Chapter 84 – Monster Wave (4)
Hydra was a level 95 raid boss.
She is a monster that looks like a giant snake with six heads, and I remember her being very difficult when she first appeared.
Fortunately, this guy with an appearance reminiscent of the Hydra from Greek mythology did not have the gimmick of growing a new head in two when he cut his head.
Instead, game characteristics were applied, and each color of the six heads had different properties.
Red – fire attribute
Blue – water attribute
Green – Wind attribute
Yellow – earth attribute
White color – light property
Black – darkness attribute
Heads with different properties had patterns in which they emitted laser beams with each property applied from their mouths.
In addition to that, there are also patterns in which it attacks by charging its head directly towards the character or suddenly turns by sweeping its tail on the ground.
After that, Phase 2 existed, but now we have to deal with Phase 1 first.
Starting from level 95 raid bosses, it will be quite difficult to defeat them without the Crusader as a buffer, damn it.
When Hydra first appeared, Phase 1 was the most difficult for users because of the special gimmick that only Hydra had.
There was one thing to be most careful about when attacking six heads with different attributes, and that was that when attacking one head with the same attribute, the Hydra’s health would recover.
For example, when attacking a red head, since the head has a fire attribute, if you inflict damage with a fire attribute attack, her blood is recovered in proportion to the damage done.
Instead, if a water attribute attack was made, an additional 25% damage would be inflicted.
If you attack with an attribute other than the same attribute or the opposite attribute or make a normal attack, the damage is actually reduced by 20%, so attacking with the opposite attribute was the most efficient, so when recruiting raid members, dealers for each attribute should have been recruited. Thanks to this, it received a lot of criticism for being the raid that took the longest time to recruit among all the raids so far.
Of course, now that the maximum level is level 100, there is enough damage regardless of whether the damage is reduced by 20%, so you don’t have to attack with the same attributes.
When Hydra first appeared, she remembered going into the heading engineering unit without knowing anything about the pattern and experiencing hell.
In the early days after the Hydra came out, people were not familiar with the pattern, so when I thought I had lost some of the Hydra’s stamina, one of the raid members often found himself in a situation where he would restore the Hydra when he used the same elemental attack on the head of the same color, and with that, the troll There were also people who were stuffed while listening to the sound.
I also made a mistake while controlling a few times and got scolded for restoring Hydra’s stamina.
The good news was that only the living hydra’s head recovered health.
Each head had separate health, but when recovered by the same attribute attack, the health of all heads was recovered equal to the damage inflicted.
At the time, when I didn’t know about this gimmick, I remember being thrown into a mental breakdown by the phenomenon of each head attacking each other and then recovering again when the stamina was reduced.
However, if a head has already been knocked down, even if the recovery gimmick is activated, the dead head does not come back to life.
If it had come back to life, the difficulty level would have been much more difficult, but when I think about the early days, it’s truly terrible.
The easiest way to catch Hydra is to use only normal attacks without any attributes and hit it with damage.
Then, you don’t have to worry about Hydra’s recovery gimmick and just avoid Hydra’s attack pattern and deal with ignorance.
When Hydra first came out, it was an unthinkable method because the time was too tight to catch Hydra within the time limit, but now that it has already reached level 100, it is a method that is used in all raid raids.
If only Frey had been here, he would have struck and crushed him.
However, since Freya is not there now, we have no choice but to follow the original strategy from the beginning.
“Everyone! Black, white, red, green, green, green, blue, green, black, white, red, and blue!”
It feels like I’m leading a raid raid after a long time.
“Yes, Jinu!”
I reverse-summoned the Fire Spirit King Ifrit, who had been summoned a moment ago.
Then, a small, glowing sphere appeared behind Renia’s back and quickly grew to the size of a person.
The human doll with long hair hugged Lenia from behind, and a white light appeared over Lenia’s body.
〈Spirit unification〉
After Rhenia summoned Ignis, the Spirit King of Light, she became one with his body.
First of all, among my characters here, the only ones who can inflict damage according to attribute attacks are Rhenia, who can summon the Spirit King for each attribute, and Ellie, who can attack light attributes using divine power.
So, we decided that it would be better to focus our attack on the dark-attributed black head and take it down first.
After that, you can drop the light attribute white head so that Ellie can easily deal damage, and then take down the rest one by one.
Everyone who heard me ran towards the hydra’s black head.
“Kwaaaaa!”
The hydra that spotted us running out roared loudly and each head began to open its mouth wide.
“I’m going to shoot a laser beam! Quickly stick to Hydra!”
I didn’t know how to shoot a laser right away, but avoiding low-attribute laser beams is simple.
