The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 174

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Chapter 174
Chapter 174
Spirits came in many varieties.
Most were creatures I’d encountered and defeated during my time in First, though there were some I was seeing for the first time.
Since these weren’t the type of monsters that commonly appeared in games, normally it would have taken considerable time just to identify their weaknesses.
“Kang Ju-hyuk, the spirits on the right—they’ll fall if you drive your claws into the red points. Handle them.”
“What about the blue points?”
“Those respond to blunt force. A kick should do it.”
“Got it, so the red points go down with slashing attacks, right?”
“Correct.”
My strength wasn’t simply remembering the weaknesses of monsters I’d faced in First.
It was my ability to rapidly identify the strengths and weaknesses of unfamiliar monsters while battling countless creatures in First, then derive effective strategies to overcome them.
That was one of my greatest strengths.
For someone like me, discerning the strategy for creatures with such obvious weaknesses was trivial.
‘I’ve delegated the majority to Kang Ju-hyuk.’
Kang Ju-hyuk could deliver sharp attacks through his claws and heavy blows through his kicks.
He could even adapt to various situations by utilizing different tools.
That’s why I could trust him with the combat in this scenario.
But the number of remaining spirits was still overwhelming.
Since this trial was calibrated for Large Guilds as the standard, having so many spirits was inevitable.
So.
Whoosh!
I moved faster, beginning to cut through the spirits.
Whooomp!
I swept past the fire-weak spirits in a single motion.
Crack!
I sliced through the ice-weak spirits with a single strike.
I exploited each spirit’s weakness in an instant, felling them with one blow.
Thunk!
Then something like a wind arrow shot from the air embedded itself at my feet.
When I looked up, I could see several spirits clinging to the wall preparing their next attack against me.
And the moment I saw the red points inscribed on their bodies, I immediately identified their weaknesses.
[ Tracker’s Gaze ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Bow
Grade : Epic
Requirement : Level 250 or higher, Bow Mastery Lv 25 or higher
Description : A bow left behind by the wilderness tracker, said to never miss a target once chosen.
I drew the bow from Luke’s subspace, then aimed it at the spirit on the distant wall preparing its next attack against me.
– Activating skill ‘Silver Shot’.
Twang!
I released an arrow.
With the accuracy correction from the epic-grade item, my All Master skill, Silver Shot, and my high stats combined, the arrow flew true.
Thud!
The arrow struck perfectly into the red point marked on the spirit’s torso.
In that instant, the spirit’s body scattered and vanished as if evaporating.
Without pausing, I continued firing arrows, systematically eliminating the most troublesome ranged spirits.
Of course, the other spirits didn’t leave me unscathed during this time.
“This is more fun than I expected! Hah!”
Kang Ju-hyuk approached and provided support.
Thanks to him, I was able to quickly eliminate most of the ranged spirits.
Though there were many enemies, I could identify every spirit’s weakness and fell them all in one strike.
“This is actually doable?”
“Don’t get careless. The boss monster hasn’t appeared yet.”
“Anyway, you’ll identify the boss’s weakness immediately, won’t you?”
I rapidly reduced the number of spirits.
With so many enemies, I couldn’t call it easy, but it wasn’t difficult enough to be impossible either.
Rather, watching spirits collapse in a single hit after striking their weaknesses accurately was thrilling and exhilarating.
Then, as I continued—
Whooom!
The magic circle beneath my feet began to glow.
In that moment, I instinctively understood.
“The boss monster.”
“Roger!”
The highlight of the trial.
The signal for the boss monster’s summoning.
As expected, light erupted like a fountain from the center of the magic circle, and a colossal spirit materialized.
“Whoa, that’s no joke, right? Can we handle it?”
“It’s definitely a monster befitting a Large Guild-tier raid trial.”
The spirit that appeared was, like the others, a spirit.
However, it was entirely different from ordinary spirits.
First, its massive size.
Its enormous body, tall enough that its head nearly touched the ceiling, was divided into segments like the other spirits, but each segment was composed of parts from different spirits like a chimera.
For example, the right arm was made of a fire spirit, the forearm of a wind spirit, and the upper arm of a lightning spirit.
Given that composition, the strategy was straightforward.
‘Attack each segment with its weakness attribute and peel them away one by one.’
If that’s the case, it’s simple.
“Kang Ju-hyuk, while I tackle the boss monster, draw the attention of the surrounding monsters.”
“Huh? All of those?”
“Or would you rather fight it alongside me?”
“Small-fry specialist Kang Ju-hyuk, deploying!”
After entrusting the lesser spirits to Kang Ju-hyuk.
Whoosh!
I charge toward the boss monster.
The colossal spirit looms before me.
“Uuuuuuuuuu—.”
The massive spirit recognizes me instantly, swinging its right fist wreathed in flames.
Against that assault.
– I activate the skill ‘Black Serpent’s Shadow’.
I evade using the movement ability.
– I cast the 3-Circle water magic ‘Aqua Blade’.
I attack with water attribute, its weakness.
Splash!
The fist does not shatter.
Until now, all the spirits I faced crumbled in a single hit when struck with their weakness attribute. This colossal spirit is different.
