Chapter 251 – Chaos Alcatraz and the Final Battle (4)
I almost died at the hands of Chaos Alcatraz. I don’t know what would have happened to my body if I had been hit like that.
But that didn’t happen.
Because Ellie greeted me instead of me.
I was blown away by Ellie, and now I hit a tree and fell down. After understanding the situation, I quickly pushed Ellie aside and stood up.
“Ellie!”
Ellie’s back, which had been attacked by Chaos Alcatraz, was covered in blood from cuts from her fingernails. If you look closely, you can vaguely see what looks like bone between the bleeding wounds. If left like this, Ellie could die.
Damn, this happened because I was like an idiot and couldn’t avoid Chaos Alcatraz’s attack. To be honest, it would be correct to say that I let my guard down. I thought that since I had returned to the original world and learned all the patterns of Chaos Alcatraz by playing Elion, I wouldn’t have to deal with anything more, but that wasn’t the case.
First, I quickly cast a recovery skill on Ellie.
〈Hymn of Heaven〉
“K, keuuuuu…”
“Ellie, are you okay?”
Fortunately, Ellie’s deep wounds gradually healed through my recovery skills. In order to recover as quickly as possible, she chose the skill with the highest recovery among Crusader skills.
“Ji-nim… Are you okay?”
Even though Ellie is in this condition, she worries about me more than her own body. How can this really be possible…
“Pay more attention to your body than mine. I used the recovery skill, but do you think your body is feeling better?”
“Ugh… Thanks to Jinu, I think I’m getting better.”
〈hill〉
Ellie also tries to heal her wounds faster by applying self-recovery skills to her body. While Ellie and I were recovering together, a dark shadow suddenly covered us.
In this situation, there is only one dark shadow covering us.
“Tch, didn’t that bitch stop you and kill you?”
Chaos Alcatraz muttered regretfully above our heads. As expected, that guy was targeting it intensively.
I guess it means that my presence was considered that much of a bother. You can do something to your body to slow it down, slow down time altogether, and even teleport to a distant place in an instant if you feel like it doesn’t work. Even when I think about it, it seems like he has some really deceptive skills.
When Chaos Alcatraz spotted me and Ellie, his eyes glowed slightly and black flames rose around us. Thanks to this, Ellie and I are in a situation where we can’t come and go. This is also one of his patterns.
This is not an attack pattern, but rather a pattern to limit the space to move… The wide-area attack that follows this is a standard attack used by Chaos Alcatraz in the game.
Just as I thought, Chaos Alcatraz flapped his wings and rose into the sky, once again creating numerous magic circles above his head. I turned my head to see what the other girls were doing besides Ellie, and saw that Renia was trapped in the restraint barrier of Chaos Alcatraz and was attacking the barrier to save everyone.
After turning his attention to this barrier, he will attack from all directions and kill us all. Ellie and I were surrounded by black flames to prevent us from going anywhere.
“Ellie, can you move?”
“Yes… Ugh! There’s still some pain, but it’s not so much that I can’t move.”
Ellie says she’s okay, but she’s probably not okay at all. I never thought there would be injured people right away like this. First of all, we have to do something to attack now. So, let’s escape from the black flame that has trapped us!
〈Hyper Teleport〉
While holding Ellie in my arms, I used my teleportation skill to escape from the black flames. And I quickly used the skill in a position where I could avoid the black thorn attack that would fall on my head.
〈Divine Field〉
At the same time, everyone was able to rescue Renia, who was trapped in the barrier. It’s good timing.
“Come here quickly!”
I held Ellie in my arms and ran to the place I had marked, and everyone who heard me also ran to this place.
As I ran, I turned my head to see one thing clearly.
Oh… Shit! As expected, Chaos Alcatraz is spreading its wings and approaching the place I marked.
《Indeed, is that a place that won’t be hit by my magic attacks?》
It’s the same situation as before. When I marked a safe place and everyone tried to gather there, Chaos Alcatraz came directly and attacked the safe place.
Maybe I thought about it too easily. I think I thought it was just about conquering game monsters, but I had to wrap my head around more than that.
When he thought I could avoid all of his patterns, he cleverly mixed up his attacks to make it impossible for me to dodge. Because this is a pattern implemented in games, the problem becomes more serious.
Usually, if the raid boss pattern in the game is made too easy to avoid, it will not be received very well by users. Does that make it much more difficult? Then, what gets even more criticism is the world in the game.
