Chapter 32: My Way (4)   

The laser indiscriminately pierced through the monsters, ripping them to shreds .

However, the wounds, as they received damage, seemed to heal at the same time .

It wasn't perfect, but bleeding stopped quickly, and something seemed to fill the empty holes in their bodies .

"It would be great if I had a skill to prevent their regeneration . "

Most high ranking magic had some kind of ability that prevented enemy from recovering .

It had incredibly high damage output, as well as preventing recovery . It wasn't just called a high ranking skill for nothing .

They also sported an incredible price matching that .

Putting aside my disappointment, I looked at them .

'Griffon . '

With the head and wings of an eagle, and sharp talons .

It was a giant monster with the body and hind legs of a lion .

The moment it came within my sights, it flew towards me with incredible speeds .

From its beak to wings, it came at me like an arrow .

From what I found out, until its life was extinguished, it would attack like this .

However, when its fire of life was about to be extinguished, it would attack as if its life is on the line .

The last final attack .

Its body glanced the shield casted around me .

Due to the incredible amount of speed and power, the Reflect Shield seemed to waver a bit .

It was a shield that had reached lv 100 . It seemed that I didn't give enough credit for its attack power .

Until it turned its direction to head back towards me, the shield recovered its form and I finished preparing to receive its attack .

With its multiple attacks, the Reflect Shield was countering by reflecting the attack back at it .

Then .

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While I was focused solely on its attacks, the 'Poison Naga' continued to spray sticky vomit around me .

The vomit it spewed all over to floor started to boil like hydrochloric acid on metal .

Soon, a foul smoke began to permeate .

If I make a mistake and step on it without my shield, it wouldn't end with just losing my boots and armor .

The vile poison would instantly seep into the foot of the Awakened .

If that happens, there is only one solution . Without a single bit of hesitation, to amputate from the calf down .

If you try to pathetically save one's foot with an 'Antidote' spell, you'd lose your life within a minute .

The one thing that made me shudder was for the high stamina tank type Awakened .

Due to the defense capabilities from their stamina stat, no magicians that would normally enter a level 18 dungeon would be able to amputate . Thus only the poisoned member themselves could, and would have to cut off their own limb .

Even if you were an Awakened with 100 stamina and 10 strength, you were able to hurt yourself as if your body was that of a normal person .

As if a scene from the movie "Saw . "

Of course high ranking healers could regenerate the lost foot .

You'd have to pay an incredible sum of money though .

A monster with the body and tail of a snake, a halfling .

From the waist up, the hands each held a sword thin as paper .

After spitting out venom repeatedly, it flicked its tongue, getting closer .

It could slide quickly on the areas the venom it spat out landed .

"A chicken and a bowl of snake soup . I'm blessed with food . "

Time for the griffon to attack again .

I casted Fire Shock .

In a radius of 15m around me, the dark dungeon was bathed in bright red .

It was a skill with only a duration of 10 seconds, so I had to hold them in place as long as possible .

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The moment they were in my sights, I used Bind to root them .

The level 21 bind would only last for 1 to 2 seconds, but I just need to keep casting is all .

The moment when the griffon was caught by its hind legs and flapped its wings desperately to struggle free…

I casted Hold on the naga that was swinging its sword at me .

It was obvious that its sword attacks would be all blocked by my shield .

However, I knew that the constant attacks would slowly eat away at the duration of the shields .

The flames from the Fire Shock meeting with the venom caused the dungeon to become a gas chamber .

If my shields gave out right now, and I was to inhale this smoke… . .

Since I did not raise my agility stat, I was weak towards status changes . It was obvious that a tragedy would occur .

A skill that did not take account for the surroundings, truly for those who play solo .

It's a hunting method that a hunting party cannot even dream about .

Without being able to move, they could only get hit by the Fire Shock head on .

10 seconds .

It was the time left before I casted Gravity Laser again since casting Hold and Bind with both my hands prevented me from casting it .

Until then I had to focus only on halting their movements .

I noticed that their ability to recover had been reduced drastically .

As the sea of red ended, stopping the cast of Hold and Bind, I continued to spam Gravity Laser .

After Bind being undone, the griffon that was flying at me continuously suddenly stopped 3m above my head .

His life force must be nearly extinguished . The only thing left must be his last resort attack .

Despite the laser penetrating and ripping its entire body apart, it spread its wings and continued to flap its way towards me .

But that was for a brief moment .

As it stopped its wings, the feathers from the inside of its wings began to pour down .

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The small black red shards were like sharp assassin weapons, resembling that of an assassin's 'Weapon Throw' .

The shape was different, but it wasn't just an attack . It was truly a final attack .

Feather that came pouring like rain . Just in case, I had even casted Spirit Armor .

Due to the attack above me, my vision was nearly blocked due to all the feathers being imbedded in the shield .

As if from the battles with Guseon 1 where all those arrows and explosives were embedded on it .

Even on the naga who was nearly dead, there were hundreds, if not thousands of featheres embedded on it .

The destroyed body that struggled till its last fell to the ground .

[100,000 Experience Obtained]

[100,000 Experience Obtained]

For killing one, the experience I gained was 100k!

Level 18 dungeons were different from the manticore and succubus dungeons .

Unlike those dungeons where hundreds of monsters appeared, there were only 20 to 25 monsters .

But even those few, if I could get them all I could obtain a minimum experience of 2 million .

Unlike the 800k experience I received form the succubus dungeon, the experience I gained rose over 2 . 5 times from before .

In order for a level 108 to increase his or her lv by 1, the experience required was 60 million .

After lv 30, the required experience began to exponentially increase, and now has become 60 million .

To take down both these two, it had taken only 2 minutes .

But thinking about the 3 minutes cooldown time of Fire Shock…

I realized that it would take roughly 1 hour to take them all down .

"This isn't going to work out . "

Thought for a brief moment…

The collapsed bodies gave off a green 'demonic fire' along with the blood stone .

The light was absorbed by a monster far away who was merely watching the fight .

"I forgot about him . Ah . I have a headache . One hour probably isn't enough?"

The one who absorbed the light, its form became a little less ethereal than before .

Its name is 'Reaper Louver ' .

From the dungeon entrance onwards, this place looked like a road to guide the dead to the underworld .

To match that, a reaper that guides all the monsters' soul in the dungeon had appeared .

"Passing the summer, they're filming 'Legend of the Homeland' . "

As our eyes met, it turned its back on me and disappeared into the darkness .

It wouldn't attack right now .

Maybe when all the monsters here have died . If the hidden boss appeared, it would probably absorb its soul and then fight .

The boss itself was a mid-tier boss, but if it absorbed the soul of the hidden boss, I heard it would become incredibly strong .

I didn't have time for this .

I gave my all and charged forward .

Continued to take down the enemies .

Hunting by grouping only 2~3 of them at a time . And they kept recovering .

And the 3 minutes cooldown of Fire Shock .

The result was going overtime on the dungeon's time limit .

All the monsters that fired magic gleefully disappeared, and the exit opened in the center of the dungeon .

"Damn it . "

And that's how I tasted my first defeat as an Awakened .