Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Volume 3 Part 1 by Akito Narusawa

Author:Akito Narusawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: The Bloody Baron

I swung my Morning Star down hard on a corpse warrior as it tried to climb out of the ground. When the dust settled, I saw my sister gingerly retrieve a dropped item and store it in a garbage bag.

“That makes twelve!” she exclaimed. “Now we can summon bloodstained Barry or whatever his name is.”

“The Bloody Baron,” I corrected her. “But I don’t know... The plan was to test this raiding site, not to go straight to the boss.”

Inside the garbage bag were twelve chunks of flesh resembling internal organs. We’d amassed the number required for the summoning ritual after crushing a few hundred skeleton knights and corpse warriors. This raid had a fine result, given the low drop probability.

The chunks of flesh were far more gruesome to behold in reality than they had been in the game. Most disgustingly of all, they’d pulsate now and then. It was nearly vomit inducing. Kano was faring no better; she’d used a large branch to pick up the flesh like she would with dog poop she found on the side of the road.

“If we summon him, we’d better sit and work out our strategy. But first...” I gestured with my finger, and Kano turned to look at what I was pointing at.

“Ooh, we’ve got company.”

A desiccated hand rose from a mound of earth. The constant churn of monsters made the execution site inconvenient for a conversation. I decided that we should step outside to work out our plan.

We jumped over the boundary fence, found a nice leveled patch of ground, checked that no monsters were nearby, and laid our mat down. I poured some tea from the flask I’d brought along, took a sip, and let out an appreciative sigh. The gloomy DLC zone was no less eerie than before, but it’s surprising what you could get used to.

“How do we summon him again?” asked Kano cheerily while munching on one of her favorite Japanese snacks. “We have to put these chunks of meat somewhere?”

“Yep, above the pattern in the center of the execution site.”

At said spot was a crude, childlike drawing of a sun with a spiral inside. We could start the Bloody Baron’s summoning ritual by placing the twelve chunks of flesh we’d gathered atop that symbol.

In DEC, the summon had taken place during a cutscene. The twelve organs would pulsate in unison as they connected. Soon after, the throbbing flesh grew and expanded until it formed into a zombie. The whole scene had taken about thirty seconds to play out, and the ritual should take the same amount of time in this world.

Would we have to twiddle our thumbs and patiently watch the ritual or could we do something in the meantime?

“The Bloody Baron won’t be able to move when the ritual begins while he’s forming his body. So we—”

“Can attack him?”

“That’s the idea.”

While players in the game had no choice but to sit through the cutscene, those rules didn’t apply to us. The ritual would be bonus time for us to get in as many attacks as we wanted, as long as we could move.

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