Chapter 296: Ox monster

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Chapter 296: Ox monster

The last labyrinth, unlike the previous one, was full of traps. Well, it's the Minotaur's labyrinth, so I guess he doesn't want us to reach it easily. It looks like he's running away from me, but there were two treasure chests, so I'm not complaining.

We break through the trap and come to the boss room. Once again, it's me, Lily, Ion, Setia, Nowa and Ribina.

Ribina says confidently.

"Well, if it's a male, I'll take him out myself"

"I don't think it'll be so easy, considering the enemies we've faced"

I don't think this is a boss that will let us win easily. It's the most famous monster in Greek mythology, after all. I'm going to give you some simple instructions.

"We don't know what kind of abilities the enemy has. Let's find out first. The enemy probably has a weapon, so I'll use my rune arts to block his techniques. After that, Ribina, it's up to you"

"Leave it to me!"

The next step is if it doesn't work.

"If it doesn't work, Lily, Ion take care of it"

"Yes!"

"I got it!"

"We'll have your back"

"Yes"

"...N"

Well, the strategy is as usual. I took out my Scarlet Ring and Setia equipped her bow.

When we entered the boss room, lightning struck in front of us and a Minotaur appeared.

Minotaur?

? ? ?

"Moooo! How dare you come this far! As promised, I'll fight you myself!"

The guy had a big axe, his upper body was a cow and his lower body was a human. He was dressed only in boomerang pants...take a lesson from the Ox Demon General.

Lily and the others get ready. Then the Minotaur's attitude changes.

"Mo? Moooo! I like you so much! Will you marry me?"

I heard a snapping sound inside me. What is he saying? This guy. I'll burn your boomerang pants to death.

No!

The Minotaur went blank at the girls' answer.

"Why...why aren't I popular...when I'm so strong..."

It's a very human thing, isn't it? In this guy's mind, being strong equals being popular.

Then the Minotaur looked at me and became angry.

"You're the reason! I hate natural harem men like you! I'll kill you!"

It's terrible. But we're on the same page.

"What a coincidence. I don't like people who dress like you either"

I didn't want to call them boomerang pants because of Lily and the others. I don't want to be asked for an explanation. The Minotaur is coming.

First of all, I and Ribina set up.

"Rune Arts!"

"Lewd Dream Barrier!"

The Minotaur is enveloped in pink smoke.

"Moo!? It's just a beautiful girl! That's right. Do you love me so much! Alright! Let's hold everyone!"

"Ah...Ribina?"

"This is a technique that gives a man the dreams he desires. The seduction skill only works if you look at me, but if you're trapped, you can't escape. I'll make you feel good about yourself"

That's a hell of a move...and a pretty difficult one to avoid. But then again, the Minotaur is not so easy. Ribina is astonished.

"What? That's weird!? I can't absorb any vitality or magic power! Waa!?"

Ribina's lewd dream barrier is blown away. Is that a Minotaur skill?

"Moooo!? My woman is gone!"

The Minotaur cries out. The Minotaur then looks at Ribina.

"I, I have a bad feeling about this..."

"Moooo! You gave me that dream! Take responsibility!"

"I don't get it! Lily and the others, please!"

"I got it! Tempering Spirit! Grand Slash!"

Lily used grand slash and slashed at the Minotaur. But then the unbelievable happened.

"Moooo!"

"Kyaaaa!?"

The moment the Minotaur's attack collided with Lily's large sword, Lily was blown away and crashed into the wall.

"Ugu...it hurts..."

It's a lie...is there a difference in strength between Lily and Minotaur so that they don't get close to each other?

"Lily!? I won't let you go any further!"

Ion slashes at the Minotaur. However, it decreases only slightly.

"Does such a mosquito-like attack work for me!"

Although Minotaur says so, Ion continues to attack while avoiding the Minotaurs attack.

Ion really understands her role. Even if the damage is like a mosquito, if it accumulates, it can cause a lot of damage. Setia also fires magic arrows of all attributes. Does fire look weak?

"It doesn't matter how much you attack! I, for one, have regeneration!"

