Chapter 124 – A Bunch of Bugs (1)
We can only watch as the Kraken’s appearance changes.
“Um, Jinu. What on earth is going on here…?”
May asked me, her voice shaking as if she was anxious.
It’s strange that nothing is wrong in the current situation.
The monster I had never seen in front of me was powerful enough on its own, but how could I not be anxious when I saw it now becoming one with other monsters?
As I look at it now, I am in a situation where I don’t know what to do.
“What is this guy… I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
“Pfft… Should I just watch?”
Looking around, it seems like not only me but everyone else is confused.
“Jinu. By any chance, what kind of guy is this guy?”
“Hmm… It’s not that I don’t know… But it’s hard to say that I know for sure.”
I am now trying hard to recall information about the Kraken that has been dormant in the back of my mind.
I remember not reading it carefully because it was very old information and was not a big deal at the time.
If I had known this would happen, I would have definitely remembered it!
“As expected, my lord. This is our first time seeing something like that.”
“Do you know how to deal with it?”
I shook my head at Ellie’s question.
“I only remember him as someone who existed. What is certain is that he has turned into a stronger monster than you think.”
“Hoo… I wasn’t expecting this, but here I am facing a strong enemy.”
Noah seems to be looking forward to a situation where he can fight a strong opponent.
I’m dying of anxiety.
“Kwaaaaa! Haha! Is this the true power you spoke of, Lord Arceus!”
The Kraken appears to have completed its transformation and is laughing happily, making a loud roar that hurts your ears.
I shouted at May behind me.
“May! Run away quickly, I can’t fight while protecting you right now! Just in case, tell the entire Prash Kingdom to evacuate as well!”
“Ah yes!”
When May heard my voice, she answered that she had come to her senses and quickly swam towards the Frash Kingdom.
How do I deal with that monster…
So far, Demon has behaved according to the patterns I remember from the game.
Fortunately, my body responded well to encountering demons in real life because they were monsters in games that I had tried hundreds of times.
But the monster in front of me now is not the demon I know well.
A monster of bugs that existed only as data appeared before my eyes.
What was there about this guy?
I rack my brain before the battle begins.
I need to get all the information about this guy out of my head.
But that monster doesn’t wait until that time.
“Now, kneel before this great power!”
The Kraken screamed and opened its new giant crocodile mouth.
Just by looking at his appearance, he appears to be trying to shoot the water stream he normally uses.
But now the Kraken is bigger than usual. I have a feeling that the stream of water fired in that state will be even more powerful.
When the kraken opened its mouth and took a position to shoot a stream of water, everyone immediately reacted and had to attack in close range, Lien and Yuria, and Noah, whose face was overflowing with joy at the fight against the strong man, immediately ran towards the kraken, while Renia and Rachel quickly ran towards the kraken. Trying to use magic.
Ellie raised her own shield, looking at her kraken as if she wanted to come to my side and protect me.
“Die!”
And he shot a stream of water at me.
I have an eerie feeling that the fast-flowing stream of water will immediately hit me and tear me to pieces.
〈Divine Shield〉
The moment Ellie saw her flying stream of water, she channeled her divine power into her own shield and created a huge shield of her own to protect me.
And at that moment, a memory came into my mind.
I need to convey the thoughts that came to my mind to everyone, but I can’t say them right now.
This is because the stream of water is about to reach the shield of her divine power that Ellie had created for her.
I immediately put my own skills to use.
〈Time Stop〉
At that moment, everything stopped except me. No, it slowed down to the point where I thought it had stopped.
I lifted Ellie up and immediately removed her from her current position.
I ran quickly until time stop 〈〉 ended and moved around as much as possible.
“Huh, what about this? Jinu?”
〈Time Stop 〉 Ellie, who was listening to me, made a sound as if it had ended.
I put Ellie down again and looked at the place where I was originally standing with Ellie.
There, the traces of the passage of the water stream were clearly visible before my eyes. A huge hole that had never existed before appeared there.
“Everyone! Don’t get hit by that guy’s attack! Never!”
One of the memories that came to mind just now was that stream of water.
