Chapter 4 Samurai Hearts – Tutorial (4)

No sooner had Seung-yeon said that than a group of people appeared, pushing through the bushes.

Six in total.

They were wearing the armor worn by soldiers during Japan’s Warring States period, known as ‘Okashigusoku.’

The spears in their hands made it clear that they didn’t come with peaceful intentions.

The one at the very front discovered the group and immediately drew his sword from his waist, shouting.

“Target acquired! Attack!”

Dohyun was taken aback by the enemies who charged without any conversation.

It’s supposed to be an event, yet they just shout, “Target acquired! Attack!” without any dialogue.

Isn’t it standard practice to test the waters with some conversation in these situations?

Caught off guard, Dohyun couldn’t react immediately.

“It’s our first battle in Samurai Hearts!”

But Seung-yeon was different.

She already knew this was how it would go.

She immediately drew the sword from her waist and swung it at the approaching enemy.

Clang!

The enemy charging at the front deflected Seung-yeon’s sword and stepped back.

As the one in front was blocked by her and retreated, the enemies behind him were pushed back as well.

As the distance between the two groups widened, there was a brief lull.

Only then did Dohyun calm himself, draw his sword from his waist, and stand next to Seung-yeon.

Seung-yeon glanced at Dohyun standing next to her and opened her mouth.

She wanted to explain a little about the battles in Samurai Hearts to her brother.

“The important thing in Samurai Hearts battles is ‘parrying.’ It’s about deflecting the enemy’s attack, and the method is simple. When the enemy attacks, you attack back to parry it.”

“That’s simple?”

“Of course, it’s difficult. But since it’s a game, there’s compensation. It won’t be that difficult when you actually do it, I think? I’ll give you a demonstration first.”

Viewers stirred as they watched Seung-yeon confidently step forward.

-Surely she won’t die in the tutorial, right?

-Nah, no way. Victoria has improved quite a bit.

-She learned a lot from Bloody Horn, so she should be fine.

“Hey! I’m a VR game professional streamer, okay? I can do this much!”

-Yeah, next Bloody Horn tutorial 10 tries.

-Ah, ahh. The memory of that day when she failed the first mob 3 times…

Seeing the viewers who didn’t believe her at all, Seung-yeon straightened her sword with a sulky expression.

Of course, it wasn’t that the viewers were entirely wrong.

Even she thought it was a bit much to challenge the tutorial 10 times to clear it, even if her condition wasn’t good when she played Bloody Horn.

It was only natural that viewers who remembered that time wouldn’t believe the confidence Seung-yeon was showing now!

But this time it was really different!

Because…

‘I practiced this part!’

She didn’t say it, but Seung-yeon had already practiced this part several times!

She had prepared for this very moment.

“Here I go!”

She charged towards the enemy in front and swung her sword.

Clang!

The enemy raised his sword to block her sword, which was swung diagonally.

The sound of metal echoed, and the enemy who blocked the attack staggered back.

If it were her original strength, Seung-yeon would have staggered back, but this was inside the game.

She wasn’t Lee Seung-yeon, but the Red Fox with excellent swordsmanship, so she had a strength boost.

“Ha!”

Slash!

Seung-yeon chased after the retreating enemy and slashed him in one swift motion.

As the slashed enemy screamed and fell, the enemy next to him thrust his spear at her.

She retreated as if bouncing back and swung her sword at the spear.

Even though it was a swing with just the right direction, the trajectory of the sword accurately deflected the enemy’s spear.

This was the effect of the compensation!

The enemy whose attack was blocked faltered and stepped back.

Seung-yeon, who easily parried the attacks of other enemies that followed and stepped back, smiled.

“I told you, it’s different this time!”

-Goddess of Victory!

-Nike mode ON!

-Victoria! Is she a god?

Viewers who quickly changed their attitude!

They hadn’t even caught a boss, just a single mob, but the viewers sent enthusiastic support.

Because a mob that someone can casually slash can feel like a disaster to someone else.

Seung-yeon, who was puffed up as she looked at them, said to Dohyun.

“See? That’s how you do it. It’s not that difficult. It automatically compensates, so you just have to match the direction and swing. You try it once. Parry and slash.”

“Okay. Parry and slash, got it.”

As if giving him a chance, Seung-yeon stepped back and Dohyun stepped forward.

Perhaps because the leader-like enemy had died instantly.

The enemies, who had been buzzing without attacking immediately, straightened their spears as they looked at Dohyun.

‘Parry and slash…’

Dohyun narrowed his eyes as he looked at the enemies.

The sword, which would normally feel heavy, was as light as a feather, perhaps because he was the Black Wolf.

It felt like he could swing it as he wished.

As he strode forward, one of the enemies shouted, “Haaap!” and thrust his spear.

Dohyun quietly watched the spear blade being thrust straight at him.

Was he paralyzed with fear?

Of course not.

The reason he was watching the spear blade was simply because it was too slow.

‘Do I really need to parry this?’

He even wondered that.

He felt like he could slash ahead without needing to parry.

Dohyun clicked his tongue inwardly and swung his sword towards the tip of the spear blade.

‘I’ll parry and slash for now.’

He judged that there must be a valid reason for his sister’s advice, as she had enjoyed VR games for longer than him.

Clang-!

As Dohyun’s swung sword accurately parried the tip of the spear blade, sparks flew up more intensely than when Seung-yeon had parried it earlier.

