Chapter 348 – 342 3rd Entry to the Spawning Pond Labyrinth
Hwanin quickly returned with a bag containing an oil bottle at the unusual explosion and the shaking of the earth that could be felt even here.
And what I saw was that the girlfriends were drenched in water, avoiding the core toad’s merciless jumping attack.
The surrounding terrain was devastated as if it had been hit by dozens of water cannons.
Kwak ——!!!
Kkugoong!! Kukkoom!! Kwakwang!!
It is 15m tall from the top of the head, 22m long from the snout to the buttocks, and estimated to weigh more than 100 tons.
The sight of a three-story building falling from the sky.
Each time a weak earthquake occurred and the ground was dented in the shape of a core, and the girls were focusing their attention on avoiding it.
“Yah! Stop it!」
Bubbeong-Pukang, Kagagang-
Hwanyeon mobilizes the spirits of water, wind, and earth to attack and somehow tries to stop the body press of the core, but the core, shedding bloody tears from one eye, is concentrating his anger on the two who constantly attacked him. .
「Hwanin!」
Fluttering – As soon as he returned to the battlefield with Visang, Hwan-yeon flew in with an expression half tearful and half angry, and clung to Hwanin’s cheek.
“From now on, I will throw the oil bottle at all the trees and moss on his back. Before that, I have to drain all the moisture from the trees and moss with the water spirit. Is that possible?”
“Uh? Yes, I’ll do it! Guys!!”
While Hwanyeon summons all the water spirits around her, her core toad jumps again, targeting her Anne.
= Iyaap!!=
At that moment, Isilite threw her sword of light with full force at her core toad’s intact left eye, and the beam extending from her hand like a laser shot precisely split the core toad’s left eye vertically.
Goo Woowook ——!!!
From the gaping wound, clear glass fluid mixed with the blood from the cut eyelid and flowed down like tears.
The toad, which forgot her landing and crashed to the ground, lost both eyes and struggled while destroying the ground, and Hwan-yeon shouted.
「Hwanin!」
At her signal, Hwanin took out an oil bottle from his bag and threw it at the moss and forest that covered the toad’s back.
Clink- Clink- Cang-
All the moisture is removed by the spirit magic of fantasy, and the oil bottle is blown into dry trees and moss, breaking and scattering oil in all directions.
1, 3, 7, 14, 36, 52.
Oil bottles fly in a row, spraying oil on all the trees growing on the core toad’s back, and after all 21 large and small trees are covered with oil, Hwanin throws the oil bottle so that the oil spreads as evenly as possible in the small forest on the back.
When he threw 100 out of 200 oil bottles by demonstrating his throwing skills, the core toad’s back was covered in oil.
“Welcome, go.”
「Go!」
Hwanyeon, who was excited imagining what would happen in a moment, immediately sent a lower fire spirit at his signal and set fire to the forest on the core toad’s back.
Fuhwahwahwa-!
The fire that met the oil turns into bright red flames in the blink of an eye, covering the back and engulfing the core toad’s forest.
Kururrr——?!!
When a large fire breaks out, the core toad, which has lost its sight, twists and struggles all over its body, and the red aura touches the flame and mercilessly shimmers, flashes, tears, breaks, and connects again.
“Done!”
“Success.”
The overflowing oil had also run down the Core Toad’s legs and flanks and had seeped into the wounds. The fire spreads along the oil and burns the wound.
Isilite was momentarily taken aback by the huge flames that lit up the dark forest, but then realized that the core toad’s living torch was the work of Hwanin, and saw her writhing core toad’s aura not being properly maintained as an opportunity. Intuition.
=Haaaaa!!=
She pulled out Redrick again and began to slice through the legs of the struggling core toad with her light sword moving back and forth.
=Earth’s protection against fire!=
Anne cast a spell to increase fire resistance on herself and Isilite, and after fixing her hammer of punishment in the forward direction, she aimed first at the joints of her legs and shot them down like mad.
To keep her from escaping into the spawning pond.
Kukkoom! Boom, boom! Kwakwang!!
Every time the hammer of wrath, which burns like a sacred blue torch to ward off the darkness, strikes the core toad’s legs, a sound resonates as if rocks are breaking, not bones.
