Vampire Princess Guide in Progress - Volume 1 Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Ice Crystal Colossus Golem

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With a giant body, the monster took slow and heavy steps, continuously advancing toward them.

In the increasingly thick snow and fog, it was momentarily difficult to discern direction. Even the intense tremors from the ground seemed to come from all around, with a massive shadow appearing and disappearing in the snowy mist.

Suddenly, the snow layer in front of them was violently lifted, and a square-shaped enormous shadow loomed over them as they quickly moved on the deer spirit.

In an instant, the crisis awareness in Tilia’s mind rang loudly, almost causing every pore on her body to stand up. The black pupils of her eyes shot out red lightning as she immediately raised her head and shouted: “Quick, dodge!”

“I know!!!” Cross was so nervous her heart was about to jump out of her chest, immediately pulling hard on the deer spirit to dash to one side.

With a thunderous boom, the giant’s foot landed where they had been just a second ago. The ensuing gust of wind nearly blew the two girls into the air, and a sheet of white obscured their vision.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, as Tilia raised her arm to block the wind, she also clearly saw the giant foot, a cubic block of ice crystal, negating her earlier notion that this was some kind of living creature.

If they had been stepped on just now, would they have died instantly?

Tilia’s heart was racing, perhaps still bound by the death rules within the game, causing her heart rate to spike in such a crisis. Having already died once, she had experienced that cold fear before.

But she also felt something excited stirring within her, her pupils almost instinctively turning red.

“Damn it, let me test how strong you are!”

Tilia gripped her blood scythe tightly, a blue quality 【Rose Scythe+4】, which she had obtained from the Ruin Dungeon during the closed beta. Combined with her stat values now far exceeding the floor’s monster levels, perhaps she could cut down this mysterious giant!

【Rose Scythe (Blue)】

【Magic +180, Physical Attack +50, Critical Rate +20%】

【Special Effect: Each attack that doesn’t critical hit adds an additional 20% critical rate, stacking up to 100%, resets after landing a critical hit】

【Enhancement Bonus: Magic +72】

The blood scythe in her hand emitted a crimson glow, and with a fierce swing, a crescent-shaped magical blade light shot out toward the giant monster, striking its leg with a sound of shattering ice crystals.

【HP-1226】!

A line of numbers floated above the damaged area.

The unfamiliar number made Tilia narrow her eyes in disbelief. Her basic magic attack value was already over 2,000, and although this attack was considered a basic attack, it still had a 150% multiplier.

Could this thing’s magic resistance be so high that it reduced the actual damage to only 1,200 points?

When she looked up to check the giant monster’s level and HP value, she couldn’t find them anywhere, likely displayed near its head, but due to the poor visibility in the snow and fog, she couldn’t tell how much of its health bar had been depleted by her attack.

【HP-1126】!

【HP-1326】!

【Critical! HP-1947】!

Noticing that Tilia was attacking the colossus, Cross, who was controlling the deer spirit, immediately asked from ahead: “Are we fighting this thing? Do you need help? I can also…”

“No, no need. Cross, just focus on controlling the deer spirit. The deer spirit will disappear once it enters combat mode, right?”

“Y-yes…”

“Let’s not engage this strange giant monster for now. If we lose the deer spirit’s movement speed, we’ll be in a more troublesome situation. So Cross, just handle the positioning, I’m just trying to probe it.”

“Okay!” Cross immediately nodded in agreement, focusing on controlling the deer spirit and cautiously observing the surroundings.

That foot just now seemed to be the giant monster’s left foot, so next would be its right foot.

The right foot, relatively speaking, would be on their left!

Sure enough, the ice crystal colossus raised its foot again, consistent with Cross’s prediction of where it would land. She immediately controlled the deer spirit to make a light jump, performing a graceful second jump in mid-air with all four hooves, once again avoiding the dangerous attack.

“Tilia, we’re going to pass under it!”

“Mm! Just rush through, this thing seems to have no aggro target, it hasn’t noticed us.”

Tilia continued attacking the ice crystal colossus, conservatively estimating she had dealt over ten thousand points of damage.

Yet the colossus seemed completely unaffected, only shedding some ice crystals. It was impossible to imagine how much HP it had, conservatively estimated at over a hundred thousand, which would be more than the second floor boss.

Was it a magical construct? A golem?

With such high magic resistance, and being an elemental being.

