Time slowed to a crawl as Daisuke shifted his head a few timeters to the side, a wooden spear narrowly missing his ear as it passed over his shoulder.
“Pant! Pant! Pant!”
His breaths came in ragged bursts as he sprihe ground poundih his feet. Behind him, the snarling horde of crazed monsters gained ground, their eyes burning with relentless fury, clearly i oling a score.
“Are you freakin’ kidding me!” Daisuke excimed. “So Field Bosses spawn monsters endemic to the area when their HP hits 65%—and they’re all elites? Why wasn’t I aware of this?!”
With a sidelong gnce, he absorbed the terrifying sight. Several elite-css monsters were right on his heels—twice their usual size, twice as tough, twice as mean, and twice as relentless. Their roars reverberated through the air, eaore menag tha, making his heart pound even faster.
“Gimmie a break already!”
As if his desperate outcry had stirred their itment even further, the monsters shifted into overdrive. The Rabid Horned Rabbits, frothing at the mouth, their crimson eyes bulging and veiny, charged with terrifying speed. Burly Forest Imps, bipedal and muscur, pouheir chests like gorils, snapping thick tree branches as if to demonstrate their iions for his spine.
Goblins hurled spears and unched projectiles from slingshots, their battle cries cutting through the chaos. The Malevocroaks, Kobolds, Bullet Hares, and Lipanthyer were equally menag. And t behind the psychotic progression of monsters was the Exiled Hilitroll Chief, wielding a massive club, his presence adding fuel to the frenzied onsught.
The beast let out a furious grunt as Zephyr fearlessly darted between its legs. The pup growled, fmes bursting from his maw and engulfing the unsuspeg monsters ahead. Ehe troll swung its massive club down with crushing force, shattering the earth and leaving a deep crater in its wake. But as the dust settled, the troll’s hardened expression twisted in frustration—no blood, no broken bodies. His blow had met nothing but empty ground.
Several Malevocroaks scrambled for cover, divih the bushes. Though singed from the fmes, they had escaped the worst of it. The same couldn’t be said for the Horned Rabbits and Forest Imps. Fire, their greatest weakness, ed them pletely, leaving nothing but sm ashes in their pce.
Suddenly, the unmistakable rattle of s was heard. Before the Malevocroaks could process the sound with their pea-sized brains, a golden snapped around their necks, yanking them upward into the branches overhead.
Then, in the blink of an eye, a shadow streaked past, leaving behind a yellow bead in the palm of one mohe creatures barely had a moment to g it before they were engulfed in a surge of electricity, their bodies vulsing as the lethal shock sealed their fate.
Now the shadow hurtled downward at blinding speed, time dragging to a near halt as Daisuke’s heels smmed into the Lipanthyer’s spihe massive feline colpsed beh the force. The earth cracked and splintered, sending dirt and debris floating in slow motion around them. Without missing a beat, Daisuke’s dagger sunk into the creature’s skull with a siing ch, the sound eg through the still air.
DING!
[Insta-Kill!]
[The effect of O Kill activates, instantly allowing the targeted eo be sin with a sirike.]
Before the beast even slumped to the ground, Daisuke’s head swiveled to the side with a chilling, meical focus. Then, in a heartbeat, his figure vanished.
“Kikee!”
“Kakhaaa!”
“Nheeikkkk!”
The Goblins bolted toward their t leader, desperation fueling their every step. But before they could reach the safety of his shadow, Daisuke blurred past them like a whirlwind. The creatures froze, dumbstruck as arcs of light from his dagger sshed through the air, interseg their bodies with the precision of ser beams. A heartbeat ter, their figures colpsed into a bloody heap on the ground.
Ehe troll hoisted its colossal club overhead, i ing down the hammer of vengeah all its might. The puny human was right in its sights, a fragile target ready to be crushed, but the hing the fiend knew, its vision was filled with a gleaming projectile.
SWISHH!
The kunai buried itself deep into the troll’s bulbous eye, f a deafening roar from the creature’s throat. Blinded and frenzied, it filed its club recklessly, smashing into the ground and trees with no sense of direeanwhile, Daisuke moved like a shadow, effortlessly joining Zephyr to cut down the remaining monsters.