Hwanin shouted in the middle of deafening sounds from bursting and burning sounds and the screams of the core toad.
“Welcome! Catch it with the spirit of the earth so that the core does not escape to the spawning pond! You can try to extinguish the fire by raising water, so if you try to stir up water, scatter it immediately!”
“Yes! … Uh? Hwanin! Intermediate fire spirits are coming! Make the fire stronger?!」
“Do it!”
“Jooh! Guys, gather!!”
With the cry of joy, the bright red flames intensify, and eventually become yellow fire that eats up even the acrid smoke and begins to burn intensely.
Kwaaaaagh ——!!!
The core, which looked like it was carrying fire rather than a forest on its back, let out something between screams and roars.
Hwanin quickly looked around.
The girlfriends are doing well on their own, and Hwanyeon is also faithfully carrying out the work she was instructed to do. Occasionally, Hwanyeon grunts, but the core toad must have prevented the core toad from raising water to put out the fire with a spirit.
Jjeouk-
The core toad, which was twisting and struggling all over, opened its mouth wide, and Hwanin hurriedly created several soul explosion beads and blew them into his throat.
Goo— Curlerat…… !
Kwagwagwang!!!
The core toad’s mouth and throat, which was about to roar, turn into a rag and close its mouth again.
Then they started rolling on the ground, and the oil that had fallen on the floor caught fire again, and the wood shavings that were trampled on began to burn in an instant, and the flames gradually began to spread.
‘Did you try to call a henchman? That could have been a problem.’
Hwanin catches all the low-level fire spirits that come around and creates 6-stacked soul arrows.
Previously, it was made by roughly mixing the lowest and lowest level spirit arrows, but this time it was made only with lower level spirits.
Hwanin, who created six feet, the maximum number of them, filled the empty space of the consumed soul beads with spirits again, then harpooned two legs and shouted at Isilite, who was about to cut off the third leg.
“Isilite! Aim for the left eye! Pay close attention to my attack and fire the light sword with full power in its place!”
=… Yes!!=
Although multiple swordsmanship is a technique that boasts extreme cutting power, it has an unexpected weakness.
For targets whose defense or cohesion is above a certain level, the blade is crushed and the penetration is greatly reduced. In addition, because it is a multi-sword skill based on physical strength, when the sword of light is crushed, the consumption of Issilite’s physical strength increases.
Hwanin exhaled a long breath and began to stare at the core, who was rolling on the ground to put out the fire that was attached to his body.
It tries to turn over or head in the direction of the spawning pond, but every time it tries to push off the ground with its smashed and crushed hind legs, the soil moves and ensnares the core’s torso.
‘After this battle, I’ll have to add throwing to Isilite’s training.’
In general, the weak point of most monsters is the head. More precisely, the brain.
The brain is treated as a more important organ because there are monsters with more than one heart, and there are objects that have an incredibly high regenerative power and can recover even if the heart is torn.
In that sense, Isilite’s multiple swordsmanship can be said to be particularly effective against large creatures such as core toads, as it flies through the sky like the swordsmanship in martial arts novels.
However, Isilite was unable to quickly defeat the Core Toad.
Because Issilite’s sword accuracy was not that high. It is accurate if it is within 10 meters, but if it exceeds 100 meters, the accuracy of the target point accuracy drops significantly.
If Isilite’s throwing accuracy and accuracy were high, the core toad would have died quickly.
Even if the sword of light is crushed, if you continue to throw it two or three times, one day it will pierce a hole and the sword of light will be lodged in the core toad’s brain.
Anyway, because of that, Isilite is stepping on the standard of attacking the giant monster, cutting off the limbs and killing the mobility before attacking the main body without aiming for the head.
The accuracy rate is low, so it’s tough, but I’m afraid that I’ll waste my stamina and energy by attacking.
As Hwanin continued his thoughts, the faint cracks seen by the core toad, the emotional agitation caused by pain and suffering, called the cracks of stiffness…….
Shhh-
Hwanin immediately fired six 6 stacked soul arrows.
Soul arrows flew like bullets and pierced one after another into the one-character wound Isilite had created in her foe’s left eye.
Bubbeobbubuck…… !
