I Possess Too Many Characteristics

Chapter 69

“Eww! X-ba, how do I stop this!”

No matter what anyone said, the Tanker was always the one who took on the tough jobs in a hunt.

Especially when they were dealing with a huge beast-type monster like the Demi Drake they were facing, their hard work increased even more.

As soon as the giant maw opened wide, it slammed down.

Unlike the monsters they had faced until now, the Demi Drake rarely used striking attacks.

Instead, it seemed like it was trying to devour everything in front of it.

It wasn’t simply a matter of holding up the shield in the direction of the attack; to avoid being eaten, they had no choice but to swing the shield with all their might and knock the maw away.

Furthermore, if it were a living creature, it would writhe in pain from the impact or reveal an opening due to rage, but since it was undead, the creature simply turned its head back like a machine and slammed its maw down again.

Heeyul tried to draw its attention by shooting arrows towards its face, but the target was always Cha Jin, who stood at the very front.

“This won’t do!”

In the end, Jina, who couldn’t stand it any longer, jumped in with her rapier.

However, everyone sensed that it wouldn’t bring about any noticeable change.

It was the limitation of her weapon, the rapier.

Medium and large monsters had limitations when it came to taking damage from thin swords.

Moreover, since it was undead, it was even worse.

However, when Jina bypassed and clung to the Drake’s right side, there was an unexpected effect.

‘The target has changed?’

Jeonghyeon’s eyes narrowed.

To be precise, when Jina got closer to the opposite passage than Cha Jin, the Demi Drake’s attack target shifted.

“Heub!”

Even though she couldn’t deal damage, Jina’s defensive style had a better matchup against the Drake than Cha Jin’s.

Since it was difficult to block each attack one by one, it was easier to dodge by moving her body to defend.

‘As expected, the best defense is evasion.’

Anyway, with Jina joining, one method came to mind for Jeonghyeon.

Of course, just because he thought of a way to deal with it didn’t mean the Demi Drake’s overwhelming presence disappeared.

Bang━

“Keuk!”

Suddenly, with an explosive sound, Cha Jin was thrown backward.

While its head was dealing with Jina on the right, it had attacked Cha Jin with its thick tail.

He hurriedly raised his shield and avoided a direct hit, but it seemed like the impact was still significant as Cha Jin coughed up red blood.

Heejun quickly healed him, but those kinds of injuries didn’t heal well with Healing.

“Thanks!”

He ran back as soon as he received healing, but it meant that he wasn’t in the same condition as before.

‘Head and tail…… I guess that’s all there is to its attack pattern for now.’

It did have pillar-like hind legs, but since it also had to support its own body, it wouldn’t be able to do something absurd like a kick.

So, it meant that the Demi Drake could only handle about two front-liners at the same time.

“Jina-ssi, can you turn its head a little more?”

“……I’ll try!”

At Jeonghyeon’s request, Jina, who had rolled to avoid the head, got up again and answered.

The creature’s direction had changed slightly, but it wasn’t quite at the angle he had envisioned.

What Jeonghyeon wanted was for the Demi Drake’s body to be perpendicular to his line of sight.

“Cha Jin-ssi, stay in the front!”

“Yes!”

Anyway, the Demi Drake set its attack target to the one closer to the passage.

It didn’t matter if Cha Jin went completely back, but it was to prevent a situation where he might get ahead of Jina.

……Of course, if it were like this, the tail would have more force when swung, so he would have to suffer more.

‘Well, a Tanker has to do that much, right?’

It was just a natural role, and definitely not resentment.

Fortunately, did he get a sense of it with the first attack?

Cha Jin quite skillfully managed to defend without being flung back from the next attacks.

And finally, when the Demi Drake’s body became horizontal.

Jeonghyeon’s senses, holding a single dagger, focused entirely on one point.

As it leveled up to Level 2, Throwing Technique could achieve similar accuracy without requiring the same level of concentration as before.

He hadn’t maintained the same concentrated state as before since the level went up because it wasn’t necessary, but wouldn’t it be possible?

