Chapter 32
“[Holy attribute struck the enemy. Elemental damage applied.]”
“[Critical hit! The target is stunned for 4 seconds.]”
Whether it was Myrnadeus’s unexpected panic or not, a critical hit occurred.
“Alright!”
It was Carpe’s chance.
“If I miss this, there won’t be another!”
She couldn’t imagine that such a monster would fall just because of one successful ambush.
During these 4 seconds, she had to inflict as much damage as possible!
Swish!
“Ka… Kahak!”
Carpe’s hands and feet began to move like flashes of lightning.
“I can’t get used to this no matter how much I watch. How does she move like that?”
Carpe is just an ordinary college dropout.
She has never professionally learned martial arts, nor is she knowledgeable about human anatomy. She hasn’t studied in those fields separately.
However, climbing to second place in the arena has turned her into a combat machine.
“You. Tell me honestly now. Are you from a special forces unit or were you kidnapped and subjected to body modification when you were young?”
“I’m just an ordinary college student.”
“Talking nonsense and stubborn. If this is ordinary, then Lotte Mart is a local convenience store. Ordinary? Ordinary is out there. If you don’t want to die.”
“Stop talking and focus!”
“Wow, you even have time to talk now?”
While Cheonma babbled next to her, Carpe silently moved her hands and feet.
Swish!
“Ah, ah!”
While dealing damage, she attempted to drop the weapon twice, but unfortunately couldn’t wrest the scythe from her hand.
Instead, she aimed relentlessly at vital points.
Chin, jaw, temple, and so on.
Like a machine, she hit the same spot without a single error.
“[Holy attribute struck the enemy. Elemental damage applied.]”
“[Successfully repeated attacks on the same vital point for a short period of time. Additional damage occurred.]”
“[Repeatedly struck the right ankle area. The opponent’s movement speed decreases by 20% for a certain period of time.]”
“How dare you!”
Unfortunately, the one-sided damage time did not continue.
Suddenly, the 4 seconds were up, and a focused Myrnadeus swung her scythe heavily.
But Carpe, who had been keeping track of the stun time precisely, was already far out of the scythe’s range.
“This… This! I’ll kill you. Tear you apart!”
The white hat symbolizing the priest disappeared somewhere.
The beautiful flowing hair became unkempt, and her face contorted like a demon.
“I swear to God I won’t kill you nicely!”
She glared at Carpe as if she would tear her to pieces.
The innocent priest who had been smiling at first was nowhere to be found.
Seeing her like that, Carpe smirked and said, “Formal speech character trait. Switches to informal when pissed off.”
“You’re really good at drawing aggro.”
“Die!”
Myrnadeus screamed and rushed at her. She emitted a menacing aura and sprinted towards Carpe at full speed, but…
“Oops.”
Carpe easily evaded her jurisdiction once again.
“As expected, not as fast as I thought.”
“…Ugh.”
Moving slower due to the debuff, Myrnadeus wasn’t particularly fast even excluding that factor.
“She shouldn’t be fast.”
Myrnadeus is an invincible boss.
Players must kite such Myrnadeus as much as possible to nail the evidence into the goal. That’s how this dungeon was designed to be cleared.
But an invincible boss being fast?
“If that’s the case, no one can defeat her. Even if she’s close to invincible in combat, her movement speed should be slow.”
Once you understand this, what comes next becomes surprisingly manageable.
There’s always been a known method to deal with brutes who are strong but slow.
“Fire Arrow!”
Kiting.
Like maintaining a certain distance when shooting an arrow, it’s about maintaining a certain distance while dealing ranged damage!
“No matter how good you are at close-range combat, you’re just food for ranged attackers without a dash skill.”
“You coward. You bring a ranged champ to the top lane.”
“Gamer trait. Top Teemo main.”
“Piece of garbage…”
“Anyway, if we keep chipping away like this, she’ll eventually fall… huh?”
However, Carpe also overlooked one thing.
This Ruana’s Pit dungeon is only accessible to descendants of the ‘Magician’ class.
Naturally, the invincible boss of this dungeon had measures against magic.
“Hmph! What’s this nonsense!”
Just before Carpe’s magic arrow reached Myrnadeus, a translucent shield formed in front of her.
