Chapter 180 …

A somewhat random chat message appeared.

?? What?
No, I only saw it briefly so I couldn’t check properly. Something that wasn’t there before appeared in the sky. Dark-colored? Black? Something like that.
What are you talking about? There’s nothing there.
Stop trolling at such an important moment and focus, kid.

Naturally, the viewers’ reactions weren’t good.

Maybe at another time it would’ve been fine.

But at a moment like this, pulling attention away without reading the room would obviously not be received well.

However, the owner of the chat message didn’t back down.

No, you idiots. Something really was falling over there!
Then where exactly?!
I can only see the raid boss and the raid team. What nonsense are you talking about?

Just as viewers were filling the chat with question marks at his seemingly frustrated insistence—

“Uh?”

This time, the reaction came from somewhere else.

A raid team member standing outside the barrier in preparation for the golems that could appear at any moment suddenly shouted.

“Gasp!”

“L-look up!”

At the urgent cry, everyone raised their heads.

Zerpak did the same.

“…Up?”

The sky he looked toward with an inexplicable sense of dread was mysterious.

A colorful world mixed with every kind of hue.

It looked beautiful and dreamy, like an aurora.

In that sky, there was a single black dot.

The black dot rapidly grew larger.

More precisely, it was getting closer.

Only then did Zerpak realize what it was.

“A… person?”

Three dots that vaguely resembled human shapes were falling at high speed.

“No—why are people falling from the sky?”

He didn’t know what it was, but one thing was certain.

Something impossible was happening.

The moment he realized that, a sharp sound cutting through the wind rang out.

And right after—

Boom!

A loud impact exploded as sand and dust filled their vision.

[Berze: What is happening? What just fell?]
[Berze: Zerpak. Answer.]
[Berze: Can’t you hear me?]

Messages from Berze came in rapid succession.

But Zerpak couldn’t answer immediately.

“What the hell is going on?”

Even he couldn’t understand what was happening right now.

How was he supposed to report anything?

All he could do was blankly wait for the dust to settle.

The dust cleared quickly.

After only a few seconds, three people were revealed.

Zerpak’s eyes widened.

Someone nearby sucked in a breath.

“Gasp!”

“Holy…”

They were extremely familiar faces.

At the same time—

faces that absolutely shouldn’t be here.

The man who shocked everyone.

A figure so famous that people joked any God of the Century player who didn’t know him must be a spy.

The strongest known Fratel player currently alive.

“Ugh, why is the save location in the sky? That scared me.”

I seriously almost had a heart attack, Master.
LizaLiza! Liza!
This is… quite confusing.

The people who had suddenly intruded into the Luidra raid were none other than Kaiser and his Guardians.

“…Holy…”

Perhaps because the appearance was so unexpected,

despite the large crowd, silence fell.

No one’s brain had fully processed the situation yet.

But after a moment—

once the players realized what had happened, they erupted.

“K-Kaiser!?”

“It’s Kaiser! Charlie’s here too!”

“Th-this is insane!!”

“WAAAA!! What the—holy shit!!”

It wasn’t cheers so much as pure shock.

A person suddenly falling from the sky was shocking enough—

but that person being Kaiser?

How could anyone not be stunned?

Meanwhile, the viewers watching the stream were still seeing footage from a few seconds earlier due to delay.

What happened?!
What fell down?!
Is this a surprise event or something?
Damn it, this delay is killing me.

But that confusion lasted only briefly.

As soon as the dust cleared and Kaiser and the Guardians appeared—

the chat exploded.

HOLY SHIT WHAT THE HELL
Wait… are my eyes broken? Why does that look like Kaiser?
HOLY—IT IS KAISER!!!
WTF why is Kaiser here?!
Did he seriously fall from the sky LMAO. Is Kaiser actually a god?
LOL what is even happening
Wait, isn’t there a 15-person entry limit? How did he get in there?
How dare you apply human standards when a god descends! None can block the path of divinity!
Kaiser? Wow, holy shit!!!
I cannot understand this situation. Please explain.

The chat room descended into complete chaos.

Kaiser’s sudden, flashy appearance had flipped everything upside down.

[Viewer Count: 37.13 million]

Over 37 million viewers were typing at once.

The chat window was a nonstop storm of question marks.

Stop spamming chat or the server will crash!
How do you not type in chat in a situation like this?!
This is insane! Actually insane!!
Damn, I’m jealous of the raid team watching this live!!! If only I didn’t have diarrhea!!
Kaiser vs Named Hidden Raid Boss vs Hero Guild??? This lineup is crazy… my chest feels majestic.
Damn, I should’ve prepared ten diapers, not five…
LMAOOOO this is amazing. I wonder what Berze’s face looks like.
Seriously though, what’s happening? How is this possible?

The chat scrolled so fast it was almost impossible to read.

Amid this chaos—

the man at the center of everyone’s attention, Dohyun, blinked several times.

“…?”

Then he slowly looked around.

His brows furrowed as he muttered quietly.

“…What kind of situation is this?”

He had definitely used a teleport scroll to the Hidden Raid Boss’s habitat.

So why were there so many people here?

