Chapter 651: Clearing the 4th Floor
Chapter 651: Clearing the 4th Floor
“Haaah!”
The moment the kraken revealed itself, Sara, as if she’d never been surprised at all, immediately corrected her posture and aimed her bow at it.
“Sara! Wait!”
“Y-You idiot! What are you doing at a time like this! If this is some kind of joke, I’ll play along later, but for now…!”
Before Sara could let an arrow fly, I rushed to pull her into an embrace and stop her.
But Sara, not yet seeming to realize why I was doing it, glared at me sharply, her face slightly flushed.
For Sara to make a mistake like this, so unlike her.
It seemed that even though she looked calm on the outside, the kraken’s immense presence had truly startled her.
“You’re the idiot! What do you think you’re doing?! I can’t draw its aggro right away this time!”
Normally, I would have said it calmly, but this time, even I couldn’t help but shout in desperation.
The kraken had already noticed us and was preparing to charge at any second.
“Ah…”
Hearing my words, Sara finally seemed to realize what she had done wrong.
Usually, it wouldn’t matter if she fired an arrow first, just as she was about to.
We could finish it off before it got close, and even if we couldn’t, I could always take the aggro.
But this time, both of those options were impossible.
Even for Sara, finishing off a floor boss before it could even approach was impossible, and since Silvia was the main tank for this operation, it was also impossible for me to draw aggro with my Saint skills.
That meant we had to do what other parties do: wait for the tank, Silvia, to get the kraken’s aggro before we could start attacking.
So my actions in warning her were perfectly reasonable, but… seeing Sara’s dejected expression still weighed on my heart.
To think I’d yelled at my woman, no matter how urgent the situation.
My creed is to be a warm man, but only to my women.
“You promised you’d play along with a joke like this later, okay?”
Because of that, I deliberately gave Sara’s butt a light pat, as if I were groping her, and spoke in a lighthearted tone as I stepped away.
Sara shot me a glare at my action but didn’t complain.
Heh. What a man I am, keeping my cool and taking care of my woman even in an emergency.
Why am I so kind, sweet, and perfect?
While indulging in a bit of self-praise, I didn’t forget what needed to be done and moved forward.
“Alright, Silvia. I’m counting on you as the main tank. I’ll do my best to divert its aggro too.”
“Yes, sir!”
Even though I spoke to her at close range, Silvia showed no signs of wavering. She gave a dependable reply and swam forward quickly.
Watching her back, I took out my newly purchased dagger and a spare one from my inventory, gripping one in each hand, and followed closely behind her.
Physical strikes were completely ineffective against this opponent, and my Saint skills were sealed unless a crisis arose. My Dagger Mastery level was low, but I had to attack somehow.
For the record, there was no special reason for dual-wielding. I figured that since the damage I could deal would be minimal anyway, I might as well try to hit it as many times as possible.
And with that, the battle against the kraken finally began.
The kraken’s first attack was, as expected, aimed at Silvia, who was approaching it the fastest.
Was it extending just one tentacle while floating in the water to gauge our strength?
If so, it seemed to be a pretty intelligent creature.
Then again, if it weren’t smart, it wouldn’t have been able to camouflage itself as seaweed until we were right on top of it.
Although it was just one tentacle, the kraken’s attack was incredibly menacing.
The tentacle was probably two or three times thicker than my torso, making it feel as if a giant wooden spear was flying straight at us.
Diana had mentioned during the briefing earlier that it wasn’t wrong to see it as a tentacle-like attack, but tentacle play with that thing would be impossible.
Just one wrap of that tentacle would be enough to completely cover a person’s body.
Not that I’m disappointed, of course.
In any case, facing the kraken’s threateningly extended tentacle, Silvia raised her shield to the front and skillfully deflected it.
No, not only that, she even managed to slash the side of the kraken’s tentacle with her sword after it was left defenseless from being deflected by her shield.
Given its thickness, the wound didn’t look deep, but Silvia’s slash seemed to have been a sufficient threat to the kraken.
The kraken extended two more tentacles toward Silvia, and seeing this, I sent a hand signal to Sara behind me to attack.
Sara, well aware that she couldn't finish this thing in one go, started aiming for the tentacles reaching for Silvia rather than the kraken's main body.
But just as Diana had said, Sara’s attacks didn’t have their usual power.
Of course, even so, Sara was still Sara.
She was successfully halting the movement of the incoming tentacles and consistently dealing damage comparable to Silvia’s slashes.
If we keep dealing damage steadily like this, this monster will eventually fall.
For us, who rarely let a battle drag on for more than ten minutes, it was a rather unfamiliar experience, but this was probably how boss battles were normally fought.
Unable to just stand by and watch any longer, I quickly circled around to the kraken’s back and began to slash at the back of its head with the daggers in both hands.
…Though it seemed like I was doing absolutely no damage.
No, seriously. I know my combat job level is low and my Dagger Mastery is low, but isn’t this a bit much? This thing isn’t even paying attention to me.
Fine. Let’s see if you can ignore this.
This time, I began to infuse my daggers with ki.
As expected, my low Dagger Mastery held me back again, and it didn’t work as well as it did with my fists, but a faint light began to emanate from the daggers nonetheless.
