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◈ Alone Against the Tower ◈
Chapter 96: The Community's Benefits
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Most Challengers of the current generation relied on strategies posted in the community and defeated bosses by the book.
Naturally, they were not very good at figuring out how to deal with a boss they had never seen before.
But some top-tier strategy-focused Challengers who had remained in the Tower for a long time to become high-ranking Hunters, along with a handful of veteran Challengers, were different.
Guild masters who stayed behind to maintain order within the Tower of Trials, and top Rankers who had been holed up for ages while aiming for S-rank.
They had accumulated experience close to that of the first-generation Challengers. Some had even climbed the Tower during the first or second generation.
- Jinhyeok's alive lol. Is this a survival check-in?
- Is this guy still solo? Still no newbies in 2661?
- Reply: Looks like it? Nobody in the community has the 2661 tag.
- What's a World Boss? I've never seen anything like that.
- What floor is that boss from?
- Reply: What the fuck, that's a World Boss. Why is that there???
Comments quickly gathered under my post, which still drew plenty of attention in the community.
At first, there wasn't even a scrap of useful information. They commented without even looking at the screenshot I had uploaded.
But one by one, they checked the post's contents and were stunned by the World Boss they had only heard rumors about.
- What the fuck is that?
- A World Boss?? Those were real?
- Reply: What's a World Boss?
- Reply: It's kind of like a Hidden Boss, but you need to form a Raid Party with dozens of people and clear it together.
- Reply: The fuck? But isn't this guy a Solo Player?
- This bastard is faking shit now just to get a hot post lol. Stop lying.
- Reply: How the fuck would he fake that, you bitch? Lol.
Around then, I made another post. I attached a screenshot of the system message and explained the situation.
There were plenty of comments, but I also received an enormous number of private-message alerts. A few were from top guilds.
As far as I knew, World Bosses had appeared in South Korea only three times in total.
Most of the people who had played a major role in those three raids had received Unique or Epic-grade rewards and become top Hunters.
Naturally, members of top guilds had kept a close eye on World Bosses.
Of course, it was useless no matter how interested they were, since they couldn't come to our Tower.
Still, the information and tips they brought would definitely help with the strategy. I opened the community again.
In that short time, nearly hundreds of comments had appeared. My post received hundreds of recommendations and immediately became a hot post.
Once that happened, the community's attention naturally shifted here. Related posts kept filling the pages.
[How many times has a World Boss appeared now?]
[Can they even kill that thing?]
[Does Server 2661 even have fifty people?]
[There's only one person on that server, and they're talking about a fifty-person raid lol.]
[It's fifty people or more, not exactly fifty.]
[This guy is the only one in a different world.]
Then, amid all the pointless posts following that topic, one post received a great deal of recommendations and rose to the hot posts.
[Author: Kang Hyeokjin#1421]
[Title: Elemental Enhancements Are Most Important in World Boss Raids]
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I had the highest contribution in our party during the Galtram Raid, proof screenshot above.
During the World Raid waiting period, fodder monsters spawn near the boss, and they have the same attribute as the boss.
So before the raid starts, you can enchant different attributes and test the damage.
You only get one shot at the raid anyway, so if you apply one-time elemental enhancements to all the raid members, the damage boost is fucking huge.
You can also apply elemental resistance after getting hit. The tank line's durability should go up by almost 1.5 times.
You will never kill it solo, but I'll look through all the old strategy records for now.
Please upvote this into the hot posts so Jinhyeok can see it.
- Oh, someone with experience. Hard upvote.
- Upvoting right now. This needs to go up.
- But where would Jinhyeok get raid members?
- Can he even use one-time elemental enhancements? I heard Jinhyeok is only on the ninth floor.
- Reply: Yeah, just buy Elemental Talismans at the auction house and apply them. They're cheap.
- Reply: You idiot, there's nobody on that server, and you're talking about the auction house? Lol.
It was the sort of comment that inevitably appeared once a community topic got rolling, from someone with experience and expertise.
Useful information was gradually piling up.
* * *
I uploaded screenshots of the World Boss's appearance and explained my Faction Quest situation in detail.
I explained the High Elf King, the World Boss's identity, the World Tree's background, and the fact that I was seeking cooperation from every faction.