The damage has indeed been recovered. Even so, Ion and Setia continue to attack. While I'm recovering Lily, Ion buys me some time so she can come back.

"Yaaaa! Dragon technique! Dragon Claw!"

"Mo? Moooo!"

The Minotaur reacts to Lily's attack. And Ion immediately uses a martial arts technique.

"Ice Blade! Dual Splash!"

Ion slashes from behind with a series of attacks and an ice blade. The Minotaur ignores her and collides with Lily's dragon claw, sending Lily flying again.

"Arrow Rain!"

"Hmm!"

Setia's arrow rain and Nowa's shadow stab attack the Minotaur, but Setia's arrow technique doesn't do much damage to Ion.

And Nowa's shadow stab doesn't penetrate, but is blocked by an invisible wall and stops.

What is that thing? I guess I'll just have to attack now.

"Magic Bullet!"

"Flame Circle!"

Ribina shoots a magic bullet, but it's blocked by the wall. My flame circle will burn the Minotaur, but it won't do much damage.

Everyone gathers.

"Lily, are you okay?"

"Yeah. I managed to avoid hitting the wall! But what do we do now? Takuto"

"I think I know what the enemy's skill is. Setia, try to use some fancy magic on the Minotaur. Nowa use a dragon technique. Ion, Lily, I know it's tough, but please buy us some time"

"All right!"

""Yes!""

"...N!"

The Minotaur will be able to catch it. The Minotaur stands to receive it, but Lily passes the Minotaur's attack. And then she unleashes her martial arts.

"Continuous slash!"

Lily's attack hits the Minotaur for the first time, but it doesn't have much effect. It doesn't do much damage, maybe a little less than my flame circle.

However, Lily has a series of attacks. She unleashes another series of slashes. It damaged the Minotaur. It would have been better if I had done this from the beginning. It's already a characteristic of Lily's to compare her strength first, so there's nothing she can do about it.

However, the Minotaur didn't miss Lily's opening after the attack was over. She also tried to guard herself with her large sword, but was blown away.

"I was told to buy time!"

Ion complained as she used her throwing maneuver to buy some time and then Nowa joined in.

"Dragon Technique! Dragon Absolute!"

But the Minotaur ignores the dragon absolute and goes for Nowa. After all, it is still ineffective.

"...Evil Eye!"

The Minotaur's movement stops for a moment, but that's all.

"Moooo!"

A large axe approaches Nowa, but Nowa hesitates in the shadow. And then Setia's magic comes into play.

"Blossom Storm!"

But the blossom storm is blocked by a mysterious wall and does no damage to the Minotaur. There's no doubt about it. They're all gathering on me.

"It looks like he has a blessing that can nullify everyone's skill attacks"

Lewd dream barrier, magic and shadow stab, magic bullet, and dragon techniques are all skill-based attacks. Only martial arts seem to be effective, but it is probably influenced by the skill of weapons.

"Hou. Do you notice my blessing ability in Harlem's habit...as you can guess, my Minotaur blessing will have a special attack effect and skill attack nullification for children"

The Minotaur, in mythology, chooses children as sacrifices. Perhaps that's where this ability comes from. This sealed everyones attack.

"That~"

"What are you going to do? Takuto-san"

"Are we children, then?"

"We're adults, right?"

A junior high school student, maybe even a high school student, is a child. I think the term child probably refers to a subracial summoned beast. Otherwise, I and other non-adult players would not be able to beat this guy.

It's like our natural enemy came to us at the last minute. Well, it was my fault for not leaving Gray and the others behind.

Now that we knew the enemy's skills, I knew what we had to do. Then the Minotaur said to me,

"I'll tell you what, there's no point in trying to summon a dragon or a spirit. If you can't reach the stars, you can't beat me"

Is he saying that the only way to break through the Minotaur's blessing is to reach the stars? So he's saying we're not high enough. But there is a way to beat this guy.

"...Nowa go in my shadow"

"...N"

Nowa lurks in my shadow. I give everyone synchronized instructions and I face the Minotaur.

"Moooo! Are you going to fight me?"

