Chapter 86 – Monster Wave (6)
The new strength I gained doesn’t seem like a huge advantage right now.
As with the last inventory, everyone seemed to not know much about the game system, so they probably don’t know much about this raid’s exclusive skills either.
Even if you think about whispering, it’s the same.
It was possible for me to send a whisper to another person, but it was impossible for that person to hear the whisper.
In other words, I am the only one who can use the game system.
Even when I wrote ‘Time Stop’ without realizing it a little while ago, I was the only one who could move in slow time.
“Kwaaaaa!”
Hydra, who was still confused about what had just happened, came to her senses and howled once again.
“What did you do, master? You startled me?”
“That’s right, Jinu. How did you do it?”
“What are you talking about? Nothing is impossible for Jinu?”
Noah, Yuria, and Renia, who were fighting against Hydra, also came to my side.
“I’ll explain that later. Let’s think about taking out that Hydra first. First, let’s finish off the red head that Ellie and Lien attacked just now!”
As soon as I said that, all three of them ran forward.
Hydra’s red head, hit once by Eli and Lien’s ultimate attacks, was unable to come to its senses and was still lying on the ground.
〈Dragon Strike〉
Among the Dragon Knight skills, this is a charging skill that deals the most damage.
Yuria rode Minercia and spun towards Hydra.
Bang!
The charging Minercia and Hydra’s red heads collided and made a tremendous sound.
Instead of stopping there, Yuria slashed Minercia with her sword once again while riding it.
〈Dragon Blade〉
Noah, who ran next, also delivered a finishing attack.
〈Disobey Strike Blood〉
Using her blood, he created a huge blunt weapon and struck the Hydra’s head with all his might.
The Hydra head that was attacked by Noah rose in the air.
Hydra did not just suffer from our attacks.
Her yellow head rushed to engulf Noah, who once again raised her red head.
However, as if Noah had already known that the attack was coming, he immediately left the spot as soon as it attacked, and the Hydra’s yellow head swallowed the air.
And the finishing touch was up to Rhenia, who had become one with Elquines, the Spirit King of Water.
After seeing that I had solved the Hydra’s red head, I ran towards the remaining Bloody who had just come out of the dimensional gap and finished it.
And after catching all the Bleddies, I ran towards the potion I had prepared in advance.
If you have been fighting for a long time, you will gradually need potions to fill your magical power.
I had previously experimented while staying at Turchen Castle to find that the amount recovered from the potion was not large.
But something tells me that recovery is possible.
In particular, Renia, who uses her ultimate skill repeatedly, would have seen her magic power drop to less than half.
I ran to the battlefield carrying the bag containing the potion and loudly called for Renia.
“Rhenia! Come here and restore your magic power!”
Was it because he was in battle with Hydra that he couldn’t hear me?
Rhenia is fighting Hydra while united with the Spirit King, and she shows no signs of coming towards me.
Looking at Renia like that, I whispered to her.
‘Rhenia, your magic power has slowly decreased a lot, right? Come here and restore her magic.’
Renia, who heard the whisper I sent, immediately flew towards me and drank the potion I gave her.
“Gulp, gulp. Ugh… The potion here doesn’t really taste good. It’s too bitter.”
After drinking her potion, Rhenia grimaced and threw her bottle containing the potion around her.
“You will have to drink 5 bottles to recover some of your magic power. Can you hold on and drink it for a little while?”
“I can do anything for Jinu. Please give me the rest of the potions.”
Renia drank the four bottles of potion I gave her and returned to the battlefield.
It seemed like it would be a good idea to drink the potion one by one to recover when no other demons came out of the dimensional gap.
I went over to Ellie, who was recovering Lien.
“Is Lien okay?”
“Yes. If it weren’t for Jinu, we might have been hit by a laser beam and died on the spot.
It’s scary just thinking about it now.
Ellie and Lien die from Hydra’s attack.
It seemed that Ellie had fully recovered Rien with 〈 Heal 〉, so I took her potion out of the bag I was holding and handed it to Ellie.
“Thank you, Jinu.”
Ellie, who received the potions from me, drank them all without hesitation.
“Uh… I’m sorry for worrying you, my lord…”
Lien also seems to have come to his senses.
“No, it’s okay if you’re safe. You should take some potion too.”
“Thank you, my lord.”
Lien also got up from her seat and drank all of her potions.
“Hehe… I’ll go back then.”
“Okay, let’s fight while being careful not to get hurt.”
After hearing my words, Lien nodded her head and ran towards the Hydra.
I also whispered to Yuria and Noah and told them to take the potion.
Meanwhile, one more Hydra head has already been defeated, and now only two remain.
But as if our situation couldn’t go well, a Vihamoth came out from the gap in the dimension again.
“Ha, can’t we just stay away for a while until we catch the real Hydra? Let’s all focus on Vihamoth first and catch it quickly!”
Just in case, I also sent a whisper to everyone and according to my words, everyone ran towards Baiha Moss and, as if catching the Baiha Moss that first came out of the dimensional gap, Rhenia broke her horn and the remaining four attacked the joints of both legs.
