I Defeated the Guide Angel and I Became a Necromancer ~ I Feel Like I'm Playing a Different Game from Everyone Else, but I'm Doing Fine ~ - Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Ocean Abyss Dungeon Part 7 – The Evils Of A Higher Knowledge –

◆ Ocean Abyss Dungeon [Boss Area] ◆

I’d like for you to take a little look at the damage logs.

“Donta used [Explosive Two-Stage Palm] , their golden right foot ignites! Critical! Insquidious(LV.60) has taken 18,884 damage and was defeated. 16650 EXP obtained”

“Donta used [Explosive Two-Stage Palm] , dealing 8994 damage to Insquidious(LV.60) and defeating it. 16650 EXP obtained”

Donta’s Explosive Two-Stage Palm uses both his paws but the difference in damage when he uses his right paw compared to his left paw is almost doubled… The damage from the critical likely increased by 50% and the crit rate itself was heightened. I have a feeling it had some armor penetration too, just a feeling though. He should more so become a boxer than a football player at this point. You’re one hell of a hard-puncher, Donta.

“Now then, let’s go over the strategy. If the opponent uses magic or ranged attacks, I’ll play the vanguard but if it mainly uses close-range attacks, Don-chan will be in front.”

“I’ll be the furthest back, I’ll shoot once I see an opening.”

“I’ll watch out to not get cornered and cast Mute Blizzard!”

“I’ll stack buffs on everyone before we start and use Bone Shield whenever it’s off cooldown.”

“Woofwoof! Woof! (I’ll beat ’em up and take ’em down!)”

And so, that was the gist of our strategy. If you told me that was the same as usual, I’d have to agree but when it comes to the boss, I have a strong feeling it’s going to be those two of those orcas. If not… What else could show up? I heard orcas eat whales after all and aren’t they frankly the strongest being in the ocean? An orca-type monster will probably appear, no?

“Well, off we go!”

“Can’t wait…”

“Me neither!”

“I’ll do my best to defeat it!”

“Woof!!! Woofu woof!! (Beat it up! Beat it up!!)”

“Transfer portal to the boss area has been activated. You will be teleported in 30 seconds”

“Submerge, Negative Aura”

“Party members’ stats have been increased by +40”

Oh? The amount of stats increased by Negative Aura was displayed now! Isn’t +40 for 3 minutes pretty good!? Ah, I guess I’ve always been able to confirm the increase in my status window though… would it be easier to explain if I said it simply increased it by half my level?

“Rinne-san, your Bone Shield!”

“Ah. Impede, Bone Shield!

“Thank you.”

“My bad, my bad. I was moved since Negative Aura’s effects were displaying now.”

“Oh right, it did come up just now. 40 is quite a lot, isn’t it”

“Is it half your level?”

“I wonder?”

“Countdown until teleportation, 5…4…”

“Now, onwards!”

“Ooh”

Wah, time passes in a blink of an eye when you’re lost in thoughts! Now, what’s gonna show up, what’s gonna be our opponent!

“1…0. Teleporting”

Ohh… this feeling of taking the elevator to the bottom floor meant that we’ve teleported! Hm? This is just the usual large ocean room though… is this boss the kind that we have to search for?

“Ah… ahh…!”

“You’re kidding, give me a break.”

“Eh? Where’s the boss? Up? Aboooveee!?!?”

“W-W-W-What is that!?”

“Wooooof!?!? (What is that– It doesn’t look tastyー!?)”

What the heck is that. Where’s the setting of the world gone…!?

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) used [Enemy Search] ”

SS-Rampant… great… whale…!? It’s a machine, a whale-shaped submarine!! Isn’t it ten times as big as Donta? Maybe even more!? It’s terribly huge!!!

“H-A-L-L-O? Good bye! :D”

Uwah, something was sent through as a system message… wait, is this part of the Enemy Search it used earlier, meaning it detected us!? Then, it’s going to attack soon, isn’t it!? Even though we’re still this far away from it!? Uh-oh.

“Lia-chan, get away from here! Donta, pick up Rena-chan-senpai!”

“Wooof! (I’m gonna throw you on my back with my mouth!)”

“Waaaaah”

“Eh!? What about me!?”

“Can’t you do something with Aegis, Pers-chan!? O abyss, assume my path. Abyss Walker!!”
“You are now under the effects of [Abyss Walker] and NP will be consumed when casting magic”

I’ll be taking refuge in Donta’s shadow for now since I get the feeling it’ll definitely turn bad if we keep standing around!

