Get Runes – 4
ㅡCoooung!
The rocky centipede that hit the wall with its own head began to glow again. Hundreds of legs struggled, joints twisted around, and pain was expressed with the whole body.
‘finally.’
I praised my own perseverance for going through this dirty and nasty gimmick 20 times. It was exactly the 20th just now, so if I did 40 more, it would be the 4th phase.
The surrounding terrain had long since been virtually devastated. The whole floor was overturned because he crashed into the wall alone and went mad, and there were cracks all over the wall, and some parts collapsed altogether.
It struggled for a long time, then led its large body, forcibly opened a crack in the rock, broke it, and fled. He was such a big guy that it took him a long time to disappear.
The sound of vibration gradually faded away. With this, Phase 1 was cleared.
I got up from my seat and moved to the path revealed between the collapsed walls. Now that we’ve finished one phase, it was time to go to the gimmicks of phase 2, slicing through the mobs.
The gimmicks of Phase 2 and Phase 3, which will be forthcoming, were also not significantly different. Enticing a yawningly slow sprinting rock centipede to ram its head somewhere alone.
It just changes from wall to column and from column to wall. It wasn’t fun, it took a long time, but it was a structure with a very high risk of dying from being hit by blind shrapnel.
So if you want to like this, can you like it?
‘In the game, there was no mid-save, so when I died, I started over from the beginning.’
What’s even more terrifying is the fact that there is no mid-save because all of the eternity-like time from phase 1 to phase 4 is treated as a boss fight.
If you perform the gimmick 59 times and die due to a control mistake in the last 60th, you must return to phase 1 again. I’ve seen quite a lot of guys who suffer from that.
I’ve been through it once, but I couldn’t stop playing the game.
‘Ah, it seems it’s about time to attack.’
I didn’t advance much, but centipedes the same size as me crawled out from between the rocks. When they descended underground, they were crushed by rocks and flattened as a group.
Since they are trash mobs who roll to avoid attacks and have nothing to do, they just bounce off the first hit and pick off the head right away. The centipede was cut into chunks that the bloody sword pierced.
It seemed like the centipede was trying to chew with its lower jaw, so it seemed impossible to deflect it, but when it magically swung the weapon, it was hit and bounced off, causing stiffening.
I must have cut ten centipedes like that, kurreung, and I heard the sound of the ground vibrating from far away. It meant that the start of Phase 2 was near. retraced his steps.
As I passed through the narrow alley, a pupil of the same size as the one I had just stayed in appeared. Instead, the difference was that there was a huge pillar rising up to the ceiling in the center.
That pillar was the key factor in performing the 2nd phase gimmick. Everything else is the same, but you have to make the rock centipede slam 20 times into that pillar, not the wall.
‘Either way or not, it’s all the same thing.’
At least, if it had only been done 5 times, I would have been able to understand it.
Wow! With an explosion, the rock centipede broke the rock on the other side and jumped out. I dodged the flying stone fragments. Compared to the first phase, he was quite a mess.
There was a fine crack in the upper part of the head that had been hit against the wall 20 times.
The upper body was immediately taken down. It seemed like he was trying to crush me. As I evaded it by rolling to the side, a shock wave hit me from behind. Debris flew in all directions.
‘It’s a seal that bounces off again this time.’
It was a case similar to the specific pattern of the headless ironclad cavalry.
If you jump with full force and bounce the spear down pattern, a grab attack will come in while the body is pushed back. Because of that, you will definitely get a follow-up hit, and the same happened to the rock centipede.
All attacks have a huge deflection post-delay, so you can never avoid the next attack. Thanks to this, I had to use only rolling, and it even had the opposite effect of making the already boring boss fight more boring.
The rock centipede snapped a nearby rock with its mandibles and then raised its head high. No, it wasn’t just about raising it, it was almost bending the entire upper body backwards.
‘I’ll grow dirty once in a while.’
The rock didn’t come until after I hid behind the wall for almost 5 more seconds. The sound of something being smashed was heard from the other side, and a shower of stone fragments was scattered.
The rock centipede twisted its body and lost its temper after confirming that the human who had toyed with it was still alive. The body sank to the floor once more. It was a signal to prepare for the charge pattern.
The rock centipede began to move slowly. I watched it quietly and moved a little at his pace. I hardly even had to run.
This time it was more troublesome than the first phase. I have to lure him to the pillar while maintaining a certain distance from him. If the distance is too wide, he will cancel the charge pattern.
Then, of course, I had to do it all over again from the rush induction.
‘It’s crazy, really.’
If I had rushed faster than the player character’s running speed, I would have been criticized for being difficult, but it wouldn’t have been at the level where all sorts of double curses were coming from everyone like now.
I circled the pupil to lure him in and stood in front of the pillar. The rock centipede was running with all its might. Even so, it was slow enough to cause a yawn.
I watched it quietly, and when the distance closed, I rolled off to the side. Right next to you! I heard a voice saying
ㅡCoooung!
“Again?”
Rize frowned as she heard a strange sound and the entire cavern vibrated.
I don’t know how many times this has already happened. It’s been quiet for a while, so I thought it was over now, but it started again.
“I don’t think this place is going to collapse entirely.”
“I don’t know either. It’s too intermittent to be a sign of ground collapse, and the magnitude of the oscillations is absurdly large to think about anything else. Neither of them is ambiguous.”
“Is there any possibility that it is a monster?”
“Monster… … What?”
Iris’ question left Erica speechless for a moment. If it was a monster that was huge enough to shake the entire ground, that would be a problem.
“I’d rather be a monster. Can’t you at least try to kill it? A monster capable of causing vibrations of this magnitude would be absurdly gigantic, but fighting such a monster would be far more worth trying than being buried alive in a collapsing cave.”
“It certainly is. It is far better to die fighting monsters than to die being buried alive here.”
“Hey, why is dying the premise? Do you want to keep making ominous noises?”
Rize, who was ahead of her, turned her head and grumbled. The horse had some thorns on it. It had been that way ever since the rookie suddenly started taking personal action.
“I’m talking about what ifs, sister. And, I don’t have the slightest idea that we’re going to die here. Didn’t you hear what Mr. Sinb said, too?”
True to his word, none of the three here showed signs of uneasiness. Even though there is a possibility that you will die of starvation or dehydration if you are trapped in a collapsed cave.
“I know. You said you’d be waiting for me downstairs.”
It was because of the words that the new knight, who should be a long way down now, said while falling. He shouted that he would be waiting for him just by going downstairs.
It contained the conviction that nothing the knight commanders were worried about would happen.
“yes. Now that Mr. Shin-ib said so, all we have to do is hurry down here. I can’t make you wait down there alone. I still have something to say to the newcomer.”
“okay. I must say something this time.”
It was the same with Rize, Erika, and Iris. This time, I was thinking of nagging him to tell me in advance if I knew anything.
No one thought that the rookie was dead. They seemed to know something, and they always surprised themselves when they did.
It will definitely be like that this time too.
ㅡCooong!
“Oh really! What the hell is it from now on?”
“… … hurry up a bit We need to join as soon as possible.”
“Yes. Whatever it is, there’s no point in procrastinating here.”
The three of them rushed down without paying attention to their surroundings. It was because I had been told that there was nothing here, so I could just go.
It was as it was said. The three did not encounter anything. I haven’t even met an ordinary monster, let alone the source that shook the ground.
The road led down very flat, and the three went deeper into the basement.
“This, what the hell… … ?”
And deep underground, they found part of a giant centipede-shaped rock.
It looked like it was crushed to the fullest by being crushed by a thick pillar.