167 – Are Orcs Not the Only Opponents of the Boss Battle?
Anyway, we headed back towards the boss battle.
The boss battle of this dungeon is a stage where the so-called ‘Orc Intermediate Warriors’ come out as sub-commanders, and many low-level warriors appear below them.
I don’t know if Orcs are divided into classes like that in the first place, but the system says so.
[Compulsion]
– Untreated Adult Big Boar Carcass x 36
– Drain Rune x 2
– Intermediate Magic Stone x 86
– Defeat enemies using daggers while stealthed. (191/10,000)
It was a result that was posted before lunchtime. After running for half a day, this should be a satisfactory result.
Yum-
The party members were enjoying a peaceful lunchtime while eating the food they had prepared.
Slippery-
The lizard unit in charge of guard duty was staring at Arin eating. She wonders if she wants to eat, and when I hold out what she is eating, she backs away in panic again.
When I saw the orc stand guard while looking outward, he thought it was a characteristic of the Lizardmen.
“Kekkek- can’t you tell those lizardmen to turn their heads the other way? I’m choked up.”
“Ah, yes. Guys, turn your head the other way.”
“Chuwa Rock!”
(Are you guys staring at other people eating so badly?)
(Manners? Something like that? If you don’t have it, take it away!)
(I want to eat. Big bore!)
Damn it, I can’t communicate…
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Just as I was shaking my head, there was a group that had just entered the range of my senses.
The 10-member party, which is rare in an intermediate dungeon, was covered in blood as if they had just finished hunting.
But as I came within my range a little more, I realized that the blood they covered wasn’t just the blood of monsters. The monster’s blood and the hunter’s blood could be distinguished because of the subtle differences in the amount of magical power.
‘… Is it a villain?’
Seeing that they weren’t heading this way, they didn’t seem to notice our presence yet. Two women and eight men.
Looking at the equipment they were wearing, all but one were melee. In other words, the one excluded person must be the key.
‘What should I do…’
I didn’t want to disturb the kids who were just enjoying their free time. But if I go out alone, Yeon-hee will ask me where I am going. They didn’t really harm us, so there was no reason to attack first.
‘… Was I like this in my previous life? I need to exercise a little restraint.’
When I found someone who could be even the slightest threat, I suddenly felt strange about whether or not I would be able to kill them.
……
Fortunately, they made a wide turn to the left, not ours. I couldn’t even hear them due to the distance, but judging from the way their mouths looked, it seemed that they were talking about how to distribute the spoils obtained from killing other parties.
‘Those guys… They’re the Apex Guild.’
Those who wear thick chain-shaped gold necklaces around their necks and have snake tattoos on their necks. The necklace and tattoos are like the symbols of the Apex guild members, but the look was also very cheap, perhaps because they were born in a group of ex-convicts.
Anyway, they got away, and after dinner we hit the road again. I didn’t bother to modify the route we originally wanted to go.
‘When we meet, we meet.’
Rather, it was to the point that I wanted to pursue him and get into a fight with him. Even if I just took the necklace, I think it would be over a million won…
However, rather than worrying about that, the orcs who rushed right away came first. Certainly more than the number in my memory.
– Wow!!
“Today’s Game 6 begins!”
“Ha Hang- I met a lot today!”
“Fifty this time. They don’t come together like this…”
Now, judgment based on past data was no longer blindly trusted. All of the numbers and behavior patterns that appeared in general were monsters that had changed from before.
[Skull Bomb]
Kwakkwakkwakkwa!!
Since they were outnumbered, they started attacking with bombs. Some of the guys who got right into the bomb range had their heads exploded and died instantly.
Then, together with Arin, he penetrated deep into enemy lines.
“Ilwol-ah, don’t keep thinking about bending down and hitting up, you have to make a stance to hit down somehow!”
“Clack!”
It was definitely a habit for me to bend down to the ground and break the opponent’s center of gravity. It seems that I have a characteristic of being a guide who always outwits opponents and finds out the route to escape first, but she pointed out that attitude to me first.
I thought it would only help me correct my posture, but it exceeded my expectations.
‘Certainly helpful.’
And as she wielded her sword beside her and fought together, they gradually began to get along.
It was around the time when I felt a lot of fun in the harmony between her light footwork and my honest lines.
Creepy―
‘Hmm?!’
Something gave me goosebumps, so I turned around and saw Yeon-hee staring at me. A little empty eyes stare at me indifferently, but why does it feel so scary?
‘······’
Still, I had no intention of stopping what I was doing. An opportunity that doesn’t come easily. It’s something that could cause Arin, who has a lot of emotional ups and downs, to suddenly leave the party, so she had to learn a lot while she could.
