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Chapter 570: Clearing the Fifth Floor
When Sato Kazuma and the others were angry and Kirito Asuna and the others were dumbfounded, Krillin looked around and suddenly shouted:
"——Everyone, stand still and don't move!"

Keeping someone still during a boss attack was almost like committing suicide, but the others, out of trust in Kobayashi, forced themselves not to leave the spot without permission.

Then the atmosphere gradually became quiet.

Even the crying stupid goddess held back her tears and turned them into sobs.

Near the center of the 30-meter-diameter hall, two hands and two feet stood there like a strange tower. At present, the lines of the floor and ceiling, as well as the huge hands and feet, have stopped moving, so I should take this opportunity to rush to the stairs, but -

"You all look down."

Following Kobayashi's instructions, everyone moved their eyes and faces as little as possible and looked down at their feet. As a result, they saw a black floor and lines emitting blue light.

After a brief moment of shock, Kirito suddenly realized, "Could this be the trigger mechanism?"

"Yes."

Kobayashi explained: "The blue line on the floor is the trigger. If you step on it, the lines on the floor and ceiling will start to move irregularly, and a target will appear under the feet or above the head of the person who steps on the line. When the line stops moving and three concentric circles appear, a hand will reach out from the floor to grab or a foot will descend from the ceiling to stomp."

"...So, while we're standing still on the line like this, the giant hands and feet won't attack us?" Agil, whose mind was just as quick, asked.

Kirito nodded and said, "This is probably the mechanism of the Golem BOSS. Most of the time, it attacks with both hands and both feet at the same time! Also, don't be nervous if you get caught. According to the information from the internal test, if you hit it with a double-hit-level sword skill with a one-handed weapon, the captured person will be freed!"

"I see. That's good news."

Others also breathed a sigh of relief.

The troublesome thing about beating the BOSS is its mechanism, but as long as you find the right method, you can easily pass it.

At the same time, I feel deeply fortunate.

Fortunately, there weren’t many people coming to defeat the BOSS this time. If all 48 members of the strategy group (the team) were present, they probably wouldn’t have had the chance to figure out the mechanism.

"The only problem is that I don't know how much damage I'll suffer if I'm caught, and how much my health will drop as a result."

“Don’t worry. With Darkness here, you won’t get hurt.”

"Don't worry, leave it to me!"

At some point, the perverted female knight had regained her strength. After drinking the potion to replenish her health, she looked at the four huge pillars in the center of the room with an eager and impatient look on her face.

But there is also a question.

Asuna raised her voice and said, "If it continues like this, the boss won't attack. But we can't attack it either, right?"

"I think so."

Kirito scratched his head.

It seems that he is recalling how he cleared the level during the closed beta period, but now the BOSS has changed its mechanism and even he doesn't know the method.

But if the stalemate continues, they will be the ones who get hurt in the end.

After all, we are racing against time. If we don't hurry up, other strategy groups who want to sneak away will catch up with us. By then, a large number of players joining the battlefield will definitely make the current situation even more chaotic.

"No choice, change strategy."

Kobayashi made a decisive arrangement: "Change the team. Me, Ryuushi, Alice, Agil, Darkness, and... Aqua, you also join the team. And Kirito, Asuna, you two will form a separate team. From now on, it's up to you two to help us switch and delay time. Kazuma, your mission remains the same, provide assistance as soon as possible when an accident occurs!"

"understand!"

"it is good!"

"give it to me!"

Everyone obeyed Kobayashi's arrangement and agreed decisively, except Aqua, who shouted that she didn't want to take the risk.

"I don't want to! Why do you want me to join the team? I don't have any offensive power at all! Are you kidding me? Do you want me to die?"

"Because your luck value is the lowest."

"no no no!"

The stupid goddess is lying on the ground and acting like a rogue.

But she had completely forgotten that she had just told them not to touch the blue lines on the floor.

It was as if the game system did not allow such a relaxed atmosphere to appear in the boss room. Only the lines in the center of the ceiling directly above the stairs moved on their own.

It should be the second stage of the BOSS battle.

But the others could do nothing but hold their breath and look up. A heavy bass rumbled and a complex shape began to emerge from the ceiling.

The black planes with blue light on the edges continued to merge together and began to form a bilaterally symmetrical object. A protruding forehead, sunken eye sockets, a square nose and a horizontal mouth. This rough face was three meters long from the top of the forehead to the end of the chin.

It's a bit like a larger version of the Easter Island statues.

Of course, only the head.

Then, the huge, rough face, with a popping sound, emitted a blue-white light from the dark eye sockets. A complex and strange emblem appeared in the center of the forehead, and the name of the fifth-floor boss was also carved in white, shining letters in the air.

——The Void Golem Fusgus.

