Chapter 96 - Necromancer, 1st Awakening (4) (1/2)

Drake got up after shaking off the skeletons pressing down on his body. Two Werebears grabbed his horns and held him tightly, but Drake pushed them off easily by shaking his head.

Kuaaaaaaah!

‘I obviously cut through his windpipe.’

Sungwoo stabbed seven spears into the back of his neck. He clearly saw Drake’s eyes roll back and his tongue stick out. ‘Something has changed.’

Sungwoo stepped back and disappeared into the shadows.

‘This is Phase 3.’

“Phase 2” was not the end of this raid.

Kuaaaaaaaaah!

Drake roared, stretching out his long neck. Then his amber eyes turned red, and black protrusions began to shoot out along the back of his head and neck.

-Hidden Raid boss monster ‘Little Host who Swallowed Seed’ appeared.

* You have already completed the group quest ‘What do heroes and stars have in common?’

* Access to Yeouido is blocked until the boss monster is defeated.

It was as Sungwoo expected. The quest of killing the raid boss alone had already been completed. After that, something new was starting.

‘There have been so many variables and anomalies in this raid. They are making fun of us…’

This game has always been held like this. There was no standard way of killing the boss monster.

At the moment when they were about to reap the fruits of a successful attack, they were pushed back into another fight.

Sungwoo was familiar with such a pattern well. So, hiding in the shadows, he monitored Drake’s movements as well as the surrounding situation around him.

‘So what’s next this time?’

Obviously, something he didn’t expect would happen.

“Stop them! Stop them from coming here!”

“There is something weird about the Lizardmen! They are like zombies!”

Not surprisingly, madness began to grow in the eyes of Lizardmen. They threw away their weapons, and charged Sungwoo’s party and their allies with bare hands like zombies.

Kruuuuuuk! Kruuuuuuuk! Kruuuuuuk!

Even their cries changed.

The allies resorted to all kinds of long-range weapons and magic to stop them. However, even if some parts of their bodies were ripped apart, the Lizardmen didn’t back down and continued to charge, so Sungwoo and his allies had no choice but to fight in a hand-to-hand combat with fists and knives.

Kruuuuuk! Kruuuuuk!

They drooled and bit with their hard jaws.

“Ahhhhhhh! Go away!”

“Damn it! Go away! You’re biting my ears!”

With Lizardmen entangled with the allied forces all over the place, they fought in the mud.

It was the same for Jisu and Hanho. Sungwoo found a Lizardman approaching quickly behind Hanho.

“Hanho, get out of the way!”

Sungwoo pulled the trigger of the repeating crossbow from the shadows. Then, a “Shadow Alternate” was created thanks to the effect of the new item “Shadow King’s Ring.”

The shadows in the same shape as Sungwoo started firing the repeating crossbows made of shadows.

Pik! Pik! Pik! Pik! Pik!

Dozens of arrows hit the Lizardman in the face and torso. The firing speed was so tremendous one Lizardman, who ran like a zombie, staggered back.

“Ahaaah! When did you come! Go away!”

Hanho turned around and threw a dagger.

-You have earned 4,500 gold by hunting ‘crazy Lizardman’.

Sungwoo stopped attacking and threw himself into the shadow.

‘The real problem is not this kind of Lizardman.’

Drake, the wanderer, who stood tall again, or the “Young Host who Swallowed Seed,” had a mouthful of flames.

Pooh-hwa-ahah!

Finally, Drake let out the flames of Breath. It was different from the Lizardman Warrior’s Breath. He spewed out a long beam of flames and slowly bent his head.

“Ahhhhhh!”

“Argh! Help!…”

Then, everything near his head was burnt black in an instant.

Keeeeeeeeh!

Among those burnt black were Lizardmen. In other words, Drake destroyed everything around him, regardless of whether they were his enemy or friend.

‘How should I deal with him?’ Sungwoo thought for a moment.

Thump- thump-

The huge monster stoutly walked into the flames it had created. Sungwoo noticed the corpses scattered under his feet.

“Explode!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A series of corpse explosions occurred, engulfing his legs.

Kruuuuuuuuu―

Sungwoo’s attack was useless.

Rather, the monster turned his head and stared at Sungwoo. Sungwoo was probably hidden in the shadow, but the monster seemed to wander through the shadow, rolling his red eyes back and forth.

Then, finally, the monster noticed something in the shadow and opened his snout and held the flames in his mouth.

“Damn it!”