NOVEL NEXT chapter 5
5 – 2. Playing hide and seek (4)
“No?”
What is it?
The last floor also stood tall with a flaming sword and five stone statues holding it.
Furthermore, the faces of all the statues are grotesquely distorted.
From the damp and dark atmosphere, it is the perfect place to relax.
But there is no boss that should be there.
Since there is no boss, there is no reward.
I took out the skill I had been saving in case the boss was already dead.
If you don’t use it now, when will you use it again?
I completely focused on the staff.
“[Ghost Communion].”
As of right now, I have acquired ‘eyes’ that allow me to see ghosts.
Ugh. I can feel that mana is really dropping.
It feels like my brain suddenly went numb after eating cold ice cream.
In my current state, I can only use it for about 10 minutes at most.
Besides, I can’t even see the ghosts I should have seen…
“Kang! Kreuk!”
“What are you? A puppy’s soul. I’ve never seen a monster like this before.”
As I concentrated my mind on one point, the haze gradually gathered and formed a shape.
You can see dead ghosts.
Dead ghosts can see me too.
But I don’t think there were any monsters like this in [Project 7].
The gray puppy spirit in front of me tried to bite me, but the body passed through anyway.
That’s because I’m still alive. I had less than a year left.
“Kreureung! Aww!”
The perplexed puppy spirit barks while jumping up and down this time. Then, as if to follow him, he tapped his feet and started running.
“If you follow it, there will be something. That’s good.”
I finally saw something after following a road with my dog for about 5 minutes.
With a scream.
Finally, the reward…!
.
“There was a time when I thought that.”
From the first boss to the third rank, that guy is the worst.
“Kreurreuk!”
“Don’t come!”
A huge figure reminiscent of Fenrir from Norse mythology. The fangs soared as if they were angry all the way.
The moment you hear it, the roar makes your whole body freeze, and the wounds you received from that guy a long time ago hurt sorely.
The boss who made me taste the pain of defeat for the first time when I was a newbie.
The one who made me think that there was no strategy anywhere on New Tube, and that the management team put it in to defeat unconditionally.
Ancient Wolf, Dire Wolf.
It was the strongest tier 3 boss monster that came out of this dungeon with a probability of 0.01%, And it was an unfortunate boss that was deleted because it was too strong.
So I believed that it would never come out.
Not to mention newbies, to the point where even old people advised me to give up on Hidden Peace and proceed with Dire Wolf, or to reset and try again.
Dire Wolf lowered his stance and rushed right in, biting my hand.
“Huh.”
It hurts.
It hurts so much that I can’t even feel the reality.
I can feel the razor sharp fangs sinking deep into his hand in real time.
By the way.
It’s a time limit anyway, so that’s none of my business.
Suuk!
I stuck my thick arm in even deeper.
“Stop, senpai!!”
I can feel that he’s taken aback by something that a normal person would never do.
Jena by the way? Why are you here
Just in case, did you send Latina ahead of time just in case?
But the important thing now was him, so I focused on that.
As the biting power gradually weakened, I took out a dagger and swung it at him.
In the end, the guy gave up the hand he was holding and pulled himself out.
I didn’t miss a chance and pushed him.
“[Attribute Elements: Fire, Dark].”
“Kleurruck!”
I managed to squeeze magic and succeeded in double casting using two types of magic.
Darkness appears in its field of view for a very short moment, and two fireballs fly in the air.
“Right!”
That’s right.
Damn it, damn it. That’s it!
The guy hit by the fire ball swelled up as if he was angry rather than taking any damage.
If we stay like this, everyone will die.
“Zenna! Quickly raise your sword and take a stand!”
“Huh..! Yes!”
Jenna hurriedly raises her sword and corrects her posture.
A very good posture.
“Listen carefully. They’re aiming for the wolf’s eyes.”
“When I tell you, move. Wait still.”
“Eyes?! Yep!”
The key to catching the Dire Wolf is the ‘Eye’.
My record against him is 1 win 1 loss.
Around 20,000 hours passed, he appeared again.
In Pro Seven, where you can hit each part, I focused only on his eyes.
However, when mana is almost at a low point like now, ramen is unconditional.
So we are in a confrontational situation.
The guy roared and ran.
Roar is a fraudulent technique that has a 90% chance of inflicting [Status Abnormality].
If it gets caught, it won’t move.
“Kurrureurreuk!!”
