347 - Tentacles, Feathers, and Abnormal Sexuality 2

347 - Tentacles, Feathers, and Abnormal Sexuality 2

TL/Editor: raei

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Lightning rains from the heavens, scorching the earth below. Massive tentacles pulverize everything in their path, unfazed by the electric onslaught. Amidst this chaos, a lone warrior swings his warhammer.

"Incredible... Is this what a decade of adventuring looks like?"

-We couldn't pull that off even with a century of experience

-It's all about being born with a silver spoon, isn't it? Some people just have godly stats from the start

-The tentacles look singed, but the main body seems unscathed

-It's adorable how everyone else is just sucking their fingers lol

-At that scale, shouldn't the army bring in siege weapons instead of relying on individuals? The battle's impact alone makes me feel like I'm floating

The clash between these three titanic entities was so fierce it made one's body feel weightless.

Though the Harpy Empress was conserving mana by controlling her lightning, Han Se-ah worried about their progress since there was no visible HP bar.

Nevertheless, Han Se-ah pressed on silently, bolstered by Roland who crushed tentacles one by one, steadily approaching the main body.

While the creature's health wasn't visibly decreasing, the number of tentacles dwindled. Gritting her teeth, she gripped her staff tightly. Controlling lightning, which moved at light speed unlike wind or rock, demanded far more mana and concentration.

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Is it true that Han Se-ah's search history includes men and tentacles? Men and tentacles, seriously?

"Ugh, sh*t-!"

But what viewer would let her focus on the game with voice donations turned on?

From malicious viewers slandering her tastes to those casually recommending weird p*rn, she was bombarded with nonsense. Alternating between anger and laughter, she choked and sputtered, inevitably disrupting her mana control.

Even so, her accuracy only dropped from 100% to about 90%, imperceptible to viewers. But Han Se-ah, her competitive spirit ignited, gnashed her teeth and tore her gaze from the donation window.

"Arrows seem utterly ineffective. What's our next move?"Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

"The impact on my holy magic is stronger than anticipated. It'll be hard to get closer."

Grace and Irene also struggled against this colossal monster.

Thanks to her passive skill, Grace could ignore 80% of defense when attacking weak points.

But how could she identify a weak point in a building-sized anemone monster randomly thrashing a hundred tentacles?

Irene boasted an overpowered shield that ignored damage below a certain threshold, but these hefty tentacles dealt crushing blows rather than chip damage.

Moving closer risked shattering both her protective holy magic and her body under a barrage of tentacle strikes.

High-level magic proved ineffective, critical weak points remained elusive, and the monster's erratic attack pattern made blocking every hit impossible.

Faced with this impasse, Han Se-ah nervously chewed her lip before abruptly sprinting away. Some viewers feared her resolve had crumbled, while others were simply bewildered.

I lowered my stance and thrust my shield forward.

Unlike Katie, I lack the agility to leap away. Attempting to dodge and getting clipped once could send me flying. While I'd probably survive without serious injury, getting knocked back like a home run would be a pain to recover from.

Taaang―

My shield, white-hot from the long-dormant "Shield Master" skill, filled my vision with writhing tentacles. A strange pressure bore down, followed by impacts from front and back, but it was more manageable than expected.

Sure, it's a vicious attack that could pulverize a person and demolish building walls, but to me it felt like bumper cars colliding at an amusement park.

The impact shook my body and destabilized my stance, but not enough to make me cough blood and collapse. Just enough damage to do that. As the tentacles pressing down on me recoiled from the collision, I smashed them with my warhammer. The tentacle behind me hastily withdrew.

It seems this thing is starting to realize I'm more dangerous than the lightning raining down from above.

"Roland, you're really okay?!"

"Yeah!"

Now the tentacles that had been reaching skyward were gradually lowering to target me. But as often happens, a strength can become a weakness.

The monster's sheer size meant that no matter how many tentacles it extended, only two or three could directly attack me at once. Just like how a person with eight arms instead of two would still need to use two palms to clap and catch a mosquito.

Frustrated by this limitation, the tentacles now came crashing down from above. But there was no reason to take such straightforward strikes head-on.

I'd stood my ground against sweeping attacks, preferring to tank them rather than jump and risk getting caught mid-air. But for overhead smashes, a quick sidestep and dash forward would suffice.

"Hey, this thing we cobbled together might explode!"

"Just fire it already!"

"Loading complete~ Firing!!!"

"Hey squishy― watch out for anything that starts flowing out―"

With that thought, I tucked my chin to my chest, lowered my stance, and sprinted forward. A thunderous boom erupted behind me.

It wasn't the sound of tentacles tearing up the ground, nor the crash of lightning. This was the familiar report of a stone dwarf cannon. Then came the dwarves' voices.

They said to watch out, but for what?

The answer to that question didn't come from behind or from Han Se-ah's stream.

It simply flowed in front of me.

"Ugh, f*cking-!"

A potent acidic solution, strong enough to melt not just tentacles but palace ruins and even the ground, right before my eyes.

What happened next was too fast for viewers watching through the camera to fully understand. The flowing acid, my posture thrown off by the sudden change in direction, the boss monster attacking even as its tentacles melted.

Taang――!!!

The same collision sound of tentacle against shield. The biting wind slipping through gaps in armor and helmet.

A feeling of weightlessness.

Clouds.

A cliff.

And a glitched hologram window.