Chapter 128 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is the Hero, the Half Is XXX
As Boss Enemy, who had the appearance of a clown, tilted her head, Eugene opened her mouth with a cruel smile.
“The flame attached to a living thing does not go out until the living thing is completely burned to death. “Unless you stop the fire itself from burning, the fire will not go out.”
Until now, Boss Enemy had been using magic to prevent Eugene’s killing flame from directly attaching to Boss Enemy.
However, now they are unable to prevent the fire from igniting as a result of each party focusing only on the attack to burn the other.
Therefore, the killing flame that was attached to the life called Boss Enemy burned without going out in order to burn that life to death.
“…”
Eugene kindly told him that, but Boss Enemy, like Enemy who guards the dungeon, was not embarrassed at all and used his mana to push away the deadly energy like Eugene had just done.
“… Damn, you’re quick to notice.”
Seeing that, Eugene immediately rushed towards Boss Enemy. This was because she could not stand by and watch as Boss Enemy completely pushed away her flame energy with her own mana.
Boss Enemy also used her own energy to suppress the spread of the flames throughout her body and then began to respond to Eugene’s attack.
“Gravity.”
“Oops… !”
When the magic that strengthened the gravity of a certain area was deployed, the essence in the atmosphere was detected to be rearranged through Unirat Radar, and Eugene immediately pulled himself out of the area predicted to be in that range.
By almost throwing his body out, Eugene managed to escape the enhanced gravity range, and at that point, it was clear how experienced Eugene was.
Because he had already dealt with magic like Gravity several times, even though he was not a magician, he was able to understand the magic’s range and escape using only his senses detected through the Unirat Radar.
“Wind Bolt.”
However, looking at the situation, it was Boss Enemy who had the advantage, not Eugene. Even the opponent is a wizard who is protected by the dungeon and can cast magic using only the starter word.
As if to prove that fact, Boss Enemy deploys 5-circle attack magic and elemental bolts with wind attributes and fires them at Eugene, as if predicting Eugene’s movements, which immediately pulled his body out.
“Tsk… !”
Unlike the Elemental Missile, the Elemental Bolt was an attack that focused on the power of a single shot, firing an awl that rotated in a spiral.
… In other words, it is a magic that is clearly impossible for Eugene, whose level of skill is low, to hit from the front.
A magic that cannot be defended against unless it is an expert martial artist who has reached the same level, or an auror or type used by a peak martial arts user.
Therefore, the moment Eugene sensed the magic, he jumped again and somehow evaded the magic.
“Lightning ball…”
“Where…” … !”
Slam! Quang!
This time, Boss Enemy was about to fire an elemental bolt made of lightning at Eugene, who had dodged it, but Eugene immediately used the advantage of the cannon blade, the Roaring Star, to block it.
He pulled the trigger to fire a bullet, and at the same time fired a bullet-shaped flame from the tip of his sword, shooting it at Boss Enemy, who was caught off guard by the distance.
“Fly!”
Unsurprisingly, Boss Enemy, who did not know that Eugene had the means to respond at mid- to long-range, immediately deployed Fly, a 5-circle auxiliary magic that allows him to fly in the air, and soared on the spot to avoid Eugene’s attack.
Quagwagwang!
As the boss flew into the air, the place where the boss had just been standing was caught in an explosion caused by the deadly cannonball fired by Eugene.
Boss Enemy, who was watching the scene in the air for a moment, turned his gaze to Eugene, and Eugene looked directly into his gaze and thought.
‘It’s worth it.’
The realm itself is a superhuman level enemy, no different from the giant slime in the dungeon that was conquered just before.
However, even though the level was high, it was a Boss Enemy that could properly manipulate the essence contained in its body in the form of a special ability called magic, unlike slimes that only used it to strengthen physical abilities.
In other words, this one clearly has higher difficulty. However, despite this, Eugene felt that it was worth fighting against Boss Enemy, who was two levels higher than him.
‘Boss Enemy. If you don’t know that you can use magic with just the starter word, you run the risk of being defeated in an instant.’
In other words, if you know that fact in advance, you are just a 5th circle wizard.
Of course, if a 5th circle mage could deploy magic using only the starter word, that alone could be considered a very annoying type, but…
‘That’s because I can cover it with my experience.’
In fact, Eugene had been responding to all of Boss Enemy’s attacks since entering the battle.
The experience he accumulated was clearly proof that he could overcome the difference in level, and through this, Eugene gained confidence that he could defeat the boss Enemy in front of him with his own strength.
“Flying into the air… So, from now on, it’s phase 2, right?”
“Earth Circle…”
“Oh my!”
SGENG!
As Eugene responded to the sly voice, Boss Enemy, in the form of a clown, immediately deployed magic and attempted to restrain Eugene.
