Chapter 246 – Enduring Phase 2 (3)
One of the words that makes gamers tremble, layer pattern…
Let’s say you have set one place to avoid when a pattern progresses.
However, if a situation arises where the patterns overlap and another pattern flies into the only place where it can be avoided, how should the user respond?
How to deal with it, you just have to deal with it.
That’s why game users can’t help but get angry when they say layered patterns. This is because we are led not to avoid what can be avoided.
Most of the reasons why Chaos Alcatraz was criticized in the game was due to the problem of this layered pattern. Chaos Alcatraz, which used several patterns, sometimes used a specific pattern along with the basic pattern when casting, and users who tried to avoid it in a standard manner were to avoid it. I had no choice but to take all the damage and die.
So, is there no way for users to do this when using layered patterns?
Fortunately, that is not the case. There are several defense skills that do not take damage for each character, and they must be used at the right time.
What profession doesn’t have that kind of defense skill?
This is the answer that everyone who asks knows. You just have to get hit.
I said before that you need to save on defense skills, and the reason for that was because of this guy’s layered pattern.
On the day I first met Void in Ar’estel, Void showed an overlapping pattern by fusing with Spider and Bael and using the patterns of both raid bosses at the same time.
However, the two raid bosses actually do not have a layered pattern. Because Void just forcibly fused with the two and filled the empty space in the pattern with another demon’s pattern.
The problem with Chaos Alcatraz is that the patterns overlap even when you are alone.
The reason there wasn’t an overlapping pattern last time was probably because we weren’t a threat to it.
Didn’t he give his all because it was an opponent that could be easily defeated without doing anything like this?
However, this time, we came with a lot of preparation, so it is also proof that he is going to deal with us with all his might.
I’ll have to pass on this pattern first.
When a layered pattern occurs, a once safe position does not become safe.
“Master! Where can I escape?”
Noah shouted at me when I couldn’t tell him where to avoid right away like before.
“No, this time we don’t have to go anywhere. Everyone has to follow what I say! Understand?”
“Yes, my lord!”
Everyone, led by Lien, answered what I said.
Even though layered patterns are different, this time it was not an unavoidable layered pattern.
Right now, black thorns are about to rain down from countless magic circles above our heads, while a magic circle created on the floor exists beneath our feet. This is a magic that follows the person under the spell and after a certain period of time, black thorns pop out from there and attack. .
This magic circle follows the target until the end, with thorns popping out at the end. Even if you get to a position where you can avoid the thorns falling on your head right now, you will inevitably be attacked because the thorns will pop out from under your feet.
However, if we do not get into a safe position, the thorns above our heads will pierce our bodies, so it is safe to say that we are faced with a choice.
What is important here is the timing of the thorns popping out from the magic circle under your feet, which fortunately is slightly earlier than the timing of the thorns pouring out of the magic circle above your head.
In other words, after removing the thorns that appear under your feet, you must move to a position where you can avoid the thorns that fall on your head.
“Okay, everyone gather here!”
〈Divine Field〉
I used the skill right next to the safe location.
Is it because I repeatedly emphasized that I had to go to the location I marked?
When I installed the skill, everyone reflexively ran to the location where the skill was used before I finished speaking.
Thanks to this, it’s much better than talking a lot and having bad timing.
I also continued talking after running to the 〈 Divine Field 〉 location I used.
“Now, just follow the timing I said and move right next to me. Understood?”
Everyone who heard me nodded.
As soon as the magic circle was created under my feet, I was counting in my mind.
‘3… 4… NOW!’
“Now!”
About 5 seconds after the magic circle was created, I shouted to everyone and moved to the side.
Everyone followed my words and ran to the location I had moved to, and at that moment, a pile of black spikes came up from the place where we had been standing before.
Is that it? In addition, thorns from above the head were pouring down like monsoon rain.
“Wow… If it wasn’t for Jinu, I wouldn’t have been able to move.”
“Simultaneous attack from up and down… If you don’t know this, you will have no choice but to suffer.”
As Lien said, if you don’t know the layered pattern and get hit, you have no choice but to get hit. I don’t want to have the horrible idea of being pierced by thorns while struggling without knowing this.
