Hellmode ~A Hardcore Gamer Becomes Peerless in Another World with Retro Game Settings~

Chapter 645: Earth Labyrinth RTA (14) Fight with Andre (1)

the boss of the 80th floor introduced himself as the earth incarnation andre.

he reminded allen of a tortoise monster movie he had seen long ago, as he stood on his hind legs, and showed his stomach which had indentations like abs.

considering it had orichalcum growing on his back, his endurance was likely high.

(so he's a servant of the god of earth. he even has the face of an andre. but the boss of the 80th floor isn't a ghost then.)

he was so big that he could look at allen's group without issue, even though they were flying in the air.

and then allen felt like he understood what the boss of the 80th floor was.

andre had called himself earth incarnate, which reminded allen of something the god of fire freya had mentioned about her followers and servants.

that was probably the final form of a servant of the god of earth.

maybe he had been a sacred beast on the surface in the past, and a human before that, though no trace of that remained in the 300 meter monster.

'heheheh, how long are you going to stand there? or did i scare you speechless?'

andre began to taunt allen's group.

but since allen did not give the order to attack, they only spread their formation slightly without doing anything more.

the magicians began to gather their mana, and the golem pilots started switching out their stone slabs to attack ones.

'gyau...'

only haku was on the verge of lunging out to attack.

barely a minute passed, but that was valuable time for allen to identify their win-con.

(there's a door leading out behind him. and andre has a key on his neck. if that key is necessary, then i guess the keys we have are useless. kuwatoro, use thousand-mile eyes.)

kuwatoro used thousand-mile eyes and allen was able to see another gate on the opposite side of the entrance, 5 kilometers away, which was around 100 meters big.

there was a keyhole too, though allen already had 2 [keys].

earlier when they opened the first gates the key had not vanished, so they still had 2.

(it's pretty obvious so there's no need to think about it too much. anyway, time to appraise.)

andre looked like an enormous tortoise, and there was an orichalcum key the size of a palm hanging from his neck.

it was hard to say how long the chain was, but it looked like adamantite, tying the key to his neck.

allen looked at the results of kuwatoro's special skill [appraiser eyes].

[name] andre

[age] 142780

[species] earth incarnation

[strength] 280000

[spiritual power] 250000

[attack] 230000

[endurance] 300000

[agility] 300000

[intelligence] 210000

[luck] 260000

[attack element] earth

[endurance element] earth, physical resistance (strong), magic resistance (strong)

(that's even higher than a demigod. and it's lived for more than 10000 years. though i guess it does take time for something to grow so big.)

his stats were even higher than those of a demigod rank ghost.

allen used the bird f summon to tell everyone that this enemy was stronger than the other bosses.

'okay, it seems we can't avoid fighting. haku, you'll lead the charge!'

'gyau!!'

the 30 meter long haku spread his wings and puffed his chest as he charged at the 300 meter long enemy.

he did not understand what leading the charge meant, he simply understood he could attack.

when haku rammed into andre, he seemed to lift up into the air and then was pushed back.

'hrngh?! what's that power!! i can see how you made it this far now! but..!!'

*whoooommm*

'gyawawa?!'

"everyone, keep attacking."

"we're already doing that!!"

cecile and the other magicians kept launching spells at andre.

'he has no breath resistance, matil and haku. burn his head.'

'alright, got it! graaaaaawwwwww!!'

"gyau!!"

(everything is hitting so far so his strength is going down decently.)

while everyone was attacking, allen checked andre's strength to see if it was going down.

andre's resistances made physical and magic attacks deal only a bit of damage, so most of it was coming from haku and matildora.

after around 30 minutes 60% of andre's strength was gone, and he started to grin.

'hmph, such weak attacks... earth, give me healing power...'

andre lowered his stomach to the ground, then his head and limbs vanished inside the shell before it started spinning.

"hey, does that mean..."

"yeah, his strength has recovered completely."

(he doesn't have any powerful breath attacks then, but it can heal. he didn't lose any spiritual power either, so i guess that means he can use it many times.)

it could ball up to recover after taking a lot of damage.

"seriously?! that's such a cowardly move!!"

'cowardly? what are you talking about. come now, you need to defeat me if you want the key!'

he said that with a grin, taunting them to come attack as much as they wanted.

it was clear that the 80th floor's boss andre was there as a big time sink.

"i see, we aren't trying to defeat each other."

"huh?"

now allen spoke with a low voice so only cecile could hear.

(we'll lose some time, but we'll have to change strategies.)

"cecile, prepare little meteor!"

"huh? okay."

"haku and matil, don't let the enemy move with your breaths!!"

'alright.'

'gyau!'

matildora and haku quickly began spewing flames.

andre lowered his body into a defensive stance.

"now!!"

"small meteor!!"

'hm? what's that! but magic like that! magic like that won't..!!'

"hey! that didn't kill him!!"

a large flaming rock that was as big as him fell on andre.

but andre braced with all his legs and resisted cecile's extra skill [small meteor].

the ground beneath him seemed to cave in a little, but he did not seem like he took much damage.

as the power of the extra skill [small meteor] was about to end, allen moved on to his next strategy.

"shea, now!!"

"yes, i know!! divine wind consecutive hits!!"

'hm?!'

many blades of wind emerged from shea's fists and flew to andre's neck.

since he had been bracing earlier, his arms were busy and his neck was exposed, leading to the chain on his neck shattering.

free from the broken chains, the [key] was released and andre could only watch it as it fell to the ground.

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