Silence permeated the room for a few moments, but then a gentle song began to play. It sounded like a harp. Rather than hair-raising, the melody was actually quite peaceful. The five of us looked at each other.
“Sirens supposedly ensnare you with their song.” I sent those words to all five girls using the Slave Communication.
I did this because all five of the girls had their ears plugged. I was the only one who didn’t have my ears plugged.
This boss room wasn’t like the boss rooms I had been in before. This one stretched down a long corridor leading to an open door. Raissa had explained this boss room to me in-depth before we had attempted it.
The door didn’t close like the other boss doors. In fact, the conditions of success were simply to walk down the corridor and leave out the door. You had to pass the monster without setting it off. The siren could become enraged and then attack the party. If this happened, you ended up in a very difficult battle. The doors would slam shut and the siren would become enraged.
While enraged, the status of the siren seemed to increase by many times, making it more equivalent to a level 30 boss than a level 10. In fact, this siren had never been defeated because of this fact. One could say a party’s only hope of survival was to pass the siren.
There were two ways to set off the siren. The first way was to disrupt the siren’s song. This could be done magically, or simply making a noise that was loud and distracting. The second method was to physically touch the siren. This seemed like a no brainer, but supposedly, the siren sat atop some jewels, was extremely beautiful, and on top of all that, the song was enchanting.
On the surface, this made it seem like passing the siren was simple, except that disrupting the siren’s song included such things as plugging your ears. In other words, you had to listen to the siren’s song, compelling you to touch the siren, and if you blocked out the song or touched the siren, it would become enraged and kill you.
That was why I wasn’t plugging my own ears. According to Raissa, as long as the number of people without plugged ears exceeded those with plugged ears, the Siren wouldn’t attack. However, there was another trick to getting past it too. Raissa had said that given our formation, this match should be easy for us. That was because the siren didn’t care about women. Women could be affected by its song, but it didn’t get enraged if they covered their ears. For a party with 5 women and 1 man, this made it really easy for us.
As soon as I looked influenced by the siren, the girls would bind me up and take me the rest of the way. As to why they didn’t bind me up from the beginning, if you were carried from the start, this also could be considered as interfering and may set the siren off. I had to walk as far as possible under my own power, and only then would the siren be pleased. Even once they bound me, it was better to force me to walk than to carry me.
Taking a deep breath, I began to head down the pathway of the siren.