CH 54

[Your Brain Structure is Specialized Only for Destroying and Killing, Yuri-kun!]

The energy beams collided inside the cave. Maybe because both were boss monsters, their powers seemed to be evenly matched.

In that case—

“Show him who’s the real boss, Gigataro! Activate art, ‘Hyper Magic Burst’!”

“Gugaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

With my support, the Gigantic Dragon Plant’s Magic jumped several times!

As a result, the heat rays’ power increased. The white radiance broke through the black waves released by Cthulhu and swallowed its octopus-like body!

“Gigigyeeeeeeeeee?!”

The Cthulhu・Replica hideously burned, making an extremely loud sizzling sound. Its whole body was red hot, as though it had become a boiled octopus.

“I knew it’d work. How does it feel, Cthulhu? Gigataro’s lasers have the effect of turning the place they hit into a ‘Scorching Zone’. For a monster that possesses the field itself like you, it must feel like you’re being boiled alive.”

Glad my guess hit the mark.

If it were a normal monster, all it had to do was to get away from the place that had been turned into the ‘Scorching Zone’, but in this guy’s case, that wouldn’t be possible. The field itself was its body, after all. That was its weakness.

Okay, mustn’t give it time to catch its breath! While thanking Gigataro who disappeared because his time limit was up, I rushed toward Cthulhu who was still writhing in agony.

“Gugiguuuuuuuuuuuu!”

Cthulhu swung its nine dragon-headed tentacles around like whips, wary of me approaching. Furthermore, it grew fangs from the ground and under my feet, trying to kill me.

However—

“Let’s go, Maa-kun! Activate monster skill, ‘Flickering’!”

“Ng—!”

Responding to my will, the boss monster, Living Armor Knight, that possessed my boots demonstrated its power.

Dark magic erupted from the boots, boosting my running speed by multiple times!

As a result, the fangs sticking out from under my feet were left in the dust and I easily slipped through the tentacles that swung like whips. Seeing me capable of such feats, Cthulhu gave me a bewildered look.

“Gu—gugigaaa…?!”

“Your weakness #2, Cthulhu, is that your attacks are too rough.”

Having the field as its body, its attack range was simply astonishing. It could grow fangs from any part of the cave and mow down with its thick tentacles, making it an extremely troublesome opponent. A party that only relied on numbers would most likely end up being wiped out in instant.

However, it lacked precision and finesse.

For starters, the fangs growing from the wall and the ground could be easily avoided as long as you were fast enough. Because there was a small lag between the earth turning into fangs and sticking out. That was the defect of its amorphous body.

Being capable of shapeshifting limitlessly might sound amazing, but the ‘shifting process’ delayed its attacks by one beat.

Its tentacles wouldn’t pose much of a threat as long as you got close, either.

The fact that they struck like whips meant that their weakness was the same as the whip. That was to say, only the tips were fast and agile, and the closer you got to the bases, the less agile they were. At that point, dealing with them couldn’t be any easier.

“The rest is just a matter of dodging! Well, it’ll be an instant death if I get hit, but that’s the same as always, so no problem!”

After dodging one vicious attack after another, I finally arrived before Cthulhu. I threw my bow aside and manifested eleven jet-black arrows in my hands.

“Put your spirit into it, boys! Activate strengthening art, ‘High Power Burst’!”

[Kishashaaaaaaaaa!]

At that moment, the jet-black light emitted from the arrows intensified explosively!!!

Then I swung with the arrows. Thanks to their sharp arrowheads, I carved a cross-shaped wound into Cthulhu’s eyeball.

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‘Genocide Killing’ activates! Damage doubles!

‘Fatal Strike’ activates! Damage doubles!

‘Absolute Zero’ activates! Damage doubles!

Critical hit! Damage triples from hitting a weak point!

‘Heartless Shinigami’, activates! Critical hit damage increases by 30%!

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“Giggyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!”

The result of maxing out my Luck showed. It forcibly activated all my damage-increasing skills that supposedly had low probabilities of activating, causing severe damage to the Cthulhu・Replica.

Well, because of the update, the damage multiplier could only reach up to 10x tops, but I used 11 arrows to attack.

The damage increase applied to each one of them. As a result, Cthulhu received more than 100x damage, causing it to scream in pain.