The 100th Regression of the Max-Level Player Novel - Chapter 323
Chapter 323 – The Sound of Resonance
“Miss Arin!”
“Yes?”
Min Juri hurriedly looked for Seo Arin.
“What if we use echo resonance to block the next attack? Let’s raise the summoned creatures as if they were walls.”
“Ah…!”
Min Juri’s idea was simple.
After raising the summoned creatures as walls, she would use Seo Arin’s maximum level skill, echo resonance, to make them invincible.
Could they at least block one area of effect attack with this idea?
That was the premise on which the idea arose.
“You want to use the invincible summoned creatures as shields?”
“Exactly. With the summoned creatures of Yamti and John Delgado, we should be able to protect everyone present.”
It was a feasible strategy.
Before coming here, she had checked that both Yamti’s monsters and John Delgado’s summoned creatures became invincible as proof.
“Alright. Let’s do it as Min Juri suggests. Yamti! John Delgado!”
“What’s up?”
“…?”
Seo Arin explained Min Juri’s method to the two.
Then, both nodded in unison as if fulfilling a promise.
“It’s not a bad idea.”
“Black Scythe is doing his best to protect us, so we should do something at least.”
“But can the summoned creatures withstand attacks as powerful as light?”
“We can only concentrate them as much as possible.”
“What’s the cooldown time of the echo resonance?”
“It’s one hour. We won’t be able to use it more than twice.”
“At least we could block one.”
“We don’t have time. Let’s start immediately.”
The four’s agreed strategy proceeded without delay.
“Krraaaah!”
Yamti’s monsters, including the three-headed ones, were summoned in line.
John Delgado also summoned the archangel Sariel, nine noble demons, and dozens of undead as if he couldn’t be surpassed.
Seo Arin also summoned a few creatures and gathered the people.
“Gather here!”
“We’ll create a wall with the summoned creatures. Everyone, get behind it!”
The larger summoned creatures were placed at the front, while the smaller ones filled the empty spaces between them.
Thus, a sturdy wall of summoned creatures was formed.
A wall that could withstand area of effect attacks.
“Has everyone moved behind the summoned creatures?”
“Yes! We have confirmed all 61 present.”
Hearing Yamti’s words, Seo Arin nervously looked at Black Scythe, who was cutting down an angel.
‘Echo resonance provides invincibility for 5 seconds. We have to use it at the right moment.’
With the timing of their skills, they could either save everyone or lead them to their doom.
Seo Arin’s alert eyes didn’t miss a moment of the angel’s movement.
Splurt!
Crimson blood splattered as Artaros’s head fell.
However, as if it were a lie, he moved little by little, taking advantage of the brief moment of invincibility.
It was a scene that had been seen to exhaustion.
‘Damn it. The fourth wave of area attacks will be ready soon.’
He could dodge at an astonishing speed, but the others couldn’t.
‘Should I use the rune of speed now?’
Although he had planned to save it for an emergency, maybe he should use it now to save the people.
Splurt!
He cut Artaros’s neck again as he approached the allies.
Just at that moment, while trying to estimate the distance.
Ryu Min witnessed an unexpected scene.
‘What’s going on? Did they group the summoned creatures?’
After confirming the presence of the 61 players hiding behind the summoned creatures, Ryu Min could immediately understand the strategy.
‘Are they trying to block with echo resonance?’
And, as expected, reading Seo Arin’s thoughts from the front, he confirmed his suspicions.
‘A Min Juri idea, huh? She had a good thought.’
With a chuckle, Ryu Min read Artaros’s thoughts and realized that the area attack was ready.
“[Foolish humans. Gathered together to die. So be it according to their wish.]”
“Now, Seo Arin!”
[Divine Wrath.]
Did Seo Arin respond to Ryu Min’s voice?
Or was she already planning to do it anyway?
Just before the area attack arrived, Seo Arin used echo resonance to make the summoned creatures invincible.
Kwaaaah!
Despite the fierce light spreading as if to incinerate everything, it couldn’t penetrate the invincible summoned creatures.
The same happened with the players behind them.
After the storm passed, the players who had huddled like turtles raised their heads.
“We’re alive!”
“We did it!”
Cheers and victory cries resonated among the people.
They had successfully blocked the area attack without any damage.
For Artaros, who expected an imminent massacre, it was bewildering.
“[Making the summoned creatures invincible to withstand. I commend you for your cunning. But death for you is just a matter of time…]”
Splurt!
“It’s a matter of time to see if it’s just a matter of time or not.”
The head cut by Ryu Min’s scythe returned to its place with the same light.
It was truly disheartening.
‘We managed to block one, but the next one will be a problem.’
The fifth, the sixth, the seventh…
Could they block all the area attacks?
Looking at Artaros, reciting spells as if nothing had happened, Ryu Min felt urgency.
Splurt!
“With the scythe strike, I’ve killed him 40 times.”
He calculated that he had weakened his statistic from 100% to 1.65%.
Although extremely weakened, he was still a threat to the other players.
‘To cease being a threat, his statistic would have to fall to one in a million.’
To achieve that, he would have to kill him 92 more times.
‘I can’t block the area attacks until then. Now is the perfect time to try.’
Ryu Min, convinced that he had killed enough, decided to implement his prepared plan.