The short-lived chill soon disappeared, and Yeon-hee was also concentrating on the battle again.
‘Whew… Bloody.’
“Hee hee – level up.”
At the end of the battle, Bae Joo Ah’s level rose and her body emitted light. The other summoned monsters were constantly leveling up as they battled again and again. Since they are opponents with a higher level than them, it must be that their experience is positively compensated.
Yeonhee is level 47, I am level 50. For some reason, it felt like we were the only ones left out, but it was inevitable.
If you want to grow faster, you can go directly to Nargul’s dungeon, but you need to wait until the same party members grow enough. In the meantime, complete my quest.
“Rock Spear!”
Puff-!
“Whoa! What is it! What is it! A new skill?”
“Puhehehe! A new skill has been developed! This is so good! Was dealing with the spearmen helpful?”
Joo-ah Bae acquired a new skill to slash a slender spear made of stone into the air and cut it down to the ground.
She was simply a sharp rock that fell from the sky to the ground, but with a single hit, she had the destructive power to kill a monster in one fell swoop, so she got excited.
“Rock Spear! Rock Spear! Rock Spear! Kyahahahahaha!”
Acquiring a new skill for her is a big event that happens once or twice a year while living as a hunter, so even if she seemed to overdo it a little, everyone understood it. Rather, Arin even participated in raising JooA’s tension by repeating ‘Show me more’.
Although he sometimes spat out swear words, Bae Joo-ah, who calmly held the center in our party, was excited and the battle continued in an overall lively atmosphere.
You shouldn’t be caught off guard by the atmosphere, but there are times when you have to push through when you get into this kind of momentum.
In the end, we changed our stance from taking a conservative approach to boss battles and turned to taking on challenges right away.
And four hours later.
After going through a total of 10 more battles, we arrived at the wide hilly area where the boss fight unfolded. An endless terrain of hills with varying heights.
Among them, a poorly built fortress-like structure stood out on the highest hill.
Inside, the orcs come over the gate and have a boss battle. Since they start the battle on top of the hill, they start out at a disadvantage to the hunters.
Moreover, there were only a thousand Orcs and only one hundred Hunters.
Out of 1,000 Orcs, there are ten intermediate Orc warriors. You will soon see them leading a hundred men and pushing down.
I could see that a 500m radius membrane had been created around the hill where the orcs were located. When there are over a hundred people rushing into it, the battle begins right away.
The battle was already in full swing inside that translucent membrane.
When the boss battle was in progress, it was difficult to see in detail because the view was blurry, but the hunters seemed to be struggling quite a bit.
Drain Rune (Intermediate) Recovers +5 Magic when killing an enemy.
‘Hee hee hee-‘
On the way, I was able to get the highest number of runes you can get from Rune of Absorption (Intermediate).
I replaced it with the runes I already had, and thanks to the corpses of Big Boars and bones of Orc low-class warriors piled up in my inventory, my heart felt as warm as that of a farmer who finished harvesting.
The other party members were also making satisfactory progress, so the atmosphere of the party was ripe.
However, in the yard ahead of the boss fight, a group of people who were an eyesore wandered inside.
‘It’s those guys. Are you going to do a boss fight? Or are you planning on stabbing yourself in the back during a boss battle?’
It was a group of 10 members of the Apex Guild.
After registering, they settled down a few tens of meters away from us and were giggling while evaluating the appearance of passing hunters.
The blood on them was clearly thicker than before. And it wasn’t just me feeling it anymore.
Arin, as well as Joo-a and Yeon-hee, were paying attention to them, who were embracing the deep darkness.
“Those people… Right?”
“Yeah. Maybe. You don’t hide it. You can smell the blood.”
“Why don’t people like that go unpunished?”
“Because there’s no way to confirm. In fact, we were attacked first and had no choice but to kill them. We don’t even know who they are. Who would know if they acted like that? I wonder if there’s someone with the ability to read memories.”
“……”
‘There are guys with similar abilities.’
Yeonhee and I also had memories of killing three men in the Goblin Dungeon. Of course, we were really self-defense, but no one can know what others did in the dungeon.
‘Jung Hyo-chan, I’m glad he gave it to me.’
Jeong Hyo-chan, the ‘judge of truth and lies’ who investigated Yeon-hee, couldn’t see his face for a while. It was unknown if the ropes would reach her upper and lower levels, and she would no longer come to the lower-middle level dungeons.
Anyway, if we follow the order now, we will have a boss battle with that group of Apex.
And we weren’t the only ones who made that kind of calculation. To avoid them, the number of parties postponed to the next turn has noticeably increased.
Originally, according to the rules, it is not allowed to change a boss battle once applied for, but there are some employees who show the flexibility of handing it over based on the atmosphere of the scene.