Chapter 267 - Versatile, Jack Of All Trades And The Versatile Battle Maid (VI) (1/2)
In many games that involve defending your base, the main foundation to keep your base standing is to buy a defensive tower that will keep any stragglers from moving around. My horde coins are currently lacking to buy multiple Attack towers so I will have to put that on hold this time around. However, that is not yet out of the plan just yet. Once we cleared at least one or two hordes, buying a few of these towers will no longer be a problem.
Seeing that the time to the next wave will be an hour, I decided to use the remaining free time we have to find clues about the whereabouts of the main boss that we need to kill to finish the quest as soon as possible. It's just going to drag out if we don't eliminate it the easiest way.
”Lina, come with me. The rest of you should remain and guard the village. Even if the horde wave is going to take a while, it doesn't hurt to be vigilant.”
Everyone nodded in confirmation. Before we left, I purchased a few teleport stones and set the teleportation target to the village so that we will be able to go back as quickly as we can without walking all the way back to the village. This also serves as an emergency recall in case we ran out of time finding the lair of the boss and the next wave started.
We immediately left so that we can cover bigger grounds in case the boss is nowhere to be seen. With the help of Lina's ability to track down some tracks and fill out some of the missing links in the clues that we obtained, it didn't take us long to locate the domain of the boss.
”Master. I can sense a dreadful aura up ahead,” Lina said after we discover the domain of the boss. It was a cave and the walls inside the cave is pulsing.
”Looks like this is the area where the boss is. We managed to track down our target faster than expected which is good for us.”
”Should we test the waters, Master?”
”Let's do this. We can escape from it anyway if it is proven impossible.”
All bosses in the Ascension trials are possible to be challenged and we can escape it anytime we want. Also, the teleport stones can come in handy in case the boss is too hard to kill.
As we enter, the walls of the cave started to pulsate and some tentacles poured out of them. Although they are short, it would be unwise to touch them without knowing what effect it does on a person.
”Don't bother touching it nor attacking it. Just avoid the tentacle since it might be some sort of sensory gland of the boss. We might agitate it if we managed to even touch it so venture the cave carefully.”
We took our steps as carefully as we can since the walls are covered with these tentacles. It took us a few minutes before we managed to pass through the walls of tentacles. As soon as we managed to get our bearings, we arrived inside a very large dome full of those wriggling mass of tentacles. It looks disgusting and anyone who hates seeing nasty things like this would writhe in disgust just by seeing it move, moreover, hear its wriggling sounds that seem to sound like flesh being squished together.
The cavern is pretty big that it can be easily called a dome due to the shape of the walls surrounding the walls. Aside from that, I also saw some crystal shining bright above the cavern. It is shining red and has a tinge of orange. It was so easy to spot that is why it is the first thing that is peculiar that I have noticed after we arrived.
However, that is not the focus today for me.
[King of Wraith and Dread, the Undying King]
Lvl: ???
HP: ????/????
MP: ????/????
Traits: Undead, Monster, Foreign Being, Immortal(Will be removed after 60 waves), Invincible(Will be removed after 60 waves)
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My eyes wandered to the traits and I am surprised to see Foreign Being as one of its traits.
There are plenty of traits a monster can have and based on these traits, their weakness will be easily concluded the moment you can identify what its traits are. That is how impactful and important to look at the traits. Now, anyone seeing this would be their first time seeing a creature with a trait of ”Foreign Being” added on their traits.
So what is a Foreign Being? They are creatures that first became common the moment you arrive in Aquagius. The monsters in Aquagius would either have this trait as their common trait or they are weak against this trait. Also, Foreign Beings are always connected to some sort of dark sorcery and they are capable of producing tentacles.
Also, they are one of the prominent creatures that can cast Corrode to a target. They are not just easy monsters to kill, they are troublesome enough that they should be eliminated the moment one appears.