Former Hero, Solo Play Oriented – Chapter 166

Flash!

The Red Lamia raised its snake tail. That pillar, like a huge old tree, came crashing down towards me.

Boom, crash!

The lamia’s tail, which came down strongly twice as if to crush me, devastated the cave floor. The sight of the hard rocky floor being deeply dented clearly showed how much strength that solid tail contained.

Of course, I had already used ‘Counter’ to take the Red Lamia’s rear. I immediately swung Astaroth strongly towards the lamia’s back.

My sword, imbued with starlight, pierced through the magic protection faintly enveloping the lamia’s body and wounded the naked human-like upper body of the Red Lamia. Perhaps because the upper body is human-like? Red blood, not blue, spurted from her body.

Hiss hiss-!!

The greatly angered Red Lamia coiled up and crouched its body.

A spinning pattern using its whole body. In response, I immediately activated ‘Block’.

Clang clang clang!

A powerful 3-rotation. Despite using the ‘Block’ skill that defends against all blockable attacks, a great impact that shook my body was transmitted.

Slide.

There’s even a knockback judgment. It must be a powerful pattern that would push you back if not blocked with a just guard.

I frowned at the slight damage transmitted through the sword.

This spinning pattern is quite tricky.

I can completely negate the damage from 1 attack with the ‘Just Guard’ judgment that activates when blocking successfully at the exact timing, but this one rotates three times. The second and third rotation judgments come after the just guard timing has ended.

It’s difficult to do a risky tightrope walk against such patterns. It’s not easy to dodge either because it sweeps the entire surroundings with its snake lower body as big as an old tree. Of course, there are ways to completely avoid damage without taking any, such as using backward evasion or left counter, right counter 2 times in a row.

But.

Hiss-!!

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

“Tch.”

While dealing with the Red Lamia, I glared at the ‘Blue Lamia’ shooting blue magic poison stings at me from a bit further away.

These guys have ranged patterns. Moreover, they pressured me organically interlocking with the close-range patterns of the lamia nearby, making sure their attacks don’t overlap.

The giant lamia’s ranged magic poison sting pattern, fortunately it’s a blockable projectile, but the firing interval is quite fast. It doesn’t give time to release the blocking posture. While one is using the ranged pattern, I’m inevitably pushed into a defensive position.

Then, rather.

Tap!

I immediately used backward evasion to widen the distance from both lamias.

Woong!

Red magic concentrated in the Red Lamia’s hands, and blue magic in the Blue Lamia’s hands.

Slash slash slash!

Soon after, a fast and fierce shower of magic poison stings shot mercilessly towards my body.

Tap tap tap tap!

I set my direction to the right and started running as if circling the lamias’ nest once.

It’s rather okay if I distance myself from both. If I don’t worry about close-range patterns, I can see and dodge.

Whoosh! I dodged one red magic poison sting aiming for my neck with a terrifying sound by turning my head, and immediately lowered my posture. Woong! Starlight settled on the sword held in reverse grip.

Slash slash slash!

Starlight Sword Energy. The swordsman’s ranged attack skill.

It’s a technique suitable for dealing effective damage in this situation where two are together and at a distance.

As the shower of starlight bursting from my sword hit and passed through the lamias’ bodies, they greatly twisted their bodies and started shooting magic poison stings at an even faster speed for the second time.

Poison stings flying from two individuals, faster than the Black Dragon’s spear. The number of projectiles increases over time. Now there’s barely any room to dodge.

Twirl.

I extended my sword diagonally downward, and slowly raised it while dancing.

I wonder how it would look from the outside? Sister Melissa’s sword dance was beautiful. Would my flailing look like a sword dance too? In reality, I’m just swinging the sword imbued with sword energy at high speed.

Thud thud thud!

The sound of magic poison stings bouncing off the starlight that instantly started swirling around me sounded scary, like bees hitting a window.

[Sword Curtain. Release]

Whoosh!

Astaroth is small to fit my body. But the experience contained in it was enough to make a heavy splitting sound.

Slash slash slash!

The starlight that instantly gathered around my body scattered and swept over the two lamias.

And as a bonus, even the pile of eggs stacked at the edge of this nest.

Crack, crackle!

As the pre-hatching eggs broke, bizarre lumps of flesh flew everywhere. I slightly dodged a piece of flesh that flew towards me and grinned.

How disgusting. Definitely different from chicken eggs.

