--- [Illian’s perspective]

After taking a short break, I think I’m ready to continue…

I open the door, and I’m greeted by a gigantic demon-looking monster.

The moment it notices me, it immediately starts spewing flames.

They’re fast, but due to the large distance between its mouth and I, I have more than enough time to get away.

As I move deeper into the room, the door closes behind me…

It swings its giant claws at me, but I avoid that too.

How tall is it?

50 meters?

100?

I have no idea, it’s too large for me to tell…

It breathes fire towards me, but I leap to the side.

Out from its own fire, the palm suddenly appears.

It surprises me; I didn’t expect it to touch its own flames, but I suppose it makes sense that it wouldn’t be hurt by them.

It almost catches me, but I just barely manage to get away before it fatally wounds me.

It still cut me, but it’s pretty shallow.

The damage transfers over to my shadow; it’s hanging on by a thread now…

Any more damage, and it’ll fade away.

I take the opportunity to climb on top of the demon’s hand.

I ascend the arm, making my way up to the shoulder.

It unsuccessfully tried to shake me off the entire way up, but now that I’m here, it won’t be that easy.

I latch myself onto the cheek, burrowing my hands beneath its skin.

As I climb higher, it shrieks from pain.

It desperately tries to get me off, but is unable to control itself properly from the overwhelming agony.

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I shove my arm deep into the single large eyeball it has, instantly blinding it.

It screeches so loudly my eardrums might have ruptured if it wasn’t for my specialty…

It starts shaking its head around fiercely, and unable to hold on any longer, I go flying across the room.

Due to now being blind, it can’t exactly locate me, but it still tries to finish me off.

It flails its arms all around; getting close to it without being slashed in half by his claws will be a challenge.

At the same time, it’s also erupting with flames; lighting up almost every inch of the room.

I manage to land safely, but I’m just lucky that the fire didn’t hit me; I wouldn’t have been able to dodge mid-air…

It’s badly bleeding and will probably die sooner or later, but I don’t have time to wait.

By the time it’s dead, I’ll probably have gotten hit multiple times already, leaving me as nothing more than a pile of ash.

I need to take it out!

I quickly make my way back to it, but I avoid making contact.

As long as I don’t touch it, it won’t be able to tell where I am.

While standing right behind it, I charge up Divinity.

With it, I launch myself far into the air.

I yet again latch myself to its head, except this time, it’s in the back.

I quickly, and with all my power behind it, shove my arm into the head.

Avoiding the bones, my hand reaches all the way into the brain.

It tries to kill me, but the angle is weird, and all it’s able to do is slash me across the chest.

My shadow fades away, but before it can attack again, I move my arm around, destroying a large part of the brain, and instantly killing it.

The moment it dies, all the fire vanishes and the door opens back up…

The lifeless body falls to the ground with me still hanging onto it.

The demon’s body cushions the fall, leaving me unharmed.

Had it not been for my shadow, I probably wouldn’t have survived that fight…

It was my final one too…

But I guess all that matters is that I did survive in the end.

Seconds later, Alex, Lett, and Shin show up.

I guess the moment it died, the giant wall of flames disappeared too…

“Oh my god! Are you okay?!” – Lett

“I’m fine…” – Illian

“No, you’re not! Your entire body is charred! We need to get you back to a healer ASAP!” – Lett

“I agree. I’ll carry you back to the guild; Alex and Lett can finish the dungeon by themselves.” – Shin

“Wait, was that not the boss I just killed?!” – Illian

“There were three doors, Illian… I doubt going through just one of them would be enough.” – Shin

So I did all of that, and I didn’t even clear the dungeon for them…?

“Then we’ll come back! After my injuries have been healed, we’ll go straight back to the dungeon. Don’t you dare fight the real boss without us!” – Illian

“We won’t, I promise!” – Alex

“Good…” – Illian

“You better be quick!” – Lett

Due to all the pain and exhaustion, I slowly feel my consciousness fading away…

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--- In the healing ward at the guild HQ

“Aaaaand, done! He should be fine now.” – Healer

“Thank you.” – Shin

I sit up, and observe my surroundings.

“You’re awake! How do you feel?” – Shin

“I feel great.” – Illian

There are some more scars left from the intense burning my body endured, but it’s mostly gone.

On top of that my body feels as good as new!

I’m still more or less naked, but it seems like after I passed out, Shin wrapped his shirt around my waist, covering my privates.

“I’ll go grab a new set of clothes real quick, I’ll be right back!” – Illian

“Aight. I’ll wait for you outside.” – Shin