Chapter 324
Facing the missile, my jaws dropped in disbelief . You’re dropping missiles now because guns don’t work!? Isn’t that too much!?
The missile wasn’t just large . Its power and the sheer amount of mana in it were simply absurd . Without giving me the chance to avoid it, the missile fell directly on my head .
Well, to be honest, I didn’t think about avoiding it .
“Wow . ”
The missile detonated, as a missile normally would upon hitting its target . The only problem was that a huge torrent of energy erupted right on top of my head . Then, perhaps expectedly, I clearly saw the torrent disappear as though it was sucked in by something .
A bolt of lightning seemed to flash in my head . Seeing not just bullets but this immense energy missile disappear, I understood completely .
Not long after, a booming sound thundered across the sky . It was incomparably louder than when I reflected bullets .
[… You destroyed 19% of the Eliminator’s main body . ]
“I wonder what it’ll shoot next…”
Just in case, I stood in place and waited for a moment, but no more explosives headed my way . Almost as if it used all of its energy in the previous ordeal, the Eliminator’s main body went quiet for the rest of the 88th floor .
However, the 89th floor was a different story . A truly unbelievable amount of robots greeted me from the start . There were more of them than the demons I killed in Greenland! There were 10 times more robots compared to the 88th floor and 30 times compared to the 87th .
This wasn’t normal! No dungeon floor had ever had so many monsters! Though, these guys are robots, not monsters!
“Just how the hell did you guys lose with all this!?”
I shouted as though I was wronged and charged towards them . Immediately, hundreds of thousands of robots barraged me with bullets . Even if reflecting one bullet only cost 1 mana, blocking them all would cost me hundreds of thousands! The absurdity of the situation made me speechless .
[I am Dortu . Commencin… arduous work . ]
“Don’t say that so calmly like you pushed a nuke button! You’re not even understanding the meaning of that phrase!”
Dortu flew off . I had no idea where to begin, but it wasn’t like I had any other choice than to fight .
First, I summoned Sharana .
“Sharana, come inside me and strengthen me!”
[Yes, Master!]
The moment Sharana entered my body, I felt lighter and Steel let out a brighter radiance . That was to be expected . Steel was a part of me . If I got stronger, Steel also got stronger . The amount of mana I needed to steal the enemy’s attack also lessened .
Although having Sharana infused inside me used up mana, this was still much more efficient in terms of mana .
“Talaria! Petasos! World Trickery!”
Holding my spear up, I charged forward fiercely, reflecting back all bullets hitting me! From multiple places, robots were blowing up . As Extorted attacks came to carry some of my own power, all bullets were reflected back a stage greater than the original . As a result, a single reflected attack was enough to kill the original attacker .
“Uoooooooooh!”
With a spirited shout, I charged forward . The 89th floor had so many robots that it was as though the Eliminator brought robots from other floors to it . But was that even possible? Well, thinking about it now, this was the first time I could attack the Floor Master from a normal floor . Sherafina’s influence clearly became weaker the higher I went in the dungeon and Floor Masters became stronger . In that sense, it was totally possible for a Floor Master to be able to control what appears on its subordinate floors .
But if that were really the case, then what I thought of while watching the Eliminator’s attacks would be cold-hard truth . It would mean that the Eliminator didn’t just have the ability to control all weapons . It had another ability that, together with its ability to control weapons, allowed it to conquer a world .
“Kuk, my mana’s running low . ”
I gritted my teeth and grumbled . Even though I was fully utilizing Absolute Soul and Peruta Circuit, the sheer amount of robots was making it hard for my mana recovery speed to hold up . Did the Eliminator already find out how to counter my reflection?
[I am Dortu . Acquired one robot . ]
“How long do you need to get enough to deal with these guys?”
[I am Dortu . I need about 20 hours . ]
“Got it . Thanks . ”
I cleanly gave up trying to receive Dortu’s help . While my mana continued to decline, I charged forward relentlessly . Close-combat robots ran at me with what seemed like beam sabers, but I easily sliced their heads off with my spear . Meanwhile, an uncountable number of bullets struck my body, being reflected back to their shooters . It was the same for rockets and cannon shells . Although my mana was falling rapidly, the robots were dying at a similar pace .
[I am Dortu . Acquired 100 robots . ]
“Good job . ”
I swung my spear . After destroying the arms of three robots, I shot the spear’s aura forward, cutting apart several tens of robots at once . The explosions they caused also reflected back, burning other robots and causing them to explode .
“I don’t have a lot of mana left . ”
Even with mana potions, I wasn’t recovering much mana . Something like a mana elixir might be different, but ordinary mana potions were no longer enough to offer much help .
I gritted my teeth . Even though I had already killed over a hundred thousand robots, that wasn’t even close to half of the robots present . Facing the killing intent of these carefully manufactured machines, something seemed to boil inside me .
“Huu… Come at me!”
I let out a hearty shout and gulped down a mana potion . At the same time, I activated one of my hidden cards, the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo . Immediately, my mana filled back up to full .
I had only recently obtained Steel . Even without it, there was no way I would lose to the Eliminator!
The robots pulled their triggers . Bullets, cannon shells, and rockets flew towards me . Quite literally, they were coming from all sides . There was nothing I could do to dodge them . What if these guys really came to Earth? Surely, Earth would face its doom in a single day .
I had very little options . I endured the relentless attacks using Steel’s ability . A portion of the attacks hit each other and detonated before reaching me, but the majority of them flew my way consecutively without a hint of error in flight routes .
