Acquired the EX-class attribute ‘Transcendence Copy’

40 – The Prince and the Princess

It’s not always possible to have a comfortable fight with all your best. Because the world doesn’t turn around like that.

In fact, most of the causes of death during dungeon exploration are failure to properly respond to unexpected situations. No matter how well you plan, unless you have the power to see the future, a hole in your plan will happen somewhere. Controlling it depends solely on the investigator’s ability. If you don’t handle it well, you will die.

‘Careful, Arsha!’

Arsha comforted herself as she put strength into her hand that held her sword. Her giant ape, meeting her eyes with her own, lifted her head and began her roar.

“Oohhhhh—!”

A huge shout that makes your heart beat.

It’s not just a battle cry to kill the opponent’s spirit. The Giant Ape’s Cry was a skill that reduced the opponent’s combat power.

“Chit… !”

Your body becomes heavy as if you were in water. Breathing becomes irregular and the field of view seems to be narrowed. It is a debuff caused by the Roar skill.

A head-on fight is impossible no matter how you think about it.

But running away doesn’t seem easy either. The simulation that measured the opponent’s agility informed Arsha that it was impossible to escape.

“Let’s see if I die or you die.”

The moment when humans exert their greatest strength is when they are driven into a crisis. Arsha, who had hit her back, raised her sword with a stern look on her face.

The remaining mana was only 30%, and there were only a few skills that could be used. Her life will be lost if she is not careful.

Arsha moved her body as if she were walking on thin ice.

“Gooooo!”

Tattat!

A giant ape kicking off the ground and charging toward her.

Seeing her opponent running fiercely, Arsha realized that she had not run away and that she was right in her judgment. If she had turned her back, she wouldn’t have been able to fight back and would have been chased and killed.

“On the subject of monkeys!”

Arsha’s sword is covered with mana. She used her mana sword to max out her sword skills, then she swung her sword against the lumbering monkey’s club.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In an instant, the stones intersect. Like the boss monster’s weapon, the giant monkey’s club was not cut by the mana sword. Rather, it bounced off Arsha’s sword and boasted of her massive durability.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every time the sword and club crossed, I felt a tingling pain in my hand as if I had been electrocuted. Long-term battles are unreasonable in a situation where stamina is at stake.

‘The only thing fortunate is that I don’t have any special skills other than the shout from earlier?’

Anyway, this boss monster seems to be a melee combat series that focuses on physical abilities. It was fortunate for Arsha that there was no offensive skill that instantly raised output.

However, it is literally just luck out of misfortune. It was not difficult to see how this workshop would end. As the shock of the collision accumulates in the body, its own power and speed become dull, but the opponent’s speed does not decrease at all.

Even the giant ape knows whose side time is on, and doesn’t drastically adjust the level of aggression. As if hunting a roe deer by slowly driving it into a corner, he swings his club at a leisurely tempo.

‘If this is the case, there is no variable… !’

If the opponent overdoes it and comes in, it can create a variable variable. And that was the last shot Arsha was aiming for. However, if you attack strategically like this, you can’t even make it.

Ar-sha felt her mind wander. Where did things go wrong?

As for the beginning of the mistake, we should begin by recklessly stepping into the Instant Dungeon following John Baker. When you think about it, it was an act of madness unmatched by stupidity.

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‘Come to think of it, what happened to that guy? No way, to this guy before me….’

John Baker.

A truly unknown person. At first, he thought he was just some weird commoner that Sarah Leoris was paying attention to. However, the more you look closely, the more interesting he is. He was a type of person that could not be found anywhere else, such as the appearance he showed in the duel at the entrance ceremony and the victory in the exchange match.

“Gooooo!”

Is it because I let go of the string of hope and thought differently?

I missed the opponent’s club attack that was blowing like a storm. In the upper left corner of Arsha, the monkey’s heavy club is swinging.

‘It’s over.’

Arsha closed her eyes tightly. Giving up sight in combat is more dangerous than laying down your weapon. Arsha gave up her hopes and resigned herself to her fate.

“……”

It’s strange.

You don’t feel the hot pain that should pierce your skull.

Surely, the boss monster’s club must have shattered its own head, by any chance, did it die before feeling the pain?

Curious, Arsha opened her closed eyes and checked her situation.

“Ms. Arsha. What are you doing here?”

A handsome face that even the sun would be jealous of.

