Chapter 13: The Goblin Slayer (Finale)
Ting~
[Goblin Champion's Rib Bone
Type: Makeshift Sickles
Durability: 350/350
The bones are sharp and light that has a very high affinity for Poison and Wind Element. The damage is equal to 150% of the wielder's Strength and any Poison or Wind-based damage is enhanced by 200%.
Requirements: Alon]
When he held the bone sickles in his hands, it felt like his arm extended to a curved blade. It was light and efficient. Although he hoped to use the thigh bones of Gurek, unfortunately they had been crushed along with the Hobgoblin's thigh bones. He still had Dugal's thigh bones but he decided to try out the rib bones first to increase the versatility of his weapon improvisations. Added to the fact that his mastery of a wide range of weapons was phenomenal and he could also make use of the various martial arts that he learned that may require the use of a specific weapon one of which was the Sickle.
Martial Arts No 27: The Praying Mantis.
Just like a praying mantis, his arms curved to look like their bladed front legs and body that squatted like a frog ready to leap to his enemies.
"Pesky human!"
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of The Fallen]
Barog started writing inscriptions in the air which in turn formed a giant dark magic circle above his head. Hundreds of undead monsters started pouring out from the magic circle that quickly surrounded Kaya in every direction.
"Let's see how you'll fare with my undead army."
Barog grinned as he prop his head in his right hand watching the sight of the helpless Kaya.
Ting~
[Fallen (0)] [Common Undead]
Level: 25
HP: 50,000/50,000]
[Ghoul (0)] [Elite Undead]
Level: 25
HP: 100,000/100,000]
There were at the very least four hundred of these undead monsters surrounding him. The fallen looked like dead soldiers who had worn tattered armor and broken body figures while the Ghouls were undead that had their entire skin ripped out of their bodies revealing the rotten muscle fibers while they stood on their four limbs.
Ghoooouuu!
The undead started charging at him at an abnormally fast speed. Kaya weave his sickles around and he spun wildly like a hurricane destroying anything that it came into contact with. The Ghouls started leaping up in the air to grab hold of Kaya but he easily predicted its patterns and right before it could bare its claws on his body, he twisted his sickles in an X motion beheading the head of the ghoul and instantly killing the monster.
Unfortunately, he did not gain any experience from the monsters whatsoever due to the level difference but he did gain a lot of proficiency with his Weapon Enthusiast passive skill, and now, it had reached 13%. Not only that, although the Fallen didn't give him any Lifesteal or absorption for his Crimson Blood items, the Ghoul on the other hand given him plenty and even activated the Lifesteal since they still had blood in their bodies, unlike the Fallen who had none. His blood bar started to increase by 30% after defeating all the Ghouls, Barog who was watching felt annoyed. With a quick gesture of his fingers, he summoned a giant fireball.
Ting~
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of Flames]
"Alon! Look out!"
Boom!
The entire area was quickly decimated in a giant explosion leaving nothing but smoke rising in the impact. Marielle who watched felt helpless in fear as she tried to stand up with her wobbly legs but it didn't listen, she wanted to crawl her way but it would already be too late for her to help Kaya.
'I should've stopped him when I had the chance! Even if he's a heaven-sent man, he was my only last hope for my revenge.'
Marielle started crying contemplating how weak she was and that she couldn't help the only person that saved her from death. A heaven-sent is what the NPC call the players since when they die, they simply respawn like they were immortal and they also aged very slowly.
As the smoke slowly dissipate, a silhouette of a man could be found in the center of the giant crater, it was Kaya who looked rather irritated. His health bar had only fallen by 70%.
'That could've killed me.'
Kaya sighed and was grateful for the effects of the item set. With the help of Clotting, he was given a shield that manage to block 2500 of the damage and although the shield was destroyed, he managed to withstand the majority of the attack because not only did the Poison Element give him a huge amount of magic resistance, the fire Element had given him some fire resistance and added with the Crimson Blood Necklace that granted him 15% magic resistance so the damage of the powerful fireball was nearly negated from its attack.
Unfortunately, his sickles weren't able to survive the explosion as they had been disintegrating into a char. Marielle's face immediately glowed seeing Kaya fine. Barog on the other hand was just as shocked as she was but not in a good way. His face distorted in a heavy look, and he began to look at Kaya with some seriousness.