“SS-Rampant Great Whale used [Crimson Blaster] ”

“Perseus has negated the damage”

“… This would be so cruel for first-timers!”

Uwaa, uwauwaaah… It just shot a beam that was way bigger than the Obliterate Taily Whale’s beam at Pers-chan… If we didn’t have something like Aegis to defend against it just now, not even our remains would’ve been left over…!

“SS-Rampant Great Whale(LV. 75) has entered a state of [Overheat Mode] ”

“This is our chance”

“07XB785Y used [Quickdraw Shot] ”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale(LV. 75) has taken 557 damage”

“It’s rock-solid…”

Even though it’s not moving while it’s in overheat mode, none of her damage went through!? Does that mean we won’t do any damage unless we chip off its exterior carapace? I don’t think my curse will work either but… once Donta gets closer and in range, I’ll try it out.

“Perforate, Curse Spear!”

“You consumed NP and used Curse Spear. SS-Rampant Great Whale(LV. 75) has taken 100 damage. The curse has no effect against machine-type monsters”

Ah, thanks for the pointer… My curse doesn’t work on machine-type monsters, huh… Of course. It’s study but it wasn’t part of the 1 damage clan of monsters after all.

“Rhadha – Nadha Syerena!!! Eules!!! Mute Blizzard!!! (Quell the masses for eternity!!! White Silence!!!)”

How about this then? I’ll have you know, Lia-chan’s Mute Blizzard hurts a lot…!

“Aurelia used [Perfect Chant – Mute Blizzard] ”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale(LV. 75) has healed 30,550 and finished cooling down”

AAAAAAAA! It absorbs water!? On top of that, it’s even cooled down–!!! How awful, this is the worst possible outcome!!!

“Lia-chan, water’s not gonna work on it!”

“S-Sorry!”

“It’s weak against weak, but we can’t use fire. Yikes.”

“Luna, thunderbolt!!”

“Nyaaa”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has dropped a Depth Charge Pufferfish”

“Depth Charge Pufferfish has been electrocuted! Depth Charge Pufferfish has exploded!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has taken 50,000 damage”

“An issue has occurred in the navigation system”

Ehh!? What timing for that to hit…! More importantly, wasn’t that a considerable amount of damage…? Huh? Was this boss possibly… one with a gimmick? Or maybe it was just a coincidence that the damage incidentally went through? Still, since there was a message that said trouble occurred in the system, something wrong must’ve happened!

“That was quite some damage”

“Yeah… you think it could be the kind where we use the enemy’s attack against it?”

“I can still reach you even if you’re surfacing!! Hyper Slash!!”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] and dealt 800 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

“Mnn–!!! Not much of a reaction I see.”

It did damage it but… it’s tanky, too tanky…

“It’s doing something again!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has fired Insquidious Missiles”

“… Umm, all of those are Insquidious?”

“No way, that’s like 20 of them incoming!?

“Woooof!? (It looks like it’d hurt if it hit you!)”

“W-w-waaah!”

“Perseus has taken direct hits from Insquidious Missiles, canceling the effects of [Penetrate] ”

“It even hit me 10 times These darned Insquidious!! Aegis!!!”

“Perseus is now under the effect of [Penetrate – 10] ”

“Bang”

“07XB785 used [Quickdraw Shot] ”

“Critical!!! Weak!!! Insquidious Missile was destroyed”

“Critical!!! Weak!!! Insquidious Missile was destroyed”

“Critical!!! Weak!!! Insquidious Missile was destroyed”

“Phew…”

It was shooting missiles with incredible homing capabilities at us! It seems like Pers-chan’s Aegis gets removed immediately by those so Rena-chan-senpai shot down all the missiles that were bearing down on Pers-chan for her. Now we’ve gotta do something about the missiles heading this way…!

“Abyss Walker has been canceled”

“Hup!”

“Wah, I didn’t expect you to suddenly reappear.”

Rena-chan-senpai and I were riding on top of Donta together for now since I would lose NP if I casted magic within his shadow…

“Submerge, Negative Aura!”

“Donta and 07XB785Y’s stats have increased by +40”

“Rin’s buffs”

“Woof! (What do we do about the things behind us!)”

“Hnn–! What should we do!”

“Ah, the whale’s coming down”

“Navigation system error. Unable to resurface until systems have been restored”

“Isn’t this our chance!? Donta, tackle that thing!”

