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Chapter 187
Chapter 187
1.
[Opening Cutscene for Task 61]
The swordsman, dancer, and knight miniature.
Though all three, having obtained legendary equipment, were defeated, they still had the archer miniature left.
[1 1 1 1 (X)]
[4 (O)]
Let’s all fight together, not just one.
Miniatures, determined, raised their emoticons.
The battlefield for the final battle.
Task 60.
The final chapter of Whip Simulator had begun.
“I’ve never done this part before. I didn’t have the skill back then, so I reached my limits.”
Before Lee So-hye’s whip techniques were refined, and before the Silent Swordsman’s mastery of magical energy enhanced them further,
Clearing Task 60 was just a stroke of luck for Lee So-hye, who had not yet reached the level she is now.
‘But I’m different now. I’ve grown strong enough.’
I will win somehow.
I’ll make the Half-Beast King my own.
A stronger determination surged up than ever before.
[Task - 61]
[Type - Full-Scale War]
[Objective - Entire map: Defeat the Crusader Forces]
The difficulty sharply increased.
Up until Task 60, the setup for the Crusader Forces felt like a buildup, but the terrain and the miniatures’ armaments were significantly enhanced.
Among the soldier miniatures, there were even self-detonating bombers rushing forward with bombs strapped to them.
“Are they really going this far?”
- Isn’t both the Manager’s route and Silent Swordsman’s route ultimately a Demon King route?
- Demon King (Attack) vs Demon King (Defense)
The swordsman, dancer, and knight miniatures occasionally appeared around the map, applying paralysis, binding, and defense.
While the legendary trio bought time, the sniper shots from the archer miniature dealt explosive damage.
[-100HP]
[Be careful of sniper shots from the archer miniature!]
Lee So-hye felt it.
The reason why the task type was Full-Scale War.
“They’re pushing for a final showdown. Looks like all the miniatures of the world are coming at us, trying to whittle down our HP before we reach the final boss in Task 70.”
- The scale is magnificent!
- Is this the story-based game or what lol
- Maybe breaking the aquarium wasn’t about a peaceful heart not wanting to break the world?
- Yeah, you’re probably too scared to monopolize all the world’s wealth, right?
- Ah, you’ve figured me out.
- Ah, lol.
- What’s been figured out lol
- Acknowledging it? Respect.
Miniatures flooding the floor, to the point where the tiles weren’t visible.
Siege weapons popping up from all directions.
Deadly traps and countless gimmicks activated by whips.
The difficulty was cruel.
But Lee So-hye had her advantages.
[? Restart Task 61.]
Returning to the task’s starting point with game information.
Recovering HP.
The attack patterns and timing she had personally experienced.
If you didn’t know, you’d be vulnerable,
but once experienced, you wouldn’t fall for it again.
“I’m close to winning this. I can’t lose now after coming this far!”
Toto’s first match.
Clearing 40 rounds first.
Silent Swordsman’s upset win.
Two-second difference in the same round.
Toto’s second match.
Clearing 50 rounds first.
Lee So-hye’s upset win.
One-round difference.
Toto’s third match.
Clearing 60 rounds first.
Lee So-hye’s upset win.
Six-round difference.
Now that she had won every match with an upset prediction,
the final Toto match was at hand.
Toto’s fourth match.
Clearing 70 rounds first.
The current odds placed the Silent Swordsman as the underdog…
To Lee So-hye’s surprise, it was the Silent Swordsman!
Although uneasy that the odds weren’t underdog, Lee So-hye was brimming with fighting spirit.
‘The player ahead in rounds is me.’
She was in the lead against the Silent Swordsman.
While the advantage of being seasoned was fading,
she was still in a better mental position,
despite being the one who was facing a first challenge.
‘This is the only opportunity now, while the Silent Swordsman is disoriented from getting a Giant Cockroach instead of a Ladybug.’
She had to create some distance.
She had to advance a little more,
before he regained composure and caught up.
Before the delayed cheetah caught up, smiling and running.
Before the Silent Swordsman fully revealed his abilities.
‘Faster, more perfectly!’
Lately, Lee So-hye’s skills had been improving every day.
She was even excited to see how far she could go.
The best skill.
The best match-up.
The best opportunity.
She felt a shiver, thinking that this might be the peak of her life, a time when she would never surpass her current abilities.
‘Of course, I’ve never won a straight bet in this tournament. If the Silent Swordsman gets his act together, he’ll catch up fast.’
But so what?
The Silent Swordsman had always been that kind of monster.
This was not a bet made out of ignorance.
‘In other games, I probably wouldn’t have started this bet. If we fought with swords, it wouldn’t even be a contest.’
But with whips,
in Whip Simulator,
with one-handed mode, record challenges, and the occasional cutscene assisting—
‘I might actually win this.’