After that, useful information gathered even faster than before. Everyone had experienced the Faction Quests from the seventh through ninth floors.
There was information available from the Kingdom Army route I had not experienced, as well as information from the High Elf faction route.
There were even opinions from self-proclaimed historians who studied the Tower of Trials' many stories, based on its lore.
[Author: Kim Hyeoksu#1421]
[Title: The Kingdom Army Has Weapons Called Magic Cannons]
If you convince the Non-Player Characters well enough, you should be able to bring them over. It's a huge monster, so it should be easy to hit.
There should be around fifty Magic Cannons in total. They're originally for siege warfare quests, but you can also enhance them with Enhancement Materials.
Enhancing them up to +4 is efficient. I don't recommend going higher unless you have materials to spare.
They might refuse to provide the Magic Cannons, but there should be a general Non-Player Character from the Fourth Division among the commanders.
It differs a little between Towers, but if you follow the quest line, it turns out that guy is corrupt in relation to the Magic Cannons.
You should be able to threaten him with that. Please upvote this too.
They were large weapons used in siege warfare events encountered through certain quest lines. This was especially useful.
It didn't matter if higher enhancements were inefficient. I had a literal mountain of Enhancement Materials in my inventory.
Afterward, based on the information I had received, I took several Dark Elf Mages and experimented on the fodder monsters.
I then told the community that Light-attribute attacks worked best, followed by Spell-attribute attacks.
[Author: Go Hyeokjun#1556]
[Title: Tips for Gathering as Much Light Attribute as Possible]
Ask an elite High Elf Mage to use Shining Charge.
Holy Charge from a Kingdom Army Holy Knight stacks with Shining Charge, so apply both.
The Dark Elf alchemy shop has random crafting. Making Orbs of Light there would also be good.
The orbs are single-use, and their duration is short, so only use them when you have a damage window.
You can also apply attributes to Magic Cannons, but the increase for Light Attribute is low, so go with Spell Attribute.
An advanced Kingdom Army Mage Non-Player Character can use an area Spell-attribute amplification buff called Land of Spells.
Make sure to use it when the Magic Cannons fire for the first time.
Information poured in quickly again.
The rare major event of a World Boss Raid, combined with interest in the only Solo Player across all servers, created a synergy effect.
Even top Ranker Challengers who rarely appeared in the community offered tips based on their own experience.
There were more tips that could be applied in real combat than I expected.
There were countless strategies and tactics I didn't know because I was a Solo Player who had never done a standard raid.
There were all kinds of rumors and rules of thumb passed down by word of mouth since the first generation.
Each one might not have seemed like much alone, but the value of all this information passed along by hundreds and thousands of people was enormous.
Yeah. This was the community at its best, real collective intelligence.
* * *
I accepted the information fed to me by the community and completed a rough raid plan.
Other Challengers pointed out issues in the plan I shared and revised it. When I followed their advice, it looked fairly convincing by the end.
The problem was whether we could carry out this plan as written.
After all, this plan assumed the complete cooperation of all three major factions. If they didn't cooperate, everything would be ruined.
The fighting force we could mobilize would be cut in half, and it would become difficult to finish all preparations before the raid began.
As thanks to the heated community, I scattered a few suitably “good” screenshots, then closed the window.
The summit was about to begin. This was the moment when each faction's cooperation for the raid would be decided.
With several people, including me, observing, representatives from each faction sat around a round table.
Mercedes represented the High Elves. Rather than the king, someone called the Legion Commander appeared as the Kingdom Army's representative.
Judging by their imposing aura and the way they walked, they were probably the Kingdom Army's strongest Non-Player Character.
And Queen Eleanor should naturally have appeared as the Dark Elf faction's representative.
“Has the Dark Elf representative not arrived yet?”
There was no sign of Eleanor's presence drawing closer. What was going on?
I glanced at a nearby Dark Elf, wondering if something had happened, but they only shook their head.
Only several minutes later did the Dark Elf faction's representative enter the meeting hall.
“Oh my, I can tell at a glance that some very important people have gathered here.”
The Dark Elf representative appeared wearing work clothes completely unsuited to the occasion, carrying the smell of iron.
The one who sat before the round table was not Eleanor, but the short Dark Elf blacksmith.
“Erwen?”
It was Erwen.
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