The monster soon recovered from the surprise attack and got enraged enough to gain speed for a while. I stopped using Blood Siphon… it worked, but I couldn’t stop even that beast while it was relatively calm, much less an enraged one.
I took another deep breath and then readied myself… Slowly; I let the monster get close to me. Glacien began to shiver thanks to the ominous aura that was approaching us. Still, I tossed her in the distance when the time came… the huge maw opened to chew me as a whole, but then I used a Crimson Burst…
Blood left pretty much all the pores of my body and then flew in all directions. Despite that, I didn’t feel any pain, just a slight discomfort of suddenly getting weaker since my health dropped.
The creature stopped when my blood touched the interior of its mouth. In the next moment, the head of the monster began to disintegrate without any resistance… it felt like the creature had turned into sand or something.
‘What the heck…’
It was a too easy ending for a beast like that… It couldn’t end conveniently like that… my guess was right. After the body of the beast disintegrated for one hundred meters, it began to regenerate. The monster began to hit its body against the walls, ceiling and the floor.
“RUMMMMLLLLL!”
The shout coming from the monster made my eardrums shake… blood began to fall from my ears, even though I closed them. I got dizzy for a moment, but soon recovered. The monster began to charge even faster than before, and soon I resumed my run. Glacien looked at me with a suspicious look, but I just shrugged.
“I had to at least try—”
Defeating the previous boss had been too easy and since I got carried away, it looked like my karma had gone down somehow and I ended up with more problems than solutions after picking a new class.
At least I confirmed that my magic power was able to destroy a huge part of the monster and stop its advance. However, it wasn’t enough and I actually had to use my final trump card. To lure the worm to the boss chamber and hope that the boss will focus on this thing instead of focusing on me. Then, with some luck, we will be able to make the beast die, somehow.
It was a reckless plan, but I hadn’t any better ideas. The other ideas that I had were pretty much suicidal… More blizzard birds emerged in the distance to block my path, but once they saw the enraged worm, they turned around to fly away, once again, they only made my job of hunting them easy.
Although it was a bit costly in terms of mana cores, I decided to use my bike to move and then fire arrows at the monster… I still could make Arcane Arrow grow in strength and as long I could keep weakening the monster, anything would help.
Active Skills - Arcane Arrow Lv 26: Enchant an arrow with magical energy, causing it to deal additional elemental damage based on your choice (fire, frost, lightning) upon impact. This skill also has a chance to inflict a status effect, such as burning, freezing, or shocking the target for 10 seconds. Cost: 50 Mana.
I got up on the bike, using one foot to support myself, and another to adjust the direction of the vehicle… in the next moment, I aimed an arrow at the head of that massive insanity and then activated the usual skills to power up the arrow.
I used the shock arrow this time to check something, and the projectile flew while zapping the air and making the sound of a giant airplane taking flight as well. The projectile pierced the bottom of the mouth of the monster and then shocked it for three seconds. The impact also created a large hole in it, but it didn’t nothing else.
‘Damned beast… where in the heck did those retards find this monster?’
I tried frost arrows to slow down the beast too, but without ice affinity, I couldn’t do much… I could enchant things to increase the power of ice affinity, but I didn’t have the time to make anything in that situation. I barely could focus, after all, thanks to that gross atmosphere.
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In the end, I returned to exploding the head of the monster to slow it down as much as possible… I also had to deal with the blizzard birds emerging in the distance, so I couldn’t relax even for a moment.
You received 110 experience points.
You received 110 experience points.
‘At least this will guarantee that my magic will increase to high levels before we find the final boss chamber.’
Getting the old mana cores to fuel my bike while I stored the new ones on my magic bags was how I used my free time between attacks. I also decided to change the effects of the rest of my gear to increase my magic power or decrease the spirit of the enemies with the Dread Enchantments. Aside from that, I had no idea what I should do.