If you get close to the hydra’s body, it will not reach the beam range.
We quickly got close to the Hydra’s body, and when we were out of Hydra’s laser beam range, Hydra, which had lost its target, fired a laser beam into empty space.
I must have caught the hydra more than two hundred times in the game, but seeing it erupt in front of my eyes was a little scary.
It was terrible to imagine that if I had been there without knowing how to avoid and got hit by even a single laser beam, I wouldn’t have been able to recover even a single bone.
Ellie, who got close to the hydra while the laser was shooting out, jumped and got on the hydra’s back, and Renia also flew into the air.
Then, the glowing wings behind Ellie’s back became huge, and she turned her mace back, ready to swing it with all her might. Ellie’s mace began to glow as it was filled with divine power.
〈Divine Furnishment〉
Bang!
Ellie swung the mace containing her divine power and struck the hydra’s black head with all its might, making an extremely loud sound, and the hydra’s head swayed greatly.
In the direction where Hydra’s head whipped around, Lien jumped as if she had been waiting, grabbed her fist in the air, and thrust her fist in front of her.
〈 Self-denying technique (極技) Shout Hwangpa Cheon Fist (霸皇破天拳) 〉
Bang!
The Hydra’s head, hit by Lien’s fist, first swayed in the direction Ellie had swung her, and then tilted in the opposite direction due to Lien’s attack.
And a beam of white light fell from the sky onto Hydra’s black head.
〈Shining Break〉
The summoner can use ultimate skills for each attribute while unifying with the Spirit King. 〈 Shining Break 〉 is an ultimate skill that can be used when unifying with Ignis, the Spirit King of Light. It is a skill that puts both hands together and shoots a powerful beam of light forward.
〈 Shining Break 〉, a beam of light thick enough to cover an entire inn, burned the Hydra’s entire black head and melted all of its flesh into a grotesque form.
However, as if that wasn’t enough to reduce all of her stamina, the hydra’s black head still moved with its mouth open, covered in melted flesh.
The hydra howled loudly again, as if our attack was painful, and shook her body sideways to throw off Ellie, who was on top of her.
Ellie jumped off the heavily shaking body of the Hydra, and as Minercia lightly caught Ellie falling below her, she soared into the air.
The moment Minercia’s head rose above the sky and turned downward, her breath was fired from her mouth where she had been gathering her magic power.
Quagwang!
The most powerful breath Minercia could produce struck Hydra’s black-haired forehead directly, and her head was struck down by her breath.
The black head of the Hydra attacked by Minercia was stuck underneath and did not move, perhaps because she had lost her mind.
But it’s not over yet.
In Elion, the strategy was carried out like this by cutting off all of the stamina of each head, and the head that lost all stamina fell off from the body and disappeared, but the same would certainly apply here, and the fact that it has not yet fallen from the body is proof that stamina remains.
Noah ran toward her head, which had fallen on the ground, and cut with all his might to sever her entire neck, which stretched between her head and body.
Perhaps because all of her outer skin had already melted due to Renia’s attack, she was cut very easily, but with the sword that I and Noah had, I was not able to cut off the entire thick neck, leaving about half of it intact.
“This is the end!”
Minercia released her breath and glided down quickly. Yuria, who was riding on Minercia’s back, filled her sword with her magic and formed a huge sword, cutting down all of the remaining half of us.
〈Dragon Blade〉
Awesome!
The Hydra’s head that fell from her body soon turned to dust and disappeared, and the Hydra howled in pain as it felt that she had lost one of its own.
After all, is this the best without a buffer?
Among the five characters, Rhenia, Yuria, and Lien used each ultimate skill, and Ellie was able to inflict great damage by using the next most powerful skill after the ultimate skill, but as a level 95 raid boss, she is very strong.
Since this is a guy whose stamina is set based on a buffer, this seems to be the best right now without Freyja, a buffer that amplifies enormous damage.
The problem is that there are still 5 heads left, and removing all of her heads does not mean that the Hydra has been completely disposed of.
If you drop all 6 heads of Hydra, you will now move on to the next phase 2, but new demons will definitely emerge from the dimensional gap in the meantime.
There is no time to delay now.
“White is next!”
I yelled at everyone.
Ellie, who was riding the Minercia that was gliding down, jumped onto the ground, landed, and came next to me.
“I will defend as best as I can while you attack the white head.”
At the same time Ellie spoke, the hydra turned its body and swung its tail towards us.
Ellie ran towards the tail of her flying hydra and lifted her magnetic shield towards her tail.
〈Divine Shield〉
Quagwang!
