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Phase 2
A sinkhole at the end of a secret passage.
“···.”
Jinseong Kim was standing right in front of him, looking down without saying a word.
Many beings possessing enormous amounts of mana were writhing beneath their feet. It is probably the stem of a Porgynei plant.
‘If you enter this time, you must see the end.’
It’s already been 6 days since the preliminaries started.
The time was already pointing to noon. Considering that we fought for almost the entire day last time, this time we will have to fight at least until the sun completely sets.
In other words, if you fail this time, you should just give up the hunt and prepare to escape the next day.
‘Preparations are complete.’
I gained some good traits and skills last night, entered the secret passage, and slept well.
I ate well for both dinner and breakfast, and I am standing here after completing all the hunting required for the ‘Animal Transformation Art’.
I also checked the potions in my pocket one more time. There was nothing more to prepare now.
‘then···. let’s go!’
Jinseong Kim jumped into the sinkhole.
After that, it fell down to the bottom as if it were diving.
As the plant stem flew toward Jinseong Kim, the sound of it hitting the wall was heard, but in any case, Jinseong Kim was able to land safely on the floor.
Gooooo…!
A chilling sound coming from Porgynei’s huge mouth.
At the same time, numerous plant stems around began to fly towards Kim Jin-seong one after another.
Jinseong Kim used the skill right away.
▶ I used the skill ‘Animal Transformation’.
At the same time, Kim Jin-seong’s appearance changed to resemble a four-legged black dog.
An animal that no player who has survived until now can never know about… no, a monster.
It was a dark hound.
▶ Transformed into a ‘Dark Hound’.
▷ Ability value change: Agility value increases by 20%, remaining abilities decrease by 20%.
As soon as the notification window popped up, Kim Jin-seong, who turned into a dark hound, kicked out of his place.
Bang on the spot where he was standing! And the plant stem was stuck.
Starting with that, Kim Jin-seong began to focus on avoiding all attacks.
The situation was the same as last time, but now that his agility was much faster, he was dodging attacks much more reliably than before.
‘I’m glad I can transform into a monster.’
Honestly, if I hadn’t been able to transform into a monster, I wouldn’t have had any reward from obtaining the ‘Animal Transformation’ skill.
The ridge was full of monsters and it was difficult to even see animals.
However, Kim Jin-seong quickly learned that he could turn into a monster, and from then on, he didn’t even pay attention to animals he found.
‘I don’t know why the man yesterday never thought about turning into a monster.’
Isn’t it a fact that even three-year-old children these days know that monsters have much better physical abilities than animals?
If yesterday’s opponent had continued to transform into a monster instead of an animal, he might have had a much harder time.
‘Why is that so? Well, I’m not the only one who can transform into a monster…’
···I don’t know the reason, but whatever the case, ‘animal transformation’ is now in Kim Jin-seong’s hands.
‘First of all, among the monsters I encountered on this island, I have never seen one as fast as this dark hound.’
thud!
Kim Jin-seong continued to avoid fierce attacks from flying plant stems.
Plant stems were flying endlessly, but I wasn’t scared at all anymore. Now that I had transformed into a dark hound, I was confident that I would never get hit even once.
However, if the opponent only had to avoid plant stem attacks, Kim Jin-seong would not have struggled so much before.
‘The real name is Garuda!’
Soon, Kim Jin-seong could see a huge amount of powder being sprayed from Porginae’s huge mouth.
Just before the powder touched Jinseong Kim, he used his skill right away.
▶ I used the skill ‘Unobstructable Charge’.
▶ Agility level increases by 20% for 1 minute.
▶ I have become immune to a physical condition.
▶ Because you are immune to physical abnormalities, you will not be affected by the condition ‘blindness’.
‘Now is the time.’
As soon as Kim Jin-seong used the skill, he immediately jumped towards Porgynay’s head.
I realized yesterday while fighting that it does not attack with plant stems at this timing when it sprays powder.
Jinseong Kim used two skills in succession while floating near his head.
▶ I used the skill ‘Neutralization’.
▶ I used my skill ‘Confusion’.
Then Porgynei’s huge head began to sway back and forth helplessly.
After confirming that he had been affected by the confusion skill, Jinseong Kim immediately returned to his human form.
