Floor 26 unlocked: 12.23 minutes remaining]
"Hey.. we didn't know each other before, what's your name?" Loid sat in the middle of the Boss room.
'....'
"Four" Four answered.
'Hey kid, is it okay to tell him your real name?'
"Well, quite a lot of people go by that name anyway" Four speaks to an unidentified individual.
The rather large room was silent for a moment.
"I'm Loid"
"For the next floor, please help" Loid looks at Four.
Four nodded. A few moments later The time it took for the 26th floor to open was over.
[26th Floor Unlocked]
[Transfer to the 26th floor begins]
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"26th floor..." Loid looked around.
The barren grass around him swayed in a small gust of wind. Trees are also visible at some distance. And not a single monster in sight.
There were also people participating in this conquest, Kotao who was planning to do a solo raid on the 26th floor. Their number had grown to three people.
'He, quite strong' An unidentified individual speaks to Four.
"Yeah I feel it too"
"Show Status"
[Climber: Four....]
[Class: Semi-Archer]
[Levels: 32]
[Innate ability: Connect instinct, Half Dragon Eye]
[Skill: Normal: Explosion Arrow]Type:Active
[Skill: Rare:Blink]Type:Active
[Skill: Rare:??]
[Skill: Unique:??]
Kotao walked forward with a katana in his hand.
"Don't get in the way" he said as he walked towards the forest ahead.
Four and Loid follow behind him. Even though Kotao looks arrogant, Four and Loid understand that it is a reality where Kotao is stronger than the two of them.
"Somehow I feel like I've seen him somewhere.." Loid held his chin and looked at Kotao who was still walking straight.
They were getting closer to the forest, and the leaves started to sway in the unusual wind. The closer they were to the forest the stronger the wind.
Four uses Half dragon eye and looks ahead. But everything seems mixed up and takes Four by surprise. It was as if mana was flying through the air, and one tree was connected to another.
And when they were in the forest, the wind stopped. and the birds began to fly. Mana started creeping into the roots of the trees in the forest.
But a strange thing that only Four can see happens. The tree roots under the ground began to move following the movements of the three of them.
Four stops in his tracks and the tree root stabs from under the ground right in front of Four. Loid was on standby while Kotao swiftly slashed at the roots of the tree. When the root was cut, one of the trees dried up and looked dead.
"Same as before, this guy..." Loid muttered to himself, and looked at Four.
And suddenly, a tree root appeared from under the ground and stabbed into Loid's left arm.
"Shit... my guard is off " Loid sliced through the root before dealing even more damage to his arm.
And as before one tree seemed to dry up again.
The three of them were on alert, and waiting for the tree roots to appear.
Four takes his dagger and also prepares. Four again looked down and then jumped to the side to avoid the attack from the tree roots. However, Four never had time to cut the roots, until the roots returned to the ground.
'What's going on... you're not this weak when you're imprisoned'
"Shut up." Four watches the roots move again.
And this time the roots focused on three points, namely where the three of them stood. And start attacking from below. But before the roots appear, Four steps back and at the same time Four swings his dagger forward.
"Eh...too fast" Four's attack was too early, so even the roots haven't reached the point where Four's attack is.
Meanwhile, Kotao managed to dodge the attack with a bit of dodging just before the root reached his body. and cut it.
Loid also did the same thing, just before the root reached him he managed to avoid it and attack at the same time.
"Tch, letting the enemy off the hook easily" Kotao stares at Four in annoyance.
The same incident kept repeating itself, out of a total of eleven attacks that four received, he only managed to cut two of them.
'What are you doing kid?'
"Well it's done... without connecting instinct I'm really hard to hit an opponent who attacks like this" Four wiped the sweat off his chin.
Four wants to test his limits without using Connect Instinc and as a result, he has trouble controlling his body properly.
So basically Connect instinct has been instilled in his mind. however, he only used Connect instinct as his skill when conquering the first floor until the arrival of the dullahan.
In the vicinity some of the trees look already dry. Even though they tried to avoid fighting against those roots, and searched for the boss gate, they couldn't find it.
And the only way is to overcome all those trees.
Four now activates Connect Instinc and Half dragon eye. And started taking arrows in his back. He pulled on his bowstring and shot an arrow before roots appeared on the surface.
One tree looks dry. It does this over and over again at the roots that attack it. until not even a single root emerged from where he stood. It really looks like a simple method.
Until the three of them managed to make all the trees dry up. Shortly after the last tree dried up, the sky here was starting to darken and the grass was also drying up.
All the mana that remained from the dried up trees began to coalesce in one place, until a notification appeared.
[Challenge Bosses]
From the gathering mana just now, a deer with glowing red eyes started to appear, and exerted pressure on the three of them.
[Detron]
[26th floor boss]
"uhh so we're already in Boss room huh" Loid crossed his left hand in front of his head.
Kotao jumped at Detron and raised his katana. but before he could attack Detron, the dry tree stump caught him like a tentacle. And threw it at Four.
Four slides aside and catches Kotao's leg just before he hits the ground. Even though in the end, Kotao still falls to the ground because Four's small body cannot make Kotao, who is bigger than him, not to touch the ground.
"Let me go you bastard" Kotao looked angry.
While his legs are released by Four. the tree branches start attacking towards Four and Kotao. Loid swiftly cut the tree branch and made the branch come back.
"I'll take care of these trees, you guys take on the Boss" Loid tackled the attacking Tree Branch.
"Huh, even without your help I can beat him" Kotao with an irritated face.
Four takes his arrow and shoots Detron.
[Explosion Arrows]
*Baam
A barrier is seen blocking Four's attack. Even though Four already knew the existence of the barrier beforehand, he used this method to inform Kotao and Loid.
"Looks like we can't attack him as long as the barrier is in place" Four in a small voice.
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[There is a delay before the floor opens, so that according to the completion of the previous floor's raid and people entering the floor from the lobby can enter at the same time]