Ellie channeled her divine power into her magnetic shield, creating her massive shield and making an incredibly loud noise as she collided with the flying hydra’s tail.
Unable to defend herself against the full impact of the Hydra’s attack, Ellie was pushed behind her, holding her shield up.
Still, we slowed down the flying hydra’s tail as much as possible and we were out of the attack range.
This also seems to be different from the game.
In normal games, attacks with such a large range would have a foreboding phenomenon or a floor would be created at the location where the attack would come from, alerting the user in advance that the attack would come.
So, wasn’t there a rare, unforgettable scene in the history of games in which user A shouts, “Language!!!!!! Damn it!!!!!!” And ends up dying?
However, because what I am experiencing now is reality, there was no need to use a blanket to avoid the incoming attack.
I think I was able to dodge it by looking at the attack of a similarly sized Vihamoth because it wasn’t that fast, but this Hydra guy didn’t have the speed to dodge it by looking at it.
After seeing that Hydra’s black head had been defeated, Renia released 〈Spirit Integration〉 and summoned another Spirit King instead of Ignis, the Spirit King of Light.
Of course, I had to attack with the dark attribute, so I summoned Arkane, the Spirit King of Darkness.
Contrary to the Spirit King of Light Ignis, the Spirit King, whose body is black, slowly emerged from Rhenia’s shadow and while embracing Rhenia, he used 〈Spirit Integration〉 and a black light appeared on Rhenia’s body.
Renia, Lien, and Yuria, who each used their ultimate skills a little while ago, will not be able to use them right now, and Ellie, who attacks with light attributes, will not be able to attack Hydra’s white head.
“Noah, 〈 Atomic Blood Explode I am 〉! Drop it on her white head!”
“Got it, master!”
I shouted at Noah, and upon hearing my voice, Noah squirted blood from his back and used the blood to create each wing.
And it flew upward using its wings.
Again, aerial combat is not implemented in Elion. I think that’s probably a technology that Noah created himself.
Should I call it 〈 Blood Wing 〉?
Spotting Noah passing through her porcelain head, Hydra looked at her Noah and opened her mouth, ready to fire her laser beam.
I jumped like Ellie did on the hydra’s back a little while ago.
It’s a height that I would never have been able to reach before, but the person I am now is not the person I used to be.
I, who can adjust my own stats and receive the same abilities from the equipment, was able to climb onto the hydra’s back in one go and swung “Gram” With all my might at the area where the hydra’s white head and body connected.
I’m definitely not the person I used to be, but I can’t cut off the Hydra’s head in one go with my strength alone.
So, like crazy, I continued to cut the attacked area with my sword.
Meanwhile, Hydra tried to shoot laser beams with its five heads at Noah.
However, it was stopped by Minercia, which glided again and rushed towards Hydra again.
〈 Dregonia Burst 〉
Rushing quickly, Minercia hit the Hydra’s head, causing each of her heads to hit sequentially like falling dominoes, and deflecting her from the direction she was aiming for.
“Thank you, Yuria!”
After she flew into the sky, Noah raised her arms high in the sky, where the blood gradually gathered and formed a huge sphere of blood.
That’s Berserker’s ultimate skill, 〈 Atomic Blood Explosion 〉.
This is a skill that creates a sphere made of blood in the air and then drops it on a monster, causing a huge explosion.
As Noah lowered her arms, her blood sphere fell towards the Hydra and exploded the moment it hit the Hydra’s head.
While the blood sphere was falling, Minercia quickly retreated so as not to be caught in the attack and was not caught in the explosion.
Quagwagwang!
The sphere of blood was so large that it damaged not only the white head of the hydra it was targeting, but also her other heads.
Thanks to this, the hydra’s body shook tremendously and I, who was on its back, almost fell down due to the aftermath, but I was able to barely hold on by inserting “Gram” Into the hydra’s body.
Of course, you can’t take down the Hydra’s head with that attack alone.
Minercia, who had retreated from her position, once again rushed towards the Hydra and struck her squarely on the white head.
I don’t know when she got on, but Lien was riding on top of her, including Minercia, and the moment Minercia hit her Hydra, she jumped in, climbed on top of the Hydra’s white head, and slammed her fist down on her with all her might.
〈 Self-denial, thunderbolt, thunder, and lightning 〉
In response to Lien’s attack, the Hydra’s head was unable to withstand the impact and bowed down for a moment, but it soon lifted it up again and shook it from side to side to shake off Lien riding on top of her head.
Lien jumped from the shaking head of the Hydra onto its back.
And a huge black spear fell on the white head of the Hydra where Lien was.
