Black Online-Chapter 171: Arrival of the King - Part 4

"Raon, where are you at?"

Machary came looking for him, as he disappeared suddenly, and found him behind the corpse mountain.

"What are you doing over th—"

He was about to finish his sentence, but as he walked closer to Fang Raon, he started to notice that he wasn’t alone.

When he saw the crown-wearing ’man’, even his feet came to a quick halt, and his face paled significantly.

Beast King walked over to Fang Raon and, with his finger, touched his chest—but then came into contact with the invisible chainmail armor.

"Pain."

He said.

In that moment, Fang Raon’s insides erupted from inside, and he started bleeding from all his pores.

"Ugh... Ugh... Ugh..."

He was choking on his own blood, and his flesh started squirming—as if something was trying to break out from within.

"Ah..."

Fang Raon dropped on his knees—his flesh had turned from white to crimson—his eyes were bleeding profusely.

[HP: 88/700]

[-5 HP]

[-12 HP]

[-9 HP]

"Helpers!"

Machary screamed.

Hearing his scream, everyone looked over, and they saw Fang Raon kneeling on the ground while bleeding from everywhere.

It made everyone look horrified.

And then they saw the crown-wearing man, and they were even more horrified now—they knew what the crown meant.

"Heal!"

Rae cast a healing spell on Fang Raon and barely stabilized him before his health completely dropped to zero.

"...Hmm?"

In that moment, Beast King looked over to the corpse of Frostmaw Beast, and his eyes widened in shock.

"Darius..."

He touched the head of his pet tenderly, and anger started rising from the depths of his being—he looked at the players with hate.

"You all did this... I will kill all of you."

It wasn’t a threat. It was a promise.

"Are you okay, Raon?"

Machary went over to Fang Raon and helped him back to his feet—he still looked like he was in a horrible state.

[HP: 120/700]

His health barely increased even after the Heal spell.

"What... the hell... is he?"

Fang Raon asked with struggle.

"See the crown? It means that he is a King. The floors that have changing bosses can have either easy... or hard bosses.

"King or Queen is the hardest boss that you can get on a floor. It is not really even close. This one is so strong that it’s not really 15th Floor Boss level of strength.

"I think you need to go beyond the 20th floor to find a boss with this level of power."

Machary said with a serious expression.

"I see..."

Fang Raon reached out to his inventory, pulled out a healing potion, and gulped down several of them.

[HP: 700/700]

"What will we do?"

Machary asked with a serious expression.

"...We’ll fight. There is nothing else we can do at this point."

Fang Raon said coldly.

In that moment.

Beast King looked at the players in front of him, and he opened his hands—small balls of light jumped out of his hands—they were floating like tiny stars.

"Pain!"

They suddenly shot out towards the players, and with a scream of "Dodge!" The players scattered in all directions.

One of the balls of light touched Luke’s leg, and his eyes widened in shock—his right arm started squirming.

It was like it was currently having a cramp.

The bones in the leg snapped. The veins burst. Blood started gushing out from his leg. It was a gruesome sight.

"Aahhhh!"

Luke fell to the ground, and he looked at his deformed leg, and he felt sick to his stomach—even though he couldn’t feel pain.

It was still a sight that he was never going to forget!

"Heal!"

Sam shouted with desperation and enveloped the destroyed leg in a healing cocoon—it started to heal the leg quickly.

Swoosh~

A shadow suddenly fell over me, and with just a side-eye, he was able to see Beast King standing right beside him.

"Death."

Beast King reached out his hand towards Sam, and his hand was about to touch, but in that moment...

"Shield Smash!"

Ocon smashed into Beast King with his shield and sent him sliding across the ground—but he soon came to a stop.

"..."

Beast King looked uninjured and looked at Ocon with a cold gaze.

"Tank’s Charge!"

Ocon charged straight at him, but Beast King sidestepped at the last second and chopped his hand down on Ocon’s back, sending him crashing into the ground.

"Ugh!"

Ocon coughed in pain—all air leaving his lungs—and he tried standing back up, but Beast King put his foot down on his back.

Pinning him down to the ground.

"W-w-what can we do... We’re going to die..."

Rae said with a trembling voice, and she backed away, but she only reached the wall—there was no way out.

