The Strongest in the Game by Dominating Monster - Chapter 41

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Monster Domination: Game’s Strongest Episode 41

 

“Mi, Minotaur!!”

 

“Sh, shit! What! Why is it so big!”

 

The target they faced at the end of their long journey.

 

It was the being that would end this tiresome subjugation, but primal fear colored the users’ eyes.

 

The journey so far had been anything but easy.

 

They had overcome life-threatening situations countless times through arduous trials and hardships.

 

Because of that, a faint sense of pride had taken root.

 

But the moment they saw that giant being standing on the castle wall, all that confidence crumbled like dust.

 

That thing was an existence of a different class.

 

Kuuuung!

 

When the Minotaur jumped down from the castle wall, the ground cried out as if screaming.

 

When it reached out its hand, the giant double-bladed axe embedded in the ground was sucked into its grasp like a loyal dog responding to its master’s call.

 

“Damn. What is it, Thor?”

 

One user muttered as if dumbfounded.

 

They had thought it would be manageable since it didn’t have a weapon.

 

What a fleeting thought that was.

 

“Damn it! What should we do?”

 

“Just charge at it!!”

 

“Bullshit! You’re a mage, so you talk big?!”

 

And seeing the Minotaur gradually approaching, the users fell into chaos.

 

At this crucial moment, there was no commander.

 

Subjugation Force leader Allen.

 

Thanks to Kairen, he didn’t die, but he hadn’t completely escaped the aftermath.

 

“Cough, cough!”

 

Under his torn armor, blood gushed like a fountain from his side.

 

Kairen took out a potion and poured it in, but it was fighting a losing battle.

 

He could barely maintain his life, but wasn’t in any condition to fight.

 

“What is this…”

 

Seeing Allen’s critical condition, mage Dagang bit his lips.

 

All plans had gone awry.

 

The original plan was to halve the Minotaur’s power with his magic, then have the adventurers subjugate it.

 

If the adventurers failed, then Allen would step in.

 

According to plan, this subjugation shouldn’t have been such a difficult and dangerous mission.

 

However, two knights had already died, and even the last remaining Allen was unable to fight.

 

What if those ragtag adventurers failed in the subjugation?

 

Looking at the Minotaur’s particularly hideous-looking teeth, he gulped.

 

Dagang desperately chanted a spell, imagining a future he didn’t want to think about.

 

[Mage Dagang casts 【Curse of Great Calamity】 on the Minotaur!]

 

[All of the Minotaur’s stats are greatly reduced!]

 

At the same time, a sweet message appeared before the users’ eyes.

 

“Woooooooh! This makes it doable!”

 

“Right! The balance needs to be adjusted!!”

 

“Let’s go! Today we kill that bull bastard and turn our game life around!!”

 

The users cheered like children who had received candy.

 

The fear from just moments before was nowhere to be found.

 

Users blinded by greed shouted and charged forward.

 

* * *

 

[Oh, they’re fighting pretty well?]

 

[What. It’s going to end more boringly than expected]

 

[The devs must have been slacking off ㅡㅡ How could they make the final boss this easy?]

 

One hour since the Minotaur raid began.

 

Some viewers grumbled while watching the raid proceed relatively smoothly, even though users in the double digits had died.

 

However, those who knew the reality reacted differently.

 

[Mm. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Better enjoy it to the fullest while you can hahaha]

 

[Upvote if you feel sorry for the clueless newbies lololol]

 

[Hahaha I wonder how frustrated Taeorn must be right now watching these newbies lol]

 

[Even though Teorn has been yelling to save stamina and mana since earlier, everyone’s ignoring him lololol]

 

Those who already had experience hunting the Minotaur giggled while watching the users giving their all.

 

They knew from experience.

 

That the real Minotaur raid hadn’t even started yet.

 

And finally, the moment they had been waiting for arrived.

 

Moooooooooo-!!

 

The Minotaur, whose entire body was covered in wounds, let out a roar filled with rage toward the sky.

 

“Keke! What the hell!”

 

Despite the ominous cry, one user charged forward with a sneer.

 

The Minotaur, affected by Dagang’s magic, didn’t live up to its name.

