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The spirit dragon’s body was huge.
It must have been a powerful being that would have been impossible to approach if it had been alive and in good health.
However, now that so many years have passed since the death, even the corpses that had endured for so long have collapsed and are now referred to as ‘rubbish’.
Still, the boss was huge in size and the force felt strong. No matter what I did, it felt like it would never be possible to defeat it with the current user level.
“That’s the boss… …? How do you catch that?”
Teresa also thought so and turned pale.
“You can catch it somehow. It may look strong on the outside, but it’s still the boss of this dungeon. If you’re at a level where you can hunt it here, it’s designed so that you can catch it.”
Dojin calmly encouraged her.
‘It’s normal to react like that when you first see this. This boss is almost impossible to defeat with just pure specs.’
The remains of the spirit dragon. This boss, commonly called the remains, was not a boss that could be defeated with specs.
Debris was a boss that was defeated with special skills and special gimmicks.
“At first, I will try to understand the pattern as much as possible. Focus on the order, don’t get excited or scared. If you just stay calm, you can catch everything. I will say it again, focus on my order.”
Here we go. Dojin stepped into the boss room with a signal.
Woof woof.
The debris opened its eyes and roared, spitting out mana.
The battle has begun.
* * *
The wreckage was immobile in all parts except the neck.
This is a typical example of a so-called fixed boss monster.
However, that does not mean that it is easy to sacrifice oneself.
‘Heeeeek!’
Teresa, who was running like she was dying, screaming inside, was living proof of this.
Papapapapapak!
As she ran, a series of vicious ice picks were driven into her.
It was spirit magic fired from the eyes of the blue-tinted remains.
The eyes of the debris rolled around and changed color. They were red.
“Bow down!”
Dojin’s cry as he first discovered the change.
Teresa did as she was told and leaned forward.
She suddenly bent over while running at full speed, causing her to roll over and land face down on the ground, creating a famous scene.
Hwaaaaak!
A blazing flame swept over her head.
“wake up!”
Dojin shouted at Teresa, who was frozen in surprise from the heat.
Teresa jumps again in surprise.
Dojin attacked the wreckage in the meantime.
For a moment, the eyes of the debris turned towards Dojin.
“Provocation!”
Teresa answered Dojin’s order as she ran.
“None! It’s cool, it’s cool!”
Teresa, who was not trained as a tank, has lower taunt abilities than pure tank-type warriors.
So the gap occurred.
‘I guess I should write here sometime.’
As soon as Dojin saw the eyes of the debris turning green, he used his special skill, “Water Shield.”
In an instant, a dome of water with a radius of about 3 meters surrounded Dojin.
Dozens of wind blades aimed for Dojin, but a water barrier blocked the attacks.
“I’ll take the aggro back!”
Meanwhile, Teresa was trying to gain aggro by approaching the wreckage herself and hitting it with a hammer.
Her efforts paid off, and the heads of the debris turned back to the warrior, Teresa. And Teresa ran again.
‘Eww! If I had known this would happen, I would have just played tank!’
Teresa took a few more patterns with tearful regret.
It was a process of people becoming tattered even without any direct attacks.
Then at some point, the eyes of the debris lost their color.
“Is now the chance?”
Teresa lifted the hammer.
It seems like his instincts as a dealer are starting to stir.
But this time too, Dojin stopped her.
“Wait a minute! Something’s weird. Mana is being sucked towards the boss.”
Speaking, Dojin thought.
‘It’s hard to pretend not to know.’
It was quite difficult to pretend to deal with the patterns that everyone knew in real time.
Of course, just a little bit.
Dojin acted as if he was observing the situation with a slightly nervous expression and counted the time in his head.
‘One… two… three. That’s it.’
As the timing was right, colorful mana was seen gathering around the wreckage.
Anyone can see that if we leave it like this, everything will be wiped out.
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As soon as Dojin saw that, he used the dungeon special skill with his party leader authority.
《Sealed Stalactite》
As soon as the skill was activated, a large stalactite-shaped mass of mana appeared near the body of the wreckage and stabbed the bastard.
A shock so strong that it made the earth’s axis shake slightly.
The effect was amazing.
-Wow!
The screams of the debris, transmitted through mana rather than air, proved it.
Of course, the big attack he was preparing was immediately cut off.
Dojin, who had confirmed the progress up to that point, loudly relayed the news to the party members.
“The warrior will draw as much aggro as possible, and except for the normal patterns, I will attack to fill up the party skills. The healer will assist and attack a little. If the aggro returns to me or the healer, the warrior will taunt. If there is no taunt, I will get close and attack. I need to stack up the damage as much as possible to quickly fill up the special skills.”
Orders follow at a rapid pace.
Meanwhile, the debris that had briefly fallen was gradually regaining its momentum.
“If we are inevitably exposed to attack, the healer and I will hold out with our individual defense skills. If the water shield is on cooldown, we will call right away. The warrior will just hold out with his body. Even if he is not a tank, he should be able to hold out for one or two hits. If both the healer and I have water shields on cooldown, we will have to use the warrior’s skills, so don’t use them as you please.”
Order complete. Boss is up. Do your job.