The world in front of me became white . However, I couldn’t feel any pain . All attacks returned to their owners, and the remaining robots detonated altogether . As Steel also reflected back the resulting huge explosion, my mana was falling down quicker than ever before . Without the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo, I might have run out of mana . I just hoped I would never have to meet another enemy that attacked in such quantity . Please .
[I am Dortu . The robots Dortu controlled exploded…]
Now wasn’t the time to think about that! With half the robots disappearing in the previous exchange, the number of robots didn’t seem so endless anymore .
“But I don’t have any mana left . First, I need to use Peruta Circuit to… Kuk!?”
I closed my mouth in the middle of my sentence . There was an enemy I had to defeat first . As if it was waiting for this moment the entire time, from the tip of my toes to the top of my head, a dreadful killing intent and a wave of mana surged, squeezing me from all sides!
The Eliminator was aiming at me from 360 degrees, from every possible angle!
[Chance of avoiding, 1 . 7% . ]
For the first time, I heard its voice . Somewhat expectedly, it was a machine-like voice devoid of any emotion .
[You were an excellent enemy . But now, your weapon will become mine . ]
“As I thought, you can’t just control any weapon . You have to defeat it first . Much like how things are most of the time, you have to prove your qualification first . ”
[Fire . ]
The Eliminator didn’t seem keen on chatting with me, as with a single word, he fired thousands of missiles at me . An army of missiles suddenly appeared in thin air and flew toward me! Could I dodge it if I utilized Divine Speed to its full effect? Impossible .
As such, I deactivated World Trickery . The enormous amount of mana I’d been hiding filled my body . For a moment, the Eliminator seemed to have flinched, but there was no way for to know affirmatively .
If someone were looking at me in the next moment, he would think that the sun had descended to earth . Centered around my body, an enormous torrent of energy erupted . Of course, soon enough, all of this energy was absorbed into air .
[…]
I sighed and resumed Peruta Circuit . Now, I really didn’t have any mana left .
[Your mana… how…!?]
“Before I drank my mana potion, I was slightly changing my mana consumption amount so you could see it . Simple, right?”
[You’re not a Hero… But a scammer!]
If I didn’t use the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo, I really would have died . But the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo was always within my calculations as I used World Trickery to increase the amount of mana needed to reflect each attack . With Petasos increasing my calculative ability, it would have been impossible to trick the Eliminator .
“Huu . ”
I gulped down another mana potion and grinned .
“Got you, didn’t I?”
[But… I was prepared . ]
“What!?”
It even knew I would trick it? Immediately afterwards, a truly humungous missile, more than 10 times the size of the one I faced on the 88th floor, fell towards me . Just how the heck was a missile like that even shot!? Then, without any twist, the missile exploded above my head .
A thundering boom similar to the time I threw a sweet potato rang out . Although it wasn’t quite as powerful, the difference wasn’t too big as I was standing right underneath it . If my HP ran out under such a force, could Sherafina save me before it was too late? I didn’t think so .
Within a white blur of nothingness, I closed my eyes and murmured .
“It’s over . ”
A long while later, seemingly after Sherafina had time to process what happened, a message rang out .
[You destroyed 99% of the Eliminator’s main body . ]
I threw down the empty bottle of mana potion . Immediately, it transformed into an Elixir bottle . I had only hid its energy with World Trickery, but the Eliminator was surprisingly easily tricked .
To add on, when I activated the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo before, I drank a normal mana potion while acting like it was some amazing potion . Drinking two Elixirs consecutively caused one’s body to be destroyed . For mana potions, drinking two consecutively wasn’t allowed at all . However, there was nothing wrong with drinking an Elixir after drinking a mana potion .
I had hidden the existence of the Succubus Queen’s Tattoo, using the mana recovery it gave me to make it seem as though I drank an Elixir . That was my first and final trick . My goal was to make the Eliminator think there was no way for me to recover my mana . Clearly, it had worked perfectly .
With the previous explosion, all of the robots on the 89th floor had turned to dust . With nothing to stop me, I began to walk towards the end of the floor .
[I am Dortu . Master is mean . ]
“Sorry, but it’s like they say, you have to fool your ally if you want to fool your enemy . ”
Dortu, who worked tirelessly to no result, complained, and I consoled him with a grin . To make my trick seem more believable, I had not even told Dortu about it .
It wasn’t that I believed the Eliminator wouldn’t get fooled . I simply thought he might have prepared for the worst possible situation . The Elixir I disguised using World Trickery was one solution to his preparation, and if that didn’t work, I even had Overlord . No matter how I thought about it, it was a battle I couldn’t lose .
It was simple to say that the victor of this battle was the side that read the enemy’s moves more, but there was key point to consider . Regardless of how many moves each side prepared, it was only the Eliminator that took damage .
I used mana, which was recoverable, while the Eliminator used its main body, which wasn’t recoverable . This was a huge advantage in this head game . Not to mention, my instant judgment skill and speed was heightened by Petasos . If I felt like it, I could have dodged the Eliminator’s bullets and missiles .
The Eliminator was strong . It was potentially the worst enemy to face with Steel . However, the Eliminator lacked magic power and League . That was the reason for its loss .
“If you wanted to win, you should have brought three times more firepower at least . Wait for me on the 90th floor . I destroyed 99% of you, so you’ll have to work hard with the remaining 1% if you want to win . ”
I sneered and quickened my pace . Using my mana detection, I could already sense the end of the dungeon floor, the 89th Floor Shop, and Loretta smiling and waving her hand .
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