The Genius Assassin Who Takes it All Chapter 136

Episode 136: Multi-talented (2)

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The strategy was simple, but the process was detailed.

The Kang-hoo who caught Pisces’ attention from the front was not the real Kang-hoo. He was a fake created as a clone.

If the clone’s movements had been sloppy, Pisces would have noticed something strange and turned his attention.

Kang-hoo’s response, which involved utilizing the clone’s own physical abilities, was clean.

The guy got duped completely.

When Pisces was completely distracted by the clone, Kang-hoo moved laterally to the guy’s rear.

He had laid down a curtain of skill and linked it to the motionless movement to move to the driving device without making a sound.

Because he was so engrossed in the battle, Pisces had no idea that there was another stronghold behind him.

Meanwhile, the team members who realized what Kang-hoo’s plan was succeeded in quickly crossing to the other side by following the lowered drawbridge.

Something amazing and unprecedented happened.

You passed the first gate so cleanly without wasting any effort against the Pisces!

The giant Pisces simply stomped his feet on the other side of the bridge, expressing his anger.

As Kang-hoo, who had finished assessing the situation, joined his teammates on the bridge, Ma-jin-ho gave him a thumbs-up.

“I never imagined that the time could be shortened so dramatically.”

“I had to use my brain a bit, since it’s not like I have to kill the guy to get the key, I just have to turn the drive mechanism.”

Kang-hoo shrugged.

It’s time to get used to this repertoire.

This is because, as you go to higher and higher level dungeons, there are many cases where paths are opened conditionally.

The gatekeeper Pisces was one of the simpler ones among such repertoires.

In some places, you may have to interpret and align unidentified characters.

In some places, you have to catch some monsters and leave others alive to clear the path.

For that reason, teams that foolishly tried to conquer dungeons using only brute force were often eliminated around level 4, 500.

Because it doesn’t make any progress.

Ma Jin-ho bowed his head again and expressed his gratitude.

“Thank you for your help.”

“Anyway, we’re on the same team. I wanted to help you save energy, and it worked out really well.”

“Clone, collapse. Lime was really good. I watched it and laughed with the kids. Was that what you were aiming for?”

“Huh, that can’t be.”

I wasn’t really aiming for it, but it seemed like it sounded funny, like an old joke.

However, if you look at Kang-hoo’s face, it’s a face that doesn’t even look like it would let out a joke, so there’s something about it that makes it even worse.

This is probably because a good-looking celebrity’s ‘gag joke’ is more enjoyable than a comedian’s ad-lib.

Thanks to quickly overcoming sections that I thought would take a long time, my attack speed has increased.

The original plan was to subdue the Pisces, cross the drawbridge, and then rest.

But instead of losing stamina, the team’s morale rose significantly.

Expectations are running high as Kang-hoo will be playing the role of an intelligence character in addition to the role of a bleeding dealer.

“You can watch now. Their recovery pattern is poor, so you can just kill them with damage.”

“Can I help you out randomly?”

“I would appreciate it if you could do that.”

He could have just watched and done nothing, but Kang-hoo deliberately participated in the battle.

Because it’s not often you get the chance to face monsters in the level 400 range.

I also wanted to see with my own eyes how well my attacks would impact the guys.

There was also a reason I wanted to check the difficulty level. There is absolutely no harm in experiencing it in advance.

“Whoa!”

Kang-hoo looked surprised as he watched Ma Jin-ho provoke the monsters with his spirit.

As expected, the range of monsters he forcibly draws in through his provocations is quite wide.

If he hadn’t been focused, the influence would have been so great that even Kang-hoo would have been dragged into the provocation.

Of course, I wasn’t just amazed.

Kang-hoo sent shadows, illusions, and clones among the monsters that were not provoked.

Monsters aren’t that smart, so when they see an intruder who isn’t their own kind, they start gathering in twos and threes.

It was a very good drive.

The archers and magicians, having confirmed that Kang-hoo had gathered the monsters together to make them easier to hit, launched wide-area attacks.

Then, an efficient scene was created where four or five monsters were evenly damaged with a single attack.

The main damage was concentrated on Majinho, but the remaining auxiliary damage was also used effectively thanks to Kang-hoo.

100% efficiency.

In this way, the monster extermination proceeded quickly.

One of the wizards who saw Kang-hoo’s movements spoke to Kim Ji-hye, an archer and veteran.

“Sister, isn’t this the first time you’ve seen something like this? It’s the first time I’ve seen an assassin class gather monsters.”

“That’s right. Usually, I try to catch up to the monster or look for a timing to do a hit and run.”

“That’s right. But since it has skills like shadows and illusions, it moves more aggressively.”

“It seems like they’re really focused. Whether it’s an illusion, a clone, or a shadow, none of them move sloppily.”

“I understand why Cha So-hee died. If that’s the case, it’ll be hard to track down where the truth lies.”

“That’s right… … It’s creepy. Maybe it’s because I’ve only seen so many people who are burdensome, but I can’t get used to being a new person.”

“Those damn loads of shit… … .”

Let’s go.

It is an abbreviation for ‘assassin who is just a burden.’

An assassin who pursues a passive attack pattern, focusing excessively on rear attacks and stealth attacks.

In fact, group attacks require roles to be switched naturally depending on the situation.

