I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 42

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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The damage calculation for Falling Attacks was simple.

It dealt a fixed percentage of the enemy’s maximum health proportional to the fallen distance, and the damage of the currently equipped weapon was added on top of that.

In other words, the higher the character fell from, and the stronger the weapon’s one-hit damage, the greater the damage that could be dealt with a Falling Attack.

Moreover, if it was possible to kill the enemy with the Falling Attack’s damage, the fall damage could be ignored.

If the enemy wasn’t killed, the character would take damage from landing on the ground while attacking, and there were even situations where they would die on the spot.

However, if the target died, the character would perform a special motion based on their weapon type while killing the enemy and safely land on the ground.

No matter how high they fell from.

In fact, falling from a higher place was even better since the maximum health proportional damage would be greater.

The situation I was in right now was also one of those cases.

Dozens of mob monsters were crawling at the bottom of this pit, allowing the player to kill an enemy with a Falling Attack and land unharmed no matter where they fell from.

Thanks to that, I had to witness the sight of dozens of centipedes as large as humans wriggling and gathering together.

‘Good. It’s right below.’

After confirming that a monster equivalent to a mid-boss was positioned where I would fall, I flipped my grip on the sword so that the tip was pointing downward.

A grotesque monster that looked like several centipedes fused into one, with a size several times larger than the others, raised its head upon hearing the thunderous noise from above.

At that moment, I plummeted onto it.

“ㅡ!!!!!”

Crushing its shoulders under my feet, I thrust my sword with all my might into the part that seemed to be its head.

As expected, I felt no impact from the landing at all.

Instead, the shoulder armor caved in with a crunch as it took the full brunt of the shock.

My feet dug into the shell.

The blade of the Blood-Stained Sword sank deep into its face.

I grabbed the handle from the side and below, pushing it in with all my strength. Everything above the crossguard was buried inside.

ㅡSquish! Squelch!

While I took care of the mid-boss with the Falling Attack, the rock fragments that fell belatedly mercilessly crushed the centipedes wriggling in the puddle.

The sound of shells shattering echoed from all around.

The mob monsters on the side where the player doesn’t fall are handled by the falling rocks like this.

Thanks to that, I didn’t need to beat them one by one.

“……”

The mid-boss met the same fate.

It trembled its terribly numerous legs before curling them inward.

A sign that its life had been cut short.

Its body swayed greatly.

I pulled the sword out of its head and spun once in the air before landing on the ground.

Despite never having done such a motion before, it flowed incredibly naturally.

The creature collapsed into the puddle with a splash, sending water spraying.

A disgusting colored liquid slowly spread around it. I turned my head away with a frown.

‘This area is done.’

I looked around.

Every single centipede that had been crawling nearby was flattened by the rocks that fell from the ceiling, without a single one spared.

Originally, this was a notoriously difficult section where the player had to land with a Falling Attack on a nearby mob, and then simultaneously face the mid-boss and six or seven mob monsters.

However, users discovered a glimmer of possibility here and somehow found a spot where they could feed a Falling Attack to the mid-boss.

Even in the Darkest Light Mod, this remained unchanged.

The falling height was so immense that even the mid-boss, whose health was dozens of times higher than normal enemies, was guaranteed to be one-shot, and all the other mob monsters were crushed to death by the falling rocks.

There was no reason not to use this method.

‘I wonder if it dropped any items.’

I looked around the corpses of the centipedes flattened by the rocks, wondering if there might be a rare item.

However, I couldn’t see anything other than a pool of blood and disgusting chunks of flesh.

Honestly, I wasn’t sure if I should consider this unfortunate or fortunate.

After all, there was no inventory or status window, so even if an item dropped, I had no way to carry it.

In the game, I could just press the E key to acquire items and they would automatically stack neatly by type in the inventory, and there was no particular limit to the number.

But here, it was different.

Even the spear of the Headless Armored Cavalier, which I could have easily acquired and checked in the inventory if it were a game, required me to carry it with difficulty on horseback and tie it to the saddle.

While at the knighthood, I had tried picking up items that were treated as such in the game, out of curiosity, but nothing happened.

‘At this rate, I don’t know how I’ll do reinforcement material farming later.’

They had already thrown reality out the window anyway, so couldn’t they have included an inventory as well?

ㅡRumble rumble!

The sound of the cave trembling could be heard from far away.

As I felt the vibration, irritation instinctively surged within me.

It was a signal that the time to face the boss of this dungeon was gradually approaching.

‘Damn Rock Centipede.’

Just thinking about it made my teeth chatter.

If it weren’t for the fact that this was a mandatory boss that had to be defeated to obtain the rune, I would have skipped it no matter what.

The boss of this dungeon, the ‘Rock Centipede’, could be summarized in one sentence: it was an incredibly foul boss.

Except for newbies who had just started Brightest Darkness 4 and reached this point for the first time, there was absolutely no divide in opinions.

There was no one who liked it, only those who disliked it.

It was structured in a way that made it impossible not to curse even if you were stuck for just a bit.

