Chapter 180 : Chapter 180

Chapter 180 - Treatment (3)

[General] [Post Number 11123334]

[You guys know this? You can just skip the King of Flies]

[Author: KKS124]

I'll bring a video today, wait up.

[Comments]

-What is this nonsense again?

-How many delusional patients have we seen on this board? Just leave him be lol

-No, this guy is Gyu-sik-jwa. Do you guys even know who you’re talking to?

-Who the hell is Gyu-sik-jwa, you weeb lol

-He even has an entry on Wikitree. He’s a crazy top-tier veteran lol

-Hey, no matter what, skipping the final boss is just what kind of nonsense lol

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[General] [Post Number 11123340]

[Here’s the video]

[Author: KKS124]

If you do it like I posted, you can clear it without a single comrade dying. Next time, I’ll try to film a no-hit clear of the Platinum Knight.

[Comments]

-???????????????????????

-Gyu-sik-jwa! Gyu-sik-jwa! Gyu-sik-jwa! Gyu-sik-jwa! Gyu-sik-jwa!

-???????????????????????????????

-Is this something a human can do?????????????????????????

-Ah, shit, I was drinking water and spit it all out after seeing this lol

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To be honest, an awakened archdemon was a rather tricky opponent.

As if to prove that they didn't hold the title of final boss candidate for nothing, they were heavily armed with all sorts of tricky specs.

For evasion-focused players, they would accumulate damage with sure-hit patterns that exceeded 200% accuracy; for defense-focused players, they would use defense-ignoring damage; and for offense-focused players, they would neutralize their attack turns with reflect damage.

No matter which route the player took to develop their character, the King of Flies would always exploit that weakness. You were bound to take health damage.

And the problem that arose when damage accumulated like that was the final phase of the battle.

If a certain amount of time passed, the King of Flies would use a skill with the insane effect of ‘instantly killing characters below a certain health threshold’, and players who had accumulated health damage in the previous patterns were bound to be instantly killed here.

And as you researched strategies to clear it, the conclusion you eventually reached was that you had no choice but to throw a ‘comrade character’ as a sacrifice.

This was even the ‘official strategy’ acknowledged by the developers. They could be called truly demonic bastards.

“So, to catch that guy easily, we need all sorts of preparations.”

I said, dodging the blades of darkness that were pouring down from the sky like a meteor shower.

I parried at precisely 1.14-second intervals.

It wasn't that difficult if you had memorized that the attacks coming into each of the nine divided sections of your vision were a random pattern of 12.

“For now, we just have to simply deflect these basic attacks.”

“...Basic?”

Ms. Meirin, tucked under my arm, let out a bewildered voice, but by final boss standards, this was a basic pattern.

The poison mist that spread across the entire map and steadily accumulated defense-ignoring damage hadn't even appeared yet, and the homing attacks that filled the entire map were still only 20.

It reminded me of the old days.

Back then, I had even filmed a video of clearing a boss with 2,000 homing magic missiles attached to me for a concept.

Ah, the memories.

“Well, anyway.”

[High-speed Maneuver]

I approached the King of Flies, which was occupying Seo Ah-in's body, through the gap created by parrying the attack.

And I gently stuck the ‘scalpel’ created by Ms. Meirin near the core that was protruding from the edge of Seo Ah-in's abdomen.

This was called a scalpel, but it was a small mana blade that carried the characteristic of Ms. Meirin's mana, which could ‘assimilate with anything’.

It meant that if I wanted to, I could stick true damage anywhere.

“Uh, th-then. Doesn't that mean we can catch it right now?”

“If you get impatient like that, even what could work won't.”

Well, until now, it had been possible to clear with just tricks, but. When it came to an archdemon, they would have prepared some kind of preventive measure.

If I concentrated my firepower there now, I would be instantly killed by the reflect damage that ignored defense. What was needed was to meticulously accumulate ‘wounds’.

“What's the point of accumulating wounds?”

“Well, hitting the core directly deals damage proportional to health, right?”

“...Pardon?”

Ms. Meirin tilted her head as if asking what I meant, but I couldn't give her a better explanation than this.

Well, in a sense, just by hitting it, my health and that guy's health were exchanged as a percentage.

To be honest, exchanging my health, which was far below the graduation standard specs, with that guy's health was a definite gain if you calculated it mathematically.

It was the most efficient way to lower its health in this situation.

“For someone saying that, you look like you're in a lot of pain too, Mr. Kim Gyu-sik...”

“Well, this much is bearable.”

I said, brushing off my body, which was starting to rot here and there.

I knew this would happen, so I prepared all sorts of medicine, didn't I?

I took out the healing potions I had in my pocket and consumed them.

“...It doesn't look like there are only healing potions...?”

Ms. Meirin frowned, looking at the medicines in the pouch.

She was a sharp person indeed. Just by glancing, she had realized what kinds of ‘things’ were mixed in there.

“Stimulants, mana amplifiers, fusion enhancers... this is almost at the level of a potent drug. Why would you have something like this...?”

“Because I have to skip this as quickly as possible.”

“...”

