Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 74
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Chapter 9: Field boss monster
We slept a lot, when we woke up, we all ate a lot, and after reapplying the ointment, the burn status ailment level went down to 1 without any problems.
The things have finally calmed down… Or so I thought.
“… Uru-nee-san, what’s wrong?”
After gathering everyone in my room with the words “Let’s have a reflection meeting.” The first words Regulus spilled when he saw first saw Uru was that.
“She seems to be emotionally unstable for now.”
“I… See?”
The person in question, Uru is sitting on the bed with her upper body upright, in front of me, or rather between my legs, In a position that looks like I’m hugging her from behind.
My body don’t hurt anymore, so I don’t have any problems with this, rather, it’s cute, so please let me spoil you more-cough, cough.
I’m just wondering what to do when Fricka started to looking at me with envious eyes… When it comes to you, as expected it’s embarrassing…
“Well, for now, sit down, sit down.”
I put out a round table and chairs for three people, so I have Fricka, Regulus, and Lieze sit down.
Let’s prepare some light snacks and tea, then start the reflection meeting…… But, before it, I have to receive an explanation of the circumstances. Because, I don’t know what happened that time.
“Uru, please explain. What happened after that?”
“Muu…”
There was a sign that she was making a very sour face, but I urged her by stroking her head and tapping her shoulder.
“… I also don’t remember it much clearly, but?”
According to Uru’s explanation, which began with those words, it was certain that Regulus and I were struck by lightning, but it didn’t seem to be a spontaneous natural lightning strike.
She said that it was an attack by a monster that manipulated thunder and looked like a hybrid of an eagle and a dragon.
Eagles and dragons and thunder, and that rings a bell.
It’s an Altair.
A field boss monster unrelated to the main scenario. If you advance the main scenario to a certain extent, it appears with a low probability in the grasslands on stormy days. It could be said that it’s a type of monster that could be counted as a natural disaster.
It has bird-like wings and beak and its body covered with feathers instead of scales. In the game, it was classified as a dragon.
Its biggest feature is that it can attack with lightning. It boasts the fastest attack speed in the game, and on top of that, it also has high power, so countermeasures are essential.
Altair himself isn’t that hard to defeat if you are properly equipped. However, we players were forced to struggle due to various factors.
First of all, there is the aforementioned lightning attack.
Even if you can understand the timing of the attack to some extent due to the preliminary visual effects of electric discharge, the attack is still too fast to avoid after seeing it, If you get hit, If you are lucky you will be on the verge of death, if not it will be an instant death.
So the player must put lightning rods (and they break quickly, so you have to put more than one), have lots of defensive buffs, substitute dolls (scapedolls) and lots of high quality LP or regeneration potions.
In second place, It has many entourages.
Even just the thunder that comes out of the main body is already troublesome, but it even has many entourages that it bring along, and it’s necessary to deal with them.
In third place, that It’s flying in the sky.
In the latter half of the scenario, there are several ways to fly (or jump) in the sky, but they don’t have enough mobility to fight monster with wings in the air. You can try attacking with a bow or a magic scrolls… But, most of them are canceled by the lightning that Its clads like an armor.
Therefore, the player have to take advantage that sometimes Altair drops to the ground and attacks directly, so the player have to counter-attack at that time. One of the factors that make it difficult to defeat it, is that if you can’t defeat it in three times that it will land it will flee.
…… Although it’s a rumor, there seems to be some players who won by challenging Altair in an aerial battle. They are too amazing.
I defeated it the normal way that is counter-attacking it. …… I did my best while repeatedly dying trying to remember Its attack pattern and timing … Oh well, that was so hard…
Altair will leave if you wait over a certain time without defeating it. So I wondered if Uru killed time in the dungeon during that time, but.
“I repelled it back, I think.”
“Eh, how?”
“… I have memory of throwing stones at it, or something like that…”
“No, no, no it’s not an opponent that can be dealt by throwing stones at it!?”
Apparently Uru’s memory of that time is ambiguous and there is no sense in them. She says that It’s like the memory is hazy… Maybe, it could be.
I guess that her Rage Mode has been activated. The first time since the chimera fight.
In that case even a stone throw can cause damage… It can? I really don’t know …
Well, there is nothing to do if the person in question can’t remember. I wanted to know for If we encounter Altair in the future. Well, even if we encounter it, unless we are carefully prepared in advance, escape is the only choice.
But … If Uru’s memory is correct, Uru repelled away the monster … So why did she apologize that much?
“… If I noticed earlier, Rion and Regulus would not be hit by the lightning strike.”
She squeezed her fist firmly and spoke the reason, as if squeezing it out.
I felt the sign that she would start to cry again and tried to choose my words so that I wouldn’t stimulate as much as possible… But I can’t do such delicate things. I can only just say what I thought as It is.
“Uru.”
“…… What.”
Maybe she thought she would get scolded, Uru’s body froze. And that was clearly transmitted to me who was in close contact with her body.
But what I have to tell her is not anger.
“You’re really stupid. … And it isn’t about your head, okay?”
“…… Hah?”
No, should I say she is stupidly serious than a just stupid? Either one is fine?
“Well, I can’t say much about other people because I was also scolded by Fricka the other day.”
When I glanced at Fricka, she was tilting my head as if saying “?”. Apparently by her point of view, she doesn’t have the consciousness of ‘Scolding me.’ before.
Well she is child who doesn’t get too angry that much. …… But she has been dumbfounded at me many times before. Ufufu …
“Uru, you don’t have to carry the responsibility for things that not even your fault. That was not your mistake.”
Rather, it was my judgment mistake and for inadvertently trying to go outside despite the sound of lightning sounding around, It was my responsibility.
Taking blame for my responsibility and ending crying is unacceptable. This kind of thing is not even pampering me, It’s only source of corruption …. If this continues, in the future it will be impossible to do anything… And I will be in trouble.
“In battle, It’s me that is always relying on you, being just protected, but even so…… Just because I was wounded, that’s not your responsibility.”
“However??”
Furthermore, I pat her head to block Uru, who was trying to insist that it’s her own fault.
“… Uru. I’m your friend, not your child. Just relying on you from the beginning to the end to all thing, I think that is just pathetic.”
Uru is now like a mother bear who are being ferocious trying to protect Its child bear.
If we were parent and child that may be fine, but I’m her friend, not her child.
…… I want to be her equal.
“That why, the words I will say to you are ‘Thank you for helping me’.”
“…”
Hugging her tightly from behind.
She doesn’t resist, but … Probably because she is not convinced with that, I feel that her body is still hard.
…… Well, is it difficult to switch that quickly? Let’s just give her some time.
“If you want to pamper me anyway, I want you to do it in another form, just kidding.”
I dared to say that to try to turn the atmosphere brighter, but it didn’t seem to be very effective.
Feeling that I have slipped, with a bitter smile I drop my shoulders.
“I-In first place, why you who almost died is being so carefree…!”
Twisting her body, Uru turned and shouted at me. Well, yeah, it might be inevitable to think so from the view point of the person who was passing by a lot.
In fact, when I woke up, it hurt a lot, but I still alive even now. Ah, But I’m really sorry that I made you guys worried, okay?
It just that, without time to feel fear I fainted and the battle began and ended, and the time for recovery was much faster than my original world.
And In addition to that.
“And it feels…… Like there weren’t only bad things in the end?”
“… Nu …?”
Leaving Uru who was wondering about it aside, I confirm the sensation of my hands by opening and closing them.
“Oh, so Rion also thinks so too?”
Surprisingly, or rather It’s better say, because he had met the same experience, In a sense, the of course response?
A voice of the support came up from Regulus.