Though the lamias' bodies developed a tricky reflection barrier, this is a named boss battle area.
If there's a special pattern, there must be a gimmick to break it.
Of course, clearly visible.
"There's an answer key...!"
Thud thud thud!
I started breaking the remaining lamia eggs one by one.
Shaa-!
The pattern didn't become harder. It just became difficult to deal damage. While diligently dodging the magic poison stings shot by the giant lamias making threatening sounds, deflecting them with Sword Curtain when they became too fierce to avoid, I moved around breaking eggs at the same time.
The blue and red magic mist swirling around the edges of this nest. These promote the growth of the eggs and give powers like reflection barriers to the giant lamias.
Then, if I keep breaking the eggs that grow by absorbing this magic.
Woong!
Before I knew it, my sword was concentrated with blue magic instead of starlight.
And I smiled gently at the lamias in the center of the battle area showing slightly bewildered looks.
"Who wants to take this?"
Where should I shoot it? Since it's blue, reversely to the Red Lamia? No, their reflection barriers absorb power. Couldn't I overload the barrier by concentrating more magic of the same color?
After making my decision, I immediately shot the blue magic at the Blue Lamia as if releasing sword energy. Slash slash! The blue magic extending from my sword was absorbed into the Blue Lamia's barrier.
Woong!!
Ching!
The sound of the blue reflection barrier surrounding the Blue Lamia breaking from the excessively concentrated magic rang pleasantly.
"As expected!"
I snapped my fingers.
It's a 50/50 guess anyway. If not this, just do it once more.
Next is the Red Lamia.
I immediately moved to the opposite side of the battle area to break the eggs promoting growth with red magic.
Thud thud thud!
"Hehe, hehehe!"
This is fun.
The lamias' tears are becoming a river!
Having become a cruel family destroyer, I did my best to establish a bridgehead for monster extermination.
Roar-!!
Thud.
The giant lamias with their reflection barriers removed were no match for me. I finished the hidden named battle without difficulty and left behind the devastated lamia nest.
"But you know."
This named battle wasn't too difficult either, but there was one thing to review.
Giant lamias. Both female.
They were doing strange things rubbing their bodies together.
An unbearable curiosity arose.
Of course I'm an adult. I knew the giant lamias were in the middle of mating.
Anyway, those guys are monsters consumed by magic that don't follow common sense. So putting aside how eggs came about between females.
I blushed slightly.
"How do females do lewd things together?"
This is just pure curiosity.
Of course, I could look it up on the internet. But unfiltered information floats around on the internet. I, who lack resistance to such things, shouldn't carelessly approach Pandora's box. If I accidentally access a strange website and flesh-colored pop-ups appear all over, my face might turn red and explode.
Should I ask Chris unnie?
[Southeast Divine Mark Activation 1/1]
[Southwest Divine Mark Activation 1/1]
[North Divine Mark Activation 1/1]
(All Divine Marks Activated)
(98% until 1st Purification Complete)
[Defeat a pair of giant lamias (Completed)]
[Celestial Basin Overall Progress 0/1]
"Yawn."
Although many ordinary lamias were still alive and moving around Celestial Basin, the lamias that lost their superiors no longer attacked organizedly. They didn't respawn either.
At the now peaceful defense point, I watched the nearing completion of the purification process while yawning repeatedly.
"It took too long."
The named battle itself wasn't long. But the time spent going around activating three Divine Marks alone was the problem.
The inevitably wasted time due to being alone made me impatient, but it can't be helped. The dungeon structure is like this.
Whoosh!
Soon, a strong flash burst out from the point where the Divine Mark was buried.
Ding.
[You have succeeded in 1st Purification]
[Defeat a pair of giant lamias (Completed)]
[Celestial Basin Overall Progress 0/1]
Looking at the faint holy power that started swirling throughout Celestial Basin, I headed to the central open space.
I looked at the black-stained bizarre rocks scattered around the edges of the open space in the center of Celestial Basin.
A thousand years ago, after the hero party perished together with the Demon King, this world doesn't seem to have flowed peacefully.
