Surviving the Game as a Barbarian chapter 188

188 Episode Templar (3)

I am walking in a dark forest.

Follow the direction in which the doppelganger disappeared from the Altar of Shadows.

“… … .”

You are moving your feet in the stiff air.

For reference, I am at the forefront of the formation, and the rest follow me after a few meters away.

It’s far from a normal formation, but… … .

Well, what do you do?

This must be the life of a carry-type tanker.

“Ready for battle!”

The moment when I felt popular in the front.

Dozens of doppelgangers appeared from beyond the darkness where light sphere magic could not reach.

It is a change that occurs when we enter the fourth chapter.

After the doppelganger’s seal is released, the number of corpses lying on the field increases exponentially.

and… … .

“The Empire, the Empire… … enemy… … !”

“porridge… … Hey!!”

It no longer transforms into our form.

At least until I met the body in person.

I don’t know why.

Because when I was playing the game, I just wanted to do that.

Well, if I look for it now, I wonder if there must be some hidden background to this phenomenon… … .

That’s not what I’m thinking right now.

「The character has cast [Leap].」

Before the distance narrowed further, I jumped and landed in the middle of them.

Aww-!

A special terrain effect [recoil] that continues as the ground rumbles as soon as you land. Dozens of doppelgangers float in the air at once.

Kwajik-!

First, he slapped a guy like a baseball bat and cast [Feral Eruption].

“Behel—la ah ah ah ah!!”

The threat figure is tripled.

Doppelgangers in the form of soldiers rushed at me like blind beasts.

As long as it’s a monster, you can’t ignore the provocation.

“The Empire, above… … So… … !”

The doppelganger who turned into a soldier had no skills, but was a fairly demanding enemy nonetheless.

Because his stats are very high.

As you can see just by looking at the shield soldiers withstanding my mace, if you look at the stats, each one is at least Ainar.

In addition, the fact that it was made up of various classes such as bow, spear, sword, magic, crossbow, and shield also contributed to increasing the difficulty of the battle.

However… … .

Kwajik! Kwajik!

Blocking may prevent it, but never avoid it.

There is no point in avoiding it in the first place.

Because all sides were already enemies.

You can only be beaten like a tank and wait for the support of your comrades to continue.

「Arua Raven has cast 5th grade attack magic [Lightning].」

The long-awaited magic was soon completed.

Widespread thunderstorms.

「Kyleman Parteian has cast a level 5 secondary magic [Spell Enhancement].」

Perhaps thanks to Parteian’s assistance, the power increased by about twice the normal.

Therefore, pause so as not to be swept away by the magic.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa-!

The ‘lightning’, which is nothing more than a natural disaster, struck for about 5 seconds, but it was enough to make the doppelganger corps into a state of half-wave.

‘After all, hunting is hunting.’

The remaining remnants took the time to kill with their distant colleagues.

One battle that ended like that.

The blunt warrior muttered as he wiped the blood from his weapon.

“… … Parthenian, will Miss Sarman be okay? I keep getting worried.”

“You haven’t seen it either. The doppelganger couldn’t even come close to the altar. As long as you don’t go out, you’ll be fine.”

“But it wouldn’t have been better to bring him… … .”

The blunt warrior seemed to be interested in the Indian woman he had left behind in the safe zone.

But for me, it was a no-brainer.

Due to the nature of the doppelganger, it may not mean that there is no way to use an Indian woman at all… … .

This is the story of when it was used as a disposable throwaway card.

The harm far outweighs the benefit if we are together as an object to be protected.

“Stop it. Isn’t that part of what Sarman also agreed to? If we fail, we will all die anyway.”

Parthenian looked at me and ended the conversation at this point, and I just resumed my exploration without saying anything.

There’s nothing good about wasting time.

Dedede-!

After several more battles, as we progressed through the dark forest, a slight vibration was transmitted under our feet.

This means that the unlock rate is 20%.

After all, it goes up about 1% every 10 minutes, so it was time for that.

“Mr. Yandel, can we go a little faster?”

“I do.”

I increased my movement speed as if I was being chased by time.

and… … .

“I have arrived.”

Finally reached the target point.

A sinkhole I had never seen before when I was wandering through the forest to find the middle boss.

Now when you go down here, the boss battle begins.

But, before that, let’s start with this.

“I’m going to do some searching around here for a while.”

Under Raven’s direction, we wandered around the sinkhole in search of something.

It didn’t take long.

“It’s just like the book. They said there must be one hiding near the entrance.”

A white tombstone that emits a gloomy sound.

In the game, it was named ‘Sealing Stone’ as a proper noun.

However, it is not enough to call it a hidden piece by itself.

When it comes to the fourth chapter, it will not only occur multiple times throughout the forest… … .

“Is it according to the book?”

Information on the Sealing Stone can be found naturally through the [Memo of the Sacrifice] generated at the Shadow Altar after the third chapter.

Well, yes, it’s just information about finding and activating it.

“There was no such thing in the memoir.”

“It’s a book other than a memoir.”

Raven did not answer the wizard’s question in detail, and raised his hand over the sealing stone.

aah

A black light that shoots into the sky in the form of a pillar.

“The sealing stone has been activated.”

“The seal release rate is 10%.”

This has reduced the doppelganger’s unsealing rate by 10%.

Of course, if we follow our strategy, this number won’t be very meaningful.

“Then, the preparations we can do here are finished.”

Soon we returned to the sinkhole again.

“Are you all ready?”

It’s time to fight the boss.

***

“The character has entered the usurper’s lair.”

***

A boss battle that is nothing more than a flower of cracks.

However, the boss battle of ‘Doppelganger Forest’ takes place in a slightly unusual format.

First, the expedition must be divided into two.

One team fights a boss battle.

