◈ 216. [STAGE 9] Jormungand
raid party 3, 15 players.
We prepared from dawn before sunrise and teleported to [Lakeside Pier].
At the point overlooking the Black Lake, they were waiting for Jormungandr to appear.
“Uh~ Cha Cha Cha!”
Beside me, Kelly Bay is doing gymnastics stretching her short limbs while looking down at the lake.
that… I don’t know what to say, but the gymnastics posture is really like old man’s. Stop it.
“Why don’t you come next to me and follow me! If you slouch like that all the time, will you get old and regret it?”
“What kind of nagging like a father… No, don’t drag me!”
So half-forcibly brought to Kelly Bay, I also did gymnastics overlooking the lake. damn it… … Whack-cha-cha.
“It’s really been a while since I came out of the Lake Kingdom!”
Kelly Bay, who finished the gymnastics, said while clapping back and forth.
“If you stay in there, you become numb to the flow of time.”
“Do you really need to be in there? There’ll be a teleport gate anyway. I’ll build a forge on Cross Road, so stay cool outside in the sun.”
Suck it all the way down to the bone marrow… … No, I made this suggestion because I was worried about the old man’s health. Kelly Bay shook her head.
“There are things I can do because I am inside. And I don’t think the other poor fellows crawling down there need at least a blacksmith.”
I tried to boil it anyway, but Kelly Bay covered her ears and didn’t listen to me.
Chet. Like a dwarf, he’s a stubborn old man.
“Hmm… .”
Next to us, Reina and the reinforcement party were looking at the teleport gate.
“There are many strange things here, Your Highness. The lost teleportation magic, the dungeon under the lake… … .”
“There’s an ancient magic kingdom down there that’s connected to the source of those monsters.”
I smiled at Reina.
“I thought the central government knew everything?”
“When I was dispatched, I heard about simple words, but I didn’t know that there were even things like this that cannot be surpassed in modern magic.”
Reina, who was worried with her chin resting on her chin, looked at me with sparkling eyes.
“Can you take me with you on your next expedition?”
“If the circumstances are right.”
Anyway, all wizards are interested in ancient magic.
But strictly speaking, reinforcements are just reinforcements. There is no need to have friends who are leaving soon anyway join the exploration and share the experience.
That’s why I intentionally kept Reina’s party away from the dungeon.
‘Still, the next boss stage is 10. In order to match the sum of all hero characters, it might be okay to go on an expedition together and conduct joint training… … .’
How can we alleviate the tension by chatting around like this?
Ku-gu-gu-gu-
The ground started to vibrate.
Everyone intuitively noticed the enemy’s arrival. I shouted.
“All ready!”
bubbling… … .
The surface of the black lake shuddered violently as if it had been hit by a storm.
shoot it… … !
A terrifying spray rose.
Amidst the spray, the head of a huge serpent, shining silver-gray, was revealed. I chewed up his name and spit it out.
“Jormungand… !”
oh oh oh-!
The monster’s yellow eyes were exposed in the air, and there was a sound like the air boiling.
… It’s huge.
It’s an adjective I’ve used many times, but I had no choice but to use it again. There are no words that describe him as well as this.
Even the head, which has barely come out of the water, seems to be almost the size of a mansion.
What the hell is this ignorant size!
‘This is a ‘super-giant’ monster… … !’
Seeing it with my own eyes is a force that is different from what I felt in the game.
Does it mean that such a large creature can exist in the world?
Shrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrorging
Jormungandr slowly pulled himself out of the lake.
A huge, silver-grey body covered with scales the size of a small shield crawled slowly across the floor and finally landed on land.
slam-!
The water of the Black Lake gushed out in waves.
Water droplets fell like showers over our heads as we stood next to Naruto and watched this.
“… Seeing it with my own eyes, it is absurdly big.”
Evangeline was hardened even as she was hit with water all over her body.
“Really we… Can we defeat these monsters?”
“We have to fight back.”
I said boldly.
“If not, the monster front will end and the world will perish.”
Looking back, all defense battles were like that.
If you don’t block it, everyone will die. We have always been the last line of defense in this world.
It is the same this time. There is no difference.
kill the monster
save people
It’s what you’ve always done.
When I said that calmly, the frozen party members’ shoulders loosened little by little.
“Get your senses, ragtag bandits.”
Lucas slapped the shoulder of the most stiff punishment unit.
“I’m already scared, so what? After that, everything really dies. Come to your senses and don’t make me clean up the corpses.”
“Someone said he was scared, driver!”
Quylan, who was shaking his legs at the subject of a giant body over 2m, shouted at Lucas’s words.
“I’m just excited about going snake hunting already!”
“Looks pretty damn good. weakling.”
“It’s real! Shit, let’s compare our majors later when it’s all over!”
“That’s good. It is a very good condition to clearly remind me of the difference between you and me.”
Lucas sneered coldly and Quylan gnashed his teeth.
I looked at it and smiled. It’s good to be bluffing, so it’s better to fight now.
‘And it won’t be as difficult as I thought.’
Although it is a non-standard monster that makes the ground vibrate as if there was an earthquake even though it is just crawling.
In fact, Jormungandr was my preferred boss monster in the game.
Because the strategy was clear.