Afterwards, I grabbed the handle of the sword that was in the scabbard.
▶ I used my skill ‘Baldo’.
Soon, Kim Jin-seong’s sword swung at the speed of light toward the central stem in front.
At the same time, the black mana surrounding the entire sword turned into a flame.
Wow!
Grumble!
The large cut on the central stem began to burn with fiery mana.
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Kim Jin-seong, who landed on the other side, transformed into a dark hound again and prayed inwardly.
‘Please make it work, please!’
After a few seconds, Porginay’s head, which had been shaking constantly, stopped whistling. The confusion skill has ended.
Porginae swings the plant stem again and attacks Jinseong Kim.
Kim Jin-seong jumped and dodged the attacks, but his gaze continued to be fixed on the wound on the central stem.
‘I don’t think it’s playing?’
Kim Jin-seong was not mistaken.
The deep cut was still on fire, and perhaps because of that, it did not appear to regenerate immediately like last time.
‘It’s definitely a plant monster, so it appears to be weak to fire.’
In fact, it’s natural considering the compatibility, but since it’s such a huge and strong boss-level monster, I was worried that what would happen if it didn’t work.
But now, I have personally confirmed that fire attacks definitely work.
‘Then just keep attacking before the fire goes out!’
Kim Jin-seong, seeing hope, continued to avoid stem attacks and measured his timing.
Soon, when a lot more stalks than usual attacked at once, Kim Jin-seong chose to rush in after using the ‘transformation technique’.
And the choice was right.
Another plant stem was unable to attack him as it floated in the air until he used the ‘Nullify’ and ‘Confusion’ skills again.
Kim Jin-seong used the firing skill again with a sword covered in flames.
Wow!
The central stem, which had not recovered from the wound due to the flames, was cut deeper than before, and the embers that had just been extinguished came to life again and began to burn brightly.
‘good! Now I just have to cut it one more time…!’
The central stem on the wound side is only attached to exactly 1/3 of it.
The moment he confirmed that just cutting that thing was the end, Jinseong Kim squeezed out his mana once again.
I wanted to end it now, without having to wait for another timing.
“die!”
Kim Jin-seong used the kicking skill again while falling to the floor on the other side.
The black mana surrounding the swinging sword flew out in a half-moon shape.
The half-moon made of demonic energy flew exactly towards the wound in the central stem,
Pow!
With a tearing sound, the remaining central stem was completely cut off.
“Cut it!!”
At the same time as Kim Jin-seong shouted with joy, his eyes caught the sight of the huge flower that was the head of the Porgynei falling helplessly into a deep hole in the center.
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– and!
– Cut it!
– I won!!!
– Jinseong Kim! Jinseong Kim! Jinseong Kim! Jinseong Kim! Jinseong Kim!
– Are you really going to win this?!
– What did I just see…?
The chat window was filled with cheers and shock.
[I cut it! Cut it! Jinseong Kim cut off the thick central stem of Porgynei!]
[Heh…heh! Hehehe… I can’t believe it. I can’t speak. Hehehe…!]
[Everyone, can you believe it? I can’t believe it either! Jinseong Kim! I defeated the legendary plant monster Porgynei by myself!]
The caster stands up and shouts at the top of his lungs, and the commentator is so shocked that he just laughs.
“Wow!”
“Kim Jin-seong is alive!”
“hurray! “It was a huge hit!”
“Where is the iTube representative? Upload as soon as you finish editing! “Forget the inspection!”
The employees also cheered in unison at Kim Jin-seong’s victory.
Aren’t the executives here probably the ones on the planet who wanted Kim Jin-seong’s survival the most?
“Focus!!”
At that time, Baekjun’s angry command came from behind.
Even though everyone turned around in surprise, Baekjun still had his eyes fixed on the monitor.
“It’s not over yet.”
As Baekjun continued, the employees’ heads reflexively turned toward the monitor.
“···uh?”
“omg?”
“what?!”
And everyone shouted in astonishment.
I witnessed something growing rapidly from the cut central stem of Porgynei.
– ?
– ???
– What’s growing again?
– What, you’re not dead?
– Isn’t that a flower bud?
The reactions of the cheering viewers also changed in an instant.
