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‘Silverteeth level 45, ??? hp’
The massive monster glared at the girls with his burning crimson eyes, his eyes were devoid of any trace of intelligence. The scene gave the impression of a lion being waked up by a rabbit who entered its den only to be eaten.
Yuki was speechless in front of the giant monster in front of her, even Shiki who was hard to surprise gasped in front of this massive giant.
‘I never expect this.’ Yuki though as she stared at the giant, its giant fifteen meters tall body pumped with muscles devoid of any scar showed how hard they truly were. The monster body was dark grey, something completely different from the previous orcs.
Yuki experienced a complex feeling, she felt at the same time happy that the adversary before her would be able to put up a real fight, in fact she was more afraid of being unable to beat him.
“But seriously… What is an ogre doing in an orc dungeon?!” She roared in her mind.
The boss was nothing close to an orc, it was an ogre! The orcs leader was actually a monster from a totally different species. She felt the urge of screaming scam.
The massive monster bent his body with difficulty to pick up a giant stone hammer which was lying at his side while he was sleeping.
*SHOOOO* The wind pressure caused by the fearsome hammer could be felt by the girls even though there were at least 50 meters between them.
The hammer was at least five time taller than Yuki, and its weight made no doubt from his appearance, yet the ogre managed to effortlessly pick it up.
This enemy made the girls mentally prepare for an harsh and long battle where they couldn’t be distracted for a single moment, otherwise a single hit would kill them. In fact, maybe even if it merely grazed them it would be enough for them to die.
But luckily, even though this fearsome strength was his major asset, seeing how he struggled to pick up the hammer showed that his body was very slow and couldn’t perform any complex movement.
“GROAAAAAAAAAAAAH" The monster made a mighty roar as he began to charge toward the girls.
*Ting*
You have been stunned!
You can't move for 2 seconds.
Yuki’s mind were in a daze as they were stun, the moment the stun effect vanished, they immediately began to panic.
The ogre was only 10 meters away from them, 50 meters could have been a large distance which couldn’t be covered for a normal human, but for a giant of fifteen meters, it was only a few steps.
In a panic, both of the girls made a roll, dodging the hammer which came as a vertical strike.
The choc provoked by hammer when it collided on the ground made the girls fly a few meters, Yuki was the first one to recover, using her hand to push the ground as a support to fall on her feet.
As for Shiki who wasn’t that used to close combat, she simply rolled a few time before quickly getting back up. Although her agility was high, it wasn’t on Yuki’s level so it was hard for her to do this kind of movement.
From the damaged ground rose a large amount of dust, despite being damaged the floor didn’t show any sign of collapsing. The floor was thick enough not to collapse under the ogre’s blow.
Seeing the cloud of dust as an opportunity, Yuki used it to hide herself and swiftly get in the ogre’s back.
At the same moment, seven magic orb hurled toward the ogre’s body, even with the dust, his massive body was hard to hide. The seven orbs struck the ogre’s body who frowned with anger.
-2493 damage
The ogre glared toward the direction in which the orbs came and saw Shiki, but as he began to run, he didn’t notice that Yuki wasn’t present. It was at this moment that he felt something pierce his neck, slightly touching his spine.
-5492 damage
Yuki’s sword, imbued by her Reinforcement skill made a critical strike as her sword pierced a sensible spot. Not only did it her sword make a critical strike, but it also made the ogre screech.
Although his skin was thick and could reduce physical damages, Yuki’s Reinforcement made her able to deal some magic damage and made it easier for her to pierce the skin.
Despite being able to bear a certain amount of pain, being hurt in a sensible spot will nevertheless hurt, whoever it was.
Yuki didn’t challenge her luck and quickly withdrew from her position to hide back in the dust cloud. The ogre used his big hands to check the little hole in his neck, if Yuki hadn’t left that spot after her attack, she would surely have been squashed.
The wound where her sword pierced was only slightly frozen, it was obviously the Ice Sword’s effect, however it didn’t inflict the ogre’s the frozen effect.
Yuki slightly felt dejected by this, if she had managed to slow the boss down, it would have been far easier for her to fight him.
The pain the ogre felt couldn’t be compared to the one of being struck by Shiki’s mana orbs, following his instinct, the ogre decided to deal with Yuki first.
