novelden 53: The BOSS appears!
53: The BOSS appears!
"That is..."
"What is that?!"
Lin Yu's voice unconsciously drew out, and her pupils suddenly contracted.
As soon as a breach appeared in the wall, many monsters she had never seen before, and which even Su Chen had not revealed any information about, surged in like a tide.
The few monster lizards at the very front suddenly coiled their tails into a circle, and then began to spin visibly—spinning faster and faster!
Until most of their bodies were airborne, their grayish eyelids and nictitating membranes opened and closed rapidly, their bulging eyes scanning the area below.
call out--
The deep red tongue shot out like an arrow towards the crowd gritting their teeth and enduring the pain on the wall!
"Watch out! Its tongue is poisonous! Get away from it! My dad got some on his arm and passed out on the spot!"
A sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy shouted with a sob in his voice. He reacted the fastest and thrust out his spear while alerting the others.
But he held on the wall for a long time, and his strength was not enough to pierce the lizard's tongue. Instead, he attracted its attention.
As one of the lizards turned, its tongue retracting and gathering strength, it was about to stab the boy—
Captain Chen's face turned purplish-red, his throat felt like it was being choked, his lips were white, and the bloodstains seeping from the corners of his mouth were particularly glaring.
"Retreat! Everyone on the wall, get them down! Now!!"
"Brothers in the temporary team, those who are still able to move, retreat five steps now! Don't get any closer to the wall! Stay at this distance, we absolutely cannot let any other monsters break in!"
Captain Chen's face changed as he roared, spitting out saliva mixed with blood, his eyes wide open, and his expression ferocious.
As he roared, he grabbed a spear, bent low, and with one thrust, he stabbed the turning lizard to the ground.
"What exactly is that thing?"
"You don't know either?"
Lin Yu gripped the butt of his gun tightly, the muzzle already pointed at the spot where the flying lizard had been.
If Captain Chen hadn't intervened, her bullet would have pierced the lizard's head in the next second.
Sixteen or seventeen years old, the best age, it's such a pity to die here.
"How would I know? Intelligence isn't that easy to get. I'm not omniscient or omnipotent. Don't forget we're all the same."
Su Chen, carrying a red-tasseled spear, pulled out a triangular military dagger from the wardrobe that had been wrecked by the monster.
"An inch longer, an inch stronger" is true, but at close range, even a red-tasseled spear will leave an opening when used in a backhand grip. Keeping a military dagger for self-defense is just right.
"It's coming."
Su Chen said in a low voice.
In the blink of an eye, a dark mass of monsters surged through the gap.
"Ginger... gingerbread man?"
"And... holy crap! That lampstand can fly!"
Several men, holding spears, stared in disbelief at the monster leaping down from the wall.
A monster, its body a deep brown color and its features drawn entirely with icing, was stiffly shuffling along. It had an enormous nose, shallow eye sockets that formed two hollows, and its entire body moved clumsily like a machine, "laboriously" moving in a manner that defied common sense.
Behind it were seven or eight monsters that looked the same but were slightly different in color, all pressing towards the residential area.
"I want to go home! I don't want to die here!" A pale-faced man, clutching a spear, stood frozen in place. The next second, the gingerbread man secreted a drop of "syrup," instantly burning him to ashes.
"Ahhh! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Several women collapsed to the ground, their faces filled with despair as the monster approached.
It's obvious what will happen to them.
"Damn! This is way too hard!"
A man took a half step back, gathered his strength, and thrust out with his spear, but only left a shallow white mark on the gingerbread man.
pat!
A crisp metallic clang rang out.
The gingerbread man's thick leg, which was standing on the ground, was crushed with a "crack" by a trap that bounced up from the ground.
Su Chen took a step forward, and the red-tasseled spear, enhanced by the Force, pierced through the gingerbread man's arms with almost no effort.
"It's even crisper than I expected..."
"These monsters all have weaknesses! Observe carefully, and if you can't find them, attack their chest and head first!"
Lin Yu gave a low shout and leaped high into the air.
With a "whoosh," the Miao sword on his back sliced a broom-like monster flying in mid-air in half.
The broom swirled and scattered crimson blood and flesh from its broken ends.
As soon as she landed, Lin Yu took several steps back and hurriedly warned the people around her to stay away.
really--
The flesh and blood that fell from the end of the broom made a sizzling sound as soon as it touched the ground, corroding a hole in the concrete floor.
Seeing Su Chen casually stab through two more dancing lampstand monsters, Lin Yu realized something was wrong.
When she tried to cut the candle part of the monster with her Miao sword, it was like she hit thin air!
The lampstand monster was unharmed, but the wax on the candlestick left a layer of grayish corrosion marks on her blade.
"How can you be so relaxed?"
Lin Yu fought and retreated, glancing at Su Chen incredulously.
Based on her understanding of that enhancer, the effect could never be that exaggerated!
In just a few words, Su Chen killed several more monsters without even breaking a sweat!
"Isn't this all thanks to your enhancement potion?"
Hearing Su Chen's casual, perfunctory reply, Lin Yu gave him a deep look, pursed her lips, and looked speechless.
How could her enhancement potion have such a strong effect?
In the midst of their conversation, a man next to Lin Yu was suddenly approached by another lampstand monster. The monster hopped and leaped, and the wax on its body, once it touched the man, instantly turned him into a human torch!