Meanwhile, the flower bud-shaped flower, which grew rapidly, soon began to spread its petals.
The head of the new Porgynei has spread out dark black petals instead of the white ones from before.
Baek Jun looked at it and thought to himself.
‘It was said that even 150 years ago, many unwary hunters were killed in droves due to an unexpected two-phase transformation.’
There is a record that back then, just like now, it looked like it had spread out huge black petals.
‘It’s important from now on. There is a high possibility that even Kim Jin-seong could not have predicted Phase 2 at all.’
Baekjun looked at Jinseong Kim on the monitor with a nervous face.
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“···oh my god.”
Jinseong Kim felt like he wanted to scream while holding his head.
I was sure that I had killed it after cutting off the head, but what did that newly bloomed black flower mean?
‘It’s not even a game, but a living creature changes into a two-phase pattern?!’
When defeating a boss in an RPG game, it is common for the pattern to change to Phase 2 or Phase 3.
However, in reality, Kim Jin-seong has never heard or seen a case of being reborn in Phase 2.
Gooooo!!
From the mouth of the center of the newly created giant black flower, a much more eerie and loud sound than before burst out.
At the same time, a huge amount of powder is sprayed from the mouth…
‘shit!’
Kim Jin-seong, who saw a much larger amount than before, did not even think about saving mana and immediately used the ‘Unobstructable Charge’ skill.
After a while, powder covered Kim Jin-seong’s whole body,
‘uh···?’
At the same time, Kim Jin-seong was embarrassed.
Suddenly, my eyelids began to slowly close.
The reason could be confirmed through the notification window that appeared before my eyes.
▶ I fell into a ‘sleep’ state.
‘Damn it! Wasn’t it blinding powder?’
I used the skill thinking it was the blinding powder I had experienced so far, but it turned out to be a new pattern called sleeping powder.
Sleep Powder is a mental status abnormality, so even the ‘Unobstructable Charge’ skill does not make it immune.
‘This is a big deal!’
Kim Jin-seong felt a sense of crisis and began to react reflexively.
After taking out the condition recovery potion and pouring it into my mouth, I immediately transformed into a dark hound and tried to jump as high as possible.
But it was too late.
puck!
“Ugh…!”
Just over a second of drinking the abnormal status potion ended up being fatal for Jinseong Kim.
Kim Jin-seong’s new model was hit by a plant stem and flew far to the side.
Kim Jin-seong gritted his teeth and somehow tried to turn his body in the air and land safely.
But at an amazing moment, roots came up from the bottom.
puck! Puff!
“Wow!”
Kim Jin-seong, who was repeatedly hit by rising roots, began to fall helplessly, spitting out blood from his mouth.
Unfortunately, the place where he fell was inside a deep hole in the center.
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– oh···!
– iced coffee···!
[ah!]
[ah···!]
“Aaaah!”
“no!”
“Ah… it’s ruined.”
Viewers, commentators, and monitor room staff all sighed at the same time.
“If you fall, will you fall into that hole?”
“Isn’t there a camera over there?”
“yes. “The roots of the Porgynei that were installed were all destroyed…”
The employees are talking with despairing expressions while looking at the hole in the center where Kim Jin-seong fell.
This time, Baekjun also looked disappointed.
‘I couldn’t believe it fell into the place where Porgynei’s roots are embedded…’
If this continues, the chances of Kim Jin-seong surviving are very slim.
The attack power of Porginae’s living roots cannot be ignored, but there was an even bigger reason.
‘The bottom where the roots are embedded must be completely covered with demonic energy.’
All monsters possess magical energy. The biggest difference from ordinary animals is the presence or absence of demonic energy in the body.
In general, animal-type monsters tend to have a lot of magical energy concentrated in their brains and hearts.
So where are the brain and heart of the plant monster Porginae?
The brain can be seen as the part of a huge black flower that has just grown, and the heart is, of course, the root part that supports the entire stem.
‘The problem is that the magic energy that Porgynai possesses is not normal.’
Even though Porgyne has grown much weaker than the real one 150 years ago due to genetic manipulation, it still possesses an enormous amount of magical power that an ordinary human body could never withstand.
And Kim Jin-seong fell towards the root, which can be seen as the source of the demonic energy.
fantasy,
