BXBX NOVEL Chapter 383
“Kiyat, kiyaaaaaat, kiyaaaaaat—!”
“Damn, now that I say it, I don’t know if this is good or bad-”
Lee Ha raised the item he had taken out to the sky and pulled the trigger.
“―Anyway, let’s go, kid!”
Kuwoooooooooooo!
The flamethrower made from Blaugrun’s remaining dragon heart spewed fire again, and the child’s rough fireball split the air next to the long stream of fire.
“Kiririririt――――――!”
“Kyaaaaaaa! Avoid, avoid! That’s dangerous!”
The harpies, who were falling at high speed with their claws raised, flapped their wings in panic.
At least the monster’s instincts were accurate.
Flamethrower damage 3,000 per second. The range is a whopping 70m.
Kid’s fireball single damage 18,000. Area damage from explosion: 10,000.
This was not a level that a level 170-180 flying monster could handle.
“But it’s late!”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
There is no way to instantly turn your accelerated body back!
Using just one attack turn, the number of Harpies caught by Lee Ha & Little was nine. The following experience points have risen sharply.
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At the time when Iha was coming out of the sacred grill and dyeing the sky of the Red Mountains red, a man and a woman were looking around near the northern border of Minis.
“Is this right?”
“you’re right. Oka-san.”
Chiyo and Sasuke were in a dense forest area that did not fit the mostly flat terrain of Minis.
“Hmm, they say they are wanderers and only go to strange places. Still, if you want to live up to the name, you probably have to go to big cities.”
As they walked a little further, stepping on leaves, something suddenly fell from the sky.
“Jjajajajan! Are you surprised?!”
“…I knew you existed a long time ago.”
He fell from a tall tree while bungee jumping with a rope around his ankle.
As Chiyo’s reaction was not clear, the expression of the user dressed as a clown darkened.
“Ugh, what is it? It’s not fun, it’s not fun! People who aren’t funny should die—”
“Stop.”
The moment the clown user was about to take out the dagger from his pocket, Sasuke, who was next to Chiyo, had already gone behind him and placed a shuriken on his back.
“We just came to see the vice-captain of the Midnight Circus. I’m sure they must have sent a message in advance.”
“Wooheehee! Not just anyone can be an audience member! We are clowns who sell dreams and hope! We will welcome you at a low ticket price of 100 gold!”
100 gold is worth about 10 million won. Of course, it was a small amount for Chiyo, but her expression was dark.
“Stop making silly jokes. Before I feel bad. Could you please tell me that Chiyo from the Shinobigumi has some business to attend to? right now.”
Startle. When the name Chiyo was mentioned, the expression on the face of the clown who had been giggling while hanging upside down hardened.
“Ugh? If it’s Chiyo-”
“Leeha, that’s right. That’s right, that woman is Chiyo.”
Jeopuk, Jeopuk, Jeopuk. Another voice dismissed the commotion. The clown hanging in the air confirmed his identity and shouted.
“―Vice-captain!”
“Tsu-tsu, you’re trying to surprise me like that! It would be more fun to use you instead of the lion. Get the hell out of here!”
“Woohee, yeah, yep!”
The clown who was hanging upside down grabbed the rope and hopped up and disappeared from sight.
Chiyo and Sasuke smiled when they saw the clown approaching through the darkness.
“long time no see? How can you avoid contacting me like this?”
“Leeha! Why should I contact you?”
Chiyo raised her small white hand and gently waved a greeting, but Pitre only smiled and pretended to spit.
“I don’t know why you’re being so harsh again. You said you would contact me if anything good happens.”
“Good things? Leeha! Good things? Don’t you think it’s funny that I belong to a traveling circus? I fully know what happened with the Demon King’s army! The devil army that you encouraged to ‘join’, hehehe! Is that a good thing? If I had listened to you, I think my head would have blown off, right?”
The forces that Chiyo once tried to attach to Faust, and who were difficult to deal with, were Pitre and the Midnight Circus.
In the end, Lee Ha put an end to the situation without becoming a stooge for the Demon King’s army, so fortunately(?) they were able to live without any trouble.
“Keuhum, that, that, you, that! I said I would contact you again if anything good happens next time. How can only good things happen in human affairs 100%? This happens, that happens… As you grow, you make a name for yourself. Isn’t that right?”
“Leeha! No more bullshit, just talk about your business!”
As Pitre cut off Chiyo’s words, Sasuke’s expression hardened.
The reason the two people showed up together was because they couldn’t find the Midnight Circus’ performance tent.
‘I wanted to use this opportunity to mark or confirm the location…’
Pitre is also an assassin with habits ingrained in his bones.
It was natural to never allow outsiders into one’s hideout.
‘Hehe, anyway, this psychopath is annoying to deal with.’
Chiyo also felt bad, but there was nothing she could do.
This is because I heard of an incident where Igor, Faust, and other rankers that his line reaches cannot be used.
“You’ve probably heard that they are recruiting an expeditionary force to the New World, right?”
“of course.”
“I need you to go in there.”
“Leeha, me? I won’t support such an idiot! Playing like a clown without getting paid—”
“You don’t have to do that. If you put your mind to it, you automatically meet the requirements for participation.”
Chiyo smiled innocently, showing her white teeth. Pitre, who was giggling, asked with that big smile on his face.
“What does that mean?”
“This is information we obtained with great difficulty by including members of the Vatican. Are you interested in listening, Mr. Pitre, [descendant of the assassination hero of the Second World War]?”
When Chiyo asked, Pitre was worried.
And after a while.
Exactly!
Boom, boom, boom! As soon as Pitre snapped his fingers, three small fireworks exploded in the distance.