I reapplied the buff and made Donta attack that thing with a tackle in desperation! The Insquidious Missiles behind us had incredible homing abilities but they weren’t all that fast. If they can’t catch up to us, they won’t hit us and I have Donta running at a good speed. Still, a player would have a hard time escaping from them…

“Weak!!! Donta used [Warg Bullet] and dealt 4,400 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

” Abdomen – Left’s armor has undergone slight damage”

“Ooh…!?”

“Missiles are coming.”

“Donta, lure them and dodge!”

“Woof!! (Got it!)”

Donta did 2200 damage with Warg Bullet, doubled with his doppel. It looks like blunt attacks were its weakness? The armor on its left abdomen was also cracked! And since the Insquidious Missiles were homing but had poor turning, if we can narrowly dodge them, then…!

“Now!!”

“Woof!!!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has blown itself up with 4 Insquidious Missiles!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken a total of 40,000 damage”

“Have these as well!!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has blown itself up with 2 Insquidious Missiles!”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken a total of 20,000 damage”

” Abdomen – Left’s armor has been completely damaged”

This was it, you’re supposed to use a gimmick to attack it! Our levels were high, yet we couldn’t do much damage to it so we were at a loss of what to do, but this seems to be the answer! After all, it went through the trouble of sending us those messages so this probably has to be it!

“Donta, sic ’em!”

“Gwaaah!!! (Right paw attack!!)”

“Donta used [Explosive Two-Stage Palm] Critical! Weak!!! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken a total of 22,900 damage”

“2 COMBO! Donta used [Raze] Critical! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken a total of 7,200 damage”

“3 COMBO! Donta used [Explosive Two-Stage Palm] Critical! Weak!! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken a total of 26,500 damage”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) fired Moray Bazooka”

“Graaawh!!! (Vajra!!)”

” [Bone Shield] has been lifted from Donta”

“Donta used [Vajra] , fortifying his head and reducing damage taken to 50”

Donta sure is strong… but you’ve completely forgot about the fact that we’re riding on your back, haven’t you…?

“You are no longer under the effect of [Bone Shield] ”

“You have taken 3,000 damage”

“07XB785Y is no longer under the effect of [Bone Shield] ”

“07XB785Y has taken 3,000 damage”

“Owch…!!”

“Owie…”

I had a little over 1,000 HP left and Rena-chan-senpai had a little less than 3,900… You see, Donta, that bazooka is an AoE attack…

“Kyuunn… (I’m sorry! I forgot!)”

“Let’s pull back for now”

“It’s shooting that bazooka again!”

“I’ll destroy the gun battery!”

What should I do? I’d like to use up some MP to efficiently restore my HP but my overall cooldowns were long and I didn’t have a way to instantly heal… oh wait! [Dark Rain] , the skill on my equipment consumes 4,000 MP! Which means I can heal double the amount for 8,000 HP! That’s a full restoration! That’s almost too much healing!

“Ermm, the activation word was… the night shall weep! Dark Rain!”

“Dark Rain has begun to pour… the area has become enshrouded in night”

“Whenever MP is used, the same amount of HP will be consumed now”

“07XB85Y is now under the effects of poison”

“07XB85Y is now under the effects of madness”

“07XB85Y is now under the effects of fear”

“07XB85Y is beginning to fall under the effects of petrification”

“Uwauwahuwaa, this is bad, this is bad!”

“… !!”

T-This is really bad! Without status resistances, my allies are affected by this along with my enemies!! Oh no, I’ve gotta get next to Lia-chan!!!

“O abyss, assume my path. Abyss Walker!!”

“You are now under the effects of [Abyss Walker] and NP will be consumed when casting magic”

“Wah!? My broom can’t hold two people, onee-chan!”

“S-Sorry, but Rena-chan-senpai is…!”

“Ah, that’s not good…”

“Nyaaa”

Did I just make this harder for us…? Hm? Come to think of it, is Lia-chan not affected by this Dark Rain…?

“I might not be able to cast my magic like this!”

“Ah, aaaaahh… what am I going to do…”

“07XB785Y used [Panacea] ”

“07XB785Y has been cured of all status effects”

Ah, Rena-chan-senpai… I’m really sorry for giving you so much trouble…

“07XB785Y used [Sniping Shot] ”

“Critical! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV. 75) has taken 30,3000 damage”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] consecutively, dealing a total of 12,000 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale”

“Perseus has negated damage from Moray Bazooka”

Oh, the two of them have begun thrashing it around together… Speaking of which, can it no longer recover from its system error? I mean, it’s stopped trying to resurface. I wonder if it’s because water flooded into its broken shell? Maybe we’ll be able to subdue it like this…?

