Chapter 9: Running, and Fighting Against Damage Over Ti Effect
I admit it: I may have underestimated ShangriLa Frontier.
After all, since it was so well received by the general public, I thought that I’ll be able to easily overco every single obstacle that this ga might throw at .
So even without potions that I couldn’t afford for the mont, I thought I would be able to easily solo that giant serpent that was blocking my way. What’s more, without taking any damage! Clearing the “Sh*t Chronicles Online” must have thrown into that false sense of security.
But at the sa ti, even though I knew it was la, I was trying to co up with excuses.
「How could I possibly have known that a simple snake-like monster would be this damn strong!?」
The damn thing looked almost like a dragon, so maybe it’s exactly that instead of a serpent!?
I open my status widow and check my current HP, which was twenty eight…… There has been approximately twenty seconds since I took the direct hit with those poisoned feces, and it looks like I was taking one point of damage per ten seconds (most probably the poison was calculated as a percentage of your max HP per a set ti). The remaining HP was twenty eight…… No, make that twenty seven. This ans that Sanraku has approximately two hundred and seventy seconds to live.
How long would it take to reach Sekandill? And since I have a stamina bar, does this an I need to manage that one as well? And how low on HP was that Serpent ant to be? Sh*t, it was so upsetting that you couldn’t see enemies HP bar at a ti like this!
「Sh*t, I need to hurry, or else I’m so dead!!」
I may have had no prior experience in RTA (Note: Real Ti Attack; a term used in speedrunning, aning beating the ga as fast as possible without any kind of assist) but TA (Note: Ti Attack, self explanatory, beating the ga under a set amount of predetermined ti) was a whole different story!
The knives that I currently had on , ShanFro’s critical hit criteria, both the endurance and the defenses of the giant serpent…… The answer was sowhere within the information I already had available to .
In this ga, critical hits are not sothing randomly decided or left to chance, but are rather determined by how clean and precise your attacks are.
And if we take my high Luck statistic into consideration, I must have at least so sort of positive modification to that chanic as well.
For example, if we assu that a clean vertical slice is considered a critical hit, with high Luck you can deviate from that by a few degrees and it would still count as a critical hit.
Now for the serpent itself.
Usually, monsters of that kind have a weakness that is their head, since they may be able to leap huge distances and move fast, but when they want to thrust their head at soone and bite them they need to stop for a mont and gather the necessary strength.
So that would an that the ideal mont of attack would be to forcibly strike its head when it stops moving and readies its attack.
But if you are unable to strike its weak spot by any ans and you are unsure whether it has more weak spots or not, there was only one answer: you need to create that weak point by yourself!!
「Right there!!」
The knives I was using looked similar to Chinese ones, so I really need to see how they are going to behave with that attack of mine that I was going to perform, especially when it cos to critical hits.
I run the tip of the knife alongside the serpent’s long side, opening up a long wound full of erupting red polygons.
The serpent suddenly stops and turns towards to attack, but it was already too late for it. I have already co to understand its attack patterns!
I use the “Tap Step” at that mont to avoid the serpent’s attack and stick to the open wound, raining down attacks on it!
And once it was completely wide open at the end of its attack I attack it so more!
「Stamina! Five points per hit!」
I had to take a little break every three hits, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to evade if need be.
And since the wound that I continuously kept open on the serpent’s body was going to stay there for a few seconds after each strike, I couldn’t allow myself to be left out of stamina, because that would considerably slow down my movents and attack speed.
Opening a deep wound on an opponent’s body counted as a critical hit, and striking such an open wound was also counted as a critical hit. The serpent just continued to try to attack in his set patterns, only confirming what I already knew and letting recharge my stamina.
「Eat this!!」
Enough stamina to attack with both knives…… Check.
I attack with both of my knives at once…… Both of them score a critical hit.
Another geyser of red polygons splash from the wound on the serpent’s side, raining down onto my knives.
Then, in the next mont, the serpent’s body begins to shake, only to explode in a huge geyser of white polygons all over the place.
「Y, YEAH!!! TAKE THAT!!!」
I sohow felt really tired upon winning the battle…… No! What am I thinking! Drop items takes priority! HP! Stamina! No ti, no ti, NO TI!
I take all of the items that dropped from the boss without even confirming what they were, see if my stamina bar was replenished enough and break into a frantic run.
Not good, not good, NOT GOOD! Another digit disappears from my HP pool! By the way, isn’t that poison effect awfully long for a beginner-level Boss!?
「Run, run, run, run, RUN……!!!」
The scenery around the suspension bridge was really beautiful, and under any normal circumstances I would have stopped myself and take a look (as well as so screenshots), but now was not the ti for re pleasantries! I run through the bridge with all of my might!
I have rely six HP left! Approximately fifty seconds left until I get to the town! …… Will I even be able to buy an antidote in ti!? No, no, no! It’s better than having to suffer a penalty for dying!
Sh*t, I may not have enough stamina to pull this off in the end! It was so frustrating that you needed to stop in place to replenish your stamina. At this rate I was sure to die before I even reach the…… Wait just a mont.
「Defeating the Area Boss solo should give enough EXP to…… Yes! Bingo! Jackpot!」
I gained a level! I was able to distribute points to my stats again!
I was able to allocate around thirty points to my stats, and without even thinking about it I allocated half of said points into STM (Stamina) and another half in AGI (Agility).
「UUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!」
With my HP and Stamina bar doubled, I broke into a run again and dove head-first into Sekandill.
As a side note, Bosses like this “Giant Serpent Orochi” will have a chance to drop very rare items upon defeat, so it is not unusual to see players retaking the battle when they grow stronger in order to obtain said items in greater quantities.
There are also players who hunt snakes like that purely for their potential as a cooking ingredient. Imagine that.
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