Return of the Frozen Player

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“…Anyway, it seems like she’s been hunting fiends diligently for the past week.”

Seo Jun-Ho looked quickly through the uploaded photos and there were six.
This meant that she caught almost one fiend a day.

‘Skaya, isn’t she overdoing it?’

Even though he was worried, his worries melted away when he saw a photo of her happy expression with a dessert.

“…So she gets PP not from videos, but from photos.”

The comments were full of praise and compliments.

Noonim, I love you.
You're cool.
You're pretty.
I've always admired you.
Teach me magic, etc…

There were basically tens of thousands of comments for each photo and more than 100,000 likes.
Seeing her great success, Seo Jun-Ho asked in a subtle voice, “Frost, if I start a social media account, could I also…”

“Wake up.
There is no way it would work, ” said the Frost Queen flatly.
“If it were Specter perhaps… But… the Black Knight Seo Jun-Ho? No chance.”

“…”

It was really upsetting for Seo Jun-Ho to know that the Frost Queen had become one step ahead of him when it came to IT unbeknownst to him.

“Anyway, I'm jealous…”

He wrote a message and sent it straight away.

– Congratulations.
You’ve become a superstar.

When he wrote and sent it, an answer came back almost immediately.

– Thanks~ And aren’t you also a superstar?

– Huh? Me? Well, I’m not Specter right now.

– No, no, I mean your video.
The responses were really hot I almost burned myself reading the comments~

“Superstar…? What does she mean?”

As Seo Jun-Ho stood blinking and muttering, the Frost Queen shook his sleeve.

“Con-Contractor, it's time…”

“Oh?”

Seo Jun-Ho quickly entered the video forums but he didn't check the ranking of the video.
After all, you’re supposed to save the best for last.

“Let's take a look.
I wonder how the audience will react to my debut video,” urged the Frost Queen.

As he played the video, comments being posted in real time came up.

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– Oh, Seo Jun-Ho's new video came out.

– Is this the video from the kobold hunting competition? My friend went there, and he said it was crazy.

└They’re just Kobolds, such a fuss lol

– Anyway, the title is Salmon in the Mountains? What the heck does that mean?

 

The video began with loud comments.
The beautiful scenery of the Hainal Mountains and the figures of the battalion were captured together.
As background music, Schubert's piano quintet in A major ‘The Trout’ was gently laid.
The scene painted a peaceful atmosphere as a whole.

– What, what's with the video?

– It was categorized as hunting.
Why is the atmosphere so peaceful? lol

└The title says salmon, but the song is ‘The Trout’ lololol

└I guess it's a comedy video?

 

It was a comfortable video that made the viewer feel relaxed.
The moment everyone smiled and watched the video with a light heart, the classical melody suddenly cut off.
The point of view was naturally changed to Seo Jun-Ho's first-person point of view.

“Oh, ohhh!”

“What…
What’s this?!”

For a moment the ground fluctuated like a suspension bridge.

“Everyone! Now! Right Now! Down! The mountain…!”

The leading knight shouted in a shrill voice.

Kwaaaaaa!

The voice was buried by the angry sound of the mountain.
At the unrealistic situation that seemed basically impossible, the viewers gave a sour response.

 

– …What, a landslide?

– I see Kobold mages up there.
Did they cause this?

└No way.
They’re just Kobold mages.
How can those animals come up with such a strategy…?

 

The genre changed in an instant from wellness and healing to a disaster film.
The unconventional pace of development led to an increase in immersion.

Boobooboobooom!

Even the editing skills were outstanding.
The moment when a reddish brown colored tsunami exploded from the ground, the color began to appear from the center in the black-and-white video.
At the same time, time stopped.
To be exact, the slow-motion effect made the video play very slowly.

– …

– …

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The never-ending comment window froze for a moment.
It meant that the audience was fully immersed at that point in the video.
Fear spread like an epidemic across the faces of the battalion.
The tsunami engulfed the slow-footed members of the battalion as if it was a hungry pig.
Even if they were Players, even if they pushed the boundaries of humanity, in the face of a natural disaster, their efforts would still be in vain.
It took only one minute for everyone to realize that.

“…”

The black and white world, and the slow passing of time as if it had stopped.
In that quiet and lonely world, only one sound was slowly being amplified.

– This is…

– The sound of a heart?

Thoomp-thoomp, thoomp-thoomp.

It was the sound of Seo Jun-Ho's heart beating.
His heart began to beat faster in the face of the landslide.
It was also proof that he was also panicking and nervous, but his heartbeat quickly regained its stability and became quiet.
His mind control and concentration were worthy of admiration.
Then, a beautiful melody played.

– Vivaldi…

– Winter from the Four Seasons.
That's the first movement.

– It's a masterpiece.

It was a magical melody that made the audience expect something.
At the same time, the slowed time began to normalize.

“S-save me!”

“Barrier!”

“Damn it! It's the kobold mages’ bombardment!”

“It's too late to go down the mountain!”

“Dig into the ground and hide!”

Screams and shouts broke out from here and there.
Just when everyone was feeling despair and fear and just as they were thinking of running away and hiding in the ground…

– ♬~ ♪~

A strong violin solo reminiscent of the cold wind began.
At the same time, Seo Jun-Ho silently moved, tightly holding his spear.
When others went down the mountain, he did the opposite and began to climb the mountain, like a salmon going up the river.

 

– He’s suddenly climbing the mountain? When a landslide is coming down?

– He’s crazy.
What's wrong with him?

– …Maybe he’s sacrificing himself?

└What do you mean?

└Do you see the kobold army that's all set up up there? Hiding in the ground is just a stopgap.

└Wait.
So, Seo Jun-Ho sacrificed himself for the battalion? Isn't that too much?

└That's…
I guess we’ll see.

 

Seo Jun-Ho ran headfirst toward the violent landslide.

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The word for portrait used for #FiendPortrait is a specific type of photo that’s used for the dead/funerals. ☜