“It’s so tanky!!!”

“That’s all it is now. It’s over once I shoot it.”

“Woof woof!!! (If we keep hitting it, we can defeat it!)”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] consecutively and dealt a total of 12,000 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

“07XB785Y used [Deadend Shot] ”

“Critical! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has taken 80,000 damage”

“Perseus has negated damage from Moray Bazooka”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] consecutively and dealt a total of 12,000 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

Waah wahh, they’re not letting up at all… but that’s right, if it’s that large and doesn’t move at all, it’s nothing more than a sandbag… uwaauwaauwaa… it’s getting absolutely pummeled…

“Critical! Weak!!! Donta used [Explosive Two-Stage Palm] and dealt a total of 23,200 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

“2 COMBO! Donta used [Raze] Critical! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has taken a total of 7,000 damage”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] consecutively and dealt a total of 12,000 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75)”

“07XB785 used [Cooldown Reset] ”

“07XB785 used [Deadend Shot] ”

“Critical! SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has taken 80,000 damage”

“Perseus used [Magic Greatsword – Hyper Slash] consecutively and dealt a total of 12,000 damage to SS-Rampant Great Whale”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale is detonating! Please evacuate!”

Uwah, we beat it…!! Eh, did I seriously not do anything besides sabotage us this time!? I’m a war criminal… uwooouhh–…

“Let me at least have this… Impede, Bone Shield.”

“All party members are now under the effect of [Bone Shield] ”

“Perseus’ [Penetrate] effect has been lifted”

“Perseus’ [Bone Shield] effect has been lifted”

“Perseus is now under the effect of [Penetrate – 10] ”

“Donta’s [Bone Shield] effect has been lifted”

“Donta used [Vajra] , fortifying his back and reducing damage to 2,000”

Ah, Donta just shielded Rena-chan-senpai under his belly, good job…! Though, even though I get the sense that the percentage of Vajra’s damage cut was remarkable, he still got hit with 2,000… which means that self-destruct must’ve had some insane damage, didn’t it!? Isn’t this whale too much of a trial and error boss for first time challengers!?

“Y-You really saved me there… I got hit 15 times… so if you didn’t cover me with Bone Shield during that, I would’ve been burnt to a cinder…”

“Those status effects, you’re so clumsy”

“Hgh…! Sorry, Rena-chan-senpai…”

“I didn’t die so it’s all good”

“SS-Rampant Great Whale (LV.75) has been defeated. 0 EXP obtained”

“The MVP is 07XB785Y”

I’m really sorry, Rena-chan-senpai. It was so careless of me to use that skill when I never remembered to check out what it even did… I didn’t think it would be a skill that spread status effects that quick and even drained HP upon consuming MP… What’s with this extremely troublesome skill…

“Waowaowoof! (We beat it, we beat it! It got close at the end!)”

“I didn’t do much at all this time around…”

“You figured out early on that absorbing water damage was more than enough! I couldn’t bear to look if it managed to heal near the end!”
“It seemed like a gimmick-type boss? A lot of things fell into place. Miraculously.”

“The real MVP was black cat Luna…”

“… When it comes to me and onee-chan, our companions are more useful, aren’t they”

“It’s my fault you weren’t able to do, much, Lia-chan! I’m really sorry!!”

“Dark Rain, was it? Since it’s an AoE status effect skill, I suppose it doesn’t affect me, well, as long as I had Aegis activated.”

“Same here, I think… is it because of my boss attribute?”

“Woof! (It doesn’t affect me! I’m a boss!)”

“… Is it just me? No status resistances here.”

“That’s normally how it is though…”

“True.”

In any case, that’s a relief… we took down the boss with all of us surviving… I never would’ve thought it’d be a whale, and a mechanical one no less… that was completely outside my expectations…

“Congratulations! You have conquered Ocean Abyss Dungeon!”

“Cleared with 5 party members. A bonus will be distributed for defeating the boss with a 3 person handicap!”

“The reward for defeating the boss has appeared! You may choose up to 4 chests!”

Oh? Ohhh! Right, we get a reward for defeating the boss! Eh what’s this!? It’s even giving us four chests!? Now this is worth getting excited over!

“… Wood, wood, wood, wood.”

“This one’s silver, this one’s certainly wood, another wood, wood, and wood…”

“Ah! There’s a red and gold one over there!”

“Woof!? (Does the red one have food!? I’m hungry!)”

