One Man Army

Chapter 118 [Episode 61] Focusing In Business Again 1

Focusing In Business Again.

Sang Hyuk spent all his free money to buy GL’s stocks. About a billion shares of common stocks were available and he bought as much as he could with his remaining money, so he doesn’t need to worry about investing for the time being.

Sang Hyuk finished investing in the real world so he began to focus on EL again.

Investing in reality was fun, but it was just like a bonus game. Sang Hyuk’s real fun was not in the reality, but in virtual reality.

Sang Hyuk finally decided to go ahead with the Hydra Attack that has been prepared steadily.

Hydra was the final boss of the Deep Sea Dungeon.

The Deep Sea Dungeon was of course placed within the deep sea. However, it was not accessible through the sea, but through an ordinary normal dungeon called ‘Temple of the Sea Dragon’.

In other words, to go to the raid dungeon named Deep Sea Dungeon, it means to clear the temple of the Sea Dragon, a normal dungeon.

When he clears the Temple of Sea Dragon, he can open the gate using the ‘Sea Stone’ and enter the Deep Sea Dungeon. You can use the Sea Stone repeatedly, so you have to clear the Temple of Sea Dragon only once.

Sang Hyuk quickly cleared the sea temple and got the Sea Stone. Then he went straight to the Deep Sea Dungeon.

The preparations were finished anyway.

The only thing left was to attack the Deep Sea Dungeon and hunt the Hydra.

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The Deep Sea Dungeon was the most difficult among the raid dungeons in the Heroic Lands, so even Sang Hyuk pull it off with difficulty.

Especially, Sang Hyuk was raiding as a solo player not as team, so he could not raise the clear speed.

However, in general terms, it can be said that he was able to run it at a very fast pace. Sang Hyuk’s standards were already very high, so progress was normal, according to his criteria.

At the end of his hard work, Sang Hyuk was able to remove all intermediate bosses and normal monsters, leaving only the final boss, Hydra.

Deep Sea Dungeon reset cycle was a month, so he had a lot of time to spare.

If only he can defeat the Hydra during the remaining days, in fact all of the raids in Heroic Lands were finished.

Of course the Hydra was not an easy opponent.

Except for the dragons seen in the Continent of the Sun, it was hard to find a monster stronger than Hydra.

Sang Hyuk did not catch the Hydra in his previous life.

But he watched the videos of raiding the Hydra several times in real time.

So, he knew how to attack and also the Hydra’s patterns.

Sang Hyuk completed the first attack on that basis. Though it may not be the perfect strategy, but he thought he could fill in the missing parts in real time.

“Anyway, it needed at least twenty times for it to be completely solved and the attack will be completed…..”

Sang Hyuk was not afraid of failure.

The most important thing about raids is that you should not be afraid to fail.

“Knock! Then it will be opened.”

Sang Hyuk attacked the Hydra with these words.

He did not hurry. Every time he challenge it, he got more than one attack hint and he is getting more and more accomplished in correcting and completing his poor initial strategy.

It was experience that is the most important thing in Raids anyway, so Sang Hyuk was steadily backing the Hydra into a corner as he improved.

As a result, he was able to complete an almost perfect strategy at the end of the twelfth try.

The strategy was completed much sooner than he thought. Of course, Hydra was not caught by the completion of the strategy.

The strategy has been created, but just because he knew how to solve the last piece of the puzzle, didn’t mean it was easy.

One of the last puzzles of the Hydra Attack was the ‘Petrified Eyes’, which shot randomly when his maximum health drops below 20%.

Hydra’s head was similar to a snake. And there were such nine heads. He had to cut off all these nine heads to kill the Hydra.

Each head has 10 lives, and the last immortal head that exists until the end has 20 lives.

Right when it only has the immortal head left, Hydra used the petrified eyes and if you hit by these eyes, you will be petrified. The only way to avoid this eye was to not look at its eyes.

Normally, after the petrified eyes, Hydra cast a deadly attack called ‘The poisonous fang of death’ one after another, so once you hit by the petrified eyes, it should be considered as the end.

Actually, the petrified eyes was not a difficult skill for a raid team. If only the team member with the ‘remove abnormal status’ skill did not become petrified, then that team member was able to restore his friends who were petrified immediately by using the skill.

So when a raid team is attacking a hydra, one of the team members who had the remove abnormal status skill would not participate in the battle at all if it only has the immortal head left and then when their other colleagues became petrified, he immediately used the remove abnormal status skill.

If it is done like this, then the petrified eyes become no threat at all.

However, Sang Hyuk had no colleagues to release him. When a team raid was run by a solo player like this, this was a time when something that was not a problem at all become a big problem.

Of course, there were some parts that were comfortable because he was alone, but mostly there were more parts where Sang Hyuk was uncomfortable because he was alone.

The ‘Petrified Eyes’ was known to be impossible to avoid because there was no “tell”. But that doesn’t mean that analysis was impossible.

Sang Hyuk discovered that the pupil shakes in a certain direction slightly when the immortal head emits the petrified eyes. It was a fact that he observed by the eighth challenge, and after that he challenge it four more times while checking the timing.

