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Chapter 281: Battle with the Realm Guardian
The 202nd floor—
While returning toward the 201st-floor rest room, Tauro’s party encountered what appeared to be the 202nd floor’s realm guardian: a two-headed Fenrir variant, a holy wolf shrouded in darkness.
Just as Tauro’s group prepared to fight, the Fenrir variant noticed them.
It charged with terrifying force.
Although it was badly wounded from its battle with the conquest team, the enraged beast radiated tremendous pressure.
Tauro felt something even more oppressive than ordinary bloodlust, and his legs began to tremble.
The monster might have been using an ability similar to Tauro’s [Majesty].
Tia, however, showed no fear. She stepped to the front and called, “[Holy Great Shield]!”
A massive shield appeared in her left hand.
It hadn’t come from [Magic Storage].
It seemed to have been produced by one of her abilities.
“[Great Taunt]! Come on—your opponent is me!”
Tia’s fixed ability, [Holy Shield Knight], activated [Great Taunt], a superior form of the shield-user skill [Taunt].
The Fenrir variant used its two heads to cast two spells simultaneously. One fired an unfamiliar dark ray at Tia, while the other launched an extremely powerful fire spell toward the support team and Tauro’s group behind her.
“Damn it! Even [Great Taunt] can’t stop it from using wide-area magic against the rear! [Greater Magic-Resistance Barrier]!”
While blocking the dark ray with her shield, Tia created a translucent wall large enough to protect Tauro and everyone behind her.
The other support-team members layered additional barriers over one another, while several attacked the Fenrir variant with spears and swords.
The fire spell struck with a roar, but the barriers stopped it and scattered the flames.
Other members anticipated Tia’s injuries and cast recovery magic whenever openings appeared.
The supply team used support magic to increase the support and escort teams’ resistance and attack power.
At last, Tauro shook off the Fenrir variant’s [Majesty]-type pressure and regained control of himself.
He drew the Guardian Doll Round Shield and the Bow of Artemis. Since light arrows were unlikely to penetrate, he supplied no magical power to the bow and instead relied on physical force enhanced by the shield.
The Bow of Artemis could create [Light Arrows] when supplied with magical power, but Tauro had discovered that, when paired with the round shield’s strength enhancement, it could also function as a powerful nonattribute bow.
Empowered by the shield, Tauro’s arrow tore through the air with a roar.
It flew directly toward the space between one of the Fenrir variant’s heads and its brow.
However, just when Tauro thought it had struck, the arrow hit with a dull thud and ricocheted away.
“It bounced off!”
The support-team warriors’ slashing attacks were likewise repelled without leaving more than superficial damage.
Their strikes weren’t ordinary physical attacks.
Each warrior had reinforced the attack with magic or a specialized ability.
“Its durability is still extraordinary!”
“Concentrate on its existing wounds!”
“Tauro-dono, ordinary iron arrows can’t properly damage monsters from this depth. Use these mithril arrows.”
A man from the supply team removed a quiver from his back and tossed it to Tauro.
The man had apparently judged that Tauro’s archery was powerful enough to justify using the valuable ammunition.
After handing over the arrows, the supply-team member focused on supporting the others with magic.
Meanwhile, Tia attacked the Fenrir variant with a blade of light extending from her shield.
However, the creature was still a Fenrir variant.
Its exceptional resistance to light repelled even Tia’s attacks.
“I understand why the conquest team fought this thing for more than five hours! With resistance this strong, it can repel almost every light-attribute attack our support team uses!”
Even while attacking, Tia held the Fenrir variant’s attention with [Great Taunt].
The others abandoned light-attribute techniques and switched to attacks of different attributes.
Resistant to nearly everything, the Fenrir variant paid little attention to their blows. Its two heads continued launching magic at Tia while its claws tore through the air toward her.
Even Tia’s exceptional defense couldn’t completely stop such varied and relentless attacks, and her wounds steadily increased.
Without the recovery magic cast by those behind her, she would already have been overwhelmed.
While Tia bore the full force of the assault, her allies repeatedly targeted the wounds the conquest team had left behind.
Even so, the beast barely flinched, as though their attacks were causing almost no damage.
Tauro fired several mithril arrows into its wounds, but even those produced little visible effect.
At this rate, Tia-san could be killed!
Faced with a wounded yet terrifying enemy that seemed resistant to every attack, Tauro felt a rising sense of crisis. Then he remembered a spell he hadn’t used in a long time—and a way [Magic Manipulation] (Extreme) might make it effective.