Chapter 42 Back Together

Their guess was not wrong. It was really Clyde who was trying to reach them by using all his strength to slay the zombies.

Clyde spouted flames from his hands all around. He incinerated dozens of zombies in one strike.

But it wasn't over yet because the zombies were still spawning from somewhere without stopping.

Even so, Clyde did not give up. He had one guess as to where these zombies were spawning endlessly from.

They must all come from those two BOSSes.

If he could destroy the two BOSSes, then this wave of zombies would come to an end.

Even though Clyde couldn't be one hundred percent sure, right now that was all he could think about.

So he would focus on killing the two BOSSes.

After several minutes of splitting waves of zombies, Clyde finally arrived at his group's location.

Those who were also struggling against the zombies' attacks looked at Clyde with relief.

"Finally you're back!" Sonya shouted.

Clyde wasted no t to answering her shout. Instead, he looked at the two BOSSes.

Clyde saw that one of the two BOSS was bleeding from its body.

More precisely the blood was gushing out from the wounds caused by Sonya's arrows.

Clyde was quite amazed at what Sonya could do.

However, he also realized that it was still not enough to significantly weaken the BOSS.

'Apparently, there is something wrong with this stage. They obviously increased the difficulty of this Second Chapter.'

Clyde's suspicions grew stronger when he saw the state of the BOSS.

Sonya must have gotten that effect because she has raised her skill to the maximum level.

But the BOSS still hadn't been killed.

That meant the organizers of this apocalypse ― most likely the World Masters ― had also increased the difficulty of this stage to balance it with their strengths.

Whatever it was, Clyde could figure it out later. Now he had to kill those BOSSes first.

"Reed, Eric, Mona! Focus on blocking the zombies. I and Sonya will fight those two BOSS!" Clyde said.

They immediately followed Clyde's words. Clyde didn't see Rodney.

But now there was no time to worry about him even though he might be seriously injured or even dead.

Especially when he's dead. The more there is no reason to think about him.

Reed, Mona, and Eric immediately changed positions to face the zombies.

Eric, who was in front of the BOSS and put up his light shield, now feels a little relieved because Clyde has arrived.

He no longer needed to face the onslaught of attacks from the two BOSSes.

After that Clyde moved to take Eric's place.

All those rotations happened in less than a second and they were already in position.

Now Clyde was in front of the two BOSSes. Sonya is now also behind him with an arrow already nock on her bow.

Clyde spoke to Sonya without looking at her.

"Sonya, BOSS A is the one that has already been struck by your arrows. While BOSS B is the other one."

Clyde decided to provide simple identification to make it easier for them to work together.

"Got it!" Sonya replied.

"Shoot BOSS B with your skills!" Clyde ordered.

Sonya once again activated [Hunter's Marker] and shot an arrow at the BOSS.

*SYYUUUTTT!*

*CRAAT!*

Sonya's arrow stuck in one of BOSS B's eyes and gave it a Bleeding effect.

On the other hand, Clyde shot towards BOSS A and then kicked the ground to shoot up.

Clyde shot up until he was in front of the BOSS's uncovered neck.

Then Clyde swung the Elderglass Sword with all his might.

*CRAAATTT!*

The blade of the Elderglass Sword stuck into its neck.

But stopped because it struck something very strong. Most likely it is its spine.

'Damnit!'

Clyde gritted his teeth in disappointment.

A little more and he should have been able to cut BOSS A's neck.

But apparently, the spine was too strong that it could withstand his slash.

"GROAAHHH!!!'

BOSS A let out a scream of pain and raised its hand to hold Clyde.

However, Clyde dodged by kicking the BOSS in the chest

and flying his body backward.

Without its eyes which were destroyed by Sonya's arrows, BOSS A couldn't see that Clyde was already outside of its range.

So it just reaches for the air.

Clyde landed on the ground a moment later. He wasted no time and immediately shot toward BOSS B.

"Sonya! Shoot BOSS A!" Clyde shouted.

BOSS B saw Clyde approaching.

It remains aware of Clyde's arrival even though it was distracted by arrows from Sonya.

BOSS B took the ax lying on the ground with its left hand and immediately swung it at Clyde.

*WUSSHHH!!!*

Because the ax was so big that it made a sound when it passed through the air.

Clyde, who already knew that BOSS B would do that, could dodge easily by swerving to the side. The huge ax passed him barely.

After that Clyde proceeded to dash toward BOSS B.

[ Burning Hand (Lv.10) is activated! ]

*SWOOOSSSHHH!*

Clyde let out a torrent of fire at BOSS B's feet as he continued to run towards it.

BOSS B's feet started to blister from Clyde's fire.

It also started making grunting sounds which Clyde assumed were due to the pain in its leg.

BOSS B pulled the ax down again from above and pointed the ax directly at Clyde.

However, because of the size of the axe, no matter how hard BOSS B swung it, it couldn't be any faster than Clyde.

Clyde jumped and climbed onto BOSS B's leg while clinging to its armor.

Then he threw a fireball toward BOSS B's one

remaining eye.

*WOOSH!!!*

*BOOM!*

The fireball exploded in BOSS B's eye, blowing up its one remaining eye.

Now the two BOSSes had lost their vision. This fight will be easier.

The thing that was still a problem was how to penetrate their bodies.

Even though Clyde could attack parts that were not covered by armor, those BOSSes also had very hard bones.

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