Episode 61
“This a…”
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-!!
A huge explosion erupted over the Lake of Oblivion.
It happened before I could even speak.
The mutant siren it summoned was a kind of experiment that grafted the lake of oblivion and the siren, and it was a mental body created according to the experimenter’s intended appearance and use.
It sounded like he was only maintaining his ego, and at the same time, no physical force would work.
It was said that it would be difficult to defeat it unless it was an exercise of great power enough to crush the entire lake of oblivion or a terrifying slash enough to cut the lake in two.
For example, a mutant siren whose biological body was deleted had the property of restoring a damaged body using lake water.
But…
– Ah… Ah…!
As if to completely deny its common sense, the mutant siren could not easily restore the half-burst face.
It was repeating the process of forming and ending, letting out only grotesque groans.
“All troops! Keep shooting!”
“Beep!”
Do-do-do-do-do-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!
It was also because, when the mutated siren tried to take its own form, hundreds of new chicks poured venomous darts at the mutated siren.
“Where are you looking?”
“…!”
While I couldn’t understand the save of the new chicks, a sharp pongong sound rang out.
It was Damien.
While the mutant siren was incapacitated for a moment, Damian quickly covered the lake with the effect of < Golden Rabbit Sandals > and turned his body in a diagonal line before the mutant siren regained his pace.
Pressing < +9 Sashimi > was a bonus.
Even if it is not easy to block unless it is a specialized defense class, even if it is blocked, it is difficult to handle the impact.
Demian’s physical strength, which has already been steadily invested in stats based on the witch doctor’s superior points, boasted tremendous damage due to titles such as < The one who caught a wild boar alone > and < Break through the shortest time! >.
Needless to say, it had more normal damage than most skills.
So…
“…Eh?”
Caan—!
Damian couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow as he watched < Golden Flash >‘s explosive acceleration and < +9 Sashimi > pressed down based on superior stats couldn’t pierce the lump of black cloth like a lie.
‘Kaang— you say? Peruk—isn’t it?’
It was because it was made of something so hard that < +9 Sashimi >, which had excellent attack power alone, couldn’t penetrate it, unlike what I thought was an organic substance like a piece of flesh.
“go away.”
Zuriririk!
While Damian’s < +9 Sashimi > was blocked, something gushed out of its body.
It was a body that stretched as if it were a whip.
Long, sharp tentacles with a smooth black-purple surface that made it suspicious that he came from a body like a bony arm bone hanging in the air.
“What is this again…”
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
And Damian, watching the tentacles that came out and rushing towards him like a hungry beast, quickly slammed the ground and surveyed the situation at the same time.
“This was unexpected.”
– Ahhh…!
It was because while he was confronting it, despite the fierce offensive of the new chick corps, the mutant siren had been restoring its plaster-like face before he knew it.
“There was a corner that I believed in.”
Zuriririk! Zwik!
Damian narrowed his eyes as he watched the tentacles suck into its body.
The attack method was in the wrong shape.
If Damian attacked it because he believed in < +9 Sashimi >‘s insane attack power and < Golden Flash >‘s momentum.
It could be said that the reason why the mutant siren was neutralized was that he summoned hundreds of new chicks based on hundreds of intelligence stats and cast a wide range of < Flame Feast > at the same time.
It was the best way he could think of.
No matter how much one may say that < Boncoulet's Poisoned Rooster >‘s effect allows new chicks to shoot poison needles.
The poison needle must have been a means to reach the opponent who had a physical body.
Damian recalled that naturalization (鬼火), a combination of < Flame Feast > and < Corruption Potion >, effectively burned away the ghosts, and added a buff to the bunch and the new chicks to put < Flame Feast > on them so that they could put pressure on the mutant sirens.
It was for that reason that the < Fire Lizard Bracelet > was burned in one stroke.
Even though destroying an item worth millions of won in cash on my own was like madness.
Damian decided that there was a need to create an opening, even if it meant sacrificing the < Flame Lizard Bracelet >.
As a result, the mungchi and the new chick army were able to effectively pressure the mutant siren, a monster that was so powerful that Damian didn’t have to use his strength.
Just…
[NOTICE: WARNING! Warning!]
[Notice: The mutant siren will recover his body!]
[Notice: Defeat the mutant siren before he fully recovers his body!]
“…is that going to happen?”
Kururrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
In spite of such a group and the save of the new chicks, its fighting power far exceeds his expectations.
It could be said that the opportunity that Damian created by burning the < Flame Lizard Bracelet > was tantamount to being an idiot.
