novelraw Chapter 523
Chapter 523
It’s coming out this suddenly?
He truly hadn’t expected it.
A boss monster coming out after the repetition of a similar pattern.
Rage surged up, but at the same time, he thought it was fortunate.
They say rage is an excellent driving force—and he was going to stuff this boiling anger down that bastard’s throat.
Ku-gu-gu-gu-gu!!
A huge vibration.
He could feel it from far below, and anyone could tell the thing was coming up.
Then he should get ready to welcome a guest.
Su-ho started by checking the situation.
[ You cannot enter the Subspace House. ]
Damn it.
So even when the boss fight starts, what doesn’t work still doesn’t work.
What stubborn bastards. It really felt too much.
Then what about the others?
[ You cannot use Mini Breath. ]
[ You cannot use Eclipse. ]
[ You cannot use Heat-Transmuting Blade. ]
[ You cannot use Earthquake tsunami. ]
[ You cannot use Wavebreaker. ]
[ You cannot use Lightning. ]
No. Not allowed.
Not a chance.
Su-ho squeezed his eyes shut.
‘This is seriously too much.’
No—if the boss fight started, you should at least lift the prohibitions you put on beforehand, right?
Is this just some gate?
This is a Big Gate, for fuck’s sake.
But as if mocking Su-ho’s scream, the system gave no response at all.
‘Yeah. Of course you’d be like this. When have you ever been kind to me?’
Su-ho immediately started equipping other gear.
[ Summoning Hercules’s Lion-Head Helmet. ]
[ Summoning Hercules’s Club. ]
[ Blood Armory is activated. ]
[ Blessing is activated. ]
[ Palladian is activated. ]
[ Divine Aura is activated. ]
[ Mana Detection is activated. ]
[ Endurance is activated. ]
[ Enhance is activated. ]
[ Night Captain’s Eyes is activated. ]
[ Sword Aura is activated. ]
What doesn’t work doesn’t work.
So he had to prepare to welcome the guest with whatever did work.
Soon, the vibration that had been slowly rising grew enormous, and the moment he sensed it had finally pushed right up to his doorstep—
- Gyaoooooo!!
A high wail.
With that sound, the boss monster finally announced its arrival, collapsing not only the door but even the surrounding walls.
But the state of what appeared was a bit strange.
‘What is that?’
For a moment, he thought ink had poured out.
But it wasn’t.
It was as dark as Vantablack, said to be the blackest black in the world—and then yellowish eyes opened within it, and a huge maw gaped wide.
A snake.
Yeah. It was a snake.
That was exactly what it looked like.
The thing that had shoved its face into the wall it had broken through—its body color was a deep jet-black like Vantablack, but its eye shape and eyes, its gaping mouth and tongue were the unmistakable features of a snake.
Of course, the size of its head wasn’t something a normal snake... no, even the biggest anaconda in the Amazon could dare compare to.
It was nearly on par with a Blast Furnace Dragon.
At that moment, a name card appeared between its head and its forehead.
- Deep-Sea Species Paracondia Lv.???
Deep-Sea Species referred to its type, and Paracondia was its name.
The moment Paracondia finally appeared and found Su-ho, it shoved its face toward Su-ho and screamed until its voice nearly tore apart.
- Graaaaaaaaah!!
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]
[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]
‘Shit!’
All the buffs he’d forced himself to stack got dispelled with a single roar.
At the same time, Paracondia’s face began surging toward Su-ho.
Boom!!
Su-ho, who had taken a spot in the corner of the room, couldn’t even dodge because the space was too tight—he had no choice but to take its headbutt with his entire body.
Evasion was impossible.
If it were a head only as big as a narrow door, he could’ve twisted his body and tried to dodge by a sheet of paper’s width, but since it had shown up by collapsing not only the door but the surrounding walls, the room had been filled up from the start.
“Gurrrk...!”
The damage was so powerful Su-ho’s mouth fell open for a moment, and water poured into his mouth.
With seawater filling his mouth, Su-ho hurriedly shut it and gulped down the water.
‘This is driving me insane.’
After succeeding in its headbutt, it pulled its head back again.
- Graaaaaaak!!
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]
[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]
Maybe it was joy at having landed a hit—the thing used Ruler-Class Fear and let out a victory roar.
It pissed him off.
It hits him once and then does a victory performance like that?
‘Way too much showmanship.’
Su-ho immediately raised the blood sword and charged at it.
[ Blessing is activated. ]
[ Rage Mode is activated. ]
[ Foxfire is activated. ]
[ Night Captain’s Eyes is activated. ]
[ Sword Aura is activated. ]
[ Point is activated. ]
[ Enhance is activated. ]
[ Diamond Cut is activated. ]
[ Enhance is applied. ]
[ The power of Diamond Cut becomes even stronger. ]
At the same time as he charged, he activated eight skills.
Ruler-Class Fear?
So what?
If it dispels them, he can just reapply them every time.
That’s why he stacked his mana stat, and why he clawed together this kind of power in preparation for situations like this.