"You truly surprised me, human, not only did you manage to easily defeat my undead army, but you also withstood one of my strongest spells."
"That was one of your strongest spells? Damn it tickled."
Revealing a smug look at Barog, his provocations infuriated the goblin king. Kaya pulled out another set of the same bone sickles to replace his charred sickles.
"You've tested my patience human. Fine then, I'll take you on seriously. Try taking this next spe-"
"No, it's my turn to attack!"
Flash!
Kaya vanished leaving a trace of electricity in the air around where he stood and reappeared right at Barog's face. This surprised Barog who immediately cast a barrier in front of him, but yet again as if Kaya had predicted his actions, he disappeared and reappeared on his back.
'Shit!'
Barog quickly summoned a forcefield on his back to stop Kaya's ambush but to no avail, Kaya had yet again vanished.
"Over here!"
Cut!
[Skill proficiency has reached 105%; the damage has been enhanced by 380%]
[Critical strike has been inflicted! Doubles the damage]
-270,000!
+18,900 HP
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of Swiftness]
Barog's left arm had been entirely lopped off from his body because he was late by a split second on activating his spell. His entire throne had been sliced in half from the attack and he quickly reappeared in a farther area. On the other hand, Kaya's health which had fallen by a degree immediately went back full due to the effect of Spell Vampirism.
[You have inflicted Deadly Poison on the target, health rapidly decreases by 2000 every 0.2 seconds for 1 second]
[Bleeding Effect has been inflicted on the target. Reduced effectivity of any healing and draining effects by 40% for 5 seconds]
"Fuck!"
Barog cursed out from the pain in his arm watching as chunks of meat rot and fell to the ground.
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of Rejuvenation]
His health and arm started healing but it only healed by thousands of HP due to the reduced healing effectivity from Bleeding. Although his arm started to regenerate some bones and muscles, it would take a longer time to fully heal so Kaya didn't waste any time and pursued the defenseless Barog.
Dash!
"Annoying pest! Die!"
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of Corrosion]
A metallic brown magic circle appeared over his palm that shot a bronze beam and when Kaya tried to deflect it using the sickles. Its durability started depleting rapidly so knowing the danger of the beam, he withdrew the sickles and dodged the beam's area of effect. He then retrieved a spoon from his inventory.
"A spoon!? You plan on killing me with a spoon!?"
"Yes, this normal-looking spoon will end your life and I'll use it to scoop out your meat and eat it!"
When Barog saw the spoon in Kaya's hand, he felt insulted by his actions. He wanted to take on the spoon if it would truly deal any damage to him but for safety, he activated a defensive spell.
[The Goblin King, Barog has activated Hymn of Steel]
"Come! Show me the power of that spoon!"
"Be my guest!"
Barog openly revealed his body to take on the spoon's incoming attack. He was very confident in his spell since it had increased his overall defense by 400%, this spell was able to completely defend against a tier 1 offensive-type scroll, he doubted that a spoon could even leave a mark on his hardened skin.
Consecutive Strikes!
Scoop Out!
[Skill proficiency has reached 85%; the damage has been enhanced by 140%]
[Critical strike has been inflicted! Doubles the damage]
-334,000_!
-83,500_!
-83,500_!
-83,500_!
(Note: The underscore '_' indicates True Damage.)
"Graaahh!!!"
Barog bellowed from the stinging pain as the spoon scraped the skin and muscles from his body revealing the rib bone that was bombarded by three rapid after-images of the same strike.
He almost fainted from the pain since his body couldn't handle it adding to the fact that the spoon managed to permeate poison through his body.
His health quickly fell by 30% and because of the spell's effect that made him unable to move, he could only endure the pain as he was bombarded by the spoon's attacks.
"Let's see what your eyes taste like."
Kaya pierced the spoon right on his eye sockets and began scooping out the eyeballs. Barog could only watch (no pun intended) as his eyeballs were scooped out from his sockets and blood began to flow out through them. Kaya then began chewing on the two eyeballs in his mouth.
"It's chewy and hard, it reminds me of tree saps."
Gulp!
