Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 361


    Defense Specialization and the Raid Boss


    As Haku was currently the fastest way for all eight of them to move at the same time, they arrived at the spawn point of the raid boss while riding the white snake that had been erged with ‘Super Erge.’ Up until now, they had alternated between using Syrup and Haku, depending on the spawn points, and so the other yers immediately knew that Maple Tree had arrived when they saw the white snake.


    Some of the yers were already dering an early victory upon their arrival. However, it was not at all odd for them to think this, when they saw the ridiculous amounts of great hammers floating above the snake’s head.


    They had already seen raid bosses being beaten to a pulp many times over. And so Yui and Mai were recognized as firepower that could be relied on.


    “There are already quite a lot of people here.”


    “Yes. I thought we were going to arrive early, but I suppose everyone else was thinking the same thing?”


    Since there were so many people there, Haku’s giant body would get in the way. And so Kasumi had Haku stick its head on the ground so that they could all get off, and then she returned the snake to her ring.


    “We still don’t know what kind of boss will appear. So I’ll send Haku back for now.”


    Due to Haku’srge size and generally high status, it was able to withstand attacks and unleash counterattacks. But it did not have the kind of mobility required to dodge, so it would be best to wait to see how the raid boss would fight. And even if she couldn’t use Haku, Kasumi had be stronger than before, and would be able to manage just fine.


    Now they just had to mix in with the other yers and wait for the raid boss to appear.


    Most of the other yers were talking to fellow guild members about their strategy, or about how to move in reaction to the monster’s tendencies, but some yers came up to Maple and the others.


    “So you all came! I have high expectations for you today as well!”


    “Hello… Velvet wanted toe and talk to you.”


    “Ah, Velvet! Yes, we’ll all do our best!”


    Maple looked at the guild members and talked about how excited she was.


    “There isn’t much that I can do, so if something happens, I’d be grateful if you could help…Velvet.”


    Raid bosses usually had a strong resistance to status effects, along with movement and skill sealing effects. If it weren’t the case, even if they weren’t as specialized in it as Hinata, everyone could work together and cast debuffs on the boss until it could no longer move.


    Hinata’s skills became a disadvantage now, and so she did very little whenever she participated in fights with raid bosses.


    “She says that, but I still rely on her all the time. And so please go in on the attack if Hinata seeds in casting something!”


    “Yes!”


    As they continued to talk to Velvet and Hinata,more familiar faces came walking towards them from a different direction.


    “Hey. It’s finally thest raid boss. And it seems like a lot of people gathered together for this one.”


    It was Lily and Willbert who hade. This time, Lily was already holding her g, and Willbert was weaning his butler uniform. So that meant that Lily would be the attacker.


    “‘It seems like a lot of people from ‘Rapid Fire’ came as well.”


    Sally looked in the direction that Lily hade from. She saw the group of guild members huddled together.


    “Well, it’s thest one, after all. Besides…don’t you just have this feeling that it’s going to be a big one?”


    This time, the puddle of water that spread around the spawn point was dozens of meters in diameter. And that was muchrger than previous ones. So it was not odd to assume that what woulde out would also be strong.


    “Yes. We must all stay on our guard.”


    “Well, you and your guild have much higher defense ability, Sally. It’s we who have to be careful that we don’t identally get ourselves killed.”


    “Of course. However, I’m looking forward to seeing how it will fight against so many yers. Oh, it looks like ‘Kingdom of the me Emperors’ and ‘Congregation of Holy Swords’ have arrived.”


    They could seerge groups of people moving towards them from afar. And near them were a glowing dragon and a phoenix enveloped in fire. You could tell at a nce which guild it was.


    And so all of the highest level yers on the 7thyer, which would also be considered the strongest, were now present. And then they all waited for the raid boss to appear.


    “Any moment now. Let’s talk afterward if we survive.”


    “Yes, of course.”


    Lily ended the conversation there and returned to where her guild members were waiting. Velvet and Hinata did the same, and waved their hands as they left.


    “It’s finally starting.”


    “Yes. Maple, we’re relying on your defense.”


    “Leave it to me!”


    In order to deal with the first attack, Maple activated ‘Dedicated Affection.’ A brief moment after, the water that spread out began to glow, and ripples appeared in the center. And from there, a pir of water burst out, and what came out from the water was muscr and holding a trident. It was a giant that controlled the water that surrounded it. As everyone present felt the difference in level from previous bosses, a giant mass of water appeared above the boss’s head, and from it was summoned hordes of the event monsters they had been hunting up until now.


    At the same time, HP bars appeared over all of their heads, and like that, the battle against the final raid boss began.