The door was still tightly locked for a while.

’This is where it all ends... why... why... it wasn’t supposed to go this way. ...’

She closed her eyes with tears welling in her eyes.

"Argh!"

At that moment.

Fang Raon and Machary clashed with the Beast King and pushed him away from Ocon—he stopped their swords with just his hand.

"..."

Beast King looked down at them with a cold gaze.

"Aurel’s Blade Dance!"

Fang Raon danced—the sword moving faster than the eye could follow—and Beast King was unable to dodge.

The sword cut into his chest—shedding a little bit of blood—just a little bit.

[HP: 97%]

"Great Chop!"

Machary hacked at the Beast King’s side as if he were a tree that needed to be cut down, but the blade only left a shallow cut.

He and Fang Raon screamed and kept attacking the Beast King without stopping even for a moment.

It was very reckless. Suicidal even.

They were abandoning all thought of defense and just pushing with offense—as if they didn’t care about dying as long as they brought Beast King down as well.

"They’re fighting..."

The others whispered.

When they noticed that the boss was King-ranked one, they all gave up, thinking it was impossible to win.

Yet.

Even if winning was the slimmest possible outcome, Fang Raon and Machary weren’t planning to just give up!

"We need to help them..."

Luke said with a dark expression on his face.

His leg had mostly healed, so he could use it again to move around.

The grimoire opened up. He was ready to attack with full force. Using both fire and ice as Beast King wasn’t an ice-type monster.

"Don’t. Leave this to us. Everyone else, go on defensive formation!"

Fang Raon shouted.

"B-but why?"

Luke asked with surprise.

While they were still doing well, Fang Raon and Machary were never going to survive alone against Beast King.

"We need to buy time... Until the doors open... Thus, use Earth Walls to create a defensive fortress around the door. The rest of you will hide behind it!

"I will buy some time with Machary!"

Fang Raon shouted.

He and Machary then pushed Beast King further away from the door, while the fight itself was becoming harder.

Beast King was adapting to their attacks and had already started dodging them and countering.

When the cooldown was over, Fang Raon used Aurel’s Blade Dance, but Beast King dodged all except one of the sword slashes!

’Aurel’s Blade Dance is only level 1... If it was only higher level, then I could actually have a chance at winning...’

Fang Raon gritted his teeth.

Meanwhile, everyone headed over to the door, and Nico and Luke—the Mages—cast Earth Walls all around them.

"W-will this really hold against Beast King?"

Rae asked tearfully.

Everyone knew that the answer was "Absolutely not," but they saw that she was already crying and decided not to tell her.

They couldn’t stop Beast King no matter what they tried, so the only thing they could do was buy some time.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!"

Machary and Fang Raon kept swinging their swords at Beast King, and he just responded with apathy.

He opened both hands—one ball of light appeared in each hand—and they then flew straight towards the two young men.

"Destruction."

"Argh!"

Machary tried chopping his sword through the ball of light, but it just went straight through, and the ball of light touched his chest. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"?!?!?!?!"

His body got shredded, and blood gushed out from everywhere—as if he had been taking a bath in blood—as he was now completely drenched in blood.

Fang Raon tried blocking the ball of light with his shield, but it went straight through and entered his body.

"Aaaaaaaarghhhhhhh!"

The chest got ripped apart. The bones broke, and thus they pierced through his flesh.

"Heal them quickly!"

Joanne shouted with a frightened look.

With mana flowing into their staff, Rae and Sam bathed Machary and Fang Raon in a healing light.

Their destroyed bodies got slowly recovered as the powerful magic worked its way through their wounds.

"...Annoying."

Beast King looked over to the bunkered-down players, his eyes narrowed in frustration—he caught sight of the two Helpers.

"You guys attracted his aggro!"

Ira cried out.

"Tch!"

In that moment, Ocon left the fortress, ran away from everyone, and shouted, "Tank’s Taunt!" while slamming his hand on the shield.

"...Hmph!"

Beast King shook his head—he shrugged off the Tank’s Taunt’s effects—and continued walking towards the fortress.

’He is an intelligent monster, which is why he was able to shrug off Tank’s Taunt’s effects. Ocon’s Tank’s Taunt is not strong enough to affect intelligent monsters such as Beast King!’