Kaya swallowed the eyeballs down his throat and He continued to scrape more of his meat until his health fell by 20%.
"No! No more!"
Being put under such extreme pain and also being blinded struck desperation on Barog. His body started to combust steam, his body hardened like rock, vines started sprouting out of his shoulders, his head engulfed in flames, his skeletal arm turned to water, his legs turned to wood that breathed a torrent of wind and his right hand turned into a long blade.
[The Goblin King, Barog has gone Berserk!]
[Due to a special occurrence, Barog has mutated!]
[As the Mutation has just been recently established on the monster, in the first hour of the mutation, the monster will be greatly weakened]
[Information about the boss monster has been updated!]
[Mutated Berserked Barog (1)] [Great Lord Boss Monster]
Level: 70
HP: 2,000,000/10,000,000
Status: Mentally Unstable, Greatly Weakened]
[Due to Mutation under the berserk mode, the berserk mode will not disappear]
"..!"
Kaya's eyes widened in shock after seeing the drastic changes in Barog's information. He did expect its tier to increase by 1 but he didn't think the mutation would also increase his rank. Great Lord Boss monsters we're considered the Apex boss monsters a player could face when one is still tier 0. It would need a thousand-man high-level party to have a chance of defeating it. Mutated monsters on the other hand we're a lot stronger by a huge margin. It was very rare for a monster to mutate and once it mutated, even a common rank monster who mutates could easily be able to contend with a High Lord monster of a higher tier what more could a Great Lord Mutated monster do? Just imagining it was scary, it was s literal walking catastrophe. It could destroy an entire kingdom in days and it would need a million players just to defeat this walking calamity. Thankfully though, they were in a dungeon, no matter how strong a mutated dungeon monster was, it could not get out of the dungeon it lived. Unless of course if it's an open dungeon.
"Alon run away! That is a mutated boss monster! We can't defeat it! Run now that we still have time!"
Marielle screamed her lungs out in hopelessness since things had already gone downside. She had already been surprised that Kaya was able to overwhelm the boss monster that not even the strongest knights of the same tier could do. That in itself had already given Kaya the admiration and respect from Marielle but now that situation had gone haywire, it would be a futile endeavor to be able to fight back, their only choice was to run away since there was still time.
"Don't come too close, Marielle! If this thing gets out of the dungeon, the entire empire may fall. Since it's currently weakened, I have to defeat it."
"But what if you fail?"
"I'm not gonna fight it if I'm not confident in defeating it plus if I do fail, I'll survive since I can't just leave you here with a monster."
"..."
Ting~
[Marielle de Arc's affinity has increased by 80! Your relationship status has changed from Closed Ties to Love Interest]
Seeing the window panel in his eyes, Kaya couldn't help but reveal a warm smile. Now that things had gone this way, he couldn't just leave her to die. (He wants to shag her doggy style.) He retrieved the spoon and pulled out two rib bones and activated Slash to lacerate right at Barog's open chest.
-34,000
'Despite being weakened, its defense is still absurdly high. So this is how strong a weakened mutated monster is. I probably will die in one hit if I get grazed by its attack once it regains its full power so let's quickly end him.'
[Mutated Berserk Barog has activated Hydrobeam]
Its liquid arm aimed right at Kaya and a blue magic circle appeared right to it. Then a blast of powerful water beamed out of the magic circle blasting Kaya towards the walls of the cave.
Boom!
"Alon!"
Marielle shouted at Kaya who had been covered by debris. She was worried that he might have died but then, Barog shifted his gaze towards her. She immediately felt terrified after seeing the empty eye sockets of Barog who in return pointed at her with his index fingers. Vines started to sprout out of his body that shot right in her direction, her body couldn't move out of the way due to the intense pressure Barog was emanating despite being so far away.
' I'm sorry Mom, it seems we'll be reuniting a bit sooner.'
Tears fell on her eyes as she helplessly watch the vines draw nearer and nearer. She didn't want to accept this fate but she couldn't do anything about it.
Just before the vines could reach her, a shadow figure appeared right at the vines that shot right through his body.
"Kheuouk!"
