Tutorial area – 4
The remaining 4 patterns, including the charge pattern that is unconditionally used during the first encounter, alternately appear during the boss battle, and the last one is this one that will start from now on.
A so-called last-ditch effort that is activated the moment the Human Butcher’s HP drops below 10%. If you saw this pattern, it was practically clear.
It draws the blood from its own body and turns it into a bomb and blows it towards the player, but just avoiding it cuts the blood on its own. Until there is only 10,000 health left.
When his stamina went down to 1, he collapsed from exhaustion, and the human butcher boss fight was over even if he approached it and touched it with his bare hands or something.
Of course, it was said that ‘virtually’ everything was cleared, but it was absolutely forbidden to be careless until the end.
In vanilla, it was only a matter of rolling a few rounds, but in brune mode, it was a pattern where you had to desperately avoid running until the last shot.
ㅡQuaaa
He let out a long roar and threw his blunt weapon to the ground. Then he strode to the middle of the clearing, and raised his fingernails and ripped through himself.
Black blood gushed out from the cut with his fingernails. The roar erupted once more, and drops of blood began to gather around him in a ball the size of a human head.
In vanilla, you only need to dodge 9 to 10 shots, but in Darkest Light mode, you had to dodge close to 49 to 50 shots. If one of them hits, it’s a bonus that it’s an instant death.
Besides, that thing can’t be avoided by rolling. During that brief post-delay to prepare for the next roll after rolling once, he was hit by a flying bomb and died.
After confirming that the droplets of blood coalesced to form the shape of a human skull, they retreated to the wall of the clearing. Sticking to the wall and turning it round and round in a counterclockwise direction was the surest way to destroy it.
The human butcher looked up at the sky and howled. Round blood bombs formed in the shape of human skeletons were fired at me with the roar as a signal.
‘Counterclockwise.’
The bombs on the right side of the human butcher, that is, the left side of my standard, are fired first, so if you want to increase the impact distance even a little, it is better to turn counterclockwise unconditionally.
It can be avoided even if it turns clockwise, but the impact distance of the bombs is very slightly shorter than when they turn counterclockwise, so there were times when even Jiri was unlucky to be hit one by one.
It was reluctant to take such a risk.
A blood bomb slammed into the ground behind me, creating a massive acid blast. Black liquid spread in all directions, melting walls and floors. I had a good idea of what the scene behind would be like.
When I had almost completed a lap of the vacant lot, I stopped walking after confirming that my back had become quiet at some point. The human butcher sat down in his seat exhausted, breathing heavily.
I approached slowly, alert. That’s why I said 9 or 10 or 49 or 50.
In such a state of collapse, there were often cases where the last blood bomb was blown as a real last-ditch effort. If you blow it, it’s 10 or 50 shots, if you don’t blow it, it’s 9 or 49 shots.
And as I feared, a sphere in the shape of a human skull rose above his head once more.
‘As expected, there’s nothing wrong with being careful.’
I looked at the direction it was flying and prepared to roll in the opposite direction. Because it was possible to avoid it by rolling at least one foot.
By the way, the direction the last bomb flew was not in my direction.
The blood bomb soared high into the sky, flew to the top floor of the prison, and exploded there. Wow! Half of the top floor blew away with a roar.
The human butcher, who had finished his last struggle, sat down on the floor as if completely exhausted, breathing heavily. Now, if you approach and touch something with your bare hands, the boss fight is over.
“… … what?”
But right now, I didn’t have time to think about that. Stunned, I looked back and forth between the human butcher sitting on the floor and the top floor of the half-dead cell.
It had never happened before in the game.
As I was staring at the shock of the unexpected situation unfolding before my eyes, a knight in armor leaped from the top floor of the prison through a cloud of dust.
The knight, who landed in the clearing with a very light movement, only making a light clicking sound, raised his body.
The silver armor, which should have been shining brilliantly, was covered in black blood and melting with smoke. It looked like it had almost lost its function as armor due to a lot of corrosion everywhere.