 

It was weak and powerless.

 

Even if the damn thing got angry, as long as the magic wasn’t dispelled, there was nothing to fear.

 

And that was that user’s last thought.

 

[The Minotaur transforms into a 【Berserker】!]

 

[Attack power and movement speed explosively increase!]

 

Instantly, the Minotaur’s red eyes flashed like lightning, and it split the user’s body in half like a scarecrow with its double-edged axe.

 

Speed and destructive power on a completely different dimension from just moments before. The users’ faces were colored with shock.

 

[Hahahaha mad cow disease finally broke out hahaha]

 

[Time for a massacre lololol]

 

[Now it’s time to get really screwed, right? lol]

 

Viewers who knew its power jumped up and down.

 

Berserker Minotaur.

 

It was the second phase of the Minotaur raid and its true nature.

 

“Healers give defense buffs to the tanks! Mages slow down its movement speed!”

 

Theorn, who knew this fact well, quickly gave instructions to the adventurers.

 

The users who belatedly came to their senses followed the instructions and moved in unison, but.

 

“Kugh!”

 

“Cr, crazy… Does this damage even make sense?”

 

Even the tanks who received buffs from the healers couldn’t withstand the Minotaur’s single strike.

 

They barely managed to survive glancing blows, but when hit properly, they couldn’t withstand even a single strike and crumbled into gray dust.

 

“This… is dangerous?”

 

Kairen’s brow furrowed at that horrific sight.

 

In an instant, more than half the users and soldiers had turned to gray dust.

 

Only about a dozen soldiers survived.

 

There were at most fifty users remaining.

 

Cases where two or three users lost their lives to a single axe swing were countless.

 

“Still, if just one opening appears…”

 

Even in this desperate situation, Kairen’s eyes gleamed coldly.

 

“Theorn!”

 

Just then, he saw a massive figure that had fallen back to recover health.

 

At the urgent voice, Theorn turned his head.

 

“One second! Can you hold that thing for just one second?!”

 

The situation was so urgent that Kairen unconsciously dropped his formal speech.

 

“No way, hyung! That’s easier said than done!”

 

Without even noticing that welcome fact, Theorn reacted roughly.

 

Hold down that thing rampaging like a mad bull?

 

When they were barely managing to dodge, it was too much to ask.

 

However, Kairen’s following words made his lips twitch.

 

“Friend request! If you hold it down, I’ll send you a friend request!”

 

“You should have said that from the start!!”

 

Theorn threw away his empty potion bottle and stepped forward enthusiastically.

 

Just as his cooldown finished, he cast his shield skill and charged at the Minotaur.

 

The Minotaur, which had been swinging its axe dripping with sticky blood, also leaped toward Theorn.

 

Crash!

 

With a violent sound, the two massive figures collided.

 

The hidden class’s shield skill was torn to shreds.

 

The axe that broke through the shield split Theorn’s shield in half.

 

The unique grade shield became paper scraps in one blow, but Theorn smiled.

 

A friend request from Kairen for just one unique grade shield at his level?

 

It was a cheap deal.

 

“Hyung!!”

 

Theorn shouted while coughing up blood.

 

But even before he could shout, two arrows had already left the bowstring.

 

A Mana Arrow imbued with subtle magic and a Flame Arrow with an arrowhead flickering with flames.

 

The two arrows fired in sequence drew identical trajectories like a painting.

 

[Mana Arrow hit!]

 

[Greatly reduces target’s defense!]

 

With the cheerful message, the Flame Arrow struck right next to the Mana Arrow.

 

The effect of the Flame Arrow hitting where defense had been reduced was significant.

 

Crack!

 

With the sound of something splitting in half, one of the two horns that had boasted a majestic appearance broke in half.

 

“Got it.”

 

Moooooooo!!

 

Watching the Minotaur writhing in pain, Kairen smiled.

 

Though he’d only read it once, Kairen hadn’t forgotten.

 

The passage written in the Monster Bestiary.

 

[Minotaur]… The horns on its head are sturdy, but it takes great damage when destroyed.