Soul arrows that pierce the wounds in a row and cut a path directly from the eyeball to the brain. The thought of the core toad is interrupted by the sudden shock and pain, and the movement stops for a moment.
In that gap, Isilite jumped up to the position where her core was in line with the toad’s left eye and created a giant sword of light 10m in length.
= Ha-Ap-!!=
I shot the great sword of light with all my might towards the hole made by the soul arrow.
A single flash of light drawn in the air. When it connected to the core toad’s left eye, the core slowly lowered its huge body to the ground.
Whoa…… !
=…… Are you dead?=
“I heard that if someone said that, the enemy would understand and resurrect.”
= What? Can this be a resurrection spell?=
“I don’t know. Anyway, if that happens, it’s Anna’s fault.”
=Where is such a thing!=
=Be quiet, both of you. The battle isn’t over yet.=
Isilite’s quiet shouts made the women relax again.
Hwanin took a flight and fired a soul arrow and a soul explosion into her right eye again while being wary of the sagging core with fire on his back.
Perbubuck- Boom!
There was no red aura, and even though arrows were stuck in her eyeballs and exploded from the inside, the core toads did not react.
“Good job everyone.”
The women let out a long sigh as they partly let go of their guard at Hwanin’s declaration.
After destroying the core, Hwanin took an emergency and returned to the wagon and instructed Romdis to move to the place where the core died.
“And, Yurpa, when you go, please take care of Isilite and Anne and a place that can make money from the core.”
= Yes. Self?=
“I will look at the remaining spawning ponds with Miss Siela. If there are no survivors, we will break the heart of the labyrinth and leave.”
= You don’t catch all of Hyungjong Lee?=
“By now Praver’s reinforcements should have arrived. Shouldn’t they have something to do too?”
Deep down, it was because I didn’t want to help Krabin Village anymore, and it didn’t matter if I didn’t help, but the reason I put forward on the surface is also a valid reason.
“Enjoyment. Stay with Yurpa.”
“Yes.”
After sending Hwanin to Yurpa, Hwanin flew away with Siela, and Romdis and Rektal pulled a wagon and moved to the place where the core died.
And I was greatly impressed when I witnessed a monster toad bigger than I imagined.
= It’s a great size! This is enough to add 1.5 levels to the race level.=
=It seems to be bigger than the giants in the northern forest of Roatings.=
After all, while Romdis and Rektal were admiring that the core is different no matter what, Yurpa was comforting the rescuers who were sobbing at the sight of the dead master of the labyrinth.
= Won’t you calm down? It’s a corpse, so it won’t happen anymore because the saint and his companions took it down.
“Why are you crying because you’re afraid of dying?”
= No, no……. It’s just, seeing the monster that made us this way die, tears…….=
Glad I didn’t panic at the sight of the monster’s corpse. After calming them down a little more, Yurpa approached Isilite and Anne.
= Oh, is your sister here? But what about the thief?=
=He went to look around the remaining unexplored areas with Ciela. If there are no more survivors, the deal is to break the core and leave immediately. Anyway, the core is huge~. Didn’t you have a hard time catching it?=
= Hey, don’t say anything. Even the aura was annoying, so the level of feeling was almost level 7. If it wasn’t for Doryeong’s wit, she wouldn’t have caught her? =
=If the master hadn’t thrown the oil bottle and hadn’t caused a fire, the aura would have caused a lot of trouble.=
=Aura?=
Yurpa recalled the contents of a book that explained the aura of the core.
The aura of the core that is obtained by receiving the energy emitted by the core of the labyrinth nearby has various effects.
Some increase attack power, increase defense power, increase recovery power, and continuously damage the surroundings, while others become easily injured, diseased, or poisoned due to various resistances and resistances falling when surrounded by an aura.
= What kind of aura was it? If Dew had struggled even though she had a lady, would it have been a damage resistance system?=
= That’s right. I fired a sword of light, but it was blocked by the aura and only cut a little bit of leather. Anne’s hammer barely worked.=
Yurpa clapped her hands in admiration as Isilite looked back at her core, which had been completely burned, and told how she had captured her core.
=At that level, it would have been enough for a level 7 worker to be mobilized to cause damage. Lady Dew and Lady Anne are amazing~.=
= You are more amazing than me. In that short moment, you read the law of destruction with your belongings and removed the aura.=
Romdis, who had been listening quietly by the side, became even more humble.
