It was while we were waiting for the stew to come to a boil, having our usual meaningless conversation.
-Gaa.
What I heard was a terrible scream that I had never heard before.
“This… … .”
Dojin’s head turned towards the direction of the sound.
At the same time, the forest began to stir.
-Gaa!
The other side also sensed this side and seemed to be approaching at high speed.
The watchman said with a troubled face.
“Did even Tegran-nim get completely eaten by the curse of the forest… … .”
The watchman seemed to have hoped in vain for Tegran to have reason like himself, but it was not Dojin.
Do-jin, who came to know that Tegran was the boss monster of this dungeon, was aware that he could not avoid the battle at the same time as he encountered it in the first place.
Dojin focused on the sound of approaching Tegran and activated the magic circuit.
In response, the rune gauntlet wraps around Dojin’s arm.
“Are you going to fight?”
The watchman who saw such Do-jin asked with trembling eyes.
“It looks like you can’t have a nice conversation, so you have to suppress it first.”
I don’t know if it will be subdued or exterminated.
After hesitating for a moment, the watchman bit his lip and gripped his sword.
It was to help Dojin.
grasp.
At that moment, the bushes in front of me exploded and something round came out.
A monster in the form of a bizarre human who walks on four legs, entwined with bones, flesh, and tree trunks.
Tegran Begriff.
《Flashlight》
Do-jin, who was already preparing magic, fired the magic he had loaded into the magic circuit.
flash flash flash
Three flashes occurred, and three light dots landed on Tegran’s torso.
However, the opponent is the dungeon’s boss monster.
Even the attack magic that was inserted at full power did not give much damage to Tegran.
‘I expected it, but it’s much tougher than I expected… … !’
Do-jin, who blew his body at the same time as the magic, was able to narrowly avoid Tegran’s rushing attack.
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My heart goes cold when I see the place where I was standing until just now.
“Uhhh… … !”
Tegran roars furiously and turns around, snapping on the floor with his long, deformed tree-trunk arms.
Red eyes overflowing with hostility were fixed on Dojin.
That moment.
pug.
Tegran’s head turned.
Quaang.
Not only that, the floating Tegran flew like a cannonball and crashed into a tree.
“Tegran-nim, wake up!”
It all happened in one punch by the watchman.
“Ugh… … !”
Tegran, who was hastily trying to get up, staggered to see if his bones were shaking, then slumped to the ground.
“… … .”
Seeing the boss monster’s weak appearance, Do-jin felt like he didn’t know what to say.
‘I thought it was strangely fast from the first time I met it, but it’s also ignorantly strong.’
While thinking about something else for a while, Tegran planted a tree trunk around him and absorbed the energy.
Recovering from the shock in an instant, Tegran leaped and spewed a tree trunk.
‘This is a known pattern.’
Dojin avoided Tegran’s range attack by creating a “rock shield” to create a safe zone while avoiding what to avoid.
At the same time, with a casting close to instinct, I shot 2 [Fire Arrows] at Tegran in the air, placed a [Fire Pillar] at the point where the one who leaped would land, and additionally shot a [Fire Ball] neatly in advance, resulting in a clean hit.
A perfect combination that perfectly calculates your own casting speed, the enemy’s flight time, and even the falling path drawing a parabola.
-Geuhuh!
Just looking at the sound of complaining of pain, it was possible to know that Dojin’s attack was steadily consuming Tegran’s life force.
But.
bang.
“Relax! He is not our enemy, but the one who will right our wrongs!”
If it was a combination or something, the watchman’s punches would make everything shabby.
To defy the sentinel, Tegran stuck a tree trunk into the ground and performed a special attack.
Pabababak- and a tree trunk rose from the ground like tentacles and attacked the watchman.
But the watchman cut them all off with a single swing of his sword.
In one sword strike, the sword wind, no, something tremendous power raged.
Power as if the claws of a gigantic beast were clawing through space.
“Tegran. We have a duty to right the wrongs we have committed. So, you must not lose your temper and wander the forest like that.”
Saying that, the watchman stared at Dojin.
His eyes, which wavered for a moment, soon turned to determination.
‘I have to correct my sins and mistakes.’
If you have to let go of something precious to do so, so be it.
Determined to be weak, the Sentinel struck Tegran again.
bang, bang, bang, bang.
The sound of a bloody blow vibrates the forest.
Dojin looked at the scene and thought.
