Wrath’s point of view
It still pisses me off. Two separate groups show up to run this raid and neither should be here. They would have been slaughtered if we didn't show up. If they were to take the best members out of each group they still might not be able to clear this place. I don’t care, I don’t! If they died against that worm I wouldn’t have cared at all. Just idiots, such dumb idiots to think they were ready to take on a tier two raid.
The next boss was as easy to kill as the first. It was a giant golem with gems for weakpoints and even with just tiny daggers a few swipes cut deep into the stone even without targeting the weakpoints. Within a minute of starting the fight the golem was turned to rubble...
The boss dropped some more worthless loot… At least nothing that Kite couldn’t make already. I grab the junk anyways just in case they’re more valuable than I think they are. These bosses aren’t very difficult, even with forcing challenges on myself and Gobber we are still clearing this too easily. I won the challenge at least but this is just boring.
“I’m done. Go ahead and handle the bosses by yourself I’m just going to follow.”
There is no reason for both of us to try… I could leave and let him handle the rest of this raid by himself without much fear of him dying. I want to see how he handles the new equipment Kite made for him though. He clears the remaining monsters to get to the next boss room. It was just some ordinary golems, earth elementals and some earth type animals that were made of stone. All very boring to watch him kill.
I let out a very audible yawn out of boredom. This is the hardest thing for us to do on this continent and it is far to easy to gain anything from it with how strong we are. The difficulty of raids goes up exponentially from each tier. If a tier one raid was as difficult as a tier six dungeon then a tier two raid would be equivalent to a tier nine or ten dungeon… Dungeons don’t scale that high though. I think the highest would be tier five. The only tier three raid I know of is on the south eastern continent.
We enter the room and I expect to see something extremely big to the scale of something 10 people would have trouble taking down but it isn’t… It’s just a tiny man. I expect Gobber to easily kill him but he doesn’t engage him, instead staying back he whispers.
“I’ve fought one of these before. It’s a quiz master. We have to answer it’s questions correctly or a raid boss one difficulty higher than the raid we are in will show up.”
Gears start to click in my head and a smile forms across my face. The old man begins his questioning.
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening?”
Gobber looks extremely intent trying to think of the answer. I yell out.
“Fuck you! That’s my answer.”
The old man smiles and slowly stands up from the ground. Gobber looks at me confused and I can’t help but laugh at how hard he was trying to figure it out. The man’s eyes glow bright for a second, bright enough for me to have to avert my eyes and when the light fades he is no longer there.
In his place are three portals with numbers above them. The two on the sides were smaller portals, each had the number 50 above it. The one in the middle is more concerning, the number is only 5 but the portal is three times as big as the other two. At the same time a single creature walks out of each portal and the number decreases by one. All three are creatures I’ve never seen before, the two on the sides are almost exact clones of each other. The one in the center obviously much bigger as it came from the bigger portal.
The smaller ones are a blackish purple color with no facial features. Instead their faces are giant holes but they aren’t mouths. This hole like face goes almost all the way up to the top of their heads. They have no eyes. They both are the same height as me, that puts them slightly taller than Gobber. The big one in the middle… I’d guess 18 feet(5.4 meters) tall. His skin is reddish and mostly covered in fur. His face looks like that of a goat or a horse… He looks like an off version of a minotaur. One noticable thing is they are all naked and have... Working parts between their legs.
Although he is that tall, he is wielding a giant hammer that looks like it would be unwieldy to use even at his extreme size. The hammer must be 1000 pounds (453 kilograms) of metal. The little ones don’t seem to have weapons but they have very sharp claw like fingers instead. I can’t help but be excited and a little scared at the same time. Not because they are a threat but because they might be disappointing to fight. I charge at the big one pulling out my heirloom sword and growing it to as big as possible. It's easily bigger than myself now, if it didn't weigh nothing to me it would be fairly unwieldy just like their hammers.
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Before I can connect one of the little ones jumps in my way. The sword easily pierces the creature, I feel disappointment setting in as I didn’t even attack this one, it literally jumped onto my sword. That feeling turns to confusion when it doesn’t die from a giant sword sticking into it. Instead, it grabs the blade with both hands and tries to hold itself in place. The other small one dives at me while I am distracted. It latches onto my leg. Shit! How can they see me with no eyes!
It pinches slightly but the claw like fingers don’t hurt as bad as they look… I try to shake him off but he is harder to shake than I expected. I look at him closer now, any skin that was touching the ground is now almost melted to the floor. Shit! These little pricks aren’t trying to do any damage! They’re trying to hold me still for... FUCK! The big one has it’s hammer above his head! I let go of my sword and jump backwards avoiding the hammer just in time. SLAM! The hammer comes down smashing the one out in front of me into a goop of mush. As he lifts the hammer some of the little guy sticks to it and seems to make it even harder to lift.
