Level Up Inquisitor [EN]: Chapter 199

199. Turning Point (6)

The boss’s stats at the final hurdle were truly terrifying.

Magic immunity that ignored all magic-based attacks.

And on top of that, a 75 percent physical resistance.

Originally, having physical resistance on a boss monster was already a factor that drastically increased the difficulty.

But 75 percent, not even 50 percent.

It was impossible to understand the intention behind giving such a trait to an opponent who was also immune to magic.

Whoosh!

Eile, who had been pushed back, barely managed to regain his balance.

“This is really frustrating.”

He raised his longsword and shook his head.

To catch a magic-resistant guy, he had to engage in close combat, but if he stuck too close to the body, the boss would slam the ground hard, emitting a powerful shockwave.

Fortunately, he had become somewhat accustomed to the boss’s shockwaves and could avoid being thrown to the ground.

Tsutsutsut!

At that moment, black energy surged and filled Regias’s wide-open mouth.

Seeing this, Eile rushed toward him without even grumbling.

What the boss was showing now was a preliminary motion for a poison mist pattern.

It was a very wide-range attack, difficult to deal with, and had to be stopped.

Regias’s thick tail flew toward him as he charged, but Eile used his speed to penetrate inside.

Thwack!

The boss’s massive body shook for a brief moment.

He barely managed to neutralize the pattern activation with a stun skill, Shoulder Charge, just before it was launched.

Thwack!

At the same time, Eile plunged his sword into the boss.

Black blood gushed from the deeply pierced area near Regias’s ankle.

Krrr!

Regias bared its teeth and glared down at Eile as if enraged.

However, compared to the boss’s size, it wasn’t a significant wound, and the actual health reduction wasn’t much.

With the damage reduced by 75 percent due to resistance and the defense formula applied, even effective hits barely made a dent in its health.

Even without physical resistance, the boss’s defense wasn’t low, and Eile was relatively better off thanks to the 40 percent defense penetration he had as a passive skill.

Khaaaaa!

Regias’s intense poison breath poured out.

Eile quickly retreated and barely avoided the breath, but a terrible poison lingered in the area where the breath had swept through.

Cheee!

It wasn’t just that single attack.

Regias had unleashed its breath more than once since the start of the battle.

Although he had avoided them all, the ground had been corrupted along their paths, and poison lurked everywhere.

Even within this vast boss room, the ground Eile could step on was gradually shrinking.

‘At this pace, there’s no solution.’

Eile thought during the continuous battle.

Regias still had 86 percent of its health remaining.

He was somehow managing to deal damage and endure, but at this rate, there was no way to defeat the boss.

Even considering the range of usable items and the environmental variables inside the boss room, there was no apparent solution.

If this was just the first phase, there was no way the next phase wouldn’t exist, and just thinking about what would happen next was terrifying.

‘Even trying to go for a long-term battle has many problems.’

Regias was a boss that actively used poison, and a long-term battle without a dedicated healer to back him up was difficult.

The terrain was getting smaller, and the concentration of poison was increasing.

He had self-healing skills and healing potions, but they had their limits.

The potions were almost gone, and the healing skill, “Light of Healing,” was an active skill that consumed a significant amount of mana.

‘But it’s not like I can end the battle in a short amount of time either…….’

He wanted to cut off the boss’s breath right away, but there was no suitable method.

The magic scrolls from the contribution store, which were very useful variables during boss battles, were useless since Regias had perfect magic immunity.

[Your health is gradually decreasing due to the strong poison!]

‘This is driving me crazy.’

Eile’s expression twisted at the message that appeared.

Due to the gradually increasing poison, his health, which hadn’t even been hit by an attack, was slowly decreasing.

It wasn’t a significant amount of damage now, but as the poison filled the room, the rate of health reduction would become more severe.

This was a significant pressure for Eile.

The passage he had entered the boss room through had completely collapsed after he entered, so he couldn’t lead the boss to another location.

In the first place, the boss wasn’t big enough to pass through that small passage.

‘Various resistances and poison. To think I can’t even change the location while fighting a boss that’s obviously trying to kill me with a long-term battle. If this continues, skill or anything else won’t matter.’

From the start, it was a dungeon that couldn’t be cleared alone.

At this point, it could only be seen as a place designed that way.

‘If that’s the case…….’

Changing his strategy, Eile quickly began to look around.

In this scenario dungeon, there was no way to give up halfway and go outside.

However, even if it wasn’t another area, the boss room, which signified the end of the dungeon, would have a passage connected to the outside.

There were cases where the passage would open after killing the boss, but from Eile’s perspective, he had no choice but to hope it was different this time.

‘Found it.’

Despite preparing such a terrible boss, it wasn’t as if he was meant to die, and a large passage entrance was located behind a rock in the corner of the boss room.

It meant that going outside was possible.

