Chapter 64 – Chapter 64
“You see? My victory.”
“How will this be Lee Sol’s victory?”
“I’ve defeated 17 and Baek Hwa-yeon has 16!”
“But Mr. Lee Sol is exhausted. Isn’t he almost out of mana now? But Mr. Baek Hwa-yeon will still not be able to nod? Right?”
As I turned her head toward her white flower kite, all eyes on her were on her.
Embarrassed by the sudden gaze, she nodded her head.
When I asked how many more I could catch, the answer came back saying that it was about ten.
Also.
Baek Hwa-yeon was using and distributing mana more efficiently than Kim I-sol.
The slightly flushed face seems to be satisfied with himself.
She is the best in her team when it comes to archery.
I’m glad I was able to prove it.
“Lie… I-I can still catch a few more.”
“Don’t overdo it. Keep a minimum amount of mana in case of an emergency. Mana is running out, but Kim Isol’s attempted attack misses and the monster attacks you, what will you do?”
“Do you think I would make such a rudimentary mistake!?”
Do you think I will
She couldn’t bring herself to say it, but it lingered in her mouth.
I’m the only one who gets tired of provoking the whining guy who’s always asking for compliments.
“Hyung-nim. What should I do with the saliva?”
Jang Yong understands his situation and is following my orders.
Did you feel deep in your heart that you had to show yourself well in the future?
The total number of needles he collected was 33.
He said to gather 15 of them in a bundle so that they can be easily moved because they are about as thick as bamboo and quite heavy.
After the hunt is over, he plans to use the stingray’s beard to tie it up and carry it out.
“By the way, isn’t today’s hunt over in an hour?
“That’s right. Usually this kind of hunting is the way of the higher awakened people. We originally had a bit of a bunch.”
“Why don’t you use that method? I want to be active too…”
“Because it’s dangerous. There are so many of them that if you don’t, you’ll get hit and die.”
Male stingrays attack differently from females.
If the female spews out small magic bullets like rain, the male blows a large, heavy one-shot magic bullet.
For this reason, the general expedition team mainly hunts males rather than females.
Tanks are good at defending against enemy attacks, and they earn a lot more money after hunting.
But there is a risky part.
Unlike females, males occasionally call out to their mates.
Because of this, it is very difficult to hunt when the population is large.
When the sky is covered with stingrays like now, you could be attacked by dozens of them if you make a mistake.
This is the biggest reason to hunt them in a way that ends them in one blow.
Safety is more important than lack of magic power.
“Brother. But isn’t it strange? We hunted so many times yesterday, but the number of stingrays doesn’t seem to have decreased at all…”
“No. The lines have definitely decreased. At least you don’t see any bearded guys near this entrance, right?”
“Ah, so only males have increased?”
“Hmm…”
Listening to Jang Yong’s words, it certainly seems like that.
I didn’t pay much attention to it until now, but compared to yesterday when I was going out after hunting a thousand, there are definitely more stingrays now.
I didn’t feel it because I couldn’t see the long beard, but I was mistaken that the number of guys in the sky had actually increased compared to when I first entered yesterday.
There’s no way that only males suddenly increased… What is it?
While I was chatting with Jang Yong, Kim I-sol resumed her attack, aiming for a turnaround.
But is it really possible to shoot more?
Spend all your mana and just whine.
“Here’s the chief…”
“Your round letter.”
“Isn’t that a little strange?”
“Yes. Please tell me.”
“No, the sky over there.”
I looked at the sky in the direction the mobile phone pointed with my finger.
It was really strange.
It looked as if a flock of birds had gathered together.
It’s far from here. Those must be stingrays.
Densely gathered and flying in the sky, they were forming a huge sphere.
As if they were trying to protect something in the center of the sphere.
I hurriedly called the party together.
I found something suspicious like that, but I can’t stay still.
As a supporter and leader of this team.
“Why are you calling me!”
“Look over there. Isn’t that strange?”
“Hmm… Sure.”
“I think there might be a boss monster in the center.”
“Brother. Are you talking about the boss? If it’s the boss of this dungeon…”
“Yes. It was written in the materials I sent. Um… Moved letters?”
I wanted to test whether these guys had properly studied the boss.
We had the experience of hunting lycans on our last expedition to Busan.
At that time, if it had not been for my ability, many people might have been injured or died.
Have you learned anything based on that experience?
If nothing has changed, I might have to reconsider joining the guys in the company I’m starting.
Since Jangyong already knew, I asked Lee Dong-geul, the least suspicious person.
In fact, if she knew, wouldn’t she assume that everyone knew?
“The boss here is… Um… His name… Um…”
“That’s the name. Do you remember anything else?”
“That’s… I memorized it, but… It flew in the sky…”
“Because it’s the stingray boss, it’s only natural to fly. Anything else?”
“Ah! That’s right. I told you never to attack an Awoken without a D-class license or higher. So I remember that I only read it once and ate cheesecake after that!”
I put my hand to my forehead.
Oh shit
The boss is strong, so beginners are dangerous.
So, it seems that I wrote down the contents not to attack recklessly.
But I can’t believe I haven’t studied properly with that as an excuse.
I wonder if it’s too much.
I asked the same question to Kim Isol.
Fortunately, she seemed to have understood everything properly.
Aww you are pretty
I tried to compliment Lee Dong-geul so that he could watch and learn.
But there was a problem…
Isn’t Kim Yi-sol getting angry at the wrong part first?
“Why did you ask me first? Jang Yong and Baek Hwa-yeon are there. Do you think I came here without studying like Lee Dong-geul? Do you think I’m that stupid!?”