In the community, the overwhelming consensus was that the boss itself was poorly designed.

There was even talk that if a remake of Brightest Darkness 4 were to be released in about 30 years, the Rock Centipede should be deleted.

The reasons were varied, but the three biggest problems were:

It’s not fun.

It takes a long time.

The patterns are nasty.

‘Actually, the first reason is the most overwhelming.’

Even if it takes a long time to defeat, people tend to accept it as long as it’s fun.

The fact that the final boss of Brightest Darkness 4 receives praise despite having the same 4 phases as the Rock Centipede proves this.

Still, there was no way I could just skip it without defeating it.

I steeled my resolve and entered the path that was wide open on one side of the water puddle.

The path was incredibly wide.

I thought six or seven people could easily stand side by side, and even upwards, it was almost twice my height.

However, the walls and floor were extremely uneven.

If I fell the wrong way, I wouldn’t be surprised if my skin got torn.

I had a silly thought, wondering if that could kill me too.

‘Here it is.’

After walking for a while, I stopped upon seeing a spot where unnatural holes were clearly drilled into the wall, floor, and ceiling.

This was the place.

Now, if I approached those holes, the first phase would begin.

I slowly walked towards it, suppressing the irritation that was already welling up.

As I nearly reached it, the cave greatly trembled and a grinding sound of rock being chewed away echoed from all directions.

The sound grew louder and louder, and the shaking intensified accordingly.

The grinding noise was coming from the walls, the floor, and even the ceiling.

‘Stay calm.’

If I moved carelessly in this situation, I might get hit by a rock centipede popping out of a hole and die instantly with bad luck.

The best thing to do was to stay still near the spot without moving.

ㅡKwaaang!

Before long, a huge monster burst out of the nearest hole, shattering the surrounding terrain.

Its overall appearance was no different from an ordinary centipede, but its entire body was made of rock.

Not in the sense that its carapace and exoskeleton were as hard as stone, but literally that its body itself was rock.

It had an appearance that precisely matched the name ‘Rock Centipede’.

And it was ridiculously huge.

Each of its legs, which seemed to number in the hundreds, was as long as my height, and even with only a part of its front end popping out of the hole, it was similar in height to a decent-sized multi-story house.

Considering the rest of its body that had yet to emerge from the hole, the length of its entire body was undoubtedly the size of an apartment building.

‘Seeing it in person, it’s even more unbelievable.’

A monster with a body made of rock, the appearance of a centipede, and a size larger than a building was looking down at me, so the overwhelming presence was much greater than I had thought.

This was the reason why newbies panicked when they first encountered it.

But that was it.

When I thought about the struggle I would have to endure against this thing from now on, irritation rose before fear or anxiety.

ㅡBoom!

The Rock Centipede’s body settled on the ground.

The entire cave trembled with a rumble.

It began to slowly crawl towards me, clacking its lower jaws together.

The hundreds of stone legs scraped the floor, endlessly making an unpleasant sound.

Even a single one of those movements grated on my nerves.

I slowly backed away towards the wall.

The Rock Centipede also gradually turned its body and approached, following me.

Then, it began to increase its speed.

The giant centipede made of rock flailed its hundreds of legs and twisted its joints, charging at full speed.

It seemed determined to ram into me and crush me against the wall.

The problem was that the speed it considered “full speed” was only slightly faster than the player’s normal walking pace.

There was no way I would miss the timing, let alone get caught and die.

‘…Now.’

I waited until the distance closed further, and just before its head could ram into me, I rolled to the side and escaped diagonally.

The Rock Centipede couldn’t stop its charge even though I had disappeared from its sight.

ㅡBoom!

Unable to overcome its own speed, it violently crashed into the wall.

The entire cave shook, and pebbles rained down from the ceiling.

The Rock Centipede thrashed its entire body in a frenzy.

I retreated far back to avoid getting hit by its rampage.

Even getting hit by a flying rock fragment near that thing could kill me.

If newbies asked why they died even though they had successfully dodged, nine out of ten times it was because they got hit by a rock.

After twisting its body, rampaging, and completely messing up its surroundings, the Rock Centipede irritably clacked its lower jaws a few times and burrowed back into the rock.

Due to its immense size, it took a while for it to fully disappear.

‘Now I’ll have to wait a long time again.’

I plopped down on the spot.

It would take nearly a minute for it to go back in and come out again anyway.

According to the developers, its body was so large that it couldn’t change directions quickly.

Now, if I repeated this nonsense 59 more times, it would be the 4th phase. In vanilla, it was 29 times, but due to the Darkest Light Mod, it had doubled.

The creators of the Darkest Light Mod also received a barrage of curses.

People complained about why they increased the number of gimmicks instead of reducing them.

During those 59 repetitions, I had to wait a minute each time in between, and of course, I had to meticulously avoid not only the hundreds of thrashing legs but also every single flying rock fragment.

Sitting on the ground, I began to wait endlessly for the Rock Centipede to burst out again.

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