Hunters who are obsessed with assassins are focused only on this proposition: surprise attack from an unseen location.

As a result, there were many cases where team members did not actively move until the table was set.

This is also the reason why the phenomenon of avoiding the Assassin profession occurred in the level range below 200.

It’s good to be faithful to the reason for the class’s existence, but it’s frustrating because it’s too inflexible.

But Kang-hoo was now playing the role of another sub-tank, not an assassin, on the battlefield.

The tank’s virtue of ‘provocation’ is achieved by gathering the monster’s aggro in one place.

“Okay, okay! I really like it!”

The team members did not take Kang-hoo’s efforts lightly and encouraged him, focusing more on skill linking.

I thought that just providing a bleeding shuttle would be enough, but a great mercenary who actively plans the board came.

I was really satisfied from the beginning.

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After that, the raiding party, which had gained speed in the attack, was able to advance straight to the middle boss area.

In the Gatekeeper Pisces section, conserving stamina to near perfection created a huge butterfly effect.

Moreover, thanks to Ma Jin-ho and Kang-hoo working together to draw the picture in the middle ‘trash mob’ section.

The four magicians and archers in charge of the main dealers were able to continue hunting very comfortably.

The name of the middle boss monster you encounter is Edax.

It was a lizard-shaped monster with an impressively large mouth.

If the bleeding stops even for a moment, the physical strength increases as if the accelerator pedal has been stepped on.

So, regardless of the type of bleeding, it was important to keep the bleeding going and never stop.

As soon as they entered the battle, Ma Jin-ho and Kang-hoo began to move diligently.

Other dealers thought that Kang-hoo would take a good look at the pattern and protect himself, but they were wrong.

Kang-hoo, who did not want to take up a long play time, actively looked for patterns from the beginning.

and.

Wow!

We’ve figured out the hidden pre-move in Edax’s most tricky pattern: the ‘big bite’.

This was the result of observing various parts of Edax’s body with the aiming skill.

‘Just before taking a big bite, the stomach tightens and the scales slightly rise in a diagonal direction.’

This is why habits are scary.

A habit that we take for granted and don’t even realize it.

In baseball, pitchers who have this habit are often caught and one day they are suddenly hit without mercy.

Even if sports habits are analyzed like that, they can be corrected and are not life-threatening.

But the world of hunters is different.

If the enemy figures out your habits, you will die. The flow of the game becomes obvious.

As expected.

While dealing with Majinho, Edax glanced at Kang-hoo behind him and the direction of his abdominal scales turned diagonally.

The next moment.

【Quick Evasion】

Wow!

Kang-hoo casted a quick evasion and avoided Edax’s bite. It was a close call.

“oh!”

“Wow! That was really close!”

“Did you predict this in advance?”

It was a situation where everyone was keeping quiet and not showing it for fear of disturbing Kang-hoo.

Edax’s bite is a blow that Majinho, who has maximized his defense, can take moderately.

Because for an assassin like Kang-hoo, it is an attack that can split his body in half with one blow.

However, Kang-hoo easily dodged the attack and launched a series of attacks at the defenseless Edax.

Because it is a four-legged walking monster, when a move fails, the time until the next move is long.

When the accumulated bleeding stack reaches 10 stacks in an instant, recovery is suppressed.

Then, it quickly rose to the maximum of 50 stacks, and transitioned into a state of excessive bleeding.

When you become bleeding excessively, there is a random chance that you will attempt to recover, but instead, your health will decrease even more.

Although it is not an official name, hunters usually call this situation ‘Death Hill’.

It means that the recovery was negative, but it was in the direction of death.

This Death Hill phenomenon occurs randomly in the excessive bleeding state that only activates at 50 stacks.

and.

“Kueeeeek… … !”

Edax, who was trying to recover after noticing his rapidly depleted stamina, screamed and spat out thick saliva.

It’s stuck on Death Hill.

Edax, who was furious at the sudden major accident, started looking for someone to vent his anger on.

Ma Jin-ho, who was standing tall like a mountain in front, was having a hard time, so he was planning to kill Kang-hoo, who had been bothering him since earlier.

【Quick Evasion】

Wow!

First bite failed.

【Welcome Drink】

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

A mind-boggling smokescreen effect created in all directions by deliberately creating and then dismantling it.

Wow!

【Shadow Walk】

The second bite failed due to a change of position using the shadow. The third and fourth also failed.

Even at the end.

Wow!

【Cute!】

The thing that Edax bit with a venomous intent to crush was not Kang-hoo, but a slime that was created out of nowhere.

Here, the remaining strings of Edax’s patience and reason were snapped.

A stupid mid-boss monster who had completely lost his composure. The future that awaited him could not be bright.

Some time after that.

Edax, who had boarded the express train to the underworld while in a restrained recovery, eventually died after failing to withstand the concentrated attacks.

If the contribution was low, you wouldn’t be able to activate skill steal even if you kill the middle boss monster.

Thanks to his active participation in battle, Kang-hoo was able to steal one of Edax’s skills in a nice way.

That’s right.

【Whisper of the Wind】

【Skill Proficiency: Lv Max】

【Permanently increases ‘Agility’ by 100.】

It was a solid gain in the agility stat, which I had not had time to take care of thoroughly because I had been investing in stamina.