Immediately, without hesitation, stabbed my thigh with a dagger.
The way to destroy [Status abnormality] Is self-harm.
When the guy who ran into me checked my movements, he slowed down as if he was embarrassed.
This must have been the first time he’d been able to move even after getting caught in it.
I took advantage of that gap and stuck a dagger into his eye.
No matter how hard the leather is,
No matter how sharp the fangs are.
You can’t train as much as this place.
“Kwoaaa!!”
A dagger that is almost as long as the palm of my hand.
Ignored by his painful moaning, I called for Jenna.
“Senior! Blood!”
“Now, Zena! Attack his remaining eye!”
“Okay!”
A black flame attribute greatsword used by Zena.
Flame rose to the weapon that only the protagonist could use.
“aaa!!”
Jenna rushes forward with a spirited spirit that makes the wolf’s roar go away.
Your posture is too honest..!
As she moaned in pain, the she-wolf tried to attack her with her reverse, after she narrowly escaped her Jenna’s attack.
“Aaghh!”
“Kreurreuk!”
Just before his fangs touched Jenna’s hair,
I put my arm back in and blocked the attack.
“Kuh…!”
Jenna’s pupils shook tremendously.
Perhaps this is the first time this has happened.
“Again, there’s blood again!”
Meat Shield!
Her right arm, then her left arm, fangs have wind holes and red cascades, and white bones are visible in places.
Looking at the dizziness, is it a symptom of hemorrhagic shock? One more bite and the arm might be completely ripped off.
Stamina and mana are also low.
But now that he’s biting my arm, now is my chance.
“I’m going again!”
“Yes!!”
She put on a guilty expression at my injury, but then, Jenna stabbed the flaming sword into the guy’s eyes once more.
But as if he had already grasped Jenna’s movements, he easily gave up on my arm and leaped backwards.
The upper part of her eye was slightly grazed by her sword in the process, but it was not a valid injury.
In the first place, the main character who has just entered school is an opponent that can’t be caught.
A situation where you give up only your arms and have no income.
If this continues… Both will die.
In that situation, I heard a small sound in my ears.
“Kiying..”
“Keep. Keeing.”
“…?”
The spirit of the dog that guided me earlier was crying and rubbing against him.
Aha. Now everything makes sense.
It was not a puppy, but the soul of a wolf cub.
Then the reason why he was so angry was because his son died.
No matter how pitifully he rubs his body, the wolf full of rage cannot see the soul of his child.
Then…
If so,
“Kurrureurreuk!!”
It roared again and charged.
I didn’t have the strength, stamina, or anything left to stab my thighs anymore.
Jenna stood in front of me and seemed to be saying something, but she couldn’t hear me.
Out of the blue, she thought it was a good idea to read the description of [Ghost Communion].
From [Ghost Communion Lv 3], You can share your vision only with ‘monsters’.
I held out my staff with trembling hands as I watched the charging wolf, and squeezed out the last remaining mana.
“It means to find out about your child.”
“[Ghost Communion].”
The Dire Wolf, who instantly shared his vision, stood still.
“Kiying.”
“Kreuk?!”
When the wolf saw the dead child, it froze as if it had been struck by lightning without taking any action.
Did he think he would never see you again?
The wolf cub didn’t stop rubbing his body as if he missed his mother’s arms.
“Ki-ing…”
Soon after, he stroked the pup to his heart’s content with his tongue.
It happened so quickly that I didn’t know if it was the wolf that had been roaring in anger until just now.
However, his tongue never touched the dead calf.
At most, seeing each other would be the limit.
“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?!”
Jena, who had not been able to share [Ghost Communion], Was very embarrassed to see the guy suddenly blowing his tongue in the air.
“You’ll be fine now.”
I approached slowly, dripping blood in front of the guy who was going to be distracted by the meeting with the cub.
Even though the distance was completely close, he was no longer wary of me.
“Whoa.”
“Kreukreuk…”
After a brief exchange of glances, they pulled out their daggers and held them up.
The little wolf spirit stopped rubbing its body and started barking little by little, alerting me.
Seeing such a child, the mother wolf tried to lick the baby wolf with her tongue as if to reassure her.
I acted without hesitation while looking at the tongue that I still couldn’t reach.
Is it a look of gratitude,
I decided not to think about the resentment in my eyes.
“Kiying. Kreuk.”
I put a knife through the wolf’s head.