Of course, it was still hard to swing his sword because of the tightly packed, high-density water.
But thanks to the buff skills that inflated three of his stats, his muscle strength explosively surged, and even if it wasn’t his original level, he could activate Diamond Cut at a similar level.
Gwa-gwa-gwa-gwak!!
- Graaaaaaaaak!!
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]
[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]
Paracondia’s high wail.
Thanks to it, all buffs were dispelled yet again.
But even though the buffs were gone, Su-ho’s mouth twisted into a grin.
The fact it was screaming like that meant it hurt.
In other words, it meant the attack had landed properly.
That was enough.
If he’d landed a proper hit on that damned bastard, that was enough.
Sure enough, as if proving Su-ho’s attack had been a clean, effective hit, it spat out clumps of faint red blood through the gaps of its pitch-black shell.
‘Yeah. If I keep narrowing the gap like this....’
At that moment, seeing its blood spreading through the water, lightning struck in Su-ho’s mind.
And he acted immediately.
Su-ho’s hand shot forward.
[ Bloody Hand is activated. ]
Shuaaaah!!
Thankfully, Bloody Hand activated.
Bloody Hand, once activated, began sucking in Paracondia’s blood that was spreading through the seawater at a terrifying speed—and—
[ You can copy the abilities the target possesses. ]
The additional notice made Su-ho’s eyes flash.
He immediately began examining the list of skills it possessed.
- Graaaaaaak!!
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]
[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]
Enraged after taking Diamond Cut, Paracondia charged at Su-ho again.
Koo-woong!!
A tremendous headbutt.
The impact was so huge a wave swelled once through the water.
Of course, Su-ho took no small amount of damage too.
“Ggorrrk!”
It hurt so much water flooded his mouth again.
But even so, Su-ho’s gaze was still on Paracondia’s skill list.
And not long after, Su-ho was finally able to find it.
The skill he needed most right now.
Without hesitation, Su-ho designated the target and copied the skill.
[ You have successfully copied the ‘Pressurized Body’ ability from the target. ]
The name of the copied ability was Pressurized Body.
Pressurized Body activated immediately.
[ Pressurized Body is activated. ]
The moment it activated, Su-ho’s body—which had been sluggish due to the dense water—began to speed up as if it were a lie.
‘Thanks, you damn snake-headed bastard!’
Pressurized Body was a passive skill that was always active among the many skills Paracondia had— the name of an evolved body fully adapted to dense, heavy water.
In that sense, the name of the seawater filling this gate was “Pressurized Water”.
‘No wonder the water was insanely heavy!’
Still, thanks.
Thanks to you, I can finally be free in this damned water!
[ Blessing is activated. ]
[ Rage Mode is activated. ]
[ Foxfire is activated. ]
[ Night Captain’s Eyes is activated. ]
[ Sword Aura is activated. ]
[ Point is activated. ]
[ Enhance is activated. ]
The moment he got Pressurized Body, he planted his foot against the wall, took a running start, and shot at it like a missile.
Then he swung his sword.
[ Diamond Cut is activated. ]
[ Enhance is applied. ]
[ The power of Diamond Cut becomes even stronger. ]
Kwajajak!!
This place’s pressurized water will no longer be an obstacle for me!
It felt exhilarating.
In fact, among the skills it had, there was also an “Underwater Breathing” skill that let him breathe underwater—but after a moment of deliberation that felt like eternity, he’d chosen Pressurized Body.
And now, thanks to Pressurized Body, his movement was completely free, so all of Diamond Cut’s original power could be used.
As a result, Paracondia, properly struck, shrieked high and twisted its body.
Kwa-gwa-gwa!!
Tremendous power.
It was only twisting in pain, yet it smashed every surrounding wall.
But the funny thing was, even when it smashed the wall, it didn’t open up any new space—it only stopped at gouging out grooves.
‘Looking at it, it feels like a waterway dug straight through the ground.’
Otherwise, after making that kind of ruckus, there was no way new space wouldn’t open up.
- Graaaaaaak!!
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Fear is not applied due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood. ]
[ Due to the effect ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on players are removed. ]
The thing, rampaging in pain, used Ruler-Class Fear one more time.
Then, at tremendous speed, it began running backward through the path it had come through.
‘It’s running?’
Unbelievable.
A boss monster running away?
At the thing’s pathetic lack of dignity, Su-ho began chasing Paracondia like a hunter.
The power of Pressurized Body was incredible.
Even though he was underwater, it let him move as if he were out of water.
But its retreat speed was so fast he couldn’t stick close behind it.
No—he ended up losing it.
That was when—
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!!
Not long after Paracondia retreated at such high speed it almost seemed to vanish and disappeared from view, pitch-black liquid like ink began surging in from where it had disappeared.
‘What is that now?’
[ Deep-Sea Species Paracondia is enraged. ]
[ Black-Tar Abyss is activated. ]
Paracondia’s rage.
And Black-Tar Abyss activating.
It was the start of its second phase.