"Yes. We've done some damage to you. No matter how many times Ion attacked, she could not damage you"

This is obviously not right. This guy said that the Minotaur's blessing is a special attack and skill attack nullification. There is no special protection in it. If that's the case, then Ion and Setia's attacks didn't do any damage purely because of his high defense.

But my attacks were doing normal or even far more damage than normal. Combined with the legend, a hypothesis comes to mind.

"You're...pretty weak against humans, aren't you?"

The one who defeated the Minotaur was Theseus, the legendary hero of Athenai. In other words, Minotaur is being subdued by humans. It's not surprising that it is weak against humans.

"Huh. What's wrong with that? You can't withstand my attack, can you?"

He doesn't deny it. Good!

"Yes, you're right. That means I should be able to defeat you without being attacked by you at all!"

"Interesting! Go ahead! Harem bastard!"

The battle between me and the Minotaur began. I lost the first shot. I knew I couldn't beat him with power.

"Moooo!!"

I ducked the Minotaur's large axe as it attacked in pursuit, but the large axe's attack gouged the ground. If it hits me directly, I'll die instantly.

"Fire Blast!"

"Mo? Moooo!"

My fire blast is blocked by the large axe spinning at high speed. Then!

"Explosion!"

The Minotaur explodes. It damages the Minotaur, but he throws the large axe at me. Oh, no!

"Teleport!"

I teleport behind the Minotaur and aim for his neck, but I can't cut it off. However, the scorching heat of the Scarlet ring burns the Minotaur.

"Moooo! I'm on a boil!"

The Minotaur catches the large axe that came back like a boomerang and swings it at me, burning.

I manage to parry it and slash at him when I see an opening. In the meantime, Setia and Ribina keep applying debuffs. As I thought, they couldn't paralyze, poison, or freeze, but they succeeded in lowering his strength and defense.

The Minotaur shouted as Lily and the others attacked when they found an opening and I managed to reduce his vitality by half using flame magic and explosion magic.

"Moooo! You seem to be using some strange swordsmanship, but I'm done playing!"

The Minotaur's muscles swelled as a bright red aura dazzled. This is berserkerification!

The Minotaur raises one hand and lightning strikes it. Then another large axe appears in the Minotaur's hand.

Ah~... this is bad.

Without feeling the weight of the large axe, two large axes come at me in rapid succession. I can't handle it and I avoid it, but even though I should have avoided it completely, it slices through me.

"Moooo!"

"Ku! Teleport!

I use teleport to get some distance. What was that? A wind blade? No, it's something else. Fortunately, it seems to be a different slash than the large axe attack. Otherwise, it would've killed me instantly.

"Takuto!? Heal!"

I get my first recovery from Lily, but the Minotaur comes.

"Moooo!!"

Give me some time to think.

Lily, Setia. Heal me

Understood!

Yes!

I intercepted it, but every time I avoided it, it cut me. I asked Ribina for an illusion, but it aimed at me precisely. It's a good thing that my vitality and defense can withstand the slashes, but Lily and Setia's recovery is not up to par. If this continues, I'll be stuck.

To do that, I need to understand how this attack works.

When I touched the large axe to test it, it didn't cut me. I held up my Scarlet Ring in anticipation of an invisible slash, but it slipped through the Scarlet Ring and slashed me.

As I probed, I realized that it was the new large axe that did this. It doesn't happen if I avoid the first large axe. So it's the ability of the newly acquired large axe.

So I pass the new large axe's attack and avoid the first axe's attack. Then no damage occurs. Okay! This will work!

I countered with acceleration and managed to get through the gap between the two large axes and deal some damage.

Then, just as I was about to defeat it, the Minotaur shouted again.

"Moooo! I can't lose! I'll never lose to a man who's popular!"

It's like I'm tormenting him. I think I'm the one being bullied.

