-Wham!
“Ugh!”
The Field Boss had already noticed Arang and Baedeokgae approaching from behind, and as soon as he saw Kang Hangeul’s CC ability, he kicked Kang Hangeul hard.
Even though it was just a simple kick, Kang Hangeul, who was already off balance, couldn’t hold his ground and was sent flying backward.
“Ahhh!”
As Kang Hangeul flew past her, Yesol screamed.
The Field Boss swung his sword forward to kill Yesol, who was momentarily defenseless.
But Baedeokgae and Arang weren’t just standing still.
Having already gone through various content together, Baedeokgae and Arang had developed good synergy and attacked the boss without even needing to communicate.
Arang began a parrying duel with the boss, while Baedeokgae occasionally helped Arang, who was struggling due to her lower stats, and moved behind the Field Boss to land a back attack.
The Field Boss, who had never lost in speed or parrying battles in PVP, was now suppressing Arang and dealing with Baedeokgae, who was attacking from behind with unmatched speed and power, showing overwhelming force.
Ignoring aggro, the Field Boss used skills and parrying to create an unbelievable situation, but there was something different about this boss compared to others.
It had clear stun, recovery delay, and skill animations, just like a player.
This was something that usually didn’t exist in Leore bosses, but now it was present in the Field Boss.
Thwack!
Baedeokgae’s attack hit the back of the Field Boss’s neck, causing him to stagger forward and lose his balance.
“Hyah!”
Arang let out a cute roar and swung her sword with all her might at the Field Boss.
The Tashim Sword, emitting a dark impact, struck the Field Boss’s chest, shattering his black armor and piercing his heart.
Even if it didn’t kill him instantly, they thought it would be a critical hit, but the Field Boss’s health didn’t drop much.
“What the hell! That’s not the weak point!?”
The Field Boss casually swung the sword in his right hand toward Arang.
‘Oh no!’
Grip.
‘The sword won’t come out!?’
The deeply embedded sword was now wrapped in something like black vines from the Field Boss.
‘Damn it!’
Caught off guard, Arang was slow to react to the Field Boss’s attack.
“Uryaaaaah!”
Bang!
“Uncle!”
Kang Hangeul, who had been flung far away, came running like crazy and blocked the Field Boss’s sword.
In the time Kang Hangeul bought, Arang grabbed her sword tightly, jumped, placed both feet on the Field Boss’s chest armor, and pushed him back, successfully pulling out her beloved Tashim Sword.
Arang stepped back and quickly thought.
‘The heart isn’t the weak point. Then where is it?’
Baedeokgae and Kang Hangeul attacked the Field Boss while using their heightened senses to look for any problematic areas, but they couldn’t find anything.
‘In this case, there’s only one way. Just keep hitting him until we find the weak point.’
Arang accelerated her consciousness with her heightened senses and joined the fight, attacking the Field Boss like a blender alongside Baedeokgae.
Swoosh.
-Ugh!-
The armor protecting the Field Boss began to crumble, and when Arang’s sword grazed his right arm, which was particularly damaged, the Field Boss hastily retreated.
Everyone was stunned as the Field Boss retreated for the first time.
‘Wait, could it be…?’
Arang realized something as she saw the Field Boss covering the spot she had just grazed.
‘That spot… it’s where my arm was amputated.’
Exactly.
Having lived as Arang for nearly half a year, she knew exactly the boundary between her real-life missing limbs and her in-game ones.
Even though the Field Boss was much larger, the proportions were clear.
‘If the Field Boss learned and absorbed from me… did it also absorb my weakness?’
It wasn’t a real weakness, but the system could recognize it as one.
Because the system knew. It knew that Arang’s limbs weren’t real but were artificially created by the system.
‘Even though the non-existent limbs are stronger, the system definitely marked them as a weakness.’
Arang shouted loudly to inform everyone of her realization.
“The Field Boss’s weak point is the limbs! The exact spot is where the boundary is from my missing limbs!”
