Chapter 138 – District 2 (17)
16. District 2 (17)
Ah.
Die.
No, to be precise, if anyone other than me bumps into it, it dies.
I am… He is the first gatekeeper standing at the forefront of the corps of warriors and the first gatekeeper to protect the captain.
Have to endure don’t fall down
Never.
Never… I can’t fall down in a place like this.
For colleagues.
For the eradication of heresy.
And… For the captain who believes in me.
I will definitely endure it.
So don’t be afraid.
I’m not afraid.
“I am not afraid!!!”
**
As if waves that seemed insignificant from a distance came rushing in at an incredibly fast speed when viewed up close, Saeid, full of black energy, began to attack Shay like a tsunami.
“Fuck, Shay—!!!”
Our cries were drowned out by the crash of the first attack, the infamous multi-hit attack.
[Relentless Harvest]
Bang-!
[The Terrorreaper deals 2 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 15/24]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1.]
[Remaining HP 16/24]
[Shay fights back.]
[Shay deals 3 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[Remaining HP 30/104]
Quaang-!
[The Terrorreaper deals 3 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 13/24]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1.]
[Remaining HP 14/24]
[Shay fights back.]
[Shay deals 5 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[25/104 remaining HP]
Kwaaang-!
[A sharp blow!]
[Terrorreaper deals 7 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 7/24]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1.]
[Remaining HP 8/24]
[Shay fights back.]
[Shay deals 3 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[Remaining HP 22/104]
Quad Deuk–!!
[Terrorreaper deals 4 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 4/24]
[Shay’s HP is restored by 1.]
[5/24 HP remaining]
[Shay fights back.]
[Shay deals 4 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[Remaining HP 18/104]
———-!!!
[Terrorreaper deals 5 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 0/24]
“Ah…”
“No—!!!”
“Shay—!!!”
Relentless Harvest, the trademark of the elite monster horror reapers in The Long Terror District 2.
Despite the merciless repeated attacks, Shay desperately fought back and endured. Thanks to her high defense and self-healing ability, she displayed dazzling tanking. It was thrilling to see her fighting back and struggling without missing a chance while bleeding all over her body.
Nevertheless, the harvester’s combo became stronger as it went backwards, and in the end, in the fifth and final attack, Shay’s… Shay’s stamina…
“Shay!! Calm down!!! Shay!!!”
“Shay… Shay… ! Wake up… !!”
Shay’s HP is reduced to 0.
Main tank near death and unable to act.
When she saw Shay lying in a pool of blood, her heart skipped a beat.
Because I commanded I felt sorry for drawing the monster’s attention without hesitation and for taking the attack alone.
Because at the same time, she was the one who was subjected to that terrifying attack.
Because she was the one who was attacked, I hated myself for thinking that she would have ended up like this.
I wanted to vomit something violently right now. Whether it’s swear words, an ax, or that bastard’s head.
“Illumina! What are you doing without skipping your turn right now? .”
“Shay!!! Am I out of my mind? Huh?”
“Shay! Do you come to your senses? Could it happen?!”
But.
[The attribute ‘Desperate’ is activated.]
[Shay kicks her near death and comes out.]
[Shay’s HP has been restored by 1.]
[Remaining HP 1/24]
“I endured… Uh… Captain… Hey…”
“Ooh, don’t move! A wound!”
From her head to her toes, Shay, stained with her own blood, finally stood up on her own, using her claymore as a staff. Neither Kaya nor Illumina could hastily support Shay. It was because Shay’s will to stand up alone was so strong.
“Harvesting… Saying the same thing… Papa, I lost… Young… More than a child… To scythe… Incompetent… Useless… On the subject of trash… !!”
[Shay fights back.]
[Shay deals 8 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[Remaining HP 10/104]
Since Shay had not fallen into near death, the effect of her last crusade had not yet ended, and as soon as her health was restored by 1, she wielded her claymore and succeeded in counterattacking until the end.
“Haha, haha, haha…”
“Something like an unbeliever… Dare… !”
“Dirty… Like a monster… Dare! Haha!”
Anyone can see that the Harvester was right that Shay was cornered by her, but she laughed loudly and mocked the Harvester as Shay vomited up her own blood. Seeing her on the same side, she gave me goosebumps.
[Illumina passes the turn. (Remaining turns: 2)]
[Shay’s stigma disappears.]
[Shay is unable to perform any actions.]
[Shay passes the turn.]
Illumina’s turn, which had nothing to do, was skipped again, and Shay’s turn was also deleted due to her Last Crusade penalty.
However, the Harvester’s current health is only 10. In comparison, the remaining number of attacks of the warriors is Kaya, and me twice.
Both of them were in a situation where they couldn’t kill them unless they made a miss. It’s a pity that she couldn’t heal, but it’s just a relief that Shay didn’t enter her near death.
“Kaya!”
“Yes! You are finished.”
Quadduk-!
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Kaya deals 18 damage to the Dreadreapers.]
[Remaining HP –8/104]
[The Terror Reaper has died.]
[Reward: 22 gold coins, bandage, random skill scroll, time of death]
Kaya’s attack was the final blow, and the Dreadreaper’s head exploded. After losing his head, the body shuddered and fell down while missing the side, and the fallen side seemed to shrink as it was, and then became a reward artifact.