Only the Demi Drake’s eyes were visible to Jeonghyeon as he gathered his breath and controlled his body’s tremors.

‘Now!’

And the moment he was certain, he quickly threw the dagger.

The dagger, spinning as it flew, soared at a picturesque angle and embedded itself in the Demi Drake’s eyeball.

The creature closed its eyes at the last moment, but the dagger pierced through even the tough eyelid.

“Jina-ssi, now to the other side!”

“……Yes!”

He had achieved a result, but he couldn’t stop here.

Jeonghyeon immediately instructed Jina on her next action.

For now, he had to cut off its vision, although he didn’t know how effective it would be against the undead.

As if understanding what Jeonghyeon wanted, Jina immediately started to lead the Drake’s body.

She even inflicted wounds on the Drake’s body in the process.

It wasn’t particularly noticeable, but it wasn’t a completely meaningless action either.

In a critical situation, the places where the tough skin was already cracked could be a sufficient variable.

Finally, Jina reached the opposite side, 180 degrees from her original position.

However,

“What the, why isn’t it turning?”

As Heejun said in a flustered voice, the Demi Drake no longer showed Jeonghyeon the angle where its eyes could see him.

Even when Jeonghyeon subtly moved his body, it would just slightly move its head to avoid him.

Was it aware of what he was aiming for, even though it was undead?

As a test, he moved to the opposite side, and as if nothing had happened, the Demi Drake turned its head completely towards Jina.

He had thought about quickly moving and throwing the dagger before it turned its head, but then he wouldn’t be able to concentrate enough.

At that moment, Hayul spoke from behind Jeonghyeon.

“……I will.”

“•━? Ah.”

Hayul had already loaded an arrow.

If Hayul did it, things would become a little easier.

“Then please.”

As Hayul nodded, Jeonghyeon used Stealth.

“━!”

It didn’t scream, but was it because the presence of one human it had been watching had faded?

The Drake showed a noticeably strange reaction.

Unlike before, when it had been mechanically attacking Jina, it momentarily raised its head and looked around.

And towards the Drake’s remaining eye, Heeyul fired an arrow.

The eye, which looked like a tiny dot compared to the Drake’s huge body.

Did it belatedly realize that another human was aiming for its last remaining eye?

The Demi Drake hurriedly moved its head, but the bow was the ranged weapon humans had favored the most until firearms appeared.

The speed of an arrow was incomparable to a dagger.

Pak━

It didn’t hit the center like Jeonghyeon’s dagger, but the arrow fulfilled its role by piercing the creature’s pale eye.

The Demi Drake showed a noticeably agitated appearance.

If it had been attacking the nearby humans with its head and tail without any particular emotion until now.

Now, it couldn’t properly determine its direction, so it was sensitively turning and bumping its head against things while swinging its tail haphazardly.

Jina and Cha Jin, who had been positioned nearby, also had to hurriedly create some distance.

And the place where Jeonghyeon, who had used Stealth, revealed himself was none other than under the Demi Drake’s shoulder.

‘It’s quite big when you see it up close.’

Currently, the most effective weapon against the Drake among the party’s weapons was Jeonghyeon’s mace.

Anyway, to end this hunt, it meant that he had to deal a direct blow to the Drake.

But it would take forever to swing the mace from the ground.

The method Jeonghyeon chose was to climb onto the Demi Drake himself.

However, even for Jeonghyeon, it was difficult to jump directly onto the huge creature’s body.

Climbing from the tail to the spine was also impossible in the current situation where it was using its tail as an attack method.

In the end, the place Jeonghyeon deemed most likely was under the Demi Drake’s shoulder.

“Jeonghyeon-ssi, what are you going to do!”

But to others, it looked like he was just calmly standing under a monster that was going on a rampage.

Jina, unable to jump to where Jeonghyeon was, shouted from outside.

However, Jeonghyeon didn’t respond to her words and just jumped.

The arrow Hayul had previously embedded in the shoulder.