 

* * *

 

[The Minotaur’s horn has been destroyed! Health greatly reduced and enters temporary confusion state!]

 

“What, what’s that?”

 

“Why is it acting like that?”

 

“Look at its health! It dropped tremendously!”

 

Users murmured while watching the Minotaur unable to regain its senses from pain, and Theorn’s eyes widened too.

 

‘Were the Minotaur’s horns its weakness?’

 

Those horns that looked harder than steel were its weakness?

 

Even he, a ranker, hadn’t known.

 

And other rankers probably didn’t know either.

 

If they had known, they would have given him a tip long ago.

 

But hyung knew that?

 

Theorn was quite surprised by that fact.

 

The trajectory and target were too coincidental to say he shot without knowing it was a weakness.

 

What archer in the world would aim for a Minotaur’s horns when shooting arrows?

 

‘Wait, are you some kind of returner or something, hyung?’

 

Was he on his second life, enjoying the game for the second time?

 

It was an absurd delusion, but Theorn thought it wouldn’t make sense otherwise as he got up.

 

He didn’t have many potions left now, and his mana was running low too.

 

It was a desperate moment, but thanks to hyung, hope had emerged.

 

“Everyone charge! Aim for the horns! Its weakness is the horns!!”

 

“Waaahhhhh!!”

 

“Not much left!”

 

Users with greatly boosted morale charged again.

 

Ranged dealers including Kairen also poured all kinds of attacks from behind again.

 

However, an hour later, looking at the horribly changed surroundings, Theorn muttered bitterly.

 

“Damn…”

 

The morale was good, but their skills couldn’t keep up.

 

Only four users survived.

 

Just himself and hyung, plus streamer Karu who had ranked 3rd in contribution on the first day, and one unknown user.

 

“Is it over…”

 

Theorn let out a deep sigh of regret.

 

The thing’s health was now about one-third remaining.

 

If they could break just one more horn, it would be manageable health to defeat.

 

However, perhaps because it was also concerned, it fought while thoroughly protecting its horns.

 

When it protected its only weakness, the momentum rapidly declined.

 

“Kugh!”

 

Just then, the unknown user was split in half by the Minotaur’s axe.

 

Now only three users remained.

 

When Theorn sensed failure and closed his eyes.

 

“Theorn get back!!”

 

The only man who hadn’t given up shouted.

 

His arrow pierced the Minotaur’s solar plexus, and its cruel gaze turned toward Kairen.

 

“…!”

 

Watching the Minotaur charging quickly toward him, Kairen hurriedly moved his feet.

 

Even blocking one hit would mean instant death.

 

As someone who wasn’t a tank, even a glancing blow would kill him.

 

He exerted extreme mental strength to the end, trying to create distance.

 

But the basic stat difference was too overwhelming.

 

The Minotaur quickly closed the distance and swung its axe in a wide arc.

 

[Lord Kairen!]

 

Woof! (K-Kairen! Dodge!)

 

Garuda and Rookie cried out urgently.

 

The two beings who had been holding back on Kairen’s orders ignored his command and rushed forward frantically.

 

‘…! I can’t dodge it!’

 

Watching the axe grow larger and larger, Kairen instinctively knew.

 

This was beyond the realm of what he could avoid.

 

Swoooosh!

 

Then, blood poured like a waterfall before his eyes.

 

There was no pain. Instead, what filled his vision was a massive back.

 

“B-Brother. N-now!”

 

Theorn, who had spread his arms and caught the Minotaur’s axe with his entire body, cried out desperately.

 

Before his words were even finished, Kairen’s body moved like instinct.

 

He hastily drew an arrow, nocked it to the bowstring, and pulled back.

 

The target was right in front of him.

 

So close that even a child could hit it.

 

Missing at this distance didn’t exist in his vocabulary.

 

Twang!

 

The arrow that flew swiftly glinted ominously in the red moonlight.

 

* * *

 

Close-range combat had clear advantages and disadvantages for an archer.

 

The possibility of missing disappeared, but the arrow’s power was reduced accordingly.

 

So he didn’t rest his hands.

 

Mana Arrow, Flame Arrow, and even basic attacks.

