“I can finally take possession of this body.”
The Dark God Crow recited through the mouth of the Pope.
“Thank you, adventurer. It was you who shook this woman’s spirit that allowed me to take advantage of the gap.”
Crow ran his hand over the Pope’s beautiful face.
“Your Eden, my lord. Because of your persistent resistance, my resurrection has been delayed.”
With his lips curled upwards, Crow let out a low, sinister laugh.
“But now the three warriors are mine. The greatest enemy of the Dark Cult will be reborn with the greatest power… …!”
The moment Crow was about to explode with madness.
“Get out of my head… …!”
The Pope cried out, clutching his own head. His voice again became that of a weak woman.
Edencha regained control of his body, gasped for breath, and shouted at the group.
“Please… kill me!”
It was a weary and desperate voice.
“It’s not just me! Kill all three warriors! Only then will Crow’s soul lose its vessel to return to… and his plot will be thwarted!”
The eyes of the Pope, who seemed to have found reason, turned black again.
“Adventurer, please… … .”
That was it.
The Pope lost control of his body again, and Crow, who had taken control of his body again, laughed out loud.
So loud that the underground space rumbled.
“Ahahahaha! It’s no use! The world is mine now-!”
To users who have read the scenario carefully, it would have seemed like a desperate fight by a warrior resisting the demon that has entered his body.
“Did that guy… … do something crazy?”
Aggle King asked cautiously, waving his hand next to his temple.
To users who didn’t even pay attention to the scenario, it just seemed like the writhing of a madman.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Those who had been concentrating on the scenario for a long time broke out in a cold sweat.
The event ended there. The Pope rose into the air and entered a state of combat readiness.
The first boss of Muganok.
The Fallen Pope, Edencha Chronocide.
A dark aura spread around her body as she floated in the air, enveloped in the swaying darkness.
The Pope’s unique wheel priest setup was still there. Thick heavy armor, huge shield.
And the hammer.
Kugu palace!
As the Pope lightly swung his hammer, dark aura spread out in all directions and shook the area violently.
Oasis opened his eyes wide at the sight.
‘It’s just like yours… …!’
Labo’s profession, the Dark Knight, uses the dark power that comes from the Dark God.
Now that the Dark God Crow has taken over the Pope’s body, it was only natural that the same dark aura would flow out.
“Okay, everyone.”
Labo opened his mouth to tell the guild members preparing for battle.
“This is our first leveling and farming location.”
Finally, the real leveling began.
Three days to level 100.
To achieve that ridiculous goal, I had to level up here.
“As you know, we skipped several levels to get here. We can’t stand a chance against that pig priest using the regular method.”
Labo smiled brightly.
“So I will actively utilize bugs.”
Labo continued speaking, looking at each of the group.
“Let me explain each of your roles. First, Aggle King, then Doctor. You guys are Deal.”
It was the same as before.
Aggle King and the Doctor nodded.
“And Rabbit, Cain. You guys are a deal too.”
Rabbit and Cain also agreed and nodded.
“Oldman, you’re a deal too.”
“… … ?”
Oldman’s expression, which was naturally expected to be the tank, and he was holding a shield, became questionable.
“Finally, an oasis.”
Labo said as he looked at the oasis for the last time.
“You are a dealer too.”
“……yes?”
Everyone’s expression turned pale.
Labo pointed to himself with his thumb.
“For your information, I am also a dealer.”
Oldman shouted in horror.
“They’re all just dealers?!”
“okay.”
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Labo explained calmly.
“The battle AI of the Dharma Emperor has a flaw in its logic. It’s a sort of bug that arose because the base is a priest… … A self-heal pattern appears whenever HP is reduced by a certain percentage.”
Since it is a priest type boss, there was a pattern of healing itself.
The problem was that the pattern had a high priority and could be forced into a deal.
“Then what happens if you keep reducing HP by a certain percentage?”
Cain answered Labo’s question.
“Are you going to keep doing this?”
“Yes, that is correct.”
Exactly!
Labo snapped his fingers and grinned.
“It’s about canceling the attack pattern on your own and making you keep self-healing. To do that, all of us have to become dealers and reduce a certain amount of HP within a certain period.”
“indeed…….”
“The numbers are roughly 5 percent per 10 seconds.”
Labo lowered his voice to the party members who were each checking their own damage skills.
“If we don’t get this speed up, the Pope will switch to an attack pattern instead of a self-healing pattern. If that happens… … .”
As Labo trailed off, Aggle King broke out in a cold sweat.
“Then what happens?”
“Well, I won’t tell you since you’re going to experience it from now on.”
Labo turned to the Pope with a mischievous smile.
“Okay, everyone ready? Let’s go get a taste of the final boss of Season 6!”
* * *
1st.
The party was wiped out in 15 seconds.
“… … .”
“… … .”
The Pope was wearing heavy armor and had various defensive buffs applied to him.
It was sturdy and its HP was also really thick.
Failed to reduce HP by 5% within 10 seconds of initiation. Unable to induce a self-heal pattern, the Dharma Emperor immediately went on the offensive.
Half of the party members were instantly killed by the dark aura wave released by the Pope. The remaining half, who had somehow managed to hold out, were also knocked down by the next attack.
“No, isn’t this impossible… …?”
The resurrected party held a brief tactical meeting in a corner of the field while waiting for the aftereffects of resurrection to wear off.
The aggro king stuck out his tongue.
“What the heck, 5 percent? It’s like they can’t even cut 1 percent? Is this even possible in the first place?”
“It’s possible. Definitely.”
When Labo answered with a steady voice, Aggle King shut his mouth.
