Chapter 226
Game Difficulty Is Insane
【Saint725】
Guys, did you know there's another boss monster in Angrelzer Castle's underground laboratory besides Kacherto Rienz?
It was a long time ago.
Back then, Seong Yohan had just begun making a name for himself as a veteran player on the Gray Eden community site.
【Reverse Warrior Dumpling】
LOL, bullshit.
I know you're pretty good at this game, but I've played for 1,200 hours since the game was released.
I've run fucking Angrelzer hundreds of times, and there was nothing like that.
【Water Buffalo, Go Away, You're Boring】
If you're going to say something like that, prove it first, Eden nerd.
Of course, the cold reaction was silenced immediately when Seong Yohan uploaded a verification video.
【Water Buffalo, Go Away, You're Boring】
What the hell?
This is actually real?
【Reverse Warrior Dumpling】
What the f— is this?
Is this edited?
How do you even get there?
【Saint725】
I'm annoyed, so I'm not telling you.
Go find it yourself.
【Reverse Warrior Dumpling】
If you don't tell me, I'm just going to assume it's edited.
Of course, anyone who wasn't an idiot could tell that Seong Yohan's gameplay video posted on the community wasn't edited.
Because of this incident, the user Saint725 began making a serious name for himself as one of Gray Eden's most hardcore veterans.
‘I remember that time.’
Suppressing his laughter, Seong Yohan… Glenn Wordsworth looked up at the enormous creature that had appeared before him.
“KEEEEEEEEEE!!”
A scream that sounded as if it were tearing through the air rang out.
The creature screamed at Glenn and Luceria.
It looked as though hundreds of living creatures had been tangled together into one mass.
Its gigantic body was large enough to reach the ceiling of the laboratory.
Countless tentacles and vines of otherworldly plants writhed all over its body.
At its center was a huge flower.
Its mouth was wide open like the maw of a monster, drooling thick saliva.
Daddy.
The ultimate experimental subject containing the culmination of all of Kacherto Rienz's research.
The protagonist of the video Seong Yohan had uploaded in the past had appeared once again.
‘And this time, it has received the worst difficulty enhancement of all… Lunatic, which has been tormenting me for months while making me stronger at the same time.’
With a sinister smile, Glenn read the system message floating before his eyes.
《Information regarding a new Lunatic element will now be revealed.》
《Experimental Subject Daddy — Lunatic》
: This experimental subject has been judged insufficient to have been created solely through all the magical knowledge Kacherto has accumulated over hundreds of years, so its host has been changed.
: The experimental subject that serves as the host of the otherworldly plant has been changed from Asensio, Kacherto Rienz's master, to Vanum, the God of Death and Extinction who disappeared from Symphosion hundreds of years ago.
The otherworldly plant summoned by Kacherto's magic, Flowers of the Other Side, was a life-form that grew stronger based on the strength of its host.
It was no longer using a nine-star demon mage like in the original story.
It had taken a god from Symphosion as its host.
There was no need to question how powerful it was.
The fact that Vanum had become its host probably meant that the god had descended to the mortal world under certain restrictions.
Even so, the difficulty had gone completely insane because the host was none other than a god.
“This is getting completely fucking crazy…….”
Glenn bit his lip as he looked at the sleeping upper body of the god growing where the flower's pistil should have been.
Who would have thought the Lunatic difficulty would be applied in a way like this?
“Brother!”
Luceria, who had been destroying the deepest part of the laboratory, hurriedly ran toward Glenn.
“W-What is that?!
I've never felt such an unsettling presence before…….”
“It is the creature guarding this laboratory.
You could also call it Kacherto Rienz's most precious experimental subject.”
As he spoke, Glenn adjusted his grip on Einheria and lowered his stance.
Having come this far, defeating it was no longer a choice.
It was mandatory.
“From now on, we're going to defeat it.”
The Primordial Mirror reset the cooldown of the Gray Ring.
Glenn immediately activated the Gray Ring.
