Chapter 125 – A Bunch of Bugs (2)
Among all the information about the Kraken that has merged with all the demons, what you need to remember right now is the bug about that guy.
Is it correct to call that a Kraken?
I think it would be more accurate to call it a synthetic demon beast.
The kraken’s body became its head, and countless additional tentacles were created, and if it was caught even once by the teeth attached to its large mouth, it would seem like it would die in one blow.
Also, the body of the Kraken, which was not originally there, has been added to the body of a long sea snake, and it is also equipped with fins to help it move quickly in the sea.
I need to remember what bug that guy had.
Apparently, what did the Elyon operator say?
Right in front of my eyes, the synthetic demon beast is once again trying to cast a pattern that I and everyone here doesn’t know about.
This means that he is a terrible guy who can inflict abnormal damage.
Just by looking at its movements, you can tell how it will attack.
As far as I know, if they are much stronger than me, they will notice right away.
Before my thoughts could reach the correct answer, the tentacles of the synthetic beast poured out of its mouth and began to rotate its body.
The moment I saw several rotating streams approaching, a bug about this pattern popped into my head.
“Everybody get close to that guy’s head! Now!”
I shouted as loud as I could to Ellie and everyone next to me.
Yurina, who was riding Minercia, who saw the synthetic demon beast’s attack and tried to increase the distance, and Renia and Rachel, who were trying to create a shield in front of themselves, looked puzzled for a very brief moment, but did not doubt it and did as I said and hit the synthetic demon beast’s head. Moved towards.
And Lien and Noah, who were trying to escape through the streams of water spewing out from various tentacles, heard me and immediately accelerated and swam towards the head of the synthetic beast. Ellie, who was next to me, immediately hugged me and went towards the head as well.
As you get closer to the synthetic demon beast’s head, the gap between the tentacles naturally becomes narrower, so the gap in the water stream also narrows.
So, a good option would be to stay as far away as possible and avoid the attack through a wide gap.
It’s a pattern that anyone can see would seem like it would be better to avoid it in that way.
In fact, Yuria, Lien, and Noah tried to avoid it like that.
However, there is a damn bug here, and the funny thing is that the image of the attack pattern and the point at which the damage is inflicted are different.
The point of receiving damage is a completely different pattern that makes you wonder how this bug occurred.
It seems like you just have to dodge between the multiple streams of water spewing out from the tentacles like now, but the part where you actually take damage is that if you deviate a certain distance from the head of the synthetic beast, you will take damage regardless of whether you are hit by the stream of water.
To avoid this pattern, you must not avoid the visible stream of water, but rather cling close to the head of the synthetic beast.
In fact, a stream of water passes through our bodies as we approach the head of the synthetic demon beast, but we do not feel anything.
Even though the water is spouting out at high speed, no tactile sensation is felt.
The same goes for Ellie right next to her, and the other girls next to her also look equally amazed.
It’s natural that they will be attacked but will not take any damage.
And when I turn my head and look behind me, I can see that the area where the water stream is not passing is being cut in the same way as the area where the water stream is passing through.
If we hadn’t known this, we would all have been torn apart by that attack.
“How can this be… How can this be…”
Ellie, who was looking behind her like me, had an expression of disbelief at the scene unfolding before her eyes.
Even though I told you, I still don’t understand the phenomenon I see before my eyes.
The parts that the attack didn’t even hit are being cut away.
Of course, whether this bug would actually be implemented in reality was almost a gamble.
Contrary to what I thought, if the water actually caused damage upon contact, we would all have been hit by this powerful water stream, pinned to the ground, and killed in one blow.
But it was something I thought was quite possible.
If you look at the skills and demons that come out of the actions of my game characters so far.
In particular, the demons did not attack outside of the patterns I knew. Of course, Voids fused with demons are a bit of an exception.
So, I thought that the system in the game would be implemented as is, and fortunately, I think I was right.
