"No, no, no!" I heard Brian's voice.

It looked like he was really stressed. Well, it's not like I can't understand him, this boss was really powerful. She wasn't like any of those mobs we were fighting before. I would probably die after two of her attacks.

"C-Calm down! It's not like we can't win!" FoXy tried to sound confident. She probably didn't know that her legs were shaking.

Well, it was her fault that we needed to fight this boss right now. We could wait outside this room and prepare for this fight, but she just wanted to see what's inside. I can't really feel bad for her.

Anyway, it looked like I was the only person that was calm in this room. We had a boss that just screamed at us, Brian saying "no" all the time, and FoXy with her shaking legs.

When I thought about this Agatha started approaching us, and my companions were to scared to do anything. It looked like I needed to take charge.

"FoXy, take her aggro! I will heal you if you will need it! Brian, just attack her and try not to get her aggro on you!" I shouted.

"Y-Yeah!" x2

After that we started fighting. Health of this boss was bigger than this of a normal mobs, and her DMG was bigger too, but fighting with her wasn't that much different. She had some psychical damage, and some powerful spells. She even had a skill that could stun enemies that were near her for two seconds. But even with all this we still didn't really had any problems with fighting with her.

Well, of course she was powerful, but we just used our tactic. FoXy took all of her attention while I was healing her all the time. In the meantime Brian was shooting at her from the distance. We were all using our skills, but not too much to make sure that all of the aggro is on the FoXy. After about five minutes of fighting we took half of her HP.

"Hahaha! It's easier than I thought it would be!" I heard Brian's voice. The only thing I could think about right now was "are you stupid?".

It's the first thing you would say to trigger a death flag.

Just when he said it, skeletons started coming out from the underground. Yeah, it was her second form. She summoned some minions to help her, and she started fighting more aggressively.

"Why did you said it idiot!" FoXy shouted when she saw it.

"S-Sorry!" Brian just replied.

Well, your sorry won't help us. I don't think we can win like that. I could heal FoXy while she was fighting with boss only, but now three skeletons were going towards her. They weren't as powerful as the others in this raid, but they were still strong and had high damage.

I couldn't keep her alive like this.

We needed to change our tactic, and we needed to do this fast.

"Brian, FoXy, take care of skeletons! I will take her aggro on me!"

"Are you mad!" FoXy shouted.

"Just do it!"

After that I started chanting "Holy missile". It was my best offensive spell, but it needed a lot of preparation time. It also did more damage to undead. When FoXy finally got away from the boss I casted it.

When it hit Agatha she looked at me with her white eyes, and after that she started going towards me. Because I used my spell only on her, she was coming alone. Doing that I divided my enemies into two groups. One of them contained only skeletons that were attacking FoXy, and the other was boss that was now approaching me.

"Go help her! I will take care of the boss!" I shouted to Brian. When he heard me he left me to help FoXy.

"Well, I just need to buy them some time." I said after looking at the boss.

She was near me now, and looking at the damage of her attack, after two of them I would be dead. She wasn't quick, so I could even use heal if I found a good moment, but I still needed to be careful.

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As I thought about this I saw her white hand approaching me. It was her basic attack. Her white hand was now slowly coming towards me. It almost looked harmless, but this was one of the most powerful attack I have ever seen.

I quickly dodged her attack, and after that I started running away from her. I need to get away from her, because after this attack she would use her stun. I saw this pattern many times while she was fighting with FoXy, so I knew what she wanted to do. There was no reason to counterattack, I just needed to buy some time.

She did tried to stun me, but I was already far away from her.

After that she tried the same strategy one more time, but it didn't work.

"It's not that hard." I said, taking an example from Brian, and triggering a death flag.

AI in this game was good. It was the best I have ever seen. That's why it would be weird for her to just do the same thing one more time. Yeah, even goblins weren't that stupid.

When she saw that her attack couldn't touch me, she changed her approach.

She used magic.

It was a simple spell - "Ice ball". This spell was slow, and easy to avoid, but I couldn't do it. The reason was simple. When I tried to dodge it, I saw that she followed my moves.

Yeah, she wanted me to avoid the spell, and after that she would counterattack. That's some scary AI, but it's still just an AI.

"Don't think something like this will work." I said and started chanting "Heal".

I used it when the "Ice ball" hit me. There was no reason to avoid this attack. I had a lot of mana and I could spam "Heal" and potions on me. Even my equipment was good against magical attacks.

"That's too eas..."

"Help!!"

One more time I took an example from Brian, and one more time I regretted it.  

FoXy had problems. When I looked at her I saw that her HP was really low. One of the skeletons was killed, but the rest still had a lot of  HP, and she wouldn't live long enough for Brian to kill them. To make this worse, I was too far away to cast any of my healing spells.

Well, there was one spell I could cast.

I looked at the boss to make sure that I had time to do it, and when I saw that this was the case I started chanting "Sacrifice". A long spell, that heals all of my group members fully, but it takes half of my HP. Well, I couldn't do anything else.

When I finally casted it I looked at the boss one more time. She didn't wait for me to finish, one the contrary she was standing right before me, trying to use her hand attack one more time. If not for my years of experience in games I would be probably dead right now, but I barely avoided it. After that I started running one more time.

When I made sure that I was far away from her stun area I used some potions. I needed to run in a special way, to not get close to FoXy and Brian. I wouldn't want the boss to get near them, but it really limited my moves. Of course it was the only things I could do, and I would finally die if I needed to do this for too long, but there was no reason to.

After maybe three more minutes my comrades took care of the skeletons, and then they helped me. We used the same tactic that we used at the beginning. The boss didn't summon anything after that, so we could just effortlessly kill her after that.

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"We did it! We did it!" Brian started shouting when we killed her. We got a lot of gold, and EXP for that. We even got a rare item.

"Y-Yeah." I said tired. It was a really hard fight. The hardest I have ever fought in this game to be exact. Even if it was still a game, after doing something like that I wanted to rest.

"That was really great. You are really great! I didn't know that you are so good at this game!" FoXy said to me.

"T-Thanks."

It's not like I'm some NEET that feels embarrassed after getting complimented. I'm just pretending to be a shy girl. Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

"You should get this item. You did the most of all of us, and it's good for your class."  Brian said after looking at our loot.

When you kill a boss, you can try getting it’s loot or just pass on it. For example, if we are playing in a group that has three people, if every person would try to get this item then all of us would have 1/3 chances of getting it. If one of us passes on it, then the chances are 1/2 and so on.

It's a good system. In some MMORPGs I have played you needed to be the first to click on the monster, to get the loot. It made a lot of people angry.

"I don't think I should..."

"Don't be like this! Brian is right. You really deserve it."

"I mean..." I tried to reply to FoXy. I would feel bad about getting this item. I mean, we all fighted with those monsters to get it. But as I thought about this I remembered one thing.

Why was I playing as a girl? Wasn't it for that reason?

"I mean, I can do that. Thanks!" I said and took it. I felt a little bad, but it wasn't the time to think about this.

"You really are great! You should make a guild. I would be the first to join it!"

"Shut up Brian!"

"I-It's not a bad idea." I replied. For some reason it shocked FoXy a little. After that we went deeper into the raid.