Chapter 5 – District 1 (2)
2. District 1 (2)
“Fear! Fear! Horror oh oh oh oh oh oh!”
Elite monster 〈 Horror Prophet 〉 that appears only at the entrance of the 1st and 2nd floors. The Long Terror players call this idiot-like and noisy monster, which players call fearless, but it does not have high physical abilities compared to elite monsters, but various debuffs and mentality attacks are very annoying.
Besides, even though he is in human form, half of his appearance is transformed into that of a monster, perhaps stained with fear, and it is disgusting just to look at it.
He looked like he would vomit even in the game illustration, so it annoyed me every time I saw him.
[The Prophet of Terror]
Max HP: 65
Attack Power: 6~7
Defense: 2
Speed: 4
‘Except for the big jump in physical strength, there is no big difference in the rest. But the key is how powerful that skill has changed.’
[The Dread Prophet uses skill 〈 Dread Prophecy 1〉.]
[Aura of fear begins to rise.]
“Fear! Fear! Horror Ohhhhh!”
‘Fucked!’
Of the many patterns, I never thought I would show the most dangerous pattern!
“Wanted criminal found!”
[Find a wanted criminal]
[Eugene brands the Horror Prophet as a wanted criminal.]
[Eugene deals 1 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 64/65]
[Stigma lasts for 3 turns.]
[As long as the stigma is maintained, all physical damage is amplified by 25%.]
The moment he cast 〈 Horror Prophecy 1〉, I immediately put aside the thought of fighting reliably. It’s because the moment the prophecy of fear reaches 3, a certain amount of damage and enormous mentality damage come in.
If that fits…
No. I didn’t want to imagine.
“Kaya!”
“Apologize through death!”
Like Kaya used to smack a layman, he charged and struck the mace with the same courage. But her results were vastly different from then.
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Kaya deals 8 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 56/64]
Kaya bit her lip and bowed her head in disrespect to me, but it was never her fault. Rather, it was fortunate that I did not miss.
‘Even though I was branded, it’s still nothing?’
Her eyes darkened.
It was shocking that the elites had just jumped out of the second room, but looking at it like this, we realized that we were level 1.
[Speed check]
Eugene: 7
Kaya: 4
Dread Prophet: 4
When the second turn came, the speed check, which had been invalidated due to the ‘overwhelm’ phenomenon, was made, and I took the sun turn.
Anyway, there is only one dealing technique I can use.
It was head crushing.
[Crush the head]
[Eugene deals 15 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 41/64]
It was pretty high damage. It’s probably close to Macdem. However, when adding the characteristics of Head Crushing, which gives additional damage to humanoid monsters, and the amplified damage of the stigma, the situation was not so satisfactory.
[Kaya and Dreadseer’s speed is the same.]
[Speed roll]
[Kaya 5]
[The Dread Prophet 4]
[Kaya’s turn precedes the Dread Prophet’s turn.]
It seemed that Kaya was quite lucky, as well as getting a critical hit with the first attack in the first room. If Kaya’s turn comes before that nasty guy’s, the chance of clearing the no hit increases.
Once more, Kaya charged furiously and swung her mace. However.
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Kaya’s attack misses.]
[Remaining HP 41/64]
‘… Write it.’
It wasn’t surprising. The battle nun wasn’t a class with such a high basic accuracy rate. On the contrary, she deserved praise for the two hits she had so far.
However, that was just self-justification, and the monster’s stamina, which had not decreased by 1 degree, began to give me tremendous stress, coupled with the pressure of the prophecy of horrors to come.
“… Sorry.”
“No. It’s not over yet. Wake.”
“…”
[The warriors feel despair as the confident attack misses in vain.]
[Eugene mentality -2]
[Kaya mentality -5]
‘Kaya’s mentality is weaker than I thought. Or is it because of the difficulty adjustment?’
To say that, it was questionable that my mentality was 20,000, but the dungeon didn’t let me continue my worries.
[The Dread Prophet uses skill 〈 Dread Prophecy 2〉.]
[The rising energy of fear begins to encroach on the space.]
“Fear! Fear! The horrors are coming deaaaaa!”
A cry that seemed to be a mixture of boiling blood, scratching nails on blackboards, and people screaming in terrible pain.
〈 When the prophecy of fear 〉 was completed up to the second charge, the darkness that had been huddled in one corner began to spread around the room. Suddenly, my body shrank.
[Terror begins to consume the light.]
[Brightness: 58]
Just because the brightness is 0 doesn’t mean you can’t attack enemies. However, Kaya’s negative traits were a problem.
That’s the fear of darkness (increases mentality by 25% when the brightness is below 50%).
What if you hit that guy’s ultimate with the brightness below 50?
‘Mental explosion. It explodes 100 percent.’
If you’re lucky, you might land a dodge (evasion), or it might not be -100, but…
It was only 1-2 now.
If that trio hits here, the end of my warrior’s corps would be ruin.
I wiped the sweat from my palms and glared at the monster, to be exact, at the monster’s stigma.
Then he jumped faster and stronger than before.
[Crush the head]
[A brilliant blow!]
[Eugene deals 31 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 10/64]
“Aaaaagh! How dare you!”
“Good!”
“Leader!”
[Dealing a devastating blow to the monster increases the courage of the warriors.]
[Eugene mentality +3]
[Kaya mentality +4]
Humanoid stigma fatal blow!
It met the strongest damage conditions that a bounty hunter could do, and the results were amazing.
