He Is That Guy

[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: Well if Rahee’s fine with it
[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: Guess there’s no problem;;
[Party] MochaBbang: Do we gotta send the tank to the other team then?

[Party] Yoo Chae: Hyung
[Party] Yoo Chae: What about me?
[Party] Yoo Chae: I wanna be on your team too..

[Party] ImSoSleepy: ?
[Party] ImSoSleepy: You said you’d be my sparring partner
[Party] Yoo Chae: Ah…

[Party] DoraHeeImnida: ㅎㅎ
[Party] Haerun: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Figures, buffers really are that valuable. Even that damn Yoo Chae’s getting greedy for one. Well, if they’re that good in raids, they’re even more busted in PVP.

[Party] LaggingLikeHell: Then guess our tank, DrinkWater, has
[Party] LaggingLikeHell: Gotta go to guild leader’s side
[Party] ManaIsDryGuy: But if we do that

[Party] ManaIsDryGuy: Doesn’t it become total newbies vs veterans?
[Party] MochaBbang: Can’t be helped bruh
[Party] MochaBbang: You can’t give both buffer and tank to one side

[Party] LaggingLikeHell: We should stack more DPS on Sleepy’s side then?
[Party] MeLostInHunt: Yeah yeah
So that’s how the teams shaped up: me, DoraHeeImnida, ParkSeungjin99, TheHunter, MeLostInHunt, and ManaIsDryGuy as Team A.
And Yoo Chae, DrinkWaterPlz, Haerun, Hwaseoun, MochaBbang, and LaggingLikeHell as Team B.
[Party] TheHunter: We using Discord?

[Party] ImSoSleepy: Nah, I’ll join next time
[Party] ImSoSleepy: Wanna focus right now
[Party] MeLostInHunt: Then let’s just go no mic this round

[Party] Haerun: Good
[Party] Hwaseoun: What percent we playing on?
Unlike field PVP, Arena PVP lets you set the damage percentage in the room settings. Most people ran it at 60% to 80%.

[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: Wanna just go standard Arena settings? 80?
[Party] ImSoSleepy: Can we do 60 for now?
[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: 60? Okay

The lower the damage output, the more skills you can cycle during fights.
Sure, 80% would help gauge how much burst I was dishing out, but right now, grinding skill rotations mattered more.
[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: Alright today we do 60

[Party] DrinkWaterPlz: Tomorrow we bump it to 80, cool?
Room settings updated.
Once the damage percentage was locked in, the screen transitioned to reveal a Roman Colosseum-like battlefield.

Arena begins in 60 seconds.
[Team] DoraHeeImnida: What should I do?
[Team] DoraHeeImnida: Do we just fight?

[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: Yeah yeah
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: Just pretend it’s a raidㅋㅋㅋ
[Team] ParkSeungjin99: Deadass, raid strats

[Team] ParkSeungjin99: Except we kill players, not mobs now
[Team] ImSoSleepy: You’re the buffer, Rahee
[Team] ImSoSleepy: So keep positioning like it’s a raid

[Team] DoraHeeImnida: Okayㅎㅎ
Only 60 seconds of prep time, no way to run full strategies. Already down to 30 seconds.
[Team] TheHunter: Sleepy, you focus the guild leader

[Team] TheHunter: I’ll take on Lagging
[Team] ParkSeungjin99: Guess I’ll handle Mocha thenㅋㅋ
[Team] MeLostInHunt: I’ll do my best to

[Team] MeLostInHunt: Distract DrinkWater and Haerun
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: DrinkWater’s pure tank
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: We gotta wipe their DPS fast or no shot

[Team] ParkSeungjin99: Hwaseoun’s
[Team] ParkSeungjin99: Probably guarding both of them as a spear user
[Team] MeLostInHunt: Got it, got it

Right as ManaIsDryGuy’s chat ended, the final countdown began. Giant red numbers flashed at the top of the screen, sandstorms kicking up across the arena.
3, 2, 1
Battle start! Eliminate all enemies to claim victory!

The opaque barrier in front of us vanished as the match started. Across the field, radiant white light burst out, wings unfurled behind a massive shield—Holy Knight skill, Pure Tank effect from DrinkWater.
[Team] MeLostInHunt: Let’s go
[Global] TheHunter: Going for Lagging ^^

The bulky bruiser Infighter and Warlord charged ahead fast. Dding-diring, behind me, DoraHee strummed her lyre.

LaggingLikeHell barely dodged TheHunter’s opener and complained in global chat.
[Global] LaggingLikeHell: Bruh

[Global] LaggingLikeHell: You got no shame? ㅅㅂ
Sharpshooter class had weak damage but short cooldowns and lots of evasion tools. But going up against a Warlord with short CDs and huge burst? Rough matchup. Knowing that, TheHunter stuck to LaggingLikeHell like glue.
[Global] LaggingLikeHell: Yo get off meㅡㅡ

[Global] TheHunter: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Global] TheHunter: ^^
While Lagging struggled, MochaBbang turned to help, but ParkSeungjin99 blocked the way.