The other team finds a sealing stone in a forest full of doppelganger soldiers and manages the unlock rate.

This is the standard strategy written in [Memoir of the Sacrifice].

‘I mean, the concept was annoying.’

Here, we can break through only when we trust each other and do our part.

Perhaps we, too, would have chosen two or three appropriate members from each team and divided them into two teams to fight the boss.

If the mine hadn’t exploded.

[I can’t use that method anymore. Because there are only seven of us now.]

Things went awry when the expedition was split in half.

There are absolutely not enough people to divide the team.

So what should I do?

After checking the loot left by the Dwarf and Hans G team, I gave an early answer, and gave Raven a hint to induce him to arrive at the same answer.

all in.

Since there will be no one or two by dividing the small number of people into two, concentrating all power in one place and aiming for a short-term war.

Simply put, a stagnant-person strategy.

[It might be a little dangerous, but is everyone okay?]

[There is no other way.]

That’s how the strategy was laid.

The success rate I predicted is 90%.

Of course, the probability is just a number, so we have no choice but to see if this will work.

Where did life become only Plan A?

Koo-!

Like a barbarian, he first jumped down the tunnel to check whether it was safe or not. And when I signaled upward, the rest of the personnel came down one by one.

“The air is chilly.”

cool temperature cave.

[Kyaa-!!]

Perhaps they felt our popularity from the inside, too, and they let out a bizarre howling.

I laughed bitterly.

This is one of the roles of a barbarian.

“What is frozen? Let’s go to George.”

Giving courage to team members.

Without hesitation, I took the lead and made my way through the straight passage, and some who had been withdrawn also came to their senses and followed them.

thump, thump.

Had I walked about forty steps like that?

The mist that had been scattered throughout the cave lifted, revealing the boss room.

A cavity drawn with a huge magic circle.

A stone of truth lying on the floor like a toy, and something in the form of a person squatting with his back turned in the center of it.

And sobbing.

“You, Hee-do… … You came to kill me… … ?”

Something turned and looked at us.

The face exposed was none of us.

He was just an ordinary kid.

If it wasn’t for the eyes, nose and mouth turned upside down.

“I didn’t do anything wrong, I thought… … .”

A kid staring at us as if it was unfair.

The emotion in his eyes soon turns into anger.

This is an intro for a common boss fight.

“I am just like you—!”

So, skip before hitting the next line.

“Behel—la ah ah ah!!”

It’s not a good environment to use ‘Leap’, so I just dashed and swung my mace.

Puff-!

A kid with his head smashed as he sat.

But it doesn’t taste like usual.

It feels like hitting a sandbag filled with water.

[Kye-e-e-eek!!]

A scream from an unknown source filled the entire cave, and at the same time, the little boy turned into a form of black slime.

Bubbling bubbling!

Something black like sea urchin thorns that contracts and expands in a convex shape.

‘Am I the beginning?’

When the process was over, another me was standing there.

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Mimicry 擬態.

A unique skill unique to the doppelganger that cannot be obtained even by taking the essence.

However, it was a little different from the field.

“Kye-yeah hey hey!!”

He no longer imitates my words and actions.

and… … .

「Anonymous usurper has cast [Swipe].」

It doesn’t end with just imitation, it becomes stronger than the original.

It is easy to see that the stats and skills of the mimicry target are added to the stats of a level 5 monster.

It’s not like it’s a level 4 monster for nothing.

Whoops-!

Once he tried it, he backed away and avoided it.

At the same time, his mace fell to the floor.

aa-!

It left a crater and vibrated the entire cave.

The strength is so strong that I wondered if it would come out if I had to increase my strength by 200 more. When I think about what my future will look like, I feel a little proud.

But… … .

‘This is enough to stop it.’

It’s enough to cover the attached stats with temper.

He held up his shield to block the one who wields the mace randomly so that he could not approach his comrades.

Aww-!

It didn’t get the clear sound I was expecting.

The weight felt from the shield was more than I expected.

Is this a 50% reduction in impulse?

“Raven!!”

Like a boring explorer, I gave a support ping.

The magic that flies right away.

As the opponent was a high-grade monster, it started with curse magic, not attack magic.

Quang-!

The attack of the one that was a little easier to withstand.

However, this only satisfies the first premise for the attack.

The first real phase starts now.

「An unnamed usurper has cast [Self-Replica].」

Black slime splattered indiscriminately from the body of the doppelganger in my form and fell to the floor. The grains are so small that counting is meaningless.

“Iherno Heindar!”

Raven’s staff spit out flames and melted the pellets, but it was impossible to dispose of them all.

The grains, which were firmly crawling on the floor, went through a series of transformations and began to mimic our form.

“A total of four!”

Raven calmly conveyed the information to me.

I judged quickly.

Since they are alter ego, they do not have the same performance as the main body.

Therefore, the plan is a follow-up.

“Don’t worry about me, get rid of them first!”

It was at that time when I decided to leave the bodies to a colleague and focus only on dealing with the body.

“It’s all Hans Chryssen!”

At Raven’s additional briefing, my body stiffened by itself.

‘What?’

He doubted his ears and checked his surroundings even though he was in battle. Naturally, there was no such thing as Raven giving wrong information to me.

‘… … Nemil.’

How can you all float with Hans G?

Wasn’t it a pattern of transforming into one of 15 people, dead or alive?

Then what are the odds?

Not knowing my speed, Raven shouted.

“I’m glad that Yandel is not among the alter ego! Hurry up and clean it up!”

A voice that sounds like good news.

It’s not that I don’t understand the sentiment.

Hans G is relatively inferior in combat power among us, and with four Summoners, he’s also weak in combination.

For sure, that’s a good thing for us.

However… … .

pounding.

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My heart started beating like crazy.