Clang!
The moment the magic arrow collided with the translucent shield, both the shield and the magic dissipated simultaneously.
Startled, Carpe quickly distanced herself.
“What… What’s this?”
“Hmm. It’s Auto Magic Shield. A 5-star skill that only clerics can learn. The effect is as you just saw.”
“An automatic magic defense? And that’s a 5-star skill?!”
“If you look closely, it’s not that overpowered. It can only completely block magic skills of 3 stars or lower, and it only halves the damage from magic skills of 5 stars or lower. Skills of 6 stars or higher can’t be blocked at all.”
“Even so, it’s still quite a decent skill, isn’t it?”
“The cooldown for shield regeneration is 5 minutes.”
In other words, it automatically blocks low-level magic every five minutes.
Even that was a cleric-exclusive skill, so there wasn’t much demand for it. After all, priests weren’t meant to tank.
“Is that so? Then, Fire Arrow again!”
Clang!
“It’s useless! The cooldown is 5 minutes!”
“This was a description of a typical Auto Magic Shield. Surely, you didn’t think an invincible boss would use ordinary skills, did you?”
“Well, still, that’s a bit much…”
Continuing to maintain her distance, Carpe shot her magic arrows. And after a few repetitions, she figured out the mana shield’s recharge time.
5 seconds.
Not 5 minutes, but 5 seconds.
The problem was that the cooldown for Elemental Arrow was also 5 seconds!
The two skills were bound to cancel each other out indefinitely.
“5 seconds? Are you kidding me!”
“Haha, this dungeon’s design is spot on. Yeah, it has to be this way for players to feel invincible against wizards.”
“This game is insane.”
What should she do?
Currently, her only long-range magic skill was the 3-star Elemental Arrow. But with just that, she couldn’t break through the shield.
But going into close combat against that brute, how far could she go…?
Hmm.
The timer in the corner of her vision was still ticking. She couldn’t keep running and stalling forever.
“I do have a plan in mind, but…”
The problem was timing. If she messed up even a little, it would be all over in an instant.
She’d lose the quest, and her growth as a Mage Lord would be halted.
“…Should I just give up on this useless endeavor and quietly insert the evidence at home?”
“One minute before the birth of the Heavenly Horse Avatar.”
“Well, if I’m dead, I’m dead. I can’t stand seeing that sight!”
With Heavenly Horse’s encouragement, Carpe made up her mind.
She sprinted toward Myrnadeus with all her might.
And when she got close enough, she fired another Fire Arrow toward her face.
Clang!
As the Fire Arrow was blocked by the shield and exploded, it emitted black smoke.
Five seconds until the shield regenerated.
“Hmph!”
The billowing black smoke obscured Myrnadeus’s vision. Seeing through such an obvious trick, she sneered.
“You think I’d fall for such a cheap smoke screen?”
Reluctantly admitting it, the cultist in front of her was anything but ordinary.
He had a fighting sense that couldn’t possibly be attributed to a wizard.
“This guy is more dangerous in close combat.”
Therefore, from the moment he started approaching in the opposite direction, she focused all her attention.
Whoosh!
As a result, she could easily dodge the guy’s fist flying through the smoke.
As his fist sliced through the air, Carpe naturally found a flaw in him.
This is it.
Myrnadeus contracted all the muscles in her body to swing her scythe with all her might.
Four seconds until the shield regenerated.
However, Carpe wasn’t just blindly relying on the smoke screen.
She swiftly unfolded the fist she had swung.
Clang!
[Additional option of Enigma, the Magic Weapon, is activated.]
[It is now possible to activate the stored skill in Enigma as ‘Shadowless Spear.’]
A hidden move she had saved.
It was the moment the second option of Enigma was activated.
The skill stored in Enigma was none other than…
Swoosh!
A single ‘Ice Arrow’ streaked toward Myrnadeus’s forehead.
If you didn’t know about Enigma, it was an ambush you couldn’t avoid.
“Haha!”
Three seconds until the shield regenerated.
Surprisingly, as if she had been waiting, Myrnadeus tilted her head and dodged the ‘Ice Arrow’!
