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The size, power, and speed were on a completely different level compared to the Root Golems I had seen so far. Looking into the pitch-black darkness inside its wide-open mouth sent shivers down my spine.
“Daaaaaangjaaaaaang……!!”
The dungeon interior echoed with each roar.
Then, without giving us any time to react, it immediately lunged towards Seun and Lee Haneul.
The dungeon shook every time its arms slammed into the ground, making it difficult to even stand properly.
“I’ll take care of that one.”
“Excuse me? Then what about this person’s request…….”
“Shouldn’t we deal with that thing first?”
“Y, yes, I suppose so. I’ll try to find a way as much as possible too.”
A method to kill the souls of mythical and spirit beasts that possess immortal bodies due to a curse.
Seun couldn’t think of a solution right away either.
More than anything, there was a good reason why Seun moved even before he started to worry.
‘Even if it’s bigger and stronger, the weakness is ultimately the same.’
It’s the same as the Root Golem.
Roots were connected to various parts of the boss monster’s body that was currently moving.
Unlike the Root Golem, there were dozens of them, but the fact that all those had to be cut off remained the same.
“Naaaaaauuiiii!”
Thwack!
“How annoying.”
Seun swung his hammer and slammed it down on the monster’s head.
The monster’s huge arm crashed down where Seun had been, but Seun had already grabbed Durendal and was running behind its back.
– The first form of the Zaha Sword Style, Zaha Opening (紫霞開闢) [Purple Haze Opening], is enhanced through internal energy.
In an instant, Seun’s surroundings were dyed purple.
As he swung his sword horizontally, the purple scenery split in half, and flames soared.
“Yaaaaaangbuuuuuuneseoooo……!”
Dozens of roots connected to the monster’s back were all cut off in an instant.
The monster rolled its body to shake off Seun, but this only gave Seun another opportunity.
– The second form of the Zaha Sword Style, Flower Rain Fan Shape (花雨扇形) [Petal Storm Fan], is enhanced through internal energy.
The fan-shaped fiery sword energy that spread out devoured the monster’s roots that were exposed as it rolled on the floor.
It was known that fire didn’t work on Aruns, but that wasn’t exactly true.
Arun was highly resistant to all attributes, but among them, its resistance to fire was particularly low.
If I apply it with such excellent cutting power.
“Geeeet ooooouuut……!!”
While cutting off the roots connected to the monster, it was possible to burn them at the same time to prevent them from growing again.
In just a few seconds, all the roots attached to the monster’s body were cut off.
Now all that’s left is the finish.
Seun took a stance to draw his sword and pulled the handle of Durendal towards the ceiling.
– The third form of the Zaha Sword Style, Red Haze Plum Burial (赤霞梅藏) [Crimson Mist Plum Burial], is enhanced through internal energy.
– According to the mysteries of the Zaha Divine Art, heat is added to the martial art.
The hotter the flames soared from the ceiling as Seun drew his sword.
By the time the sword was completely drawn, the flames had completely covered the ceiling of the dungeon.
Soon, when Seun’s sword was swung down.
Whirr!
As the plum blossoms scattered at the end of spring, the flames that filled the ceiling fell down and covered the monster’s body.
“Laaaaaaa…….”
The monster’s voice, which had been echoing through the dungeon’s air, gradually faded.
The thick, hard roots that made up the monster’s body burned away, turning to ashes and collapsing.
A pathetic death for a boss monster.
However, this was not because the monster was weak.
It was a victory achieved because Seun, who knew the monster’s weaknesses and thoroughly exploited them with overwhelming force, was strong.
“Seun, you’ve done a great job.”
Lee Haneul took a sigh of relief, clutching her chest.
Seun also nodded and was about to return to his spot when the mythical beast, who had regained consciousness, struggled to straighten its collapsing body and looked back at Seun.
“As long as we don’t die, Arun will not wither.”
“Could it be……!”
“Daaaaaare……!!!”
A chilling voice was heard from the monster’s remains, which had been burned black and turned to ashes.
Soon, Arun’s roots were connected to the ashes, and as the ashes fell, the monster’s form was regenerated from within, as if a phoenix was being born.
“Damn it…….”
Is that why I was able to defeat it so quickly?
No.
The monster’s power was such that no one on the same floor could have subdued it if it hadn’t been for Seun.
In other words, that monster was not meant to be defeated.
‘There are dungeons like this sometimes.’
Dungeons where you have to meet other conditions around the boss monster, not the boss monster, in order to kill the boss monster.
For example, the dungeon where the Lich appears was like that. No matter how strong the Lich was, you couldn’t be distracted by the Lich. What you had to find was the Lich’s life vessel [phylactery].
The same is true now.
The answer was already there.
What we need to focus on now is eliminating the immortal sinners in this cavern, not that boss monster.
But how?
“I’ll take care of it!”
“What?”
“I was worried, so I tried using Marbas-nim’s authority and various poisonous herbs, but it was impossible for me to kill these people with my power.”
“Then what are you going to…….”
“I’ll block that monster. In the meantime, please solve them, Seun.”
Lee Haneul got up from her seat.
A firm expression as if to prove that she didn’t just say it lightly.
Honestly, Seun couldn’t understand it.
Seun knew that Lee Haneul was strong, but her strength shines when she is in the rear, keeping numerous enemies in check.
Her power becomes extremely weak when facing such a strong single enemy.
Could she block that boss monster, which Seun also evaluated as tricky?
Many questions arose, but Seun soon nodded.
“I understand.”
When he told the Diablo Guild members about the truth about regression in Death Hill, and the Diablo Guild members nodded at Seun’s past, Seun also made a resolution.