“But it seems like it’ll need some fine-tuning… … Everyone, can you show me your settings?”
Labo has thoroughly adjusted the guild members’ stats and traits to the utmost.
By redistributing stats using the ‘Contract of Oblivion’, all bonus stats were invested into strength, intelligence, etc.
I decided to put all 9 trait points into attack.
“A trait that you must take in particular is the ‘Armor Piercing’ option at level 5 of the attack.”
After checking the guild members’ stats one by one, Labo then checked their skills.
“To break through that thick defense and deal damage, you need to neutralize the armor to some extent.”
The doctor took a packet of acid potions from his bosom.
“I just so happen to have something like this.”
“Acid Potion… …! Nice. I can blow away armor by a percentage.”
Cain opened the skill window and opened his mouth, comparing things here and there.
“I will set my skills to focus on skills with damage options proportional to maximum HP.”
“Well, that’s a good decision.”
The basic framework of tactics has been established.
Lowers defense with skills that have a defense penetration option, and increases the ratio of damage skills proportional to maximum HP.
“Okay, let’s go one more time!”
So the 2nd one rushed in.
“… … .”
“Umm… … .”
As expected, they were all wiped out in 15 seconds.
But compared to before, I was able to deal a lot more damage in the first 10 seconds.
“Can we do a little more? For now, let’s focus on reducing the 5% without sparing any skills.”
So the third time.
“oh!”
Aggle King, who had been pouring down bullets without sparing any effort, shouted.
“What, is it okay?”
Because all the skills that he had and none that he didn’t have were changed, the Pope’s HP was reduced considerably.
It was close to 6 percent.
“You’re quite the sight, mortal!”
Then the Jahil pattern appeared. The Pope casted a heal on himself and slowly recovered HP.
“Oh, so this is it!”
“Can you do just a little more?”
But in the next 10 seconds, I couldn’t properly deal the damage, so I failed again.
“If you want to consistently deal 5 percent damage every 10 seconds, you need a consistent damage cycle.”
5th.
After barely inducing the second Jahil pattern, but being wiped out due to lack of damage in the third, Labo looked around at everyone and said.
“Did you check how much damage you were putting in while dealing damage? Let’s make a chart and look at it.”
“I also have to calculate the cooldown of items and skills that reduce defense. Hmm, my head is starting to hurt… … .”
Oldman’s words gave Labo an oasis.
“Oasis will take care of all the calculations. Oasis?”
“Yes, leave it to me!”
In fact, even before instructions were given, Oasis was already gathering data values and calculating the optimal solution.
“Jim has a special add-on for the platoon commander. If you give him the numbers, he’ll input them and give you instructions for each timing.”
Oldman ran the addon and entered the numbers along with Oasis.
The rest of the members memorized the deal cycle of the entire party, not their individual deal cycles.
Labo applauded.
“Okay, can you see it? Let’s go again!”
10th.
We managed to induce the sixth self-healing pattern, but a loophole occurred in the deal cycle and we were wiped out again.
The guild members worked in unison to analyze the weaknesses of the previous try and strengthen their routine.
“Then wouldn’t it be right to apply a healing reduction effect there?”
“No. You should do it at this timing to get the maximum effect. It’s best to interrupt two self-heal attacks with one healing reduction skill.”
“You also have to think about attribute linking. It might be a bit disappointing since he’s a boss… … .”
“There’s no way to find out the resistance values for each attribute without experimenting directly… … Boss? Do you have any information?”
“Attributes don’t really matter except for divine magic… … but maybe the link bonus will apply? Hmm, that might be something to consider.”
Tactics were instantly re-established, as if a new blueprint had been put together.
Among the seven people who were agreeing, Cain, who had been expressing his opinion, suddenly shut his mouth.
“… … .”
“Cain? What’s wrong? Is something wrong?”
“No, what.”
Cain chuckled at Labo’s question.
“I definitely thought it wasn’t a gathering of random people.”
Even a raid party that is quite skilled at raiding will not be able to find the ‘right answer’ this efficiently.
With Labo, who knows everything, and seasoned old masters gathered together, it must have been possible to do this.
Oldman shrugged his shoulders and snorted.
“Huh. Of course, dear! Who is Jim?”
“Shut up, Captain. Get the timing of your orders right.”
Cain opened his eyes slightly and snapped.
15t.
I managed to reduce HP by 45%, but I ran into supply problems.
Members whose MP was low were unable to deal damage and were wiped out again.
“You only considered the deal cycle, not the cost.”
Labo groaned, rubbing his chin. Rabbit and Oldman nodded in turn.
“Because I have to keep attacking nonstop, my MP runs out too quickly… … .”
“Let’s include MP replenishment in the routine, not just the deal cycle.”
Consumption value replenishment was also included in the deal routine. It was supplied in turns one by one.
“Reloading! Cover me!”
Except for Aggle King, who was loading his crossbow while shouting loudly, everyone else was quiet and finished resupplying quickly.
20t.
For the first time, I succeeded in halving HP.
“Yahoo!”
“Okay, finally half… …!”
But the joy was short-lived,
“You really are quite the master, mortal, at drawing out my true feelings!”
When HP was reduced to less than half, the Dharma Emperor entered phase 2.
Chook-!
Dark aura stretched out like wings behind the Pope.
Stats skyrocketed, and the old routine no longer allowed me to deal 5 percent damage in 10 seconds.
“Sink into darkness, enter eternal sleep! Enjoy sweet death!”
The Jahil pattern is broken.
The Pope shouted and swung his hammer, and Dark Aura swept across the area like a wave.