But looking around him was only dust, this made him even angrier and with a single swing of his hammer he dispersed it all, revealing the girl’s silhouette.
A smirk could be seen on the ogre’s face, but in Yuki’s eyes, it looked more like a ferocious face.
The wind pressure made by the hammer made Yuki’s feet become off the ground. The ogre lifted his weapon in the air and began to swing it down. As he swung it down, the hammer was gradually being covered with a brownish aura.
Yuki’s heart rate began to accelerate as the brown hammer rushed toward her, but at the same time, a magic orb came in the way.
-632 damage
The orb didn’t hit the ogre, but Yuki!
Yuki’s body was sent flying a few meters away from the hammer, saving her life for the price of some hp. Though Yuki felt some pain, she was thankful toward Shiki who made a pained face after wounding her sister; but it was better than being flattened on the ground.
When the hammer touched the ground, it didn’t damage the floor, but instead made earthen spike come out of the ground, not stopping until rushing a distance of 15 meters.
This made the girls face became pale, with that kind of attack, they had to be careful whenever they put some distance between the boss and them.
The ogre’s difficulty couldn’t be compared to the rabbit chief’s one. While the rabbit only showed a single skill which was ‘enraged’, the boss already showed two skills, the most terrifying was the stun.
Whenever it was a normal blow or the Earthen Spike’s one, it would be enough to kill any of them after they were stun. A single mistake, and they would die, adding to this that the boss might possess other skills, it was truly terrifying.
The boss glared at Shiki who saved Yuki at the last moment, but he turned his gaze back to Yuki who had hurt him the most.
Shiki took the opportunity and constantly released a large amount of magic orb toward the ogre. Being able to use her skill every 1.5 seconds made her able to constantly deal a large amount of damage to the ogre. Despite this, the ogre didn’t chase after her and continued to run after Yuki, showing how painful her sword was.
Yuki quickly got back on her feet with a somersault and observed the ogre’s movement.
‘I have to be careful of his swing’s pressure.’ She thought as she didn’t want to be forced again in a similar situation. She almost died from this mistake, all she could do was to learn from it.
The ogre didn’t wait for the girl to be ready and continued to recklessly charge at Yuki, horizontally swinging his hammer at her.
The horizontal strike made it extremely hard for her to dodge, the giant hammer covered a large area. If she retreated, the wind pressure would make her unable to dodge the next strike just like previously, but she couldn’t dodge by the side or crawling either.
Yuki quickly picked the only remaining situation and slided through the giant’s legs. With his fifteen meters tall size, there was more than enough place for her to pass without being caught.
-1294 damage
Using this opportunity to deliver three strike to the ogre’s legs, Yuki managed to deal a moderate amount of damage. However it couldn’t be compared to her first strike which had been a critical strike on a sensible spot.
It also couldn’t compare to Shiki’s dps whose damage weren’t reduced. Yuki’s role in this battle was merely to keep the ogre’s aggro while her sister would keep dealing damages.
However, even if she was very fast, staying alive against this monster was is a real challenge. Whenever she has 1 or 2000 hp, it was the same. A single strike and it would be their end.
If she only kept running around, the ogre probably wouldn’t be able to catch her, but it was very risky since Shiki would have a high chance of taking the aggro and unlike Yuki, she surely wouldn’t be able to dodge his blows.
The surface of the boss’s legs slightly froze, but it wasn’t frozen enough to slow him down; but seeing this, it also gave Yuki a new goal. If she were to slash a few more times at his legs, will it apply the frozen effect? If this was the case, then it would be far easier to deal with him once done.
Using Reinforcement on her sword again, Yuki slashed once more at the ogre’s legs.
-872 damage
Two small blue area appeared where she lacerated his skin, she would probably need twenty more cut to slow him down. Twenty might look like a large amount, but in truth it was pretty reasonable.
The monster is level 45, a normal level 30 orc from the previous floor had around 6000 hp. A boss with a large 15 level more than the orcs, how much hp could he truly possess?
After twenty long and intense minute of fighting, the ogre showed sign of being heavily injured and many bruises on his body due to being repetitively hit by magic orbs. Shiki had dealt close to 70 000 damage since the begin and had to rely on mana potions in order to keep up.
