Ex Rank Supporting Role’s Replay in a Prestigious School

"The Miro stage was amazing! I want to hear that song again!"

"The song was good and the art effects were good. When the game screen was displayed in the air, instead of placing realistic holograms for the distant background, they expressed it as if # Nоvеlight # they were painting with a brush to match the Miro song. I was impressed by the part where it seemed like the song was creating the background."

"Hmm, the stage was so cool that our side wasn't on the screen."

"What, really? We weren't there?"

"They captured the audience from far away, including the stage, but there wasn't a single close-up shot of us."

When Dokgo Miro's stage ended, the kids in the class poured out their appreciation.

There were some nonsense that wasn't appreciation, but they did include the fact that the stage was cool.

I listened to the kids in the class and occasionally chimed in, but Dokgo Miro's smile stayed in my head the whole time.

"It was a great stage. Just seeing this stage was worth coming here."

"I want to hear it again. I will definitely listen to it when the sound source comes out."

"Can you be satisfied with just listening to the sound source? Dokgo Mi-ro will sing it himself if you ask for it. I will prepare the stage."

Even the picky tigers praised Dokgo Mi-ro's stage.

Cheong-ho smiled repeatedly after seeing Dokgo Mi-ro's smile.

Ever since he was a child, Cheong-ho didn't show his emotions on his face, but when the stage was great and Dokgo Mi-ro smiled so brightly, he seemed to laugh along with him.

Hwang Ji-ho was also very happy to see that.

The tigers were surprisingly happy about small and trivial things.

'Let's cheer for Yoo Sang-hoon.'

I stared at the stage before my thoughts got long.

While the caster was giving the opening remarks, the stage was divided into two and set up.

Since the individual event was held first, one side was Yoo Sang-ho's seat and the other side was his opponent's seat.

Most of the players left for the finals were Korean, but Yoo Sang-ho's opponent was a foreigner.

I realized anew that this competition was called the World Championship.

'PlayerZ was successful not only in Korea but also abroad. If we look at the numbers, there are more foreigners because of the population difference.'

They say nationality is meaningless to the person who opened the door, but since PlayerZ's home country was Korea, the nationality of those who achieved good results in the competition was bound to be a concern.

The nationality of the opponent who faced Yoo Sang-hoon in the individual finals was American.

In the case of the team event, In Seon-oh and Gwang Jeon-sa, the attack leaders of each team, were Korean, but Gwang Jeon-sa's team had several foreigners.

Considering the remaining numbers, it seemed that Korea had maintained its status as the home country.

'Isn't Yoo Sang-hoon practically the same as the national team?'

The individual event received relatively less attention, but if he had to compete with a foreigner for the first place, it would be a different story.

Even the audience who didn't care much about the shield guards cheered for Yoo Sang-hoon at this moment.

The caster, who had been introducing the journey of the preliminaries and finals in a heated tone, was standing at the center of the stage.

Next to the caster was a thin and long individual trophy, and a huge team trophy designed to be held by many people.

[Many people who opened doors have challenged the ordeal, but now only two people and two teams remain. And today, only one person and one team can hold the trophy!]

The faces of the players looking at the trophy appeared as holograms.

Yoo Sang-hoon had a sullen expression as usual, and In-seon Oh was smiling faintly with an expression that was difficult to read.

The two had completely different play styles, but they were similar in that they were bold enough to hide their expressions without shaking even on a large stage.

The time for the individual finals to start soon approached.

[Among those who opened doors to Zeta, the player who left the most names on the cracks of doors! Shieldman! BPB!]

The stadium was shaken by the voices chanting Shieldman or BPB.

Compared to Yoo Sang-hoon calmly walking on stage and wearing his headgear amidst the cheers, his opponent looked very nervous.

The opponent's character name was CRATER, a North American server ranker and a famous streamer who is a diehard Shieldman fan.

I heard that he wanted to participate in the team match, but it was difficult to form a team with the positions he wanted, so he gave up on the team match and participated in the individual match.

'Even if it's the same game, the individual match and the team match are completely different. The tasks and maps are all different, and the skill tree and tactics that need to be chosen accordingly change. It's normal for only one of them to participate.'

However, Yoo Sang-hoon was not normal, so they both participated, and one side made it to the finals and the other side made it to the semifinals.

And maybe he'll even win the individual match.

Yoo Sang-hoon quickly took the first win with a play that lived up to my expectations.

[BPB! Takes 1 win with overwhelming play!]

[This map was definitely advantageous to Crater. There were many hiding places due to the dark curtain, and there were many catalysts placed for his signature explosive skill that creates craters. However, Shieldman led the whole time and landed the final blow.]

[He didn't use any Insight skills or explore the map, but he seemed to know exactly where Crater was hiding and what he was doing and moved accordingly.]

If I hadn't seen the game screen, I would have thought he had used a hack, but Yoo Sang-hoon's play was so absurd that I thought he had used a hack.

Yoo Sang-hoon used only his memories and senses to move secretly in the darkness where only the outlines of terrain and objects could be seen, and hunted Crater.

The map where Zeta's superior being's trials unfold was taken from 'Somewhere in Zeta', and Yoo Sang-hoon, a game addict, remembered every space he had visited in Zeta.