If not created by nature, it could only be a product of magic. For such a huge body, how much magical energy would be required? So tough, it was just like a war machine from epic novels or anime.

Could this be related to the “change of ownership” of the third floor mentioned by the little maid calling herself Feeko last night?

During the closed beta, there was nothing like this. The floor boss was the Winter Ice Wolf King, which was already the strongest boss. Fortunately, this ice crystal colossus had relatively weak offensive capabilities, even though Tilia had attacked it so many times, she hadn’t provoked it.

The deer spirit quickly passed under the ice crystal colossus, and the two girls diverged from its advancing path, with the footsteps gradually fading behind them.

After avoiding the ice crystal colossus, along the way, they began to see numerous red crystal clusters appearing on the ground, these were the “tombstones” left by players who had died in this game.

It seemed that among the first batch of players who explored the snowy area, some had not been able to return and were forever buried here.

Without a doubt, the colossus was responsible.

Damn… With the current equipment and levels, pioneer players shouldn’t die so easily on the third floor. The experience from the closed beta was largely inapplicable now, let alone the fourth floor, which almost no one had reached.

Compared to the threat of numbers, the threat of the unknown is always the most terrifying.

“There are so many people who…”

Cross’s face turned pale as she looked at the red crystal clusters that appeared from time to time on the ground.

“Yes. We must inform the people behind us about this on the World Channel. Starting today, many pioneer players will likely come to the third floor. We must tell them about this colossus wandering around the snowy area.”

“Also, Tilia, my mana value (MP) is running low. The deer spirit won’t last much longer.”

Cross looked at her 【MP: 42/320】 bar flashing with an urgent red light. The emergency evasion maneuvers and mid-air double jumps she had performed while controlling the deer spirit had accelerated her MP consumption, and now it was almost depleted.

However, they had already passed through the most intense part of the snow and wind, and the view ahead had cleared up.

Tilia gazed ahead and then pointed to a cave beneath the snow: “Let’s go rest over there. The third floor doesn’t have safe zones like small towns, but there are caves similar to ‘survivor camps’ where we can temporarily stop.”

— Meanwhile.

The Silly Group Friends Guild members were about to enter the snowy area in the distance.

“Haa, haa… Guildmaster, we really can’t catch up. They have mounts, and we only have a pair of legs that are about to break.”

“I can’t go on, I can’t continue. We simply can’t catch up. It’s not just that we’re eating their dust, we can’t even see the dust. Why don’t we find some transportation too, like huskies pulling sleds or something?”

“Idiot, how could there be such a thing!”

“Why not? How about we capture an Ice Plains Wolf to pull our sled? Damn, I’m a genius!”

Just as everyone was resting with hands on knees, exhausted like huskies, a violent tremor suddenly came from the ground. The huge shadow in the snow fog made everyone freeze, lifting their heads with mouths agape in shock.

It was exactly like Eren’s expression when he first saw the titans beyond the high walls.

“Holy shit… a Gundam. This game has Gundams? Can I pilot it?”

“What are you staring at!? Are you an idiot? It’s coming toward us, run the hell away!”

Before he could react, Yezi turned his head to see that all his teammates were already running away. Those who had just said they couldn’t move another step had transformed into athletes, their faces contorted in exaggerated expressions as they sprinted.

Only now did he finally realize what was happening, quickly taking to his heels in fear.

“My god! Wait for me! Damn, what kind of monster is this? Those two girls didn’t get killed, did they?”

“You still have the mind to worry about others? We’re about to be caught! We’re about to be caught!”

“Because those two girls were actually quite cute, especially the black stockings white-haired girl who was really beautiful! I wanted to add her as a friend!”

“So that’s why you were chasing them!?”

Yezi secretly cast a speed-boosting spell on himself and sprinted alongside his teammates in a desperate hundred-meter dash. Suddenly, looking around, he realized that among the seven guild members, someone seemed to be missing, and his heart sank.

Not good, someone had fallen behind! No, this won’t do. No matter what, he couldn’t let a group friend die here!

They had promised to survive and clear the game together.

Hadn’t they promised to continue flooding the chat group in real life and meet up offline?

Abandoning teammates to escape alone was something…

He, Yezi, could not do!

“Where’s the guildmaster? I don’t see him. The guildmaster isn’t staying behind to cover us, is he? Brothers, we absolutely cannot abandon him to die!!!”

“…”

“— Because the guildmaster was the first to run awaaaay!”

“— Damn it, give me back my teaaaaars!”