episode_0085

Leaving behind Leia, who was left behind.

Just three people heading forward. Me, Ilsung, and Jason in 6th place.

Gordius, who was running in front of us, looked very shabby.

So much so that I can’t even think of the nickname ‘Golden King’.

But he took his time even in this situation.

“My kingdom is falling apart so fleetingly.”

“…What?!”

‘It’s not even the Kingdom of Earth in the first place!’

It was quite odd to see the guy who had arbitrarily taken over the quarry talking about it being a kingdom and all that.

As the distance between me and Laia grew, I felt uneasy.

Gordian’s attack patterns are not that numerous. Because it was a death touch type enemy that turned into gold the moment it came into contact.

However, it was difficult that the name and color were boss but the pattern was simple.

One of the few patterns that Dream City’s developers put in after much thought.

A technique that turns opponents from a long distance into gold.

Thanks to this, in addition to the close combat build users who already wanted to cry, even the long range combat build users poured out their hatred for this pattern.

‘Surely you won’t use it already?’

The conditions for this deceptive pattern were generally used when Gordius’ physical strength reached about 30% of the total.

Afterwards, if you succeed in recovering your stamina to 80% during the recovery period, one more time.

One more time when your physical strength has fully recovered beyond 80%.

Of course, unless it was an overt close combat build, it was rare to see this pattern of Gordius twice.

“Ha, you know what happens to a king who loses his country!?”

While I was closely watching Gordius’ actions, Number 6 spoke to him.

“Execution!”

I thought it might be too extreme an answer, but 6th place started attacking Gordius with those words.

Every time a purple bullet hit his body, his golden skin began to crack.

but….

Even in this situation, he looked like he couldn’t hold back his laughter when he heard the answer from 6th place.

“What a foolish guy!”

“Even though they will now witness my kingdom disappearing to make way for a new kingdom, my subjects will prove that the spirit of a nation accelerated by fire has not met death itself!”

A sudden full-length speech.

He wasn’t really this talkative guy.

It was clear that the damn writer had altered the normal boss to suit his tastes.

‘It even feels like something I’ve heard before.’

Gordius suddenly stopped and got ready to engage us.

First, I transformed into a bat. While he turned his gaze to find me, who suddenly disappeared from sight!

Ilsungi and 6th place attacked him from left and right.

“This is going to be hard!”

The two attacks missed by a narrow margin.

Ilseong’s sword and the 6th place mechanical arm’s sword strike were blocked by each other’s attacks.

Gordius sneered at the two people who got in each other’s way.

“Chris!”

But while we stopped and engaged, it seems Laia caught up with us.

***

“…Huh?!

But Gordius suddenly began to assume a strange posture.

The guy’s body begins to glow along with it.

“Damage!!!”

A shout made randomly.

It was clear that those around him had anticipated what would happen next as the golden energy began to radiate from the king’s body.

The 6th person quickly spread several mechanical arms like a board, covering his body.

“Lia!”

“…!”

I yelled at Leia running towards me. At the same time, he spread the blood with his other hand, forming a sort of veil.

She moved towards me just as a curtain of blood spewed out from my hand.

In this situation, the only person exposed to Gordian attack.

The blood film that Laia had placed on Ilsung’s body still existed.

However, this damn pattern had a structure in which the golden effect was continuously applied throughout the light.

“…One less person with this.”

A voice that sounds as if the golden energy emanating from the king’s body has disappeared.

“….”

6th place and I simultaneously removed the thing that had been protecting our bodies just a moment ago.

“Chris.”

Laia’s feet, which my curtain could not cover, turned into gold.

“…It will hurt a little.”

Sigh! As soon as the scene of my hand being flailing and blood splattering around was over, Laia was ready to face the king again.

But it wasn’t identical.

Even in a split second, the image of him throwing his body forward to defeat his enemy… turned into gold.

“Ilsung suffered!”

I immediately radioed the news about Ilseong.

Then several people answered on the radio.

The main team, not us, who are dealing with Gordius.

“Mr. Youngmin. Leave this to me.”

“….”

“I and these people can protect Rina.”

Ray started running without even having a chance to say thank you to Sylvia.

Lund followed Ray, who was trying to join Chris.

Even without her, the golems suddenly appeared and were quickly subdued by Tetracaine’s private troops.

“Let us move forward too!”

“Yes!”

As soon as Sylvia had resolved the situation, she urged her allies to move immediately.

The commanders of the private units led their men along the blue light of the mine shaft, just as she wanted.

***

We were at a stalemate, with our forces not far away from joining us.

Gordius to recover immediately after using a skill that consumes a lot of energy, and we to prepare to attack again.

One of the few moments in a fight where mutual understanding coincides.

“Damn, how much does this all cost.”

“Are you discussing value in front of me right now?”

6th place removed his golden mechanical arm and replaced it with a new mechanical arm.

It seemed like there was some surplus… but that seems to be coming to an end now.

“Chris.”

widely! Meanwhile, Laia slapped my back and cast a new blood curtain again.

Immediately after, Laia turns to No. 6 and does the same thing to him… Gordius and we resume our fight again!

The result of each moving towards the other.

In that brief moment, my left arm, touched by Gordius, became gold again.

However, the price the king paid for ignoring my right hand was not small.

“…Maeseop. It’s harsher than it looks.”

” That’s enough, so why don’t you die now?”

The king muttered as he looked at his severed arm rolling on the floor.

“No, that is not possible.”

Gordius looked shabbier than before, but his eyes were burning with more motivation than ever.

“My Creator created me as an imperfect being, but my successor is different! It’s impossible to end this disappointing tree without making it bloom…”

King Midas. The successor he was referring to was clearly King Midas.

‘It’s definitely being put in the body somewhere.’

While thinking like that, I looked at the king’s body… There were two strange parts.

