＜ 7. The Three Brothers (2) ＞
But even so, the situation did not change dramatically. The effect of the weakening is that the ability is reduced by 30%, and this was also the case with the ability to increase with ‘Indomitable Will’.
‘When I checked on the 23rd floor, my strength was 30. If you add up the amount increased by indomitable will, it’s exactly doubled to 60, but if you cut 30% here, it’s 42. Compared to before, the increased stats are only about 12.’
Because of the ‘Blessing of the Traitor’, the enemies’ stats had risen to that extent.
‘Still, the duration of the curse is only 1 turn. I just have to endure this turn somehow.’
The confrontation ended when the three brothers accepted all the blessings.
The first one bent the upper body as far back as possible and took a javelin stance. Like a pressed spring, a lot of strength accumulated in his right arm.
The moment the first one threw the trident, a thin piercing sound cut through the air.
Read from noble mtl dot com
Nettle – bang!
Because it was aimed precisely between the two, Andrea and Trisha split apart and had no choice but to dodge.
The trident thrown by the first half pierced the wall. Andrea wondered what would have happened if she had been hit by that.
There was no time to be relieved. The second and third were running towards Trisha together. Andrea tried to stop them both, but the first leaped in and blocked the way.
“You can’t pass, human!”
The trident struck lightly at the polar dawn. The first was to focus on keeping Andrea from moving hastily by taking advantage of her long weapon.
‘Oh no, Trisha is in danger…’
Trisha was enduring the second and third pincers with difficulty. Throwing herself towards the table, Trisha retrieved the arrow that the second had bounced, but the enemies were so close that she couldn’t create a chance to shoot.
Hitting with a bow also had its limitations. The gestures of the second and third became much sharper and stronger than before. Trisha has already been whipped a few times and has lost many of her cards.
Either way, it was a hit or a defense.
‘Deck compression honey… it’s not. I don’t want to get seriously injured like that.’
Andrea’s heart raced. The swinging blade was again sandwiched between the blades. I tried to pull it out quickly, but the first one turned the trident sideways and fixed the knife completely. An unexpected power struggle began.
The strength of the two was almost the same. Andrea spread her legs apart and braced her lower body. The first one tried to let Andrea’s power flow by changing the direction of the force from time to time, but Andrea also changed the direction accordingly.
A tense confrontation, the first was to keep taking time until the archer died. However, in the first place, the time that the first person could turn off was limited.
‘It’s turn 4.’
The weakness disappeared and explosive power boiled over. On the contrary, the first one felt the power draining away.
The balance is broken. Andrea slashed the sword stuck between the tridents. Due to the sudden shock, the first one lost the trident.
“Kiik?!”
In front of the overwhelming gap in ability, there is no need for residual talent. Andrea had never learned swordsmanship and was just fighting by instinct, but at this moment she clearly knew what to do.
Sh-yah!
One arm of the first was severed with a single knife.
“Keeeg
He could have ended his life, but he didn’t kill him. It wasn’t for nothing that they were called ‘friendly brothers’.
‘If one dies, the others recover their health and trigger a berserker pattern. All three must be killed at the same time.’
Andrea left the first one and turned away. The second and third noticed that the situation was unusual.
Tricia was beaten with a whip and fell to the floor. Although he held the arrow tightly in his hand, he was in no position to shoot it.
As already shown by surprise, the third was good at cunning. The third shouted, thrusting a dagger into Tricia’s throat.
“Wow, if you want to save the archer, put down your sword, human! Kiyeek!”
Andrea thought it was a disaster, but Tricia, who became a hostage, was calm. Ironically, it was the third person who was holding the hostage that shuddered the most.
On the contrary, Trisha saw that the current situation was much more advantageous than when she was under pincer attack. She glanced at the third’s complexion and the distance between him and the second.
Then, he drove the arrow in his hand into the third knee with all his might.
“Keeeg
Had he really been prepared to stab, the third would have stabbed Tricia straight through the neck. However, the third, who served with modest threats, was not prepared to do so.
As the third screamed in pain, Trisha ran away towards Andrea. He did not forget to give valuable advice to the hostage taker.
“I shouldn’t have threatened you, you should have stabbed me first, you asshole.”
The third person’s face was stained with pain and a sense of defeat. Now that things had worked out, Andrea decided to reverse the hostage situation. A dreary knife blade hung over the nape of the first one’s neck.
“You two, lay down your weapons. You don’t want to see your eldest brother die, do you?”
The second was restless, not knowing what to do. The situation turned upside down in an instant. The third had already put down his dagger and was holding his knee. A situation where there is no longer a chance to win.
But Andrea looked down on the three brothers too much.
The first spoke in a stern voice.
“Kiik, second, third. I had my arm cut off anyway, and I was already wrong.”
The first twisted his body in an instant and freed himself from Andrea’s blade. Andrea was taken aback and overpowered the first one again, trying to thrust a knife into his throat.
However, that was exactly what the first one wanted.
“Kiik, please avenge me.”
The first put his own throat on the tip of a knife. Andrea almost screamed.
‘ah! crazy!!’
It happened often in games too. At best, all three of them made their stamina moderately, but one got hit by an unexpected attack and died, and the other two went berserk.
Of course, you can’t take hostages only in games, so Andrea couldn’t have predicted that this would happen.
The second and the third were equally embarrassed by unexpected events. The carotid artery had been severed, and blood gushed out from the first one’s neck. The screams of the Hobgoblins who had lost their blood resounded desperately.
“Big tongue!”
“Tongue ugh!!”
There was no time to be moved by the tearful friendship. Stay calm in such an emergency situation. Andrea took a deep breath.
