A Village Has Appeared on My Desktop

Episode 34 – Miracle on the Frontier (4)

After getting caught up in this strange incident, I, a small citizen who had never had a fistfight in my life, gained many enemies. The predators that threaten the residents on the desktop, the bugs that are terrible monsters, and the monsters in the game that must be defeated somehow in order to grow the guardians.

Now there are other players as well.

“No, why did you block this?”

When I heard that there was an intrusion from outside, I flinched while sitting in my chair and quickly checked the game settings, but I, the original player, was supposed to be able to freely control whether or not to allow intrusion, but it was disabled so I couldn’t touch it.

I don’t know why they are doing this, but the intention of the master program is clear.

‘What happens if a real opposing player comes in?’

I looked at the residents on the screen with bewildered eyes. Residents are not NPCs or anything like that. The enemy that has now invaded is probably also a character controlled by an actual living person.

But a character is just a character. If I die, I will only return with some damage, but if the residents I see in front of me die… that’s the end.

It was said that the elite troops they had managed to obtain disappeared in an instant.

“—?”

“–!”

‘No, no, no.’

I was surprised to see the darkened sky due to a solar eclipse outside the window, and used my body to block Riena and Varun, who were trying to move. That eclipse is a kind of sign that an intruder has occurred. In other words, it will not disappear until this situation is over.

Moreover, unbeknownst to Riena, Varun and Shura are just beginners who have just changed jobs. I thought this was a simple game and I didn’t want to face an opponent who was sure to attack me indiscriminately.

‘Do you understand?’

Fortunately, they waited at their seats as I intended. After leaving them in this secret room, I left the room and looked for the other player.

The question is whether I can defeat the intruder. This game is famous for picking on newbies. If the opponent is a person wearing fluorescent jjoljjol, there is no way I can win, having only started playing this game properly a few days ago.

As far as I know, there is no penalty if the owner of the room dies from PVP in hunting mode, so I thought it would be better to die quickly and end the game.

‘Is that guy over there?’

Finding a partner was easy. The moment PVP occurs, each other’s location is visible on the minimap.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem like he was just a person walking around in his underwear after taking off all his gear, but the flashy equipment he wore all over his body due to his careful customization showed that the opponent was quite an expert, unlike me, who was only equipped with basic items.

But is it diving? The other person must have seen me, but they didn’t act and just stayed still.

‘if?’

I rushed in first and tried to attack, just in case. The specifications of the equipment have no effect in PVP, so even my beginner’s attacks can cause enough damage as long as they are correct.

“uh?”

However, when I fired a flame bomb, a basic skill of a wizard who had just changed jobs, within the skill’s range, the flame bullet flew past him and exploded on the wall behind him.

Surprised, I momentarily stopped my actions and blurted out. The opponent even ignores me and passes by as if he didn’t even see the skill I used.

Just in case, I tried swinging my staff again, but this time my attack only passed through the opponent’s body.

‘no way.’

That person probably isn’t ignoring me on purpose. There was no way that skill could be ignored in the first place. Moreover, the direction the opponent is heading towards without hesitation is the direction where the castle is located.

This is where Riena and other residents are located.

I wanted to believe that it was not, but looking at the situation, the opponent was not me, but the residents were perceived as players in this game.

“this…”

Gritting my teeth, I looked at the mini-map and hurriedly started running after the opponent who had started running.

If things continue like this, opposing players and residents will truly clash.

I didn’t know why things were happening like this, but if you really think about it, it wasn’t strange. Even if we played the game together until now, even if I was the player of this game, in reality, the subjects were always the residents.

The game progressed according to Riena’s condition and combat power, and boss monsters were attacked according to her abilities. Since they came here in the first place, this place has become reality, so it has to be that way. But no matter how much it is, they prevent me from intervening at all.

“—.”

Finally, the unfamiliar intruder and Riena, who seemed to have followed me, ran into each other at the entrance to the lord’s castle.

Varun and Shura were nowhere to be seen. It seemed like Riena had noticed and had not let him follow.

How will the opposing players react when they see Riena? It’s an urgent situation, but I’m curious. No matter how good the customization technology of the new era is, it is impossible to create such a natural human expression.

‘Is this really what happens? Then we have no choice but to fight.’

The other player, as if he didn’t understand her words like I did, looked at Riena with her sword drawn and her face grimaced at him. Nevertheless, he held his weapon and took a stance, just like her, as if he didn’t notice anything strange.

