The Old Man Is So Good at Acting Like a Loser chapter 44

＜ 9. The thief who stole the country (6) ＞

“To eat something that looks so delicious… I thought they were both out of their minds.”

Marco, who lived a slave life in the sea for years, and Andrea, who came from another world, ate shrimp and octopus casually. At first, Trisha looked at the two of them from the sidelines, like savages enjoying a voracious diet.

‘No, try it first and judge for yourself.’

Tricia fell in love with the taste of shrimp and octopus. Andrea struggling triumphantly.

“There is nothing to lose by listening to me.”

“yes. I’ll have to ask him to do it again when I go to that temple later.”

Andrea couldn’t help laughing at the thought of Julius’ reaction when he heard those words.

The exit from the Temple of Waves was in the air. Outside the temple, follow the precariously extended stairs like the edge of a cliff, and you will see a white door. Andrea and the others passed through the gates one by one and turned their backs on the temple.

The road to the 30th floor was downhill. Torches hung uniformly from the walls swayed along with the draft. In the overlapping shadows, runic letters were revealed all over the wall.

“This···.”

Trisha swiped down the runes. I wasn’t sensitive to magical powers, but I could easily guess that there was something shamanistic about it.

Andrea told me the identity of the runes.

“This is the seal I was talking about earlier. It’s a spell that blocks the entrance so that the monster inside doesn’t come out all the way here.”

When I passed through the passage, it felt like I was passing through something like an invisible membrane. It was possible to pass through, but it was an impossibility to go back.

“The fact that there’s a seal like this at the entrance… is that guy?”

Marco opened his mouth in a heavy voice. Andrea nodded lightly. He didn’t show much so that Marco wouldn’t be nervous, but his head was busy.

‘It’s fortunate that he’s a guy who can get hints at the entrance. If it was King Slime or something else, I would have had to go in without knowing.’

‘This guy is tricky in a different way than King Slime. While King Slime is armed with all kinds of dirty patterns and cowardly attacks, this guy’s patterns are relatively honest, but the problem is that if he gets pushed a little, he runs away and takes time.’

‘First of all, it’s best to make a quick decision so that we don’t waste time until turn 8… The problem is that our team’s firepower is being pushed back.’

Before I knew it, I arrived at the huge door leading to the 30th floor. It looked no different from the 20th floor. Monster and human faces carved with wave patterns, runes, and reliefs. The only difference is that the monsters look more enraged.

Andrea decided to do a final check before entering.

“Let me tell you the pattern one more time. And how to deal with the situation. Of course, my instructions are not absolute under any circumstances. If you think you are going to die right away, you should just refer to it and react flexibly.”

Game and reality are different. Even more so, there are not a few cases where unexpected variables pop up even in games, but in reality, it was more than that, nothing less.

‘Thorough knowledge of patterns, flexible planning.’

Based on her experience dealing with the Guardians, this was the mindset Andrea put forward in dealing with this boss.

Once again, after all the explanations, Andrea reverse summoned Marco. Trisha was looking ahead with determined eyes.

Andrea finally opened the door.

Uprooted trees flew towards them.

“Harm!”

Andrea pushed Tricia away, and the recoil threw herself to the side. It was an evasion in which the body reacted reflexively before the head.

bang!

The tree was struck directly between the two. There was a big scratch on the iron door. If I had been hit by that, the pain wouldn’t have ended.

“…”

Unlike the frightened Andrea, the monster who actually launched this outrageous surprise attack was lying in the most comfortable position with his arms propped up on the railing.

It was so huge that my body could touch either end of the long railing. Pectoralis major muscle and deltoid muscle wriggling in a craving for violence. His biceps, which seemed to have been hammered into an iron anvil, seemed capable of crushing rocks into sand.

Compared to his overwhelming physical strength, his armament was meager. Just epaulettes and gauntlets with spikes. However, it was reckless optimism to think that he would be able to fight because his whole body was already a weapon.

All appearances were as they were in memory. The tangled black mane, the huge horns that were incomparable to those of Arpan. The biggest feature of all is the impressive bull’s head that you can’t help but recall the name as soon as you see it.

Andrea muttered the monster’s name in a low voice.

Minotaur.

‘The Minotaur, an unfortunate monster cursed by the devil. The ancient King of Helios, Minos, loved his son dearly. When he fell ill and threatened to kill his son, King Minos made a pact with the devil.’

‘A contract to pay any price as long as my son can survive. King Minos knew he would pay the price, but the devil paid for it by turning his son into a bull-headed monster.’

‘As time passed, King Minos met his death, and all his family members became a handful of dirt. But for some reason, death did not come to the son of King Minos who became a monster.’

‘Now he is sealed away in the ruins of the capital city, killing travelers who enter in search of treasure. But in fact, what he really wants may be to break the shackles of the curse and find someone who can bring him peace.’

As the narration explains, behind him was a fallen royal castle. There was a colony of trees growing wildly around, but one of them had just disappeared after a rare experience of flying in the air.

“You saved time to introduce yourself.”

Possibly because he had the vocal cords of a beast, his low voice was mixed with gurgling breathing.

The Minotaur rose from the ledge. Andrea brought her hand to the deck. The cards drawn are Defense, Mana Conservation, and Leap. It was a composition in which time should not be wasted talking.

