BXBX NOVEL Chapter 37
“Run! Don’t talk!”
“No, look! Didn’t someone shoot?”
“What do you mean shoot? What the-? No, someone shot it? Oh!”
And then they realized… they heard a loud bang…
Petal Kim and his party members stopped. It was a distance away, but the sound and smoke were clearly visible.
‘What is it? Was that person a musketeer?’
Whether it was a rod or a spear. They didn’t see the weapon properly.
However, hearing the gunshots, and smoke, they could guess the job of the person.
‘If he was a musketeer, they would have asked him to join the party…’
Unlike other ranged dealers, Musketeers had the highest attack power in a single shot. It’s almost useless if it was not like this.
Petal Kim hesitated, but he was still skeptical.
The raid team had already been disbanded, and there were too many dead users.
‘And then he came? If I use that guy, will I be able to catch it?’
The spark of hope was on the verge of extinguishing. There was still some
expectation left.
“W-where did he shoot? Did it hit?”
“The head! I guess it hit! The brown bear is wandering around now!” The user with a spear exclaimed with excitement.
“Amazing. How did he hit it in the head? Do
guns have long-range originally?”
“N-no! Did it hit the head? Did you see it properly? Isn’t the musket’s accuracy terrible?”
“I saw it clearly. Because the brown bear’s head leaned back. Isn’t it a critical hit if it got hit in the head? If we work together with that person, shouldn’t we be able to catch it?”
The other party members had somewhat excited expressions on their faces.
Even if that musketeer user succeeded in hunting, the distribution of rewards depended on the degree of contribution. They would certainly be given a chance to get some items and experience points.
However, Petal Kim’s expression was dark.
“Don’t speak nonsense and run.”
“It was shot in the head.”
“Ah, yes. Incredible. He was lucky enough to miraculously pull that off. But that’s it.”
Petal Kim shook his head and turned back.
“What? Why?”
“Musketeers take 2 minutes to reload.”
“Huh? 2 minutes?”
“Yeah! So, to shoot again…”
Waaaahh—!!!
At that moment, Agonia Oso roared again.
“Let’s run!”
Petal Kim also saw it. The Musketeer user flinched and stopped in place. What was the end of a Musketeer who was in the abnormal status of “fear”? It would be good for your mental health not to see it.
[Agonia Oso used ‘Roar’.]
[You are in a state of ‘Fear.’]
[You cannot move for 2 minutes.]
[Total HP is reduced by 10%.]
[The stamina is reduced to less than 30%.]
“Huh?”
Is this right? Did it hit the head properly? It’s outside of 70m, but he could tell. The figure of a bear tilting its head, a certain sense of hitting it.
Yes, it got it. So?
Leeha’s bullet hit the Giant Brown Bear, the Agonia Oso’s head, however, it was an attack that could not cause instakill.
The overconfidence that Leeha felt immediately
melted away.
He expected that hitting it in the head would trigger an instakill.
It was all just Leeha’s pride. The Brown Bear is said to be the strongest field boss in the low-level zone. In the first place, it wasn’t a monster that a level 12 user could catch.
‘Even if it wasn’t an instakill, didn’t it deal huge damage? It didn’t? Is the field boss that strong?’
Another point he overlooked was that the hardest bone of a bear was the skull. In fact, bear hunters didn’t target their heads.
In other words, Leeha’s bullet penetrated the tough skin and touched the bone, however it did not pierce the bone. And now he had to pay the price of overconfidence and pride.
“Damn, I need to reload quickly.” His body couldn’t move. Paralysis caused by fear for a whopping 2 minutes. It was enough time for a burning bear the size of an elephant to traverse 70m.
“Help! The shield party from before! Did you say you were Petal Kim? Are you watching right now? I can deal damage! If you can pull its aggro!”
Leeha shouted without even turning his head.
Although it was only at the level of passing
each other, he thought that Petal Kim should have seen how he hit the brown bear.
And if he saw it? He would know that the attack worked, wouldn’t they join forces with Leeha and try to hunt that brown bear again?
However, no response was heard.
Kuuung–!
Could it be said that he was grateful for his misfortune?
The brown bear couldn’t find who shot it, so he was still alive.
However, the bear’s rampage, which had become more violent due to the pain it felt in its head, made the viewer feel numb.
“Oh, ah ah ah!”
“Why is that damned bear so fast! Save m-”
“Q-q-quick! My arm is torn, aakk!”
If they had known that the Fear effect would double when they turned their back on the Agonia Oso, they would have faced it head-on.
The paralyzed raid members were ripped, torn, burned, and forcibly logged out.
Five users suffered from paralysis for two minutes.
Now there were only four users left.
‘It must have been attracted to my aggro already, and I can’t run away against that speed. If it goes like this…’
Leeha immediately reloaded. The first shot was filled with arrogance, but what about the second shot? Will he be able to survive even if he put bullets in the bear’s head?
His reload speed was faster than ever.
‘Don’t be nervous. It’s okay. Isn’t it just dying?’
Dying was scary, however, Leeha composed himself and lifted his musket once again. The bear that pursued him ran while digging through the ground with a kududuk sound.
With its huge size, there were a lot of places that could be hit.
However, there was only one place that Leeha was aiming for.
“Haa, haa.”
A drop of sweat tickled his eyebrows.
Taaang—!