Kaya puked a mouthful of blood after the vines penetrated his body. This was the first time he had been under such pain that he couldn't help but grin. He had managed to save himself from dying after he used Cauterize which had healed 50% of his health but it still fell to 7%.
This activated the buff of Fortified Body. He brandished both the bone sickles on the vines easily slicing them off like jelly.
Bloodlust!
Blood Domain!
The veins in his body became visible as they turned bloodred. The entire area of the dome had also turned red which looked like a scene from a horror flick. His Lifesteal and spell vamp had been sharply boosted and he could see Barog's movements becoming sluggish. Without wasting any time, he charged right at him and activated all the offensive skills in his arsenal, and began bombarding Barog who in turn also rampaged with his skills.
Cut!
Slash!
Magic Sphere!
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Kaya and Barog started bombarding their attacks one after another they were trading damages after damages and although Kaya was at a disadvantage in all of the attributes, he upped his game with his boosted Lifesteal and Spell Vamp.
When Barog slashed his bladed hand, it decimated his limbs, Kaya would follow it up with an attack and each attack instantly healed his health back to 100% with some excess that fill up his blood bar that added more health to his attributes. His head was also lopped up from the exchange but he'd always manage to follow it up with an attack that in no time managed to instantly regenerate his severed head.
As the fight dragged on, piles and piles of limbs, heads, and other body parts filled the area, all of which were Kaya's own. Marielle who was watching the bloody fight felt shivers course through her spine, he had never in her life thought that a life and death battle would be like this, she didn't even wanna know what pain Kaya was currently under on.
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Minutes passed by and the Barog's HP had fallen by 1% and it was only a matter of time before he'd die but the Blood Domain's effect started to fade so Kaya hurried his pace but as soon as it disappeared, powerful spells rained at Kaya. A single one of these spells was enough to put Kaya in Oblivion so he immediately activated his life-saving skill.
Black Fog!
His body turned into a black mist that made him invulnerable for 2 seconds but even after those two seconds, the rain of spells didn't show any signs of stoppage. Knowing he might die, he betted on a sure-fire attack that would kill Barog but it depended on whether he could even go near Barog who was tens of meters away from him. His Dash and Flash were still on cooldown since he had just activated them, a single step would still kill him. What he needed right now was time.
'I just need one more second to kill him!'
Ting~
[You have been enveloped by a protective light that grants invulnerability for 1 second]
'..!'
Kaya turned his gaze to Marielle who had crawled down her way to pour the remaining Mana into her body to activate a spell.
"Go..."
Those silent words were loud and clear to Kaya's ears. Just as Marielle fainted, Kaya arrived at Barog and pulled out his spoon from his inventory as he activated Cut that beheaded the Mutated Berserked Barog.
Ting~
[You have slain the Mutated Berserked Barog]
[Level difference: 40; experience gain +800%]
[You have killed a mutated monster: +2000% experience gain]
[Level Up]
[Level Up]
[Level Up]
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[Elemental Orb (Fabled) has been obtained]
[Purple Locket (Quest Item) has been obtained]
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[Greenville Town System Announcement: A player has successfully solo cleared a hell mode dungeon for the first time! +10000 reputation points in the town]
[Golden Lake City System Announcement: A player has successfully solo cleared a hell mode dungeon for the first time! +10000 reputation points in the city]
[Springfield Kingdom System Announcement: A player has successfully solo cleared a hell mode dungeon for the first time! +1000 reputation points in the kingdom]
[Continental System Announcement: A player has managed to solo a calamity boss monster. +1000 continental points.]
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[You have been rewarded.]
[You have been rewarded]
[You have been rewarded]
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[Do you wish to leave your name on God's Hall of Fame? You can choose to leave your name or a nickname.]
"Yes. Leave it as Unstoppable Force"
Ting~
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Kaya could hardly read the countless window panels that appeared in his view. It didn't even stop as his inventory had been filled causing many of the items to pile up on the ground beside him. At the same time, the entire continent was in an uproar after the system announcement appeared on their interfaces. Everybody wanted to know who this player was and how he was able to achieve the impossible. Giant guilds quickly moved out to scout this mysterious player to their guilds. Corporations would start flooding trying to sponsor this player.
This was the first time in gaming history that one person was under the spotlight of attention from billions of people.