Chapter 192 – Expansion to Max Level… (5)
After colliding with Ellie who flew in, I stood up, enduring the pain.
While Ellie and I were waking up, Lien and Noah, whose wounds had been healed by my skill, were running towards Chaos Alcatraz and attacking it.
Both were working hard to attack Chaos Alcatraz, but that guy was very leisurely dodging or blocking attacks.
When I look at Chaos Alcatraz now, my movements are full of leisure, as if I am playing with my adult cousins.
We can never win like this.
There was no way to win even in my original expectations, but it seems even more unlikely.
At least, I think fighting together with my comrades who are currently fainting in the air will increase the odds of winning at least a little…
Even during an intense battle with Chaos Alcatraz, they show no signs of coming to their senses.
Why? Honestly, with their physical capabilities, they would have come to their senses by now if the surroundings were this noisy.
But why can’t I wake up at all?
So you’re saying I didn’t just faint?
If you think about it, Chaos Alcatraz is ultimately a demon.
That basically means that it is a monster that is scheduled to appear in the game.
It is clear that the techniques that attacked us were all monster patterns, but is it possible that the 4 people currently being captured are also another pattern?
During a raid, there was a pattern where the boss would capture several user characters and the remaining people would rescue them.
Normally, if you fail to rescue the captured character within the time limit, the raid boss will inflict instant death damage on the entire field, so it is a pattern that must be destroyed at all costs.
If you fail this pattern, unless you have a job that allows you to become invincible for a few seconds, you can just be considered dead.
Of course, in addition to these patterns that must be forcibly destroyed, there are also patterns that only tie up characters.
This does not mean that instant death damage will be poured on the entire field just because it does not save the restrained character, but since the party damage is lowered accordingly, it must be released unconditionally.
What if the four people currently being held were not simply knocked unconscious but were restrained by a pattern?
If that’s the case, it’s understandable that he hasn’t woken up until now.
However, if the pattern is correct, you will be blocked by another wall.
How on earth should we break that pattern?
Usually, in order to find out how to break these patterns, you have to look at the hints planted by the operators.
When entering a raid, an NPC who is set to join the raid quietly gives explanations to users by voice, or a special sign appears on the floor, creating a structure that must be destroyed to destroy it.
Or, a new pattern may have emerged that I am not aware of.
The idea is that we need to find out these patterns now, but in reality, there are no such hints.
It’s frustrating that I can’t tell if this is pattern restraint as I thought or if I just fainted.
There may be cases where Chaos Alcatraz casts a mental spell and cannot be awakened.
After all, reality is a mess…
In that case, you have no choice but to check them one by one before moving on.
While Chaos Alcatraz was focusing on the battle with Noah and Lien, I stretched out my hand towards the four people floating in the air and activated the skill.
〈Cure〉
It is a Crusader skill that removes bad status conditions such as fainting, freezing, and restraint from the character.
When I cast 〈 Cure 〉, I could see green light coming to 4 people.
I hope this brings everyone to their senses, but unfortunately there was no significant response.
Does that mean you can’t come to your senses due to a condition?
Then, there are only two things left.
One is truly losing one’s mind and can’t wake up, and one is being forced to lose one’s mind due to a special pattern being triggered.
Chaos Alcatraz won’t be able to leave it alone to check both of them.
“Keuuk!”
“Ahh!”
While I was paying attention to my captured colleagues, I heard Noah and Lien’s pain-filled voices and turned my head.
There, Noah and Lien were held in the air, each with their necks held in both hands of Chaos Alcatraz.
Noah and Lien were holding onto the arms of Chaos Alcatraz and resisting, but it seemed like they couldn’t escape.
“Let’s see… Now that I think about it, weren’t you guys able to immediately bring a dead person back to life? I’d like to see that too?”
Chaos Alcatraz laughed as if it was amusing, looked at Noah and Lien in turns, and then threw Noah far away.
“Then try to save this one too.”
After throwing Noah away, Chaos Alcatraz grabbed Lienne by the neck and formed her now free hand into a blade.
Just by looking at what Chaos Alcatraz said just now, I could picture and predict what would happen next just by looking at what he was doing.
The moment I recognized it, I saw Chaos Alcatraz’s hand trying to move quickly, and I immediately used 〈 Time Stop 〉.
When I used 〈Time Stop〉, time around me stopped instantly and nothing could move.
I wondered what would happen if even this did not apply to Chaos Alcatraz, but fortunately that did not happen.
Because of the unexpected situation, I planned to use 〈 Time Stop 〉 as sparingly as possible, but it was so urgent that I had no choice.
When looking at the movement of Chaos Alcatraz in the frozen time, as expected, it was moving towards Lien with a hand shaped like a hand blade, and it seems that the intention was to kill Lien by punching a hole in his chest with that hand.
He was really planning to kill Lien on the spot.
If I hadn’t used 〈 Time Stop 〉, Lien would have been beaten without even being able to properly resist.
Of course, as Chaos Alcatraz said, there is a skill that can revive a dead character.
Among the Crusader skills, 〈 God’s Power: Resurrection 〉 can revive a dead character only once within the dungeon.
Of course, it wasn’t that I had forgotten.
But what if, by chance, the dead person doesn’t come back?
In my head, I thought that of course the dead character could be revived by me or Freya, but due to some anxiety in my heart, I couldn’t leave Lien in a situation where she almost died.
Couldn’t we test to see if we could save it with Lien?
Therefore, I thought that I should immediately use 〈Time Stop〉 to save Lien.
I used 〈dash〉 to reduce the distance between me and Chaos Alcatraz.
Then, he touched Lien’s body, which was being held in the hands of Chaos Alcatraz, and used 〈Hyper Teleport〉.
Then Lien and I moved in an instant, and Lien was able to escape from the clutches of Chaos Alcatraz and fall far away.
I couldn’t think of any way to escape other than like this.
Normally, we would have to deal damage to Chaos Alcatraz even when time has stopped, but considering the battle so far, it would probably be a meaningless action.
Rather, you should think about what to do quickly the moment you have some free time.
If everyone was in a normal state, I would have used the 〈 Return 〉 skill to make a strategic retreat, but I don’t know if that would be possible.
By the way, even if you gather the 4 people captured and use the 〈 Return 〉 skill, you will probably be told by a system message that it is impossible.
I thought about it a little bit, but nothing came to mind.
Then, I activated 〈Blood Wings〉, created blood wings behind my back, and flew into the air.
This was to check if there were any structures that we had not seen.
There was no sign of anything forming while we were moving to destroy the magic circle, so if a structure was created, it is likely to be at the location where we first encountered Chaos Alcatraz.
I turned my head in that direction and focused my eyes on the scenery.
I looked as closely as I could to see if there was a small structure I hadn’t seen before.
But no structure caught my eye.
Then…
I immediately flew as fast as I could towards the four people being captured.
If it wasn’t a status ailment or being bound by a structure, another thing came to mind.
〈teleport〉
I also used teleportation to close the distance a little and go faster.
In the blink of an eye, I was floating in the air and was able to approach the four people who were unconscious. Among them, I walked towards Renia, who was the closest, and tried to reach out and touch her body.
But my hands couldn’t touch Renia.
This is because Lenia’s body had an invisible wall around her.
The moment I saw this, I felt like I knew what it was.
Rather than being confined by a structure, this state can be released by breaking the invisible wall surrounding the body.
