Chapter 249
The Demon King's familiar, Noctrinium.
Those present here did not know him by name.
But they definitely knew he was Seonghyun's familiar.
And though he was a familiar who often appeared in videos.
His abilities were not clearly shown.
So everyone was visibly tense.
What should we do?
Listener, who could be called the leader of this team, pondered for a moment.
Force a breakthrough?
To do that, they didn't know how strong that familiar was.
Of course, his team would be able to break through.
But there would certainly be losses.
“No matter how strong the Demon King's familiar is, don't you think it would be difficult for him to block all of us by himself?”
“...Hmm.”
Listener also considered his teammate's words from behind.
It was likely true.
Especially since, although the Demon King was in this level range, he would be in the early 200s at best.
But they who were gathered now were in the 240s.
It didn't make sense to be stopped by a mere familiar of the Demon King.
Of course, even so, they would have to use various skills.
He hesitated for a moment because that would inevitably cause that much loss, but.
‘We have to reach the Gland of Corrosion no matter what.’
Since they were already blocked, their choice was as good as made.
The moment Listener decided to accept the losses.
Noctrinium looked at them and said.
“How foolish.”
With those words, Noctrinium's two hands moved.
At the same time, the surrounding floor and walls squirmed and moved along with Noctrinium's hands.
Also, what appeared to be countless arms shot up, and walls rose from the floor.
Soon, the risen wall blocked the huge passage that Noctrinium was guarding, but the team members who saw it showed no particular agitation.
He was a familiar assigned to block this place.
They had expected such an ability to some extent.
He had even shown a glimpse of his ability a moment ago, not just now.
It was within their expectations.
As soon as Listener saw that, he began to issue commands to his teammates all at once.
“Ranged dealers!!!”
“Haaap!!!”
“Ssssup!!!”
“Hiyaaap!!!”
At that shout, the ranged dealers all reacted and used their skills, and various skills flying from a distance embroidered the air, glittering with brilliant colors.
However, to block those skills, countless arms extended from the walls.
It was clearly intended to take the hits from the skills.
Therefore, Listener shouted again.
“Tankers!!!”
“Iyaaaap!!!”
“Kraaaap!!!”
“Kraha!!!”
Those with massive shields and bodies rushed in between, blocking the hands.
Because each hand wasn't that strong.
Each tanker tied up at least ten arms, and the skills were able to hit the wall without any interference.
Kugwagagagagang---!!!
Kurururururu---!!!
The wall received a powerful impact, causing the surroundings to tremble slightly.
However, the sturdy wall was still intact, and seeing that, Listener frowned.
He hadn't expected it to crumble on the first attack.
But he didn't expect it to be so unscathed.
As he was glaring at the wall, slightly annoyed.
Listener's eyes caught the floor squirming.
“Center! Everyone, move!!!”
At his shout, everyone moved reflexively and dodged.
From the squirming center, a giant arm shot up.
Noctrinium's giant arm.
Thanks to dodging in advance, no one was hurt, but Noctrinium's attack wasn't over.
The giant arm, as it was, slammed its huge fist down onto the floor.
And that was where a large number of ranged dealers were gathered.
Kuuuwoooo---!
Because it was such a huge arm, it seemed slow.
But it was too fast for the ranged dealers to dodge all at once.
Therefore, Listener shouted as if in a desperate struggle.
“Block it!!!”
At his shout, tankers and melee dealers alike rushed in and attacked the giant arm.
The ranged dealers also quickly fired attacks with a not-so-wide range. The most update n0vels are published on novel-fire.ɴet The giant arm couldn't withstand the concentrated fire and crumbled into dust, disappearing.
The attack had been in vain, but Noctrinium's expression remained serene.
And rather, because of that, Listener's pride was pricked, and he scowled.
‘Is he saying this much is nothing?’
He couldn't help but feel that his team was being looked down upon.
As his pride was crushed, Listener quickly stepped forward.
He joined the battle himself, shouting as he closed the distance to pressure Noctrinium.
“Assassins!”
At that shout, a fine crack appeared in Noctrinium's serene expression, and at the same time, several figures appeared behind him.
Assassins emerging from the darkness.
Three of them.
As soon as Noctrinium discovered them, he waved his hand, causing a wall to rise between himself and the assassins, then made the wall thicker, pushing the assassins back.
However, because of that, Listener, who he had failed to pay attention to, closed the distance and charged from the front.
A hint of urgency appeared in Noctrinium's eyes.
Swoooosh!!!
Then, he urgently created a pillar that shot up from the front.
A circular pillar rising toward Listener.
However, Listener, seeing it, didn't even try to dodge and instead picked up speed.
The distance between the approaching pillar and Listener gradually closed.
The moment Listener and the pillar were about to collide.
Listener's body became translucent, and he passed through the pillar in that state, swinging his sword at Noctrinium with no loss of speed.
The sword strike, combined with his ethereal form, attacked Noctrinium with a ghostly energy and desolate power.
The desolate energy, sharpened to a surprisingly keen edge, was swung at Noctrinium.
But it couldn't hit Noctrinium, who had disappeared into the floor in that instant, and instead, it was swung at the wall that had pushed back the assassins who were in his place.
Kwagagagagaga---!!!
