They say that the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And while I did get a chance to experience that a little first hand, it did feel like a pretty stupid quote. Even more so when my feet left the ground a little and parts of my body jiggled in response against my will.
In front of lay the body of a creature almost triple my height, humanoid, but with blue skin. Thankfully the most critical part was covered in a simple animal pelt with two of its limbs stretched behind the waist and tied together.
Unfortunately it only covered the front, as I regretfully discovered after it fell over face first.
At least it was tasty. Not my top five, but tasty enough and did its job to mostly distract until its body disappeared.
"Scarlet, what's a biclops?"
"Well, bi ans two, and clops ans eye, so it ans 'two-eyed'."
"So what does monocular an?"
"...'One-eyed'."
"So it was a 'one-eyed, two eyes'?"
"...Yea."
"But it only had one eye."
"Yea..."
While quite a bit bigger than all the cyclops that littered the floor, the dungeon boss was for so reason called a 'monocular biclops' despite only being a big cyclops. It would have been easy to accept if it was so sort of cyclops chieftain or king, but it was called sothing completely different as if it was its own unrelated species.
It reminded of that one boss back ho. It was a bear in a ruins floor that was filled with strangely shaped monsters that looked like they were multiple types of animals stitched together. It was the only floor of its kind and there were more than one monster that I gave goosebumps just by looking at them.
They were tasty though at least.
But the boss caught off guard. It was so ordinary looking that it felt like it was transplanted from a completely different floor. It simply looked like an ordinary grizzly bear, but almost twice as big.
Fighting it wasn't special in any way. It fought just as how one would expect a bear to fight, just bigger. It wasn't too hard to get behind then sink my teeth into its neck.
What was notable though, was that its blood reminded of the taste of smoked salmon. It was an incredibly odd sensation. It didn't taste anything like what an animal was like, and more like so of the amphibious creatures I had consud in previous floors.
I couldn't help but feel like maybe that boss had actually followed the sa the as the rest of the floor, but it just wasn't obvious until I had started to suck out its blood. It dropped a massive salmon steak as well when it disappeared.
Definitely one of the more morable monsters back ho. I ntally made a note to go back and check its na when we went ho.
Perhaps this 'monocular biclops' was of a similar type of monster as that weird bear.
Either way, it was a pretty underwhelming end to this little adventure.
We travelled from Linsington, t and ford a familiar contract with Claret, passed through a few minor villages, resurrected Alicia, partially, reached Knossos, entered its dungeon, fought, subdued, and turned familiar an assassin sent by supposed gods, and killed a cyclops that seed to pretend to have two eyes or sothing.
When the boss disappeared, it left its weapon behind, a wide bladed sword longer than I was tall.
Quite simple in concept, but pretty powerful, depending on how strong the effect was. While there were plenty of potential detrints, overall it seed like sothing that would be handy...if I was the sort to stand my ground and block hits rather than just avoiding getting hit in the first place.
Unexpectedly there was a surprising response to my idle complaint.
Alicia showed one final hidden skill. There was sothing distinctly different about this one, in that the na was weird. The skill was called [Active Report].
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