If the Goddess were alive, priests of the main religion exercising the Goddess's power would have gone around purifying areas contaminated by magic. But the gods disappeared from this land, and only a few sacred relics remained. During that time, the humans of the continent focused only on fully purifying the land for humans to live on using sacred relics, and probably didn't have the capacity to care about such remote areas.
Judging by the current state of the northern snowfields full of monsters and the eastern ravine, the magic remaining in this land must have exerted various influences over the long years.
Like the extreme cold of the north, the influence of magic was maintained by new otherworldly invaders, or.
"Like this Celestial Basin, creatures exposed to magic for a long time evolved into special individuals."
The lamias I dealt with were probably just snakes living in the ravine originally. Creatures exposed to magic evolved into bizarre beings.
And it wasn't just living things that were affected by magic over the long years.
Even non-living, inanimate objects.
Rumble.
The black-stained bizarre rocks.
The rocks started to move.
The metal these rocks contain in large amounts is probably mithril. It's a metal used to make various magic items due to its excellent mana condensation. They absorbed the magic lingering in this ravine and were reborn as bizarre beings that emit magic on their own.
Ooo--!!
Finally, the gathered black rocks became a giant being in human form.
A huge body easily over 3-4 meters tall.
Black magic swirling in the solid body based on rock.
It's thick. It's sticky.
Sticky black magic like condensed tar overflows from its entire body.
Swish.
I drew Astaroth.
"This is a being created by me who failed to complete the hero's mission."
A being that wouldn't have been born if I hadn't left so abruptly.
This continent where the Goddess's holy power disappeared doesn't have many means to deal with magic.
When I returned to Earth, the Goddess must have used up all her remaining power to send me back. Interfering with a higher dimension would have been an unreasonable task for a lower dimension goddess.
In a way, I also contributed to the Goddess's extinction.
Then, I'll solve what I caused.
I'll normalize this world that became a game with my own hands.
And overwrite the history of this dimension.
Ooo-!!
Flash.
Two ominous red lights flashed in what looked like the golem's head.
I leapt at that black golem emitting an eerie resonance sound with its whole body, gripping my sword tightly.
[Named]
[Level 55 Fusion of Nightmares]
[HP 100,000,000 / 100,000,000 (100%)]
Whoosh, whoosh!
Unlike its seemingly dull huge appearance, the black golem's attacks came at a considerably fast speed.
I ducked my head to avoid the golem's attacks pressuring me while swinging its large arms, and drew Flash Slash as if diving into its embrace.
Clang!
Sparks flew from the golem's body where the sword cut through. As if to prove the fact that the golem made of mithril that had absorbed magic for long years possessed HP in the hundred millions, it didn't seem to take much damage from my Flash Slash.
I immediately turned my body and swung my starlight-imbued sword horizontally. Clang clang clang! At the same time, the golem wrapped its body with its arms.
A defensive posture, followed immediately by a spinning attack.
Whoosh!
Clang! Slide.
As the golem extended its arms that had been wrapped around its body to the sides and swung greatly, a spinning attack swept the entire surroundings with a terrifying splitting sound. Pushed far back by the tremendous force contained in that rotation, I frowned while propping myself up with my sword on the ground.
After the defensive posture, an omnidirectional sweep. Powerful damage that breaks through blocking and even long-distance knockback judgment. Must use Just Guard.
The golem turned towards me who had distanced myself. At the same time.
Woong!
With an ominous resonance sound, purple power concentrated in the golem's head area.
My mind raced quickly upon facing this.
Most likely, a frontal pattern similar to breath. Dodge through a counter-attack that rushes in and takes the rear? It's already entered the breath preparation motion. Could be hit directly during the rush. Backward evasion? If the distance widens further, it'll be hard to approach again. A boss with terrifying instant kill patterns, a trial process for adaptation will be essential. But for me, death has a different weight than for other users. Of course, I can avoid instant death once with the belt. But the pain remains the same. And what if the breath is sustained? Die again as soon as I revive. Then.
Although it's right after the battle start, I have no choice but to use Sword Curtain for now.
Slash slash!
I swung Astaroth quickly. As the flailing swan's dance began, starlight instantly enveloped my surroundings.
Boom boom boom boom-!!
Immediately after, a storm of black energy spewed out towards me.