Horsemanship Lv28

Alchemy Lv20

Mining Lv20

Logging Lv33

Dismantling Lv38

Appraisal Lv25Lv26

Identification Lv31Lv32

Wind Magic Lv28Lv29

Flame Magic Lv1Lv3

Earth Magic Lv25

Sea Magic Lv1

Dark Magic Lv26

Sacred Magic Lv9

Lightning Magic Lv29

Explosion Magic Lv26Lv27

Wood Magic Lv25

Ice Magic Lv26

Space-time Magic Lv39Lv40

Underwater Action Lv8

Reading Lv13

Cooking Lv35Lv36

Feeding Lv8

Fishing Lv18

Synchro Lv15Lv16

Cooperation Lv4

Name Lily Dragonewt Cura Lv15Lv19

Vitality 6670

Magic Power 6270

Strength 145161

Defense 4345

Agility 4952

Dexterity 4650

Skills

Light Fist Lv9

Flight Lv22

One-handed Sword Lv32Lv33

Large Sword Lv26Lv28

Hammer Lv10

Rengeki Lv8Lv10

Tempering Spirit Lv26Lv28

Light Magic Lv2Lv6

Light Wave Motion Lv5

Dragon Technique Lv8Lv10

Dragonification Lv6

Holy Dragon Blessing Lv5

Name Ion Dragonewt Envelope Lv14Lv18

Vitality 63

Magic Power 108116

Strength 6062

Defense 33

Agility 140152

Dexterity 109

Skills

Dual Wield Lv29Lv32

Spear Lv4

Throwing Maneuver Lv8Lv10

Flight Lv9

Swimming Action Lv16

Ice Blade Lv16Lv18

Rengeki Lv7Lv9

Water Magic Lv16

Blue Wave Motion Lv3Lv4

Dragon Technique Lv8

Dragonification Lv7

Sea Dragon Blessing Lv5

Cooking Lv18

Name Setia High Elf Lv13Lv17

Vitality 5355

Magic Power 146162

Strength 4850

Defense 36

Agility 4042

Dexterity 146162

Skills

Staff Lv14

Magic Bow Lv21Lv23

Eagle Eye Lv12Lv14

Shooting Lv13Lv15

Woodworking Lv17

Collecting Lv29

Dose Lv12

Engraving Lv5

Jewel Magic Lv2

Lapidary Lv2

Wind Magic Lv7Lv8

Fire Magic Lv17Lv18

Water Magic Lv24

Earth Magic Lv13

Dark Magic Lv1Lv5

Sacred Magic Lv6Lv7

Lightning Magic Lv5

Explosion Magic Lv5

Wood Magic Lv16Lv17

Ice Magic Lv5

Tree Magic Lv9Lv11

High Elven Knowledge Lv22

Spirit Summoning Lv7

Cooking Lv18

Name Nowa Dragonewt Obsession Lv10Lv15

Vitality 6264

Magic Power 118132

Strength 4850

Defense 4042

Agility 5658

Dexterity 106112

Skills

Shadow Manipulation Lv11Lv13

Flight Lv4

Curse Strike Lv4

Shadow Detection Lv9

Shadow Movement Lv5

Shadow Hiding Lv12Lv14

Shadow Binding Lv13Lv14

Shadow Summoning Lv4

Sign Isolation Lv8

Mimicry Lv5

Night Vision Lv17

Evil Eye Lv4Lv6

Dark Wave Motion Lv1

Darkness Magic Lv1Lv2

Dragon Technique Lv3Lv4

Dragonification Lv4

Evil Dragon Blessing Lv3Lv5

Name Ribina Succubus Lv1Lv7

Vitality 6670

Magic Power 120138

Strength 4856

Defense 4850

Agility 7691

Dexterity 8499

Skills

Whip Lv1

Dark Claw Lv8Lv10

Flight Lv15

Stealth Lv5

Night Vision Lv15

Seduction Lv11

Hypnosis Lv2

Fascination Absorption Lv11

Dark Magic Lv8Lv10

Space-time Magic Lv1

Illusion Lv5Lv7

Magic Bullet Lv12Lv14

Lewd Dream Barrier Lv1Lv3

Name Gray Silver Wolf Lv13

Vitality 53

Magic Power 37

Strength 80

Defense 38

Agility 84

Dexterity 50

Skills

Bite Lv23

Silver Claw Lv16

Iron Wall Lv14

Sign Detection Lv25

Night Vision Lv25

Danger Detection Lv26Lv28

Silver Fang Lv22

Gale Lv18

Roar Lv13