The belligerence is also low. He’s just a drummer. If only the part destruction gimmick was performed thoroughly, it could be sufficiently repulsed before approaching the crossroads.
In addition, in this stage,
[Dark event does not activate in this stage.]
[Maximum applicable difficulty. You can’t raise the difficulty any higher than this.]
There is no fucking dark event!
There is no dark event because of the ‘maximum difficulty’ like the time of the vampire.
The maximum difficulty is annoying, but anyway, there is no dark event, which means there are no additional variables.
‘Stable attack is possible.’
I nodded heavily as I fixed the grappling hook launcher on my arm.
The opponent is a monster like a natural disaster.
It’s good enough.
“Now, it’s time to get on board!”
Jormungandr’s giant has already left the lake halfway.
Timing it, I fired a hook at the monster’s body.
“let’s go-!”
Chow! Charleureuk!
At about the same time, fifteen silver hooks were launched into the body of the monstrous snake and caught between its scales.
ping! Phew!
The mainspring of the device entwined, the string pulled us, and all 15 heroic characters soared through the air.
fault! Tadak!
Just like the guy landed on the ground.
We also landed on his back.
“You are wide… .”
Evangeline, who had just climbed onto Jormungandr’s back, admired it.
“I wonder if the ant on my body feels like this… ?”
Perhaps because of its enormous mass, Jormungandr’s body was shaped like a cylinder placed on its side and pressed up and down.
In other words, the top is pretty flat. We deserve enough movement.
Evangeline, who was lightly running around on top of it, tilted her head.
“It’s not a snake, is it a dragon? Is this enough?”
“Snakes, dragons, serpents, or earthworms. How are you? They are our enemies.”
I confirmed that everyone was up and nodded. There are no losers.
“As instructed in advance. From here, all three parties head to their respective areas of operation.”
There are three nerve centers that need to be destroyed. Three parties were also involved.
Each of them decided to take charge of the nerve center one by one.
We, the main party, are on the head side, Reina and the reinforcement party are on the center side, and finally, the punishment unit is on the tail side.
If I land on the head, I’m afraid I’ll get on his nerves, and the tail is noisy and it’s difficult to land.
Once everyone landed in the center, they decided to disperse to their respective operational areas.
“The nerve center we need to destroy looks like this.”
I reached out and pointed at the center of Jormungandr’s body.
In the middle of its back, there was a huge bump that rose like a horn.
One of the three nerve centers in Jormungand.
The part destruction target was revealing its body in an appetizing way. I gestured towards it and nodded.
“If we attack steadily, we should be able to destroy each one in two to two and a half days.”
Since the body of a snake is long, communication between parties is a bit difficult.
For me, there was a system window that could be called the most cheat.
[Jormungand – Part Destruction Progress]
-First center: 0%
-Second center: 0%
-Third center: 0%
I was planning to check the current situation through this and move to grasp the situation if the progress of other parties slows down or stops.
‘A monster that must have invaded the human world. Then we’ll invade your back too.’
With a smirk on my lips, I waved to the party members.
“Okay then, everyone to the operation area… .”
The moment you try to tell them to move.
Quagmire!
Suddenly, the vibration intensified.
The whole body of Jormungandr, on which we rode, trembled wildly. As if I had bumped into a thick wall.
“what?!”
“Hold tight!”
All the frightened hero characters fell on their knees and clung to Jormungandr’s back.
Lucas and Evangeline held me from both sides as I stumbled.
bang! Cookie light!
Piles of dirt poured from all sides and the ground cracked with a roar.
‘what’s the matter?’
I stretched my head out and looked around to assess the situation, only to realize that Jormungand was pushing me into a rugged mountain valley.
‘what? Why do they leave the road paved with crossroads intact and dig into the mountain?’
I didn’t understand, so I blinked my eyes, but then I realized why.
‘no way… !’
This snake monster honestly goes north.
In other words, they do not bother to use the roads created by humans.
I am just advancing due north, digging my own path with my gigantic body… … !
“This crazy-?!”
Kwakwang! Quagmire and light!
Hills in the path of Jormungandr collapsed one after another, pouring out mounds of dirt.
Trees that had grown tall without being exposed to any outside touch for dozens or hundreds of years fell down in a row.
We let out inaudible screams as our bodies were hit by the pouring dirt and tree debris.
In front of the roar of the mountain collapsing, I couldn’t even hear a human scream.
Natural Disasters.
A snake of this size was literally awe-inspiring just to move.
“Hold on a little! Soon the mountain area will be over and we will be able to continue the operation… … .”
As I shouted, recalling the map of the area, I saw a snake’s head digging into the bottom of a huge rocky mountain in the distance.
Kururrureung!
The appearance of the rocky mountain that is starting to crumble behind.
“… no fuck.”
Unknowingly, the curse came out.
Since there is no dark event, I was a fool to think that it would be easy to clear if the strategy in the game was carried out steadily.
This place is not on top of the wall, which can be called our home ground.
From the moment the battlefield was moved outside, everything was a variable.
“Anyway, this is a bit too much, you snake!”
Rurr-gwa-gwa-gwang!
A landslide of pouring rocks swept over the snake’s body.
Clinging to the body of the snake, we too were swept away by the rain of rocks and dirt.
