Clear

,Hiyahhhhh!”

I squeezed the strength from my entire body as if wailing, enduring the clash with the boss. Even Baedeopgae and Palgiri were gritting their teeth, enduring.

As if displeased with this situation, a new arm emerged from the boss’s body. Naturally, that arm held a sword.

,——–!!!”

The boss, shouting loudly, was about to bring down a massive greatsword, so I quickly assessed the situation.

The boss’s remaining HP was low. This was a situation where I could definitely deal damage. A clash gimmick.

No matter how I looked at it, this timing was when I could clear the boss.

The problem was that everyone except me, Baedeopgae, and Palgiri needed to deal damage to reach the damage threshold to defeat the boss. But in our current situation, it didn’t seem like we could withstand the upcoming attack.

‘I need just a little bit of time…!’

The three of us were blocking the boss’s attack, but we were steadily being pushed back. If the boss’s next attack came in this barely-holding-on situation, we’d be wiped out in an instant.

If so!

While clashing, I twisted my body and the Tasim Sword. It wasn’t a perfect stance, but a black effect emerged from the Tasim Sword.

I met the minimum conditions for activating [Annihilation Strike], Soma’s highest damage skill, and shouted.

,Parrying!!!”

Kaaaaaang!!!

Baedeopgae and Palgiri, understanding my words, used their respective skills and strained their strength along with me, deflecting the boss’s sword and scythe.

,——-!?”

The greatly flustered boss was pushed back significantly, then combined all of its weapons into one and raised it high above its head.

,…Prepare!”

I raised the Tasim Sword above my right shoulder and prepared.

The three of us kicked off the ground and charged at the boss simultaneously.

In that short time, all the buffs from the raid members were already applied to us.

The massive greatsword that seemed like it would cut everything down, my one-handed sword, Baedeopgae’s daggers, and Palgiri’s shield clashed.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

A massive sound that shook the ground echoed loudly, and a storm raged.

The second clash.

Even with all the buffs, 90% of my health instantly evaporated. The healers frantically poured in heals.

I checked the boss’s health.

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I had reduced the boss’s health to a level I hadn’t reached before. Because the boss went so crazy during the ‘crazy flailing’ pattern, I couldn’t deal proper damage.

But in the clash pattern, everyone except those clashing could just stand still and deal damage, so the boss’s health was dropping much faster than usual.

‘I have to clear it this time.’

This is the best opportunity. If I miss this, it will take a long time for this chance to come again.

The condition that the first person attacked when the boss starts the ‘crazy flailing’ pattern must parry.

It’s a pretty tricky condition. Parrying itself is already quite difficult, but with my current equipment, I can’t withstand it alone, and at least three people have to parry.

It was quite lucky that I even got this far. Among the many raid members, the boss attacked me first.

And with Soonchu’s help, Baedeopgae and Palgiri, who had bought time, helped me succeed in parrying.

That’s how the clash that started then led to this situation.

,We’re being pushed back…!”

As Palgiri said, my, Baedeopgae’s, and Palgiri’s health were visibly decreasing from the boss’s attack, even with all three healers caring for us.

Moreover, the healers’ mana was disappearing like crazy because they were pouring out strong heals.

But the boss’s health was rapidly disappearing.

In this state, it was certain that the boss would die before the healers’ mana ran out and we died, but an unexpected situation occurred.

The moment the boss’s health reached 3%, a giant pouch emitting a brilliant yellow light began to emerge from the massive cave that was the battlefield where we were fighting the boss.

Then, tentacles emerged from the boss’s body and began to rush towards that pouch.

,Soonchu-unni, block it!!!”

As soon as I saw the boss’s movement, I instinctively knew that the boss would recover health by eating that.

Soonchu-unni stopped attacking the boss and immediately ran towards the pouch, clashing with the boss’s tentacles.

,Forced clash system! I can’t do anything but keep enduring!”

Soonchu immediately told us her situation.

‘Ah, this is bad. Could this be…’

As I had anxiously predicted, the boss’s tentacles didn’t end with just one.

When another tentacle emerged, I shouted.

,Block the tentacles in order of lowest DPS!!!”

After Soonchu, the last remaining tank blocked the tentacles.

That’s how the boss’s gimmick started.

Tentacles emerged one after another, and the raid members began to block them one by one.

The problem was that the damage decreased each time.

There was already only one person dealing damage.

The boss’s remaining HP was only 1%.

Each time the boss extended a tentacle, the boss’s attack power decreased, and there was no health reduction in the clash.

The problem was that all the healers had already gone to block the tentacles, and the remaining pure DPS dealer, Mozza-Wapper, was desperately pouring in damage.

But even if the boss’s HP was 1%, the boss’s 1% was a completely different health value than other monsters’ 1%.