Dump-
“Shay!”
However, artifacts were not important now. It wasn’t enough to receive all of the harvester’s continuous attacks, so even though his health was 0 and he fell down, he kicked the deadly spectacle and stood up to deliver the final counterattack, and even when Kaya delivered the final blow immediately after that, Shay, who was standing still, stood still. It will fall
“Oh my god… Oh my god… !”
Illumina wiped her blood off Shay’s face with her tears streaming down her face, and me and Kaya quickly removed her armor. She gasped as she looked at her bloodied upper body.
“Oh my god…”
Shay’s upper body, already full of scars… She was a complete slut mate. It seemed like a miracle that she got back up from such a wound and even fought back on her own. If my body was like that, I don’t think I would ever be like Shay.
“Throw away the underwear, clean it first, and then wrap it with herbs and a bandage.”
“Yes. Leader. Please lift your shoulder. Yes, and Illumina. Bandages and some herbs from my backpack… No, please bring the whole backpack.”
“Yes!”
I didn’t care about the decline in mentality. I still have room, and I couldn’t possibly leave Shay in this state. In The Long Terror, whether it was 1 stamina or full stamina, it moved the same, but not here. That was something I desperately felt in the District 1 boss room.
‘Food too… It’s better to eat some.’
Thanks to the generous budget, I had a much better backpack, and thanks to that, I had prepared as much food as possible. However, since I spent a lot of money at the crossroads and the secret room, I didn’t have that much free time considering the normal speed of consumption.
Still, 1 HP was too easy even for Shay, who had high defense. Once the penalty was missed, it could not be restored, and the damage to mentality was terrible.
Now was the time to bring the stability of the future to the current stamina.
“I’ve done everything I can, but what are you going to do?”
“For now… I’ll have to wait until it recovers a bit. If it’s going to take a long time, I have no choice but to carry it on my back like last time.”
“… Understand.”
In a way, the words I said were really cruel. Even if you become conscious in a short period of time, that is the case, and even if you do not become conscious… Either way, it meant that Shay had to move forward with his battered body.
“…”
Of course, it wasn’t just Shay’s story. Kaya was like that, and even I was no exception. In fact, I even told them in advance in case I fainted on the way. Let’s proceed like we did against Shay. In other words, this was more like an action according to a pre-determined manual.
‘La Ella and Justitia.’
But I am not a machine. Even though it wasn’t Dungeon One Day to Day, it hurt so much every time. I have a manual, I have thousands of hours of indirect experience, so I can somehow calmly respond to what I have to do differently from my emotions and situations… The thoughts I had at this moment tightened my heart even more.
It was just ‘getting used to’.
As I became accustomed to the dungeon itself and the tricks of the dungeons, the threshold for pain I experienced increased, and at the same time, the pain my colleagues suffered also went from ‘My heart hurts as if it would break.’ I can’t.’ .
“Fuck…”
“Hendrick?”
“… No. Nothing.”
You could say that this process itself is becoming a veteran, and that your mentality is getting stronger. Maybe it’s still too soft to be concerned about these things.
But if you get too used to this feeling… Even if I break through the dungeon to the end, I and my friends who stand at the end. I had a hunch that I would not be the me I knew, and not the co-workers I knew.
‘Maybe it would be better. Miss Laella. What should I do? Miss Justitia. The way I’m going, the way must be the right one. Kaya. Shay. Illumina.’
It was a time of painful agony in many ways.
**
A considerable amount of time has passed. So, roughly, everyone’s mentality had gone down by about 20. Shay managed to come to her senses, but she couldn’t move her body yet, and she forgot to eat our food to recover. It was kind of hard to feed Shay a lot, but she forgot a whopping 10 all together anyway.
[Health]
Shay: 9/24
Kaya: 12/20
Eugene: 13/20
Illumina: 12/15
[Mentality]
Shay: -45
Kaya: -23
Eugene: -34
Illumina: -62
In my mind, I wanted to rest more, but the rate of decline in mentality was accelerating. Besides, Shay stopped taking breaks because she said that she couldn’t delay any longer because of her, and that if she didn’t start because of her, she’d crawl somehow. I hugged Shay. Like last time, Kaya said she would carry it herself, but she firmly refused. Shay’s armor was very heavy, but she was able to endure it because of that. She simply wanted to carry the weight of her musculature and armor, as well as the weight of her responsibilities.
Shay didn’t hesitate to hug me. It wasn’t false that she would go on even if she crawled, but she knew she couldn’t be more stubborn, so she seemed to have compromised.
“Captain.”
“Okay.”
“I’m heavy… ?”
“Uh. It is heavy.”
“… Drop me off.”
Seeing that reaction, it seemed that he had recovered a little. Shay wriggled as if he were really about to go down, but I held him tight. She groaned as if her wound had been compressed.
“Shay is not heavy.”
“Yes?”
“But Shay, who protects us, is heavy.”
“…”
“So she will carry it no matter how heavy it is. To the end.”
“… Captain.”
It was a much slower progress than usual.
There was not a single damn trap.
Tadak-
At the door of 2-7, Shay took on the weight of hers once again.
She held out her chest, took a deep breath, looked around at Kaya, me, and Illumina, then smiled and pushed the door on her.
Ki-Ik-