I had to prepare to face the two who went berserk. The hand went to the deck.
The cards drawn are Mana Boost, Marco Summon, and Defense.
A card I didn’t want was drawn. Andrea used her defenses first and slowly moved towards the two brothers.
The hobgoblins with their eyes turned upside down and foaming at the crabs were not in a normal state to anyone’s eyes. His slim figure swelled up grossly and turned into a mass of muscles comparable to that of Marco. The wounds on the third knee and wrist also gained new weight at once.
After the change, it was clear that it would be several times more difficult to deal with.
‘It’s practically impossible to catch two guys who went berserk at the same time. If that’s the case, I’d rather clean up one guy and go to the case of looking at the last pattern.’
Andrea decided that she was close enough and threw the Marco Summon toward the ceiling.
A summoning circle was drawn in the air and Marco jumped out.
“Miss Marco! window!”
“I know!”
Marco held the tip of the spear pointed at the floor without a hint of embarrassment and slashed it down.
“Kieek!”
A heavy blow from the air pierced the head of the second. Marco trampled on the second and pulled out the spear. Through the hole in the back of the head, blood and brains flowed.
Andrea instructed Marco in advance before entering the room. This time, I’ll summon it right above the enemy, so don’t hesitate and slash it with the spear.
The plan was successful.
“Little Tongue Oooh!!”
Having lost two brothers, Hobgoblin entered the last pattern. Final berserk pattern. The body was swollen enough to make Marco look dwarfed, and his abilities jumped three to four times.
The most difficult thing of all is that it becomes invincible.
There was only one way to kill the hobgoblin that had entered its final berserk.
Andrea glanced at Marco. Marco drew the third’s attention as if he knew.
“Come on hotly, you monster!”
‘That man knows how to say such a thing.’
Andrea then signaled to Tricia. Trisha nodded and moved to the back of the table to avoid the third person’s gaze.
The third clenched his huge fist and looked down at Marco.
“Kreukreuk, I will kill all of them!”
“It won’t work…”
puck!
Marco couldn’t even see the fist swing. All he could feel was an intense shock that choked his breath and blinded his vision.
bang!
Marco flew into the opposite wall and was doomed. All the bones in his upper body were shattered, as if he had been hit by a battering ram.
“Miss Marco!”
“Kreurreuk!!”
I couldn’t afford to look after Marco. The third was poised to run straight at Andrea.
Andrea’s hand holding the knife trembled slightly. Tension was gnawing at my whole body.
This trembling that made my spine chill and I had no choice but to clench my teeth. This pressure, as if the grip of death was strangling his throat.
It was a sensation that was not unfamiliar to Andrea.
‘I have to drag out the time as much as possible while not being able to see the palanquin, but it is invincible so I can’t deal any damage. then···’
I let go of the knife in my hand. A needle cannot block a mace. Andrea instead crouched down and covered her face with her forearm.
‘…It might be better to be beaten.’
How many can you survive? Thanks to his indomitable will, his resistance was nearly doubled, so he wouldn’t be fatally wounded by a single hit like Marco, but he still didn’t have the confidence to last more than three.
“Kreureuk, you’re doing useless things, human.”
The third, approaching right in front of him, raised his fist. He looked at Andrea, who was taking a defensive stance, with a different gaze.
“die!”
Fur – billion!
Unbelievably heavy shock, Andrea rolled backwards.
I tried to stand up from the floor, but my arms were not strong enough. A foreign body feeling that the bone was out of alignment was clearly felt on the inside of the forearm.
Andrea had no choice but to revise her earlier thoughts.
‘It’s going to be hard to hold on to more than two of these.’
My head went blank, but I knew that the turn had passed. The hand moved by itself through the waist dance. If you’re lucky, you might be able to pull out two defenses and use them.
There was no way the third one would just watch it.
puck!
A vicious kick struck Andrea’s abdomen.
I was gasping for breath and my eyes were blurry. It felt like my entire ribs were sinking. Andrea coughed violently and rolled on the floor.
A dungeon is a place where life-and-death gambling always comes and goes. And when it comes to gambling, people who press down with money usually have an advantage.
Andrea’s wealth was extremely small. Two, only two blows were the stakes that Andrea could survive without dying. Probabilistically speaking, Andrea’s destruction was a predetermined future.
But where does gambling always come with high probability outcomes?
My vision suddenly became pitch black. The third shook his head in confusion. Complete darkness where you can’t see anything.
‘[Unique] Ring of the Blind (Equipment Card): A ring made for a blind servant by the Archbishop of the Shadow God. (When hit, 20% chance to blind the enemy)’
Andrea raised the ring with a triumphant smile. The winner of this gamble was Andrea.
At just the right time, Tricia ran towards the third. A bright red blade dug into the calf of the third, who was in a panic and didn’t know what to do.
Andrea was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“Ha… Ugh, why are you so late?”
“Sorry, the door of the kiln… it didn’t open well because it was rusted.”
Tricia said with an apologetic expression.
If one of the brothers remained and became invincible, then the door to the restaurant kiln could be opened. An appetizing roast turkey was placed in the kiln, and a knife with a bright red blade was stuck on top of it.
‘[Epic] Mortal Dagger (equipment card): A dagger with a curse that makes sure those stabbed to death (ignoring invincibility and making the attacked target die) (This card disappears when you leave the floor)’
It was the only way to kill the Hobgoblin left alone.
Like a deflated balloon, the third body’s blood shrank. The third, who stumbled miserably, ended up falling to the floor.
“Tongue uh uh uh…”
The third breathed his last breath. The battle is finally over.
＜ 7. The Three Brothers (2) ＞ End