To trust guild members. Allies. Comrades.
“I’m counting on you.”
“Yes!”
Lee Haneul stepped forward.
At that moment, the boss monster’s body was appropriately completely healed, shaking off the ashes on its body.
“Marbas-nim.”
– The constellation, ‘Bloody Lion,’ reluctantly nods, saying that he suddenly gained a polite disciple.
Pooh-hwat!
A red liquid burst out from above the boss monster.
Immediately following, green and purple liquids burst out and soaked the boss monster’s body.
“Ickaaaaaaajiiiiit……!”
The boss monster’s body softened, and various parts of its body rotted.
Mold grew, and some places even turned black and corroded.
However, new roots from the floor and ceiling were immediately connected to the wounds, healing the wounds and absorbing the poison.
Only its movements slowed down for a very brief moment at first, and there was no sign that her attack was working at all.
However, that ‘very brief moment’ was all Lee Haneul needed.
– Player Lee Haneul uses ‘Closed Ward.’
The red, blue, and azure liquids that were pouring down from the sky like rain flowed down angularly as if they had touched an intangible wall.
They soon formed a huge square shape, blocking the boss monster’s surroundings.
Creak.
“Naeeegeeeee……!”
Thud!
The door of the ward, which had turned dark red as the three colors mixed, closed.
The sound of thumping echoed continuously from inside, but even so, the door did not budge.
“I won’t be able to hold out for long!”
Lee Haneul drew her left arm with her red staff.
As the red blood flowed down the staff, the unidentified pattern engraved on the staff glowed red, further solidifying the ward that had trapped the boss monster.
“That’s enough.”
Seun, who had been watching Lee Haneul’s performance, smiled slightly.
While she was trapping the boss monster, Seun had already realized how to攻略 [conquer] this dungeon.
– The Vault of Greed has been opened.
[ Reaper’s Scythe, Death Scythe ]
– A jet-black scythe said to be carried by the Grim Reaper, the god of death who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
The power of the Death Scythe was imbued in the great scythe that he had asked Go Chang-seok to make.
In the first place, he thought it would be faster to attack the boss monster first because he knew its weaknesses, but if he was given time, he could quickly come up with a way to kill the sinners.
This Death Scythe is exactly that.
If it’s a Death Scythe that cuts off souls rather than flesh, it should be able to kill the minds and souls of the mythical beasts.
“Any last words?”
“……Thank you.”
Swish.
Seun’s Death Scythe was swung.
As befitting the name of the Reaper’s Scythe, even though it cut through the mythical beast’s unstable body, no wounds were created anywhere on the body.
Instead.
– Thank you…… really.
The mythical beast’s soul was faintly seen leaving its body.
The sight of it fluttering its wings in a white and beautiful body that it could never have imagined in its current body was as breathtaking as I had read in books.
Perhaps, seeing the soul is also a temporary effect that is being seen thanks to holding the Death Scythe.
“Seun, if you could hurry up a little more!”
“I understand.”
The closed ward created by Lee Haneul thumps.
The boss monster’s voice, which had not been heard because it was completely sealed off, also began to leak out faintly.
This means that the boss monster’s power is that strong, rather than her power being insufficient.
To exert such power even in a state where the roots have been cut off by the power of the closed ward.
– The jet-black scythe of darkness unleashes the energy of death dormant in the ‘Death Scythe.’
– The harvest of death is reproduced through the ‘Death Scythe.’
Seun rotated his body once and drew the Death Scythe.
The black trajectory drew a circle and spread widely towards the surroundings.
Swish, swish.
As if harvesting well-ripened ears of rice, the black trajectory cut through the sinners in the cavern.
The mythical and spirit beasts, who had been screaming and suffering from the curse of immortality, accepted the blessing of death, abandoned their bodies, and flew away.
‘Beautiful.’
It was as if I was seeing beasts living in heaven.
As soon as the soul was cut off, the sinner’s body, which had been wriggling like a slime, lost its shape like water and wet the floor.
The roots, which had lost their target to absorb nutrients, staggered around in panic.
Kwaang!
“Naeeeeeeee- Yangbuuuuuuneeeeeul……!!”
“Seun!”
Lee Haneul’s ward could not withstand it and broke.
The boss monster ignored Lee Haneul and charged towards Seun, who had destroyed all of its nutrients.
In the meantime, the scythe that Seun was holding shattered and disappeared as if it had fulfilled its role.
‘Still, the elder took the trouble to make it for me. I guess it couldn’t withstand the Death Scythe.’
Well, even Apelion, which can be said to be a mythical-grade weapon, struggled when the power of the artifact was contained in it.
No matter how well the elder makes weapons, it was still impossible to perfectly withstand the power of the artifact.
No, even though it was broken after being used once, it was great enough just to be able to draw out the essence of the artifact like this.
“I’ll kiiiiill youuuu…….”
The scythe completely disappeared, and Seun stood still and stared at the approaching boss monster.
He didn’t take out a new weapon or manifest magic. He just stood still and stared at it.
The boss monster, which had approached Seun in an instant, opened its mouth wide.
Roots intertwined and swirled within the maw, aiming at Seun.
And.
“Daaaaaaa…….”
The boss monster’s movements stopped as if someone had pressed the pause button.
Soon, starting from its highly raised left arm, its body began to wither rapidly.
From the moment the nutrients had all disappeared and the roots had stopped functioning properly, the victory or defeat had been decided.
“Lee Haneul, you’ve worked hard.”
The 攻略 [conquest] of the hidden dungeon has come to an end.
Now it’s time to get the rewards.