At least I had a lot of time to think and consider that I should become a lot more ruthless… picking fight with enemies and then showing some mercy to them after trying to understand their position wasn’t helpful, it never worked and it only caused more trouble. Besides, I was just a single person. I couldn’t think that pitying anyone would change things… even trying to help them or show them another way was already too much, considering what I had to deal with daily.
‘Is this a decision based on my experience or thanks to the changes inside me?’
I couldn’t tell. There was also the possibility that I was too stressed thanks to the situation. Once all this was over, I had to calm down and collect my thoughts. It was clear that something in my way of acting wasn’t working, and I had to find what it was.
The next four hours passed very slowly. Aside from the number of blizzard birds showing and flying away, nothing really happened. Arcane Arrow reached level thirty, and I figured out that spawning them like that was the same as usual training with them without a target… unless something was killed, the real experience wouldn’t be granted to the skill.
I looked behind and then saw the monster charging faster than the bike could move, but I was able to slow it down with some explosive arrows. Eventually, I was able to see the boss chamber in the other direction. It looked like the end of the line finally arrived. It was impossible to delay things any further.
“Let’s do this… I am tired of this nonsense.”
I stopped attacking the worm and then stored away my bike when I was in front of the chamber. In the next moment, I waited until the monster was ready to smash me against the stone door, then I kicked the entrance and used Shadow Step to head further into the labyrinth.
When I got into the chamber, I found a large place that was as big as the final chamber of that underwater labyrinth. It was like a cave entirely made of crystal… everything was glowing beautifully, but soon everything began to crack when the abyssal worm got inside and began to wreck its body around.
In the middle of the chamber, an imposing block of crystalline ice dominated the space, radiating a frosty aura that made the air bitterly cold. Countless jagged ice spears jutted out from the surface, glinting dangerously as they refracted the faint light, casting patterns of blue and white across the walls.
Encased deep within the frozen mass was a colossal ice phoenix, its majestic form frozen in a moment of stillness.
All of a sudden, the ice began to crack with a series of sharp, echoing snaps. Lines of fracture spread across the block, light pulsing within them like veins, carrying life back into the phoenix. With a deafening shatter, the ice burst outward, the shards and spears flying in all directions before dissipating into fine mist.
The ice phoenix emerged, its crystalline feathers glowing with brilliance. Its piercing, ice-blue eyes glowed with an ancient power, and as it spread its wings wide, a chilling wind swept through the chamber. The once-static entity had come alive, its regal presence exuding both beauty and menace, as if the very essence of winter had taken form before them.
The creature looked at me, very annoyed, but soon focused its eyes on the abyssal worm.
“Can’t say that I am sorry. You can vent your frustrations on me once we are done with this freak. Deal?”
The ice phoenix screeched, but I didn’t know if that was in response to my words or anything else. Regardless, the creature soon began to fire a barrage of ice spears at the monster. The ice spears pierced the flesh of the worm and reached all the way to the other side. While it froze some of the area on the flesh of the beast, the creature soon freed itself and began to move toward us.
I vanished using my camouflage amulet and then began to move its head from one side to the other in confusion. Before long, the part of the body that had entered the chamber stopped moving as the base of the body inside the chamber broke apart thanks to a single explosive arrow.
I left my camouflage thanks to my attack and then saw the remaining part of the monster fall on the ground and then turn into ashes, but soon the mouth regenerated beyond the spot I had attacked and then entered the chamber again. While it didn’t have eyes, it pointed at me and moved in my direction as well.
I fired an explosive arrow inside the monster’s mouth and then made another part fall off and turn into ashes, but soon it was regenerated again.
‘It is so mind-numbingly annoying…’
The ice phoenix joined the fray again and fired a blast of cold ice at the monster’s wound to stop the healing process… I had already tried to do that, but if fire couldn’t do much, ice couldn’t do it either. Before long, the frozen wounds began to convulse as the new flesh emerged and broke it apart from the ice.