Chapter 392

Chapter 392

“Finally, the central region.

Looking at the map, Ming Hu realized that he had finally reached the central area. Ming Hu looked away from the map and looked around.

“It looks a little darker.

Is it because the region is different? Or was it because it was deeper? The color of the surrounding water was darker than it had been further south. Ming Hu put the map in his inventory and started walking again.

Jab!

And some time later.

“It’s an octopus.

Noticing an octopus ahead of him, Ming Hu stopped walking for a moment. As he stopped walking, Ming Hu looked at the octopus and thought.

“It looks different.

The octopus in front of me looked different from the ones I had seen in Lampere to the south. It was obviously a different kind of octopus monster.

“Are they going to deflect attacks?

The problem was that the octopus was owned by Letos, and Letos had the ability to deflect attacks.

It’s just a possibility, but those octopuses, Letos’s subordinate monsters, could also have the ability to reflect.

“I’ll have to check it out.

Ming Hu walked toward the octopuses to see if they would or would not reflect his attacks.

“You’re not going to die in one shot, are you?

Ming Hu thought as he walked toward the octopuses. What if the octopuses, being normal monsters, had the ability to reflect his attacks back at him? The thought was terrifying.

-Horrorock?

The distance continued to close, and soon the octopuses of Letos realized their fate.

[The counterattack octopus eyes you].

At that moment, a message appeared.

‘…’

When Ming Hu saw the message, he couldn’t help but cringe for a moment.

“Counterattack?

The counterattack octopus is an ominous name for a monster.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorock!

Soon, the counterattack octopuses began to run toward Ming Hu. Ming Hu looked at the counterattacking octopuses and started walking again.

“Let’s take the pitching out of the equation and experiment.

As he walked, Ming Hu removed his helmet, Helm of the Basic, which increases his base attack damage by 50% in case of attack reflection.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorock!

Soon after removing his helmet, the octopuses arrived, and Ming Hu punched the one in the lead, checking its health.

Puck!

-Horrorock.

A fist crackled, and the counterattacking octopus fell.

“…?

However, there was no change in health.

“No reflection?

Apparently, the reflection I was worried about didn’t happen.

Siaak

That’s when it happened. The carcass of the fallen octopus began to glow brightly. Ming Hu had an ominous feeling at that moment.

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 1]

Boom!

The message appeared, followed by a burst of light from the glowing corpse of the octopus. Ming Hu quickly checked its vitals.

“That’s good.

The explosion took a hit to his health. However, it didn’t seem to be too much damage as he recovered quickly.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorock!

“But aren’t they immune to explosions?

Ming Hu thought as he watched the octopuses swing their arms at him. The octopuses were clearly in range of the blast, but they didn’t seem to be affected at all. Was it because they were his own kind?

Puck! Puck!

Bam! Bam!

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos. Current Kills: 2]

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos. Current Kills: 3]

Slowly, Ming Hu began to kill the octopuses.

‘Your eyes are a little glazed over.

Ming Hu frowned slightly as he slaughtered the octopuses. The light emitted by the octopuses as they exploded was quite annoying. The blinding light was more annoying than the explosion damage.

Boom!

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 6]

“Got it.

Soon, the last octopus exploded. Ming Hu looked away from the message and checked the items the octopuses had dropped.

“A bunch of junk.

He hadn’t picked up the items yet, so he couldn’t tell what they were, but none of them looked good, so he started picking them up one by one, just in case.

[You have mastered the meat of the giant octopus].

[You have mastered the giant sucker].

“I guess…

However, as expected, the items dropped were junk. Ming Hu remembered the appearance of the items that were junk and stopped picking up junk. He only picked up items that he hadn’t picked up yet and didn’t know what they were.

.

.

[You have acquired the Centurion Summoning Orb].

Stop!

Soon afterward, Ming Hu picks up the item and is forced to stop when prompted to do so.

“Summoning orb?

It was an oddly named item. Ming Hu quickly opened his inventory to check the information on the item he had just picked up, the Centurion Summoning Orb.

Summons a Centurion-class monster. Can only be used in water.

Summoned Monster: Akulanian (Boss: Letos)

“…A real summon?

The item “Centurion Summoning Orb” was exactly what it sounded like: an item that summoned a Centurion-class monster.

“Don’t these guys auto-spawn at 20?

A sudden thought made Ming Hu turn away from the item information and look at the octopus carcass. The seahorses and octopuses he’d caught before coming here had never yielded items like summoning beads. They automatically summoned Centurion-class monsters in increments of 20. Ming Hu turned his gaze away from the corpses and looked at the information on the orb.

“We’ll see.

He would find out later when he caught 20. After checking the information on the orb, Ming Hu closed his inventory. He didn’t need to catch the Centurion, and there was no reason to use the orb to summon him now.

Ming Hu finished picking up the drops he hadn’t picked up before. Unfortunately, there were no additional marbles dropped. After picking up all the items, Ming Hu started walking toward the center again.

[The counterattack octopus eyes you].

Walking to the center, Ming Hu encountered many octopuses.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorock!

The octopuses that found Ming Hu came running to him.

Puck! Puck!

Bam! Bam!

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 7]

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 8]

Ming Hu, who had been slaying the octopuses as he made his way to the center, was soon forced to stop walking.

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 20]

[Oguraso, Centurion of the Letos faction, is summoned].

Siaak

“Summoned?

I thought the orb was preventing me from being summoned, but it wasn’t. The orb was separate from the auto-summon. Ming Hu thought as he watched the centurion monster Oguraso slowly emerge from the summoning magic circle in front of him.

“He’s either going to reflect or explode.

I had never seen a Centurion monster before. While normal monsters explode, Centurion monsters could reflect without exploding.

-Horroroc? Human?

Soon, the fully summoned Oguras looked at Ming Hu and opened his mouth. His reaction was no different than any other Centurion-class monster he had encountered.

Jumbled

Ming Hu slowly began to approach Oguras, wondering if he would explode or reflect.

-Kill! Horrorock!

Ogurasu, who had been puzzled, wordlessly approached Ming Hu, then shouted in an angry voice and rushed toward him. The distance between Ming Hu and Oguras quickly closed, and Ming Hu extended his fist at Oguras.

-Hmmm!

Running to Ming Hu, Ogurasu quickly ducked as Ming Hu extended his fist. Then a message appeared.

[Oguras crouches down].

[If you attack Oguras, you get back 10% of the damage he takes].

Stop!

Not caring that Ogurasu had crouched down, Ming Hu was about to throw a punch when he saw the message, and he quickly stepped back, thinking.

“Reflect 10%?

10%, the message clearly said that Oguras would get back 10% of the damage he took. I thought it was an explosion, but it was a reflection.

“If I un-crouch, will it release again?

Ming Hu turned away from the message and looked at the crouching Oguras. Oguras crouched down, and the message appeared. If he released his crouch, the reflection would disappear.

-Human. You have a good feeling, Horlock.

Is it because we didn’t attack? Oguras said, unwinding from his crouch.

[Oguras unwinds his crouch].

[You do not take damage when you attack].

At the same time, a message appeared.

“Again.

As expected, it would only reflect if you crouched down. Ming Hu, who had been informed of this in a message, nodded in understanding and opened his mouth.

“Bloody explosion.”