The Newbie Is Too Strong's
184. The Meaning of Team Cooperation, Senior Figure of an Areka
“Silvia!!! Brother Agnes!!!”
I cried out desperately looking for the whereabouts of Brother Silvia and Sister Agnes who suddenly disappeared in our time while having to face hundreds of living armor.
“It's free you scream, Luca. It seems they have been taken to another place.”
I panicked immediately. I did not expect such a situation to happen at all. That was compounded when I recalled the system notification about how dangerous this place was because the injuries experienced here were likely to be transferred to our physical bodies in the real world.
‘Aura? Aura, can you hear me?’
I immediately communicated with Aura via telepathy just in case. If there will be any trouble in this place, I can immediately take Senior Areka away with me through my instant change skill with Aura.
However, it was there that I realized that since then, my communication with Aura had also been cut off. Not only that. Even the system no longer showed any signs of its existence since the sound appeared, such that time itself had been frozen within this dungeon.
“Luca? Luca, relax. Panic will not help us at all.”
“I'm not panicking, Senior! But..”
Senior Areka's words suddenly scattered me in my daydream. I tried to hide it, but just like what Senior Areka said, I could not cover my panic no matter how much I denied it.
“That's exactly what I mean, Luca. I told you, calm down first. I also understand how dangerous our current situation is about the system's warnings. But however we must remain calm about by thinking calmly, we can find solutions to problems more easily.”
Instantly the words of Senior Areka awakened me. It is true that panic will not solve the problem at all.
“Maybe as long as we browse the dungeon area deeper, we will be reunited with them. Aren't they strong players? They won't be that easy to lose. Instead of worrying about them, we have to worry more about ourselves right now. How will we be able to face hundreds of living-living armor.”
’From them, I'm more worried about Senior.’ But I decided not to speak my mind.
I wasted no more time and immediately used my passive fast-thinking skill to find a solution to the problem we were facing.
“Ck. There's no other choice then. Does Senior Areka can magic?”
“No.”
But I can only sigh in my heart. How will we get out of this dangerous situation? There are hundreds of living armor attacking whereas none of us are magicians.
With a heavy heart, I also expressed the only solution I could think of, “Then, the matter of attacking the specter, leave it to me, Senior. Senior Areka is in charge of locking the movement of her living armor.”
“Can you magic, Luca?”
“It's not that great, but if it's just about shooting aura, I've learned enough from Senior Asario.”
“Senior Asario from Silver Hero Team? When are you guys close?”
“Not pay attention to the details. Please cooperate, Senior.”
“OK. Okay, Luca. Leave the living armor problem to me.”
Thus finally the desperate cooperation in the face of the hundreds of living armor possessed by the specter between me and Senior Areka began.
With his shield, Senior Areka struck the living armor and locked his movements for a moment. I, who had summoned my moon crescent weapon back after a long time of never wearing it again, began to fire my aura through the crescent tip of the moon.
Instantly my aura slashes accurately hit the astral body of each specter held back by Senior Areka. The defeated Specter became my moon's source of crescent power to be used against the other specters. That's how the cycle keeps going where with it, I can save my mana to a minimum level that I can only pull a little for now from which river in my body about my abilities that are still ordinary.
We fought half in despair, but remained vigorously, taking out the living armor monsters one by one. Starting from one, continuing two, ten, fifty, a hundred, and so on until the unconscious living armor in the dungeon was almost all defeated.
I had no idea that I and Senior Areka would be able to go that far. Or is this perhaps what is referred to as the pent-up energy of people who are pressed for death?
After a while, all the living armor possessed by the specter disappeared. We have all managed to defeat.
“Good! Very awesome! As expected of the key holder of Master Lacoza's choice. Now your task, walk straight to the right until you find the stairs back down. Search the stairs to arrive at the next test.”
“You think we'll just follow your words?! Who are you, huh?!” I shouted angrily at the haughty figure who looked satisfied playing with our feelings.
“It's of course up to you. But aren't you worried about the fate of your other two fellow players? Of course you already know that the injuries you experience during being in this dungeon can be channeled into your real body to a certain degree.”
“You!”
“Relax, Luca. Do not let anger rule your rationality. For now, let's just follow the words.”
If it wasn't for Senior Areka stopping my steps, maybe I would have already exploded in that place. I hate the cowardly act of even taking others as hostages to achieve its goals.
Since there was no other choice, we walked down the road as directed by the mysterious voice. When we found the stairs to go down, we went down. We continued walking until we reached the end of the room.
There, I could see a large altar in the middle of the room.
But when I looked up, though, how shocked I was to find the figure of Brother Silvia and Kak Agnes who were chained helpless with their mouths smothered in a cage made of very strong metal, which was very strong, even beyond the hardness of the mythril metal, the metal adamantium.
“Silvia's sister! Brother Agnes! You guys all right?!”
Of course they cannot answer about their smothered mouths. They just show an expression that seems to say ‘don't worry about us, just worry about yourself first’.
As soon as I tried to release Brother Silvia and Sister Agnes from the cage, from the altar came four giant monsters twice the height of normal humans.
It was a minotaur. But after I looked carefully again, apparently I was not right. It was indeed a minotaur, but exactly it was just his zombie, a minotaur of zombies.
‘Why again that out zombie monster?!!’
I can only shout internally in my heart. As if cursed by a necromancer, a monster that I have so far always faced cannot be separated from a death-type monster, or sometimes a dark-type monster similar to the death-type monster.
It is still mending if my opponent is a dark-type monster because even though it is disgusting, defeating them can still increase levels. But unlike the death-type monster, already disgusting, the monster could not be used to level up at all.
Well, of course for experience points still exist. But what use are experience points for me now when my current level has really been stuck with full experience points? Getting experience points again will only be wasted.
How disappointed I am. If likened, it's like Aunt Judith served me a sweet-smelling grilled meal with a delicious brown serving of beef, but when I chewed it, it was, it was apparently just tempe that was processed to resemble the shape of meat.
But inevitably, we have to go through this challenge.
“Senior Areka will tackle the two zombie minotaurs on the left, while I will face the remaining two on the right. Although the minotaur zombie was level 78, however he was a zombie so his estimated strength was at most only half that of level 39. We are both level 48 so it should not be difficult to deal with it.”
“What are you saying, Luca? We are party. We should be working together. I will restrain the movement of the minotaur like when facing the living armor earlier. You're going to execute his last attack.”
“But I'll be more comfortable moving on my own defeating the enemy. I'm not a swordsman because, but an assassin who has stealth skills with fast agility.”
“Then, your stamina will be quickly drained if it keeps moving wildly like that. We still need to save a lot of stamina because we do not know until when this quest will end. Once in a while, trust your senior. I'm also a senior that Luca can count on.”
After thinking about what Senior Areka said there was a point as well. In fact, I immediately realized how selfish I was in the fight. I am not always unable to work well together in the team, it's just that I tend to move on my own even in the team.
I was quickly able to adjust the movements with the impromptu team in an impromptu quest that I suddenly received, but it was just simply to not disturb the movements of each other. Like how to maintain n+n in mathematics by preventing the emergence of unnecessary reducing factors than I think to make it nxn although as a result there will be a slight deficit of efficiency reducing factors.
Well, I'm selfish. That's why I often move alone in completing missions or if it is necessary to form a party, I will only always be with Keporin.
If there is no need for urgent matters to form a party in times of great distress, then I will never ask anyone else first to form a party with me.
Therefore, Senior Areka's words were like slapping me because of how lacking I was in understanding the importance of teamwork.