It was a quick, simple, and clear order.
Teresa and Soso, who had already been through a long period of party hunting with Dojin, took action without even asking.
‘Sob sob, I should really be a tank.’
But action is action. Teresa, who was told to endure the boss attack with her bare body even though she wasn’t even a tank, ran while crying inside.
No matter what, these were too brutal attacks to just accept.
* * *
How to conquer this dungeon.
It’s very simple.
You can attack while avoiding or defending against the debris’ attacks.
It’s easy to say, but as with all things in life, the problem is that easier said than done.
The first task is to instantly distinguish between attacks that need to be avoided and attacks that require survival skills, and to perfectly distribute the cooldown of your personal survival skill, “Water Shield.”
In the meantime, you should attack without stopping, so you can charge the attack skill “Sealed Stalactite” when the debris charges its special attack.
What if you are so focused on surviving that your cumulative damage is pushed back?
Of course, since it didn’t charge, it got wiped out and the game was over.
‘If the gears creak even once, it’s total destruction.’
In such a battlefield, Dojin was fighting alone, making calculations and judgments equivalent to three people.
Dojin’s orders were perfect in carrying out the simple but difficult strategy.
Identify the aggro of the debris, recognize the type of attack with the information obtained through the eye, and give appropriate instructions.
The cooldown of “Water Shield” has also been adjusted to be interlocked with each other, preventing deaths due to gaps in survival skills.
“A big pattern is coming out. Turn the shield!”
《Flashlight》
However, whenever there was an opening, he immediately piled up the deal.
Thanks to this, the debris has already attempted to charge the annihilator four times, but has not succeeded in the attack even once.
‘Usually, for a party of 5, 6 stalactites would be the cut, right? Considering that the difficulty increases in the hidden dungeon, and the increased HP… I think it’ll be over after about 3 more hits.’
Thinking like that, it was the moment when Dojin prepared to give another stalactite as a gift to the remains.
The remains of the body, which could not possibly die at this moment, began to scatter with a bright light, then began to gather toward one point.
‘what?’
The doubt was short-lived. Dojin quickly realized that what he was seeing was the hidden phase of this dungeon that only the first challenger could see.
Come to think of it, even in my previous life, information on how this dungeon was first cleared was not revealed.
‘I let my guard down because it was a familiar dungeon. In-dungeons and hidden dungeons are completely different dungeons.’
“caution-“
When Dojin tries to sound a warning.
A shock wave burst out from the point of light.
“Cough!”
With a loud crash, three party members, including Dojin, were simultaneously blown away and slammed into the wall.
Dojin, a wizard with a strong body and large blood vessels, lost half of his life force in an instant.
Not only that, but the continued pressure began to slowly drain his vitality.
‘Damn it… You want me to catch that thing?’
Dojin could see Mana more clearly than anyone else.
The clumped light he saw in his eyes was not simply a condensed state of energy.
Here and there, a silhouette of something about to be born appears, as if it were an egg.
Even the light that was bright was turning black, as if mana contamination was occurring.
‘Whatever it is, once it’s finished, I can’t handle it.’
Whatever it is, it’s obvious that it’s not a size that can handle the current level.
‘Should I use a sealing stalactite to cut that off?’
The easiest way to defeat a cowardly protagonist who transforms and combines as easily as eating is to attack him in the middle of either transformation or combination.
“I didn’t want to do this, even for the sake of the children’s innocence… …!”
Of course it was bullshit. The reason Dojin was talking nonsense was simple.
For some reason, I was hesitating because I had a feeling that even if I used the “Sealed Stalactite” that I had just charged, I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
‘You can shoot at any time, so be careful-‘
A second shock wave hit Dojin, who had been thinking about it.
The second shock wave, which was delivered while I was already feeling oppressed, made my blood boil.
‘Cancel. I guess I’ll just shoot first and see. If this continues, I’ll die first… ‘
As he thought that, the moment his head was thrown back by the shock wave, something unfamiliar entered Dojin’s eyes.
There was something on the ceiling that I had never seen in my past life.
‘Is that what the stalactites on the boss room ceiling looked like?’
The ceiling of the boss room that Dojin remembered was just like an ordinary underwater cave.
However, the ceiling that Dojin was looking at, his head forced back by the shockwave, looked different.
The stalactites were very sharp, large, and numerous, showing how eagerly they were sucking up mana.
There’s only one thing around here that can supply that much mana to that place. It’s the unidentified thing that’s shining brightly in front of Dojin right now.
‘That’s it!’
It is impossible to think long when your heart is in your throat.
Dojin immediately took action.
《Sealed Stalactite》
He fired one last shot toward the sky, or rather, the ceiling.
It’s either all or nothing.
Whatever it is, by the time the transformation is over, the entire party will be in shambles.
If you want to make a move, now is the time.
‘That thing on the ceiling might just be nothing… … .’
From experience.
‘If I discover something different from what I know, that’s usually the answer.’
Kwang.
The sealing stalactite struck the stalactite pile in the ceiling with a loud noise.
Gurrung.
A sound similar to a starting engine.
They were already unstable due to having sucked up a lot of mana and grown in size, and they began to fall according to the law of universal gravitation.