One of the things Elion management said with a smile at the meeting was that it was not easy to catch bugs in attack patterns, and when they played the game, the bugs made the difficulty level so ridiculously high that they discarded it.
One of them was that water stream bug.
I don’t know what happened, but originally, the damage of that water stream attack was set to 10, but due to a bug, it ended up doing 1000 damage.
Even if you just take damage, a level 85 character with all the buffs will literally die instantly if hit by that attack.
At a meeting held when the maximum level reached level 100, a user asked about that buggy Kragen.
Do you think it would be possible to catch the Kraken that was merged at that time with the user specs that have reached level 100?
The Elion management thought for a moment and answered that it would be quite difficult, but that it would be possible.
Although the bug caused abnormal damage, it is said that there was no bug in the Kraken’s health value.
So, since the specs of current users have increased so much, it seems like it would be enough to hit the awakening device a few times.
I am assuming that you will receive a buff from the Crusader.
In other words, if they attacked each other, it would be a confrontation in which they could die in one hit.
The problem is that we don’t have Freya, the Crusader, right now.
So, although our damage is low, the Kraken’s damage can kill us in one hit.
“That guy might be stronger than Modeus’s attacks you know. So, avoid getting hit by his attacks!”
With my shout, the Kraken fired its tentacles at Lien, Yuria, and Noah, who were approaching it.
The bizarre appearance of each tentacle having sharp teeth and looking like the head of a single creature is eerie.
Moreover, the number of tentacles that used to be 8 now appears to be over 20.
Kwakwakwak!
Numerous tentacles rain down, creating a huge amount of sand and dust, blocking my path.
So much so that it was difficult to even check if everyone was safe.
One thing that is fortunate is that there is no bug where the invincibility that occurs during transformation continues.
Maybe if this were all we had to run away from here.
“Haha! It’s so fun!”
At that moment, Noah emerged from the sand dust and charged towards the Kraken.
In his hand is a huge greatsword made of blood.
Noah swung it at the Kraken with all his might.
Kang!
The blood sword that Noah swung hit the Kraken’s body, but instead the blood sword was broken.
“What is this? It’s really hard.”
Noah smiles in amusement when she sees that the great sword she made was not able to cut down the kraken and instead broke.
The Kraken shot its tentacles at Noah, and Noah used her blood to swim through her water and narrowly avoided her tentacle attack.
“Mine! Let’s go!”
A large being emerged from the sand dust, and it was Yuria and Rien riding Minercia, who had transformed into a Jackie Chan.
Minercia showed movements that were no different from those outside the water, as if it could move freely in the water.
As Minercia flew behind the Kraken’s head, Lien jumped off Minercia’s back.
“Ha!”
Lien jumped out and rushed towards the Kraken at incredible speed, kicking the water with her feet like she had been swimming yesterday.
〈 Self-denying technique (極技) Shout Hwangpa Cheon Fist (霸皇破天拳) 〉
Lien let out a loud noise as her powerful fist collided with the Kraken.
Bang!
Surprisingly, the Kraken used its tentacles as if they were arms, blocking Lien’s fist before it could reach his head.
“You bastards. Your attacks don’t work anymore.”
The Kraken swung towards Lien using the tail of its long sea serpent body, which was not there before.
When Lien felt that her tail was coming at her, she tried to defend herself for a moment, but then remembered what I said and twisted her body to avoid the kraken’s tail attack.
“Everyone die! Haha!”
The Kraken opened its tentacles and extended them in all directions.
“There will be an attack from the tentacle over there. Everyone, dodge it well!”
Normally, no one would be curious about bosses that have long since passed. I was like that too.
Nevertheless, I am grateful to one user who showed interest and asked about this guy during the meeting.
If you hadn’t asked me about that buggy Kraken back then, I would have had a hard time dealing with it at all.
It might not have been as difficult to even know what the Kraken was doing as it is now.
As I shouted, a huge amount of water poured out from the kraken’s tentacles in all directions, and instead of stopping there, the kraken rotated its body around so that its attack could reach all areas.
I think they said there was a damn bug in that one too.
Holy shit!
