comments.

A newbie had been kicked by a queen bee for unfair treatment.

This wasn’t the reaction Yoon Sung-min had expected.

The users of Deron Gallery were completely ignoring his post.

As a newbie in Deron, Yoon Sung-min was unaware of the nature of the posts that had been flooding Deron Gallery.

Blood Demon King Yeo.

How much time had passed since her identity was revealed?

There had indeed been attempts to undermine Yeo’s reputation.

There were many. Too many. That’s why users of Deron Gallery were familiar with such situations.

When it comes to Yeo, the Blood Demon King, there was an ingrained belief that she would never act that way.

Like a kind of immunity.

What is a queen bee?

Isn’t it a term for someone who exploits the benefits through the worker bees underneath her?

But Yeo was different. She had farmed for an extended time to an extent that even a seasoned heavy gamer would struggle to emulate, earning accolades in various raid clearances and arena contests.

Plus, with the background of a gold spoon, it was unimaginable that she would be acting like a queen bee.

For those who had played Deron for a long time, such occurrences became customary.

Whenever it was time to forget, factions that sought to discredit the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild and its leader Yeo would emerge in Deron Gallery.

“Crazy bastards…”

Yoon Sung-min shook his head and went to another community site.

He arrived at game inventory.

Commonly known as ginven, this site had a considerably larger user base than Deron Online Gallery. If he posted this incident in the events and complaints section, he could garner much support.

That’s what he thought.

He polished his post to fit the site’s characteristics.

Changed informal words to formal ones and erased the swear words.

Satisfied with the completed revision, he promptly clicked the post button.

But here too, the response was the same.

His post was met with empathy attacks and got buried.

*

The second latecomer, King Galbi Tangsuyuk, logged in just as the raid attempt was about to end.

King Galbi Tangsuyuk – [I’m sorry!!! I got into a car accident and couldn’t log in!]

The first thing King Galbi Tangsuyuk typed upon logging in.

He sincerely apologized for being late to the raid and asked how it had gone.

Yeo – [Are you hurt? We managed to find a substitute for the raid.]

King Galbi Tangsuyuk – [That’s a relief… My phone got wrecked, so I couldn’t message at all. I only have a scrape on my arm… nothing else.]

Boom!

A loud shockwave shook the shield.

I frowned as I continued chatting.

Raiding and chatting simultaneously was quite overwhelming.

Yeo – [King Galbi, it seems we won’t be able to do this week’s raids together.]

King Galbi Tangsuyuk – [Ah, it’s because of the raid assignment, right? I understand how that system works. It’s okay.]

Yeo – [Are you really okay?]

King Galbi Tangsuyuk – [It’s disappointing, but it can’t be helped haha…]

Boom!

“Iah!”

I had been too distracted for too long.

As the shield shook violently from the impact, my feet tangled, nearly throwing me off balance.

But I steadied myself.

Raising my shield once more, I slammed it hard against the ground.

The massive divine power radiating from the shield created an immense barrier around my body.

Chaaan!

King Galbi Tangsuyuk and White Sand.

Both newcomers who had joined at a similar time showcased vastly different reactions.

Yeah, King Galbi Tangsuyuk’s response was the normal one.

On the other hand, White Sand, who stepped forward confrontationally and grew angry, was abnormal.

Now that the problem was resolved, it was time to focus on the raid.

I focused on the target in front of me.

A dragon of enormous size.

[Hellfire Dragon Bahamut]

It bore a pattern similar to [Fallen Divine Dragon Sunforce], which we faced during the raid against the Fallen Sun God.

The story claimed that Bahamut and Sunforce were siblings, but the lore of the monsters didn’t matter to me at all.

That was when it happened.

Bahamut, who had been swiping its front claw at me, raised its head and inhaled deeply.

The same pattern inherent to dragon-type monsters.

The breath pattern.

[Hellfire Dragon Bahamut is taking a deep breath.]

The raid system was also indicating that a wipe was imminent.

There was no place to dodge. It was a pattern I had never encountered during this trial, so I had no idea how to respond.

I could only do my best.

“Everyone gather!!!”

Despite the sudden appearance of the pattern, the orders came promptly.

As I pinged my location for all party members to see, they rushed towards me from all directions.

I immediately plunged my sword into the ground and raised my shield high.

Activating the survival skill available to my rank-8 class, Arc Knight.

I activated [Izeus].

“Hyaaaah!”

Izeus.

As the name suggests, it was a skill that summoned a colossal shield from mythology, capable of blocking all attacks approaching from the front.

With a mighty shout, a massive shield made of light appeared before Bahamut, who was absorbing energy.

But I couldn’t let my guard down.

I had no idea how long the breath attack would last, so I needed to prepare my next survival skill immediately.

“All sub-tankers, stay in your assigned order and be ready!”

Currently, there were four tanks in this raid party.

All four had the job of Arc Knight, so we could use Izeus four times.

At that moment, Bahamut, fully charged, opened its colossal mouth and spewed forth crimson liquid.

Swoosh!

“What the hell is this…?”

The crimson liquid spilled from Bahamut’s mouth without any attack power.

The liquid was blocked by the gigantic light shield and began filling the named room below.

There was nowhere to escape.

All the party members found themselves knee-deep in the crimson liquid.

A multitude of thoughts swirled through my mind.

Could it be that this wasn’t a pattern to block or evade the breath but a pattern to cancel specific skills?

Just then, a blurry message appeared in front of me.

[You have been infected with Blood Demon Clan’s blood!]

[You are starting to mutate into a Blood Demon!]

Mutation of a blood demon?

The moment I read the message, my vision turned red, and the teeth in my mouth began to grow sharper.

As I moved my tongue to cautiously touch my teeth, sharp pain shot through me.

[30 seconds remain until complete mutation.]

I looked around at the party members gathered behind me.

Some were also mutating into blood demons, while others remained unchanged.

Blood demon, vampire, blood.

I needed to find the difference between those who had mutated and those who hadn’t.

At that moment, a hypothesis sprang to mind.

The system message used the word infection.

Disease, pathogen, antibodies.

A chain of words came to me.

Those who had mutated and those who hadn’t.

I quickly turned to Helena and shouted.

She was one of those who had not mutated into a blood demon.

“Helena!”

“Yes?”

“Do you see anything in your status window?”

“It says antibody present.”

Just as I thought.

I hurriedly opened my skill window.

There, a new skill I had never seen was activated.

[Blood Drain]

Absorbs a target’s blood to recover health.

※Cooldown 10 seconds.

This is it.

“Everyone who has mutated, check your skill windows!”

By now, I figured everyone would understand.

I turned my body and rushed to Helena.

[10 seconds remaining until complete mutation.]

We were running out of time.

I had no idea what would happen if I were to fully turn into a blood demon.

I opened my mouth wide and bit into Helena’s arm, who was standing there in a daze.

[Blood Drain]

Sluurp.