“Uhuhuhu, isn’t the welcoming congratulations too vain?”
“Just be thankful for this much! Leeha!”
Pitre is also a ranker, a self-proclaimed clown and a master assassin.
He is the Vice-Chairman of the Midnight Circus who overtook Biyemi, the strongest assassin in the past, and a ‘descendant of the heroes of the Second Human Demon War’. Despite his strange way of speaking and cackling like a psycho, he is a person with enough judgment not to participate in the Demon King’s Army’s minions. .
It was a natural ability for him to recognize the weight of information brought by Chiyo at a glance.
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“Kiririt, Kiririririt――――――!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaa!” Kyaaaaaaaah!”
“…Are you really not going to come down?”
“man! All men must be killed!”
“Kyaaaa――― It’s true that men can only see what’s in front of them! Without looking back! All creatures that run while looking only ahead must be killed! It’s a characteristic of men to neglect their families because of work!”
“Haaah, it’s not that I can’t turn because I don’t look back… Moreover, the monster is talking like a woman whose husband got hit by something… Men also have their own difficulties- no, that’s enough. What am I talking about with you?”
Lee Ha sighed as he listened to the cries of the harpies coming from behind his head.
The five remaining harpies clearly had the intelligence of a monster with a ‘human upper body’.
‘Damn it, joint sticking: this is the biggest drawback of the lower skill.’
Movement is impossible.
The problem is not simply that movement is impossible.
Since the entire lower back has become stiff, this means that it is virtually impossible to turn the upper body to an angle beyond the range of motion of the lower back.
It meant that I had to just listen to the monsters squealing behind my back like I did now.
“Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
Fuwaaaaaaa! The kid roared and fired a fireball once again, but the harpies were flying monsters, so if they were preparing for the attack, they could easily dodge that much.
“Kiriririt! That bear is also male! All males must be killed!”
“Kyaaaaaat, kyaaaaat!”
The harpies, who had dodged the fireball by spinning like aerobatics, shouted once again.
“Look, I don’t know why you hate men so much, but—hey, I don’t want to talk about it, but I keep saying it. Kid! Watch my back!”
“Guuuuuuuuuuu!”
Lee Ha noticed the huge shadow casting behind his back and examined the corpse at his feet.
The Harpies’ field boss, Aelo, still remained.
“Now, let’s see what items we have.”
〈Rare hat with a gale feather〉
Defense: 980
Effect: Dexterity +15, Buff – Wind Controller
Requirements: Strength 90 or more, Dexterity 1,500 or more
Description: The origin of Aelo, the godmother of the harpies, is ‘gale’. Even the wind spirit holds its breath in front of the feather of the Harpy Mother, who controls all winds.
Additional effect: When composing 5 or more sets, skill – Fly is acquired.
“Oh? It’s a hat. It’s rare… Well, this alone is really good.”
Is it because I’ve seen too many hero and legend levels?
Even after seeing the rare item, which can be considered the highest level item for general users, Lee Ha was upset.
‘The options are just so-so. There is no such thing as increased attack speed or increased movement speed, right? The only thing that is useful is learning the fly? If you just learn that, you can pop in the air! I think I can shoot them… but I have to eat five of them.’
Even the cycle of field bosses appears unclear.
It was easy now because I got a hint about the timing through Ju, but it won’t be that way in the future.
‘More than anything, five… means you have to eat clothes, so you have to take off this coat. Sheesh.’
I have a hero-level coat that I received from Drake, so why should I learn to fly by eating Harpy clothes?
Lee Ha was skeptical about that as well.
“Let’s just change hats. Now that I think about it, the hat was something I ate after killing the kid’s boss.”
Lee Ha took off the hunting cap that was on his head.
A hat that is completely worn out and doesn’t even have the original leather color left.
It was the item eaten after catching the field boss ‘Brown Bear’ and was the first equipment item looted by Lee Ha.
‘It’s a different creature than the brown bear back then… but now it’s my soul mate, won.’
Lee Ha felt a warm energy behind his back and felt something strange.
“Great! I like the explanation too! Let’s try using the wind spirit or something!”
The brim is slightly shorter and rounder than the fedora worn by Browless or Kid.
However, Lee Ha put a much more stylish hat on his head, with a single feather on the side as an accent.
Hwaaaaa…!
Lee Ha grinned as he looked at the blue mana surrounding his body.
‘okay. Then, what is the buff?-‘
〈The Wind Controller〉
Description: The secret to Aelo’s feathers being fired without any deviation even in the face of strong gusts of wind.
Effect: Wind speed and direction are not applied to the projectile target
(Effect only occurs when the combat assistance system is not applied)
Open the description window for the buff and read the following. Meticulously.
“uh?”
It was natural for his eyes to widen.
“Uh, huh?”
The harpies were still cackling and screaming from high above their heads, but no sound could be heard from now on.
This is because I understood exactly what the buff meant.
“Crazy, awesome!”
This means that all objects fired using ranged weapons are not affected by wind! Of course, it may be attractive to other users, but it may be a useless buff.
‘Because it only applies when the combat assistance system is turned off! It is rare for an original dealer to give up his range just to ignore wind direction and speed!’
Why bother turning off the combat assistance system that automatically fires and has accuracy at the range indicated in the weapon’s description?
I’ve seen the following, but it’s no exaggeration to say that there are very few users like that.
Occasionally, users were seen using weapons they had personally used in real life, such as ranker-level weapons or famous outsider-level weapons, or users who had regained their range through hard work within Middle Earth.
‘But – but to me – this is completely…’
Lee Ha held up the Black Bass while standing.