Uheir st enter, the pup shredded through the Kobolds’ thick, armored scales as if they were paper. Just as the e’s Razor Cw was about t down another of the reptilian fiends, a Bullet Hare uself from a nearby tree, its bone on gleaming with deadly i, aiming to split the wolf in two mid-attack.
Daisuke appeared in the nick of time, an Impeccable Parry defleg the on in a brilliant fsh of light. Without missing a beat, he grabbed the Bullet Hare by the fad drove its head into a nearby tree with such force that its skull shattered on impact. Its body suddenly went limp, utterly colpsing in his grasp.
ROARRRRR!
The ground shook violently as the troll charged, its massive frame tearing through the trees, each swing of its colossal club creating gusts of wind that rattled the branches. Daisuke’s expression darkened, a golden gleam flickering in his eyes.
[Exiled Hilitroll Chief | Lvl 17 | Field Boss | HP: 328573/523000]
Its wounds have already healed up, he noted in displeasure. No surprise there, given its ridiculeion ability. But it looks like the damage it took sticks… which is good.
After exging a brief gnce, Daisuke and Zephyr sprang into a. They moved as one—silent, deadly, and impossibly fast. With a single, fluid motion, the Lipanthyer’s Fang and a mana-fed cw tore through the troll’s tendons like wet paper. The hulki let out a pained roar as it colpsed, its massive body crashing to the ground. It propped itself up with its left hand, blue blood staining the earth beh it.
Uerred, the troll raised its club high with its other arm, a single eye burning with rage as it prepared to smash the two into oblivion. But before the club could desd, Daisuke darted forward, his dagger fshing like lightning as he severed the beast’s thumb in one cut.
The club slipped from the troll’s mangled hand, crashing uselessly to the ground. Then, like bees swarming a hohief, Daisuke and Zephyr unleashed a relentless onsught, their bdes carving into the giant’s filing body without an ounce of hesitation.
DING!
[The Lipanthyer’s Fang option effect has been activated, inflig the Bleed Status. The target’s health will decrease by 0.5% per sed for 30 seds.]
DING!
[The Lipanthyer’s Fang option effect has been activated, inflig the Bleed Status...]
DING!
[The Lipanthyer’s Fang option effect has been activated…]
DING!
[…]
The creature roared in desperation, its health rapidly draining with every strike. But Daisuke’s keen observation didn’t miss the fact that the fiend’s tendons and thumb had begun regeing at an arming rate. Thinking quickly, he darted around the hulki, slig the ers of its mouth so viciously that its jaw hung sck. Then without pause, he hurled a Poison Bomb down its gaping throat before leaping back to safety.
The troll’s eyes bulged in agony as it clutched its thieck, froth bubbling from its lips while it filed mindlessly. Without a shred of mercy or remorse, the duo capitalized on the opening, resuming their brutal rampage. They sliced deep into the troll’s flesh, and as blood sprayed from its wounds, they noticed something promising—the fiend’s regeion had drastically slowed. Its body seemed ed by the internal damage wrought by the poison, struggling to heal itself from within.
Sensing the end, Daisuke moved in for the killing blow. With a flick of his wrist, he equipped the broken dagger he had received from Rohan and maer the Lightning Edge skill of his Dual Bder css.
Sparks crackled as the broken on hummed with power. With a final, deadly thrust, Daisuke drove the jagged bde betweeroll’s eyes. A surge of electricity exploded from it, c through the troll’s skull and sending violent spasms through its body.
As the bde shattered and was taken by the wind, a broken gasp escaped the creature’s mouth as its massive form colpsed. Its arms fell lifeless to the ground, and the st vestiges of its health flickered away.
DING!
[Haxks has sin the Field Boss ?Exiled Hilitroll Chief?.]
[78,000 Experience Points have been acquired.]
[Samander’s Cw has been acquired.]
[Level Up!]
[Troll Essence x4 has been acquired.]
[Exiled Hilitroll Chief Tusk x2 has been acquired.]
[Scout Goblin’s Horn has been acquired.]
[Horned Rabbit Hide x7 has been acquired.]
[Bullet Hare’s Whiskers has been acquired.]
[Forest Imp’s Eyeball x6 has been acquired.]
[Malevocroak’s Tongue x2 has been acquired.]
[Lipanthyer’s Cw x12 has been acquired.]
[477 gold has been acquired.]
[Zephyr’s level has risen!]