And before Vihamos could use berserk, Renia attacked its back and the four of them finished off by attacking Vihamos’s head.
How much time has passed?
We were able to drop all but the yellow head of the hydra.
“It’s all over!”
“Yes!”
Now, we attacked all at once towards the yellow heads of the remaining Hydras, and the yellow heads of the Hydras could not withstand our attacks and died.
Is phase 1 finally over?
When all six heads are defeated, three hidden heads will pop out from the body.
This is the start of phase 2.
Fortunately, Phase 2 Hydra is not that tricky.
The theory among users is that the Elion operators who did their best to create Phase 1 all lost their power and made Phase 2 moderately.
In Phase 2, there is no need to attack the three heads with different attributes like in Phase 1.
As you enter Phase 2, a large jewel-like area appears on the Hydra’s body, and that is the Hydra’s weak point. You can kill the Hydra by attacking that place and reducing all of her health.
This time too, each of the Hydra’s heads had stamina, and like in Phase 1, if she loses all of her stamina, she dies.
What is different from Phase 1 is that the Hydra’s head, which has lost all of its health, is resurrected after a certain period of time.
In that case, you might be thinking, why not just ignore the hydra’s head and attack only the hydra’s weak points to reduce her health and kill her?
Of course not. If each of the Hydra’s three heads is alive, the Hydra’s weak points will reduce damage by 20% per head.
This is an experimental result obtained by users while dealing with Hydra.
He said he was curious about what would happen if he ignored the head that kept coming back to life, so he looked at the damage done and roughly calculated it proportionally.
The good news is that the health of the three hydra heads in Phase 2 is not as high as it was in Phase 1.
If they had the same stamina, I think there would have been many raids that could not beat Phase 2 due to lack of damage.
“Then let’s do it this way. Ellie is on the left head, Noah is on the right head, and Yuria is on the middle head, and Rhenia and Rien support the attack by taking turns going left, center, and right.”
I told everyone what I thought.
Of course, this is also the method I obtained while attacking Hydra.
“Now, when the left, middle, and right heads all fall down, we attack the hydra’s body all at once. Then, when it comes back to life, we start again in the same way. Do you understand?”
Everyone who heard me nodded.
“Then, the person targeted by Hydra escapes quickly and falls as low as possible. Do you know why?”
In Phase 2, Hydra does not shoot laser beams. Instead, it fires a breath made of deadly poison. In the game, if it hits you, you will take a lot of damage and become poisoned, and even if it doesn’t hit you, a puddle of poison will form on the floor.
This poison puddle does not disappear until the hydra is captured, so if you place a poison puddle anywhere, an unfortunate event will occur later on where the space we can move around will be reduced, so the person targeted by Hydra’s poison breath must quickly go to a corner and fill the poison puddle. The basic strategy was to make it and return to the battlefield.
If someone were to kill a real hydra and place a pool of poison in the middle of it, you wouldn’t know how much their blood pressure would rise.
People like that don’t just do it once, they make mistakes over and over again, so if the raid team’s firepower is insufficient, they will experience hell.
“Yes, because of the poison puddle?”
Fortunately, everyone seems to know.
“That’s right. It’s going to be more difficult if we get all over the floor. Let’s just finish off Hydra and close the dimensional gap.”
“Is that okay?”
She looked at me like she was worried about Ellie.
“Wouldn’t it be enough to do this much? We did as much as we could.”
It’s all because of Gaia that we’re going through so much trouble right now, so how much more suffering do we have to endure?
If you have any complaints, please let me know now.
Now the final battle begins.
Since it was difficult to aim for the hydra’s head, I decided to attack her body regardless of whether she had a head or not.
Following my words, Ellie ran to the left head, Yuria to the middle, and Noah to the right, while the others, Renia and Lien, ran to the left head.
Fortunately, there were no major problems finishing off Hydra.
Like before, I wondered what would happen if Lien was in danger, but fortunately, everyone who saw Lien getting hurt attacked the hydra, avoiding injury as much as possible.
As I said, starting with the left head, I quickly took out the center, then the right, and attacked the hydra body at the same time, so everything went smoothly.
Then, when another demon appeared from the dimensional gap, I decided to kill the new demon first rather than the Hydra.
This is because I thought it would be best to quickly kill the ones that can be eliminated quickly and then attack the Hydra.
How much time has passed?
We eventually defeated Hydra.
“Hehe… Hey, Gaia? If you’re listening, please answer me.”
I spoke quietly into the air.
“If there is no answer, will we just close the dimensional gap?”
【Please wait for a moment!!】
It is Gaia who responds immediately.
“Please tell me how long I have to endure. I put in a lot of effort to catch the hydra.”
【Just a little bit… Can’t you hold on just a little longer?】
I’m asking you to tell me how much that little bit is… Gaia!
“Then one hour. I’ll hold on for one more hour. That’s enough, right?”