Inside the thigh of the left leg, and the lower back on the right.

A part of the skinny king’s body that appears unusually swollen.

“6th place, can you see it too?”

“….”

Number 6 didn’t answer me, but it moved just as soon as my radio signal was heard.

Did you understand the meaning of my radio signal?!

Nothing was certain. However, together with Laia, we decided to match the actions of 6th place.

Enemies approach from three different directions.

The king was the first to block the knight-like figure who was rushing towards him with fierce force.

The knight’s six arms played with the king as if they were performing some magical feat.

Every time the king tried to touch the knight’s arm, it bounced off a different trajectory, and the bullet from the gun held by his other arm subtly distorted the arm’s trajectory.

“….”

The king’s frivolous expression changed, and deep concern appeared in the corners of his golden eyes.

The king’s body began to shine again.

“What!”

No, the pattern is like this! hurry! again! Write?! I quickly spread the bloody curtain.

Even Number 6, who was near the king, was startled and quickly began to unfold all of his mechanical arms.

“Wait a minute!”

However, Laia, who was the only one who maintained her composure in this situation, shouted.

The light the king gave off was merely camouflage.

“Mr. Lee…”

***

6th place, whose vision was temporarily blocked as the mechanical arm unfolded.

The king approached the 6th, and the 6th turned into gold and swore, but he could not finish even that.

Ilsung and 6th place, two of the main members have already become golden.

“…Laia.”

“Yes, Chris.”

“Hang double blood curtains.”

“…Yes.”

Laia did not comment on my words.

Since I was the only one left to target the king, there was no other way.

“You never get tired. Besides, there is no way a person would cut off their own limbs.”

“….”

He doesn’t know that Laia and I are vampires.

Even though he was a father with a child, he still lacked experience.

A brief standoff.

As Laia quickly retreated from the scene, Gordius and I approached each other.

Strikes exchanged between each other.

My vicious right hand just barely managed to tear the king’s chest.

The king fled without thinking about the terrible damage.

Thanks to this, I was able to stay safe even though it was a golden opportunity for him to target me.

“Chris!”

For a moment, I wondered if I had seen something wrong.

Lund, who looked like a wolf, and someone who looked like a baby bat similar to me were coming this way.

“…Ray?!”

I was not the only one surprised by the sudden arrival of reinforcements.

“….”

The best thing Gordias could do here.

“Chris! Look ahead!”

“Huh?”

That is the thirty-six precepts of Julhaengrang.

It even seemed like a passageway had been dug nearby to go up from the second basement level of the quarry to the first floor.

“Lund!”

As soon as I shouted, a stream of blood poured out in the darkness with a flickering blue light.

I also took out a pistol that I had never used before and fired back at him.

But it seems that God was on the unlucky king’s side.

“Johnny! David! He went up to the first floor!”

“You mean on the first floor?”

Instead of Johnny and David, it was Eslok’s voice that came through the radio.

“What are the coordinates here?”

The coordinates that Lund and Laia hastily confirmed were also shared with the party on the first basement floor.

“Let’s go up too!”

As long as there were no four vampires or gargoyles, we could fly as much as we wanted.

We went straight up to the first basement level through the passage through which Gordius escaped.

“We’ll go up first! Sylvia!”

“Chris, don’t overdo it.”

I said I understood what Sylvia said and asked that Ilseong and 6th place be retrieved.

***

I guess I should have brought Lina with me.

No, but I was glad I had Laia.

It was enough to expect Ray to play the role of Ilsung-i and Lund to play the role of 6th place.

“Where did it go?”

“Well, but it’s dangerous to split here.”

The first floor, like the second floor, had blue lights installed along the tunnel.

“Of course it’s towards the entrance, right?”

The location of the existing passageway where Eslok and the other party were located was unclear.

Gordius has one of two options.

Go up to the ground like this, or go back down to the second floor and aim for the weak side now that the power is dispersed.

With that number of private troops and task forces, the king would once again be in charge of his own people.

In addition, he can even deal with Lina, one of the two people who can effectively neutralize him.

Considering the results, it was naturally the latter that caused us the most damage.

“….”

“Chris.”

Ray’s voice softly calling me.

When I follow the voice and look towards the person I see.

It seems that the king didn’t choose any of the options I thought of.

I don’t know what he did, but… he was waiting for us in perfect condition.

It was so natural that I felt a sense of discomfort, as if it had been here from the beginning.

“Lia.”

As soon as her name was called, Laia released the double blood curtain on me and cast new blood curtains on Ray and Lund.

This was more efficient when the number of people increased again.

“Lund, I’ll leave the rest to you.”

“Okay.”

Lund had to attack Gordius relatively from the rear and protect Laia from any possible attacks.

Just looking at it, he was performing more roles than Ray and I.

“Ray, let’s go.”

“Yes.”

As the four of us started moving, Gordius also moved.

But something happened that no one expected.

Suddenly, the king’s head was pierced.

A bullet flew from somewhere, and exploded immediately after piercing the king’s head.

Immediate explosion after impact. It was clearly a high explosive incendiary bomb.

Among those who rushed into this quarry, the only one capable of carrying out an attack like this is… David!

“How was it?”

David’s voice comes from the radio.

But that wasn’t the end. Mechanical sounds coming from beyond the radio at regular intervals.

“…Oh my. Were there any more customers?”

The king did not show any of the composure he had shown at first when another enemy appeared.

“But you can’t do anything with me with weapons like this.”

“Johnny, I heard that’s true?”

“…Then, shall we take a look?”

Noh Ik-jang’s voice mocking the king.

The barrage of purple bullets that followed crushed the king’s body.

There was no sign of David from the distance, but Johnny joined us.

Gordius was spectacularly destroyed, but this was not the end.