[Global] ParkSeungjin99: Hello?ㅋㅋ
[Global] MochaBbang: hi;
Gunfire from Gunslinger ParkSeungjin burst toward Mocha, who summoned a spirit to block the shots. Their weapons, glowing faint gold, clashed visibly through the skill effects.

Everyone’s gear was at least +8, obviously. MeLostInHunt dove deep into enemy lines to assassinate their tank, DrinkWater, and healer, Haerun. That left just me, DoraHee, and ManaIsDryGuy in our territory.
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: To take down their tank and healer
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: I gotta drop Meteor

[Team] ImSoSleepy: How long?
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: Gotta charge gauge
[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: At least 1 minute 30 seconds

[Team] ManaIsDryGuy: Realistically 2 minutes total
Elemental Mage’s ultimate, Meteor, took forever to charge but hit like a truck. Without tanks or healers ourselves, we had one shot to win—blow them up with Meteor.
Their side would do anything to stop it.

‘I knew you’d come.’
I faced Yoo Chae as he chain-dashed right up to us. I had been ready for him to dive this deep.
Until Meteor landed, I had to defend our mage and buffer solo.

[Global] ManaIsDryGuy: Entering pray-for-Meteor mode
ManaIsDryGuy’s character clasped their staff and closed their eyes, charging the gauge. I flexed my fingers, shook them out, and set them back on the keys.
Vrrrm, ching! Yoo Chae’s long gold chain rattled, ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) glowing red—the Chain Blade skill, Chain Burst, activating.

‘Damn, no joke.’
Chain Burst was Chain Blade’s armor-penetration buff. Getting hit already hurt, but with this? Way worse.
Still, I wasn’t rolling over. Backed by DoraHee’s buffs, I fired off my rotation.

Time to test Dark Mage’s core combo. It started with a 1-second snare, followed by a 0.3-second stun, then heavy magic damage in sequence.
Key order: E-W-Q-R-1-4-W-Q-D-W. Light auto-attacks between skills. Snare first, then slam high-damage skill guaranteed. After that, cooldowns meant the rest required pure control.
Yoo Chae entered my range—I snared him with E. A small blue diamond-shaped sigil appeared above him—Dark Mage’s hidden passive, Stack. More stacks = higher damage. Max five stacks.

I unleashed the whole combo fast, pouring damage onto Yoo Chae. Took about 2.5 seconds.
Even after the snare broke, he stood still, eating every hit. Letting me measure my full damage output.
Half his HP gone. With damage set to 60%, shaving that much off a Chain Blade meant I could wreck most DPS in normal PVP.

Shhhk, boom!
My turn ended—Yoo Chae whipped his chain with brutal force. The floor cracked loud under the impact. I dodged with an evasive skill, heart pounding.
“Holy shit.”

Even dodging, being close to his chain still chipped my health. The gap between us hit hard.
Slaaash, clang!
The chain hissed, twisting like a snake, impossible to dodge cleanly. Since Arena started, Yoo Chae hadn’t typed once, only attacking relentlessly—dead serious.

While kiting back, I realized I’d drifted too far from our buffer and mage. Yoo Chae was baiting me out, timing his strike on them.
‘Freakin’ fox bastard…’
Cussing, I couldn’t help but admire it. Yoo Chae wasn’t just mechanically good—he knew exactly how to bend fights to his advantage.

I spotted his chain flying at ManaIsDryGuy, still casting Meteor. I leapt in desperately. Even if I died, the mage had to live. If Meteor got interrupted, the fight was over.
But then, someone totally unexpected took the hit instead.
[Team] DoraHeeImnida: Ah

[Global] Yoo Chae: ㅋㅋ
DoraHee’s character lost most of her HP instantly, sent flying. The second swing hit—dead in under a second.
‘He killed the buffer instead of the mage?’

Why? I fully thought he’d aim for the mage. Caught off guard, the kill feed rolled.
Team B LaggingLikeHell killed by Team A TheHunter.
Team A DoraHeeImnida killed by Team B Yoo Chae.

TheHunter dropped LaggingLikeHell to 0 with 30% HP left, trash talking.
[Global] TheHunter: EZ clap!
[Global] LaggingLikeHell: FFS ㅅㅂ

[Global] DrinkWaterPlz: Uh
[Global] DrinkWaterPlz: You’re supposed to kill the mage, why’d you take out the buffer
One-for-one trade, at least. DoraHee was gone, but I shoved between Yoo Chae and ManaIsDryGuy, popping evasions to defend him. Meteor was still charging—we had the advantage.

Or so I thought.
Team A ParkSeungjin99 killed by Team B MochaBbang.
[Global] TheHunter: ?

[Global] TheHunter: ParkSeungjin what’re you doingㅡㅡ
[Global] ParkSeungjin99: Summoner’s busted;;
[Global] MochaBbang: ㅋㅋㅋ

[Global] MochaBbang: Time for the comeback?
[Global] Haerun: Comeback of the century~
[Global] Haerun: Let’s goㅋㅋ

‘…This isn’t good.’
Our advantage vanished with ParkSeungjin’s death. Worse, they still had their tank and healer alive—the regen difference was huge.