"Damn! This thing is so dangerous!"
Lin Yu took a half step back, lowered his Miao sword, and with one stroke severed the base of the lampstand monster.
That's its weakness—without Su Chen's mysterious power, it can only attack its hard base.
"The Force is really useful... Luckily I didn't waste points identifying these small fry."
Su Chen felt a surge of joy and swung his red-tasseled spear even faster.
More and more monsters gathered around.
Many of them were people Su Chen had never even met before.
The free Monster Hunter Encyclopedia only lists a limited number of monsters and doesn't include these. Since dealing with them wouldn't be difficult, Su Chen was too lazy to waste points checking their weaknesses.
Activate the Force and just do it!
It's a bit disgusting; after killing so many monsters, not a single card dropped.
hiss--
wrong.
Does that mean items don't drop during monster sieges?
For a moment's distraction, Su Chen's movements slowed down slightly.
Several pairs of eyes swept over Su Chen's position, revealing a hint of joy.
In the distance, a woman held a weapon and casually killed a flying lizard.
Noticing the woman's gaze, Su Chen looked over. She turned her face away, pretending nothing had happened.
"Isn't this woman... the one who knocked on my door the other day?"
"I knew this woman was no ordinary person."
Su Chen's face darkened.
His witcher's senses were never wrong; the woman looked guilty, and she must have been observing him!
What's outrageous is that she's small and looks frail, and she used to look weak and pitiful, but now she's wielding that halberd with incredible speed and power!
"He acted all gentle and weak before, but now he's wielding his halberd like this; no wonder he's a 'survivor'!"
Gritting his teeth, Su Chen was glad he hadn't opened the door.
If it were the old him, seeing a young woman wielding a halberd with one arm and killing so fiercely, he would definitely have turned and run away without looking back!
That thing, even two adult men might not be able to wield, let alone her killing more fiercely than the men in the surrounding temporary group.
Several veterans stood next to her, making her look like a complete green recruit!
"I just wonder how her home construction is going, and whether it will be as perverted as Lin Yu's."
The shelling is still going off around Lin Yu's house, but there's not much noise elsewhere. Maybe that woman doesn't live here.
Su Chen took a deep breath and continued to attach his Force to the red-tasseled spear. At the same time, the three-edged military dagger at his waist was subtly wrapped with a layer of transparent, fine silk thread.
In the distance, a loud boom resounded.
"He actually found me..."
With a single halberd strike, he cleared out the monsters within a three- or four-meter radius. Six or seven monsters were struck down, losing limbs and flying backward like cannonballs.
The woman who knocked on the door stood there holding a halberd. Now that she had been discovered, she was too lazy to pretend to be weak anymore.
Watching the military dagger that had inexplicably flown out of Su Chen's hand and then silently returned, she unconsciously licked her lips: "I knew my intuition was right... I really want to have a child with him..."
"He must be... better than any man I've ever met before..."
"Hold on! There are fewer monsters than before!" Captain Chen rushed to the front, leading several veterans, and their teamwork was excellent.
"Is it finally... coming to an end?"
The man who had been replaced was so weak that he knelt on the ground, exhausted and about to faint.
"It's really less! I'm not lying! It's really coming to an end!"
Another roar of ecstasy rang out, and many of those who were resting relaxed.
After this period of resistance, coupled with the continuous artillery support from the building, the speed and number of monsters appearing are indeed not as dense as before, down by nearly 1%!
The remaining scattered individuals, facing the rotating personnel, are unlikely to cause any significant disturbance.
"As expected, the intensity of the first monster siege wasn't as exaggerated as anticipated."
"I wonder how much reward Lin Yu will get after killing so many monsters this time... And that young woman, her home isn't here, I wonder what her situation is."
Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief and put away the triangular military dagger.
Lin Yu, who was also able to catch his breath, now had a serious expression and looked wary.
He then looked at the woman knocking on the door in the distance, who kept glancing at him from time to time—
The woman also looked serious, showing no sign of relaxing because of Captain Chen's words.
"Something's not right!" Su Chen's expression changed. "There's definitely something wrong with these two women acting like this!"
Just as he was about to grip the red-tasseled spear, an extremely piercing roar resounded through the sky!
In the distance, the gray fog that had gathered outside the wall was instantly dispersed by the roar, and a dark figure appeared at the same time, rushing towards the residential area at a considerable speed.
"A boss at the end of a siege battle? That makes perfect sense, that's totally logical!"
Su Chen squinted and peered through several holes in the wall at the figure shrouded in mist.
The monster's face was covered with a human skin, its features wrinkled and squeezed together, making it impossible to recognize what it was without a closer look.
Its upper body was covered with messy feathers, while its body was made up of several pieces of flesh of different colors sewn together, as if it had become a different species—or rather, it was a monster forcibly mixed together from countless species.
The monster, with its human face, had two thin tentacles extending from its feathered upper body. The tentacles were covered with suckers and were fiddling with a spherical object.
The next moment, a long tongue emerged from the mouth of the human skin mask, licking the sphere again and again.
"Hehe... servants... dependents..."
"The Great Elixir...The End..."
That familiar, incantation-like whisper, and that face—
"Jiahao?!"
Su Chen frowned and saw clearly in the moonlight.
What Jiahao was licking with his tongue was a bloody, mangled human head.