The boss room was dark.
“FRAY! Stay close to Justia!” I couldn’t see anything. "Whenever you’re ready!”
“Light!” Justia shouted.
The room lit up and we drew our weapons. Ether got her shield out, Aelin raised her bow and I finally drew my sword.
I looked over at Rix, who took her weapon out of her crystal band for the first time. It was a shiny metal blade that was in between the length of her knife and the dagger. The handle was much longer though, even longer than the hilt of my longsword.
Before I had a chance to ask her about it, the luminous rocks at the top of the cave flared to life, casting light over the whole room.
It was solid rock, just like the tunnels had been. We all looked around, except there wasn’t a Great Acid Slime anywhere in the room.
“Did it run off?” Aelin puffed out her chest. "It must have known how good I am at killing slimes.”
“OW!” Fray exclaimed as she began rubbing her shoulder.
“Minor Heal Wounds.” Justia cast the spell and the lowest level member of our team was bathed in soft blue light for a moment.
Fray pulled back her hand to reveal a hole in her armor. “How?”
“Ah!” Justia wiped something off her armor. "OW!” she started shaking her hand. "That burns!”
Everyone looked up at the ceiling at the same time. The Great Acid Slime was right over the two women.
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“Ether!” I made a finger gun with my left hand. "Pebble Shot!”
The two stones lodged into the side of the monster, but were almost two feet away from the core.
“Look At Me!” Ether started moving away from all of us.
“Magic Arrow!” Aelin fired an arrow. The magic burned deep enough, but the core moved out of the way.
“RIX!” I dropped my sword when I realized what was about to happen. "DASH!”
I angled towards Justia. I hated having to choose like this, but Justia couldn’t heal herself, so she was always the top priority.
I saw a chain shoot past me and wrap around Fray and then the brunette was moving towards me. I watched her be yanked out of harm’s way as I grabbed Justia.
“DASH!” I sped us forward and out of the way of the falling slime.
Except we both got hit.
I dropped Justia as we both fell, then tumbled for a little. I got up to my feet and reached for the weapon that I had dropped.
“Here.” Justia pulled out hers and offered it to me.
“What..?” I looked at the ten foot tall mass of acid. I had been expecting it to just chase Ether around and try to ram her. Which it was doing.
With two long, fluid arms.
“That wasn’t in the file!” I pointed my left hand at the core. "Pebble Shot!”
The core didn’t even bother moving as the two marbles lodged in the gel harmlessly away from the core.
“Argh!” I screamed at no one. "I hate this spell!”
I gripped the longsword with both hands and charged, slashing at the slime’s body, but making it less than a quarter of the way in before I was stopped. I had to yank out the sword, then roll to dodge one of the tendrils.
“I thought you taunted this thing!” I slashed at the tendril as it tried to attack me.
“The main body is taunted!” Ether was backing up and I saw what she meant. The monster was slowly moving towards her. “The tendrils have minds of their own!”
A tendril shot past me towards Justia. I sliced it off before it could reach her. The tendril grew back and began to wave around in front of me.
“Why couldn’t this be easy?” I grumbled as I kept myself in between the monster and Justia.