And at this moment, it is our turn to fight back.
“Everyone attack tentacles first!”
Of course, I have never caught a synthetic demon beast that has changed like this.
It’s a monster that doesn’t even exist.
Because it is a hidden monster that existed simply as a piece of data.
There is no strategy for dealing with this monster.
The worst case scenario is that I’m fighting to clear first and there’s no retry if I fail.
So, we will have to anticipate how Elion operators will catch it.
So I thought I should attack the tentacles first.
This is because it is a raid boss monster strategy that Elion operators often created at the time.
When catching a raid boss monster, Elion operators insisted on attacking a specific part of the monster due to its huge size to reduce its stamina, and then attacking the main body after defeating each part.
Except for Bael, the level 90 raid boss. Bael briefly changed his route and created a level 90 raid boss.
This is the raid boss that is the most similar in size to the user character among the raid bosses of all time. It seems that they wanted to change something about the raid boss, and it was evaluated as being quite successful.
And he returned to his original state in the level 95 raid boss Hydra…
Anyway, since it was time to create a level 85 raid boss, I thought this method would definitely have been taken.
I took out “Gram” From my inventory and swung the sword towards the tentacle with all my might. Everyone who heard my voice attacked the tentacle that was close to me.
“What?”
When the sword touched the tentacle, which was much thicker than my body, it was surprisingly easily cut.
Although I wasn’t able to cut off all of the tentacles, my “Gram” Definitely cut through them.
Are you taking the same damage from my attacks? As soon as I saw that, I raised my head and looked around, and I could see six tentacles falling on the head of the synthetic demon beast and floating in the sea.
Some were cut cleanly, while others showed signs of being completely torn off.
All of my tentacles were torn off by their attacks, which were incomparably more destructive than mine.
“Kaaaaa!”
When the synthetic demon beast felt that its tentacle had been torn off, it let out a scream so loud that it hurt my ears.
It hurts even more, especially since she is close to the head of the synthetic demon beast, and her head starts pounding.
But she can’t stop.
I shouted as I cut the tentacle I had just cut again.
“Everyone, drop all tentacles first!”
“Yes! Jinu!”
Ellie, who was right next to me, shouted in response to what I said.
Then she swung her mace hard at the other tentacles around her.
Everyone, including Ellie, seemed to know right away what they had to do and started smashing all the tentacles around them.
As we begin to attack the tentacle, the synthetic beast stops the pattern it was doing just a moment ago and shakes its body here and there to throw us off, while the tentacle also opens its mouth and rushes towards us.
But it was a handshake from a synthetic demon beast.
Because all we’re targeting now are those tentacles.
Attacking us with tentacles was like taking our own weakness and delivering it to us.
I slashed with all my might with my sword horizontally at the tentacle that was opening its mouth towards me, cutting right through the center of the mouth, splitting the tentacle in half.
I can’t believe my tenacity is this weak.
Or rather, is this also a bug?
Usually, when defeating a raid boss, it was common to follow the strategy like now by attacking a specific part, draining the stamina, and then attacking another part.
However, this does not mean that damage will not be inflicted if you attack somewhere other than the area where you should attack.
But this guy… Is this actually aggravating?
The defense of the area that needs to be attacked is extremely weakened, and the defense of the remaining areas appears to be set much higher than normal.
I don’t normally do this, so wouldn’t this be a bug?
Yes, it must have been difficult to actually release it because there were bugs like this.
A monster that takes no damage at all until it finds the part it needs to attack.
In some ways, it is a hopeless monster, but in other ways, it can be a factor that significantly lowers the raid difficulty.
This is probably the part where these tentacles are much more susceptible to damage.
The question is, what happens after all the tentacles are dropped?
First, let’s focus on removing all the tentacles.
The tentacles, which had increased tremendously from the original eight, fell off one by one under our attack.
The synthetic beast writhed in pain from our attacks, but we stubbornly targeted only its tentacles.
