Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every time the Green Dragon’s huge front paws came down to crush me, I avoided them by lightly moving my body.
Tap.
On the third and final stomping attack, I lightly placed my hand on the dragon’s huge paw and jumped up while rotating my body.
Swish!
Slash slash slash!
Sword strikes accompanied by starlight that sparkled around me kept hitting the dragon’s scales.
Thud thud thud!
A recoil like hitting a Named’s barrier transmitted through the sword to my arm. I strongly swung the final sword strike and used that recoil to land on the ground a bit away.
The defense of the scales covering the dragon’s entire body was indeed amazing. The 200 million HP itself is overwhelming, but considering the defense too, it’s not something that can be converted to simple numbers.
This is a World Boss.
Even with over a hundred users clinging and pouring attacks, its HP didn’t decrease easily. But.
Flash!
The dragon’s attack coming down with its whole body raising both feet cast a huge shadow over my head. It looked like a large building collapsing over my body.
I used the recoil from hitting the scales to create sufficient distance. One Backward Evasion and one Flash Strike should be enough to get out of the stomping pattern’s range.
Tap.
My body using Backward Evasion was still inside the dragon’s huge shadow. But if the dragon flattens down like this, the neck area is right nearby.
The neck, the only part that can give massive damage ignoring the dragon’s defense. But attack opportunities aren’t that frequent.
Swish.
Ignoring the dragon’s body that reached right above my head, I took the stance for Flash Strike.
Flash!
Crash!
Thud thud thud!
Flesh flew and green blood poured out. My sword that dug in without resistance left a thin but long wound on the dragon’s neck. My body that became a flash accurately tore through the dragon’s neck area between the gaps in the scales.
Kaaaah-!!
Feeling sharp pain, the dragon immediately raised its body and twisted its head as if thrashing about.
I grinned seeing that sight.
If it’s going to hurt, you shouldn’t make that kind of attack.
Thud thud thud!
“Rain! I’ll join you!”
Along with the sound of the second guardian falling, Chris’s shout was heard.
I looked around the battlefield at her voice.
This time it’s not solo play.
The first raid together with companions.
Right after taking down the first guardian, the ‘Red-White’ Guild raid team split up, with melee damage dealers starting to shave off the remaining guardian’s HP and ranged damage dealers starting to shave off the dragon’s HP.
The dragon’s current HP is.
[World Boss]
[Green Dragon]
[HP 160,851,050/200,000,000]
Thud, thud, thud!
Green scales that fell off the guardian’s body were thrust into the ground by raid members’ hands, forming a barricade.
Kaaaah-!!
At the same time, the sign of the dragon’s special phase, breath, occurred.
Whoosh, woong!
The dragon’s heavy body that jumped back landed with its back to the cliff. And then.
Woong!
Creak. Rumble rumble!
Massive energy gradually gathered around the dragon’s opening mouth, and the surrounding ground cracked, breaking off in rock form and floating.
“Uwah! It’s the breath!”
“Avoid it! To the corners!”
Dozens of surviving individual users and unaffiliated party users around started scattering in panic.
“Rain, over here!”
Chris urgently gestured towards me.
All Red-White Guild members moved in unison, gathering behind the scale barricade.
Rumble rumble!
I slightly shook my head and looked at the rock chunks that started floating around the dragon.
Those can be used.
While breathing out, the dragon is defenseless.
The chance has come to attack the dragon’s most vulnerable part, the neck, as much as I want.
Ranged magic attacks can’t deal big damage as they’re blocked by the scales around the neck, but.
My sword that can dig between the scales.
Tap tap tap!
After finishing calculations, I ran forward.
“Rain!”
Leaving behind Chris’s worried shout, I reached near the dragon in an instant and jumped into the air stepping on a rock that had just separated from the ground.
Two, three, four times. My body that jumped stepping on consecutively rising rocks reached right near the dragon’s head in the blink of an eye.
Woong!
On my sword that jumped into the air, starlight was concentrated to the extreme.
I felt like my eyes met the dragon’s eyes.
Twirl.
I rotated my body and took the stance for Flash Strike in midair.
At the same time, the massive energy gathered in the dragon’s mouth burst out towards the front.
Boom boom boom boom!
Flash!
Cutting through the blinding green flash, slicing the dragon’s mouth, I was able to land on the dragon’s neck.
Even though it was right behind the breath’s attack range, the aftereffects were enormous. Terrifying vibrations shook my body standing on the gaps between scales.
My hair like white threads fluttered before my eyes.
Shake shake, after shaking my head once, I started swinging my sword.
Slash slash slash!
Aiming for the gaps between the dragon’s scales, my sword persistently dug in. I thrust and stabbed. Flesh and green blood splattered up. Shaking my head once more, now wet with green liquid, I activated the bracelet’s cooldown reset ability.
