Players' NPC boss

Gold-eating ants are classified as bee-like insect monsters.

Although the name sounds like an insect that eats minerals and metals, it is actually a carnivorous insect.

Metal is a material for their growth. They bite metal into pieces, take it into a special stomach to decompose and absorb the metal, and then grow a shell of the corresponding metal.

The shell of the gold-eating ant is still very valuable and is also excellent as a forging material. The only trouble is that the rarer and more powerful the metal the gold-eating ant eats, the stronger the gold-eating ant will be, and the more powerful its own corrosive attack will be.

The corrosive liquid sprayed by the gold-eating ant that has eaten fine gold can probably destroy all equipment below the fine gold material.

But the gold-eating ants in the mines under the Broken Steel Mountains are not too strong, and the corrosive liquid they spray can't even corrode stones.

Puff——

Blazer cut off a leg of the gold-eating ant with a sword.

A slender foot fell to the ground, and purple-red curse fire burned from the broken wound. But the gold-eating ant seemed to be unaware of the loss of a leg, and it crawled along the stone wall in the narrow mine at high speed without being affected at all.

"【Fatal Execution】 is useless! Is it because of the structure of the insect?"

If it were other animals, they would bleed madly and die immediately after their limbs were cut off, but only a pitiful amount of juice flowed out of the cross section of this gold-eating ant.

Natural enemy.

Although I don't know why, there is no doubt that insect monsters, like non-biological monsters, are the natural enemies of 【Fatal Execution】.

Fortunately, this problem was discovered early.

Blaze put the twisted sword back to the warehouse and replaced it with a dagger that is more suitable for use in narrow spaces.

"【Shadow Stealth】"

This skill feels very strange, like sinking into a sea of ​​shadows. Perhaps because of the low proficiency of the skill 【*Night Eyes】, Blaze can't see the shadow world clearly.

But he has 【Vision Sharing】, in the eyes of the chicken, every move of the gold-eating ant is extremely clear, and even where the next step is can be foreseen.

"【Sneak Attack】"

【Launch a high-speed attack in the dark to increase the critical hit rate when hitting the vital point】

Blazer was like a shark swimming in the shadow. He found the right time to pounce out of the shadow and hit the neck of the gold-eating ant with a knife.

This was learned from the goblins. When facing an enemy with heavy armor, you have to stab into the gap of the armor.

Killed with one knife.

But that was the standard for mammals. The blood volume of the gold-eating ant was undoubtedly at the bottom, but it was still alive and kicking. Blazer was startled and retreated to distance himself.

Fortunately, the gold-eating ant fell to the ground after struggling for a while and disappeared into dust.

【Arthropod Nerve Perseverance】

【When more than 75% of the limbs remain, even if the head falls off, it can maintain normal activities for 10 seconds】

"Is it a unique skill of the insect race?" Blazer breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the gray-black shell on the ground.

[Ant carapace containing trace iron]

"Well, the iron content is very low."

Blazer pinched the two sides of the carapace and broke it apart. It felt very crisp. It can only be used to make farm tools. If it is handed over to the Fire Rabbit Forge, it can be sold for about 1 silver coin.

After putting the carapace into the warehouse, Blazer continued to move forward along the tunnel.

One or two hundred years of abandonment have turned this place into a paradise for monsters. [Gold-eating ants] [Spider monsters] [Miner rats] are multiplying wildly in the tunnel, and from time to time there are dead dwarves or travelers who have died in the past and turned into undead monsters.

Undead monsters are more troublesome. [Fatal Execution] is useless, and slashing and piercing attacks are not very effective. Only blunt attacks and skills with [crushing] effects can effectively repel them.

Of course, the simplest is the magic attack of the three attributes of fire, water and holy. It's a pity that his intelligence is too low and he can't learn magic.

"Is this the location marked by the powerful flying brick?"

With the map of the powerful flying brick, Blazer quickly found the marked location. This is a huge hole, with many stone pillars standing like supporting pillars.

"It should be this one, right? I'm on it!"

[Equipped: round shield decorated with space gems]

Blazer equipped the shield without hesitation, and rushed to the stone pillar before Chicken had time to speak.

