Chapter 393

Chapter 393

-How to…!

Ogurasu was about to say something when Minghu used a blood blast, and he stopped speaking immediately.

Srarak

Was it the effects of the explosion? Ogurasu’s body turned red, and red smoke slowly emanated from his body. Ming Hu looked at the red smoke spreading around him and checked his health. It hadn’t lost a single hit point. There was no reflection, as the message said.

Sigh

After checking his vitals, Ming Hu turned his head to look at Oguras. Oguras was slowly slumping.

thump

Oguras hesitated.

[You have killed Oguras, Centurion of the Letos faction].

[Only prestige 6 will increase].

The message popped up, and Ming Hu thought.

“No explosions?

Normal monsters had no reflection and exploded just before they died, but Centurion monsters had a reflection and no explosion. Ming Hu looked at the area around Oguras’ corpse, where many items had been dropped. Ming Hu picked up the items and thought.

“It’s the reflection.

Attack Reflex, a really annoying effect.

“I’d rather be immune.

Immunity, like Reflex, was a frustrating effect, but not as frustrating as Reflex. If I had to choose between reflection and immunity, I would choose immunity.

“I need to get ready for the reflection.

Ming Hu decided that after this quest, he would prepare for the reflection.

Jumbled

After picking up all the items, Ming Hu started walking again.

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As he continued to walk toward the center, Ming Hu opened his inventory and pulled out a map. He wanted to see how far he had come and where he was.

“Ha.”

Pulling out the map, Ming Hu looked at it and couldn’t help but smile.

“We’re halfway there.”

The reason for Ming Hu’s smirk was his current location. It had been a long time since he had entered the central region.

I thought I was almost there, but I was still halfway there. I had to walk as far as I had come to reach the center of the lake.

“It’s big.”

Ming Hu placed the map in his inventory. He then looked at the item ‘Centurion Summoning Orb’ sitting next to the map. Between entering the central area and reaching this point, Ming Hu had managed to acquire a whopping 20 beads.

“If we get as many as we’ve gotten so far, we’re going to have a lot of money.”

When I first picked up the orb, I thought it was a rare item, as it hadn’t dropped before when I caught Deren’s Seahorse or Lamphere’s Octopus, but that wasn’t the case. The octopuses of Letos were very good at dropping marbles.

[The counterattack octopus eyes you].

As Ming Hu was looking at the marbles and thinking, the message appeared. After seeing the message, Ming Hu closed his inventory and looked around.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorock!

Five counterattacking octopuses were approaching from the left. After confirming their position, Ming Hu turned and approached the counterattack octopuses, opening his mouth to speak.

“Blood Wave.”

As he cast Blood Wave, the water around him turned red, and soon counterattack octopuses entered the crimson tide.

-Horrorock?!

-Horrorock…

-Horrorock…

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

The counterattack octopuses stopped moving as soon as they entered the blood wave, and soon began to explode with cries.

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos; current kill count: 189]

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[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 194]

Ming Hu turned away from the explosion and looked at the message. By now, the octopus kill count had reached 194. Ming Hu looked at the message and thought.

“The thousandth man is about to rise.

If you catch 200, a Centurion monster will appear instead of a Centurion. There were only 6 more to go before reaching 200. Only 6 more monsters would reveal a Centurion monster.

“And when we get him, Letos will come out.

The previous two bosses of the faction, Kalex and Kotom, the Archon Seahorse and Octopus, were revealed when I defeated them, meaning that defeating the Archon monsters would summon the faction boss, Letos.

“I wonder what’s coming.

Ming Hu smiled and pondered what Letos would drop, turning away from the message to look at the carcasses of the counterattack octopuses.

There were several items dropped around it. Unfortunately, not a single equipment item dropped. Most of them were miscellaneous items.

“Ho-ho, I’m down two.”

Should we be thankful? Two marbles were missing. After checking the marbles, Ming Hu quickly approached and grabbed them.

[You have acquired the Centurion Summoning Orb].

[You have acquired the Centurion Summoning Orb].

After acquiring the orb, Ming Hu oriented himself to get to the center. There were still some items he hadn’t picked up, but he didn’t need to. Once oriented, Ming Hu began to walk.

“Huh?

Jab!

After a while, Ming Hu stopped walking for a moment when he spotted some octopuses moving in the distance up ahead.

“One, two…

Ming Hu stopped walking and began to count the octopuses.

“Six.

After checking the number of octopuses, Ming Hu smiled. The total number of moving octopuses was six, which was exactly what Ming Hu wanted.

“Because there are 194 of them now.

The reason for wanting six is that Ming Hu currently has 194 octopuses. If you defeat the next six octopuses, you will reach 200, summon the Thousand Master, and if you defeat the Thousand Master, Letos will appear.

Jumbled

Ming Hu started walking again and approached the octopus.