In order to maximise her safety, Yuki stayed in the ogre’s back, sticking to it like she was his shadow. No matter what happened, she never left this position which angered the ogre more than anything.
Being in her back, every times the ogre tried swung his massive stone hammer, Yuki kept dodging by getting in his back.
With the hammer’s size and weight, although the ogre could swing it, it was far too slow!
The time required for the ogre to rotate his body and swing his hammer at her was more than enough for her to dodge by the opposite side and once again appear behind him.
To get in this position, Yuki had to use all her guts to charge head on and dodge by an hairbreadth the giant stone hammer. If she had to do this again, she wasn’t sure that she would succeed. Now that she was there, she would do her utmost to keep this position!
Moreover, aside from swinging his hammer, the boss also sometimes tried to crush her by stamping with his legs behind him. But each time he did so Yuki was cheerfully waiting for him and swiftly dodged then countered with a few sword slash toward the blue spots.
The giant’s legs luckily didn’t carry as much strength as his hammer so the wind pressure was ridicule. After being countered a few times, the giant felt his legs starting to become numb. The frozen effect was slowly becoming stronger and affecting him.
“GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”
You have been stunned!
You can't move for 2 seconds.
What the girls feared happened, the only thing that could overturn this situation was the boss’s AOE stun; his warcry !
In this situation, Yuki who was only a few meters behind behind the ogre had no way to possibly dodge the ogre’s attack. Even with his slowed legs, those two seconds were more than enough for him to turn and raise his hammer.
All what she could do was powerlessly watch the ogre’s movement as she desperately tried to move, but it was useless; her body was frozen. All what she could do was intensly staring at the incoming imposing weapon which approached her.
Yuki felt like the world was slowly decelerating, everything around her was becoming slower. The dust coming off from the ground where the hammer previously hit, the ogre’s expression, the feeling of the air on her skin; everything was becoming slower.
The moment the hammer was about to hit her, she felt her body being dragged backward as a two hands grabbed her shoulders.
“Shiki?!” Yuki said startled, but the ogre’s blow didn’t give them the time to talk as the wind propelled them a few dozens of meters backward, smashing Shiki against a wall, squeezed by Yuki which she was holding.
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The one who shouldered most of the damage was Shiki, being a dozens of meters far from Yuki, when she ogre’s used his warcry, Shiki wasn’t affected by it. She quickly exited the possibility that the chance of succeeding depended on the distance between her and the user of the skill, or perhaps she was simply lucky this time.
But this time was more than enough for Shiki to rush toward Yuki and save her. But the counterpart was that she was now gravely hurt, making her lose more than half of her life.
Seeing the ogre slowly walking toward them, Yuki strongly grasped her sword. “Drink a few pots, I am going to distract him.” She said as she ran toward the boss.
Shiki made a forced smile as she looked at Yuki run forward, but the moment she turned her back, her expression became serious.
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“What was that?...” She fell in deep thinking as she drank a health potion. A few seconds ago, when Yuki was at the ogre’s mercy, her heartbeat began to accelerate and a few areas of her brain were acting strangely.
Even for a AI like Shiki, the human brain wasn’t something that could be understood that easily, all the research she did was mainly concentrated on the injured part of Yuki’s brain.
The complexity of the brain astonished her, for her, humans were stupid and other than Yuki and Kazuya; she didn’t care for anyone else. But such creatures actually possessed something this incredible which even she couldn’t comprehend.
Shiki suddenly felt like there still was hope for Yuki, if what happened was linked to her problem, then there would maybe be a way to wake her up. “Look like I gave up too soon” She thought as she became fired up.
As she finished drinking the potion, Shiki managed to stand up and once again her attacks.
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Now that the ogre’s legs was frozen, it was easier for Yuki to once again sneak behind his back, she could now also inflict some damage without the fear of being killed.
Still, Yuki didn’t dare be careless, even if the boss was slower, it didn’t change that a single hit would definitely one shot her. A single hit could destroy everything they did until now.
Once again, a few magic orbs hit the ogre’s body, making him emit a few howl of pain.
-2743 damage
The ogre suddenly stopped moving for a few seconds which surprised the girls.
“Is it over? Or...” Yuki though as she carefully retreated.
“GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!” A powerful roar came from the orc.
Silverteeth’s health dropped bellow 5%
Ogre’s Berserker skill activate:
Strength increased by 100%
Crowd Control are removed
Bloodthirst Illusion activated.
“Shit!” Yuki cursed in her mind as she realized what was going on, although the increase in strength didn’t mean anything for her, the frozen effect which made her able to survive until now was dispelled.
Also, the activation of Bloodthirst Illusion couldn’t be something good. The two skills which the ogre showed were terrifying, now they had to deal with a skill which required him to be almost dead.
The ogre’s health was now a little below 5000, with only two more skill he would be die. Yuki only had to hold on for a few seconds and it would be over.
But those orbs never came, looking at Shiki, one could see that her body was shaking and her eyes empty.
*Ting*
Title Successor of the Godslayer has blocked an illusion.
Yuki finally understood what was going on, Shiki was victim of the ogre’s skill and couldn’t move or think anymore. But as for Yuki, she didn’t dare open her menu to observe the title, but she understood that this title had saved her life.
“Onee-chan?!” Yuki yelled worried.
However, Shiki didn’t show any reaction to Yuki’s voice, she was completely under the effect of the boss’s skill and didn’t seem to be conscious of her surrounding.
Suddenly, Yuki felt like she was drenched in cold sweat; she had broken her concentration and forgot about the boss for a few seconds, but those few seconds were more than he needed to hit her.
Turning her head, her expression changed a few times, first it showed worry when she saw that the ogre’s weapon was already up in the air, ready to pound onto her.
As the stone hammer started to descend, her expression became filled with anger as she started to run backward.
The weapon’s target wasn’t Yuki, but Shiki who was still in a daze. Though it was a bit too late, the ogre finally decided to finish Shiki first who couldn’t move.
If the ogre had decided to run toward her, then Yuki wouldn’t have been worried since she was faster than him. But his weapon was covered by a brownish aura, it was his long ranged skill.
The moment the hammer hit the ground, Shiki finally regained her spirit… Yet…
-6200 damage
Shiki’s body was pierced by plenty of earthen spikes. Though her stats were higher than a normal mage, her equipment was still mostly filled with the beginner’s one.
Given her very low armor, how could she possibly withstand the boss’s damage?
Meanwhile, Yuki hadn’t even covered half of the distance, all she could do was watch her sister’s body being pierced by the spikes and quickly vanish.
“YOUU!!” Yuki angrily screamed as she charged toward the ogre.
Though she knew it was only a game and that Shiki had told her previously that people could revive after forty-eight hours, how could she remain calm?
Her sister was killed right before her eyes for the very first time.
Though it was temporary, only a few months had passed since the death of her parents and a few days since Aralche’s one.
A tint of red suddenly filled Yuki’s eyes as she glared at the ogre. Only one though remained in her mind. ‘KILL!’
Grabbing her sword with her two little white hands, she charged with the tip of her sword aimed at his legs in a stabbing stance.
“GUAAAAH” Having killed one of his opponents, the ogre was determined to finish the most troublesome one and was now confident that he could get her.
With a move of his hand, the ogre’s hammer moved toward Yuki; but using her right leg as a pivot, Yuki suddenly changed her direction, making the hammer miss its target by two meters.
-624 damage
Even though she had dodged, Yuki still received a large amount of damage. The large amount of strength given by the boss’s passive granted him the ‘splash’ passive. His attacks damaged everything within an area of 3 meters around the hammer.
Yuki didn’t even react to the damage she took, it was like she didn’t even feel pain; her eyes were only focused on the ogre’s body and nothing else. It was like nothing else than killing her mattered. She was in a trance-like state.
After dodging the strike, Yuki arrived at the ogre’s side. From there, Yuki activated her ‘Reinforcement’ skill and jumped toward his head, slashing with all her strength.
-653 damage
The ogre shrieked from pain and used tried to punch her away with his left hand, but as the hand approached her, Yuki felt like the time around her was starting to once again slow down.
The world around her, including herself, became slower, and slower. Analyzing the ogre’s body, with a glance at his muscular body Yuki pierced his shoulder with her sword an area where the muscles seemed weaker.