If I had my way, I would have hit it with my ultimate move, Pain and Pleasure… no, Hell and Heaven, but I decided to let it slide this time.
I began to slash wildly with the glowing daggers in my hands.
…The kraken extended a single tentacle in my direction.
We continued the tedious battle for some time.
To be precise, it was Sara and Silvia, or rather, the three of them including Leia, who was casting buffs and heals from the back, who were doing the fighting.
As I hacked away at the kraken, which never sent more than one tentacle my way, I was starting to feel like I was just cheering them on.
After a considerable amount of time passed, a change finally occurred in this sluggish battle.
Silvia, who had been skillfully deflecting the kraken’s tentacles with her shield until now, ended up blocking a tentacle swinging from the side head-on with her shield.
You might ask, what’s the problem if she blocked it? Well, it wasn’t that simple.
The defining feature of an octopus’s tentacles is its suckers.
This kraken also had that feature, and it stuck fast to Silvia’s shield, which had blocked its tentacle.
When the kraken pulled its tentacle back, Silvia, who was gripping her shield tightly, couldn’t help but be dragged along with it.
“Silvia!”
Knowing she couldn’t hear me underwater, I still shouted her name and prepared to use my Saint skills at once.
But our knight, who never loses her composure in battle, was not one to be flustered by something like this.
Just as she seemed to be getting flung about by the kraken’s tentacle, she suddenly let go of her shield, gripped her sword with both hands, and swung.
That heavy blow, swung with the added acceleration from being pulled by the kraken’s tentacle, achieved the splendid feat of completely severing one of the kraken’s tentacles.
It went without saying that the kraken, with its tentacle severed, went even more berserk than before.
The kraken momentarily curled all its tentacles inward, and in the next instant, it shot upwards, extending all its tentacles wide.
“Ugh!”
The sudden ascent of the kraken sent me, who had been struggling while clinging to the back of its head, soaring upwards as well, but I soon realized it was a fortunate turn of events.
The kraken had sprayed a jet of black ink downwards.
Perhaps its massive body stored a large amount of ink, as the gushing ink was enough to turn the entire vicinity pitch black.
Seeing this, I realized that the time had finally come for the protagonist to shine.
My party members’ vision was completely obscured by the ink.
Silvia would obviously be unable to dodge the kraken’s tentacles, and Sara and Diana wouldn’t be able to recklessly fire ranged attacks when they couldn’t see who they might hit.
Matilda and Leia had no means of dealing with the situation either.
Only I, positioned on the kraken’s back, had a clear line of sight and could attack from close range.
As evidenced by the fact that Diana hadn't attacked at all so far, she probably thought this battle would be a stepping stone for our growth and intended to let us handle it ourselves until a real crisis arose. But with things having turned out this way, I had no choice.
Without hesitation, I shrouded one hand in Saint’s Touch.
“To cum black stuff before I’ve even properly touched you! I’ll show you what it really feels like to cum! Orgasm to death!”
I swung my fist, enveloped in Saint’s Touch, at the kraken with all my might.
Of course, even if I swung with all my might, it didn’t do any damage to the kraken.
And naturally, the kraken didn’t just orgasm and die from that one blow.
It seems that no matter how high my Charm is, I’m not yet at a level where I can make the 4th-floor boss die from pleasure in a single hit.
I was reminded of that fact as I watched all of its tentacles, except for the one Silvia had severed, descend upon me.
…This is gross.
That was my first thought as my entire body was enveloped by octopus tentacles.
No, it hurts too. It hurts a lot.
As expected of the 4th-floor boss. To deal this much damage despite my defense and 5th-floor level equipment.
But more than the pain, I felt an intense sense of disgust.
I mean, my whole body was being wrapped up and squeezed by tentacles, and at the same time, suckers were sticking to me and pulling from all over.
It felt incredibly gross.
And my Saint skill is still active on my hand, so every time a sucker latches onto my hand, I can feel this thing’s tentacles twitching, which makes it even grosser.
This is gross in so many ways.
But that’s not the grossest part.
The grossest part is, why the hell do I have to be the one going through this?
Normally, shouldn’t it be a woman who gets the tentacle play treatment to make for a better picture?!
Come to think of it, didn’t I go through something like this when we first came to the 4th floor?
This is weird, isn’t it?! Normally, this kind of thing should happen to a pretty young lady, not a bastard like me, to create a titillating scene, right?!
Why me?! Why is it always me?!
Silvia was right there! A lady knight and tentacle play! It sounds perfect! So why me?!
No, it’s not that I want my woman to experience this kind of pain, absolutely not, but still! I couldn’t control this feeling of being wronged.
Damn it! In a world like this! A beautiful world overflowing with sex events everywhere you go, shouldn’t something like that happen during monster fights too?!
Why are dungeon battles always so damn strict, solemn, and serious?!
The name of the game that brought me to this world was ‘Sex at the Dungeon,’ right?
Hey, Goddess! There’s no sex at the dungeon!
While I was having an outburst of indignation under the assault of the kraken’s tentacles and suckers, a delicious smell began to waft to my nose.
…This thing. It’s being roasted by Diana.
And so, our great battle against the kraken came to a hollow, anticlimactic end.
From now on, forget about growth or whatever. I think I’ll just have Diana take care of everything.