“Red, gold, silver, which one of the wooden ones should we pick…?”

“””…”””

“Does it matter? It’s a wooden one after all.”

“Can’t argue with that…”

“Is this random wooden chest fine then? Yeah? Okay, panpaka”

“Uwah, how rushed!”

” [? Sword] has been obtained”

” [? Spear] has been obtained”

“These are probably gonna be that rusted longsword and broken harpoon, aren’t they…”

“I can’t think of anything else they’d be…”

Hmm, even though they’re rewards from a boss, since we got the jewelry box from the golden whale last time, it’s getting overshadowed…! I guess this is the difference… between a hidden rare monster boss and the proper boss reward… is gold the only thing needed to make it so much better?

“Next, red. Panpaka… ah.”

“Ah! It’s a sausage, isn’t it!?”

“Sausages, there’s 5 of them!”

“I’m naming this the sausage boxxx…. Do we each get one?”

“Indeed! Don-chan, it’s on the smaller side but there are sausages!”

“Wau… woof! (Small… but I’ll still eat it!)”

“Then, I’ll have one too…”

“M-Me too! I’ll have one too!”

“★ Bright Red Fish Sausage has been obtained”

Ooh, so this is the Bright Red Fish Sausage that Donta’s so obsessed with… it’s a smaller-sized one made for humans. I’ll have no problems finishing this one! Down the hatch!

“Stats have slightly increased”

“VIT has increased by +4″

“My VIT went up!”

“As for me, my STR was raised”

“AGI went up by 4”

“My MAG increased by 4!”

“Woofu? (Nothing went up?)”

“… It was probably too small for Donta.”

Ohhh, it went up, it went up. I wonder if it was too miniscule for Donta and that’s why nothing rose for him? Regardless, it seems to be an item that increased a random stat by 4. Could you possibly keep using these and gain unlimited stat increases…? Ah, I left the description window still open. Let’s see.

[★ Bright Red Fish Sausage] (Meal – Legendary)

The infamous Bright Red Fish Sausage! If you eat the whole thing, you’ll get stronger! Please eat it immediately after opening.

Cannot be process – A random stat will increase upon consuming all of it (once each stat) – 10 minute time limit – Weight 0.1kg

Aah… if you eat 6 of them, all of your stats will each go up by +4… Perhaps, since Donta ate a better sausage, all of his stats already increased and that might be why none of them increased this time.

“I’d certainly like to eat the remaining five as well…”

“Mm… hope it drops again.”

“Let’s head back!”

“Eh? We haven’t opened the silver and gold yet!”

“… I forgot.”

“You sure are carefree today!”

“I thought chests were supposed to be more important than your own life.”

“””Only when they’re jewelry boxes”””

“Ah, everyone’s bodies can no longer be satisfied with just gold…”

Anyways, let’s open those silver and gold chests I forgot about and hurry home… Hn… then again, this was meant to be an achievement that would have us jumping for joy!!! It’s a little lacking though, not good enough!

“Mkay, panpaka.”

“Panpaka, indeed”

“Uwah, so nonchalant..!”

“This is what silver chests deserve. Ah, take care of the looting please”

“Attend the looting please…”

“So this is how you guys react when it doesn’t look like anything significant is gonna drop…!”

They just casually opened the silver and gold chests… we’ll never be able to go back now that we’ve tasted the value of jewelry boxes… I get it though, I completely do…

” [? Shield] has been obtained”

” [? Furniture] has been obtained”

” [? Sword] has been obtained”

” [? Axe] has been obtained”

“Proof Of Victor has been obtained”

“Proof Of Monarch has been obtained”

Uwaa, a shabby result… I can’t believe these were boss rewards, and from two chests no less…. I wanna go hunt down some golden whales… I wanna feed on some golden whales again… Should I be reanimating the ☆4 Obliterate Taily Whale with Undead Creation or should I turn it into a fetish…!? Ahh!? That reminds me, since the boss was all mechanical and exploded into pieces, I couldn’t store it in my coffin!! Gaaaaah this boss is completely lacking in tastefulness…!!!

[Machine-type Monsters]

Damage caused by these monsters will always precisely end with the digits, 00. In short, 100 damage or less will always be nullified each attack.

In addition, almost no status effects will work for them. Usually, they’re weak to heat and electricity.

Almost all of them self-destruct when they die. You’ll get EXP if you defeat them before they self-destruct, but if they do manage to explode, you won’t earn any EXP. Basically, they’re troublesome, they’re not worth it, they’re monsters that are quite evilly designed.