Free Web NovelChapter 38: Chapter 18: Instance Settlement
"No, its hands are much thinner than before."
Ree Shil immediately noticed the difference.
The new arms were only about 70% the size of the previous ones.
Upon checking the panel again, he smirked.
[Giant Undead Left Arm] (Weakened)
Listening to the Wind, Attack 10, 200/200, 0/8
[Huge volume - passive]: Giant Undead Left Arm occupies 4 card positions and can attack up to 1 row and 3 card positions at once.
[Clumsy movement - passive]: Giant Undead Left Arm cannot [Defense]
Its attack power was reduced to a third of what it was before, and its health was 600 points less.
More importantly, it had lost the [Fist Attack] active skill.
The [Giant Undead Right Arm] on the other side was also weakened in all aspects.
And the most crucial point was that upon using the skill, the boss’s [?] finally came to light.
[Muscle Activation - 20 energy points]: Giant Undead Upper Body activates all muscles and consumes 200 health points to regenerate both arms (weakened)
With this reminder, Mossy Mushroom also noticed.
"It not only requires determination-type energy but also consumes health points."
"This skill isn’t that great."
It laughed.
"We’ve won this game."
Seeing the [?] skill revealed, Ree Shil quickly calculated the outcomes on the cards.
Initially, he thought that the boss might have some powerful hidden skill, but now it seemed nothing to be afraid of.
Even if Dr. Lee’s sanity was still intact, he couldn’t have defeated them.
It didn’t matter whether the boss disregarded [Defense] in a desperate attempt to trade blows with them.
Or if it depended on constantly regenerating arms to fight them.
The final outcome would always be their victory.
It seemed that they had overestimated the difficulty of this instance. After all, it was a level 1~5 instance and couldn’t be too difficult.
If it hadn’t been for Straw Man’s useless cards, victory would’ve been even easier.
After calculating the outcome, Ree Shil let out a sigh of relief.
Everything that followed went just as expected.
They started focusing fire on the arms again, able to take out one in each round.
The boss, on the other hand, kept regenerating arms but its health was gradually depleting.
The more it regenerates, the more its muscle fibers wither.
[Miecha!]
In the last round, when Kung Fu Sheep Lady kicked the boss’s forehead, its health finally dropped to zero.
[Roar...]
The armless Giant Grieving Beast began to shake, then fell headfirst to the ground.
Boom!
The heavy, massive body made the entire card table tremble slightly.
Hum...
At this moment, the blue light began to converge.
"It’s finally over..."
Ree Shil exhaled, hands on his hips, feeling a little exhausted.
Shortly after, a series of good news appeared.
[Completed PVE scene, earned 1 draw card chance]
First came the rewards of the PVE card game.
[Defeated Dr. Lee - 1/1]
[Congratulations, mission completed]
[Earned 1 draw card chance]
Next were the rewards for the hidden mission line.
[Due to completion of the hidden mission, the survival challenge will be settled earlier]
[Survive in the City of Zombie Beasts for 240 hours - 1/1]
[Congratulations, mission completed]
[Earned 1 draw card chance]
[You will leave the instance in 1 minute]
[Countdown begins: 60...59...58...]
"Wow, 8 draw card chances! Completing a hidden mission is so worthwhile!"
"Time to go home, Grass!"
Mossy Mushroom and Straw Man also received the same instructions.
The card table disappeared completely, and the surrounding space-time was restored.
The enormous half-body of the Giant Zombie Beast without arms quickly turned to ashes in front of them.
"Huh? Look there."
As the ashes collapsed and dispersed, Mossy Mushroom saw a human figure lying on the ground.
If he wasn’t mistaken, this should be Dr. Lee.
Surprisingly, Dr. Lee was still shuddering slightly as if he still had a breath left. ƒreewebɳovel.com
"..."
Ree Shil looked at the dying Dr. Lee, falling silent for a moment.
Clearly, the man’s psyche had become extremely twisted due to long-lasting appearance discrimination.
But in his opinion, there were many ways to deal with ugliness.
At the very least, Dr. Lee still had a healthy body.
Ree Shil had personally experienced many of the things that the doctor mentioned.
Being constantly pointed at, being looked at with pity—when he was still able to walk in a wheelchair during the less severe stages of his illness, he experienced all of it.
Fortunately, he encountered an opportunity and seized it.
He was the champion of the Blue Star’s Cube Card simulation match.
That’s how he got the chance to traverse to another world.
Swoosh...
As his thoughts swirled, he suddenly saw a surge of dark energy emerge from Dr. Lee’s body. freёwebnovel.com
This energy condensed and did not disperse, even showing signs of separating from his body.
In an instant, the dark energy coalesced into a floating mass.
From within that mass, a figure wearing a black cloak emerged.
Under the lowered hood, the three of them saw a black gas-like face.
Without facial features, there were only a pair of sparkling star-like eyes.
However, the countdown had begun, and their bodies were in a state of phasing out, indicating they no longer belonged to this world, so the other party couldn’t detect them.
"Save... me...!"
Seeing the figure appear, Dr. Lee struggled to raise his hand.
"A host that can only create incomplete Zombie Beasts can hardly amount to anything great."
However, the figure seemed uninterested in acknowledging him and simply left a sentence before gradually fading away.
"?" x3
The three of them were puzzled.
It seemed that behind the Zombie Beast disaster in this sea city, there were other secrets.
But all of this was no longer any of their concern, and they couldn’t do anything about it even if they wanted to.
The one minute countdown soon ended, and a white light began to emanate from their bodies.
Hum! x3
Then, three beams of light shot toward the sky.