My heart beats beating just looking at that smiling face with white teeth.

She suddenly remembered a fairy tale she often watched as a child. The main character of the fairy tale is a princess of a kingdom kidnapped by a dragon.

A prince riding a white horse appeared in front of the princess who was confined to a high spire and staring at the sky.

After fighting a fearsome dragon that spews fire from his mouth and winning victory, the prince kneels in front of the princess.

-Princess! I’m here to save you!

A prince who saved a princess and a princess who fell in love with such a prince.

But the ordeal does not end there. The king promised to marry the one who saved the princess, but the prince of a small country is in the king’s heart.

The end of a story is always a happy ending where love is achieved by giving up status and power.

-Yes~ King, are you watching? From now on, I will make a baby for the (former) princess. I’m sorry for making a lot of children who can’t even inherit the throne WWW

When did you start not reading children’s books?

From her recollection, it was around the time she was 5 years old, when she immersed herself in training to overtake Sarah Leoris. As she developed her qualities as a prosecutor, it must have been the reason why she developed a sense of resistance to the plot of the fairy tale.

A story of a passive princess who is saved by a man.

In a way, it is only natural that it feels childish to Arsha, who is walking the path of a swordsman.

However, even though she has become a body that does not open children’s books anymore, Arsha secretly harbors her yearning for a prince on a white horse that any woman can feel. It was the same kind of fantasy that men harbor for dragon slayers.

“You you you you you you!”

I was so surprised that I couldn’t even open my mouth properly. John stretched out his hand to stop the club from flying towards him.

He opened his mouth, looking from Arsha to the giant ape.

“First of all, I have to get rid of this guy.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp dagger was thrown from John’s other hand like a dagger. As the dagger embracing the cold air was pointed at the giant monkey, the giant monkey took a step back.

However.

“Snake Ending.”

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[Level 1]: Throws mana into a throwing weapon and throws it at the enemy. The weapon automatically identifies the target’s weakness and attacks the target. Power increases in proportion to the target’s lost HP, and can increase power by up to 200%. Power increases up to 500% against enemies with activated weaknesses.

Power: Throwing weapon power + 30 + (Agility * 1.5)

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John’s knife aims at the monkey with a wriggly movement like a living snake. Not only are their movements erratic, but they are also fast.

The giant ape, who had equaled or surpassed Arsha in speed, began to panic at the nimble movement of the knife.

Push Shook!

“Gooooo clothes!?”

Digging into the right side of the monkey, digging into the left.

Arsha’s eyes widened at the sight of him teasing the monkey with novel movements like a swarm of bees.

‘Skills of at least A grade….’

Perfectly cooks the boss monster that made her a classic. Of course, if Arsha had full strength and had enough room in her skills, she would have been able to defeat it. What Yohan showed now was the fact that his fighting power was at least the same as his when he was at full strength.

The monkey’s body was left with a lot of wriggling scars, like a snake crawling. Blood gushed out of the wound like a fountain.

Thump!

The massive body of the giant ape collapsed. The thick stick in his left hand fell and rolled on the ground. The victor of the battle was John.

“I won.”

John said so in an innocuous tone. Then, I turn my gaze from the fallen giant ape corpse to Arsha.

“Ms. Arsha. Are you all right?”

“You, you are…. Are you okay?”

“Actually, it’s not okay. It looks like the left hand that blocked the attack earlier was fractured.”

When Yohan said that with a trembling smile, Arsha approached him with her eyes wide open.

“Really!? Oops! Show me here! What a fool! You are a thief class. How can I block an attack so ignorantly!?”

The original thief class fights based on avoidance, not defense, even if it engages in close combat. Of course, it is because they are relatively weak in strength and toughness.

That giant monkey was a typical warrior type monster. Instead of having no outstanding skills, it is the type that takes advantage in basic stats.

In other words, it was foolish to try to defend against a monster like that. It was fortunate that it ended with a fracture, but there was nothing strange about the poor hand.

“But, otherwise Miss Arsha would have been hurt.”

Arsha was speechless at the sight of Yohan saying that with a smile.

Yes. It was none other than himself that Yohan, who had attacked Born Zaborg almost perfectly with only strategy, performed such a self-inflicted eccentricity.

Arsha looked at John again. The figure of a knight from a children’s book she had seen as a child was superimposed on John’s face.