Andrea winked at Trisha. A sign to go with the first plan. Afterwards, Andrea immediately took out the Earth Grinder’s hammer.

“Is that your weapon?”

The beastly instinct was alive in the bull monster. An instinct that senses the power gap more sensitively than anyone else. The first two were no threat to him at all.

The attacker who threw the tree did not attack with clear hostility. It was just a momentary entertainment to gauge the level.

The Minotaur approached slowly. I felt an overwhelming confidence that no matter what I did, it would never hurt me.

“Seeing that you dodged the first attack, it looks like you have a good chance, but I hope you don’t die too easily.”

Completely careless, Trisha took advantage of that gap and shot an arrow.

Paeng –

It was an arrow reinforced with strong shooting. Instead of avoiding the arrow, the Minotaur thrust his palm towards it.

pick.

The arrows did not even scratch the skin. The Minotaur grabs the arrow it caught. When he opened his hand, the arrowheads were clumped together like small chunks of scrap metal.

“If that was the best attack, you’d better sit on the railing and watch.”

Ignoring the taunts, Trisha fired arrow after arrow. However, it was unlikely that an arrow that had not been strengthened could cause damage.

I couldn’t even get bitten by mosquitoes. The Minotaur completely turned off Trisha’s attention.

“I hope the hammer catcher doesn’t disappoint me.”

“Sorry, on reflection, I think I will disappoint you.”

Andrea reverse summoned the hammer and started running away from the Minotaur. The Minotaur just stared at it blankly, not realizing what had happened.

The Minotaur, who came to his senses belatedly, frowned, baring his teeth.

“Are you mocking me?”

The Minotaur bent his upper body and touched the ground with both arms. Then he started to charge at Andrea like a four-legged animal.

The floor rumbled. Andrea never looked back. As soon as my feet touched the ground, I took a step again and ran for my life.

‘If you run into that horn, it’s the end.’

Andrea’s running speed was incomparable to that of a normal person. The muscles strengthened by the wave god’s blessing bounced up elastically like a spring.

However, it was not enough to outrun the Minotaur, which galloped on all fours. The distance between the two was getting shorter every minute. Trisha watched the fierce chase with impatience.

In no time, they reached the front of the royal castle. A situation where you have to turn in order to evade the chase.

However, Andrea did not do that and instead stopped. As I turned around, the sight of an angry bull monster rushing in dust filled my vision.

‘Let’s stay calm. You have to avoid it at the right timing.’

I wanted to run away right away, but I squeezed my self-denial. At the right moment, until the Minotaur can’t stop due to inertia.

‘Now!’

Just before being pierced by the horns, Andrea threw herself to the side and used a leap. It was quite a difference.

And the Minotaur could not stop as Andrea had planned and crashed into the wall of the royal castle.

bang!

jerk, jerk

A huge impact was followed by the sound of cracking stone walls. Using that sound as a signal, the ruins that were precariously balancing began to collapse all at once.

Qurrr – !

Broken stones and debris hit the bull monster at once. Even if his whole body were made of steel, he wouldn’t have been safe.

‘I have no choice at this level.’

There was no possibility that the boss monster on the 30th floor would die so pointlessly.

It’s turn 2. A glance that draws a card and scans it quickly. Andrea held a card in her palm.

In the meantime, a thick hand rose from the pile of stones. The Minotaur calmly cleared the rubble and stuck his head in, as if asking what had happened.

Andrea took advantage of the gap and swung her hammer.

Whoo – Whoops!

However, the hammering of conversion was interrupted in the middle.

“It was not a bad try. The one who provoked me, the one who narrowly avoided my charge, and the one who took advantage of the chance to break through and aimed for my head.”

The minotaur’s gigantic hand clutched the earthshatter’s hammer. As I tightened my grip, the hammer head crumbled to pieces of stone.

“Anyway, you seem like someone who doesn’t need to be looked after.”

Andrea fully turned her upper body and pulled out the hammer with the recoil. Although half of it was close to what the Minotaur let go of.

Andrea gritted her teeth and raised one corner of her mouth.

“I don’t care if you keep looking at me like this.”

“It was the last mercy. I hope you handle that hammer better than I have shown you.”

“Actually, I showed you roughly everything I could show you.”

Andrea threw the hammer at the sky with all her might. Then he threw the card he had hidden in his hand.

“From now on, the rest will be shown by the real owner of the hammer.”

A green summoning circle was drawn in the air. Marco, who was summoned to jump up, took the hammer in his hand without panicking.

A gaze that overcomes fear and calmly looks at the enemy. Marco cheered and tensed his forearms.

“Haap!”

Using the falling power, the earth crusher’s hammer slammed down at the Minotaur as it was. Because it was a sudden attack, the Minotaur could not completely avoid the attack.

Kwa-ang!!!

An intense shockwave that makes your spine stand on end. Although it was not a direct hit to the head, the aftermath was not insignificant.

Marco got up from the floor and looked at the Minotaur leisurely. A cursed bull monster that had lost one of its horns in a single attack stood in front of him.

“I’ve said this before when I met a monster like you.”

I straightened my posture and gripped the hammer properly again. After bending his neck once, Marco recited in a detached voice.

“Come hit me hotly, you monster.”

＜ 9. The thief who stole the country (6) ＞ End