Chaos Alcatraz entered Phase 2 and took on dragon form, but seemed surprised when we dodged its attack again.
Did you know you couldn’t avoid this?
“How do you avoid this? It must have been an attack that took advantage of the weakness of my attack…》
What. If that’s what I said, it means that I used a layered pattern for some of this bastard!
But soon Chaos Alcatraz attacked us once again.
Starting with an attack that summoned the breath used at the beginning of Phase 2 or the thorns used just before, it threatened us by creating a vortex of black flames moving throughout the field.
As I watched the Chaos Alcatraz attack, I calmly told everyone exactly how to avoid it and where it was located. Fortunately, there was no damage to us at all.
Even though it was still an overlapping pattern, it was fortunate that it could be avoided if the timing was right.
And the problem is the layered pattern he used this time.
“Jinui! Where are you fleeing to this time?”
Just as Chaos Alcatraz was about to attack, Yuria asked me, but I couldn’t readily answer.
Ha… Has it finally come?
Until now, it was an overlapping pattern that could be avoided by somehow getting the timing right, but this time, the overlapping pattern used by Chaos Alcatraz was an unavoidable overlapping pattern because the timing was perfectly aligned.
There was no safe position and I couldn’t avoid it with timing, so I ended up in a situation that could only be described as being unfair in the game.
“This time everyone gathers towards me. This is unavoidable.”
I had everyone come around me and used 〈 God’s Power: Barrier 〉 at the timing of his attack.
〈 God’s Power: Barrier 〉 can block his long-distance attacks, so I saved it to only use it in double patterns where it is completely unavoidable like now.
I prayed and prayed that this type of overlapping pattern would not come out because it was ultimately stochastic, but unfortunately, the overlapping pattern never came out.
Just as I was preparing for his next attack by blocking the black flames pouring in from the front,
Chaos Alcatraz suddenly charged through the black flames.
No, this is a charging pattern? It’s a double pattern with a double pattern! It’s not even a layered pattern. What is this?
I immediately screamed as I saw Chaos Alcatraz raise a black flame in his hand.
“Holy shit! Everyone scatter!”
Everyone who heard me immediately scattered in all directions and was able to avoid Chaos Alcatraz’s attack.
However, this guy found me among the scattered people and immediately chased me in the direction I moved, and before I had time to escape, I was caught in the clutches of Chaos Alcatraz.
“Ugh!”
《I finally caught you, you bug-like thing.》
Everyone was shocked when I was caught by Chaos Alcatraz.
“My lord!”
“Jinunim!”
When everyone tried to jump towards Chaos Alcatraz, it immediately spread black flames on the floor and created a wall of flames to block them from getting closer.
《You must have been happy to bother me all this time, right? But that ends here.》
I felt the pressure around me becoming stronger, perhaps due to the power of Chaos Alcatraz’s grip.
Oh no, if you don’t escape right away, you’ll die!
That was the moment when that thought entered my mind.
「Jinunnim! “We have eliminated all of the Chaos Alcatraz forces that came to Brighton Castle!”
Gaia’s long-awaited voice rang out in my head.
Has it finally happened?
I immediately used 〈teleport〉.
There is nothing better than this skill that allows you to move a short distance. Especially when you break out of a pattern like this.
I was able to escape from the clutches of Chaos Alcatraz by teleporting and ended up floating in the air.
I immediately used skill 〈Return〉.
When I woke up feeling my surroundings changing in an instant, I had arrived at Brighton Castle.
“Jinunim!”
“Oh God…”
Ellie, Rhenia, and Freya were all already at the location where I would arrive if I used the 〈 Return 〉 skill at Brighton Castle.
These were the faces I really wanted to see, but they all had serious injuries, as if they had been through a fierce battle.
That’s understandable, but it’s even weirder that three people are fighting against an army, but they’re standing still.
“Should I say it’s been a while? I heard about it from Gaia.”
“Yes, Jinu. Let’s go quickly.”
Ah, I have to go quickly.
Now I really have to go and kill the final boss.