This is also an intended effect.

These eggs will surely be a hindrance later.

I need to make full use of the first wide-range technique I got.

Hiss hiss-!!

Screech-!!

Woong!

The lamias seemed even angrier than when their tryst was interrupted. With faces contorted into the appearance of evil spirits, they started gathering magic in both hands again.

“That won’t do.”

Swoosh.

I immediately moved my body forward as if sliding.

Just before their 3rd magic poison sting attack flew in, I succeeded in squeezing between the Red Lamia and Blue Lamia.

Flash.

The two lamias simultaneously raised their tails towards me who had entered their close-range pattern range.

Boom, crash!

Tap. Instantly jumping up from that spot, I stepped on the lower bodies of the two snakes and drew Flash Slash.

Slash!

As expected of the swordsman’s extreme DPS skill Flash Slash, it tore through the lamias’ hard body scales and carved a wound big enough to be visible. It easily cut through even the magic protection. But a giant lamia’s tail is as big as my torso. It’s like a whale being stabbed by a kitchen knife, not very painful. Does the massive amount of HP possessed by named bosses correspond to body size?

Hiss!

The Blue Lamia and Red Lamia immediately coiled up and started spinning simultaneously.

Whoosh!

A spinning attack using the giant snake lower bodies that sweeps over more than half the battle area. Certainly not an easy pattern to deal with, but.

If I make both of their patterns overlap at the same time?

“It’s possible to resist with just one backward evasion.”

Tap.

After evading the terrifying body spinning attack through space, I immediately raised my sword and started mercilessly hacking at the bodies of the two lamias stuck together.

Slash slash!

I smiled brightly amidst the mercilessly flying pieces of lamia flesh.

What, it’s easier than I thought?

All the multiple bosses I’ve faced so far were tricky. It’s not simply twice as difficult when facing two.

The reason is that each has different attack patterns. Even with simple sword swings, if the timing is off, you have to block twice. Especially the ‘Ice Palace of the Frozen Land’ 1st named bosses, the spearman and shieldman, had different attack ranges, timing, and methods. When I faced them alone, even I had to exert extreme concentration.

But if the patterns are the same like these lamias?

After inducing one ranged pattern, just overlap the close-range patterns to come out simultaneously.

Hiss-!!

I gleefully fed my sword to the two lamias rushing at me with their giant snake lower bodies as if to crush me, riding on their snake tails.

“Hehe, hehehe!”

A look of resentment swirled on the faces of the lamias being attacked by me.

Maybe because they have human faces, they can make all sorts of expressions. But why resentful? Weren’t you trying to eat me anyway?

Well, I did interrupt their tryst. I even killed their children about to be born. From the lamias’ perspective, I’m nothing short of a demon. I wonder who the real demon and monster is?

Still, lewd things are not allowed! Death penalty!

[Hidden Named]

[Level 55 Red Lamia]

[HP 42,149,655 / 70,000,000 (60%)]

[Hidden Named]

[Level 55 Blue Lamia]

[HP 41,998,124 / 70,000,000 (60%)]

Hiss hiss-!!

“Ah.”

I was taken aback by the snakes’ unusual behavior as I was dodging overlapping attacks and jumping around on their snake scales, aiming for gaps in their large patterns.

A chilling sound of snakes sliding on rocks could be heard, shaa shaa.

The lamias suddenly started moving somewhere, leaving me behind.

This is clearly a special pattern.

After confirming through the named interface that both lamias’ HP had reached 60%, I raised my sword and watched their next move.

Where the eggs were, only red and blue magic swirled over the egg remnants.

As the two lamias immediately dug into that magic.

Woong!

Red and blue curtains were generated on their bodies respectively.

A barrier gimmick?

Does it feel like the damage reduction type shield often seen on elite dungeon named bosses? There must be a gimmick to disable it?

First, let’s check how much the damage reduction rate is by spraying sword energy.

Slash slash slash!

As the starlight sword energy bursting from my sword hit the Red Lamia’s body.

Woong!

It was absorbed with a strange sound. And then.

Slash slash slash!

It was spewed out towards me.

“Uwah!”

Roll.

I was startled. I didn’t expect this. After rolling greatly to avoid the sword energy, I stared with a dumbfounded expression at the two lamias that started approaching me again.

That barrier is not a damage reduction barrier.

The fact that my sword energy came right back means.

“A reflection barrier…?”