The sound of the gun stopped the running users in their tracks.
“Again! He hit it again!”
Looking back, the lancer expressed his admiration and implied something to Petal Kim.
He didn’t say it, however, there was an unspoken pressure to keep watching. Of course, he wasn’t thinking of wanting to get Leeha.
It was a judgment based on the idea that if he did well, he could share his profits with them.
“The second shot also hit the head!”
“Wow, this is my first time seeing a dealer like that. I am recording the hunt, I can get some pocket money if I upload this on the internet.
“By the way, how did he do it? It’s also interesting that he could shoot a musket from far away, and both hit accurately. Crossbows aren’t that accurate either.”
The bear’s head tilted and blood could even be seen splattering. The bleeding was severe.
Perhaps, it was severe enough that there was a possibility of it dying.
However, the Argonia Oso was making another victim while going berserk.
“Party Leader-nim, are we not really going to help? He hit it in the head twice! We just have to go and finish it!”
“Haa… Do you think we can catch it if we go?”
“What?”
It’s not like Petal Kim didn’t know what the party members were thinking, or that he wasn’t getting greedy. He knew how good the leather items of Agonia Oso were.
“Right now the surrounding users are acting as shields, while that person shoots. There are only three users left now. If all of them die, then it is the Musketeer’s turn to die.
“So before that, we just have to help out! You should be able to tan-”
“You make it sound easy.”
Petal Kim’s voice was cold.
“Oh, t-that, you see…”
It was only then that Lancer noticed. Whose shield was broken by Agonia Oso’s attack?
Who was the first to stop the attack and throw it away?
Lancer himself dodged and avoided it, so he did not know.
“I set the assimilation rate to 40%, trying to stop it well. Who has a higher assimilation than me?” Petal Kim said quietly, but his party member knew what he meant.
“If we intervene now, should I die first? We just need to catch it before its flames activate, but it’s already activated… It could be said that the level of difficulty has increased from the start. But you want to catch it by ourselves, when we failed even with 20 people? I have a completely broken shield right now, and if I break another item here, who will pay for it?”
No one could answer.
“Let’s go back quickly. I’m sorry for that
Musketeer, but let’s go back and organize another raid again. More organized this time.”
“Then, we will abandon that user and go to the village?”
“I gave him advice earlier. It’s his fault for not running away and shooting instead.”
Petal Kim was cold, but he made a clear decision.
‘It’s amazing that his accuracy rate is high, but he is low level. It is already too late to help him.
‘But how did he manage to hit it? That’s interesting.’
Petal Kim and the party members saw how amazing the musketeer was. “Ah… The brown bear bastard spewed fire. The last user died. The brown bear is approaching the musketeer now.”
“Uh, uh, run away. I think he gave up in the end.”
“If he runs away, he can’t reload, right?”
“Yeah. Now, that person will die as well. Leeha was running away without lifting his gun. And the giant Brown Bear chased after Leeha. Now, Petal Kim and his party members were able to predict Leeha’s end. It was just a waste of time to watch any more of this.
“Let’s go! That person will die anyway, so let’s go!”
“Okay. We’ll come back and catch it.”
The Lancer also turned around.
“Run quickly! If we run to the village at full speed, we can fight with that bastard again within an hour as long as the users gather in the village within 30 minutes.”
“Let’s go, let’s go!”
Petal Kim’s party members headed to the village like they had already caught Agonia Oso.
Anyway, it was because all their party members were alive, and thanks to the musketeer, the giant Brown Bear was now in the state of near death.
If they went to the village and gathered a small group of people, they would be able to attack this time.
‘Musketeer’s equipment and money… Kuk
Kuk. It can’t be helped. Life is all about timing.’
They would arrive at the village by the time their stamina had dropped thrice.
“Is it really a Brown Bear?”
“Can’t you see the screenshot? We confirmed the location of the brown bear. We failed because we only had 20 people before, but this time it will be unconditionally successful. Ask our Party Leader.”
“Is it real?”
The doubtful users’ eyes turned to Petal Kim.
What did he have to say? Judging that it would
be better to show it, Petal Kim raised his shield with the bear’s nail marks deeply indented.
“Amazing… No, that’s the toenail marks? How could that be a toenail when it’s as wide as a person’s forearm?”
“It’s actually that big. Level 27 or higher! Stand in line quickly, we need one tanker, thirteen dealers, and five healers, first come first served! If you don’t follow the instructions, your party will be kicked out and you will be reported to the community blacklist.”
It took less than 5 minutes for Petal Kim’s party to gather 25 additional people.
Contrary to Leeha’s expectation, the number of users in the village used as an intermediate rest area was high.
“Let’s go! Don’t fall behind, and if a brown bear appears, fight the way I said earlier!”
It wasn’t a roughly organized party. This time,
Petal Kim’s original party members were also encouraging and teaching others how to hunt it.
A raid team with 30 people, adding to the
original Petal Kim’s 5 party members.
Thirty users with a definite purpose started running while using their stamina generously.
About 30 minutes later, the raid team stood at the original location.
“Waa… Amazing.”
“The field boss looks like a field boss.”
“Crazy, look at this footprint. Amazing.”
The tragic traces remained intact. There were no corpses after more than an hour had passed, but the damaged terrain was not restored until the last raid users arrived.
(To be continued…)