- Due to the extreme cold, your body is now frozen.
- Health is drastically falling.
- Physical ability is reduced by 87%.
- Extreme harsh condition! Due to being an undead, you are unable to resist the cold.
- Jaws and fingers are now frozen, you cannot cast any spells.
- You have now lost all senses in your body. Skin and nerves will undergo necrosis but since the body is only made of bones, the condition will not be applied.
- You body is now immobile.
- All casted spells are now cancelled. All protections casted from magic are now removed. Life Drain and Mana Drain are now cancelled.
System message windows were popping out in rows.
Unable to escape the area of effect of the sapphire spell, Kubichya’s health was drastically falling as well.
Amidst the blizzard, an ice fragment struck one of Weed’s eye sockets. With one of his eyes gone, Weed watched Geumini as he casted powerful spells against the Chaos Warriors.
Geumini then suddenly exclaimed.
“Master, I’ll show the world how grateful I am to you. Golgolgol!”
He then once again casted the magic Weed had prohibited him to use.
“Jewelry Destruction!”
Risking his life for his master, Geumini pulled out 5 more sapphires and activated the skill.
Anymore use of the skill and his body will run out of jewels.
Finally, Geumini used his body to create an explosion that filled the area with golden brilliance blasting away the Chaos Warriors and Kubichya.
This was his last resort; Geumini had blown up his own body just to save Weed and defeat the enemies.
At that instance, Weed’s head was filled with a kaleidoscope of memories of Geumini.
He then spoke his final words to him.
“Why are you so damn incompetent? You have yet to earn your keep.”
Like a brother, Weed had shared his equipment with him. Weed was not required to wear his beginner outfit and clay sword anymore, so he handed them down to Geumini.
“Who do you think made you painstakingly…. For you to end up like this, pathetic.”
“Golgolgol.”
Even though he was always treated harshly, he had hunted and grown together with the Wyverns without being dissatisfied. With his handsome face, he was occasionally smug but he learned to be submissive, he did it in order to receive praises from Weed.
“Kuaaaaah!”
Geumini died but Kubichya still lived.
“Kill, I shall kill you!”
Kubichya howled like a wounded beast.
Rover was still rampaging around while crying, killing the already injured Chaos Warriors in the vicinity.
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Weed immediately pulled out Zahab’s engraving knife and stabbed himself in the chest.
Personally reducing what little health he had remaining, but just before dying he took out his Copper Plate of Rest.
***
“Aahh.”
“How could this happen….”
The staff of KMC Media were devastated.
The last stage of the quest had failed and only genocide awaited Weed’s sculptures of life.
Tears of sorrow and sadness can be seen among the staff. Even Director Kang had a bitter expression.
“Weed’s undefeatable streak has come to an end.”
Even if it was Weed, the quest was still unsuccessful. Moreover, the difficulty of the quest was very high so no one could really blame him for the failure.
Being able to lead the undead in a fight against Kubichya and treacherously using the corpses of the Fire Giants as his powder kegs. The way he challenged the army of Chaos Warriors was truly remarkable.
“Phew, I feel so empty though.”
Director Kang was still idly watching the video feed.
Kubichya, having accumulated large amount of damage, fell to one knee and was resting, with Chaos Warriors gathered around him forming a heavily guarded wall.
The Inferno Knights still had sufficient numbers to resist the Chaos Warriors, though the Fire Giants were now weakened; but all in all, the situation of the war had changed little.
When Weed had joined the battle it was truly a breathtaking moment. As they continued to watch, more Chaos Warriors died in battle but many more would spring up and join the confusion later. As the Inferno Knights and Fire Giants continued to hold their ground, a lot of Chaos Warriors by then had gotten exhausted from the battle; some of which had even started to rest. This observation wasn’t that surprising; due to the game’s nature, such a situation was quite possible to happen.
“So this is how it comes to an end.”
Due to the dramatic moments, not only Director Kang but also the rest of the Operations Teams were all glued to the screen. In order to get everyone back to their senses, Director Kang clapped his hands.
“Wake up everybody. We still ought to finish our work. The quest has failed, we will have to put out this caption and choose an appropriate bgm. Programming Department, how is our viewer ratings at the moment?”
“Yes, please wait for a moment.”
The staff of the Programming Department looked at their monitors and surveyed the results.
“Right now, among the 17 game broadcasting companies we have 92.5% of the market share. Even with our program competing with news channels over the airwaves we still got 8.9% of the ratings.”
Home shopping, comedy, drama, these are what currently being aired on the tv channels but the ratings still reached 8.9%.
If you count only the ones doing game broadcasts then the ratings has reached a whopping 92.5%.
No other stations had ever recorded such high audience ratings, except for KMC Media that is.
Among a hundred people only 7-8 people were not watching the Royal Road broadcast of KMC Media.
“These ratings are absurd….”
Some KMC Media staff immediately checked whether there was some mechanical failure in their machines while the rest were already in an uproar.
A flood of calls was coming from advertising sales representatives of different companies, and even the International Division was having a field day due to the calls of broadcasters from other countries.
***
Users were now running out of control and were flooding every message boards.
- KMC Media definitely hit it big.
- Weed’s adventure is currently on air. Now, turn on your televisions and go watch it on KMC Media.
- For those who cannot view it on television, you can go to their website and watch the internet broadcast.
- Watching on the internet is not recommended. There are too many people trying to gain access making the video unable to buffer.
***
CTS Media and other broadcasting stations were very jealous of KMC Media.
Short intermittent rises in ratings may be dismissible but once a big issue is created, the increased number of viewers is secured. KMC Media even added effects in their program garnering an even more increase in viewership. Especially now that Royal Road was gaining more popularity to the public.
Initially, due to the high price of the capsules, people were reluctant in buying them despite the popularity and benefits of virtual reality. But right now, even if you have an expensive car and a good house to live in, it was still much better to have it, with the widespread recognition in Royal Road.
Families hunting together with their young children are now already a common sight in Royal Road. Royal Road had definitely brought great change, not only in Korea but all over the world.
With the increasing broadcasts of the game to the public, its influence in the media grew as well.
And on this day, Weed and KMC Media would be especially remembered.
Others stations were having increased difficulty trying to reverse their drop in ratings. This included CTS Media, Jachang and a certain number of other stations that were greatly affected. It’s because they chose to air the live broadcast of the expedition instead. At first, they held the interest of lots of viewers and had plenty to advertise. But as soon as Weed’s adventure was aired on television, the audience immediately abandoned them and flocked to KMC Media’s channel.
- Weed’s adventure is finally here.
- Time to go to KMC Media. Goodbye.
- Me too. Keukeukeu.