Why was everyone staring at him?

Dohyun couldn’t understand it at all.

“That mark… isn’t that the Hero Guild? And that’s… Luidra? Wait… are they already raiding? But this is supposed to be a hidden raid boss…”

While Dohyun was just as confused as everyone else—

Ding—

Before he could process anything, system messages appeared.

[Entry limit exceeded.]
[The Savior of the Forgotten Wraith and the Apostle of Prophecy have encountered Luidra together.]
[Hidden conditions have been fulfilled.]
[Hidden Phase has been activated.]
[Hidden Raid Boss ‘Terrible Nightmare Luidra’ has been upgraded to ‘Ruler of Nightmares Luidra’.]
[Traits ‘Dream Room’ and ‘Nightmare Room’ have changed to ‘Dream Ruler’ and ‘Nightmare Master’.]
[Luidra has forcibly summoned her true power despite not fully recovering.]
[HP reduced to 30%.]
[Maximum entry limit increased to 18.]

“…Huh?”

Huh?
Liza…?

No one fully understood what was happening.

But one thing was clear.

Something had started moving in a very dangerous direction.

Meanwhile

[Hidden Phase has been activated.]

“What? What phase?”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden—?!”

Zerpak and the raid members, who had been stunned, shouted in shock.

This was completely out of nowhere.

They even wondered if they had read it wrong.

But when they looked at Luidra in terror—

she was clearly different from before.

[So that’s it. You were not mere humans after all.
Those who dare disturb the eternal sleep I granted…
Drown in a horrible nightmare!]

As Luidra’s voice rang out louder than before—

another message appeared.

[Player ‘Gride’s’ ‘Dream Room’ has transformed into ‘Dream Paradise’.]

Almost simultaneously, a scream came through voice chat.

“AAAAAH!! What is this?! H-help—!”

Slice!
Stab!
Crunch!

“Kyaaaak!!”

“What?! What’s happening?!”

“AAARGH!!”

It was Gride, inside the Dream Paradise.

He had been carrying out his mission, unaware of the outside situation—

and suddenly something attacked him.

What exactly had changed in the Dream Room to cause such a reaction?

Everyone felt chills.

A few seconds later—

the screams suddenly stopped.

Then a message appeared.

[Player ‘Gride’ has died.]

“…Holy shit.”

A skilled executive had died in only a few seconds.

Even considering his HP was probably low due to the mission, this was completely abnormal.

But that wasn’t all.

[Hidden Raid Boss ‘Ruler of Nightmares Luidra’ has become enraged.]
[Beware of indiscriminate slaughter.]

“KYAHAHAHAHA!!!”

Luidra swung a scythe twice as large as before, sweeping through players.

“AAAAAH! What is this?! This didn’t happen last time!”

“R-run away!”

“No, block it! Running won’t change anything! Block— ugh!!”

Players tried to either flee or defend.

Their coordination collapsed in the unexpected chaos.

And those who attempted to block—

were smashed away and slammed into the walls.

The power was far beyond expectations.

Meanwhile, the chat exploded again.

Hidden phase LMAOOOOOO
WTF is happening
I have no idea what’s going on
The raid just started and it’s already insane
Can they even beat that thing??
No idea. Something… something is happening.

Naturally, the chat room was in complete chaos.

Berze is screwed LMAOOO. Our romance-sim protagonist is getting wrecked by Kaiser again.
But isn’t Kaiser crossing the line here?
The system message makes it look like they met through different quest routes though.
It’s not like Kaiser joined the raid and betrayed them.
So Kaiser’s quest was related to Luidra too? If coincidence goes this far, it’s basically fate.
The Hero Guild must be dying inside though.
Who cares? This is insanely fun to watch!

The unprecedented chain of events had completely flipped the atmosphere.

[Viewer Count: 53.14 million]

Word must have spread somewhere.

Viewers were flooding in like crazy.

The number had already surpassed 50 million.

Messages in dozens of languages poured in so fast they were impossible to distinguish.

Zerpak felt like he was going insane.

“What the hell is this…”

This raid had already attracted huge attention.

But now things had become completely ridiculous.

This level of bad luck was beyond belief.

[Berze: WHAT IS THIS SITUATION?! A HIDDEN PHASE?! WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!]
[Berze: AND BEFORE THAT—WHY DID THAT MAN APPEAR FROM THE SKY?! WHY?! WHY HIM AGAIN?!]
[Berze: AAAAAAAAH!!!]

Zerpak was already overwhelmed—

and his guild master’s shouting in his ear made it worse.

Eventually Berze stopped forming words and simply screamed in rage.

Listening to that, Zerpak looked around.

[Power… I feel overflowing power…!
Those who dare free souls from my paradise…
Sink into eternal nightmares!!!]

WHOOSH—!
SLASH!

“AAAAH! What is this?!”

“Don’t block it! If it grazes you, it’s fatal! Dodge no matter what!”

“Someone interrupt the pattern!”

“How the hell do we interrupt THAT, you idiot?!”

Luidra—once elegant and seductive—now rampaged like a lunatic.

The raid members who had moved like professionals earlier were now desperately running for their lives.