The Last Adventurer

Chapter 94

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Chapter 94 Cactus Desert (3)

6.

The Adventurers’ Association, the group that manages adventurers in Maple World.

A surprising number of adventurers were dissatisfied with the Adventurers’ Association.

The reason was simple.

“What does the Adventurers’ Association do?”

From the adventurers’ perspective, there was no real need to receive help from the Adventurers’ Association.

In reality, most adventurers formed their own parties and went on their own adventures.

The Adventurers’ Association also periodically provided information, guidelines, and rules for adventurers, but there was hardly any enforcement.

However, there were a few cases where the Adventurers’ Association took active measures.Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

One was to judge adventurers who engaged in trolling behavior.

The other was to hunt powerful boss-level monsters that appeared throughout Maple World.

Of the two, the Adventurers’ Association put a lot of effort into hunting boss-level monsters.

To be precise, that was the reason the Adventurers’ Association was created.

To create a group that could catch monsters that most adventurers couldn’t, boss monsters!

Among them, there were a few types of boss monsters that the Adventurers’ Association was most cautious of.

They were monsters like Mushmom, Giant Nepenthes, and Dewu.

This was because these types of monsters were not only strong themselves but also had the power to change the food chain and environment of an area if left alone.

A representative example was the nightmare incident of the Mushroom Cloud, where millions of Mushmoms emerged from Sleepywood after a Mushmom that appeared there a long time ago was left alone.

The same was true for Giant Nepenthes. If left alone, they would eat adventurers and grow stronger, eventually becoming a disaster that adventurers couldn’t handle.

The giant cactus Dewu was the worst of them all.

The Adventurers’ Association said:

“Anyone who finds Dewu, report it to the association and you’ll receive 1 million mesos immediately.”

There was no need to catch it.

Just report its existence, and they would give 1 million mesos, a huge sum of money, on the spot.

It was an exceptional bounty.

In other words, the monster Dewu could become a nightmare if left alone.

It wasn’t just a vague imagination.

In fact, a long time ago, there was a Dewu that survived in the Nihal Desert for about three years.

Around that Dewu, millions of Cactuses had grown.

The adventurer who first discovered the scene at that time said:

“It’s a green hell.”

That’s how terrifying the scene was.

First of all, the walking cactus monster Cactus itself was a very powerful monster.

Unlike mushroom monsters like Orange Mushroom or Green Mushroom, cactus monsters had a different level of strength.

Above all, the thorns on their bodies were very threatening. They were literally like needles made of steel.

If you got pricked, it wasn’t just a sting, but your skin would be pierced, and your flesh would be ripped off.

Crucially, the giant cactus monster Dewu itself was very strong.

Its body was so hard that you could think of it as a golem-like boulder rather than a cactus, and the thorns coming out of its body were so strong that they should be called spears rather than thorns.

Therefore, over 10,000 adventurers gathered under the name of the Adventurers’ Association to deal with Dewu and the millions of Cactuses.

It was an anecdote that all adventurers from the Nihal Desert knew, and so all adventurers from the Nihal Desert said:

“Many monsters are scary, but the scariest of all is a neglected Dewu.”

The fear of Dewu.

It wasn’t just the adventurers of the Nihal Desert who knew it.

Adventurers in Victoria Island, far away, were also well aware of the fear of Dewu.

The monster Dewu, located in the Signus Knights’ tomb where Oz’s disciple died, was that kind of monster.

“Boss.”

That’s why...

“What did you say just now?”

“Change of plans. Originally, we were going to spend the rest of our time here, but now we’re getting out of here in an hour.”

“Wait, an hour?”

El Pam’s words made his companions, including Divo, who usually didn’t get flustered by anything, look dumbfounded.

“Boss, it’s Dewu! Dewu! He’s the one who creates that green hell!”

In the end, Divo reacted strongly.

That’s how absurd El Pam’s words were.

“He’s not someone you can catch in just an hour!”

El Pam replied to those words.

“According to my calculations, it will take about 3 days and 13 hours.”

“Huh?”

El Pam explained to Divo and his companions, whose heads were tilted at the unexpected answer.

“It’s exactly as I said. To hunt Dewu, we have to deal with the Cactuses around him first. That alone will take at least 45 hours. We have to clean them up without encountering Dewu. After that, we need to allocate at least 30 hours to hunt Dewu.”

Everyone’s heads tilted even more at the overly detailed explanation.

