Chapter 23 – Between Heresy and Forbidden (4)
7. Between Heresy and Forbidden (4)
[The altar’s guardian knight’s ‘suppressive power’ is activated.]
“A guy who looks like he’s been turned over with dirty water and isn’t even trash is looking at him like that, saying how good he is.
[The activation of ‘Pressure Control’ is nullified.]
I looked at the back of Shay’s head with a different expression on my face.
At first, even when that guy called the Guardian Knight talked about something, it felt similar to the time I was intimidated in 1-2, so I thought I was sick. It was definitely a sign that our turn would be deleted and the sun turn would be taken away.
But whether it was the crusader special or Shay’s uniqueness, after her swearing, the intimidating thing was resolved.
‘Shay, you crazy bitch!’
It was so reliable that I wanted to hug her right away and tangle her hair.
‘You did a great job! I’m so glad you’re not my enemy! Sincerely!’
In formation, the battle started with Shay in the 1st row, Kaya in the 2nd row, and me in the 3rd row.
[Speed check]
Shay: 4
Kaya: 4
Eugene: 7
Altar Guardian Knight: 5
[Eugene’s turn comes first.]
A speed check signaled the start of the battle, and I swallowed my saliva. It didn’t matter because it wasn’t too surprising that I caught the sun turn, but when I saw the speed check this time, the disadvantages of our combination of warriors were clearly revealed.
Turtle.
Tankers, who usually stand in the first row, can’t help it, but Kaya’s class, who was in charge of the role of heal and dill, was a combat nun, and their armor was heavy armor. And her heavy armored class had a common thing: her speed was slow and burst.
Even the figure of 4, which is now said to be as slow as a tortoise, was close to a miracle when I think about it now. First of all, with her quick movements to positive traits, her race was able to avoid the ‘heavy armor penalty’, the half-elf elven penalty.
‘If only I had no quick feet and was an elf.’
If so, I wouldn’t have picked her in her first draw in the first place, but her speed would have been 1 instead of 4. It was fortunate that The Long Terror’s speed system was not cumulative.
‘Thanks to the genius trait and the Crusader’s Tenacity skill, Shay will be faster than a tank.’
In particular, since it was only 1 difference from the altar’s guardian knight’s speed of 5, even if it was unavoidable in the first turn, Shay would be able to act faster than the enemy if he was lucky from the second turn.
[Guardian Knight of the Altar]
Max HP: 69
Attack Power: 6~9
Defense: 7
Speed: 5
‘Compared to the guy I met earlier, her stamina is a bit low, but the average of the rest is high.’
The analysis ends here. In fact, the time that passed was only a few seconds, but it wasn’t a good picture that she was doing nothing and just confronting.
In fact, even in the game, if you do nothing during your turn for a long time, your mentality will decrease and the brightness will darken, and if the battle itself is prolonged, there is a penalty that accelerates the phenomenon.
She was in dungeon here, but she was careful and there was nothing wrong with it.
“Would you like to taste the stigma too?”
[Find a wanted criminal]
[Eugene marks the altar’s guardian knight as a wanted criminal.]
[Eugene did 0 damage to the guardian knight of the altar.]
[Remaining HP 69/69]
[Stigma lasts for 3 turns.]
[As long as the stigma is maintained, all physical damage is amplified by 25%.]
‘… 0?’
Anyway, it starts with the stigma.
However, the moment I looked at the damage figures, I thought that there must be some defense-related ability, and it may not be easier than I thought.
“I heard where this is- uh- came- a- go-!!!”
A turn passed to the enemy after being branded. But that guy suddenly screamed at us. It wasn’t just a high-pitched scream, it was a roar that made my ears break and my head trembled.
[Intimidating Shout]
[The altar’s guardian knight’s daunting battle cry breaks the warriors’ fighting spirit.]
[Eugene remaining HP 14/15]
[Kaya remaining HP 13/14]
[Shay remaining HP 16/17]
[Eugene mentality -9]
[Kaya mentality -10]
[Shay mentality -7]
‘Fuck, is it a wide-area mental attack from the beginning? A bastard called a knight?’
It didn’t matter whether the kid with the sword fired the beam or the kid with the bow used the sword, but it was just more annoying from the point of view of being attacked. Besides, there was no concept of an ultimate skill here, so if you hit something like that several times in a row, the warriors’ mentality could be destroyed in the meantime.
[The speed of Shay and Kaya is the same.]
[Speed roll]
Shay: 5
Kaya: 3
[Shay’s turn will precede Kaya’s turn.]
Since Shay and Kaya both had the same speed, the speed roll occurred even for an ally. It didn’t matter which of the two won.
Because?
“Shay!”
“I will kill you, I will cut you up, I will grind you up, I will burn you…”
[Shay activates Crusader’s Tenacity.]
[For 3 turns, you will never be pushed back.]
[Shay’s speed increases by 1.]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1 each turn.]
[When attacked, you can counterattack only once.]
[Remaining HP 17/17]
[Counterattack 1]
Anyway, assuming that we cast a self-buff that increases speed by 1, and that knight doesn’t use a skill that increases his speed or adjusts our speed in the next turn, the knight and Shay’s speed will be equal to Shay’s buff As long as it lasts, it will stay the same.
Then just winning the speed roll will allow Shay to continue leading her turn.
And it was Kaya’s turn that came back.
“Kaya!”
“Yes, chief.”
‘Now that it’s like this, it’s the climax.’
“Oops!”
I felt like I was going to become some kind of garbage when I instructed it by voice, but that wasn’t the intention.
[Kaya activates climax.]
[Kaya’s speed increases by 1.]
[Kaya’s maximum attack power increases by 1.]
[When Kaya’s attack hits, a random ally recovers 1 HP.]
This also increases Kaya’s speed to 5.