A once-in-a-lifetime chance.
A unique opportunity.
The one miracle that might happen.
?Record Competition?
[? Lee So-hye: Task 65 Clear, 24 minutes 33 seconds]
[? Silent Swordsman: Task 61 Clear, 24 minutes 38 seconds]
Five tasks left.
A difference of four tasks.
?Record Competition?
[? Lee So-hye: Task 67 Clear, 29 minutes 12 seconds]
[? Silent Swordsman: Task 64 Clear, 29 minutes 01 seconds]
Three tasks left.
A difference of three tasks.
?Record Competition?
[? Lee So-hye: Task 69 Clear, 33 minutes 05 seconds]
[? Silent Swordsman: Task 67 Clear, 33 minutes 02 seconds]
One task left.
A difference of two tasks.
The gap was visibly closing.
Yet the gap still existed.
Scene for Task 70.
The final showdown with the miniature human factions.
Skipping the majestic cutscene that heralded the beginning of the final battle, Lee So-hye entered the final stage first.
[Final Task]
[Task - 70]
[Type - Annihilation]
[Objective - Entire map: All miniatures]
The named miniatures, having drawn the players in, appeared in the final battleground.
Their HP extended above the swordsman, dancer, knight, and archer miniatures, surrounded by a white halo.
[Swordsman Miniature]
[Heroic Awakening in progress]
[HP 100% (200/200)]
[HERO POINT!]
[HERO POINT 101% (202/200)]
Behind the swordsman miniature stood the sanctuary of the swordsman.
Many miniatures inside the sanctuary were praying, sending out energy from their faith.
This energy was converted in real-time to the swordsman miniature’s HP, strengthening it.
“We must destroy the sanctuary!”
Lee So-hye quickly realized the strategy for the final mission.
Four miniatures were being strengthened in real-time.
The strategy was to destroy all four sanctuaries before the Heroic Awakening was completed.
- Wow, their AI has really improved!
- Give all the awakening boosts to the knight miniature, and while the awakened knight is tanking, the others awaken too.
- No matter how tough you fight, you end up facing three after taking one down.
[? Restart Task 70.]
Lee So-hye realized the power of the Heroic Awakening miniatures.
[? Restart Task 70.]
She changed the order of the strategy and saw a possibility.
[? Restart Task 70.]
She found a way to use the miniatures’ attacks to speed up the sanctuary destruction.
[? Restart Task 70.]
On the fifth attempt.
Confident that she had figured out all the strategies.
- Breaking news > Silent Swordsman reached the final mission.
- Want to see Silent Swordsman vs Manager 5th attempt?
- Silent Swordsman might break through in the first try.
- This is the last one, Manager!
- Show that you can win even with the odds against you!
The Silent Swordsman caught up with Lee So-hye.
The Silent Swordsman’s approach was the opposite.
While Lee So-hye fought a war of extinction against all miniatures single-handedly,
In the Silent Swordsman’s Hidden Route, the three miniatures that had already achieved Heroic Awakening, along with all the human miniatures, gathered fully prepared.
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The dancer miniature, saddened by the battle against kin.
She soon made a vow.
Not to be a hero for humans,
but to be a hero for animals.
[Dancer Miniature]
[Heroic Awakening in progress]
[HP 101% (101/100)]
The dancer miniature began her awakening, receiving prayers from countless baby animals.
To buy time for her awakening, the player fought against nine boss-level animals.
- The Heroic Swordsman Miniature is flying around!
- Using Thunder Calling with lightning swords and burning everything!
- Isn’t that orbital bombardment?
- The Gigantic Turtle General got stunned in one hit.
- Hey, Archer Miniature! Why are you holding a machine gun instead of a bow?!
- lol
- You wielding a gun makes you a hero, huh.
- Hey, why does that mountain keep moving forward in the background?
- ?
- Wait, it’s true.
- What’s going on?
- Wait, look carefully at the bottom.
- Wow, wait, check it out!
- Holy cow!
The starting task, with Heroic Awakening miniatures.
The difficulty was much higher on the Silent Swordsman’s side than Lee So-hye’s.
‘I won’t say it’s unfair just because we started from different points.’
The Silent Swordsman silently accepts the adversity and the gap.
‘Anyone choosing the hard road should expect trials.’
Boss-level animals created by his own hands.
The dancer miniature who betrayed her kin to protect them.
As they fought,
in the extinction war of the miniatures,
it would be decided which species would survive and which would perish.
By his own will, by his own contribution.
‘Though there’s one creature I didn’t want.’
The Giant Cockroach, with its massive antennae wriggling.
Too hideous to even call familiar,
but seeing it, he couldn’t help but wonder how terrifying it would look to the enemies.
That thought fueled his resolve.
‘Well then, let’s go. To settle things.’
Whip Simulator.
The final showdown had begun.