Versatile: Alternate World

In many games that involve defending your base, the main foundation to keep your base standing is to buy a defensive tower that will keep any stragglers from moving around. My horde coins are currently lacking to buy multiple Attack towers so I will have to put that on hold this time around. However, that is not yet out of the plan just yet. Once we cleared at least one or two hordes, buying a few of these towers will no longer be a problem.

Seeing that the time to the next wave will be an hour, I decided to use the remaining free time we have to find clues about the whereabouts of the main boss that we need to kill to finish the quest as soon as possible. It's just going to drag out if we don't eliminate it the easiest way.

"Lina, come with me. The rest of you should remain and guard the village. Even if the horde wave is going to take a while, it doesn't hurt to be vigilant."

Everyone nodded in confirmation. Before we left, I purchased a few teleport stones and set the teleportation target to the village so that we will be able to go back as quickly as we can without walking all the way back to the village. This also serves as an emergency recall in case we ran out of time finding the lair of the boss and the next wave started.

We immediately left so that we can cover bigger grounds in case the boss is nowhere to be seen. With the help of Lina's ability to track down some tracks and fill out some of the missing links in the clues that we obtained, it didn't take us long to locate the domain of the boss.

"Master. I can sense a dreadful aura up ahead," Lina said after we discover the domain of the boss. It was a cave and the walls inside the cave is pulsing.

"Looks like this is the area where the boss is. We managed to track down our target faster than expected which is good for us."

"Should we test the waters, Master?"

"Let's do this. We can escape from it anyway if it is proven impossible."

All bosses in the Ascension trials are possible to be challenged and we can escape it anytime we want. Also, the teleport stones can come in handy in case the boss is too hard to kill.

As we enter, the walls of the cave started to pulsate and some tentacles poured out of them. Although they are short, it would be unwise to touch them without knowing what effect it does on a person.

"Don't bother touching it nor attacking it. Just avoid the tentacle since it might be some sort of sensory gland of the boss. We might agitate it if we managed to even touch it so venture the cave carefully."

We took our steps as carefully as we can since the walls are covered with these tentacles. It took us a few minutes before we managed to pass through the walls of tentacles. As soon as we managed to get our bearings, we arrived inside a very large dome full of those wriggling mass of tentacles. It looks disgusting and anyone who hates seeing nasty things like this would writhe in disgust just by seeing it move, moreover, hear its wriggling sounds that seem to sound like flesh being squished together.

The cavern is pretty big that it can be easily called a dome due to the shape of the walls surrounding the walls. Aside from that, I also saw some crystal shining bright above the cavern. It is shining red and has a tinge of orange. It was so easy to spot that is why it is the first thing that is peculiar that I have noticed after we arrived.

However, that is not the focus today for me.

[King of Wraith and Dread, the Undying King]

Lvl: ???

HP: ????/????

MP: ????/????

Traits: Undead, Monster, Foreign Being, Immortal(Will be removed after 60 waves), Invincible(Will be removed after 60 waves)

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My eyes wandered to the traits and I am surprised to see Foreign Being as one of its traits.

There are plenty of traits a monster can have and based on these traits, their weakness will be easily concluded the moment you can identify what its traits are. That is how impactful and important to look at the traits. Now, anyone seeing this would be their first time seeing a creature with a trait of "Foreign Being" added on their traits.

So what is a Foreign Being? They are creatures that first became common the moment you arrive in Aquagius. The monsters in Aquagius would either have this trait as their common trait or they are weak against this trait. Also, Foreign Beings are always connected to some sort of dark sorcery and they are capable of producing tentacles.

Also, they are one of the prominent creatures that can cast Corrode to a target. They are not just easy monsters to kill, they are troublesome enough that they should be eliminated the moment one appears.

The next things that I notice are the two traits that are just beside the Foreign Being Trait.

"Damn, so we have no shortcut with it and we can only wait until we reach wave 60 to kill it? Isn't this kind of troublesome?" I grumbled.

"So that means we have no choice but to wait until wave 60 so that we can launch an attack against it?" Lina asked.

"That's basically what we should do. But first, we have to investigate before leaving. We have to be able to kill it in wave 60 so that the next wave will stop. And since we have no idea what this bastard can do, we have to be careful about it and check if there are any ways to defeat him as soon as we can."

"I see. Preparation is a much better thing indeed compared to just running blindly on it. I will get into it."

Lina and I started doing some inspection and taking notes on the things that is happening around the place. We also made sure that we won't be able to provoke the tentacle bastard.

While we are investigating, it was very sudden but the red jewel up above the cavern suddenly started to shine brightly. My instincts quickly kick in and quickly pull out Lina who is still investigating a few things before she gets to be squashed by the giant tentacle the boss is controlling.

"F*ck! That was a close one!"

However, that wasn't the last one. Another giant tentacle appeared again and this time, it is now targeting the two of us.

"Lina, take out the teleport stones! We have to get out of...Sh*t!"

Before I can finish what I was about to say, a huge tentacle forced us to be separated.

Lina took out her own teleport stone.

"Get hold of that one, Lina! We will have to force ourselves out of this place as soon as we can!"

If only the boss is not invincible, I can at least fight it back to some extent and damage it before we flee but this is not possible since it is immortal. Also, even if I can proc the Instant Death skill, it is still impossible since the monster might die but it will just resurrect itself due to its Immortal trait.

The boss is about to move again so I quickly made my move and grabbed Lina and carried her in my back.

"Hold tight! I can't hold you while we rush out of here! So don't you dare let go of your hand to my body!"

Lina quickly grabbed into my body and hugged my abdomen tightly. She even used her legs to fully get herself on hold to me. She isn't that heavy so we have to do this.

I pulled out my Versatile weapon and changed it into katana and quickly run towards the entrance we had just used earlier. Using the katana to cut off the tentacles that tried to obstruct our way, I made my way out without bothering how the situation is not looking good for us as a giant tentacle is chasing our asses.

Thankfully, we arrived at the end and we arrived back at the entrance. I didn't bother to stop and continue to run to a good amount of distance and when I can feel the tentacle that the King of Wraith used, has halted its advance.

"Phew, you can go down now, Lina."

Lina composed herself and fixed her clothing line after the battle.

"I apologize for my behavior and for clinging hard on your body, Master."

Yeah, I can tell she grabbed in my neck too hard since my neck hurts a bit after she goes down from me. Thankfully, she didn't feel embarrassed or else, I might also feel embarrassed about that.

"No need to apologize. There is no other choice so that we don't get caught by the tentacle. Anyways, we have to get back to the Village. Now that we know that we need to remove its invincibility and immortality by finishing 60 waves of monsters coming at us, we are now ready to fully devote ourselves to protect that place."