This damn boss pulled out another tentacle again.

,Are you fucking kidding me, you’re still going!?”

Mozza-Wapper shouted as if screaming.

The tentacles were getting thinner and weaker, but Mozza-Wapper knew that if even one of those tentacles reached the brilliantly yellow pouch, the boss would recover, so he crammed in damage from end to end, applied all the DoT damage, and blocked the tentacles.

Now, only me, Baedeopgae, and Palgiri were left blocking the boss.

,Kwararaaaaa!!!”

The boss, weaker than before, released the clash and two feeble tentacles rushed towards the pouch as if using its last bit of strength.

Palgiri and Baedeopgae, having seen the tentacle pattern enough times, ran to block the tentacles.

     [Abyssal Artamin]

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The boss’s body began to crack. In a situation where the body couldn’t withstand it and was collapsing, the boss’s gaze turned to me.

No, to the largest pouch behind me.

I don’t know if this situation was what Leo-re aimed for or if it was a coincidence.

They really made this raid fun.

The boss couldn’t maintain its massive body any longer and began to shrink. But it wasn’t just shrinking…

It shrank into my exact appearance. The boss looked exactly like me. It probably changes according to the last remaining user’s character customization.

,Wow! Two cute Arangs!?”

Ignoring Baedeopgae’s voice from the side, I prepared for the final battle with the remaining boss.

The boss was now holding the Tasim Sword, a one-handed sword, just like me.

Leo-re probably created the patterns of that job to match the last remaining user’s job.

In this case, it would use Soma’s skills. The same skills. The same height as me.

If so, I will never lose.

The boss, looking exactly like me, raised the sword to its right shoulder with the exact same movement.

The blades of the two Tasim Swords emitted a purple light.

The first skill you have to use after Soma’s skills are revamped. A 5-hit combo attack that immediately stacks 5 combo stacks, [Pentagon].

The [Pentagon] that the boss cast and the [Pentagon] that I cast.

The trajectories of my and the boss’s [Pentagon] were completely identical. Purple light burst out in the cave, with the same attack, the same timing, the same trajectory, the same effect.

There was not a single difference between the best [Pentagon] that the system AI could produce and my [Pentagon].

The sound of two swords colliding echoed pleasantly.

My and the boss’s [Pentagon] clashed, and each other’s swords bounced back greatly.

This time, the boss and I moved in the same way again. Soma’s dash skill with a green light, [Wihap].

The boss’s and my swords collided with each other, not bouncing off but interlocking and crossing.

In a situation where either one would die the moment their strength faltered, the impact of each other’s skills disappeared.

The moment the skill ends, from now on, it’s a complete close-quarters fight.

The moment the effect of [Wihap] surrounding the interlocked two Tasim Swords disappeared, the boss stopped due to the skill’s after-delay.

I overlapped the after-delay of [Wihap] and the pre-delay of [Square Quadler], naturally stabbing the Tasim Sword into the boss’s body-!

Kaang!

,Kuoohhhhh!!!”

The boss screamed and blocked all of my [Square Quadler] with the same [Square Quadler].

‘Are you kidding me!?’

Even though it’s the final boss of the season, the situation just now was truly insane.

My [Square Quadler] was cast about 1 second earlier than the boss’s. But the boss forcibly blocked all of my attacks.

No matter how I look at it, this isn’t a human movement.

Ah, the boss isn’t human…or so you thought!? Who would win if the boss did that in a 1v1 situation!?

I need to stay calm.

Looking at the current situation, the boss is copying my skills exactly.

If so, I won’t rely on skills and will only fight with combos.

The boss received the wild combos that had no skills, no combat buffs, no form, and no technique through the system AI.

‘It’s seriously so OP…!’

Each other’s swords began to graze each other’s bodies.

More perfectly, more surely!

The scenery in front of me slowly slowed down.

The trajectory of the sword began to appear in detail.

I frowned at the headache and focused even more to finish it for sure.

The moment the boss’s Tasim Sword was about to hit my head, I blocked the boss’s attack with the crossguard on the hand side of the sword’s blade and deflected the attack while twisting my hand.

The boss’s Tasim Sword narrowly passed my right head and was stuck in the ground, and I stepped on that Tasim Sword with my right foot.

There was a slight delay in the boss retrieving the sword, and I used that slight delay to slash the boss’s neck with my Tasim Sword.

     [Abyssal Artamin]

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     [Abyssal Artamin]

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The boss’s body collapsed, and [Abyssal Artamin] Complete appeared, showing that the raid was cleared.

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I found out later that the final 1v1 gimmick was actually a gimmick where the boss’s HP slowly disappeared, so all you had to do was have a tank or healer left to endure, and I realized how dumbfounded I was…