Chapter 410: Penalty Shoot-Out

Chapter 410: Penalty Shoot-Out

Root was once a part of the Korean national team that was sent to the Olympics. However, a harrowing accident left him with a paralyzed lower body. Since then, Root lived a life cut off from the rest of the world, wallowing in despair.

That was until he encountered the game called Athenae. In that world, he was once again able to shoot the bow that he loved as much as he wanted to. And while he played alone, he was able to meet the gamer named Minhyuk and became a member of the guild called ‘Legend Guild’.

Root often met up with the members of Let’s Eat Sect for get-togethers. The members did not care and treated Root warmly like they were family, even after knowing that he lived alone and that he had a body that was uncomfortable to move with. This warmth gave Root a new driving force to move forward and turn the Archery Representative Root into the Athenae Representative Root!

[Goaaaaaaaal!]

[And that’s a goal!!! Korea has scored with the golden ball!!!]

[Unbelievable! Calauhel’s blow added a fierce momentum to the ball which increased its speed tremendously to the point that we couldn’t even follow it with the naked eye! How was he able to graze that with his arrow?!]

[My jaw just dropped open at the sight.]

[Oh my god! Root, the only archer player in this game and the player that everyone thought would be useless in the game, is doing a good job! He’s making Korea soar higher!]

Minhyuk nodded at Root and Ali as they made eye contact. Root, who was smiling slightly, raised the bow in his hand and let loose a series of arrows. The arrows that were flying fiercely in the skies were no different, no, perhaps even more shocking and stronger with the help of Athenae’s game system, than the arrows that he had sent flying during his heyday as a national archer representative.

Root’s arrows accurately struck the ball’s red dot.

Thump—

Fueled with the force of Root’s arrow, the ball went straight into the goal post.

Thud—

The sight of the goal post shaking wildly left the entire world in shock.

[Another goal!!! Unbelievable!!!]

[Root accurately struck the red dot on the ball, sending it directly to the goal!]

However, Root’s hand did not stop moving.

Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping—

Root’s arrows accurately struck the balls’ red dots which sent four of them straight into the goal posts!

[Ko... Korea's team has reached a total of 26 points! The gap between them and the other teams has widened!!!]

[P... Player Root has proven himself to be a great variable!]

President Kang Taehoon, who was working as a special commentator, sat among the other commentators and explained the situation.

[Player Root’s skills with the bow are completely unbelievable! According to our analysis, striking the ball’s red dot with the player’s individual ability and Athenae’s archery skills is comparable to scoring the highest score in the Archery Olympics.]

Kang Taehoon’s explanation made the fire in the hearts of the Koreans burn even brighter. However, because of Root’s outstanding display, the other representative teams had come to a consensus.

“Kill him!”

“Kill that archer!!!”

“You want to take away our scores, huh?!”

That was right, Root became their number one target. Minhyuk nodded quietly after making eye contact with Ali. Then, with Calauhel at the lead, dozens of rankers rushed to attack Root with their skills, magic, and basic attacks.

However, before they could reach Root, Black Mage Ali, who they had believed to have regressed back into being a novice player, stepped forward.

“Ali?” Alex murmured while sending plenty of Fire Balls at Root. But not long after, he laughed to himself, ‘What can you do?! Huh?! You have lost all of your power!’

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‘You’re just here to fill the numbers...!’

‘We will definitely kill Root!’

‘Mage Ali will just die with him. Heh.’

[Mage Ali steps forward to protect Root!]

Fwoosh—

...two golden spears created from a more powerful ‘Diss’ stretched out from Ali’s fingertip and pierced through Alex’s chest, one after the other.

“Urk...?”

Alex was a mage player. Most mage players had low HP and defense as a balance for their ridiculously high magical defense and mana. But then, there was Ali’s magic.

‘What kind of ridiculous damage is this...?’

Ali’s magic was at a level where Alex’s magical defense could not keep up with.

Collapse—

It only took 1.7 seconds for the world’s official number one mage, Alex, to lose the battle against Ali.

[Mage Ali forced America Team’s Alex to log out in one shot!]

[The scene that I’m witnessing right now is completely unbelievable!]

The entire world was left in shock. Ali had logged out the world’s official number one mage in just a single shot! His display of magic placed him at a level where no one could easily touch him. However, the flamboyant display also made him into a target.

‘I didn’t know that Korea is hiding such variables!’

‘I definitely heard that Ali has regressed back to Level 1. What’s going on here?!’

‘We have to kill him! Otherwise, they’ll get the gold medal.’

The thoughts of everyone present were divided into two. There were those that wanted to score goals since the others were fighting against each other, and there were those that wanted to eliminate the most dangerous enemies first.

Among those that chose to eliminate the enemies, Calauhel stood at the forefront. Calauhel was completely furious about his golden ball getting stolen.

But, as they narrowed their distance with Ali and Root, one man continued to silently do his job. This man was none other than Minhyuk.

Thuuuump—

Minhyuk watched as their opponents approached his teammates, while calmly scoring one goal after the other.

Thuuuuuump—

With every goal that he scored, the approaching representatives felt their mouths twitch. Only then did the other players take the time to look at how much time had passed in the game.

[First Half. 21 minutes 41 seconds.]

More than twenty minutes have passed in the game, so how come Minhyuk was still going strong?

‘What the hell? How come his buff is still not ending?’

They expected the buff, which increased Minhyuk’s attack by 1.5x, to have a short duration. It was a common occurrence and balance to buff abilities that increased power by a tremendous amount. So, how come? Just when they were wondering about that...

“Ellie’s Swordsmanship.”

Shwaaaaaaaaaa—

...a red current appeared and surrounded Minhyuk before it got sucked inside his body.

“...?!”

“...?!”

“...?!”

Only then did they realize...

‘He wasn’t using any buff skill?!’

‘Are you telling me that his basic attack and damage is 1.5x higher than ours?!!!’

Terror. Yes, terror.

Right now, the player named Minhyuk struck fear and terror, along with a sense of helplessness to the national representatives.