SHIT! When I jumped back the little claws dug in and ripped off in my leg. I quickly glance at the one still alive that was on the ground and it’s claws quickly grow back. It didn’t deal much damage but if I have to fight 100 of them... I look back at Gobber who had been watching this entire time. He seems to have realized what they are trying to do as well. The little ones don’t care if they die as long as they give the big ones a chance to land a hit.
Alright! If we just focus on taking out the big ones first then the little ones wont be that much of a threat. As long as these big guys keep killing the little ones… Two more small ones come through the portal… Shit! This is going to get messy if we don’t keep up on killing them. I yell out.
“You handle the ones coming from the left portal. I’ll take the right and we’ll kill the big ones if we catch up on the little ones.”
I need to think about this more. It seems that slashing attacks against these enemies are pointless or at least less effective than different types… Nah, fuck thinking. I’m just going to hit them until they stop moving. If worse comes to worse, I’ll rely on him.
Gobber pulls out his new weapons to compliment his style already. He pulls out 6 new throwing spears which were made last night by Kite and his crew of enchanters. Just like his main spear, he clicks a button and it whirs to life with engineering and automaton parts to help. He chucks them landing several good shots, one piercing the arm of a smaller one and ripping it off. Another which was a head shot which doesn’t kill the one it connected with. A few are thrown at the bigger one but don’t seem to do much damage. Some blood trickles out but far less damage then I predicted, it is like he is throwing it at a metal wall. He yells out.
“Return!”
The spears pull out of their targets, some that passed through and landed on the ground now float back as well. I don't understand how they work exactly but if Kite designed them, they must have some bullshit enchant that makes them overpowered like that.
I think he learned something from the murine folk called ghostly spirit or something. An enchant that seemed like it was completely useless, only empowering a weapon so that it could follow simple commands and fight at an extremely low ability. This would normally be almost useless against a normal person that could easily catch it and deactivate it by holding it for a few seconds. Gobber tosses them fast enough for them to do damage and recalls them before they can be deactivated.
This wouldn’t be that strong by itself, you lose a lot of the killing potential a weapon has by removing the enchant from it in favor of the ghostly spirit but it makes up for it with the engineering parts that make the drill tip spin extremely fast. I don’t normally pay attention to things like this but Kite designed it last night just for this. A set of weapons that wouldn’t normally be complete overkill but for this very situation are completely necessary... Gods I feel that nerd when I think about this sort of stuff.
It makes me smile though. He threw that spear with enough force to kill the last raid boss and it barely hurt that big one. If there are five of them… We can properly have a contest to see who can kill their 50 the fastest. As I think this two more little ones come through the portal. If they come at a steady rate that would put the little portals at about ten seconds. I don’t want to be outdone, I should really focus on killing now. I’m going to break out something special for this fight. Something that even Kite can’t do.
Full body lich form! Kite can only use it for the hand but I can use it freely. Going full lich form gives me the same complete control over this body and gives a slight boost to my power. It also gives a good intelligence boost, dampens pain and removes emotions while it’s activated. All but one emotion that is and it can get out of control sometimes. This is sort of a trump card of mine that I don’t use very often. Today feels special enough to finally reveal it to someone else.
It makes casting magic easier than it normally is for me. I sprint to where my sword is now. It is indestructible so even being smashed alongside the smaller monster it is most likely fine. I pick it up from the ground but it is slightly stuck to the ground from the goop the people are made out of. It does appear to be very sticky. I rip it up and swing at a little one that has also charged at me, almost bisecting it down the middle but it’s hands full of claws catches the blade before it makes it all the way through. Before I even realized it the same situation that happened the first time is happening again.
All five of the other monsters have lunged towards me to try and grapple me in place. I jump backwards before they get too close but they just keep coming. Why are they only targeting me!? Gobber has chucked even more spears now but still none of the monsters are dead besides the one that the bigger monster has crushed. We’re going to get overwhelmed soon if we can’t start killing them to weaken their numbers. The bigger one slowly moves towards me now dragging the gigantic hammer behind him.
I hate doing this but… I’m going to have to wake up Kite. I shout in my head.
“Hey! Wake up stupid! I need your help!”
I feel Kite stir in my brain for a second. This is the first time I’ve had him active while I was in control of the body. It takes him a moment to fully awaken. In this time I’m attacked again, I’m almost constantly running away from these… SLUDGEMEN! I swing my sword as hard as I can! It tries to stop it with it’s claws but the blow is too powerful. I cuts cleanly through the monster and the monster explodes launching sticky goo everywhere. Kite speaks.
“W-W-WHAT THE FUCK!? Why are you fighting lesser demons!?”
“Is that what they are? I woke you up to ask if you know any good ways to kill them but I figured out. You just need to hit them really hard!”