A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 7] by Yuu Tanaka

Author:Yuu Tanaka
Language: eng
Format: epub

Name: Bird Killing Aromatic Wood

Rarity: 1 / Quality: 10★

Effect: Burn to produce smoke that deals damage to birds. Disappears at end of event.

A new item had landed in my inventory.

“See? Look at this.”

“Hrm? I see, this is—”

Right after I tried showing the item I’d obtained to Lewin and Sakkyun, the clearing we were in became enveloped in a white light. When I looked closer, I saw that the area we were in was enclosed by a white wall.

“Well, this looks familiar.”

In response to my mutter, Lewin exclaimed sincerely, “It’s a boss arena!”

Well, that seems about right. Judging by the timing, my interaction with the logging node had undoubtedly been the trigger.

“Graaaaaaaaah!”

Suddenly, a gigantic gorilla with an ominous, black, shaggy coat appeared in the middle of the clearing. At over five meters tall, it was far larger than the gorillas that were ambling around the forest. Its face was so fiendish it made me wonder if it was part-demon—fangs protruded upward from its lower mouth and its eyes were bloodshot. On closer look, I could see it even had horns growing from its forehead. Apparently, its name was “Ogre Kong.”

It really is part-demon!

“Sorry! This happened because I just went ahead and interacted with the logging node!”

“Oh well, nothing we can do about that now!”

“Sakkyun’s right. If ya hadn’t gone ahead and done it yourself, Yuto, I was about near to tell ya to!”

“The more pressing question is: just how strong is this thing?”

“I’m getting the impression that this one’s not as tough as it looks either...”

“Graaaaaaah!”

“Well, I reckon I’ll go on in the front. I’ll be able to gauge its strength after takin’ a hit from it,” Lewin said. Then, readied his shield and valiantly moved forward. Lewin! You’re the best!

“Let’s go!”

“Y-Yeah!”

“We got this!”

Lewin took the lead along with Sakkyun’s golem and squared off against Ogre Kong, who was glaring at us. Its menacing face twisted into an even more vicious expression before it jumped to its feet.

Ba-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum—

It started pounding—or maybe I should say drumming—on its chest with both fists. The intensity of its drumming was on a whole other level from the gorillas I had seen at the zoo. It was insanely intimidating. All right then, what kind of an attack will you throw our way?

—dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum—

“Th-This drumming’s going on for a while, huh?”

The heavy bass sound of the drumming continued to reverberate around us. About fifteen seconds had passed since we had readied ourselves.

—dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum—

“It’s never-ending!”

Ogre Kong just kept beating its chest. As it continued, its black fur seemed as though it was gradually turning red. That had to be related to its drumming. Should we be letting it keep this up?

“Wh-What should we do?”

“Does its drumming have some sort of enhancement effect?”

“Should we fire an attack at it?”

Eventually, we decided to switch up our strategy. Instead of waiting for it to attack us, we were going to hit it with our own preemptive strike.

“It’s all you, Sakkyun.”

“Roger that! Haaah! Instant Summon!”

Sakkyun thrust out a hand in front of him, and a magic circle was drawn in midair.

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