The same was true for the enemy holding the spear.

When Seung-yeon parried, he had only stepped back, but this time he had completely fallen on his back.

“Hmm?”

It was an unexpected situation, but Dohyun didn’t panic and continued to swing his sword.

Thwack.

The end of the sword, swung in a semicircle, cut off the neck of the defenseless enemy.

The enemy, who had blood pouring from his severed neck, fell straight down.

It was a death without even a death cry.

“H-How?”

Seung-yeon, who was watching from behind, was flustered.

Unlike Dohyun, who didn’t know anything, she had acquired information about Samurai Hearts through other people’s streams.

That’s why she knew what the huge sparks and the fallen enemy’s reaction meant.

‘That effect is…’

There are three types of judgments for ‘parrying’ in Samurai Hearts.

The first is failure.

It literally means failing to parry, and at this time, you get hit harder by the opponent’s attack that you tried to parry.

This damage increase is not something to be ignored.

If you fail to parry, you can be suddenly killed by a mob in an instant.

In fact, there were several scenes in the videos Seung-yeon had seen where people failed to parry and died instantly.

The second is success.

This means succeeding with the compensation effect.

It was the judgment Seung-yeon received when she parried the enemy’s attack earlier. If you parry an attack with a success judgment, the enemy will falter.

In the case of the mobs they are facing now, they sometimes step back, but the boss mobs only falter in judgment.

And finally, great success.

It is a judgment that can be received when you perfectly parry the opponent’s attack with only your own skill, without receiving any compensation effect.

When this judgment appears, the mob or boss mob will completely reveal their weakness.

That’s right.

Completely reveals the weakness.

Just like the mob Dohyun parried the attack from earlier fell to the ground!

-Wasn’t that a great success judgment just now?

-I think so?

-It’s certain when you see the sparks and the fall

Just as Seung-yeon realized it, so did the other viewers.

Parrying great success judgment!

In order to receive it, you must ‘perfectly’ ‘parry the opponent’s attack’ ‘with your own will.’

It only activates when you parry the opponent’s attack in a state where you are aware of it.

In other words, it means that you can never accidentally receive a great success judgment.

The problem is that the one who received the great success judgment was someone who was playing VR games for the first time.

Someone who has been confident in their physical skills is struggling, but someone who has been playing VR games for less than 30 minutes showed it?

No one would believe it.

‘PhysicalJmangGame’ donated ‘5000 won’!

[Victoria. Have Kratos do that again]

“Thank you so much for the 5000 won donation, PhysicalJmangGame! I understand. I’ll have him do it right away!

Kratos! Do that again!”

“Do what? What do you want me to do?”

Dohyun asked back with an absurd expression at Seung-yeon’s sudden shout.

It was natural from his point of view.

He was told to parry and slash, so he did as he was told, and suddenly he was told to do that again.

“Try parrying the attack like you did just now.”

“Why? Was there something wrong?”

“No, there was nothing wrong. You did well. That’s why I’m telling you to do it again.”

It was a request without context, but either way, they had to defeat all the enemies.

So Dohyun nodded roughly.

It wasn’t that difficult anyway.

‘Four people.’

Seung-yeon took the lead and killed the enemy who looked like the leader, and then Dohyun slashed and killed one more.

Of the six enemies who appeared, there were only four left.

Perhaps because the leader had died and then one more had died, they couldn’t rush at Dohyun right in front of them and were hesitating.

Dohyun, who was narrowing his eyes and looking at them, kicked off the ground.

“Die!”

The enemy at the very front thrust his spear at Dohyun, who was rushing towards him.

The spear blade flew towards him, drawing the same trajectory as the enemy he had faced before.

Perhaps because they were the same mobs, it was an attack with a simple pattern that was no different.

Dohyun was even feeling bored with the slow attack.

He even thought that it was more amazing that the surrounding environment was changing with cherry blossom petals.

Clang-!

So Dohyun parried the spear blade in the same way as before.

He accurately parried the spear blade aiming at him with his sword blade.

A huge spark flew, and the enemy screamed, “Aaaagh!” and tumbled.

Thwack!

Dohyun, who had pulled the sword that had parried the spear blade, stabbed the heart of the fallen enemy.

The sensation of the sword, which had lightly cut through the armor, being deeply embedded in the heart was transmitted through his fingertips.

Seung-yeon, who was watching the scene from behind, exclaimed in admiration.

“Everyone, what I saw was right, right? That was definitely a great success judgment, right?”

-That’s right. It’s certain

-Wow, crazy. Didn’t Kratos say he was playing VR for the first time?

-Is this real? Is this real?

Seung-yeon, who glanced at the viewers’ chat, shouted ‘Yes!’ in her heart.

The reaction of the Seung-Pae-Dan was beyond hot, it was boiling over.

No matter how this stream goes, it will be a hot topic enough just as it is now.

And that topic will be absorbed into her stream as it is, bringing her even more revenue.

It was a very profitable business to give her brother pocket money and call him once!

‘MilitaryServiceHighSchoolGirl’ donated ‘1000 won’!

[But isn’t that dangerous if you do that?]

“Huh? Oh, right! Kratos, step back!”

Seung-yeon, who saw the donation, hurriedly shouted at Dohyun to step back.

Perhaps because he had defeated and killed the opponent too easily, Dohyun had gone too deep alone.

So deep that she, who had been standing as if checking the enemies in the back, had become meaningless.