As befits a boss monster, even when attacked with its weakness attribute, its defense is so formidable that it withstands the blow.
‘It must be because it’s a raid monster.’
This trial was designed based on raid hunts conducted by large Guilds.
Accordingly, the boss monster must have been calibrated for raid difficulty as well.
The core strategy involves a hundred Guild members pooling their strength, destroying segments one by one to overcome the challenge.
But.
‘If that’s the case, then I simply need to output the power of multiple people by myself.’
Since First, I’ve conquered every monster—party monsters, raid monsters, it matters not—entirely alone.
This situation is familiar to me.
I sidestep the opposite hand the colossal spirit swings, plant my foot upon it, leap upward, and draw forth a new weapon.
[ Cerberus’s Fang ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form : Sword
Grade : Mythic
Restriction : Level 700 or higher, Sword Mastery Lv 70 or higher
Description : A sword forged from the fangs of the three-headed hound with a serpent’s tail, the guardian of the underworld ruled by Hades
Cerberus—the monster known as the gatekeeper of the underworld, said to breathe the hellfire of perdition.
The sword crafted from Cerberus’s fangs itself retained a scorching heat as intense as hellfire.
Furthermore.
– I cast the 2-Circle earth magic ‘Create Oil’.
– I cast the 3-Circle fire magic ‘Fire Burst’.
Together with the magic I learned at the Blue Moon Grand Library, I dual-cast powerful flame magic into the blade.
Immediately, a hellish inferno radiates from my sword, shimmering with wild intensity.
In that very state.
– I activate the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
I brought down the forearm of the colossal wind spirit with a devastating strike.
Boom!
Scorching flames erupted, and the forearm shattered into fragments.
A single attack had completely obliterated the forearm segment.
Admittedly, my level wasn’t particularly high, so my raw attack power was nothing exceptional.
But thanks to the formidable elemental force born from Cerberus’s fangs and fire magic, I could destroy the forearm in one blow.
And so, I began methodically shattering each segment of the colossal spirit one by one, using the same approach.
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The proctor for the Guild establishment test.
Summoner Shebit.
She watched Mir’s combat display in utter astonishment.
“What on earth is he doing?”
The variety of spirits she had summoned for the test was virtually endless.
Every single one of them was a spirit that proved extraordinarily difficult to defeat without striking its weak point with precision.
Yet those spirits—
Boom.
Mir was felling them in a single strike.
According to the records, this was his first attempt.
Yet despite being his first time, he not only identified each spirit’s weak point with perfect accuracy but wielded every type of elemental attack, striking those weak points with such devastating precision that it was nothing short of shocking.
“How is this even possible?”
Even spirits with obvious weak points don’t fall in a single hit without considerable attack power.
In other words, each of Mir’s attacks possessed elemental force well above the standard threshold.
Thus, the two of them were swiftly dispatching spirits.
But then—
“Impressive as it is, there’s no way you’ll take down this one!”
Originally, with only two people, she had planned to use only common spirits to conserve magic stones.
But seeing this, she decided it wouldn’t do, so she activated a massive magic stone according to protocol and summoned a colossal spirit.
“This thing can only be defeated by a full Guild raid!”
A colossal spirit whose every segment was composed of different spirit forms.
Moreover, to defeat the colossal spirit, one first had to sever all its segments.
And even then, the colossal spirit possessed exceptional defensive capabilities.
Though Mir had felled the previous spirits in single strikes, the colossal spirit couldn’t be defeated that way.
Indeed, when Mir’s first attack failed to penetrate properly, Shebit was convinced the colossal spirit was beyond his reach and felt renewed pride in her spirit.
Whoosh!
But then Mir suddenly drew a weapon, and an enormous inferno erupted from it.
Boom!!
The colossal spirit’s forearm shattered in a single blow.
“Wh…?”
An unbelievable sight.
Normally, that required either mages combining their strength to unleash successive fire magic, or—if the weak point attribute was insufficient—sustained concentrated attacks over an extended period to break it.
He shattered a fragment of such a colossal spirit in a single blow?
How was that even possible?
And yet.
Crash!
Mir drew forth a spear that shimmered like flowing water, then unleashed a tremendous vortex that obliterated the colossal spirit’s fist—a limb wrought entirely of flame.
The other fragments crumbled in succession, each destroyed by a solitary strike.
“No, this is utterly absurd….”
The colossal spirit’s shoulder exploded as Mir’s lightning arrow tore through it.
A hammer the size of a house shattered its left knee.
A pitch-black axe shrouded in darkness smashed its foot to pieces.
One strike.
I couldn’t fathom how he was doing it, but with each swing of Mir’s weapon, another fragment of the colossal spirit crumbled away.
“What about that one?”
I wondered what the other spirits were doing in the meantime.
Kang Ju-hyuk, who had entered alongside Mir, appeared remarkably seasoned as well.
He wielded various tools to draw the spirits’ attention and methodically blocked them from interfering with Mir’s combat.
In that moment.
Crash!!
The final fragment of the colossal spirit.
Even its head, which possessed the highest durability, shattered.
“Uuuuuuuuuuu-.”
The true form of the colossal spirit revealed itself.

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