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Chapter 106
I had hoped this was all some kind of mistake and a cruel joke, but it wasn't. After defeating that hero, I looted his remains and found undeniable proof that this was an actual hero.
I had extracted a divine crystal out of that boss, and I was unable to process the thoughts running wild in my head.
How could this be possible? What about the three hundred dungeons I had on my list. Each had at least one boss... were they also former heroes?
I felt sick in my stomach when I remembered the dungeon with the battlefield and ghostly echoes. I had to realize there were over thirty bosses inside, and those were the ones I had access to, which meant there could be even more bosses hidden inside.
I felt sick just thinking about it.
I looked around flabbergasted but could not find anyone who could explain it to me.
I didn't dare use the divine crystal, but I had to force myself out of my confusion and distress. I was not done with this dungeon, and I had to prepare myself in case the other bosses showed up.
Since the last one was the strangest one of the two, I decided to hunt the small woman. I thought it would be easier until I heard a small explosion far away. Not knowing what to do, I approached the second city only to find most huts, trunks of the outer wall, and quite a lot of trees missing. I tried to find out what had happened, and then I found traces of tires on soft soil.
Tires, not ancient wooden wheels of carriages, but modern tires made from rubber.
I had no idea what to expect from that, but I didn't have to wait for long to find out.
I followed the traces whenever I spotted them on the soft soil, and it led me to a slightly secluded place where some trees were missing. I searched for the hero, not knowing what to expect, but all i found was some kind of base.
At first, I wasn't sure what to expect, but then I saw a large box with tools attached to it. At a closer look, it was actually a robot, and the tools were his arms.
It didn't take me long to find the source of the tire tracks. Hidden behind a wall madw from planks was a strange vehicle. It was made from mostly of the same wood as the wall, but it had a steering wheel and a motor on it. I also observed the things around me and understood the origin of the second hero's power. It was some kind of survival sandbox game.
On one side, this was reassuring because those games rarely had a strengthening system that was comparable to the level up system of role-playing games, but I could not let her do as she pleased. The longer she moved around, the more dangerous she became. I had to stop her from crafting anything anymore, or it could become really dangerous. I didn't recognize the game, and that meant that her endgame could be anything and everything, including me and the world.
Just as we were about to disperse to search the environment, our target showed up. At first, I thought that I was lucky, but then she put her hammer aside and pulled a mini-gun out of her bag. It had a cartoon art style and was clearly made of plastic, but that meant little. When that thing started to spin, I knew I would go through a rough time.
She started shooting... with potatoes at us. She actually had a potato mini-gun, and I was eating dozens of those every heartbeat. I wasn't the only one suffering from that strange weapon, but that thing had some annoying pushback whenever it hit us.
My girls and I were forced to push forward towards the female hero but struggled hard. It wasn't the damage that caused us problems, but the suppressing fire from her side.
After what felt like an eternity, I could hear a strange noise from her gun. Gas smoke came out of it, but no more potatoes. She had exhausted her ammunition . I went at her, but she pulled her ridiculous giant sledgehammer out of her bag and let me smell that thing twice before she got pushed down by two warriors. I can confirm that the hammer had a very heavy scent on it.
Before I could give her a piece of my mind, she broke apart. She had been more fragile than I thought. I was about to pack my things and go, but there was something missing.
<2 Heroes left>
I silently cursed. I defeated her, but I did not get rid of her. I looked around as I was still in her base and found her suddenly on top of her wooden car. It was built like a truck, but that was not important.
I could hear the motor starting, and I ordered my girls to attack her. In the next moment, one of my spikers hit her from a distance, and she jumped out of her seat. She tried to sit down again and drive away, but she got ejected a second time. We didn't need to wait any longer as the third time she died again.
I was about to start looking for her source of respawn when I noticed her body reform itself underneath the car, jumped through it, and then tried to drive away. Whatever kept her alive was underneath the car.
We surrounded her, and in an attempt to destroy her source of immortality, we attacked the car. The wooden parts crumbled after a few punches, and we even got one of the car's wheels. She jumped out of her seat and tried to kill us, but our numbers were too high for her to cause any real danger. In this case, I meant the status points.
We managed to turn the car upside-down, and it revealed a blue bed underneath it.
That thing was the only thing out of the ordinary, so I decided that the thing had to go. Four punches, that was all it could endure before it broke.
With her source of revival gone, our dwarf woman tried to run away, but that was not permitted by us, and she quickly found out what our opinion about her potato salad was.
She died silently, only leaving her bag behind. After looting that bag, I found the second divine crystal inside of it.
I was quite happy to obtain two crystals in such a short period of time, but it didn't mean that I was out of danger. The last boss was out there, and I had to defeat him before I could get out of here.
With that mindset, I went looking for the final boss. I was certain that this boss would be the most dangerous one of them, but I was not sure what to expect.