Ho ho ho————

From its cave-like mouth, burst forth a deep bass roar that was enough to shake the entire maze tower. All the people present staggered in varying degrees. The mental oppression brought about by such a huge and terrifying stone boss was extremely exaggerated, and a layer of gloom covered the hearts of those present.

But Xiaolin has a different opinion.

Because it lights up the blood bar!

As we all know, when you fight a boss, you don't worry about its high attributes or complicated mechanisms, but you worry about its health bar not showing. The health bar showing proves that they have officially started fighting the boss.

"Except for my team and Kirito and Asuna, everyone disperse!"

Kobayashi shouted, "Spread out and watch the lines carefully! Try to avoid them. If you step on them, pay attention to the floor and ceiling at the same time. If a target appears, jump away with all your strength to avoid it! ... Well, that's Aqua's job."

“Waaaaaa——”

As if in response, the stupid goddess ran away in the hall. She was clearly told to always watch her step, but the panicked Aqua didn't listen to anything.

"Ms. Aqua!"

"Don't go, Asuna!"

The beautiful girl with the rapier wanted to save people, but was grabbed by the black swordsman.

"The most important thing now is to defeat the BOSS. We can't be distracted!"

"Kirito is right. As long as we pass the level successfully, the attacks will stop. Don't worry, someone will help Aqua."

Asuna finally felt relieved after seeing that Aqua was indeed picked up by others as Kobayashi said.

"Agil, the gap near the wall is bigger, so it's easier to avoid the lines. Just run over there later! Your and Aqua's mission is to attract half of the siblings!"

"learn!"

The black boiled egg axeman responded and ran quickly to the edge.

This task seems dangerous, but it is actually very simple.

As long as they jump up at the critical moment, they will not be hurt, but their output task will fall on the other six people accordingly.

Xiaolin took out the chain, wrapped it around Ryuzi's waist, and said to the remaining four people: "Next, I will take the initiative to step on the coil to attract firepower to share Aqua's pressure. You will attack with me. Alice, you and Darkness switch."

"Understood!" X4
Unlike other floors where everyone can rush in and cause massive damage at the same time, the abnormal mechanism of the fifth-floor BOSS is very tricky, and a fixed formation will only cause the opposite effect, so everyone can only move freely to avoid the lines of the floor, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

When the countless lines sliding around on the black floor slowed down and then became even slower—

"Let's go!"

Kobayashi's right foot deliberately stepped on a line.

The lines reacted as if they were some kind of living thing, drawing a target under his feet. When the three concentric circles were fixed, Kobayashi used his legs to lunge to the side.

The air was suddenly torn apart, and a black arm appeared in front of him.

Three pairs of people surrounded it from three directions, swinging their weapons, and the light of flashing skill effects fell on it one after another. The dark arm seemed to be in pain in the dazzling light, and the face on the ceiling lowered an angry voice. Looking up a little, you can see that the first HP has indeed decreased a lot.

The injured arm sank into the floor, and the lines began to move rapidly again.

But just when Xiaolin decided to use the same trick again, he found that Aqua was hitting the other arm with her fist (physical skills). I don't know what mechanism she triggered, the boss no longer lowered his hands and feet, but lowered his huge face again, and opened his mouth wide as if to emit negative effects such as shock and emptiness.

Kirito rushed forward upon seeing this, and attacked the emblem on the boss's forehead with the one-handed sword at an extremely fast speed.

At some point, the emblem on the golem's forehead turned from blue to red, and his consecutive skills just now successfully knocked off nearly half of the BOSS's health!
After hitting the boss's forehead with perfect control, the red emblem returned to blue, and the huge face closed its mouth and eyes as if timid, and shrank back into the ceiling again.

That's the weakness?
Xiaolin suddenly realized something.

This should be another mechanism of the Golem BOSS, of course, it is negative. And the manifestation is that after suffering a certain amount of damage, the emblem on the forehead will turn red. As long as you attack within the specified time to stop the BOSS's roar, you can take this opportunity to cause a lot of damage.

Kirito looked over at him and Krillin nodded, understanding what he was trying to say.

The target is the forehead!
Xiaolin stepped on the blue line without hesitation. This time it was the golem's huge right foot. He dodged and attacked with the three pairs of combinations. When the foot retracted to the ceiling, Sato Kazuma suddenly came up and said at the same time: "I know the key points. We will also join the attack next!"

"Sato-kun..."

I knew he wouldn't be content to stay back. How could a scumbag who was eager to show off miss such an opportunity to show off?

Not only him, but others also formed teams of two, looking eager to try.

"Well, in that case—"

Xiaolin stepped back to make enough space.

"Everyone, attack together!"

"Oh!"xN
At this time, the golem's huge face descended, and the emblem turned red. The people who had been waiting for a long time gave it the warmest hospitality with their strongest skills.