The nine rings beside his heart resonated and turned gray.
Glenn converted all nine rings into Rings of Demonic Power.
Gooooooo—
“So, Saintess Luceria… from now on, you really need to be careful.”
Hearing Glenn's serious voice, Luceria's expression hardened as she nodded.
She gathered dense holy power and prepared herself for the real battle.
“It seems this is the critical point.
So I'll give it everything I've got.”
“KEEEEEEEEE!!”
The gigantic monster screamed again.
Taking that as the signal, Glenn kicked off the floor with all his strength.
Swoooooosh—!
Tentacles rushed in from every direction.
There were dozens of them.
But Glenn did not waver in the slightest.
He swung Einheria in a wide arc and cut down dozens of incoming tentacles.
Slash!
Einheria, wrapped in darkness as deep as the abyss, drew a semicircular trajectory.
The tentacles that tried to catch Glenn a moment too late were sliced into countless pieces.
“KEEEEEEEEE!!”
Along with the monster's scream from directly ahead, the body of Vanum, the host at the center of the giant flower, began emitting a black glow.
Glenn's eyes flashed strangely.
He stepped on an incoming tentacle and used it to leap away.
Crack—!
A pitch-black flash exploded where Glenn had been standing.
Everything it touched simply disappeared.
It was a skill Glenn had never seen in the original story.
But his instincts were screaming at him.
‘If that hits me, I'm definitely dead!’
Swoooooosh—!
Dozens of tentacles rushed toward him again.
“Fucking hell!”
Glenn gritted his teeth.
He turned his body and prepared to swing Einheria.
But then—
Whoooooosh— KABOOM!
Dozens of enormous beams of light fell from the ceiling and intercepted the tentacles.
“Brother, are you all right?!”
Luceria shouted toward Glenn while protecting herself with a barrier of light.
It was impressive how quickly she had learned to support the frontline like this.
But there was no time to admire her.
Kiiiiing—
Black light began gathering again at the center of the flower petals.
A huge amount of energy formed.
This time, its target wasn't Glenn.
It was Luceria.
“Get out of the way!”
“!”
At Glenn's shout, Luceria hurriedly dismissed her barrier and threw herself aside.
By a hair's breadth, the black flash completely erased the place where Luceria had been standing.
CRAAAAACK!!
Luceria swallowed hard.
“T-Thank you… Brother!”
“Whatever happens, don't let that light hit you.”
“Understood.
You be careful too, Brother!”
Since the plant's host was the God of Death and Extinction, even grazing one of its attacks would probably be fatal.
But that didn't mean the dozens of tentacles were safe either.
If even one of them caught him, his limbs would be brutally torn apart.
‘This is troublesome…….’
More than ten minutes had passed since Glenn began fighting Experimental Subject Daddy.
The enemy was much stronger than he had expected, and the battle was becoming increasingly difficult.
There wasn't much time left before the Gray Ring expired.
He had to decide the battle somehow before that happened.
Glenn accelerated his thoughts.
He replayed everything that had happened during the battle.
‘First of all, its patterns aren't that different from the original.’
What had changed was the power.
The number of tentacles had increased to the point where they barely gave him any opportunity to attack.
The black beams it fired whenever it had the chance were also different.
In the original, they merely left the character on the verge of death.
Here, getting hit even once meant certain death.
But apart from that, all its other patterns were the same as Glenn remembered.
‘Then.’
Glenn recalled the pattern he had used as Seong Yohan to defeat Daddy in the original story.
A sharp light flashed across his gray eyes.
A sinister smile appeared on his lips.
Ten minutes remained.
In that short period of time, he would throw every remaining card he had into the fight and defeat it.
To do that—
‘I'll need to be prepared to go that far.’
Feeling cold sweat run down the back of his neck, Glenn turned toward Luceria.
“Saintess!”
“Yes, Brother!”
“We don't have much time.
I'm going to finish it with this combo.
So please, give me one final miracle!”
“Yes!
Understood—eh?!”