There is a taste of clearing a difficult game, but it is a style that does not fit well with online RPG games.
If it is a video game other than an online game, the main goal may be to feel catharsis when you clear a difficult boss by challenging it several times. However, in online games, the goal is not to defeat the boss, but to develop your character through the materials obtained when you defeat the boss. The main goal is to grow.
So, being too easy is a problem, but being too difficult is even more problematic. The more difficult it is, the slower the clearing speed will be, and from the perspective of a user raising multiple characters, it is usually not that annoying. Therefore, it is a good idea to adjust the pattern to a level that is neither easy nor difficult, but Chaos Alcatraz was a boss that had some mixed reviews from users.
The pattern is intuitive and tells you where to avoid, so it’s not that difficult, but since you can only avoid there, there are people who think it’s fun to move around in a hurry. On the other hand, there are people who say it’s a trash boss due to the double patterns that sometimes fly. I am a person who falls under the former category.
However, due to the game’s artificial intelligence, Chaos Alcatraz, which I am currently dealing with, is capable of intentionally throwing double patterns rather than occasionally throwing double patterns. Maybe if Chaos Alcatraz was in a simple demon state, I might have won as easily as I thought.
However, attacks involving human thoughts have become more difficult. As explained, the Chaos Alcatraz pattern is both difficult and easy to avoid. There is only one safe place, so as long as you go there, you will not be harmed at all. In other words, if you don’t go there, you have no choice but to be attacked by him.
Yes, if you don’t go there, you have no choice but to be hit by the activated pattern, but Chaos Alcatraz attacks that safe place with a different pattern.
At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but through the guy’s actions just now, it became clear that it was definitely not a coincidence and that it was a deliberate attack.
This is complete nonsense!
If this were a game, the operator would live a long life by receiving all the criticism in the world from all users. Isn’t creating a pattern that can never be avoided and presenting it to users the same as telling them to die in shame?
Who would want to play a game that has a pattern of unconditional death? It is such a big problem that that dirty situation has now become my reality.
Before, I had 〈Time Stop〉 so I could stop time and avoid his attacks, but now I can’t use that skill because it’s on cooldown.
If that’s the case… There’s nothing we can do.
〈Power of God: Sanctuary〉
I have no choice but to counter his attack!
I gave everyone a buff and sent a whisper. It will be late if you do not convey it in a whisper rather than saying it one by one.
‘Everyone stay out of here! Then you will be pierced by thorns. We just need to change its attack path. So, focus your attacks on the area I marked. People who can’t attack from a distance, like Lien or Elsha, should wait for now.’
If I were to tell you this in detail, we would have long ago been torn in half by the hands of Chaos Alcatraz and rolling around.
I whispered and quickly made two ice lances〈〉 and threw them one at a specific part of the guy’s arm. I don’t know about this guy, but the arm is where we can attack meaningfully and inflict damage.
As soon as my ice spear touched the arm of the approaching guy, Rhenia and Rachel’s magic attacks continued like machine gun attacks in an instant, and as soon as the number of attacks was completed, Rhenia quickly used a powerful skill and fired at the lower part of Chaos Alcatraz’s arm.
〈Jet Stream〉
Due to Renia’s attack, the path of the approaching guy’s arm changed slightly, and Yuria and Rachel, who had gone to other areas, also attacked.
〈Dragon Breath〉
〈Stone Shower〉
As two more attacks were added, its arm rose from its original path and the claws that were about to cut us passed overhead.
At the same time, countless black thorns rained down from the magic circle that formed above their heads.
Of course, the position we were standing in was completely unaffected by the attack, so we suffered no damage.
First of all, I somehow managed to overcome his attack, but the next part is the fighting game. He knows where I can avoid his attacks, and the moment I get there, he will try to attack that place and create a situation where I am stranded.
This time they attacked by mixing two patterns, but no one knows if they will attack by mixing three or four patterns next time.
Wait a minute, what that guy just said came to mind. Yes, that guy definitely reacted in amazement when I pointed out a safe location.
Does that mean… He doesn’t know where his attacks are safe?
Then the words are different again. I also thought he knew where to avoid his attacks, but that’s not true, right?
So what should I do… Psychological warfare?
You intentionally mark the wrong place and when it targets that place, you quickly move to a really safe location.
