Chapter 215: Source of Corruption 4
TL/Editor: Raei
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The more I learn about the character Roland, the more I wonder what is going on in the minds of the creators.
One of the most overpowered skills in Heroines Chronicle,
'Ignore All Damage Reduction Skills' how does a tank have this?
A tank with a skill that completely disregards damage reduction passives, bodyguard abilities that take damage in place of allies, and even the priests protective shields and defensive buffs.N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.
It strikes the opponent's bare body with a ruthless single-target extreme damage skill.
I can't fathom the reason a tank has this dealer-exclusive special ability, but it easily ignored the boss's barrier that nullified physical damage.
{What, what is this, exactly?}
Nevertheless, the boss is still a boss, barely alive with a crack on its skull, demonstrating that the difficulty has indeed increased from the 40th floor.
Despite being continuously beaten, it still clings to life.
After all, even in an easy game, it's only in the early stages that a tank can solo a boss.
Thanks to this, I had the opportunity to get used to wielding a great sword, not a hammer, against the skeleton punching bag.
With the temple's joining and the creation of a safe floor, changing the field itself, trying to one-shot one-kill the boss as a tank character was a bit shameless.
Of course, I had transformed into a damage dealer, but the opponent was also a boss.
{What? How did my barrier...?}
The duration was about 5 minutes, and the cooldown was probably 24 hours.
In that brief yet long time, the skeleton, beaten like a dog, lay strewn on the ground.
Only its skull remained.
The necromancer robe, which had enveloped the gaunt skeleton, couldn't withstand the burning aura and turned to a pinch of ash, while its bony body also disintegrated into dust, merging with the dirt of the open field.
All that remained was the jaw-clacking skull, its voice-emitting staff, and Han Se-ah's camera, which had returned at some point and was filming everything.
"Phew, you're quite resilient. How can a necromancer be so sturdy?"
{Where do you think the life force, refined from divine energy, resides?!}
The creature retorted to my muttering as if it felt wronged.
It was furious, maybe it felt the word 'sturdy' was crude and barbaric.
Perhaps it's because the doppelganger army is gone that he ended up with all these bug-like specs.
Does this mean I should really follow the quest line properly from now on?
I can summon Durandal for 5 minutes a day with 'Bloodline of Hector', but soloing bosses doesn't seem like a good idea.
Although an unknown entity intervened to give me this skill through a quest, it's unlikely this will keep happening on the 50th, 60th floors, and so on.
The overpowered sturdiness of 6 'Paladin' Roland works even on the 40th floor, but relying solely on brute attacks enhanced with mana without a decent offensive skill is becoming less effective.
Regular monsters might be as easy as eating cake, but boss monsters are not just cakes they're more like giant wedding cakes, at least 3 meters high.
"Roland, Sir Roland!"
"Hmm?"
{How dare the dogs of the Goddess come here?}
While I was thinking this and lightly tapping the skull with my returned warhammer and shield, a booming voice echoed.
Turning around, I saw something white soaring through the air from the slope... or rather, plummeting.
"Prepare the sacred rites, we'll fill this space!"
"In the name of the Goddess, the 40th floor shall be purified!"
I thought I'd just take the skull to the Magic Tower and that would be it, used for gate research or something.
I never expected thousands of frenzied devotees to swarm in.
Robust temple knights fell like meteors wrapped in divine energy.
Priests and nuns, holding relics, turned the treacherous slopes of the abyss into a pilgrimage route, advancing as if to conduct a holy war on the 35th floor.
"A sacred ceremony, it's a sacred ceremony!"
"Ah, ahhh! How foolish of me, not to understand your will"
The Mouth of Calamity.
Even a decayed skull without a tongue is a portal for disaster, proving the ancient sage's words true.
This situation arose because the skull, which cursed the temple knights upon seeing them, proudly boasted about creating the giant tree on the 35th floor.
A vile tree, disrespecting divine energy declared as the target of a holy war.
After destroying it, I, proclaimed as the sword of the holy war, captured the vile necromancer who created the tree.
And that's what led to this situation.
"Thank you, thank you, Sir Roland!"
"Goddess, please forgive the ignorance of your lambs..."
The temple knights had declared a holy war in the name of the Goddess, but all they did was patrol and reduce the number of doppelgngers.
In short, it meant the trigger for the Temple's overreaction had been pressed.
Fanatic button, ON.
Nuns sobbing and reciting the holy scripture, priests bringing small whips to flog themselves, bleeding both blood and divine energy, temple knights tearing their hair out and embedding sacred rites all over the open field.
Witnessing the pandemonium that only religious zeal could create, I wondered if this was hell.
Even the chatty skull quieted down at the sight of this madness.
"I... I'm scared of the temple..."
-Heretics should be taken away.
-Thought it was just a chatty church, but it's more like a psychiatric ward
-No matter how much beer and chicken there is, this really shows it's a medieval world.
-At this point, wouldn't it be more humane to wait a day and then kill the boss?
-I get the nuns crying, but what's with this self-harm show?
Han Se-ah, who had the camera glued to her face, muttered in disgust, likely overwhelmed by the priests beginning a self-flagellation show for penance.
It's not surprising, really.
The temple started hammering divine power into this vast clearing under the guise of purification.
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*searching up roland durandal on google returns: 'Durendal, also spelled Durandal, is the sword of Roland, a legendary paladin and partially historical officer of Charlemagne in French epic literature.'
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