-450 damage
Gathering all her strength, in her arm, she managed to change the position of her body and dodge the punch by hanging up behind the ogre thanks to her sword.
The ogre who previously felt like he could easily squish her like a bug now suddenly felt slightly afraid. Not because of Yuki’s glare or action, but because he felt that his current life was very low.
If he had a human’s intelligence, then he would now regret not having killed Shiki first who took away most of his hp. But because he was desperately trying to catch Yuki, he was now only a step away from death.
Using her leg to kick the ogre inflicting a single digit amount of damage, Yuki freed her sword and fell from the ogre’s body. From this position, she stabbed his legs joint a few times inflicting no less than 1500 damage before suddenly retreating from a few dozens of meters.
-348 damage
With a swipe of the hammer, the ogre had forced her to retreat, also inflicting her some damage.
Even if she was ignoring the pain, Yuki was still paying attention to her life. With no more than 600 hp, if she took one more strike like the first one, she would die.
Having lost half of his remaining hp, the ogre’s instinct were ringing, telling him that he was going to die against this little thing mosquito who despite its size, hurt him with its sting.
Unable to accept it, the ogre started to madly swing his hammer left and right even though Yuki was a few dozens of meters away, hitting nothing but the wind. He didn’t want to die.
This kind of action was the most efficient against Yuki thanks to his splash attacks even though he didn’t realize it.
Intensely watching the ogre looking for an opening, Yuki felt her body starting to hurt and her mind swaying. The red tint in her eyes started to vanish and exhaust took its place. She didn’t know what was happening, but she knew there weren’t much time left. If it continued like that she wouldn’t be able to fight anymore.
‘Only eight… no, six hit. That’s all I need.’ She thought.
The time for Reinforcement was almost finished and she didn’t have enough mana to cast it one more time. She wasn’t sure that she would be able to finish it if it vanished.
Not losing one more second, Yuki charged one more time… one last time. It was either him or her.
She simply charged toward the ogre, fighting against the pressure from his reckless blunt strike in the air. When she was only a few meters from him, the stone hammer came at her with a horizontal swipe, but it swept past her.
-534 damage
Dodging the hammer by slipping on the ground but not the damage of the splash, she arrived just in front of the boss. From there, she first slashed three times at his legs.
-1153 damage
With a loud growl, the ogre responded by stomping his legs on the ground, leaving her no choice but jump in the air to dodge the splash effect which could finish her remaining 100 hp.
Not having enough time to gather her strength, her jump made her able to only reach his muscular torso. From there, she swiftly delivered three more strikes, taking away 1000 more hp.
The monster only had 400 hp left, only one more attack would finish him, but Yuki wasn’t able to deliver it as she was starting to fall backward. Using this opportunity, the ogre tried to finish her by slapping her with his large hand.
“DIEEEEE” Yuki yelled.
The very next instant, a sword stuck the ogre’s forehead, it was the same sword as the one who was previously in Yuki’s hand. With all her strength, she had thrown it.
-406 damage
Seeing the damage, Yuki felt relieved, her sword had done enough damage.
But this relievement only lasted a short instant, the ogre’s didn’t stop moving, in fact, his hand was still coming at her.
“Seriously?!” Yuki yelled as glared at the ogre, she couldn’t help but see a grin on the ogre’s face.
In truth, the ogre was indeed mocking her, even with his intelligence he knew that she had failed and was now at his mercy.
Not having any strength left, Yuki felt her eyes starting to close themselves as the red them was now gone. Even though she was falling and her body hurting, she felt like she could sleep there.
“GUAGAGAGAGA!!” The ogre laughed at his now powerless enemy, his hand getting closer and closer to her.
Yuki suddenly opened her eyes, even though she wasn’t feeling her body anymore, she wasn’t willing to die just like this. Mustering all her remaining strength, she managed to move her right leg one last time, using the ogre’s hand as a stepping-stone, she was sent flying toward his head.
“STOP LAUGHING!” She yelled as she headbutted him.
-Critical Strike 16 damage
-376 damage
She took more than twenty-time the damage she had done, and had started to vanish, but at the same time the ogre started to fall.
‘Is that a joke?’ She thought as she vanished. After fighting desperately for almost an hour, the fight ended with the death of everyone thanks to a headbutt...