 

In just a few seconds, in that fleeting moment, he drove seven arrows like a storm into the Minotaur’s horn.

 

And just as he was nocking the eighth arrow to the bowstring.

 

Moooooo!

 

The Minotaur couldn’t endure the pain and screamed, and cracks appeared in the horn where seven arrows were embedded like decorations.

 

Glaring at the horn splitting with cracking sounds, he drew the bowstring again.

 

“…It’s not over yet.”

 

He aimed precisely at the writhing monster and shot another arrow.

 

The arrow that flew with a sharp whistling sound provided the finishing touch.

 

Seven arrows embedded like the Big Dipper.

 

It pierced exactly through their center.

 

Crack!

 

With a shattering sound like breaking glass, the bull’s second horn scattered through the air like meteor fragments.

 

[The Minotaur’s horn has been destroyed! Its health is greatly reduced and it falls into a temporary confused state!]

 

“Got it!!”

 

The message he had been waiting for so long.

 

Without hesitation, he fingered the Advanced Taming Arrow.

 

The creature’s remaining health was barely 10% and it was in a confused state.

 

Now was the perfect opportunity.

 

But just as he was about to nock the arrow to the bowstring.

 

“Alright!! I’ll pour out all my damage!!”

 

From behind the Minotaur, an ecstatic voice burst out.

 

Looking into the distance, he saw BJ Canoe grinning with his gums showing.

 

He was squeezing out his remaining mana and pouring out magic.

 

Ah. That man was still there.

 

Instantly, he withdrew his hand that had been fingering the Advanced Taming Arrow.

 

Currently, BJ Canoe was the only remaining streamer.

 

He couldn’t even fathom how many viewers were gathered in his stream right now.

 

Tens of thousands? Maybe hundreds of thousands might be watching through that guy.

 

And now, attempt taming?

 

It would be no different from advertising to the whole world that he was the Monster Lord.

 

…Should I kill Canoe.

 

A cold calculation that flashed through his mind.

 

Or…

 

And another method that suddenly came to mind.

 

After a moment’s deliberation, he made his decision.

 

However, the price of hesitation was steep.

 

Moooooo!

 

The Minotaur, having endured the magical barrage, broke free from its confused state and rampaged with an even more ferocious roar.

 

“Damn it!!”

 

As Canoe, who had drawn the aggro, was terrified, a bewildered voice came from behind.

 

“B-Brother. Why…”

 

Hastily turning his head, he saw Theorn, pale as a sheet.

 

Even when asked why he was hesitating, he was too shocked to answer.

 

“…! You were alive?”

 

His whole body was covered in blood and his face was deathly pale, but he was alive.

 

He had definitely thought he was dead.

 

He had taken the Minotaur’s attack head-on, and blood had gushed from his chest like a fountain.

 

He had instinctively felt that even a hidden class tank couldn’t survive that.

 

“What an insane class…”

 

He muttered, feeling awe at his incredible vitality and defense.

 

With a tank of this caliber, things were different.

 

A class that wouldn’t hurt to befriend? No. It was to the extent that he absolutely had to befriend him.

 

“Brother. Do you happen to have any potions left?”

 

Had he used up all his potions?

 

At the pleading voice, he handed over his last remaining potion without hesitation.

 

As he gulped it down and recovered his health, the situation took a turn for the worst.

 

“Save me!!”

 

BJ Canoe came running toward them, screaming pathetically.

 

The thoroughly enraged Minotaur chased fiercely behind him.

 

“No!! What are you doing bringing the aggro over here!”

 

Theorn’s outburst made Canoe hesitate for a moment, but he continued running as if he didn’t care anymore.

 

I was also getting quite annoyed, but it was already too late.

 

“Brother! I’ll draw the aggro again…”

 

Just as he gripped his war hammer properly and was about to step forward, I reached out and stopped him.

 

“Brother?”

 

Theorn looked at me with a puzzled expression, and I pulled out a piece of paper with a strange smile.

 

“See you around, Theorn.”

 

Riiip-!

 

As I tore the parchment with both hands, a gentle voice echoed in my ears.

 

[Using 【Space Restriction Scroll】.]

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