381 – Mercenaries of the Tower 1

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Being an adventurer meant always risking your life.

Monsters spawned to kill people emerged from all instructions. Even fellow adventurers would possibly activate you want monsters, aiming to your life. Letting your guard down in a protected zone the place monsters did not spawn might nonetheless depart you a corpse.

Not solely that, however the Tower itself focused adventurers’ lives with merciless precision. A horned wolf all of a sudden attacking a low-rank adventurer searching goblins was only one instance. The named monsters on every flooring, applied as sport mechanics, together with varied traps – how terrifying have been they?

Although not captured by Han Se-ah’s digicam, numerous adventurers had fallen sufferer to orc hunter traps, been crushed by cave golems and worms, poisoned and devoured by undead, or plummeted off excessive mountain cliffs, their our bodies by no means discovered.

“Roland? Hanna? The folks combating the ogre… they’re surrounded. What ought to we do?”

“Surrounded?”

“It appears to be like like a horde of centaurs and goblins swarmed in whereas they have been battling the ogre.”

Such occurrences have been commonplace within the Tower.

As we hurried ahead, we noticed a mercenary band getting ready to annihilation. The our bodies strewn about resembled chunks of meat greater than corpses, both mangled by the ogre or trampled beneath centaur hooves.

The centaurs should have charged in whereas they have been combating the ogre, with goblins spawning on the aspect. If the ogre had appeared later, it would not have entered a frenzied state. And if the gradual goblins had come working from afar, they might’ve fled earlier than dying.

Watching just a few folks desperately making an attempt to interrupt by the goblins’ defend wall and escape the ogre, I made that evaluation as our grim-faced companions naturally ready for battle.

“Their actions recommend they’re fairly expert. And their tools appears to be like top-notch.”

“Appears they encountered the worst attainable state of affairs.”

“I sensed goblins all of a sudden earlier. Should have spawned mid-battle. Ogre in entrance, centaurs charging from the perimeters, goblins forming a blockade behind. The percentages of this taking place are extremely low, but when it does, it is virtually a killing transfer.”

-You are saying mobs spawned behind whereas combating an ogre? sh*t’s getting actual, that is terrifying

-Weren’t the centaurs already charging? lol So that they received sandwiched not simply from two sides however three whereas combating the ogre?

-Appears just like the healer received trampled by centaurs whereas they have been taking over the ogre, then goblins swarmed in as they tried to carry out

-There is a cause this sport’s rated 19+, it retains reminding us

-One punch from that frenzied f*cker would not simply ship you flying, it tears you aside? f*ck, I can kinda see it even with the mosaic

Viewers have been shaken by the horrific scene, however our gloomy-faced group silently drew swords and nocked arrows, trying to me and Han Se-ah.

At the least she had the sense to provide a small nod, signaling us to assault. With the get together chief ordering fight, the tank might empty his thoughts of extraneous ideas. I raised my defend, pulled down my helmet, and charged ahead, mana swirling round my physique.

“Wrists! Intention for the wrists when it swings down!”

Katie, who had certain the centaurs’ legs along with her ice aura, and Han Se-ah, who had buried the fallen goblins trampled underfoot. Add to that Grace’s overlaying fireplace and the three high-rank warriors healed by Irene, and all monsters besides the ogre had lengthy since turned to mana stones.

However all of us knew – me, the adventurers, and the viewers – that this ogre was the largest drawback.

A traditional ogre stood 5-6 meters tall. Even at that measurement, its bulk rivaled an elephant’s. Extra exactly, it was like an elephant standing on two legs.

Some that ate pure mana stones or elixirs outdoors the Tower grew to eight meters, mainly strolling two-story homes… however this bastard was within the 10-meter vary.

It was simply shy of an 11-meter tower, the peak people discovered most terrifying. Bluntly put, if that factor raised its arms excessive, it wasn’t only a mansion however a strolling spire. When such a creature swung its lengthy arms, even a close-range assault turned virtually long-range.

If I received hit, the ogre felt ache.

If I hit it, the ogre died.

The issue was these heavy fists stored pushing me again. If I might have yet another divine session, I would earnestly request some Isekai martial arts handbook like Thousand Pound Pressure as an alternative of swordsmanship.

“Wrists? Attempt to bi- what?!”

-Mr. Ogre’s pissed, lmao

-Nevertheless it’s not doing injury, so it appears determined to push him away

-Cannot see properly with the helmet, however instructor sounds fairly heated simply from his voice

-Would not you be pissed if you happen to received knocked again over 10 instances with out taking injury? lol

-One of the best ways to torment a gradual tank is to show them right into a soccer ball with slows and knockbacks

Han Se-ah tried swallowing the ogre’s enraged downward punch in mud created by Earth Management, nevertheless it tore up the bottom earlier than the earth might even solidify. Katie and the rescued adventurers could not even method amidst the chaos.

We could not get shut, and that factor could not break my protection. Seemingly annoyed by the state of affairs, it all of a sudden exhibited unusual habits.

Grooooaaaarrr―!!!

After letting out one other roar like earlier than, it plunged each arms into the bottom. Appears prefer it discovered one thing when Han Se-ah tried grabbing its wrists with Earth Management. Irrespective of how simple-minded ogres have been, they’d have been killed off by knights, not to mention hunters, with out no less than this a lot studying means.

It stomped and pounded, even ripping up the bottom Han Se-ah churned whereas burying goblins with Earth Management, flinging clumps of grime like a toddler enjoying in mud.

“Collect spherical!”

“Whoa-!”

However what the creature did not know was that Irene’s barrier might utterly negate the grime shotgun because of its properties… and regardless of how forcefully thrown, mere grime could not push me again.

Eyes vast open regardless of the mud invading the gaps in my helmet, I lastly managed to method beneath the ogre’s knees.

Crack―!