Why I'm Called the Gun Swap Goddess (1)

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It wasn't just Castle. Stein, Cargo Biscuit, Quaterniana... Everyone was confused as to what happened. Castle used a Fracasier skill which threw out 5 quick punches. This should have caused a massive amount of damage to an undefended target. However, "-0" repeatedly floated in the air.

"What?"

Fae Sol was holding a dagger.

This was so unexpected that even those in the middle of attacking abruptly stopped.

And in that brief moment...

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*>Quaterniana: Slingshotter downed...*

Fae Sol swapped back to a slingshot and fired.

The melees recognized that the slingshot was on cooldown. However...

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What should have been an opening wasn't there!

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*>Quaterniana: Mage downed. I don't want to get targeted. I'm retreating.*

*What's happening?*

Stein felt dizzy. Not only was the opponent in front of him still unharmed, she had also simultaneously picked off their entire backline...

*... while in melee combat?*

It didn't make any sense.

"How are you doing thaaaaaaaaat?!"

It wasn't certain whether he was referring to accurate slingshot snipes or the dagger-parried attacks, but he tried flailing some basic attacks in Fae Sol's general direction. However, these rage-induced attacks without any thought behind them could not do any damage.

"Haha... You want to know?"

A relaxed girl's voice contrasted the tense atmosphere.

"Watch carefully!"

As much as they didn't want to fall for the enemy's tricks, Stein, Castle, and the 3 other melees couldn't help but obey that voice.

They were too curious. But as the saying goes... curiosity killed... a melee unit in this instance.

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Since Quaterniana, the final Mage, had retreated, Fae Sol targeted a nearby player. But Stein wasn't paying attention to that. What he was more curious about was how it was happening!

His observation wasn't in vain.

In an instant, just as the slingshot was off cooldown... Fae Sol un-equipped the dagger and equipped the slingshot. She fired the slingshot and un-equipped it, and re-equipped the dagger. And using that dagger, she was parrying any attacks she couldn't dodge...

*That's possible?*

It was akin to "animation cancelling" in various other games, but it seemed slightly different. Stein wasn't 100% sure, but this was how he interpreted Fae Sol's series of actions:

1. Fire slingshot.

2. Slingshot goes on cooldown.

3. Unequip slingshot, equip dagger.

4. Use dagger while slingshot is on cooldown.

5. Swap back to slingshot.

The problem was, though a slingshot's basic attack cooldown was long... it was still a basic attack. They had a far lesser cooldown than skills. In other words, this "swapping" process was happening very quickly. Not only that, but the user needed to weave the moves of differing weapons together so they could flow well...

When he saw this, he knew for a fact that they wouldn't be able to win.

*Is that playstyle... even feasible?*

It wasn't anything Stein had seen before. This wasn't surprising - as a beta player, he only had a couple weeks' worth of experience in the game. This wasn't nearly enough time to see everything the game had to offer.

But even if he had played the game for years, it wouldn't be anything he'd see. After all, there was only one player in the game that had truly mastered this playstyle - the Gun Swap Goddess.

Stein considered the experience that would be necessary to play like that.

If you picked a class, you had to spend your hours to learn how it worked.

If your class required precision, you had to practice.

If your class required planning, you had to practice.

As of now, no player had shown a level of slingshot prowess remotely near Fae Sol's.

Stein suspected that this player was a slingshot master in real life.

It was an odd venture in the modern era, but there was no other explanation for the precision she displayed.

However, now... she was a master dagger wielder? How?

One thing that was widely known by beta testers was that martial arts in the real world and VMA could be applied in Synergy.

A majority of the population did not have martial arts experience in the modern era. It wasn't that martial artists were uncommon. It was just that one was far more likely to encounter a person who didn't know martial arts. And many of these people were the ones playing Synergy.

Martial arts masters were busy focusing on their own body and technique. They didn't have time for "children's games" like Synergy.

Why was a master slingshot and dagger user playing?

"It's interesting, right?"

As if she read his mind, Fae Sol postulated this question.

As of now, she'd stopped using the slingshot and was only using the dagger.

If she used the slingshot, the fight would have long been over.

Stein was naturally intrigued by this question.

"It is... How is it possible for you to play like this?"

"Hm..."

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As Fae Sol considered the answer to this question, the intense melee didn't stop.

Stein and Cargo Biscuit.

These were the two most skilled fighters of the advance party.

As militants of Alacai, they were undoubtedly in an upper echelon of martial artists.

Castle wasn't at their level, but he was undoubtedly a young talent who simply lacked experience.

Yet these three players couldn't land a single hit on their opponent...

*>Stein: We're forfeiting.*