Carpe, as well as Heavenly Horse, were genuinely amazed by the unexpected turn of events.
“How?!”
“It was a good plan, but the opponent wasn’t so good, huh?”
Around her neck, she wore a necklace with a blue gemstone emitting a faint light.
“Could it be? The Dragon’s Eye?!”
If you didn’t know about Enigma, it was an ambush you couldn’t avoid. But she dodged it.
The conclusion drawn from this was very simple.
She already knew about Enigma’s existence.
Thanks to the legendary item that allowed her to see the opponent’s ‘Equipped Items’ and ‘Skills’!
“Why would such a rare item be in a low-level zone?!”
Even the venerable Heavenly Horse had only seen such an item from afar once in over ten years.
“Too bad~”
Since Carpe entered the dungeon, she had been activating the Dragon’s Eye.
She confirmed four skills. One legendary item.
8-star Mad Engineering.
7-star Elemental Mastery.
3-star Elemental Arrow.
3-star Striking.
Among the attack skills, there was only the 3-star Elemental Arrow.
Considering the skill storage function of the legendary item, there were only two attack spells. Namely.
“There’s no more magic left? Little mouse?”
About 1 second left until the shield regenerated.
And in that 1 second, Myrnadeus could strike Carpe at least three times.
• Evade!
A sigh full of regret burst from Heavenly Horse.
Unfortunately, Heavenly Horse’s sigh couldn’t reach Myrnadeus properly.
“I have something left? Remaining magic.”
“Is this a show of bravado to survive? How pathetic.”
The matter was already confirmed with the Dragon’s Eye.
There were no more skills left. She swung her scythe with confidence, and Carpe smirked at the sight.
“Not me. Her.”
• Dodge, you idiot! Look behind you!
Unfortunately, the voice of Heavenly Horse, Carpe’s backer, couldn’t reach Myrnadeus!
Just before her scythe could cleave Carpe’s body.
Crack!
A bolt of lightning pierced through Myrnadeus’s body.
“Kyaaaa!”
[Calling Thunder has hit. Paralyzed for 5 seconds.]
“Whew. That was close.”
Carpe stroked her neck. If the timing had been slightly off…
“Kyuuu!”
“Well done, Hyang-ah. Add ten more acorns!”
“Kyuuu-woohoo!”
The one who activated ‘Calling Thunder’ was none other than Mukhyang.
[Spell of eight - 8th grade]
[Fire, water, lightning, ice, light, darkness, grass, spirit. You can handle eight elemental magic to the extreme.]
1. You can acquire and use magic corresponding to the eight elements without penalty (this function applies only to magic of 8th grade or lower).
2. Add 10% damage to the corresponding elemental magic.
3. You can bestow the corresponding element on the target’s equipment.
An epic pet’s unique skill that surpasses Carpe’s elemental mastery for the eight elements.
Thanks to this skill, Carpe conceded to Mukhyang without bothering to learn ‘Calling Thunder’ herself.
“Kuh, kugh. This kind of damage… Once the paralysis ends!”
Myrnadeus, paralyzed, gnashed her teeth.
‘Paralysis’ is a condition where the skill damage increases during the specified time along with the stun effect.
But it’s okay. She could endure it.
Since the magic shield had regenerated just before the lightning struck, she only suffered half the damage.
Considering the level difference with the creature and her own health, she could easily endure about 5 seconds.
“Or so you think.”
She hadn’t expected the damage from ‘Calling Thunder’ from the start.
What mattered was the paralysis itself.
Carpe took out a card from her inventory and tore it apart.
[Would you like to acquire the skill by spending skill points?]
“Acquire.”
[Acquired 7th-grade skill - ‘Holy Sacrifice.’]
The ultimate burst damage skill that burns all of the user’s HP/MP into damage.
Carpe had approached just for this skill, to inflict maximum damage.
“Well then.”
Carpe touched Myrnadeus’s forehead with her hand.
Soon, a white sphere, resembling a grenade, appeared above her head.
Myrnadeus’s face turned pale, contrasting sharply with Carpe’s smile as she said, “Hallelujah.”
“No, no, no!”
“No, it can’t be!”
“Yes, it can!”
Flash!
The holy grenade exploded.
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