Chapter 142 – Investigation (6)
It wasn’t even using a particularly powerful rune.
It is because some of the attribute runes that you possess take time to arrange your magical powers, and [Exploding Sword Force] Is not suitable for many-to-one battles like this, and can rather hinder your rear support.
He only used the swordsmanship runes [Waving Swordsmanship] And [Left Hands Swordsmanships], And other auxiliary runes for body enhancement.
Coor uh….
Even so, the guys were suffering from several sword attacks.
I was taken aback for a moment, but I didn’t miss the chance.
The Red One-Eyed Demon has remarkably high strength and durability, but is a monster that moves sluggishly and is weak against magical attacks.
In the current situation where the composition suddenly became advantageous, it was necessary to push harder.
‘Arm replacement art.’
I changed my weapon and took out the [Claw Short Sword].
The production equipment Choi Yoo-min gave me a few days ago.
Among them, the short sword was used to change the direction of battle.
The long sword is advantageous when digging into the battlefield, but the short sword is advantageous in a melee inside.
[Maehwa Sword Technique], Which has reached level 5 through steady growth, and [Agile Body Movement], Which has now reached level 8.
If you use both runes at the same time, you will be able to fight effectively between multiple monsters.
Koo, uh uh-!!
Woo-!!
“Big… ?!”
And it failed miserably.
The red one-eyed demons, who suffered for a while, quickly regained their vitality and countered my attack.
There was not even a small flaw in the use of the [Maehwa sword method] Unfolded with the [Claw Short Sword].
Originally, their strengths were durability and defense.
It was again showing its solid appearance like that iron wall.
‘Fuck. What?’
The attack, which seemed overdone earlier, didn’t work at all this time.
Rather, the enraged goblins swung huge bats.
I moved quickly to dodge the attacks.
Chur-uh-!!
Kwaaaaang!!
The ground dug up in an instant with tremendous strength.
A huge pit was created by the goblins’ batting.
And from inside, unknown smoke flowed out, and the surroundings were oxidized.
I realized it as soon as I saw it.
‘It’s not just being ignorant and strong.’
Like the [Corrosive Powder] I’ve experienced before or the ‘Corrosion’ curse that can be used with my [Simple Curse] Rune, the goblin’s bat also had a special power to corrode things.
I don’t know if it’s simply the effect of the bat itself or the power of the rune possessed by the goblin…
Anyway, it seemed that I couldn’t just blindly accept that attack.
“Park Jinwoo! Watch out for the bat!”
“Know!”
Fortunately, Park Jin-woo also noticed the anomaly and avoided direct contact between weapons.
Because he had accumulated quite a bit of experience by now, he had the power to flexibly deal with these variables.
Hwaruk- Hwareu-!
Coo, uh… ?
And the moment the goblins who retrieved the bat are about to approach again.
Just in time, scorching heat hit all directions.
The surroundings were covered in flames, and several fireballs filled with magic flew in and attacked the goblins.
Number is two.
The two goblins were directly hit by the fire pit, and they instantly fell into a dying state.
When I turned my head, I saw Kang Joo-yeon holding a staff.
‘Nice, Kang Joo-yeon.’
It is the result of the long-awaited back support.
It seems that Yoon Ji-ah was in charge of fire support for Park Jin-woo, and Kang Joo-yeon helped me.
Thanks to this, the combat composition has become much easier.
I took out the [Sword of the Penitent] Again with the Arm Replacement Art.
In the 5:1 battle composition, the reason why I raised the short sword was to effectively carry out a melee by utilizing light weight and high speed.
However, in the current situation where Kang Joo-yeon’s support was 3:1, it seemed that using a long sword would be better in terms of attack power.
Furthermore….
‘It doesn’t work with the Claw Short Sword, but it works with the Penitent’s Sword.’
At first, when I came in between the monsters with the [Sword of the Penitent], The attack worked, but when I fought with the [Claw Short Sword], It didn’t work at all.
And now the battle has resumed.
I vaguely realized why the former’s attack worked.
〈Item Info〉
◎Name: Sword of the Penitent
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◎Special effects
: You can get 50% extra performance when fighting a cursed opponent. The higher the divine value of the holder, the higher the power of the sword.
[Sword of the Penitent] Special effect.
An explosive increase in performance when fighting an opponent with a cursed form.
Since I got this sword, I had never dealt with a monster of that type, so I forgot about it for a while, but I was seeing its effect while fighting the cursed monsters called ‘yokai’ in this dungeon.
The red one-eyed goblin was a ‘cursed monster’ that received this special effect.
In particular, I became more convinced of this when I saw that a kind of curse effect, ‘corrosion’, occurred on his weapon, the bat.
For the monsters who showed weakness to divine power, the [Sword of the Penitent] Was the weapon with the worst compatibility.
‘There’s a rune effect.’
