Making it to floor fifty was ‘easy’.
After the elite boss on floor forty-five, the next four were all elemental, nature, earth, water, and air. Basically all we had to do was put the correct elemental affinity on our weapons and we breezed through them.
Floor forty-nine had packs of seven of the elemental felines that roamed in packs like wolves. It wasn’t too bad considering that each element only spawned in its own biome, so we could tailor what we wanted to fight. We thought about staying on the forty-ninth floor for a little while, but it was going to take two weeks of farming over ten hours a day just to get me to level forty-nine. Nyssa needed about three weeks to hit fifty, which would be a big boost for her, but that was a lot of time to wait before getting to the fifty-first floor. Gall and Rishard were both Tier Five, so they didn’t need to farm. Sipher and Haley were in the lower forties, which wouldn’t make much of a difference if they leveled up.
We fought a few more things than we needed to, but we went to the boss room, then the fiftieth floor. Once we reached the door to the fiftieth floor boss, we had to wait for the Sands to catch up, but we didn’t have to wait too long.
“Five phases to this boss.” Gall was doing the briefing for all of us. “It’s a hydra with five heads, one for each of the five floor bosses that we just fought.” He motioned at the image in front of him that his CB was making. “Acid, Nature, Water, Earth, and Air.” He pointed at each one of the heads as he said its element. “Only the head that has green eyes will take damage.” He pointed at the acid head, which had green eyes. “It’s random which order it goes, but you always know the next one because…” He pointed at the water one that had yellow eyes. “They’ll have yellow eyes. The rest will have red, so avoid them.” He shrugged. “The heads will grow back once we cut one off and all five will be attacking, so watch out for that, but the tanks should be able to hold their attention, so all you mainly have to worry about is a counterattack or a hip-check.”
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Gall looked at the Damagers. “You’ll want to use elemental crystals to change the element of your weapon after each change. Pull back and let the tanks manage the transition.” He turned to the two tanks. “The main tank should hold the four heads that are going to be damaged while the off tank needs to hold the one that we want to hit.”
“I can do that.” Haley looked over at Tera Sands. “You main, me off?”
The forty year old man nodded. “Sounds good.”
“Any questions?” Gall looked at us, then turned to Sipher. “We’re ready.”
“The secret to immortality is on the other side of that gate.” Sipher pointed at it. “People have been trying to force me to give it to them, but I’m going to be happy to share it with my loyalist captains.” He smiled and raised his voice. “Let's get in there and beat this thing so we can all live forever!”
We all cheered, then hurried through the gate.
The noises inside sounded different. Like the echo was a lot further away. After the tank lit up the room, I recognized the first thing that was different. The room was HUGE. It was over twice as large as the floor forty boss room had been. The second thing was the monster.
Correction. Monsters.
There were five of them. A copy of each of the last five floor bosses. Not just their heads on a hydra. There was no hydra. There were five separate monsters and three of them had red eyes. One had yellow eyes and one had green eyes.
“The fight is the same!” Gall hurried to get into position in the middle of the room. “Focus on the Earth one!”