Whatever this person, who I don’t know who he is, thinks, I plan to fight him in the end. Now that things have come to this, I can’t intervene and have no choice but to cheer for Riena’s victory.

***

‘Why am I doing this?’

As an ordinary office worker and a gamer who enjoys playing games as a hobby, he played a game today as a habit. It’s been a while since it was released and a sequel has already been released, but it was only recently that he started having fun with this game called Dark Blood.

From then on, I spent my free time immersed in this game.

Although he was not one of the super-advanced ‘old people’ on the Internet, he was a great expert who not only beat the story mode on the highest difficulty level, but also went beyond training in various new jobs and now enjoys PVP by invading other players’ games. .

But that lasts only a few days. Now I’m slowly losing interest in games and was looking for something new to enjoy. Connecting today was just an inertial move.

‘uh?’

A new prey appeared in his eyes. In this game where new players are hard to come by because there are only those who play, I see a new player I haven’t seen in quite a while who has just cleared Chapter 1 and opened hunting mode.

“Sounds like fun.”

He grinned and of course tried to connect there. Originally, other players were allowed to invade this hunting mode.

Therefore, usually people block it in the game settings, but people who are confident in their skills or newbies who know nothing sometimes expose themselves.

Right now, when he was a rookie with no sense of style, he was completely attacked by an outside intruder who had decorated his entire body with bizarre customization.

[Entering the world]

‘I should make fun of them before the others come and then leave.’

The corners of his mouth were not expected to drop as he watched his character suddenly fall into an unfamiliar world. I forgot about the tiring and boring present life for a moment and was full of anticipation for interesting things that would happen in the future.

The goal is to just harass them a bit and then leave. If you harass them for too long, the few newbies might quit.

‘There it is.’

He looked at the mini-map and ran towards the opponent marked with a red dot.

What greeted him was a female knight standing at the entrance to the castle. When he saw Riena with her long black hair tied in one ponytail, he was momentarily dazed.

This is because her appearance on the monitor was extremely detailed for a character created through customization. A beauty that feels like a real person, not a chunk of graphics.

However, no crazy person would look at a being in a game and immediately suspect that it might be a real person.

Likewise, he didn’t pay much attention and got ready to fight right away. In fact, what he looked at more carefully was not Riena’s face, but rather the equipment she was wearing, such as weapons and armor.

‘You’re a newbie.’

He saw the knight’s sword Riena was holding and clearly judged her to be a newbie. Then it’s really not that rough. There is no need for dialogue, it’s just like a game, you just have to fight and enjoy it.

And his unstoppable dash began immediately after that. A quick dash mixed with a forward roll is one of the skills of his profession, the berserker. After closing the distance in an instant, this bulky, muscular warrior swung the ax he was holding strongly towards Riena’s body.

“!?”

However, the ax, which contained great power, split the air in vain. Riena, who was standing in front, turned her body in just one step and avoided it.

“Clumsy.”

Riena saw the opposing player’s ax swing and immediately recognized the power and skill within it.

The power contained therein is explosive, as befits a character developed with great care by an expert player, but its proficiency is poor. This is because the game character’s movements, which were originally intended to give the player a spectacular sense of action, were fixed and unnecessary.

In actual combat, there is no way Riena, a warrior who crosses the line of fire every time, can match that strike, which is more like a dance than a martial art.

“What is this, why isn’t it right!”

Embarrassed, he opened his eyes wide and used skills and attacks repeatedly.

It was a great skill combo that users had figured out, but Riena, who started moving her body in earnest, was able to dodge and block it without difficulty when she saw the terrifying sound of the attack.

[Slash and cut]

At the same time, when an opening appeared, he swung his sword towards it. Originally, it was a skill that struck downward from the top, but Riena applied it and activated the skill by striking upward from the bottom.

‘What’s happening now?’

Her attack was successful, but the character only lost HP. In other words, there is still enough room to fight.

However, no matter how much he manipulated the character, he could not follow Riena’s mysterious and fast movements. In addition, if there is even the slightest gap exposed, countless attacks will rain down in a split second.

Although he had played some games and looked up many videos, he had never seen a skill combo like this before. No matter how many guards I tried, they all broke through. Riena did not foolishly attack the raised part of the guard like the monsters in the game, but immediately attacked the side.

His character soon ran out of HP and collapsed and died on the spot.

He couldn’t take his hands off the keyboard yet, so all he could see before his eyes was a gray screen and a floating skull.