“Hey… Calm down. I just asked. What are you so sensitive about? Do you have any qualifications?”
“No way! There’s no way a guy like Lee Dong-geul would feel that!”
There is an image that Baek Hwa-yeon has a calm personality, so she seems to study harder.
But I can never say that here.
She tried to compliment her, but she kicked herself.
It’s stupid.
I said, stroking Lee Dong-geul’s head, wondering if Kim I-sol’s words might have hurt her.
“Okay. Next time, I’ll ask someone else instead of asking Kim I-sol. Now, did you listen to Kim I-sol’s explanation, right?”
“Yes…”
“Then let’s try to target the boss!”
“Yes?”
“What? I’ve almost used up my mana!”
“It’s okay. The main dealer who attacks the boss is not Mr. Kim Isol.”
“Then who are you?”
Everyone turned to Baek Hwa-yeon.
I’m sorry but am I wrong?
I didn’t bother to say anything.
Because I want to surprise you at the right time.
“I will explain the operation from now on.”
Also known as sky blowfish.
It is unknown why the final boss of the stingray group is a puffer fish, but since it is known as the pink land’s boss monster, I have no choice but to do so.
It’s not a real blowfish anyway, it’s just a monster.
I proceeded to explain his pattern and our countermeasures step by step.
It’s a high level of difficulty because it’s floating in the sky and protected by countless stingrays.
Among the boss monsters that appear in E-class dungeons, it can be said to be the strongest.
But nothing to worry about.
The strategy I came up with was simple and clear.
I plan to end it all at once before he even starts attacking properly.
“Did you know? You should never go outside.”
“What if the first attack doesn’t finish him off?”
“It’s okay though. If you hide, you’ll be back soon.”
Here’s how to attack.
First move near the boss and dig the ground.
1.8 meters deep into the ground, big enough for all of our party members to fit into.
Then, the body of the male stingray is placed on top of it.
Next attack the boss.
All ranged dealers intensively attack the boss at once, and jump into the pit they dug in advance.
Then, with a huge male stingray as cover, they block the pit and hide inside.
“What do you think of that method?”
“Hmm… It’s nothing like this. Anyone who knows that they don’t completely come down to the ground won’t think of it? You don’t think of catching them in the first place, so you can’t think of a way to defeat the boss. It’s always the boss. Have the mindset that you’re going to hunt.”
“But my thoughts are the same as Mr. Kim Isol’s brother. Baek Hwa-yeon, how can you be the boss by yourself…”
“Who said she would attack alone?”
“Then who’s attacking? Does Kim Isol do it too?”
“Of course. It’s still possible at least once.”
“There are three bows in all that we borrowed.”
“Do I do it too? I couldn’t even penetrate it…”
“No.”
I didn’t give you the right answer until the end.
He made a fuss about it today, saying, “I’m thinking of making Lee Dong-geul, who didn’t use magic at all, do it.”
This is enough to see the answer.
It’s stupid.
Please, expand the range of thinking more flexibly.
Anyway, we moved to a place where a large group of stingrays congregated.
Coming closer, there is no minister like this.
Or rather, should I say fear itself?
It was shocking enough to remind me of a locust swarm video I had seen on the Internet.
“There’s a problem. There are too many of them, so I can’t see the blowfish.”
“Huh? I saw it. I just saw it briefly. I saw it again now.”
I heard that the sky blowfish is similar in size to a stingray.
So, if another stingray was flying under the sky blowfish, there was no way it could be seen from the ground.
A little trickier situation than I thought.
I grabbed every visible beard and rubbed it on my face.
I wanted to do anything by reducing the number of them, so I removed the magic of the females first.
With a heavy sound, the female stingrays began to fall one by one.
“Because the beard is done, just make sure to kill it.”
Compared to the loot you can get from the boss, a beard is like a rag.
He told them to just end their lives for now, because if they let them live, trouble might happen.
The percentage of females wasn’t high, but all of them were flying closest to the ground, so when I sorted them out, my view was quite open.
At last, the location of the sky blowfish comes into view.
“It’s like a giant balloon…”
“That’s right. Cute.”
“But you have to be careful because it’s poisonous, just like a normal puffer fish. It’s said that its poison is dangerous even if you just brush it, so you just have to aim for the head. If you miss and even the poison bag explodes, it’s a prize and nothing else.”
“Ugh…”
After dealing with the females to some extent, they started digging.
Jang Yong is in charge of digging.
It was necessary to save other people’s mana.
“Brother. Will this be enough?”
“Yes. That’s enough. Mr. Baek Hwa-yeon. Please catch one of the males who look the biggest. It’s hard to bring him, so go with the one around here.”
“Yes.”
What was planned like that was well prepared, and all the preparatory work was completed.
Now all that remains is to attack the boss.
Whoa…
I let out a deep sigh and told Lee Dong-geul and Jang-yong to go into the pit in advance.
And outside, only Kim Yi-sol and Baek Hwa-yeon remained.
“Jang Yong, please.”
“Yes?”
“Give me a bow and a quiver of arrows.”
“Sir, are you really going to attack me directly?”
“Then why would you ask for a bow when you’re not going to attack?”
Jang Yong looked at me blankly with an absurd expression, then belatedly handed me a bow and quiver.
The other guys had similar expressions.
“What. How did you… I can’t…?”
“Team leader. Were you an Awakener?”
“What happened?”
“Really?”
“Really?”
Actually, I didn’t become an Awakener.
A special ability created after achieving 100% synchronization.
I just wanted to use it now.
[Loads the list of currently linked targets.]
– 1. An Sora * (can be activated)
– 2. None
– 3. None
– 4. Unavailable
