CH 55

[Guild’s Guardian Deity, Tamed!]

Chop chop time! I energetically raised the arrows again, but at that moment, a change occurred in the body of Cthulhu・Replica.

“Ggigaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“—?!”

Its body blew up! I was right next to it, so naturally, I was sent flying by the blast.

It didn’t do much damage, but my HP was just 1. It was enough to instantly reduced it to zero, but…

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・‘Tenacity’ activates! You survive with 1 HP!

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“That was super close?! I never imagined it’d blow itself up…!”

While sliding backward on my feet, I was relieved that Tenacity had activated.

I then tried to glare at Cthulhu・Replica again, but to my surprise, it was gone.

Did it die from the explosion? The moment that thought crossed my mind…

“Gigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”

A shrill roar echoed from above my head!

When I looked up, I found Cthulhu hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier.

Its body seemed to have gotten smaller but was still dozens of times larger than humans. It transformed its nine dragon-headed tentacles, turning them into hundreds of slimy ‘tongues’ that shot toward me!

“Tch, so this is its real power… On top of being able to rebuild its body from anywhere, its attack method is pretty much unlimited!”

Since its nine heads could be avoided, it opted to use hundreds of tongues to catch its opponent. It was a simple but perfect solution.

But you’re not gonna catch me that easily! I activated ‘Arms Barrier’ and released treasured swords and magical spears to shoot down the incoming tongues.

Of course, I didn’t forget to keep moving. Anything that stood still would be skewered by the fangs that grew out of the ground. I wanted anything but that!

I’m still holding out somehow, but I wonder how other Summoners and Craft Makers will fare in this situation. It seems that players with those two jobs are needed to challenge the boss, but if they’re lousy in combat, they’ll very likely die in an instant. Knowing the devs, I bet they made this monster without a care for the balance…! I thought while dodging the boss’ attacks.

“Well, what do I do now? If it’s just to survive for 20 minutes, it’ll be easy peasy. I just have to keep running around while shooting down its attacks.”

But, defeating it will be difficult.

Even if I threw a storm of all-out attacks at it, it’d likely blow its body up and escape somewhere again.

Not to mention, now that it was hanging from the ceiling and had the tongues to protect it, it would be way harder to get close to it.

After racking my brains for five seconds—Okay, I’ve come up with a strategy. Now, let’s immediately get to killing, shall we?

I stopped running away and started a run-up before jumping up to Cthulhu.

Cthulhu was taken by surprise at my action. But it lasted only for a moment and it narrowed its eye smugly. It must be thinking that I’d become desperate.

“Ggyahiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!”

Hundreds of tongues shot at me. Covered in slimy liquid, they twined around my body, and in the blink of an eye, I couldn’t move a muscle.

“Kuuh…?!”

“Giggyaggyah!”

Seeing my breathless figure, Cthulhu let out a cry of joy.

Alright, you know what to do next, Cthulhu. You’ve caught me with your ‘tongues’, all you’ve got to do left is to eat your prey.

Cthulhu・Replica opened its octopus-like head wide and showed me a hellish mouth filled with hundreds of millions of jagged teeth.

I see, so this was the countermeasure against ‘Tenacity’ that it had come up with. I’d already expected it to some extent, but hell it was scary.

If it chewed me inside there, it’d be the end for me. After all, ‘Tenacity’ was triggered by a certain probability… no way it could nullify hundreds of millions of hits.

The forbidden evil dragon let out a roar of victory as I fell silent.

“Gishaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The final moment had finally arrived.

As if it didn’t want to give me an opportunity to do extra things, it instantly pulled me into its mouth along with its tongue!

Thus, teeth approached me from all directions—but at that moment.

“Since you wanna eat, you may as well eat all you can! Activate special art, ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’!”

‘Hundred summoning formations’ appeared around me, releasing light inside Cthulhu’s body—!

Then monsters appeared! Giant insects with spines growing out all over their bodies—‘Genocide Beetles’, lava giants boasting a huge scorching body of over 10 meters tall—‘Lava Gigantes’, vicious slimes whose whole bodies were made of acid and venom—‘Venom Killing Slimes’, and many other high-level monsters I’d tamed in the last few days were summoned all at once inside the body of Cthulhu・Replica!

“Gghiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?!”

The forbidden evil dragon let out a loud scream. Although I couldn’t see from the inside, its body had probably inflated like a balloon about to burst.

By the way, I was completely fine. I had a reliable friend protecting me so that I didn’t get squashed.

“Thanks a bunch, Machine Gobtaro.”

“Gugooo! I, protect, master!”

I was held in the arms of the ‘Chimeratic Machine Goblin’, the steel giant made from the fusion of the flesh of the Goblin King and a piece of ancient machinery.

How is it Cthulhu? Even if you can transform your body however you like, suddenly having your core body filled to the brim with swarms of monsters must be painful.

Of course, you’re probably going to try to escape by blowing yourself up again, but…

“My monsters! Rampage to your hearts’ content!!!”

[[[Ggraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!]]]

Following my order, the 100 monsters unleashed hell inside Cthulhu’s body!

Several attacks collided with each other, but Cthulhu received the most impact. I mean, it probably felt like iron balls hitting against each other inside your stomach.

Its soft mucous membranes were torn to shreds and the inside of its body was filled with fresh blood, pieces of flesh, and the roars of wildly rampaging monsters.

This was the countermeasure I’d come up with against it escaping by blowing its body up.

If it blew up when cornered to a certain point, all I gotta do was shave its HP clean before it could get the chance to.

Cthulhu・Replica, make sure you eat everything! This amount of damage isn’t something a rain of 100 arrows can give you!

Every part of the inside of your body is a critical point, so don’t you waste even a single of the rampaging high-level monsters’ attacks!

“Ghiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?!”

The scream echoed inside the cave. Helpless to resist, the forbidden evil dragon’s body was quickly transforming into pieces of flesh from the inside.

And finally, Baaaaaang its body exploded…!

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Congratulations! You have succeeded in defeating solo the High-level Dungeon Boss: Forbidden Evil Dragon Cthulhu・Replica!

Yuri, Pontaro, and the rest have obtained a large number of experience points!

The earth veins-possessing-type monster ‘Forbidden Evil Dragon Cthulhu・Replica’ has become your friend!

* Only one earth veins-possessing-type monster can possess the land you own.

When it does, the summoning slot will not be used. Its level will be equal to that of the player’s.

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“Hell yeaaah! My guild now has its own guardian deity!”

I made a fist pump while I was thrown to the ground!

Cthulhu alone had the strength of a hundred men. No matter who invaded the guild, with 9999 garrisoned monsters and this guy around, they would be exterminated! The defense of the guild was now perfect!

Which meant, I’d be able to focus solely on destroying the enemy guilds!

My heart thumped with excitement thinking of the upcoming guild war three days later.

A/N:

Cthulhu: “Eh, you were trying your best to run away, so how did you come up with a way to kill me in just five seconds…?!”

You met the wrong opponent, Cthulhu…! (´；ω；｀)