The Villainess VTuber Rips People Apart-Chapter 174

Originally, I had planned to have Sora play a different character, but the Sacred Knight had a skillset that was perfect for executing the double invader strategy.

That’s when I started looking for a strategy to contain Son Nalim.

The Paladin is a character who initiates fights to fill their ultimate gauge, causing chaos and then disappearing with the Reignite skill.

It’s not incredibly threatening, but if they’re alive, they’re an annoying character throughout the game, from start to finish.

It’s best to eliminate them quickly, but if things get dangerous, they’ll escape with Reignite, so it’s not easy.

To take down the Paladin, CC (crowd control) combos are essential.

"Sounds good. The Sacred Knight for double invader."

And then there was a time when we had a scrim with pro gamers.

It was with Choi Gaho’s team, Steel Genesis (GGS), and Gaho seemed to think the Sacred Knight’s double invader was promising enough to bring his team members in.

"The Sacred Knight is surprisingly fast at hunting neutral mobs. Plus, the Sacred Knight’s passive heals, so its sustain is quite good."

"Any character can do that. Even a Berserker without a weapon seems bad for neutral mob hunting, but when we timed it, the Sacred Knight was way faster than doing it solo."

"A character with high ultimate value seems like the best pick. The Sacred Knight can help with neutral mob hunting, and then Aurora can take the last hits to fill her ultimate gauge. That seems like a good plan."

"Let’s do some research."

We discussed traits, how many gauge-charging traits to invest in, how to route for hunting mobs, and which mobs to kill or skip.

So, I worked with the pro gamers to research, gathering a lot of data.

"Ugh... ugh..."

Son Nalim frowned.

She barely regained her vision.

Actually, her vision wasn’t fully recovered, but she forced herself to observe the surrounding situation.

The situation was roughly understood.

Leviathan had used the double invader strategy.

Solo queue disaster hahahaDouble invader in a tournament? lolDid Laura and Sora go on a jungle date? 😭😭😭Wild bombers have appeared!Won’t this reduce the main force's power?

"This is Son Nalim. ...Since it's a double invader, make sure to focus on the main fight."

Son Nalim transmitted that to the main team via Discord.

[This is the critical part. Now Son Nalim has to stall for time.]

MadMask quietly explained, watching Son Nalim.

[Since the enemy has two players here, that means their main force is only four. If there’s a team fight between the main forces, it’ll be 5v4, which gives Gryphon the advantage, so Son Nalim should stall for time until then.]

[But can she stall? Half of Son Nalim’s body is frozen.]

As Kaiser said, half of Son Nalim’s body was frozen.

Laura had used Bomb Making – Sun Moon Fire to create ice bombs.

Her inventory probably only contained ice bombs by now.

The effect of the ice bombs was to freeze all targets within the area of effect.

And the Paladin’s escape skill, Reignite, has the drawback of being interrupted by hard CC effects like freezing.

[Aurora and Sora will likely try to catch Son Nalim with a CC combo. But Son Nalim has prepared a build to counter that.]

Son Nalim knew well that the Paladin is vulnerable to CC. She had thoroughly prepared for this kind of situation.

She sacrificed all offensive traits and focused purely on defensive traits.

CC duration reduction, defense increases, automatic health regeneration, and maximum health increase.

With these traits, no matter how much CC she took, she could endure and still use Reignite.

[Sora’s CC skills have already been used. If she blocks Laura’s next ice bomb, the CC combo will not continue.]

Just once.

If she blocked just one, she could break free from the ice with her CC duration reduction.

Both Nalim and Laura knew this.

"Sora, apply pressure."

The Sacred Knight Sora pressured Nalim.

Meanwhile, Laura took an item from her inventory.

‘...Another bomb is coming. I need to block this one for sure...!’

Thankfully, while Nalim’s right side was frozen, her left side was still free.

She gripped the wooden stick with her left hand, the one that hadn’t been frozen.

Of course, Sora wasn’t just going to let Nalim block the bomb easily.

The blade of a dagger closed in.

Sora began relentlessly slashing at Nalim’s body.

"Ugh!"

It hurt.

Thanks to Labyrinthos' sensory correction system, it wasn’t too painful, but it was still hard to focus.

Like she was facing an enemy, Sora carved wounds into Nalim’s body.

Was it a parent’s enemy? Or a lover’s enemy?

Whatever it was, it hurt.

But Nalim just took it.

Thanks to her defensive traits.

After all, the Sacred Knight is a fast attacker, so each hit was bearable.

If she could just block the bomb Laura threw...!

[Aha, Sora is blocking Laura from Nalim’s sight!]

But Sora intentionally blocked Nalim’s view.

She was hiding how Laura was going to throw the bomb with her own body.

Wow lol, this is rough lolAt least give me some sight!So suffocatingThey came prepared, damn lolLooks like Sora’s the real MVP?

"Sora! Move...!!"

"I won’t."

Nalim tried to kick Sora away, but it seemed like Sora had already anticipated it, and Nalim’s foot was blocked. ...Her Sacred Knight mastery was better than expected.

Tch.

Nalim clicked her tongue, and with no other choice, she decided to just go by feel.

‘I can read her.’

How many games had she played with Laura, trying to analyze her?

She’d memorized all of Laura’s voice lines by now. She’d watched every single broadcast archive, and even replayed the ones she liked multiple times.

She didn’t particularly like Laura, but she had put in this much effort.

She could sense Laura’s subtle habits and intentions.

Nalim realized it instinctively.

From the upper right, the angle was roughly 30 degrees.

She shoved Sora aside and swung accurately.