“But, Boss? How can we catch him in an hour?”

El Pam showed them the answer to that question.

“Because we have Oz’s Necklace.”

7.

“Oz’s Necklace?”

Cheryl’s expression was surprised at Sejan’s words.

“Is it the Oz’s Necklace that I know?”

It couldn’t be helped.

“Yes. The necklace is made from the Phoenix’s Eye.”

The Oz’s Necklace, the leader of the Blaze Mages, or more accurately, it should be called the Phoenix’s Eye.

Among them, the Revolver technique, which used telekinesis to rotate Fire Arrow!

‘The duration of Revolver has doubled.’

In other words, doubling the duration of fire attribute magic meant doubling the time Revolver was maintained upon contact with the enemy.

This was a huge deal.

You would know if you tried it even a little.

Making a hole for 10 seconds and making a hole for 20 seconds, the difference is twice, but the depth is not twice.

‘Even if it’s not Cold Beam, it’s possible to penetrate Dewu’s body.’

Of course, El Pam also had ice attribute magic that lasted longer, but ice attribute magic was heavy, so the telekinesis, mental power, and mana required were incomparably greater than fire attribute magic.

In any case, the moment it became possible to penetrate Dewu’s hard body with fire attribute magic, El Pam didn’t hesitate.

He started the operation.

Fire Arrow, Enhanced Fire Arrow, and even Apollo’s Fire Arrow.

He used magic whenever the cooldown ended, persistently digging into the place where Dewu’s core, the mana stone, existed.

For an hour.

During that hour, while his companions distracted the Cactuses and Dewu, he succeeded in the operation.

It was a great achievement that El Pam hadn’t even expected.

But El Pam wasn’t simply happy here.

He thought instead.

‘More than that, the fact that Oz’s Necklace is here means that none other than Oz, the leader of the Blaze Mages, was involved in this.’

Bayos’ death was a bigger deal than El Pam thought.

Naturally, the ripple effect after he cleared this place would also be bigger than he thought.

‘This isn’t a story that ends with one Legendary item.’

It meant that the calculations had to change.

It was then.

“Boss!”

His companions, who had been drawing aggro for El Pam for an hour, approached him.

“You’re amazing!”

Everyone had a look of wonder on their faces.

“Good work. Thanks to you, it was possible.”

El Pam readily expressed his gratitude to his companions.

“Thanks to us? What did we do? All we did was flutter around against the Cactuses.”

Divo and his companions smiled at El Pam’s praise.

They seemed to think that what El Pam said was just a passing remark.

“It’s not.”

But El Pam’s words were not empty words.

If El Pam were alone, it would have been impossible to focus on hunting Dewu for an hour.

And it was no easy task to stall against tens of thousands of Cactuses, including Dewu, for an hour.

Especially in the extreme environment of a desert!

Most adventurers wouldn’t have lasted even 10 minutes.

“Thanks to you, it was possible.”

At El Pam’s repeated words, his companions realized he wasn’t just saying it and nodded.

“Haha, isn’t it thanks to the hard training we’ve had under the Boss? Compared to that training, this is nothing, just a game.”

They smiled even brighter, a smile full of confidence.

“So, is there anything else to do? We have energy to spare.”

“That’s fortunate.”

“Huh?”

El Pam said to his companions.

“Let’s finish cleaning up the Cactuses.”

“C-cleaning up?”

Divo turned his head in surprise at those words and looked at the hundreds of thousands of Cactuses that remained.

“Those?”

El Pam nodded and said.

“We have time and energy left, so we have to use it up.”

At that moment, the smiles disappeared from everyone’s faces.

But soon, they smiled again.

Because they knew.

“Yes, there’s no reason to refuse such a good training opportunity.”

That El Pam wasn’t just saying this to torment them, but truly for their sake.

“I have no problem.”

“Yeah, let’s see it through to the end.”

“It’s good to earn money by catching them.”

Above all, El Pam’s companions were confident.

In fact, it was natural for them to be confident.

They had endured for an hour even with Dewu present, so it wouldn’t be difficult to endure longer now that Dewu was dead.

“The four of us should be able to handle it without any problems.”

El Pam knew that too.

So he said.

“So now, we hunt individually.”

“Huh? Individually?”

“Hunting together isn’t training. It has to be hard for it to be training.”

With those words, hell began.

That hell ended two days later.

The El Pam party, they went outside.

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