HPDBC Chapter 239: Beebe (1)
Chapter 239: Beebe (1)
chapter 239: beebe (1)
"hey, something's wrong!"
i heard cecile's voice from behind me.
"oh, this is bad. let's hurry!"
i responded without turning around to look at cecile, who had shouted.
(the beastmen are really fast.)
a bright red beetle-like magical beast was chasing the adventurers around.
the party of adventurers seemed to consist of beastmen.
it didn't matter if they were the vanguard or the rear guard or in formation, they ran away as if they were desperately trying to save their own lives.
their speed appeared to surpass that of humans.
(that unfamiliar magical beast is such a formidable foe? some of the adventurers seem to have adamantite greatsword.)
they didn't look like a party of weak adventurers with inexpensive equipment.
some of them were carrying shiny black adamantite great swords.
"aah!"
one of the fleeing cat beastmen stumbled and fell heavily.
"sara!!"
the red beetle-like magical beast changed its target to that cat beastman with an eerie mewling sound.
it had large red beetle-like horns on its forehead and large stag beetle-like jaws, showing jagged teeth and a long, wagging tongue.
"sara!!"
"ur! no! run!"
a wolf beastman immediately noticed that the cat beastman had fallen.
he hesitated for a moment, but returned to help.
however, the red beetle-like magical beast was closer to the cat beastman, so it was very unlikely he would make it in time.
"kurena, dogora, you take the front!"
"yes!"
"oh!"
"hey! who are you?"
then my friends and i arrived.
b-rank birds were using their awakening skill [soar].
ignoring the reaction of the startled wolf beastman called ur, kurena and dogora's great sword and axe slammed into the face of the red beetle-like magical beast with tremendous force.
"gyaagh!"
there seemed to be a lot of momentum generated by the b-rank bird [soar] as kurena and dogora's attack was more powerful that what i had anticipated.
the magical beast made a sickening squeal, then a high-pitched metallic clang sound came from where it struck the weapons.
the red beetle-like magical beast backed up, bouncing once or twice on the ground.
however, when i thought that it would continue to bounce, it regained its position while hovering in the air.
"allen, it's very hard!"
"oh, we didn't even leave a scratch. what the hell is this guy!"
(doesn't look like the damage went through.)
we had made a perfect surprise attack, but the magical beast was only blown away and didn't receive any damage at all.
"hey, what the hell is wrong with you people!"
"we'm here to help you because you've been attacked. we will handle the situation here, so please run away."
(it's a lie. i stopped by to beat the floor boss. please run away because if you fight as well, we will be forced to share.)
"what!? don't you know , he's beebe!"
"beebe?"
(is it a famous magical beast?)
"it's a blood-blast-beetle, an s-rank magical beast, and you started to fight it without even knowing that?"
i asked him what "beebe" was and he told me.
beebe was a s-rank floor boss.
(i guess it's an s-rank magical beast...but that beebe or whatever it's called hasn't attacked us while floating. does that mean it's watching us now that something strange has arrived?)
there were also s-rank magical beasts on the 2nd floor.
there were several floor bosses in each floor of the s-class dungeon, but we were told that there would always be at least one s-rank magical beast on each floor.
i understood that the s-rank magical beast in the 2nd floor was nicknamed beebe.
beebe was chasing the beastmen around, but when my friends and i arrived, he changed the point where his compound eyes were staring at us, as if he was trying to determine who we were.
"i'm sorry, but i need to concentrate on the fight. if possible, i would appreciate it if you could withdraw."
i determined beebe to be an enemy that required our full concentration.
"yes, i understand. i'll thank you guys when we both get out of here alive."
"it helps. i'll be sure to charge you."
i interjected him when he said that he would thank us later, thinking a business deal would be better than making someone owe a debt.
"i'll be sure to thank you. hey, you guys, we're retreating."
cecile's [ice magic] blew it away, but beebe remained undamaged.
it bounced a few times, but then balanced and hovered in the air.
"mnh!"
formal used his extra skill [arrow of light] to destroy one of beebe's compound eyes, but it was repelled. beebe's eye was perfectly fine.
"gisha!!"
beebe continued to emit eerie squeals, showing its fangs and tongue from its mouth, which could be seen through its jaw.
then, from the point where it was blown away, it closed the distance at once.
(how about this?)
at that moment, i summoned a b-rank stone in beebe's path with,
beebe suddenly slammed into the b-rank stone that appeared in front of it, and at that moment, i made the b-rank stone use its awakening skill [internal reflection] and counter-attack with triple damage.
"oh! it finally got damaged."
several cracks formed in beebe's bright red exoskeleton, leaking purple bodily fluids.
at that moment, kurena's body began to shimmer.
kurena used her extra skill [limit break] to attack the cracked and less durable beebe with all her might at that opportunity.
kurena's attacks further cracked beebe's exoskeleton.
"kurena, you can finish this. hit it!"
"yes!"
at that moment, beebe changed the target of its attack from kurena to dogora. it used its large jaws to pinch dogora.
"goooah!"
"no, kurena. strike the big jaw that's holding dogora !"
"i get it!"
beebe, not caring that dogora was surprised and trying to escape, pinched dogora's large shield and armor together with a cracking sound, and tried to cut him in half.
kurena panicked and struck an attack that combined the extra skill [limit breaking] and the sword king's skill into one of beebe's jaws.
the same attack that was able to damage a transformed demon general was also able to damage beebe.
one of beebe's jaws cracked and dogora was free.
"dogora, are you all right?"
yeah, i'm fine."
he is bleeding from both arms because he was pinched by a large jaw, but dogora said he was fine.
after he replied, recovery magic rained down on dogora from kiel.
(it would have been bad if dogora didn't have a big shield. but thanks to you, a lot of damage has been done.)
as the fierce battle continued, beebe got considerably weaker as we worked together to attack it.
cracks were everywhere on its body and purple fluid was leaking out.
and one of beebe's jaws was heavily abraded due to kurena's full power attack.
"we're almost there! we are going to defeat it!"
""oh!""
it was then.
beebe approached a rank stone.
(huh? )
then, beebe pinched it with its big jaws, not caring that one of them was heavily injured.
then beebe's body started glowing.
"what? energy drain?"
i knew immediately what beebe was doing.
i then immediately called the b-rank stone to my card, but it was too late.
the heavily injured jaw and the cracks that had spread throughout beebe's body were almost completely healed.
(ah, it used its healing method after nearly being defeated. it can't use recovery magic, but it has a means of recovery.)
"hey, what are we going to do?"
"okay, it can't be helped. everyone!!!"
""...""
in the worst case scenario that beebe was completely, i turned everyone's attention on our next move.
"let's get the hell out of here!"
(if we continue to fight against beebe, we will get injured or worse suffer casualties. we are not its match currently.)
"what? okay. okay."
i made the decision that we could not defeat it as we were.
no one, including cecile, disagreed.
we had decided to retreat.
(okay, not a shadow of the beastmen.)
the party of beastmen was already gone when we started escaping.
allen and his friends used b-rank birds to escape.