Arang pulled up the sleeves of her Apostle Outfit and lifted the slit skirt to clearly show the boundary and her underwear to everyone.
Everyone was shocked by Arang’s actions and tried to stop her, but there was no time.
The Field Boss, having regrouped, began to rampage again.
The battle, which had been stagnant as they focused on the head and heart as weak points, suddenly shifted.
As they started targeting the limbs, the Field Boss began to panic, and the psychological warfare turned in favor of Arang’s party.
Soon, the attacks from Arang’s party, now in control, relentlessly struck the Field Boss.
Finally.
Crack, shatter!
The Field Boss’s black armor shattered, revealing his body, and everyone was stunned.
“!?”
“Ahhh!?”
“This is insane…”
“Huh…?”
Arang was speechless as she saw something on the Field Boss’s upper body.
Black hair, a beautiful and cute face, a small chest like a child’s, but with perfect skin and a cute figure.
It was as if Arang had been absorbed into the Field Boss’s upper body.
‘That’s… Abyss Artamin.’
Arang immediately recognized the figure embedded in the Field Boss’s upper body, which looked exactly like her.
It was identical to her, but with inverted eyes, making it clear.
‘Why is the final raid boss from last season inside the Field Boss?’
Now it made sense.
“Is that Abyss Artamin!?”
Yesol, who was also well-versed in Leore lore, recognized the figure in the Field Boss’s upper body.
“Wh-what!? What’s Artamin!? Isn’t that Arang!?”
Baedeokgae, who had skipped all the story and had a bad memory, didn’t remember the term Artamin.
“Baedeokgae, that’s the boss from last season when you got the WFK!”
“Whaaaat!?”
“No wonder. So the Field Boss absorbed Abyss Artamin, who had transformed into Arang, which is why it looked exactly like Arang! And because Arang has no limbs, it absorbed that too, making the limbs the weak point…? Leore, you’re too much!!!”
Yesol shouted at the system for creating such a Field Boss.
“Crazy Leore. How could they do this to Arang…! You bad guys!”
Baedeokgae was beyond disbelief and was now angry.
“Stop talking and attack the Field Boss!”
Arang shouted at the chaotic Baedeokgae and Yesol, but even Kang Hangeul was confused.
As he tried to swing his greatsword, he hesitated, feeling like he was attacking Arang herself, who was pitifully absorbed into the giant knight’s body.
And that hesitation naturally led to an opening for the Field Boss to attack.
Wham!
“Uncle! Cover me!”
“I… I can’t…! How can I attack Arang!!!”
Baedeokgae, who adored Arang, couldn’t bring herself to attack the figure that looked exactly like Arang, who was just staring blankly into space.
==
“Sigh.”
In the end, the Field Boss challenge ended in failure.
Every time they tried to attack, they hesitated, and the Field Boss’s attacks hit them directly, making it impossible for the heals to keep up.
“This is cheating! Cheating!!! No, this is, I mean, what is this!?”
Baedeokgae, who had respawned at the revival point after the party wiped, was furious.
Kang Hangeul and Yesol fully understood her anger.
Was it because Arang was just pretty and cute? No.
If it were just about her being pretty and cute, they would have attacked and won already.
But Arang had lost her limbs in real life due to illness, suffered from mental trauma, and had been in a coma for a long time. She overcame all that and returned as the bright Arang they knew. That’s why they couldn’t bring themselves to attack her.
They couldn’t swing their swords or daggers at someone like Arang.
“Come on, it’s clearly not her. You can tell just by looking at the eyes. How could you hesitate and die…?”
They were so close.
The Field Boss’s HP was only at 30% when the armor shattered.
The armor breaking was the final phase, and there were no other patterns or skills.
If they had just kept their cool, they could have cleared the Field Boss with just a four-person party, but they couldn’t.
Arang was filled with regret.
“Let’s go again. We can do it now, right?”
Arang said it casually, but Baedeokgae, Kang Hangeul, and Yesol weren’t confident about facing the Field Boss again.