Clang!

Son Nalim’s wooden stick perfectly hit the object Laura threw.

It was a vial containing reagents.

"Reagents?!"

Not a bomb, but reagents?

The vial shattered, spilling its contents onto Nalim.

The water-type reagent.

Its effect was acid damage and paralysis.

The liquid burned through Nalim’s skin.

"Aagh...!"

Nalim groaned from the unexpected pain.

But she didn’t stop.

Reignite only gets interrupted by hard CC like stuns, airbornes, or freezes.

Normal CCs like blindness, slow, or binds didn’t interrupt Reignite, and paralysis didn’t cancel the channeling of Reignite either.

But why did she throw reagents instead of bombs?

Why?

"Sora, explode it."

At Laura’s command, Sora took out another ice bomb from her inventory.

The Alchemist was a class that turns skills into items.

And it was possible for the Alchemist to share the items they made with others.

Boom!

Sora detonated the ice bomb at point-blank range, even though she was caught in the blast herself.

The cold blue explosion erupted.

And soon, both Sora and Nalim were frozen.

Laura, watching from a distance, calmly approached.

[Aah, this match is over.]

Kaiser sighed as he watched on the broadcast.

From there, Laura’s actions were mechanical.

Ice bomb, water-type reagent, ice bomb, water-type reagent, then another ice bomb.

As Laura approached Nalim, she kept throwing items.

Every time she threw an item, the freeze duration on Nalim was refreshed.

Finally, Laura touched the frozen Nalim’s cheek.

"Let’s meet again in the next round, with a better performance."

Laura smiled sweetly.

And Nalim’s body began to turn a golden color.

From that day forward, Son Nalim became the target of jokes in the community as "Golden Nalim."

2nd Round Ban-Pick.

"Ban the Alchemist."

Hearing this, Navie flinched without realizing it.

"But if we do that, the Sacred Knight will be free..."

"It’s fine."

Nalim said that confidently.

In the end, the first round was lost because Nalim got broken through too quickly, allowing Laura and Sora to join the main team right away.

So, the 6v5 team fight was easily lost.

"Gave that match away because I messed up. Please give me another chance."

The double invader strategy was something she hadn’t seen in a long time, so she couldn’t respond properly. This time, she’d be ready. After all, the opponent couldn’t use the same strategy twice. Ban the Alchemist, and they wouldn’t be able to execute the CC combo.

Several excuses popped into her head, but Nalim said nothing.

The fact that she lost because she messed up was the truth.

She didn’t want to make excuses or talk too much; she wanted to show the results instead.

"No, it’s not that I messed up. The opponent did well, not me..."

"..."

"Then, should we ban Dark Knight, Berserker, and Alchemist?"

"No. Ban Alchemist, Puppeteer, and the last one, target Barubara."

In other words, Nalim said it didn’t matter if Aurora’s three signature characters were freed.

The original plan was to suppress Laura’s carry potential.

But as expected, Laura was not a character you could just ban with a card.

"No matter what pick Laura makes, I’ll block it. In the meantime, let the main team win."

She thought the Dark Knight would come out.

She didn’t want to give it to Laura.

Especially since it was a sword-wielding character.

Honestly, I don’t think I can win if Laura picks the Dark Knight.

But... she didn’t want to give up for emotional reasons.

And if she thought about it rationally, the Dark Knight was one of the tank characters with weak crowd control.

So, just like the Alchemist, using a CC combo should be enough to melt them down.

"The opponent has released the Paladin again. ...And their first pick is the Sacred Knight. Nalim, what will you do?"

"Give me the Paladin."

Once again, Nalim picked the Paladin.

After the ban-pick was done, unexpectedly, Sora picked a Battle Priest.

The Sacred Knight that Leviathan originally picked was now in Laura’s hands.

She had probably never intended to play Dark Knight or Berserker from the start.

Not sure of her intent, but...

This time, Nalim was determined to win.

【Virtual YouTuber Gallery】

[General] Those damn b*tches..

(Narim meme that won the gold medal)

Our Narim is straight..

Getting beat up by evil damn b*tchesㅠㅠㅠㅠ

[Comments]

- Straight?

- ?

- A woman who likes men? What kind of abnormal sexual desire is that?

ㄴ The lady corrected her to normal sexual desire

ㄴ Normalization of the wall is Shinro-raㅋㅋㅋㅋ

- Since when has Son Narim been straight?

- Laura Sora Narim 3P is kind of annoying

- So whose child is Narim pregnant with?

[General] Aurora said Son Narim was healthy?

(Aurora meme)

If Narim hadn't rejected her, wouldn't she have been healthy?

It's not that Laura is healthy, it's that Narim made her healthy

[Comment]

- [Correct answer, Alchemist Con]

- This is a bit novel

- The logic is just a misconceptionㅋㅋㅋㅋ

- This is so ridiculousㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

- Narim was wrong

- Narim should just get a job as a stuffed animal decoration at Laura's house...

[General] What's the speed at which Golden Narim's ultimate skill is charged???

(Screenshot)

It's already filled to 50% of the ultimate skill gauge?

[Comment]

- It's a build that fills the ultimate skill quickly

- It's a trait that brings up both hunting speed and ultimate skill gauge charging

ㄴ (Author) Why didn't you use it before when it charges so quickly??? n It's a build that throws away CC resistance and survival..

n If you make eye contact with the opponent's escape, they'll just die, lol

n It's a fucking entertainment build that hunts neutral mobs while running away

Updat𝓮d fr𝙤m ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com.

- In the end, I somehow managed to fill up my ultimate skill lol