If you listen to the story, the wit of the saint who brought an oil bottle and set it on fire, the spirit technique that raised the flames with the spirits of fire and water and prevented the core from causing water, the tanking that held tight to the aggro until then, and the sword skill that ended the life of the core at the end. Until.
All of these things are necessary to capture the core, but are they missing any of those items?
=Now, then, shall we examine the corpse? She asked me to find out if there was a place where she could make money from the core’s corpse. =
=Yuri unnie knows better than we do, so I’ll look for the phase stone with a detection tool.=
= Huh? No no no If it’s that big, the detection tool won’t be able to detect all the way inside. First, let’s find a place where we can make money. After that, split the ship and find the phase stone.=
=Yes.=
= But is there any place for money? Both eyeballs were blown out and brains were whipped. The leather was all burned.=
= That’s a bit of a waste. The moss on the backs of such frogs is usually a key ingredient for advanced potions.=
Hehe, really? Ah~.=
Advanced potions are usually 1 gold coin per bottle. If it was moss that covered an area of that size, it would have been possible to make hundreds of bottles.
Anne raised her eyebrows in pity, and Isilite looked up at the back of the blackened core with a sad expression on her face.
=In addition, for an individual like me, leather would have been a material for highly efficient water resistance armor…… Eh?=
What was the wind like at that moment? As it blew, part of the soot that covered the core’s back flew away, exposing the bottom, and Yurpa’s eyes sparkled when she saw it.
= Could that be?=
Taking a flying broom from his personal subspace waist pocket and flying up, Yu Lepa asked Hwanyeon to wash the charcoal soot off his back.
“All?”
=All!=
As soon as she answered, water rained down from the air and washed away all the soot, and after seeing the reddish skin of the core revealed, Yurpa let out a gasp of joy.
=Yapi phenomenon!=
“What is that?”
=This is a rare phenomenon when water property leather is exposed to high temperatures! The resistance to fire and water is extremely high, and the defense is second only to that of steel, so the leather is extremely expensive!=
When Yurpa landed on the backskin, Isilite and Anne also jumped up and looked at the brown, pink, and reddish backskin and asked,
=Is this expensive?=
=Would you believe it if the area needed to make a pair of unprocessed leather armor was 10 gold coins?=
Isilite and Anne took a small breath. A quick look under your feet yields an estimate. At first glance, it is an area of 20 square meters.
= Not all of them have changed, but some of them, but there will still be about 5 servings?!=
=50 gold coins…… ! Take it off quickly, sister. Where and how to cut?=
=I don’t need dark brown. Cut off only the pink and red colored parts.=
=Yes!=
=Yes!=
As Isilite, Anne, and Yurpa each took up their swords and started working, Romdis and Rektal also came up and asked cautiously.
= Well…… Can we help?=
While the party was diligently securing the core toad’s back, Hwanin and Siela flew over the remaining spawning ponds they hadn’t explored and searched for survivors.
= Saint. The lives of survivors are not detected. It’s all just frogs.=
“I’m glad.”
Only about 400 heteromorphic species were detected in the super-large lake-level spawning pond, and not a single survivor was detected.
There was also a small lake-class on top of the super-large lake-class, but there were no survivors either.
There must be 1 or 2 people, but why?
‘Is it because of the vitality felt in the forest where the core is heading?’
When I went back to where my girlfriends were, the first thing I saw was the core, with its entire back skin peeled off and its flanks cracked, spilling out internal organs and other things.
It looks like it has finished capturing and storing it in a subspace pocket, but its expression is very bright.
As soon as she landed next to them, Anne smiled broadly and ran and hugged Hwanin and shouted.
= Doryeong! Awesome! Totally awesome!=
“Is the leather on your back worth it?”
= By the way! =
He stepped aside and pointed at Chuck and Yurpa with both hands with a look that was several times brighter and more energetic than usual.
Then Yurupa smiled awkwardly and raised her hands…….
=It’s a high-purity red grade 6 phase stone. At least 300, if you time the auction well, you can expect even 400 gold coins?=
A red phase stone the size of a flat almond-shaped fist was placed on it.