A 3-circle attack spell that wraps the opponent in a loop (rope) made up of various attributes, blocks their movements, and attacks with the characteristics of the implemented attributes.
The moment the rope of continuity realized through this tries to restrain him, Eugene quickly cuts the rope off with a scream.
“Light circle, lightning circle.”
And as if he had anticipated Eugene’s response, this time he spent all his maintenance costs to restrain Eugene with two ropes, and Eugene stepped back and pointed the tip of his sword at Boss Enemy.
Slam! Slam! Bang! Bang!
Then, he pulled the trigger and fired a cannon of murderous flames at Boss Enemy, who was floating in the air just as before.
“Shield!”
“Sigh!”
SGENG! The Quagga River!
In response, Boss Enemy set up a magic barrier to block Eugene’s attack, and Eugene swung his roar twice in succession, cutting off the enemy’s magic.
“I’m sorry, but this side can also be said to be good at mid- to long-distance combat.”
“…”
After exchanging attacks from mid-distance, Eugene placed her scream on her shoulder and nodded her head while talking, Boss Enemy just looked down at Eugene with a gaze that could not find her ego.
Eugene smiled slightly bitterly at that gaze, then ejected the shell casings, re-embodied the Speed Roider that had been activated, generated bullets, loaded them, and thought.
‘If it’s like the original, you can win just by holding on like this.’
The opponent is Boss Enemy, who can destroy the casting process of formula calculation and chanting through the dungeon’s support.
However, no matter how much support there was from the dungeon, there was no way that the most important casting process for magic could be destroyed without any conditions.
Every time you deploy magic using just the starter word, Boss Enemy will rapidly consume the essence of the circle it possesses.
This is something that cannot be recovered quickly even in a dungeon, so in the original work, the way to attack the wizard in the form of a clown was to make a decision and hold out.
If you hold on, your essence will eventually be depleted, and the mana you can generate through circles will be limited, and you will naturally stop using magic through casting breaks.
In particular, the current situation of bombing in the air, which proves entering the second phase, proves that Boss Enemy has consumed more than half of its essence, to put it another way.
‘But that’s why it’s so bland.’
If you want to attack safely, it was right to follow the original strategy. However, as if Eugene had no intention of doing so, he began to pull out the Unirut from the incarnated Speed Roider and the roar in his hand.
‘How many times have things happened that are far from the original?’
There will be a lot of things like that in the future. And in order to respond to moments of variables that did not appear in the original work, knowledge from the original work should not be used but should not be relied upon.
‘So let’s break through from here from the front.’
It was a kind of proof. Proof that even if variables that cannot be known with original knowledge appear, it is possible to somehow overcome them.
Eugene is trying to confirm this by choosing the difficult path rather than the easy path that he knows through his knowledge of the original work.
‘It doesn’t even seem impossible.’
Of course, Eugene had no intention of being needlessly stubborn. In this case, I decided to give it a try because I had all the necessary elements in place.
In other words, should we say it is a kind of confidence? Even if he does not rely on knowledge of the original work, Eugene has the confidence that he can defeat the powerful enemy in front of him with his own strength.
‘In the first place, when I went through all the chaos on Earth, there was no such thing as original knowledge.’
Because Eugene was like that, even if he had no knowledge of the original work, he was confident that he could defeat the boss in front of him, Enemy, with his own strength.
This was by no means arrogance, but a conclusion reached through objective self-objectification. And now he wants to prove that conclusion.
‘Goes…’
For that purpose, Eugene condensed the Unirut drawn from the two planets by sending it out with a roar.
“!&^@!#$^$!$%…”
And while Eugene was concentrating on Boss Enemy, who was floating in the air, and condensing Unirats into a loud roar at high speed, Boss Enemy also began chanting something at high speed.
Eugene figures out that it is none other than a type of magic that is close to a special move that is deployed at the beginning of Phase 2.
Why isn’t it there? This means that bosses always sharpen their AoE skills before entering Phase 2.
That type of magic could be said to be on a completely different level of power and range from the magic shown by Boss Enemy just a moment ago.
‘The original strategy is to grit your teeth and hold on or avoid it as much as possible…’
Eugene had no intention of doing so. For Eugene, who was planning to hunt down Boss Enemy with his own means rather than using the original strategy, the Phase 2 rush pattern was the biggest opportunity.
Wooooo!!
‘That magic is a magic whose power and range are greatly enhanced by supplying mana beyond the limit to Lightning Missile, a 5-circle magic. To put it another way, the delay is that long.’
Not only the later damage but also the first damage is long, so if you decide to attack Boss Enemy now, you will be able to inflict considerable damage.
However, in the original, no matter what was done, the boss Enemy who was casting that magic could not be defeated during casting.
