Chapter 106
I was currently inside the guardian room on the 25th floor of the Wolf Fang Labyrinth, and it was a particularly large room . It gave off a boss-room vibe, with it being entirely flooded, and judging from the map, 3/4th of the room was lakes with the last remaining having transversal submerged land . And from the lake area, I spotted a dot on my radar . The water was not so deep as the dark silhouette could be seen underneath the surface from where I stood .
A large creature then emerged from the water but I was already prepared with the A12, with the intent to shoot it once it broke the surface . The first parts of the monster that appeared were its eyes and nose . From this distance, about 1 meter, it seemed weird . The eyes had vertical pupils that gazed straight at me… Was this a crocodile? Most of its body was still underwater, I knew that for a fact, as the distance between us was only 10 meters .
He who strikes first will be the winner!
Lining up the crosshairs to the space between the monster’s eyes and nose, I fired . While the A12 was a shotgun, it was an automatic shotgun, so I held down the trigger as it kept firing . Despite it having a drum mag, it had a capacity of 32 shells, of which I expended in all of a few seconds . Thanks to the speed, the shells landed one after another on the guardian’s face without a noticeable gap .
Frag-12 rounds caused a small explosion on impact . However, I noticed that, on the first shot, it hit some sort of white film-like membrane; and due to the amount of explosions, it’s head was veiled in smoke .
I pulled out another magazine from my waist pouch after I emptied the drum and reloaded . The guardian retreated back into the water with a low roar . There was no doubt that this wasn’t over yet, its dot still present on my radar . Did it think that it was safe to run underwater?
I took out two M67 frag grenades from my jacket, pulled their pins, and tossed them around where the dot was on my map . Even if it was submerged underwater, the frags, tossed with the help of the power suit, landed and exploded next to the guardian . Two explosions echoed underneath the water, followed by two geysers of water jettisoning up . They then fell down and the guardian broke through through the surface .
The crocodile jumped .
I saw a similar movement during a show in the wetland preservation park when I went on a tour in Australia . A person would hang a piece of meat from a road and over the river . Attracted by the meat, the crocodiles living in the river would jump to catch it . Just like that, the guardian’s upper half rushed towards me, threatening to fall on top of me .
I quickly did a backward quickslide to evade the hulking giant . Its body was 6 meters long after all, its scales on its face were roughed up, but the rounds didn’t do much damage after all .
The black keratin scales seemed to possess a considerable level of protection . I thought that the damage from the grenades would’ve been enough to damage it, but I saw blood dripping from its sides . Could it be that its underside wasn’t as thickly armored? The monster in question gazed at me, and I gazed back . Its emerald vertical pupils were filled with anger as it opened its maw, showing off its massive fangs .
“GuRUuuuuuuuuu!”
The low pitched roar of the monster reverberated through the room, while at the same time, it charged at me with a speed I never expected such a large monster to possess .
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“That’s fast!”
While I evaded being bit, I started firing from the hip from its face to its side as I slid away . The sun of gunfire followed by the slugs’ explosions filled hte room . But even if all my slugs landed on target, after the first few, the explosions sounded like it was landing in water .
Aqua wall . .
The guardian’s belly was covered by a wall of water, blocking my rounds from landing a direct hit . The monster might’ve not been able to speak, but the wall formed almost instantly .
It would’ve be easy after all – the guardian opened its mouth, and directed it at me . This was a movement I often saw during a monster subjugation, which meant a magic projectile was coming . I raised the ballistic shield, fixing it on the terrain before crouching behind it to use it as cover .
“GuuuRAAAAAAAA!”
At the same time, the projectile landed on the shield and it wasn’t just a simple waterball; it was a freaking water tornado . Its momentum was great as it pushed the shield backward even after I fixed it into the ground . The durability value displayed in my goggles depleted quickly, only stopping at 20% .
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This was no good . Discarding the shield, I raised my shotgun and took aim, using the opening when it stopped moving to use its magic and aimed for its eye . Perhaps noticing my where I was aiming, the guardian quickly covered its eye with a nictitating membrane . I still fired anyways .
Three rounds later, probably after it felt like it couldn’t bear anymore, the monster turns its face away and raised another wall of water to protect its head . I was already running after firing those rounds, trying to protect itself and raising a water wall was well within my prediction – it was, after all, my real goal .
I dashed forward with a slide jump to the front, then chained it with a strafe jump along the water wall; from there, I arrived right in front of the disoriented guardian . My real aim was its nostrils! Moving with such quickness, the monster couldn’t react in time . Its slit pupils widened underneath the membrane, startled by the movement . At that point, I’d already fired three rounds into each nostril . Following the sound of the explosions, the guardian roared in pain, then thrashed about, waving its keratin reinforced tail around as it tried to retreat back into the water .
But there was no way I’d let it do that so easily . I opened up the TSS and took out a special weapon from my inventory .
Particles of light appeared and converged into the shape of a box in front of me . The Supply Box opened on its to reveal green disk-shaped items . I took out 5 of them and tossed them into the water after turning the knobs on their tops . After scattering the disks about, I opened up my inventory and took out a dozen TH3 incendiary grenades .
The monster’s blip stayed in the underwater area, seemingly to buy time . Probably to heal itself underwater, maybe, but did it really think I’d let that happen? Lastly, while distancing myself, I took out a Gift Box as I ran .
Now it was time to finish this . I tossed the incendiary grenades into the water where the blip was . They were thermite grenades and didn’t need oxygen to combust, thus they could be used underwater . Even with their narrow area of effect, they could produce heat up to 2000c .
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The grenades exploded underwater in a bright red light, the surrounding water boiled violently and vapor rose to the surface . The guardian tried to flee, but the thermite grenades impeded its escape . I didn’t know how good the power suit’s heat resistance was, so I prepared this gift box, and climbed up onto it in order to keep myself from being in the hot water too long .
If the guardian refused to come out, I’d just chuck more thermite in .
The dot on the map began to move towards me now . Its body, redding in what seemed like boiling burn wounds, jumped towards me again .
“Gurryyyaaa!”
Was that an angry roar, or a pained scream? Either way, it moved onto the transversable terrain, but I was trying to lure it towards the areas where I tossed the green disks, and then it was on . The green disks I tossed, M15 Anti-Tank mines, were triggered as the monster’s belly pressed into them . A chain explosion erupted with enough force to propel its massive body upward .
The M15 Anti-Tank mine, a pressure-sensitive mine used by the US Military, was a disk-shaped item with a 30cm round diameter . In VMB, the top knob was a safety device meant to make it easier to install by turning it . A normal human’s weight wouldn’t trigger it, as it required something over 150kg to land on top of it to trigger . For game balance purposes, the explosion radius was suppressed to down to 3m, but as a result, the sensing range was improved slightly to make it detonate even if the object fell near the mine . The guardian, which was launched into the air by the explosion, sunk back into the boiling water . I held my shotgun at the ready, preparing for the monster to emerge once more from the water, but the dot on the map stopped moving before it disappeared .
I killed it… Didn’t I? The body still remained underwater, so I wasn’t sure about it . Then, from the other side of the room, I heard a loud clicking sound that meant the lock had been undone . As it turned out, I succeeded in slaying the guardian .
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