‘Rune of Binding. Chains.’
Shlurack-
Instead of killing Artaros, he summoned chains to immobilize him.
The arms and legs were trapped in the chains that appeared out of nowhere.
“[What are you doing? Do you think you can immobilize me with this?]”
When Artaros tried to break free, the chains creaked and moved.
‘If the specifications say that the chains’ resistance is infinite, then they shouldn’t break….’
But that didn’t mean they could immobilize the opponent.
No, at least not when the opponent exerted so much force.
Pitt- Pitt- Pitt!
Ryu Min cut the tendons in the hands and feet to prevent Artaros from using his strength.
Additionally, he cut his eyes.
Although crimson blood splattered, Artaros showed no signs of pain.
“[You block my movements and also take away my sight? What’s the point?]”
‘There’s a point. I can’t slow down time.’
However, Ryu Min didn’t make the mistake of revealing his intention by giving unnecessary information.
He simply pulled an object from the inventory without saying a word.
A mistake could ruin the opportunity.
“What are you doing?”
Artaros’s eyebrow furrowed as he watched.
“What’s that? What are you trying to do?”
“What am I trying to do?”
Ryu Min’s hand grabbed Artaros’s chin.
“You’ll see when you see.”
“Mmm, miserable…!”
Clearly, he seemed to be feeding him something.
Of course, Artaros, who would never consider taking a suspicious object, struggled desperately.
But the tight chains kept him immobile.
With over two hundred million statistics, he couldn’t even move.
‘Well, it should have decreased around 1.65% to around three million.’
Even so, it wasn’t an amount of statistics that could be ignored.
Although he didn’t have enough to release the bindings, cutting the tendons in the hands and feet was enough.
Vuuuummm-
An energy surged from Artaros’s body.
It was the glow of the “Brilliant Glorification” technique seen before, a buff that increased statistics by 50%.
“[Mmmmm!]”
Although he seemed desperate not to want it, even used the buff, but the chains remained firm.
‘If his statistics were higher, he probably would have released the chains with force. But…’
Now, weakened, he had no choice but to drink the unknown potion.
Ryu Min forcibly poured the potion into his mouth and closed his mouth.
Plop-
“Don’t spit it out, swallow it.”
Although he held the jaw so it couldn’t open, Artaros only kept the potion in his mouth without swallowing.
When he hit his throat with his palm, he swallowed it in one gulp.
“Right. That’s what you have to do.”
Finally, Ryu Min lifted the corners of his lips after forcing Artaros to take the potion.
The potion he gave wasn’t anything other than the memory erasure potion.
‘Fortunately, I have another potion.’
Ryu Min smiled while looking at Artaros, who had vacant eyes.
“It seems you think I gave you poison, but no. The potion I gave you is to erase memories. It’s a miraculous brew that can turn even a battle god like you into a fool.”
“[……..]”
“So stop resisting and accept it. Soon, even you won’t be able to remember it.”
Artaros lost consciousness without being able to respond.
And at the same time, Ryu Min had time.
Time to review and erase Artaros’s memories.
The Rune of Hidden Thoughts could read not only thoughts but also the depths of an opponent’s subconscious.
It was certainly an impressive rune for acquiring information, but that didn’t mean it could extract all of a person’s memories.
‘But the memory erasure potion does.’
The potion, which could erase the target’s memories, allowed Ryu Min to review and erase all of Artaros’s memories as if they were a video.
From how he was born as a Celestial to how he became a God and reached his current position.
‘He was an outstanding case in the Great Celestial Battle and caught the attention of the gods, which led him to ascend to a god.’
Among the gods and Celestials, Artaros was a genius.
He was truly a genius in battle.
He was so powerful that he had no rival among the gods, and his power and honor had increased from a young age.
Was it because of that?
An unexpected problem occurred in an unexpected place.
It was for touching a forbidden planet even among the gods, did Artaros receive a human curse? Was that the curse of immortality?
Although it’s hard to believe that a mere human received such a curse, it was true.
As a result, Artaros, who became an immortal being, was humiliated like a trained dog and…
“There was a story behind the immunity to death, resulting in the erosion of emotions after countless deaths.”
You can’t call it a curse to become an immortal and eternal being, but that’s just talking without experience.
All beings conclude their life journey with death and mark the end of a long journey.
But Artaros had to continue his eternal journey.
Regardless of his will, he lived an endless eternity.
That wasn’t the life Artaros wanted.
That’s why he inflicted countless self-injuries to die.
“But he couldn’t die. He could resurrect over and over, even after dying hundreds or thousands of times.”
Although he desperately begged the humans who cursed him to release him, the humans were more cunning than expected.
It goes without saying that Artaros lamented while striking the ground.
“But it turned out to be a poor wretch.”
Ryu Min, who was reading Artaros’s memories, could understand even more how he felt.
“Although I don’t intend to forgive him.”
The plan to end the crisis by erasing the type’s memories hadn’t changed.
However, the process of reading his memories was necessary.
He planned to unlock the formless space and discover how to pass round 20 through the type’s memories.
And he even found the face behind the orders for him.
“It’s probably a god named Nyx.”
With that thought, while reviewing the past, Ryu Min identified Nyx’s face.
The primordial god seemed to be him.
“But… is there another one?”