The Devil’s Dead Child - Chapter 289



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#Episode 289, There is nothing I can do to save my life

I have never once thought about changing my position.

After all, what would you do if you knew the position of the boss monster?

It was designed to be beaten with a reward, so all you had to do was enjoy the content.

however… , Now I am the named boss.

There are roughly around 30 of them.

Again, about half of the ranged players fired a volley of fire.

Quagwagwang—!

Burbubbuk!

Various magic, memorization, and magic arrows pounded on the hastily constructed barrier.

They say I have unrivaled magical power compared to each of them, but even after receiving a torrent of attacks, I was not exhausted.

‘ha… shit.’

From the boss’s perspective, the raid was an unfair fight.

Simply put, the only way for a boss to survive is to annihilate everyone before his health reaches 0.

The problem is that if you cannot eliminate one in one blow, they will come back to life while organically covering and supporting each other.

In the end, it is no different from a survival game that uses the boss’s vitality as time.

Of course, bosses also have ways to reduce the number of players.

A wide-range weapon that can kill multiple people with a single blow,

CC techniques (techniques that cause restrictions or status abnormalities) that will instantly trip up the cowardly guys… .

I too have enough skills to wipe them out in one fell swoop… ,

Now that I think about it, that’s where I feel it’s most unfair.

Uuuuung─.

“Heck! Wow! Evade quickly!”

“It’s a floor covering! “Get back!”

“Chew the wide area and I’ll go in!”

Kwaaaaang!

“Fire heal on Tang!”

… My attacks are being read by them.

‘Fuck… . ‘I completely forgot.’

Naturally, from the player’s perspective, the spot where you would die if you stepped on it was marked as a red area.

If I had no experience as a player, I would go crazy and jump.

No, even though I know the reason, I still feel like jumping up and down.

No matter how secretly you prepare a room,

Those rat-like bastards quickly retreated away from where I was aiming.

Additionally, I was subject to some restrictions from the tower in terms of maximum horsepower and output.

In other words, in this case, it is not necessarily an engineering school level force, but a party level force, maybe… You may not be able to guarantee victory even against a single top-ranked player.

Still, the absolute state is superior,

I am still holding on because I know their fighting methods well, but

Clearly, I was the one in danger.

‘It’s really dangerous if we can’t reduce the number quickly… .’

The only good thing is that I am smarter than the AI ​​in the game.

There was nothing I could do about making a big attack because they would read it, but I also gave up the idea of ​​making a big profit with one hit.

Sreung.

As I pulled out the dagger, I moved the sectatorium metal from the scabbard to the blade.

It was a gift I received from Park Dae-geun at a time when I needed at least one more way to protect myself.

Pot!

I rushed towards the target directly.

“Huh!”

As the distance suddenly narrowed, the startled man froze in his seat.

From earlier, he was a very annoying support player.

“hey! Stop it!”

In a split second, a nearby tanker and a fast-reacting combat unit flew in front of me and blocked me.

If something bothers me, it means that they play a big role.

Anyway, it was welcome that two more people joined in.

Ping—!

I swung the dagger like that.

The sectatorium coating the surface of the sword was instantly liquefied and scattered widely in the form of hundreds of mercury droplets.

Those beautiful water droplets were shaped into sharp points according to my will as they flew forward.

Since they have the visual acuity to react to my sudden movements, they may also be looking at the changing pieces of sectatorium.

However, no more time was given to them as they were already squeezed into the narrow gap.

The metal fragments, which had returned to their original properties, sequentially penetrated the bodies of the three people.

Pabababak!

“Wow!”

“Bwak!”

Shut up, chin! thud!

Three remains that looked like they had been hit by buckshot collapsed on the floor.

In the meantime, there was no organic backup like before.

There are only wide-eyed or mesmerized gazes.

“… … .”

It’s a named boss, but you probably never imagined that it would mix fakes and use Sectatorium.

They probably know about the existence of sectatorium, but since it is basically a tool controlled through magical power, its power is bound to vary depending on who uses it.

The technology to divide and mold into hundreds of pieces is possible only because of me.

First of all, they felt like they were at a loss as to what to do when I showed a pattern of not using wide area skills for quite some time.

In the grand scheme of things, the development of the raid they experienced would have been almost similar.

Focus on supporting the tank and cut down the boss’s health with single shots.

When the floor (expected point of boss attack) is drawn, evacuate quickly.

From their point of view, who are accustomed to repeating the cycle by taking a breather,

When a humanoid boss, who doesn’t even know if he’s from the magic or combat world, kills a key raid member with an anomalous attack, my mind goes blank.

‘anyway… , I can’t help it because I want to live too.’

I didn’t even have time to give them time to recover from the shock.

Sooooooooo! puck!

The dagger fired straight pierced another guy between the eyes.

“Hey, come to your senses and move!”

Only then did the players get back into formation.

But the mood had already passed to me.

“What the fuck! Tanker, what are you doing! “Manage aggro well!”

‘That guy is next.’

I, not the AI ​​- there is no way I can be ‘managed’ by the tanker’s provocation, but I have to attack the guy who can identify the problem and yell first.

Wedge─! Tang!

Like a guy with a loud voice, he blocked my first attack, but the sectatorium dagger he created in his other hand dug into the square and slit his throat.

Squeak!

“Oops!”

dump.

The moment I rolled my eyes in search of the next target, about a dozen shots flew at me from behind.

Shoo shoo shoo! Burbubbuk!

Although they deployed the barrier and blocked it without even having to turn around, indiscriminate attacks fueled by evil continued to pour in.

Grumble! pop! pop! Partschut!

They must have felt that the operation was a mess and useless, so they threw away pace control and continued their bloody offensive.