Oh oh oh————

A roar much more violent than before came out of the golem's mouth, making people cover their ears with both hands, but the expression on their faces was no longer one of panic but excitement.

In just this one round, the BOSS's health points dropped by a bar!
"Disperse, come again!"

As the face gradually shrank back into the ceiling, everyone dispersed again as Kobayashi shouted.

The moment they stopped, they stepped on the line deliberately, dodged the attacking hands and feet, and attacked with sword skills. Kirito canceled the blocking effect of the demon king's face. After repeating it several times, the actions of all members were indeed patterned. After about the sixth time, they could complete the attack without any danger. In less than ten minutes, the boss only had more than one life value left.

This is the impact of understanding the BOSS's mechanism.

Just when Kobayashi was worried about the third stage and was about to ask everyone to stop, the stupid goddess who had just been chased couldn't help it, and her fists kept falling on the emblem on the golem's forehead.

Aqua's attack power was not high to begin with, and since she was only a physical fighter, she had no output capability at all.

But the problem is that now the BOSS's defense has decreased, and the originally ordinary damage has now increased exponentially, and if you are not careful, the BOSS's health will drop to the last bar.

Sudden--

Without warning, blue lines began to extend from the floor and ceiling to the purely black wall in front, reminiscent of the movements of some primitive creatures, gradually filling up the space and making it look like prison bars.

Sato Kazuma yelled as usual: "You idiot, look at what you have done!"

"What does it have to do with me? I was just beating people up with you! Besides, there were so many people here, why are you blaming me?" Aqua argued loudly.

But now is not the time to be unreasonable.

"Everyone, push them to the stairs!"

Xiaolin plans to go to the next floor to regroup and try again. The boss room on the fifth floor is different from the others in that there are many floors here that cannot be exited like other boss rooms.

Aqua was the first to react and quickly ran towards the stairs. She was also the first one to run away every time when faced with danger... although every time, Sato Kazuma, who was triggered later, would run away faster than her.

But this time——

"Wait, Ms. Aqua!"

"……Eh?"

Asuna called out loudly after discovering something. The stupid goddess was stunned when she noticed that the dark face of the boss in the middle of the floor had risen from where the stairs had been a few seconds ago. The dark hole was like a bloody mouth biting Aqua's waist. The stairs had turned into a mouth!

"Danger--"

Before she could finish her shout, Aqua's fragile body was knocked away.

The person who knocked her away was Darkness.

Although the stupid goddess was rescued, the female knight was bitten instead.

"Damn it!"

Kirito cursed.

From the perspective of others, Darkness's heavy armor was bitten by huge and sharp teeth, and a large amount of red damage effects were emitted. At present, his HP has not been reduced, but it can be imagined that if the armor is damaged, it will be fatally damaged at that moment.

"Darkness!"

"Ms. Darkness!"

"Are you okay, Darkness?"

Sato Kazuma and others quickly ran over to check on her condition.

Huihui, who had been watching the show for a long time, suddenly said, "Void... Golem... Ah, I understand! So what you mean is that the entire fifth floor... No, the entire maze tower is the Void Golem itself, so it can extend its arms and legs as it pleases, and even turn the stairs into a mouth."

“…It’s been hard to figure out the boss’s origins, but the most urgent thing is…how to rescue them!”

Sato Kazuma pulled Darkness’ arm.

But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull her out.

This is also predictable. How could he easily break free from the BOSS's bite force? Besides, Sato Kazuma's skill points were mainly based on agility, which was a thief profession.

Darkness, who was bitten, began to gasp violently, as if she was suppressing something.

“Ha…ah…ha…ah…”

"Hey, Darkness, hold on! We're going to get you out now!"

"No, no need..."

"Huh? Stop talking nonsense. If you keep going like this, you'll be bitten to death by the boss!"

"That's good! Just let me be bitten to death like this! Having my lower body bitten off... that kind of pain... is awesome!"

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When I type a question mark, it's not me who has a question, it's you who has a question.

How come in a game where no one else wants to die, there are perverts who want to commit suicide?

Kirito, Asuna and the others, who witnessed Darkness's perversion for the first time, were completely speechless.

Sato Kazuma released his hand that was still pulling.

"Senior Xiaolin..."

"I understand. We must not let her succeed."

So when rescuing Darkness, Krillin and others decisively chose the second method and completely defeated the BOSS who only had a little blood left!

After understanding all the mechanisms, the BOSS on the fifth floor is no longer a concern.

Even when it transformed into a solid stone statue again when it was at the last bit of blood, it was still overwhelmed by the attackers and was quickly defeated. The word "congratulations" appeared on everyone's system interface.

Fifth level, successfully passed!

(End of this chapter)