Versatile: Alternate World

As usual, the moment I opened up shop, different players started crowding once more to buy more potions. They have heard of the rumors of my cheap potions as well as the exchange system I made to exchange for different equipment and items so customers immediately packed up fast. I am not complaining though as this is profit and having profit is never boring for me. Who would say no to money?

Compared to yesterday, the amount of players trading is not that many and they don't stay long enough to exchange stuff. Perhaps due to how most of them are buying in bulk and some of them are buying on behalf of others that the customers immediately dwindled around the middle. So when the business became slow after, I close back the shop and tried to check out what is happening and just before I was able to go, I saw Gobu and Lina return.

"We are back, Master."

"Hey, guys. It seems you guys are too exhausted, are there so many monsters present not too far from the cabin?"

"That's right Master. There are a lot of them so we also have to double our effort and cooperate with the others as well to thin out the enemies. Even some greedy players from before are forced to give the others some monsters to kill as they are too much for them to even handle on themselves," Gobu answered as he removed the armor that has some of its parts disintegrated.

"Disintegration? You guys fought some enemies that can disintegrate armor?"

"There is one, Master. We have to retreat as we realized that it seems it was a raid boss and there are multiple players fighting against it and yet we barely had any noticeable damage dealt against it. Since we are not really helping the royalty deal with the war, there is no point going there and risking our all into the battle.

"A raid boss..."

During my time in this event in the past timeline, there will be 3 waves and each wave will bring in the ultimate boss that needed to be slain so that the wave of monsters will stop. Because there are three waves, as long as the raid boss remains alive, the monster attacks will continue to increase in intensity and while it is necessary to bring down the raid boss as soon as possible, it is also necessary to destroy the monster waves as well to reduce the damage of the protected areas and to also limit the enemies that interrupt the players from fighting the boss properly.

Because the wave intensifies the longer the raid boss remains alive, the players will have to divide their roles into suppressing the monster wave and killing the raid boss. Although the battle against the raid boss is not as troublesome and hard compared to the raid against the Cath Palug in the past timeline, the raid is troublesome and hard so it's not that easy as well.

"So does this boss spit acid for it to melt the armor of Gobu?"

"It does not spit acid but its attacks consist of acid which degrades armor the longer the fight is. I don't know the name of the boss but it was a giant mantis with a rotten body."

Degrades armor... I see. Compared to the past timeline, the final raid boss has been changed into the first raid boss. Out of the three invading enemies, only one of them has the ability to use acid without using them by spitting at the enemies and that is the Corrupted Infected Mantis.

The weapons of the monster, its two scythe-like hands, consist of acidic particles that when used to attack an enemy, will immediately strip that enemy from their mighty defense. Due to how fast it degrades armor. it was one of the longest fights in this event. But hearing that it was the first boss to invade made me think of why the hardest boss is the first to invade. Shouldn't it be left for the last?

Then again, this event shouldn't happen right now but after some events that made it occur much earlier, perhaps that is the main reason the raid boss that appeared in the first wave is also the hardest boss.

"Master. I heard from Tina that Cotton needed the core from a level 300 monster and according to her, the cores you provided are being consumed fast. Perhaps we should hunt that boss and take its core for us to use? Just give us an order and we will participate in the battle," Lina suggested.

"No need, Lina, Gobu. Although she indeed needed cores, I have them covered and I still have lots of stock of level 300 monster cores so you guys don't need to bother much on it."

"So, we will just remain passive on the boss until further prior notice?"

"Yes. Unless Tina wanted to help out, we will just remain passive and attack monsters that reach near here but do not actively help the royalty. With how they treat her even though she has gained her powers, it's natural for us to remain on the neutral side and watch on the sidelines."

Since I have given my orders, Lina and Gobu nodded and decided to go back and rest. With their armor and weapons in terrible condition, I have a good job to excuse myself for quite a while.

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In the castle of the Insect Kingdom, the monsters that are just in the vicinity of the kingdom's walls are invading. Although the players are able to hold the monsters a lot, they are still quite an overwhelming number for the players to handle, not to mention, the raid boss appearing, it made trouble by all the plans the king and queen have already set up to prepare for the battle. They didn't expect to meet a very strong foe right off the bat.

"Is this the punishment that our daughter has cast upon us?" the king contemplated as he watches the battle outside the window of the watchtower of the walls that oversees the battle of the monsters, players, and soldiers on the ground.

"What are you talking about? It's just the same old monster invasion. We have already repelled many of these kinds of invasions in the past and now you will be losing hope just because of the thing that made our insolent daughter reject our plea for help?" the queen yelled at the king.

"They wouldn't have rejected our plea for help if you have just shut your mouth and at least limit your prejudice at the very least. It was smooth sailing before until you ruined it. Instead of reconciling with our remaining daughter, you just made a bigger rift between us."

"And now you think that was my fault? It's because of that human! If he has done so silently and just accepted our demands as royalty, then perhaps we might have forced a reconciliation on her to us!" the queen angrily crushed an apple in her hands.

The king waves his antennae down while shaking his head at what the queen had said.

"Perhaps, our daughter was right. We aren't fit to be her parents in any way."