Chapter 66 – Conflict (6)
Chapter 66 – Conflict (6)
A complex dungeon is a dungeon created by combining multiple dungeons. Each dungeon has a boss room, but they are not real bosses. In one of those dungeons, there is a dungeon with a real boss.
Now, Serenian has discovered the place.
‘It looks creepy.’
The great king of the underworld raised himself to meet his challenger. He was a huge mouse-sleeper. However, just as he has already seen many terrible variants, he is also a variant that fits the name of a demon.
Compared to other enemies, it’s a solid armor wrapped around a much larger body that seems to be two or three times bigger. The armor, full of sharp protrusions and thorns, looked incredibly hard and thick.
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Eight hooked feet sprouting from its carapace twisted around and pointed like spears at the elves approaching it.
What drips down at the tip is unmistakably deadly poison.
[Demonic Beast Daughter-in-law/Brigade Commander]
It was a monster with the title of Corps Commander.
Serenian also didn’t try to attack him right away, as if he thought it would be tough. Instead, he summoned other elves and prepared a pincer attack.
“—.”
Soon the elves gathered around her and were horrified to see the boss of this complex dungeon.
Surely, to them, the little monster itself is the size of a large truck. However, it is an unavoidable battle to completely purify this place and make it their land.
‘As expected, it doesn’t work.’
Serenian tried to attack first, as if he judged that he was ready to some extent. The steel arrows made by the dwarves and the arrows of blue thunderbolt fired with the hunter’s bow I gave them had the power to pierce quite a few enemies at once.
However, the arrow that flew through the dark air and accurately hit the cervical vertebrae of the witch beast’s daughter-in-law did not hit the vital point and bounced off. When I looked at it, it didn’t even look scratched. That’s how hard the enemy’s armor is.
“—!”
It seemed that Serenian, with a wrinkled face, finally gave the order to attack.
Even if I tried to deal with that monster using my memories of my active duty days, the attack seemed impossible unless I neutralized that hard back armor.
It seemed appropriate to flip the body over and aim for the soft flesh, just as the elves deal with other variants with hard shells.
“Is it too strong?”
A full-scale battle ensued. A fierce competition between two groups that can only survive if each other kills each other.
I just sighed right after the first collision as I was piloting the drone and inspecting the battlefield. A number of Fairy Ants, which had bravely pounced on them, were torn apart and pierced in one blow by an enemy attack who freely wielded the eight hooked feet protruding from their backs, and died.
The fairy ants born from eggs laid after the Queen ate the fruit of the World Tree and were born as new beings were different from existing ants.
It was bigger, and the armor it wore was stronger, shining dark blue. Nevertheless suffered.
“—!”
The elves, who saw the enemy subduing the fairy ants by swinging hooked claws with glowing red energy in their armor, flashed red eyes, and the elves hurriedly shouted.
One of the elven warriors threw a scythe spear with all his might over the sprite ant, but that too was no use against the enemy’s carapace.
[The underworld vibrates]
Rather, the enemies launched a proper counterattack. The rampage that occurs when the boss of the dungeon is stimulated has begun.
It would be foolish to step back now that you’ve gone that far. If you can’t stop the rampaging enemies and retreat, not only the fairy ants nesting in the dungeon, but also the village of elves outside the dungeon will be in danger.
‘I need to make a decision this time too. I have to catch the boss right here and now.’
In my heart, I also wanted to fight together.
The desire to protect them suppressed the aversion to the scene where I had to fight a terrible monster from another dimension that killed and injured people, which had made me sick of it over the past few years.
But that’s impossible, so for now it’s my best to hope that Serenian will make a decision and come out victorious like before.
“As expected.”
And she didn’t back down like I expected. As soon as she knew she had to see the end, she gritted her teeth without hesitation and rushed forward.
Even though she was able to fight properly with her armament at best, it was unfortunate that she had to fight with her body as she did before, but in the end, that is the burden a hero must bear.
‘I can win.’
Her fairy ant on which she was riding collapsed under the attack of her foe, and as she tumbled to the ground, she unknowingly tightened her grip on her controller.
However, Serenian quickly got up and evaded the enemy’s attack, like a giant pillar slamming the ground, kicked off the back armor of a creature much taller than his body, and climbed on top of it.
Her hooked feet lost her movement in a moment of panic. Certainly those hooked feet were too big for her body and just as dull.
She pulled out an arrow in the gap and put all her strength into the arrow and shot it into the only vital spot. The very spot where her hooked feet sprouted from her back.
Serenian, now a seasoned hunter, grasped the creature’s weakness in that fleeting moment.
In order for her hooked feet to move freely at 360 degrees, an arrow that inevitably hit the joint that couldn’t be covered with armor detonated a powerful lightning strike, and the electrocuted mutant stopped moving and stumbled.
Her arrow hit her weak point, and her clawed feet were charred and collapsed. Serenian didn’t stop there, and immediately fired the next arrow into the other staggering claw foot.
“-…”
Then the last of her feet hit her hard and she flew through the air and fell to the floor, but that was all.
The sturdy armor she wore seemed to be useless from this level of shock, and now, with only her hooked foot, the enemy could no longer resist the pincers of the other elves and fairy ants.
“—?”
“–“
They won. Perhaps she knew that, as she staggered to get up from her seat, Serenian sat down again to watch as her allies removed her foe’s hooked feet and turned her body in unison.
An elven warrior approaching her side seemed to be asking her in a hurry, but she nodded her head to mean that it was okay.
[The vibration subsides]
A message popped up telling me that the raid was over. Only a few dozen people, and all the equipment was crudely made.
In such a situation, the elves, who continued to grow and develop by enlisting the ants on their side and equipping themselves properly, finally conquered this huge dungeon that seemed impossible.
***
“Are you really okay?”
“It’s okay. Rather… are there still places left?”
The deepest part of the dungeon. It is a place that must be attacked in order to stabilize this place.
There, Serenian was resting against the wall, watching the warriors suffocate the enemy as they flipped over and struggled.
Garmin, who was leading her warriors, was worried that she was hurt for allowing her blow at the end, but Serenian was more interested in other things than her throbbing body.
“Don’t worry too much. We just couldn’t help it, but we can handle the other variants.”
Garmin reassured her. As she said, there were many places she hadn’t yet conquered. However, once the boss has been defeated, it is only a matter of time before completely attacking the other areas.
“That’s it.”
“Go and get some rest. You did a great job this time too.”
Gamin smiled and patted her shoulder as she sighed. Even if she was crowned queen, her power was still necessary for the group, and she inevitably had to suffer.
“Is this really the scene you created alone, exiled to a barren wasteland?”
However, as she left her back to others and tried to go up to the ground, there was someone who spoke to her with her face saying that she couldn’t believe her.
The opponent is none other than Ethan, a prisoner living in the underworld.
He was forced to participate in this battle as well. As a result, he watched the whole process and even went through it himself.
His eyes, which were filled with faith and confidence in his beliefs until the moment when the humans who accompanied his investigation team were burned to death as punishment, were now shaking violently.
“Tell me, Ethan.”
Serenian smiled coldly as he looked at him.
“Are we really weak? Enough to join hands with greedy humans and get their help? Enough to be oppressed by my own people?”
“That, that is…”
Ethan couldn’t refute her words. It was because these gigantic monsters and mutants he had personally experienced were not thought to be any less than the terrible horrors of the great war and the abominable army of demons that he had heard about through Ersilla and others.