He jumped, flipped, stepped on the shield, took off the shield, and then hit the stone pillar with stars in his eyes.

"It hurts!"

The corner of Chicken's eyes twitched. This was really the kind of collision that hurt just by looking at it.

"I said, how about..."

"Damn! The action seems a little wrong!" Blazer sat up angrily, raised the shield and rushed to the stone pillar again, and this time he hit the stone pillar before he could take off the shield.

"Human, you..."

Bang——

"It hurts! Damn! You turned over!"

"That..."

Bang——

"It hurts! Ah——Is the timing wrong!"

Bang——

"It hurts! It seems to be successful!"

Bang——

"It hurts! It seems to have gone in a little bit!"

...

The dull sound of impact kept echoing in the mine. After an unknown amount of time, the chicken finally couldn't stand it anymore and flapped its wings to block Blaze.

"Enough, human, I won't allow you to hurt yourself meaninglessly like this!"

"Hurt? I have this." Blaze took out a bottle of healing potion, which was sponsored by Hebe before he set out to level up. One bottle was enough to restore full health.

"That's not what I meant." Chicken snatched the healing potion from Blaze angrily, "You can get a lot of experience points in this mine, why do you keep trying this wrong, unreasonable technology?"

"Wrong and unreasonable...?" Blaze was stunned, stroking the silver gem on the round shield that was shining with mysterious light and fell into a long silence.

"...This may be the decisive difference between us and the strangers."

"Huh?"

"Yamata no Orochi, the sky giants, the Titans, they have defeated too many natural disasters that we have accepted as correct and reasonable."

"Strangers are never bound by common sense, and always whimsically challenge failures and mistakes, so strangers can do things we think are impossible... They are free."

"And I look forward to them like this."

Blaze raised the round shield facing the stone pillar and sprinted towards the wall with all his strength as before.

"Wait!"

He murmured in a low voice that only he could hear.

I can understand.

Maybe it was wrong and unreasonable to leave Balkan City that day, but the scenery behind the wall called wrong and unreasonable is really beautiful.

I want to see it again.

The beauty I saw that day.

I want to feel it again.

That kind of liberation that seems to transcend.

Blaze rushed towards the stone pillar, and the action of flying bricks with great force emerged in his mind.

Jump, flip, step on the shield under his feet, and then remove the shield at the moment of hitting the wall!

Even if he was bruised and swollen again and again, Blaze always kept his eyes open, and he would never let himself miss even a second.

The eyes fell into darkness, but it was not because he was knocked unconscious, but because he succeeded!

An unimaginable pressure came, and the bones of the whole body seemed to tremble.

That was the gravity from common sense and rationality.

Endure, then overcome, and finally get rid of the darkness and rush all the way to the sky.

Not jumping with strong power, not using flying magic, not being knocked out, but simply, wrongly, and unthinkably rushing to the sky.

He jumped into the clouds and came to the sky!

It was an incomparable sense of release, the liberation of the soul.

"Hahaha - success - I did it -"

Blazer couldn't help but open his hands and laughed heartily, and was pulled to the ground by gravity.

"Human!"

The chicken rushed towards Blaze with a sonic boom, grabbed Blaze's chest armor and flapped its wings desperately.

Boom -

A huge hole was smashed on the top of the Broken Steel Mountains.

Blaze, lying in the hole, was dying, but he was still laughing.

"You, you fell stupid, human." The panting chicken lying on Blaze's chest pecked at Blaze's helmet angrily.

"Hahaha cough cough -" Blaze stood up with difficulty, he raised his hands and shouted happily: "Compared to this, look, I did it, crossed the mistakes and unreasonableness and rushed to the sky!"

"Human..."

The chicken looked at Blaze's eyes shining under the helmet like a fascination, and didn't speak for a long time.

"Chicken?"

"Ah? Cough, cough, that..." The chicken suddenly came back to its senses and coughed with its wings covering its face.

"You fell down and almost died."

"So what?" Blaze threw the chicken into the sky. The chicken was startled and flapped its wings and almost fell to the ground.

Blaze looked up at the starry sky and opened his hands.

"Although my soul and body fell to the ground, I have left a mark in the sky!"

"I will go back."

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