Blowing half of an elite monster’s HP in one hit. That’s only 1 lb.
With this, if Kaya launches MacDam and defeats him without a miss. Or if you land a critical hit more reliably.
Even on hard difficulty, it is possible to clear elite monsters that are almost impossible to succeed!
Maybe because she tasted dillpon, the happy circuit in her head was on fire, and I put my chin on her shoulder.
“I believe in you.”
Nod!
Kaya, who had a pretty desperate look on her face until a while ago, vigorously nodded her head.
With a thump, Kaya grabbed her cat-smashed face and lunged at the screaming monstrosity, then wielded her mace with all her might.
“Quaaaaa! Never come! Never come!”
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Kaya deals 9 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 1/64]
“… Ah.”
One?
1?
Even though the battle nun, who branded, cast a critical hit, and had a low accuracy rate, succeeded in hitting twice…
You said you couldn’t kill it because it was only 1 damage short?
[The Dread Prophet uses skill 〈 Dread Prophecy 3〉.]
[The fear encroaching in this space permeates the warriors.]
[Skill 〈 Fragment of True Terror 〉 is cast.]
“Look! Genuine! Fear! Look! Feel it! Tremble! In awe at last!”
A dread prophet who utters mad words in a normal tone, with blood dripping from his face.
In the end, his ultimate skill 〈 Fragment of True Fear 〉 had to be cast.
My vision darkened.
**
A man was standing in a pitch-black space. The man was tall and sturdy, and his appearance was decent.
The man looked around him, tilted his head, and walked forward.
After walking for about an hour, the man stopped and looked around again, but nothing had changed. There is just a dark space with nothing.
In a situation where he was not sure where he was ahead, and where he was not sure where he was, where he was north, south, east and west, the sense that he had to walk forward made him walk forward again.
Walking and walking
He had no idea how far he had walked, but the man continued walking. I don’t know why, but he became more reluctant to stay still.
When his body, which had been so strong, gradually grew emaciated, his walking speed slowed down, and his back, which had been upright, bent little by little.
Finally, a meaningful change has occurred in this dark space.
That something was ‘seen’.
My slow steps speeded up again, and I realized that my brain, which repeatedly ordered the act of walking forward, was the purpose.
As the sight got closer and closer, the man grew emaciated and the darkness around him paradoxically grew darker, but the man did not give up.
After an unknown amount of time passed, the man was able to confirm the identity of something.
“…”
It was just a body that had been horribly smashed to pieces. And the clothes the corpse was wearing and the clothes the man was wearing were exactly the same.
Although it was quite old and tattered clothes, and more than that, the clothes that looked like they had been hit by a direct hit from the wind and waves of the years.
I inadvertently touched the corpse’s clothes, and at that moment, the corpse turned into powder and disappeared. And then, before long, something else arose.
A small hope was born and then shattered, but there was no stopping it. The man panicked and continued walking.
And the only thing that caught my eye was heavy armor broken into four parts and an unknown iron bar.
Upon seeing the armor, the man was seized with an unknown fear.
The man jumped forward without touching it this time.
Then, the space where there had been only pitch-black darkness began to change depending on where he moved.
[In a dark place in a world no one knows]
[Can’t boast of achievements that no one knows about]
[With no one watching]
[All the pain and horror you can feel]
Incomprehensible letters came to mind.
[‘Accept. Because instinct is natural.’]
[‘Fear itself is not scary. The concept and conventional wisdom of fear are scary.’]
[‘So don’t deny it.’]
[‘Accept, frustrate, worship, awe.’]
[‘The fear that comes from the longest place will set you free.’]
Unidentified voices whispered to the man. The man tried to close his eyes and ears, but the writing continued to be seen even though he did not want to see it, and the voice continued to be heard even though he did not want to hear it.
The man collapsed shortly after.
The writing disappeared, the voice disappeared.
The man got up again and started walking, but as soon as he did, he reappeared as usual.
As the man gritted his teeth and continued to walk forward, his handwriting and voice became more and more explicit.
[Success]
[‘You are nothing but an insignificant human being.’]
[Desperate]
[‘Because despair is inevitable.’]
[Obey]
[‘It is foolish to try the impossible.’]
[Worship]
[‘Accept. That way, you won’t cross the line between life and death.’]
[Awe]
[‘How mortals fear death after all. By becoming one with fear, you can be free from it.’]
Tears of blood flowed from the man’s eyes, and blood flowed from his ears. His legs were wobbly and his back was bent.
But man, he didn’t give up.
He wanted to give in, give up, and collapse, but rather, the writing and voice instilled in the man a desire to come.
The man opened his mouth.
“If fear is a mortal’s natural emotion toward the irresistible, then it is also the mortal’s will to overcome it and overcome the irresistible.”
Quad Deuk-
[Laughs]
[‘How long will that will last?’]
The world is broken.
**
[Fragments of True Fear]
[The endless fear and darkness erodes the hearts of the warriors, tramples them, breaks them, and finally frustrates them.]
[It has a huge adverse effect on the mentality of the warriors.]
[Eugene mentality -50]
[Kaya Mentality –72]
[Dread Prophet deals 3 damage to Eugene.]
[Remaining HP 12/15]
[Dreadseer deals 3 damage to Kaya.]
[Remaining HP 10/14]
[Dread Prophet cannot act next turn.]
The man.
Eugene.
Hendrick is.
After staring at the empty space with empty eyes, he trudged over and brandished his hatchet.
Puck-