Jeonghyeon was going to use that arrow.

Of course, it would be unreasonable for a single arrow to fully support Jeonghyeon’s weight, but

If there was a solid support like the Demi Drake’s body, it was a different story.

Tag━

Jeonghyeon, stretching out his hand and grabbing the arrow as close to the Drake’s body as possible, used the force of his jump to rotate his body half a circle.

And when he was exactly perpendicular to the ground, he let go of the arrow and jumped up again as if leaping.

‘Got it!’

Moreover, thanks to the Drake’s rampage, the Drake’s head was precisely positioned below Jeonghyeon.

Jeonghyeon landed on top of the Drake’s head without much difficulty.

Although it was shaking crazily and there was nothing to hold onto.

‘I’ll just make something to hold onto.’

That problem could be solved by embedding daggers into the thick flesh.

What remained was free dealing from the top of its head.

Jeonghyeon quickly embedded a couple of daggers and secured his footing, then picked up his mace.

And then he swung it down.

Bang━

It felt like hitting a rock, but since he was already in position, the Demi Drake with its short arms couldn’t do anything about it.

After a few more swings of the mace, the Demi Drake, as if enraged despite being undead, slammed its head into the wall at full speed.

Of course, such actions only resulted in damage to itself.

Bang━ Bang━ Bang━

Like a miner in a mine, Jeonghyeon vigorously swung his mace down.

The Demi Drake also tried to shake and lift its head, but Jeonghyeon, with his uncanny agility, maintained his balance and skillfully swung the mace.

“Oh my god……”

The party members, watching the scene, could only stand there without knowing what to do or how to react.

Honestly, how could they help in such a situation?

If it weren’t for Jina or Hayul, they would get hit and thrown back just by getting close.

Even if they somehow climbed up, it didn’t seem like they could deal enough damage to be helpful.

━ An unregistered Hunter and a Mission-type Gate. This feels like we’ve become safari guides.

━ ……I agree.

Heejun, who had scoffed at the idea of an unregistered Hunter joining the remaining spot in the Mission-type Gate, saying that they were safari guides.

But looking at the current situation, it didn’t seem like there was a separate guide, did it?

What kind of unregistered Hunter would try to hunt a Demi Drake alone, even if it was undead?

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought it was a bad joke.

‘Become my coin━ Huh?’

Meanwhile, Jeonghyeon, who was happily hammering the Demi Drake’s head, felt something ominous.

Didn’t the creature, which seemed like it would only go on a rampage, become a little quiet?

‘It doesn’t seem like it’s time for it to die yet.’

Although its scalp was peeling off and its bones were exposed, it wasn’t a major injury since it was undead.

A sense of unease crept up on him.

Didn’t villains always use their ultimate moves as a last resort before dying?

‘No way. It’s not like it’s a Power Rangers villain……’

And crucially, the Demi Drake didn’t use any special skills, unlike when it was alive.

Even Drakes used Fire Breath, but this was a Demi Drake, which was a step below that.

However, Jeonghyeon’s intuition was almost always right when it came to bad luck, so he couldn’t let his guard down.

Moreover, he had only just remembered it now, but wasn’t there a phrase in the Sudden Coin Quest text that said,”Owner of the Suspicious Tomb”?

At first, he thought it was just a hint that it was undead, but somehow, he didn’t think it would end well.

‘I need to finish this quickly.’

Since its bones were exposed, clearing it was just a matter of time anyway.

Jeonghyeon’s arms started to move even faster.

However, if it could have been stopped, Jeonghyeon’s intuition wouldn’t have been triggered in the first place.

‘Why is it doing this?’

The Demi Drake’s maw, which had retreated a few steps and come to the wide-open space of the plaza, slowly opened.

It was clearly not with the intention of trying to eat someone like its previous attacks.

“W, what is it?”

The party members, sensing something strange, tensed up their entire bodies.

And a hot energy gathered in front of the Demi Drake’s maw.

Jeonghyeon’s grip on the mace tightened.

“Is this for real?”