‘Ugh!’

It was an unprecedented act, but it was a threat to me right now.

When they are worried about the depletion of their magical power and are waiting for them to slow down,

I felt a presence behind me that I had never seen before.

“uh… ? Get in, it’s Tarantor!”

“I never thought I would find it all at once. “But there was an engineering school that arrived first?”

This is not the reaction I would give to someone who has been fighting against me all this time.

When I glance back, the guys I couldn’t see are pointing in this direction.

Even behind them, new dolls kept being drawn.

The ominous thought turned out to be correct.

‘ha… .’

On some floor, another group of people who had torn up the order forms were arriving one after another.

“We will join you too. “I will follow your engineering team leader’s orders.”

At best, the reduced number is being filled.

On the other hand, the amount of my magical power has decreased compared to when I first encountered them.

Perhaps because of the unexpected appearance of reinforcements, the initial offensive of the engineering team stopped.

I had no reason to give them time, but I quickly cast Meditation (meditation magic – has the effect of increasing the speed of magic recovery).

Come to think of it, it seemed like the guys who arrived just now hadn’t even been tipped off.

‘It looks like there are already a lot of kids using the guild system.’

If you think about it, it didn’t make sense for the guy who appeared downstairs and then ran away to summon about 30 engineering team members in just over a minute.

It may have been a reconnaissance by the engineering team that arrived upstairs first and was waiting,

There is no way players with as much information as me would attack the tower with more than a party.

In other words, it would be more reasonable to assume that the large number of people who had arrived at the right time, like the group that had just arrived, had spread out across different floors and responded to the guild chat.

Why should you care?

You can join an NPC guild at any time, participate in activities, and receive rewards.

This is because there are unlock conditions for using the guild system between players.

“I’ll tell you in advance, but if you remember the patterns of the bosses you’ve faced so far, you’ll be in trouble.”

“What do you mean?”

“Once you experience it, you’ll know – shit! Recover that bastard’s magical power! Attack!”

“!”

‘Tsk!’

The guys who were distracted by each other for a moment fired a volley of attacks at me again.

Still, the new magic power was replenished for a short time.

They can’t even imagine… Originally, I had a build that didn’t have much magic power recovery to overcome the penalty, and now I even had the heart of a dragon.

Quagwagwang! Burbubbubbuk!

Having received only the urgent attack first, I began the build-up to attack the newly joined members in the same way.

“Wide area!”

“Stand back!”

Grumble!

bang! Quang! Quawang! Quaaaang!

Four Hellfires were struck in succession, skipping the coagulation process.

“What the fuck is that… . “Is the casting speed crazy?”

As expected, no one was hit by the attack,

At least the airlift shift had an effect,

Those who were there first were nervous about a pattern they hadn’t seen in a while.

The newly joined party would have come up with a normal pattern.

Pot!

They immediately rushed to the new recruits and sprayed them with sectatorium granules.

I thought the same method as before would work for them.

Because we didn’t have time to share detailed experiences with each other.

“omg!”

“W-What is this…?” !”

“Avoid!”

Someone warned me late, but

There was no way to guard against something that was unimaginable.

Pabababak!

“Kwaaah!”

As the hardened sectatorium fragments created dozens of vent holes in the two people’s bodies,

Stiff movements continued again from the panicked group of latecomers.

I didn’t miss the opportunity and slaughtered everyone I could get my hands on.

Suddenly!

“Ugh!”

“Save me… .”

Push!

Squeak!

‘… … ?’

As I was wondering what they were talking about, someone tore up the floor order form and was engulfed in a halo of light.

The reinforcements that had just arrived were split apart in the blink of an eye, and their morale must have been broken.

As soon as the first defector came out, they tore up the order form one after another.

Wedge!

Push!

Those who were slow to act because they were cautious had their foreheads pierced by me,

Squeak! Snap!

I didn’t even bother to try to stop the fleeing guys.

If you missed it too much, you had to catch it as much as possible, but even if you ran away from here, you wouldn’t be able to escape the tower in the end.

I don’t know if it was because I had courage, or if I was angry, or if I didn’t have enough room in the order form.

Nearly ten players remained and died by my hands.

“Please…” only once!”

Suddenly!

After taking the life of the last one, which was probably the third reason, I let out a deep sigh.

My emotions are fine,

Reason was painful.

No, it was a slaughter prompted by reason, but I wondered if it was okay to do this.

So even though things are complicated,

My emotions were fine.

I don’t really know what you’re talking about either.

anyway.

I went back to the thoughts I had put aside while concentrating on the fight.

that… , the conditions for unlocking the Player Guild were probably that the sum of strength, agility, stamina, intelligence, and magic had to reach 44.

If I had to sum up the level in one word, it would be to say that all of the guys in this room were stronger than Gu Chang-soo.

Of course, if Gu Chang-soo, my contractor, uses demonic energy now, he will eat it all up.

The fact that he was never a bad person to be left behind, but the situation turned out that way, came to me as a measure of the ‘relative flow of time.’

There are times when Gu Chang-soo was unable to follow his own farming route due to my efforts in various ways.

Even when viewed in absolute time, the growth rate of other players is abnormal.

This fact added more weight to my prediction that Marduk would use the player as a hunting dog.

At the same time, one question occurred to me.

“Now and all of a sudden? “Are you really saying this because I swore at you?”

Maybe I misunderstood.

However, I interpreted the meaning of the bondage that Marduk placed on his father as simply ‘continuous pain’ that could not be replaced by death.

Isn’t that right?

It would have been easy to kill someone by projecting their power directly, but it was also strange to set up such a complicated plan and intend death.

‘I guess not yet. It’s clear that there is a different intention… .’

But, what kind of pain can I experience here?