Originally, I planned to have Kaya wield the mace, but since it happened like this, I decided to spend the first turn with buffing.
The downside is that it blows Kaya one turn, which has a 5% chance to send her into the sky in one hit, but that would increase her chance of taking her turn first, well above 50%, as Kaya would also participate in the next turn’s speed roll.
“Huh…”
It wasn’t because I never wanted to see him tremble as he gripped the mace and let out a strange breath as he clenched his reddened kayagai.
It’s real.
“Whoa.”
My turn back.
Normally, I would have swung an ax right away to split the enemy’s head, but the enemy’s attack power was higher than I thought, so I was worried.
‘Should I blind myself with a flash grenade or not?’
However, he soon shook his head.
Are you afraid of what kind of attack will come out, so prepare in advance? It’s not too late to judge that by looking at his next attack. It was now to attack first. My head pulverization had a lot of hit rate corrections attached, so there was no pressure that it would fail.
“Go away!”
[Crush the head]
[Eugene did 9 damage to the guardian knight of the altar.]
[Remaining HP 60/69]
‘Write it.’
It was more than a normal hit for the fact that there was no critical hit, and that the guy’s defense was quite high. Of course I wasn’t satisfied.
[The speed of Shay, Kaya, and the guardian knight of the altar is the same.]
Next turn.
The speed roll occurred as I intended.
I had to win here. Otherwise, more than 90% of the meaning of the first turn with the buff will be lost.
‘It’s best if both win. If even one person wins, it’s the second best.’
And.
[Speed roll]
Shay: 3
Kaya: 2
Altar Guardian Knight: 4
“…”
Fuck shit luck.
Okay. I bet you do. It wouldn’t surprise me at all that the two of them get beaten by the same guy. Nevertheless, I must be an idiot for making a plan based on a higher probability. But what should I do? Rolling is an area of 100% pure luck that I can’t get involved with.
Have you been lucky in the meantime?
“Fuck…”
[The altar’s guardian knight’s turn will precede Shey’s and Kaya’s turns.]
[Shay’s turn will precede Kaya’s turn.]
The message that followed, took the turn first and confirmed and killed the existing pattern of Jo Jinda in the beginning. I couldn’t help it. It had already happened. Prepare for the next attack by that guy.
“If you won’t back down, I’ll let you back down!”
Buwawoong- Kwaaang-!!
“Keugh!”
“Shay!”
[Type 2 – Blowing away]
[The guardian knight of the altar dealt 5 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 11/17]
[Shay resists the boulder.]
[Shay is not pushed back.]
The bastard swung his greatsword across at Shay with terrifying momentum, and Shay managed to hold on, though he knelt down on one knee. Looking at the damage he took, it seemed unlucky that MacDam had popped up.
“…”
And Shay’s counterattack triggered by the skill effect.
[Shay did 0 damage to the guardian knight at the altar.]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1.]
[Remaining HP 12/17]
However, the damage compensation for the counterattack was -40%, and his defense was quite high. Its meaning was that his health was restored by 1. Of course, Shay, who doesn’t know the details, gets even colder when her own counterattack doesn’t do any damage.
‘No matter how much Shay is a tier 1 genius, he is still level 1, so his specs are a baby… The blood turned to rags in one hit.’
Not to mention Nana Kaya. Haven’t you experienced that before?
‘No fuck, the difficulty itself just doesn’t make sense right now.’
I persevered anyway. It was Shay’s turn. She was bleeding from her mouth as she endured her attack.
Hard-
‘No, why did your lips become dirty…’
Shay looked at me with ‘that creepy expressionless expression’. Either she has no intention of hiding it, or she is not in the mood to do so because of the heretic in front of her.
This absolute system, which forced me to fight in turns and gave instructions to me as the captain of the warriors, was even forcing that crazy bitch. Follow my instructions till now.
‘Right now, it’s more fainting than heeling. Shay. It’s a referee.’
As soon as my instructions were finished, Shay hurled forward like the wind and, drawing on her divine power, slammed the claymore down at the knight with the force to split the mountain. There was no scream, no pain, no word.
The blow, which contained a strong determination to destroy that wicked heretic worshipper, was impossible to kill, but it faithfully performed its original role.
“Dare-! To me, the light of a hypocrite!”
[Judgement of Justice]
[Shay dealt 2 damage to the guardian knight at the altar.]
[Remaining HP 58/69]
[The altar’s guardian knight resists the judgment.]
[Guardian knights at the altar resist ‘fainting’.]
[The altar’s guardian knight is branded with the mark of judgment.]
[Stigma lasts for 3 turns.]
‘This…’
I didn’t think it was 2 damage. It’s level 1 anyway, and the crusader was basically a tank unless you had an extreme deal setting. Feed the cc, and take care of the enemy’s attack. That was the role of the crusader I wanted. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t help it.
Shay, although it hurts, you can endure it.
Then Kaya and I will break that earthen pot somehow.
“Kaya!”
Tata that-
Kaya, at least a little bit, got along with me, so it seemed like she realized what I wanted right now without my direction. She ran at full speed and swung her mace with all her might at the knight, who was frozen in a light-bound position.
Kwaaang-!
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Destructive blow!]
[Kaya dealt 17 damage to the guardian knight of the altar.]
[Remaining HP 41/69]
[A powerful attack stimulates the hearts of the warriors.]
[Eugene mentality +3]
[Kaya mentality +4]
[Shay Mentality +4]
[Recovers Shay’s HP by 1 with the ultimate attack.]
[Shay’s remaining HP 13/17]
“Haaa… !”
Kaya staring at me with a face full of excitement, whether it be because of the excitement of the battle or because of the climactic effect.
‘Fuck Kaya, you’re so fucking sexy right now!’
I gave her a thumbs up.