Eile, who had dodged Regias rushing at him from the front, immediately started running in the direction of the rock.

Kieeee!

“Live well!”

Eile quickly climbed through the passage.

It was somewhat disappointing not to receive the completion reward for the final scenario, but he had already obtained enough, so the partial rewards were sufficient.

‘Either way, the princess is what’s important now. At this rate…….’

Kwagwagwang!

At that moment, the loud noise coming from behind made Eile turn around.

Surprisingly, Regias, who he thought he had shaken off, was chasing after him, breaking through the narrow entrance with its body.

The sound was so loud that it echoed throughout the dungeon.

“No, why is it chasing me!”

Eile, horrified, increased his speed.

It was rare for a scenario dungeon boss to abandon its dungeon and chase after a player.

Just having both types of resistance was already rare, but he couldn’t understand what kind of boss monster this was.

Tap!

Eile safely exited the passage and arrived in the underground dungeon.

But even so, Regias, who was chasing after him with terrifying momentum, would soon follow him.

“Okay, this is good, actually.”

Eile, with a glint in his eyes, turned around.

Unlike the sealed boss room, this was a vast underground dungeon with passages connected in all directions.

If there was no accumulation of health-draining poison, it was manageable enough.

Kieee!

‘Here I go.’

Focusing his concentration, Eile activated Overdrive and continued his battle with the boss.

Even amidst Regias’s tricky patterns, Eile showed amazing movements and reduced the boss’s health.

When the poison accumulated too much, he lured the boss to a different location and fought again.

At this rate, he could defeat the boss within the time limit.

However, his expectations completely changed as Regias’s health reached 70 percent.

The boss’s second phase was triggered when its health reached 70 percent.

Khaaaaa!

The pouring poison breath swept across the floor with a darker color, and the ground helplessly melted away.

[Your health is greatly reduced due to the severe poison!]

“What……?”

Not long after changing locations, his health began to decrease with a single breath.

His health started to drop rapidly, far more than in the first phase.

‘This is insane…….’

The situation changed drastically.

The suddenly strengthened poison was beyond Eile’s ability to handle.

Moreover, Regias’s physical resistance, which had soared to 82 percent upon entering the new phase, was truly hopeless.

‘There’s no solution.’

A conclusion was quickly reached in Eile’s mind.

This time, there was no need to worry about this or that.

‘I can’t shake it off by running away… I have no choice but to go to the safe zone.’

The safe zones located in several places within the underground dungeon were not simply places where monsters didn’t respawn.

They were special places that the chimeras here couldn’t even approach.

If he went there, even Regias, who was following him like crazy, would have no choice but to give up on Eile.

Fortunately, Eile had kept this situation in mind, just in case.

Thanks to moving little by little towards the safe zone while fighting, the location from here to the safe zone was quite close.

Chwaaaaa!

The chains of divinity that sprang from the ground bound Regias.

He couldn’t cast for a long time to unleash the maximum strength due to the situation, but he could at least buy some time against the boss.

Kieee!

Leaving the boss struggling fiercely behind, Eile quickly kicked off the ground.

Turning the corner, a large space immediately appeared.

It was a space so high and wide that it was hard to believe it was an underground dungeon, and passages leading in all directions came into view.

However, Eile only looked at the tall cliff located on one side.

‘Quickly, before it comes……!’

Eile, reaching out urgently, climbed onto the cliff.

In the underground dungeon, the only safe zone located in this area was on top of this cliff.

Khaaaaa!

“Keuk……!”

Regias’s breath, which had followed him, swept across one side of the cliff.

Even the rocks melted away in the terrible poison.

But there was no time to stand still.

The boss couldn’t shoot breaths in succession, and he had to completely climb onto the cliff during this gap.

Kwang!

Eile climbed the steep cliff, avoiding Regias’s rampaging attacks.

The boss had dragon wings, but like a chimera with a poorly stitched body, it couldn’t fly.

As he climbed to a place where the boss’s arms couldn’t reach, Eile let out a short sigh of relief.

Fearing that a breath might fly over, he hurriedly reached his arm over the cliff.

But at that moment.

Khaaaaa!

Regias, who had briefly retreated, slammed into the cliff with all its might.

A great shock occurred due to the immense power emanating from its massive body, and the cliff shook.

“……!”

Eile’s hand slipped from the unexpected impact.

He had lost his grip on the part he was holding onto just as he was about to climb onto the cliff.

Falling from this height would result in instant death or at least a stun.

Moreover, with a rampaging monster waiting below, it was an unavoidable game over.

At the very moment he sensed the end.

Tap!

“Huh?”

Someone grabbed Eile’s hand as he was about to fall.

Eile, who had closed his eyes, opened them at the touch of the hand holding his and looked up at the cliff.

The person who leaned out from there was a face he had never expected.

“Eile, you were in danger.”

Alisa in her red robe.

She was standing before Eile.