〈 Rune Information〉
◎Name: Descendant of the Barbarian King
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◎Special effects
: The law of beasts who want to conquer the herd is always applied. When fighting alone with at least three or more enemies, certain stats (strength, speed, durability) increase by 20% (Lv.4). When the battle is over or the conditions are not met, the ability returns immediately.
My stats increase dramatically when I fight multiple enemies.
[Descendant of the Barbarian King] The special effect of [Intimidation], Which is triggered by the difference in ability level, and the special effect.
It was a temporary stat pumping combo that I had experienced once before in ‘Stained Rock Pile’.
With these effects and the morale of the weapon added, there was no way the B-class monsters, goblins, could withstand it.
Red One-Eyed Demon’s overwhelming durability and defense.
I was able to pierce this with only my physical attacks.
“Huh… !!”
In response, I swung my sword with confidence.
If the number of battle targets goes below 3, the effect of the ‘Law of the Beast’ does not apply, so it is best to defeat them all in one attack.
Due to the pumped stats…
A much faster and more intense attack than usual.
I even use the [Exploding Sword’s Force] Rune I saved here.
It was the maximum attack possible without using skills.
Kwa, kwaaang-!!
Quagga Gaga-!!
Coor… ?!
The monsters were cut down without a break, and an ear-piercing explosion sounded accordingly.
From the feel of the tip of the sword and the screams of the goblins, I could tell that this attack had worked properly.
It was a much more sophisticated attack than when they first entered.
Coo, coo….
The bodies of the massive goblins collapse helplessly.
Two from Jooyeon Kang’s magic attack, and three from my attack.
A total of 5 goblins on my side were all knocked down.
After the battle begins.
It happened in less than 5 minutes.
“Are you done already? Shit. The world is unfair.”
Park Jin-woo, who was struggling on the side, shouted after seeing the result on our side.
The progress of the battle was fine on the guy’s side as well.
Ji-ah Yoon’s magical attack knocks down two goblins, and Jin-woo Park is dealing with the remaining two.
Perhaps Park Jin-woo could hunt goblins by himself if he put all his energy into it, but he felt like he was saving his energy for future searches and battles.
“Fight well and kill hard.”
“If you get hit with one shot, you go to the goal. Is this an act?”
“It’s fine if it doesn’t fit.”
“Crazy, that’s easy to say.”
Giving a reprimand to Park Jin-woo, who grumbled, I intervened in the battle and killed the goblins.
Relaxed situation having already hunted 7 out of 9.
It was not difficult at all to catch the remaining two together.
Coo, coo….
All the red one-eyed demons were defeated, and the battle was over.
I left behind the information window that was flooding in front of me for a moment.
I approached Akiba first.
It was a fairly short amount of time, but looking at the situation, it seemed that she too had finished her [Her mana tracking].
“Mr. Akiba.”
“Oh, Jaehyun.”
“Have you got anything out?”
Akiba slowly shook his head at my question.
“It doesn’t seem to be in the beginning. There was confusion for a while as various magical phenomena were mixed, but at least there is no place where the magical power is condensed to cause a metastasis.”
“Okay.”
It seems that there is no point where it can be felt as an ‘unlicensed warp gate’.
Akiba said so.
It was unfortunate, but I couldn’t get enough of the first drink.
The search is just beginning.
“Then take the magic stone and move right away.”
“All right.”
After that, we checked the equipment for a while.
I packed my things and started moving forward again.
Then Park Jin-woo came up to me and tapped his elbow.
“Hey.”
“Why, again.”
“Can’t you just hang out with Kang Joo-yeon?”
“What?”
What is this bastard all of a sudden talking about?
When he turned his head, Park Jin-woo shrugged his shoulders and said.
“No, it is. The two of us catch it anyway, so why do we all go together? To be honest, the party right now isn’t worth the money.”
“What is that….”
I was about to refute immediately, but I paused for a moment.
And I thought about it.
We don’t have much time to stay in Japan.
Total of 3 days including today and weekend.
It was realistically difficult to investigate all 11 suspicious points within that time.
There is a way to come back to search next week, but I have to coordinate the schedule with 〈 Judgment of Fire 〉 and I don’t know how the criminals will move in the meantime.
It means that there is a possibility that you must finish all the exploration this weekend.
“…….”
In this situation, distributing the party to investigate was not an option, but a necessity.
It was to efficiently investigate the inside of the dungeon from the point of distributing the 10-person team into Team A and Team B in the first place.
And if power permits…
There would be no problem even if the party was further subdivided within it.
In fact, through the battle just now, it was proven that quite a few monsters could be hunted with only Kang Joo-yeon and me.
As long as I had the [Sword of the Penitent], I wouldn’t be rough when it came to dealing with youkai.
Thinking that far, I looked at Park Jin-woo with new eyes.
“What are you.”
“What.”
“Are you really Jinwoo Park?”
“Oh… What else are you talking about?”
It was a sharp advice unlike Park Jin-woo, which I hadn’t heard in a long time.