After first looking around in the darkness, Yoo Sang-hoon acted without hesitation when he was sure that he knew the map.

'I also memorized the map while playing Plumago, so I can walk around Eun Gwang-go with my eyes closed. It's different when there's a newly built building or when the shape changes due to the influence of a supernatural ability or intellect... ... Is it similar to that?'

Thanks to that, while I was in Eun Gwang-go, I hardly ever needed to use the 'Open Surrounding Map' function available in the special menu.

If Yoo Sang-hoon remembered the map as well as I did, he would be able to move to the desired location while playing the game, not to mention the map, even while blocking the view.

[No, does that make sense? The Dark Curtain is meaningless! How can he memorize all that and move around!]

[The player who can do that would be BPB. I think the Shieldbearer had a similar experience during a live broadcast?]

[That's right. It's not just this game. When I did the 'Mining Village Where the Light Disappeared' quest before, the Shieldman showed off a similar skill?]

[It was dark so I couldn't see anything on the screen, but the message 'Miner rescue succeeded' kept popping up. The Shieldman had memorized the map and started rescuing the NPC, so the chat window was filled with question marks.]

Crater is also a serious game addict, so he seemed to know the map to some extent and moved around, but Yoo Sang-hoon was one step ahead. Visit My Virtual Library Empire (MV-LEMP-YR) for more.

Crater saved his Insight skill and preserved his Ability Sect, and secured a safe location, but the difference between him and Yoo Sang-hoon was clear, as he fumbled around a few times while moving.

The second match was tighter than the first match, but the balance was quickly broken.

[Shieldman! He did it again! The lightning net set up by the monster doesn't work at all!]

[Did the Shieldman use an invincibility skill just now? There is no damage accumulated at all!]

[I used the skill, but it might be a little different from what you think. Some skills take time to activate, and have long cooldowns, but the character briefly goes into a state of immunity at the moment of activation? I think I used that short moment to endure the impact of the lightning net.]

[No, the immunity lasts less than 0.5 seconds, so you matched that?]

The second match was a kind of race.

As a messenger, the player had to get through the enemy's interference and deliver the message to the designated location.

Even if the damage accumulated during the match died, it was not considered a defeat and you could start over from the starting point, so there were many things to think about.

Should I focus on defensive skills even if it was a little slow and reach the destination even if the damage accumulated?

Or should I focus on movement skills to reach the destination as quickly as possible?

The caster and commentator thought that the tanker Yoo Sang-hoon would choose the former, but Yoo Sang-hoon chose the latter.

'Yoo Sang-hoon knows very well how to use which skills to minimize damage. So it would have been more advantageous to take the tank route.'

However, there must have been two reasons why Yoo Sang-hoon chose the latter.

One was to show that he was not only good at tanking.

The other was because he thought it would be more fun.

It was a very Yoo Sang-hoon-like choice.

Yoo Sang-hoon had already arrived at the destination.

"The vice-chairman's friends are all here!"

"Sang-hoon is about to reach the finish line!"

"Hey, Crater is shooting magic!"

The kids in the class were in an uproar, but Yoo Sang-hoon used Gwangrim without even looking at the direction the magic was coming from, as if he had predicted how Crater would come out at the end.

Since Gwangrim's use was restricted during the trial, its power was not as strong as usual.

However, the Shield Soldier's Gwangrim, the 'Indiscriminate Shield', had enough power to protect Yoo Sang-hoon from falling all the way to his destination.

Wow!

Yoo Sang-hoon handed a letter to Jeon Seo-gu, who was waiting with his tattered hands.

As Jeon Seo-gu flew up after receiving Yoo Sang-hoon's letter, PlayerZ's system recognized the Shield Soldier as the winner and declared victory.

It was supposed to be a three-way match, but since Yoo Sang-hoon had won twice in a row, the next match was meaningless.

[It's the Shield Soldier! The Shield Soldier succeeded in delivering the message!]

[The first ever PlayerZ World Championship competition, the first individual event winner is BPB, the Shield Soldier!]

Yoo Sang-hoon took off his headgear and clenched his fist at the cheering audience.

I thought he would accept it calmly even if he won, but Yoo Sang-hoon looked very happy.

Yoo Sang-hoon waved his hand to the audience watching from various directions, and found the direction where the children in our class were.

He paused for a long time.

There happened to be a cadet from the military academy who came to watch with Jang Nam-wook nearby, so Yoo Sang-hoon must have had a lot of people to greet.

Maybe because he greeted me so long, I felt like my eyes met his.

'This is what it feels like to be greeted by a friend on stage.'

I was happy to see my friend achieve his goal, and my heart warmed at the fact that he was sharing that joy with me.

When Cheong-ho was greeted by Dokgo Mi-ro, maybe he felt something like this.

"It's Seon-oh's turn now."

"I wish In-seon-oh's game would end this quickly."

I could hear Cheong-ho and Hwang Ji-ho talking as they applauded until Yoo Sang-ho left the stage.

It made sense, since the tigers had been waiting for In-seon-oh's schedule to end.

"We have somewhere to go after the finals."