‘There’s nothing I can do about this.’
Looking at Tegran, who was virtually completely subdued, Dojin took out an egg and lifted it.
Just to see if there’s any reaction.
Then the quest window popped up and the quest content was updated.
[quest]
What Jeong Ryeong-yong left behind
Class: Hidden
[Tegran Begriff appears to have completely lost his sanity at the moment.
Let’s destroy the body stained with the curse of the forest that binds his soul.]
Seeing this, Dojin was a little embarrassed.
‘Rather than purify it, kill it first?’
It’s an ignorant method, but anyway, the quest guide given by the thread of fate says so, so it should be fine.
Do-jin, who had decided on a policy, approached the still-beating watchman and stopped her.
The watchman, who continued to punch as if he had lost his mind, stopped as soon as Dojin’s hand touched his shoulder.
“… Tegran isn’t coming back. what to do?”
Words with facial expressions and voices as if screws were missing.
Looking at her like that, Dojin said.
“As you said, I took it out to see if it could be purified with the energy it contains, but that doesn’t seem to work either… … .”
It’s something that can’t be done ‘I have to kill it first’.
Giving probability to the action you want to do was a technique for smooth quest progress.
“If we can’t talk, there’s nothing we can do. It would be better for this person than leaving it this way.”
Saying that, Do-jin prepared the magic.
“Are you going to kill me?”
A slightly surprised watchman.
“There is no other way. I can’t let you go in this state.”
“… still.”
The watchman grabbed Dojin by the sleeve.
And I look at Tegran, who is still unconscious.
A figure with almost no human form remaining.
As Do-jin said, Tegran-nim wouldn’t want to live like that and live like that.
No, not even alive.
Eventually, the watchman let go of Dojin’s sleeve.
Bubbly. The watchman, taking two steps back, lowered his head and placed a fist on his forehead.
It was Hoxeth’s salute.
Dojin cast magic without a word.
The magic pouring enough mana to fill the circuit hit Tegran in succession.
Tegran, who had already exhausted most of his life force due to the Sentinel’s attack, soon met his end.
The message of defeating the boss monster was visible over the haze created by the blazing pillar of fire.
At that moment, the egg flashed a faint light.
As if responding to it, light rose from among the collapsed remains of Tegran, and soon formed the shape of a person.
[quest]
What Jeong Ryeong-yong left behind
Class: Hidden
[The freed soul of Tegran Begriff appeared.
It is a half-soul that has lost its self due to the effects of a long curse, but the recorded information will remain intact.
Through conversation, let’s draw out the memories stored in the soul, obtain necessary information, and uncover the secrets of the forest.]
The quest guide that tells you what to do was very convenient.
Looking at Tegran, who is like a ghost, no, a ghost itself, staring blankly into space, Dojin pondered the first question.
‘Come to think of it… … .’
At the end of my thoughts, I looked at the watchman with his eyes wide open.
Dojin pointed to the watchman and asked Tegran’s spirit.
“Do you know Lee’s name?”
“my… name… … .”
Tegran’s spirit looked at the sentinel with unfocused eyes.
It was a movement as if a machine was inputting information, without a real self.
【… official name. Parallel Elemental Constraint No. 782.]
Upon hearing the answer, Dojin’s heart cooled.
A bad feeling that something is wrong.
“What I asked for is your name.”
to give a different answer.
I spat out nervous words almost reflexively.
【Belonging to the Fresh Green Noir Hunting Expedition, Parallel Spirit Constraint Unit #782. A test subject raised for a plan to restrain the spirits for complete control over the spirits. Among the test subjects that survived all experiments with a survival rate of 30% or less, they have the best spirit affinity-]
“stop.”
Dojin tried to cut off Tegran.
However, Tegran, who only spit out memories and information, continued to vomit stored memories like a broken vending machine.
【Spirit restraint is to connect multiple humans in a parallel circuit to divide and bear the load generated while restraining a powerful spirit. In the process of fostering in parallel with advanced combat training, the brainwashing work to instill absolute loyalty to the royal family was paralleled… … .]
Dojin pushed the watchman away.
“Don’t listen. Well, I’ll figure it out… Wait where you can’t hear.”
The watchman didn’t even flinch.
I tried pushing harder, but I couldn’t move the watchman.
She said, her eyes fixed on Tegran’s hazy soul.
“it’s okay.”
The poured stew was cooling down at the watchman’s feet as he spoke.