Ms. Meirin sighed as if I were speaking incomprehensibly again.

Well, but even while having this conversation, the ‘routine’ I had thought of was proceeding quite effectively.

Deflecting the King of Flies' attacks, approaching the core and sticking the ‘scalpel’ in, and with the damage exchange done, my health slowly recovered.

The key was to match the ‘exact numbers’.

As always, the key in this kind of in-depth play was to match the exact coefficients.

“No, I mean...”

Ms. Meirin said, clutching her head as if it were aching.

“This plan is based on the premise that you won't get hit by a single one of the archdemon's full-power attacks, and that all of your attacks will hit...”

“You are truly shameless.”

“Pardon?”

“How can you say that as if it's strange, after all the time you've spent with me?”

“...”

To Ms. Meirin, who shut her mouth with an expression that said, that's true, isn't it?, I gave a smirk and continued the ‘routine’.

Hitting, I get hurt too, that guy gets hurt too. Except for this essential damage exchange, I dodged and deflected everything.

How many times did I repeat that?

Finally, the scene I had been waiting for began to appear before my eyes.

[Come to your master...]

As that eerie voice flowed out from the core like smoke, the surroundings were enveloped in pitch-black darkness.

It also meant that the ‘instant kill pattern for characters below a certain health threshold’ was starting.

Of course, the target wasn't Ms. Meirin, who hadn't taken any damage so far, but me.

I could feel the pitch-black darkness enveloping me and slowly pulling me towards the core.

At this point, I checked my ‘preparations’.

[Guardian Angel x2]

[Ms. Meirin's ‘Extra-large Scalpel’ x2]

[Various enhancement drugs to temporarily amplify attack power]

[Calculator]

“...What's the last one?”

“Of course, I brought it to beat it up.”

“...”

Ms. Meirin shut her mouth with a speechless expression, but there was a bit of free time during this pattern anyway.

Since it was a confirmed instant-kill pattern, the developers had processed this attack as an event cutscene where all other miscellaneous techniques were sealed.

In other words, during the few minutes I was being dragged, it was more than possible to calculate the ‘exact numbers’ with a calculator.

“Umm...”

Ms. Meirin stared at me with a fed-up look as I was engrossed in tapping the calculator while being dragged along, but I paid her no mind and focused on my calculations.

Alright. I just need to take about 12 mana amplifiers and attack power enhancers.

If I took these wrong, I'd suffer from the side effects for at least a month. I didn't want that.

“Is that the right reaction when you’re being dragged to your death?!”

“...”

Do you think it’s right for you to be making a retort so casually in a situation like this, Ms. Meirin?

Anyway, since the calculations were done, I chugged down the medicine.

In any case, the task at hand was simple.

As I got close to the core, the darkness that had been dragging me until now fused with the King of Flies' core, transformed into a beast's maw, and gaped open grotesquely.

Get swallowed by that, instant death. And a bad ending.

That was how it was supposed to be, but.

“Hm.”

I loaded Ms. Meirin's ‘extra-large scalpel’ and was swallowed by the darkness gaping open in front of me.

For a moment, my vision went black.

[Critical damage!]

[Guardian Angel consumed!]

But I endured it!

And as a halo of light returned to my body and I was revived, I glared at the core in front of me.

Yes. Right now.

I smiled triumphantly and circulated my mana.

As I said before, the timing when the player character was ‘instantly killed’ was also synonymous with this guy being in a state with ‘no protective skills’.

What did that mean?

[Arcane Burst: Modified]

[Double Pulse]

[Shadow Secret Arts: Forceful Blow]

[Formless]

And on top of that, Ms. Meirin's scalpel, which dealt ‘defense-ignoring health-proportional damage’ heavily enhanced by a 12-stage attack power boost + mana amplification, was embedded.

Oof.

Just hearing about it sounds horrifying.

-!

-!!

-!!!!!!!

-!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The moment it went in with a thud, the core screamed.

Well, just by simple calculation, half of its health was gone in an instant, so how could it not?

“Oh, whoa! It’s really angry?!”

“Ah, don't worry.”

As I said before, the key to this strategy was ‘accurate numerical calculation’.

Why was that important?

[Come... to your master...!]

Because if you lowered its health this precisely, you could see the same pattern again in the same position.

What did that mean?

[Critical damage!]

[Guardian Angel consumed!]

And then.

[Arcane Burst: Modified]

[Double Pulse]

[Shadow Secret Arts: Forceful Blow]

[Formless]

Thud-thwack.

-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With a grotesque scream that seemed to shake the heavens and the earth simultaneously, the core separated from Seo Ah-in's body.

Hmm. Yes.

This was it.

“The operation is a success... It was an excellent surgery...”

I smiled refreshingly and swept my hair back.

The secret to grinding down the final boss easily without seeing any patterns.

Excellent...

“...So.”

Ms. Meirin covered her eyes and muttered from the side.

“You just swung your weapon around a bit, swoosh, swoosh, and you're saying you just saved the world, you...?”

“Anyone can do it with a calculator.”

“Don't give me that bullshit, seriously-!”

“...”

Why are you getting angry about it?

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