[The counterattack octopus eyes you].

The distance quickly closed and it wasn’t long before the octopuses realized they were in trouble.

-Horrorock!

-Horrorrorock!

Sensing Ming Hu, the octopuses began to run toward him, and Ming Hu cast Blood Wave as they rushed toward him.

-Horrorock?!

-Horrorock…

-Horrorock…

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

As usual, the octopuses stopped moving immediately after entering the blood wave, and then exploded.

[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 195]

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[The counterattack octopus explodes].

[You have killed the Octopus of Letos, current kill count: 200]

[Letos Faction Archon Hagan is summoned].

[When the Archmaster is defeated, Faction Leader Letos will appear 3 minutes later].

“Done.

As expected, a message appeared, announcing the death of the 200th octopus and the summoning of the Heavenly Master. Ming Hu smiled and turned his attention away from the message, scanning his surroundings, and saw the summoning party to his right.

Ouch.

There, a hagan with the appearance of a kraken was being summoned. Ming Hu looked at the summoning Hagan and thought.

“If I crouch, will it reflect?

All of the Centurion-class octopuses in the Letos faction reflected attacks if they crouched. If they weren’t crouching, they didn’t reflect. However, the same could not be said for the Centurion Octopus. Just as regular octopuses were different from Centurions, so too could Centurions be different.

“Maybe it’s not a reflection.

Of course, it was only likely to reflect, not certain that it would reflect; it could have exploded instead of reflecting, or had some other new effect.

“There’s also a respawn scroll, so let’s hit that.

Ming Hu pondered the idea, then dismissed it. After all, he had an enormous amount of resurrection scrolls in his inventory, over a hundred of them. It didn’t matter if he died once.

-Horlock! Human?

Soon, a fully summoned Hagan opened his mouth to speak.

‘It’s the same, it’s the same.

Ming Hu smirked at Hagan’s all-too-familiar words. He released the blood wave and approached Hagan.

-I didn’t expect you to be human, Horlock. You must be pretty strong to have made it this far. Horlock.

Hagan looked at Ming Hu and muttered.

-Funny, Horlock.

Yikes!

The muttering ended, and Hagan raised his arm and swung it toward Ming Hu. Ming Hu clenched his fist, ready to punch the arm flying toward him. But contrary to his intentions, Ming Hu was unable to strike the arm.

Sparkle

The flying arm suddenly began to glow.

“…Shiny?

The moment he saw the shiny arm, Ming Hu realized he shouldn’t hit it, so he first stepped back to avoid Haidian’s attack. Then he looked at Hagan’s other arms. The other Hagan’s arms were not shiny.

“No way.

Other parts of his body that weren’t shiny, and an arm that suddenly glowed. Ming Hu frowned at the sudden realization.

“Partial reflection?

I couldn’t be sure, but it seemed like Hagan had a partial reflex.

“I’ll give it a shot just to be sure.

Ming Hu saw Hagan’s glowing arm flying toward him again and decided to see if he was right or not, so he threw a punch.

Boom!

-Horrorock!

Soon, Ming Hu’s fist slammed into Hagan’s shiny arm. Hagan let out a scream of pain, and Ming Hu could see several messages.

[You get back a percentage of the damage you did].

[You’ve taken a lot of temporary damage].

[Stunned for 3 seconds].

“Stunned?

It was the first message of its kind. Ming Hu quickly checked his vitals.

“Hulk.

After checking his health, Ming Hu couldn’t help but panic.

“One million?

Ming Hu panicked because he now had 1 million life remaining.

“Over 20 million reflections?

Ming Hu has over 22 million health. However, he only had 1 million health left, meaning that the damage returned by the flat hit was over 20 million.

“You’re lucky you’re not dead.

However, Ming Hu soon realized that this was a good thing. In the first place, Ming Hu had planned to use the Resurrection Scroll, meaning that he was prepared to die, but he didn’t. That was a good thing.

“By the way, man, that’s not a punch.

Ming Hu turned his gaze away from his rapidly filling life force and looked at Hajian. Hajian hadn’t died from Ming Hu’s attack. He was only in great pain.

Three seconds passed, and Ming Hu, stunned out of his stupor, walked over to Hagan, who was still in pain.

-Horrorock,… Horrorock.

Hagan was unable to regain consciousness as the end approached. He wasn’t dead, but he was clearly damaged.

‘Where it doesn’t glitter this time.

Ming Hu checked Hagan’s condition and approached the non-shiny arm. He had hit the shiny part and found that it reflected. Now it was time to find out about the non-shiny part. Ming Hu made a fist and punched Hagan’s non-shiny arm.

Boom!

-Horrorock!

[You have defeated Hagan, the High Lord of the Letos Faction].

[3 minutes later, Letos, the leader of the Letos faction, appears].