“Is this your last outburst? Are you a heretic?”
Kirik! Let’s go!
Damian, who confirmed that the mutant siren was quickly recovering according to the movement of the finger bones spinning like a spinner, could no longer expect a good fortune like applying a wide-range buff by burning equipment such as the < Flame Lizard Bracelet >.
“What should I do, Master!”
“Beep!!”
When the mutant siren fully recovered his face, Damian opened his eyes.
It was different from before.
The flow of mana shown in < The Sixth Sense > showed the bond between the two in color like a well-woven thread, but the mutant siren’s finger bones rattled and at the same time the air of the lake was dyed thick with mana. ….
‘Dye the air of the lake…?’
– Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Damian couldn’t help but instinctively raise his eyes to see the mutant siren suddenly raising his head above the air and humming a song in a certain tune, as if humming an aria of the night.
“bundle!!! Cover your ears!!!”
“Pia?”
“hurry!!!”
It was because the mutated siren’s singing voice gradually grew louder at Damian’s words, while a translucent circular wave erupted from her center.
[Notice: Transformation Siren is casting < Song of the Dead >!]
[Notice: < Song of the Dead > effect slows movement and attack speed!] ….
[
Notice: < Song of the Dead > effect will continuously decrease mana!]
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
As the wave curtain spread around the mutant siren, system messages appeared in front of Damian’s eyes.
It felt somehow familiar.
The languid and heavy debuff that came with the silence he felt in the darkness he felt after entering the colony of dead trees.
“Owner bastard… You’re all sleepy…”
“Bia…? Piah ….
” dump!
And Damian was able to witness the corps of new chicks who couldn’t stop their ears from the wave spreading from the mutant siren, stumbling on their horses one by one, unable to regain their senses.
‘You can’t fall asleep… never…!’
Fu-wook!
Even if it meant stabbing his thigh, Damian, whose death in the game was connected to reality due to the warning of the misinformation system, shouldn’t have collapsed.
“Foolish. Do you think you can get away with just that?”
Damian slapped his thigh and it tilted the white mask.
It wasn’t a mockery, it was a reaction that seemed like he didn’t understand.
The fact that the mutant sirens continued to sing < Song of the Dead > without executing any particular attack pattern was also possible because they were confident that they could defeat Damian at any time.
“I wondered why it was a siren…”
Pudeudeuk!
And when Damian saw the mutated siren busy singing, he felt the same way to know why it created such a monster with the siren as its material.
– Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
– Kiyi Ik-!
As the mutated siren’s song continued, the debuffs of Damian and the new corps increased at the same time.
It was because the ghosts of the swamp he had seen earlier were being brought to the mutated siren one by one.
“Since ancient times, spirit is the highest purity of energy.”
“Even though this land is a hog world filled with the uncleanness of false gods.”
“If you renounce your flesh, repent in your spirit, and prepare for the Messiah to come again.”
“Though a mere sinful spirit shall be saved under his name.”
“Rejoice and be martyred, children of false gods.”
“The glory shall be with you from the foundation of the world until the end of time.”
“On the day the world ends, the false god will be defeated.”
“The Messiah himself will open a new kingdom and a new era…!”
Kururrureung!
As it opened its arms, the ghosts of the swamp began to be sucked in even faster.
It was as fast as a vacuum cleaner sucking it in.
It created a mutant siren that sucked in human souls with its voice, using the characteristics of a siren that seduces humans and sucks out their energy.
Instead of getting rid of the Siren’s body to contain the soul, he used an abandoned lake in the swamp as a vessel to confine the human soul.
The reason why I chose Lake of Oblivion was for that very reason.
In swampy areas, where there are many cases of drowning and stumbling, there was bound to be a strong negative energy that would not be strange if anyone died.
At the same time as it causes the mutant siren to attract the specters.
It was because he was operating a kind of huge soul tank that used even the ghosts in the lake of oblivion as spiritual energy.
“So give up and accept your fate heretic. What lies within you must be pitch-black and unclean, but if you repent by surrendering your soul to the coming Messiah…
”
“…what?”
“Let’s get some shit done, bastard.”
And the moment when I tilted my head at Damian’s venomous tone while thinking about exactly what Damian meant.
“It seems that he has gone mad with fear. It’s as if your fate has been decided from the beginning…”
Peruk—!
Suddenly, its body shuddered once, and its finger bones, which had been spinning like a spinning machine, lost power in an instant.
“Kick… gig gig gig kick…!”
It was the moment when blood-red eyes shone towards it, along with a mean laugh that leaked from his teeth.