“Approximately….. 0.3 seconds? If I do not react during that time, I surely will be stone.”

Speaking in common sense, it was almost impossible for human to respond to something in 0.3 seconds. Especially to avoid the petrified eyes, he had to catch the minute tremor and instantly turn away in 0.3 seconds.

But he had to do this to get the Hydra down.

There was no other way. The Petrified eyes was what Sang Hyuk had to overcome unconditionally.

“Usually in this case…..”

Sang Hyuk smiled rottenly while looking at the entrance to the huge pupil of the Hydra.

“I have to keep going until I get it.”

Repeat attempts, that was the answer.

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Blurred, microscopic eye movements. The moment Sang hyuk caught them, he had already turned away.

Jwaaaa!

Instantly, the petrified eyes from the immortal head flashed, but the energy only reached Sang Hyuk’s back.

Sang Hyuk avoided the petrified eyes in the same movement as the petrifying light and once again wrapped the Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip around its neck.

Hwiriririk, Deudeudeuk!

“Now the end is in sight, right?”

Sang Hyuk avoided the petrified eyes that flashed the petrifying light from the immortal head for exactly 38 times in this 43rd trial. Then, after avoiding it, he counterattacked steadily.

Unlike the other heads, the immortal head had 20 lives, but Sang Hyuk’s attack power surpassed the firepower of a good raid team.

So while Sang Hyuk’s kept up his counterattack, even if it is a Hydra, it can not endure it forever.

Sang Hyuk wrapped the Hydra’s neck with Ten Millennia Goldbone Whip and pulled it hard.

Kyaaaaaaaa!

Hydra lost 8 out of 9 heads and one of them was half cut off. At this rate, Sang Hyuk seemed to be defeating the Hydra with a solo raid.

But, Hydra still has the last 1 HP left.

The moment when the Hydra’s vitality drops to 1. Suddenly the body of the Hydra shivered and began to burn itself.

“Huh? What is this?”

Sang Hyuk, who thought he was almost done, was shocked at the sudden change

Based on what he knew, the last pattern of the Hydra was the petrified eyes. All the Hydra capturing videos that he has seen in his previous life likewise said that the petrified eyes was the last pattern.

But the Hydra was collapsing like this.

So, why is this happening now?

This was actually because the Hydra, which had been burned to this state just before its collapse, was the “primordial” hydra.

The Hydra that was born when this world (the world of the eternal life) was born and has never been defeated until now.

The internal code is ‘HD-1’.

Sang Hyuk drove the primordial Hydra’s to the point of death.

Special named monsters of a certain grade or higher can get the title ‘Primeval’ and the named monsters which are called primeval have special powers.

The hidden conditions are met and the primordial hydra changes to the ‘Skeleton Hydra That Overcomes Death’.

If you defeat this Skeleton Hydra that overcomes death, you can get a very big reward.

“Oh, come on!”

With the system message, the Hydra almost dying in front of his eyes was revived and become the Skeleton Hydra that overcome death.

This was a situation that people had no choice but to swear.

He almost finished the raid, but the raid started again. Even the Skeleton Hydra that overcome the death had all nine heads restored.

The only thing that changed was that it was becoming a skeleton.

Of course, such an unexpected event and special rewards were not bad. But not now!

After Sang Hyuk finds a way to attack the skeleton Hydra that overcome death again, he would have to struggle for at least another ten days to defeat the Skeleton Hydra. Then it will be over the dungeon reset time, so he had to do the raid all over again from the beginning.

“I have to finish it now.”

Sang Hyuk had already been in the Deep Sea Dungeon for about 25 days and he had only five days to reset. So, he had to finish it now.

Khooong!

As soon as the resurrected Skeletal Hydra hostile roared towards Sang Hyuk, Sang Hyuk realizes that it is time to make an unavoidable choice.

“Uh, I brought it here just in case…. but it is really too precious to use it here.”

It is really precious.

In fact, it was a thing that would be wasted to use before the Continent of the Sun. No, it was worthy to use in the next dimensional planet beyond the Continent of the Sun.

But, if he does not catch the Hydra right now, he surely has to waste a lot of time and it can cause a lot of annoying problems, so he had to use it even if it was a waste.

“You should know that it’s an honor.”

Sang Hyuk looked at the Skeleton Hydra that overcome death and held a single combination card in his hand.

Tiing.

Then he threw it to the Skeleton Hydra.

“An angry dragon. Hurry eat all of the offerings I give you and destroy the enemy in front of me.”

Gooooooooo.

Right when Sang Hyuk threw the combination card and spat out the command words….. The combination card, that slowly flying forward, shone red and the red thread stretched and connected to Sang Hyuk.

Then through the link like this red thread, all the power Sang Hyuk currently possessed was sucked into the combination card.

Life, Magical Power, vitality, all kinds of them without limit.

It absorbed all his power with only 1% left.

The skill of the combination card used by Sang Hyuk.

This was the ‘Breath of The Raging Dragon’, the ultimate destruction skill.

Chapter 118 [Episode 61] Focusing In Business Again 1 – End