Judging by the appearance covered in blood, it seemed to have been hit directly by a blood bomb, but even then, the limbs were still attached, so even if it went away, the original role of the armor was completed.
It was an armor I remembered seeing, but somehow the appearance was a little different. While I tilted my head, feeling a strange sense of incongruity, the knight walking toward me muttered to himself.
“I didn’t know that the final attack would be launched this way. It is my mistake.”
A neutral voice flowed from the rusted and dirty silver helmet. The armor was different from what I remembered, and the voice was also different from what I remembered.
Something was strange. A bit too much.
“Did you knock that down by yourself?”
When the same question came up as in the game, I suddenly came back to my senses. If this was a game, yes or no options would appear, but now I had to open my mouth and answer.
“That’s right.”
“… … Awesome.”
The knight sat down on the floor, breathing heavily, observing the exhausted human butcher here and there, then turned his head back to me.
“It looks like he’s still alive, but won’t you kill him? Since you defeated it, it will be up to you to finish it off.”
“Ah yes. I will.”
He picked up the sword he had thrown to the ground. He didn’t react at all even though I came right in front of him. The knight took a few steps to the side and nodded lightly.
stabbed in the stomach The sword entered easily. After receiving the final blow, the Human Butcher let out a suffocating roar and fell diagonally.
In the game, when you kill an enemy, the corpse automatically disappears and the item drops, but here, I stared at the corpse to see what it was like.
Bubbling, the area around the human butcher’s head began to melt, producing bubbles and smoke. The mushy flesh and black blood smeared under the corpse.
As the flesh melted away, I saw something shiny in the hole.
‘Is this the way it is?’
Throwing away the now useless steel sword, I grabbed something shiny and pulled it hard, being careful not to touch flesh as much as possible. It came out surprisingly easily.
What I held in my hand was a sword with an ugly red blade. I was relieved to see that familiar face.
‘It’ll be less than an hour now.’
This is the weapon I must have. I wondered what to do if the item didn’t drop, but I was worried for nothing.
The reason why this weapon, called a bloody sword, heard the sound of a limited cheat key in the beginning was simple.
As for the weapons that can be obtained in the very early tutorial area, the damage did not drop at all compared to the weapons obtained in the middle.
On the other hand, it was a weapon that became inefficient over time due to the lack of stat correction and enhancement increase, but rather, because of its characteristics, it became more and more famous as a limited cheat key in the early stages.
In the beginning, it was not possible to strengthen properly anyway, and since the character’s stats were crawling on the floor, it was several times more advantageous to have a higher basic stat.
Attack power can be filled with this weapon, and the stats to invest in strength can be turned into other main stats. This single point alone significantly changed the stability of the early build.
Of course, stability is limited to vanilla, and it’s not a story that’s applicable in the Dilla mode, where even if you get hit by a mob on the side of the road, you die in one shot.
Returning to the knight in silver armor who watched the whole process holding a bloody sword, a neutral voice came out from inside the helmet again.
“That weapon—?”
Before the knight could finish his words, a large crack appeared in the helmet that he was endangering. By saving the wearer’s life, it seemed that it had done its job and had reached the end of its lifespan.
It didn’t happen in the game that this NPC’s armor was broken, but it didn’t matter anyway. If I were to argue with that, I’d have to go back to where the last blood bomb flew.
The big picture of the story doesn’t seem to have changed anyway, and you can think of it as more realistic, like a human butcher with a stab wound on his stomach or the floor smashed when he stamped his foot.
The knight clicked his tongue, grabbed the helmet that was about to split in half, and tore it off himself. The halved pieces of the helmet rolled across the floor with a grinding sound.
Hidden inside, the long, straight silver hair swayed and spilled down.
‘… … wait, what? long straight hair?’
I hesitated for a while at the unexpected sight before my eyes met with the knight.
A face with silver eyes the same color as my hair, and a face that could be called pretty objectively or subjectively was looking at me.
Yes, the one inside the armor was a young woman.
Not a middle-aged man like the NPCs in my memory.