And again, the stance for Flash Strike.
Rumble rumble!
The breath is still continuing.
Mr. Green Dragon, do you intend to ignore one mosquito clinging to your neck and deal with the annoying things in front first?
But this is going to hurt a bit.
I aimed accurately at the gap between the dragon’s scales that had been dug out and widened, and activated Flash Strike.
Flash!
Slash slash slash!
My second Flash Strike that cut the dragon’s neck through the scale gap finally tore off several large scales.
Kaaaah-!!?
The dragon let out a roar filled with pain and started thrashing about, twisting its neck greatly.
The breath couldn’t continue to the end and had to be withdrawn midway.
Tap.
I flew my body off the dragon’s neck that started moving violently and lightly landed on the ground.
“Rain! Are you okay?”
Chris, who had run to my vicinity at some point, asked with a worried expression.
What does my appearance look like now? I wonder if I’ve become a green monster covered in dragon’s blood?
“We’re still attacking. You see that, right?”
I pointed at the dragon’s neck area, where scales had fallen off revealing a wound.
Chris’s eyes shone.
“If we aim for that spot.”
I nodded looking at Chris.
It won’t be affected by the powerful magic resistance of the Green Dragon’s scales.
Kaaaah-!!
Meanwhile, the dragon’s eyes that had finished thrashing turned towards me. Flames of anger were flickering in those pupils.
Tap tap tap!
I quickly moved my body, returning to the main tank position.
The poison mist that started slowly spreading across the entire battle area after the breath wasn’t affecting our raid team.
I smiled looking at the faint green light drifting around my body.
“Regular dungeon gimmick. As expected, it could be used in World Boss raids too.”
The ‘Poison Resistance’ buff that can be obtained through a gimmick in the regular dungeon ‘Spider’s Nest’ in the Berbeia Plains area.
If you obtain this and then leave the dungeon without defeating the Spider’s Nest boss, the buff is maintained.
The poison mist zone that continuously inflicts poison damage is the biggest hindrance to attacks. But if you have the ‘Poison Resistance’ buff, you don’t need to drink antidotes inside the poison mist zone and you don’t take continuous damage either.
Poison mist zone solved with this too.
The powerful resistance and defense of the dragon’s scales were nullified.
We blocked the breath without taking damage too.
What’s left is just the flying pattern.
Kaaaah-!!
I raised my sword while directly facing the dragon’s bloodshot eyes.
[World Boss]
[Green Dragon]
[HP 115,476,057/200,000,000]
Individual users were wiped out by the first breath. GG Group’s main force is blocking the opposing faction in the forest outskirts area.
Currently, only the Red-White Guild raid members remain on the battlefield in front of the dragon’s lair.
But the dragon’s HP was decreasing at a much faster rate than when hundreds of users were clinging and attacking.
Boom boom boom!
Kaaah–!
The Red-White Guild’s ranged damage dealers accurately aimed at the dragon’s neck area where scales had fallen off and poured out skills.
Flash.
I used Flash Strike every time the neck came near my attack range, utilizing the dragon’s patterns.
Boom!
Deathly Death, who had thrust a Wind Fist into the dragon’s neck next to me at some point, slightly smiled towards me. I smiled brightly back as if responding.
“Is it okay for you to fight at the front? The patterns are difficult.”
“It’s main tank practice.”
Whoosh!
Tap tap!
Deathly Death, who left those words, quickly avoided the dragon’s front paw that swung in with Backward Evasion.
Thud thud thud! Thud!
Kaaah-!?
The dragon’s body that was about to stomp its hind legs suddenly flinched. The dragon seemed flustered.
“Kuuuu! Leroooooy! Hopkiiiins!”
Thud, thud!
Hopkins and another Warrior had stopped the dragon’s hind legs.
Energy in the form of blue flames was rising from the Warriors’ bodies.
Warrior-exclusive Training Tower skills, ‘Thousand Pound Push’ and ‘Strength Contest’ skills.
The overwhelming Warrior’s strength wearing only strength stat equipment had momentarily stopped the huge dragon’s movement.
Boom boom boom!
Magic from the ranged damage dealers poured into the dragon’s neck that had stopped moving.
The dragon’s HP finally went below 50%.
Kaaaah-!
Flap!
The dragon’s huge folded wings flapped once.
Whoosh!
“Ugh!”
“What’s this!?”
Swept up by the gale that blew simultaneously, all Red-White Guild raid members had no choice but to lower their bodies and move far away.
Flap, flap, flap.
The dragon’s huge body was gradually rising into the air with those wing flaps.
You can’t easily imagine the sight of a body over dozens of meters long floating in the air.
That sight that seemed to lightly ignore physical laws.
The second special phase.
The sign of the flying pattern has begun.