Adventurers Are Obsessed With My Cooking

Chapter 114

Episode 114. Leader disqualified

sh*t!

Could monster luck be this low?

I managed to defeat the hordes of monsters in the fourth wave, but the commander monster that appeared at the end was that guy!

“Lemon! Don’t block that skill, avoid it!”

“Really?”

“All have corrosive effects.”

Bone Collector Madeleine.

A poisonous plant-type monster clad in full-body bone armor.

‘Why is this guy like that coming out at this timing?’

The crown buff is still effective, but the demon and undead type monster damage increase effect, one of the characteristics of the Priest Blessing skill, does not work at all.

The same goes for the s*x attribute bonuses given to party members’ weapons.

Why did I choose Catacombs as my first dungeon? It was to maximize the firepower of the party.

However, at this timing, a guy like that popped out.

A guy with less than 1% chance of appearing.

‘Aren’t you the one who has nothing to do with the undead except for wearing bone armor!?’

Luck has increased by 1000, but the character’s luck level doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the appearance of monsters.

“Now! Escape quickly!”

Black-green liquid is sprayed in all directions between the hard bone armor.

Responding to my signal, Lemon managed to roll over and avoid the attack.

The wall and the ground where the liquid splashed produced a disgusting smoke with the sound of melting.

It was as if hydrochloric acid had been sprayed.

True to the name of the stone chamber, it is made of hard stones on all sides, but it is like that.

There is no way that even a tanker with metal armor and a shield will be safe.

“Be careful. If you get hit by that, your weapons and armor will be useless.”

“Okay.”

Tuong!

Acid attack isn’t the only problem.

Nom showed a different level of movement from the Skeleton Knight he had previously dealt with.

Burst! Thud!

It was very difficult to attack from our side by using not only quick continuous attacks, but also frequent air leaps and backsteps to evade.

Also, regardless of mid-middle aggro, I was distracted by the fact that I tried to attack non-tank targets.

Fortunately, Lemon was the only one to take damage from the Sacrifice Chain, but it was a series of urgent situations that even her HP, which had been increased by various buffs, was reduced in an instant.

‘Only that bastard Melissa attacks.’

Only Melissa, who has weak defense, was attacked.

Since Lemon had to deal with Melissa’s damage entirely by chain skill, the speed of her HP reduction was beyond imagination.

I couldn’t wait to see this any longer, so instead of giving up the attack, I took on the role of guarding Melissa’s side.

“Leave Melissa to me and keep doing what you’re doing!”

“I’m going to put an attack weakening curse right away.”

“No. Just keep the defense reduction as it is. It’s better to hunt quickly.”

Originally, he can’t even join the axis of monsters that are difficult to deal with.

However, as the dungeon became a 12-person mode, it became as strong as the boss level of most nightmare dungeons.

‘If there was no crown buff…’

Just thinking about it makes me dizzy.

I’m not conceited by any means, but I think I was a little complacent, trusting only fraudulent cooking buffs.

‘Yes. It was a place like this…’

Had I been away from the dungeon for too long?

What a place called the Nightmare Dungeon is, the senses of the past began to slowly revive.

“Arcane Prism!”

Melissa used the newly learned skills.

I chose at least one magic that specializes in attacking a single monster.

“Arcane Beyim!”

The dazzling flash of light escaped from his staff, refracted here and there along the prism created in the air, then converged again.

There was no one hit as powerful as Arcane Storm, but it is a link skill that continuously builds up strong damage.

‘It’s still a long way off. The number of prisms is not enough because I rolled up the characteristics.’

Then, Rachel cast a piercing flesh that gathered her strength to the limit.

Quaang!

Tremendous pagong sound.

Possibly because it is a skill whose damage increases exponentially as the charging time increases, just firing a single arrow caused a tremendous explosion.

The arrow that flew through the air had already mercilessly penetrated the body of the bone collector before he even noticed it.

As if this worked, a goose-like scream erupted from him.

But regardless, Mumu clenched his teeth and rushed towards his back again.

‘It seems that his health level has risen like a monster, so it doesn’t work at all with peer system abnormalities.’

Fortunately, that was the point.

“Now! It’s Acid Time!”

Lemon, struggling to catch his attention even a little more, hurriedly rolled on the floor.

“You have to get used to the pattern! Avoid before I signal!”

“Okay!”

‘Ha… I have to join in to hunt faster…’

But Melissa, who has weak defenses, cannot be left unattended.

All I could do was watch.

Of course, I used the protection shield again on the middle party members, and the attack on Melissa was hit instead or blocked with a shield.

But that was all.

It was difficult to find the right timing to make a deal.

‘I wonder if the timing of the aggro is random…’

Rin couldn’t participate in the battle either.

Because if she gets hit by its acid poison, she could be fatal to Rin who isn’t wearing armor.

‘Damn it…’

I let out a sigh.

It’s not that you can’t defeat the Bone Collector.

In the end, he will fall miserably at the hands of his proud comrades.

But if there’s a problem…

[Duration: 04 minutes 54 seconds]

The duration of the crown buff is really short now.

The 5th wave is yet to start.

* * *

[You have defeated Commander ‘Bone Collector Madeleine’.]

“Ah… It was hard.”

“Time! How much buff time is left?”

Mumu collapsed on the floor exhausted, and Rachel immediately turned to me and asked how much buff time was left.

