Chapter 1294 Resonating Mirror and Howling From the Sky PART 3 Part 1

The Inexhaustible Mother Goose.

A medium car-sized goose—like creature that unlike other monsters who preferred to roam the environment openly and doing whatever they pleased at the moment, preferred to quietly hide behind trees and bushes. But when a monster the size of a car tries to hide behind a tree or a bush, it makes it stand out like a sore thumb, wouldn’t you agree? But…… No way, does that mean that it is actually weak as hell?

No, no it does not. For you see, the moment this Mother Goose decides that it has no other choice but to stand its ground and fight, it will fight with a strength of a thousand demons and without giving its enemies any time to react or counterattack…… All with the help of the things coming out if its ass? No, is that part of the body actually called a cloaca? Whatever the name is, there were eggs coming out of it with a momentum and velocity of machine gun bullets, and they were showing no signs of actually stopping anytime soon.

The eggs that were slammed on the ground broke on the spot, and what emerged from inside of them were the chicks that were already prepared for battle and fully grown up. They jumped out and started to attack everything that was in sight without a moment’s rest…… Ahh, I see, it’s a rather annoying property for a strong monster to have, even if its appearance would say otherwise. Spawning mobs with a machine-gun like rate means that chicks are born and attack like a machine gun-rate as well, never-ending and never-stopping. This isn’t good.

This is basically like a bees versus wasps kind of a scenario. When threatened by wasps, bees are usually organizing into larger groups. One on one, they would never stand a chance. But if you group up, surround your enemy and give then neither time nor quarter to act in defense, even a horde of small monster chicks is going to be strong enough to easily take down a player or two. And this is exactly the kind of scenario that is taking place right about now in here.

Although each chick is a small fry monster with little to no threat to them, once they all group up and start to act in a coordinated matter, I would say that their threat level rises to that of a monster on level one hundred fifty if not even higher. And that’s just a raw estimate on my part. Normally there would be no way for a monster like that to be on top of any ecosystem out there, but the way in which they were acting as well as the fact that their numbers never cease and is always increasing, this actually makes them a Colony-Type monster and that fact changes the entire game and the way in which this monster is supposed to be viewed.

However, this Inexhaustible Mother Goose is really unlucky. Because she couldn’t anticipate three peculiar things. And those things are going to prove to be its downfall soon enough.

First of all, the performance of its main body is extremely low when compared to the cost of the angrily spawning eggs at all times. It’s a good ability to have, sure, but not without its liabilities. Because of that ability, the main body can hardly move around, probably because most of its behavior is brought to spawning as many eggs with all of the energy it could possibly spare for doing just that.

Second thing, the durability of the chicks themselves is really low. Certainly, it is a threat that the chicks attack like tsunami waves one after another. But of course, it takes a certain amount of time and effort to defeat the opponent that their beaks and claws might not be all that effective against. And that is without counting in the factor that we are the type of enemy that those chicks most probably cannot even comprehend. And since they do not understand how we, their enemies, tend to operate, there is little to nothing that their beaks and claws can hope to accomplish against us.

And then there is the third matter.

“Small Fry””, “Massive”, “Appearing during one battle”…… All of those things are the list of conditions that just so happened to be met all at once. When it comes to the compatibility with me, this monster can lament that it is simply the worst it could possibly be! Now then, I am going to maw you all down into a dumpling meat filling, so come on! Do your worst! Try to defeat me, if you think that you can do this, that is!

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「Fuhahahahahahaha!! Yes! That’s it! Talk about being able to satisfy my urge for destruction! This is the best!」

In addition to the semi-permanent Slaughter Combo that is possible to pull of with Memento Mori and R.I.P, there is also the Untouchable Danger state due to the Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand coming into play here, and the genocide is made even more efficient and beneficial thanks to all of the strengthening gained by adding rotational power and Over-Transmission from Giant Slalom…… Yes, that’s right! They might be inexhaustible! They might be like a tsunami wave, coming at me without even a moment’s break! But it doesn’t really matter when you achieve the kind of power that allows you to maw down about ten of those chicks or more per second! And I’m sure I can up that count even more!

「Alright, EterZero-san! You can go on ahead, and leave all of the small fries in here to me! I’ll take care of them all!」

「Right, I’ll leave it all to you! You just sit back and let your Teacher take care of all the support out there!」

When it comes to our tactics against the Inexhaustible Mother Goose, they are all very simple and they all depend largely on the physical damage aspect.

I am able to slaughter small fries by myself no problem, and I just keep on attracting the chicks attention towards me. All the while EterZero, who is being supported by Bansai-san and the Professor, focus on taking down the main body as soon as possible with as much firepower that they can muster.

And as for now, my role in this battle is to act like your typical decoy: I am to keep the chicks occupied at all times and provoke them to attack me wave after wave after wave while omitting my companions, earning greater kill score by swinging my Memento Mori like an absolute madman, thus offsetting the amount of damage that those chicks would be able to dish out if they swarmed and surrounded us. This also allows me to apply pressure onto them, for they need to focus on increasing their numbers and replenish the already lost ones. At the same time, other players are going to use that opening I am able to create in order to keep on damaging the main body of Inexhaustible Mother Goose, although their tactics for doing that were clearly being unconventional.