Listener left a deep gash on the wall, but his expression crumpled.
And Noctrinium immediately appeared on the ceiling and, seeing the situation, thought.
‘I won't be able to last long.’
This team was strong.
He couldn't block them for long.
Of course, he didn't have to block them for that long.
As he was thinking that.
Listener had already spotted Noctrinium and was rushing at him like a predator, while the dealers were attacking the wall that Noctrinium had used to block the passage.
On the other hand, Listener, along with the assassins and a few ranged dealers, were launching a coordinated attack on Noctrinium, making it chaotic.
How much time had passed like that?
[The 『Gland of Corrosion』 has been destroyed.]
[The poison of 『Apophis, God of the Black Serpents』 is weakened.]
[User 『Seonghyun』 of the level 200 bracket has acquired contribution points.]
A bleak message appeared for Listener's team, which had been tied down for a long time.
They had only been tied down for about 10 minutes.
“Damn it!”
At that, Noctrinium smiled slightly, as if he had completed his task.
Then, looking at Listener standing before him, he said.
“If you had gone elsewhere instead of here, things might have turned out a little differently.”
Noctrinium disappeared with a final cutting remark.
Listener felt a boiling rage inside him.
But since things had come to this, he had no choice but to use another method, so he calmed himself as much as possible and shouted.
“We're heading to the Spine of a Myriad Soldiers!”
0.
Kugugugugugu.
Squirm, squirm.
Chiiiiii---.
The venom that was corroding the surroundings stopped, and the giant pool of venom was sinking into the flesh.
There were those who didn't mind the poison at all.
“Hmm, this is easier than I thought, isn't it?”
“It’s not good to be careless, but it certainly is.”
-Th-that's what I'm saying.
-Kahahaha! If they mess with us, there's no mercy!
-No one can stop us, the familiars of our Lord!
-Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble.
-Pieeeeeee---!
-Caaaaaw---!
-Ugh, this poison ain't nothin' special.
As the familiars each said a word.
Helena, who was watching them, nodded as if in agreement.
To be honest, it was dull.
For them, who could be said to be immune to poison, it was incredibly dull.
If another team had come, it might have been different.
But at least for them, it was like this.
After receiving the breath of poison from Seonghyun.
Fiora was able to grant everyone poison immunity with her buffs.
It ended all too simply.
Still, it was good if the class was easy.
So no one had any major complaints.
“By the way, should we go to Seonghyun now?”
At Helena's words, a few of them widened their eyes.
The time had finally come to impress their master, Seonghyun, after a long while.
However.
“No. We need to split up.”
“Hmm, split up, you say.”
“Hmmmm, is that so?”
-Hueh!?
-Ahem.
Different reactions came out at Helena's words.
But no one objected.
There was no one here who would oppose Helena's words.
Even if that weren't the case, there was no one who didn't know Helena's strategy and power.
The moment everyone focused on Helena's words.
“Fiora and I will go to Seonghyun. Serphina, Leonik, Balthar, and Karisha will go to the Spine of a Myriad Soldiers. The rest, Drakhanos, Anemor, Silvanor, and Barpur, will go to the Stomach of Decay.”
Hearing her words, they each nodded.
The task they had to do there was simple.
“Go and destroy the spine and the stomach.”
At Helena's words, everyone disappeared as if their bodies had vanished.
Since Seonghyun had appointed Helena as the Legion Commander.
No one could refute her orders and simply followed.
As everyone moved like that.
Fiora and Helena also began to move.
Fiora very naturally transformed into the shape of a small dragon, and Helena gracefully mounted her, flying towards the Corrupted Heart.
She had no worries about Seonghyun.
However…
‘I hope the kids I sent to the other side don't get swept away.’
So she had distributed the forces appropriately, but she didn't know if they would do well.
They were a bit unreliable.
But still, they were Seonghyun's familiars.
Thinking they would probably do well.
Helena smiled.
1.
Kugugugugu.
The situation was such that a shock that seemed to make the heavens and earth tremble was felt.
An enormous force numbering in the thousands.
Now, only a dozen or so remained.
Though thousands had disappeared.
The spirit of the remaining dozen was no less than that.
“Damn it.”
“Fck, this is fcked up.”
“This is driving me crazy.”
Those with fiercely glowing eyes.
Seonghyun watched them and smiled as if he found it somewhat amusing.
Is it because they are the elite of the elite?
‘They blocked it.’
To survive the explosion combo.
To be precise, Seonghyun could also see.
There were various defensive skills, but they had survived by using invincibility skills to take advantage of that brief opening.
Of course, even with invincibility skills, those who failed to utilize that short window would have died.
In other words.
‘Only the skilled ones are left, is that it?’
Even so, their damage was not nonexistent.
Some were in a sorry state, having been hit by the corpse poison or attacks when the Army of Death first swept through.
Some had even blocked that and were unharmed.
In any case, they were not easy opponents.
Seonghyun smiled as if in anticipation, watching them.
And those confronting Seonghyun flinched at the sight of his smile.
Seonghyun's relaxed appearance was truly that of a Demon King.
Therefore, they hesitated for a moment and looked at each other.
They couldn't give up after coming this far.
Once that judgment was made.
The dozen or so of them rushed at Seonghyun simultaneously.