Michael answered instead.

“You have four minutes left.”

“Four minutes? You haven’t even started step 5 yet? Isn’t this really a big deal for us?”

I stayed silent and quietly waited for a system message to appear.

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Buff time is unavoidable.

It is a fate that has already been decided.

It is impossible to increase that time by any means.

Exactly, except for one case.

‘Please… Please please please…’

That’s a bonus buff from the fourth commander.

‘Please increase the buff time… Or at least double the damage…’

I desperately hoped.

But my wish ended with just a wish.

[While the Emmanuel’s Crown buff is maintained, the resource consumed when using the skill no longer decreases.]

This is not a bad buff.

In effect, it is in a state of infinite SP.

The damage of some charging skills that replace consumed SP with damage will increase endlessly in proportion to the charging time, and the catalyst needed when a curse wizard activates a curse will not be consumed at all.

‘But…’

However, the remaining buff time is only 4 minutes.

Even with that, you have no choice but to wait idly for a minute until the next monster appears.

‘After the monster respawns, it takes time to run to here…’

In a word, ruined.

It is next to impossible to clear all the monsters in the 5th wave within 3 minutes.

At this rate, in the end, you will have to endure the 5th stage wave without any buffs.

Besides, from level 5 onwards, those damn strengthened monsters also appear.

Everyone’s eyes are focused on me.

Because the leader of this party is none other than me.

“Mister… Our buff time…”

“I know.”

“Is it okay? The 4th level commander is all right, but in the 5th level you have to deal with the boss as well. Isn’t there not enough time?”

Everyone is nervous.

Unless you’re an idiot.

This is simple arithmetic.

Decreasing defense and stamina are also a problem, but the biggest problem is that the party’s firepower is reduced to 1/5.

In other words, the moment the buff ends, our party must start a blood-drying fight for survival.

“Not enough.”

“Then what are you going to do? Still, if it’s you, there’s a way, right? If it’s you who Laura unnie introduced you to!”

Rachel’s voice gained strength.

But it seems that they believe in me more than when I first saw them.

He still has an anxious face, but he isn’t whining like before.

I quietly closed my eyes.

“Um… Is it really a good sword? After the buff, if it’s not enough, I guess we’ll become like them?”

I know what Michael is concerned about.

After the crown buff ends, we are no different from those demon slash people.

They had a hard time even enduring the second stage.

“That’s not it. We ate the uncle’s cooking and got buffs… Also, there were no healers in the party over there…”

Mumu defended me diligently.

I believe in you until the end.

Sorry, but it’s not a situation that can be solved as easily as a cooking buff.

‘Really… The party leader is disqualified…’

Choosing the Catacombs, calling Nightmare and entering the dungeon by sacrificing the mid-boss were all part of my plan.

Rapid growth?

Great experience?

No.

Before that, I decided that this place was the safest.

There was no better place than here to bring the two first-timers to the Nightmare Dungeon and the three to Rin.

I chose this place because I was confident that I wouldn’t let anyone die no matter what.

‘But it’s a miscalculation.’

You should have expected that there could be uninvited guests who suddenly broke in.

If you judged that this might happen when you first encountered them, you should have lowered the difficulty and entered the dungeon or postponed the plan to a later date.

“Haa…”

I think the leader position is really difficult.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry both of you. I never thought this would happen. I’m disqualified from being the leader.”

“Uncle…?”

“No way, is there no other way?”

Mumu and Lemon are embarrassed.

“A lie… A lie, right?”

Rachel’s expression was rapidly falling into despair.

“Is it a sword that has no way…?”

“But shouldn’t we try our best? Nothing has been decided yet…”

Huh?

Why are the reactions like this?

“Hey… Is there a way?”

“Yes?”

“Is there?”

“Is there a sword?”

“What is it?”

“He said he was sorry! He said he was disqualified as a leader!”

I said scratching the back of my head.

“Ah, it’s because I didn’t expect it at all… It’s a situation where if things go wrong and you’re unlucky, you could really be wiped out… Leaving the lives of the party members up to chance is disqualification as a leader.”

“Does that mean it’s not a situation where you’re going to be annihilated?”

“Yes! There is a way.”

“What is that method?”

[New monsters have appeared.]

“Oh, no big deal… I was lucky with the last buff. Once the wave started, let’s focus!”

“So what are you going to do!? Buff time is over!”

Crown buff time remaining 3 minutes.

The first monster rushed through the darkness.

Just like the 5th level, it was an enhanced skeleton soldier with the modifier ‘slick’ from the beginning.

“Ah… It’s been a long time since I used this skill.”

Before I could finish my words, Lemon quickly ran forward with his shield in front.

Since I had to save the AoE provocation skill until more monsters piled up, I thought I was going to draw aggro from the first monster with normal hits like I did until now.

“Haap!”

Just like that, the moment her sword was swung towards the first mob.

[You have defeated the agile Skeleton Soldier.]

Her sword hollowly cut through the air.

With a loud noise, all the bones that made up the skeleton lost their strength and fell to the floor.

At the same time, her two large eyes turned to me.

With a very shocked face.

Eventually, all the party members, including the demon slash group quietly attached to one wall, all fixed their eyes on me.

No one was surprised.

“What the hell… That was just…”

“Ha, did you die in one hit? It’s also a reinforced mob…”

“What kind of skill is that?”