“THUNDERBOLT!” I screamed as a bolt of thunder struck the motherfucker for some pretty nice damage after the multiple boosts Emma provided me with.
“FIRE EXPLOSION!” China girl screamed, while blasting the boss for much higher damage then I did even though we got the same boosts from Emma and she clearly didn’t use this skill during the slime fight.
“Why were you saving such a bigass attack during the slime fight?” I questioned. Not happily that she is definitely showing me up with her damage.
“Why would I show everything I had on the first round of testing? Now stop getting distracted! A skeleton’s going to get me if you don’t focus up.” My ex-interim sidekick complained.
“You won’t die from a few hits. Besides, Emma can heal you right back up.” I brushed off her concerns.
“What if we get graded on how much damage we took? It’s all about teamwork, remember?”
“Ok ex-interim. You and your logic does not fit my style. I want you out of my party NOW.” I replied. I am not taking shit from no one!
“Ken. You work way too hard the past 8 months to be getting this stubborn. You let her join the party, now we finish the dungeon and you can complain all you want after we kill this thing.” My blondie reasoned.
Since I am not a petty immature hero, I decided to let the China girl stay with us until the boss is dead and did my best to protect the two vulnerable party members from the random skeletons and golems that kept on popping up from every direction. Obviously more attention was paid to my blondie.
Fucking skeletons, stop trying to attack the weak! Go fucking attack that blondie in front of me! I got to say, for a skinny annoyance, her ability to tank damage was rather impressive.
“THUNDERBOLT!” I shouted, sending another bolt at the motherfucker with 1 million hp. After a hour of battling from 300 of us, we have barely did fucking 250k damage to this motherfucker and more and more teams began to drop out and move behind the instructors to a protected corner due to squishy members not getting enough protection or tanks not able to regenerate enough hp to keep up.
“This motherfucker is going to take us all day to beat! Emma, when we beat this motherfucker, I want some good ass food.” I asked my blondie politely.
“Focus up Ken! I know you don’t take any damage from their physical hits but with less and less people around, we will start getting swarmed.” The talkative China girl said. At least practice your damn Japanese more if you like talking this much.
“THUNDERBOLT!” I screamed, for the who even fucking knows time. Two more fucking hours as passed and we have barely did 500k damage total to the piece of shit while more than half of the party had already dropped out.
With less meatshields and random npc around to bait and distract the dungeon boss and his fucking ugly ass summons, things only got harder and the fight more tedious as the exam dragged on.
“THUNDERBOLT!” I said, running out of fucking adjectives to describe me yelling over and over again. Another two hours has passed since the boss fight was activated, and in 5 hours, we managed to do 730k damage to this fucker and bringing him total hp down to 270k remaining.
With most of the groups now dropped out, I thought our damage output would go down drastically but looks like in reality, it was just a few competent groups doing all the work while the other trash either got taken out early or was just standing around doing nothing.
This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
But even for us, the fight is dragging on for too long. One thing I haven’t bothered to explain yet because it wasn’t plot relevant was the fact that in this system, there is no fucking item stacking. You heard that right. NO ITEM STACKING!
Yes, someone rich can buy an infinite number of slots like Emma, but most people our age with little to no boss fight experience are obviously under prepared like hell. While I filled most of my empty slots with mana pots so I can keep casting my spells and Emma did the same but also carrying a few rare and unique potions for emergencies. Either of us expected this battle to last this long and for us to be running low on potions.
“Blondie jr. How you doing on pots?” I asked, impressed that she had lasted this long and still hadn't complained once. If it was me tanking motherfuckers for 5 hours while doing no damage, I would have just quit and walked away already. Guess I won’t ever be a full tank, that’s for fucking sure.
“Annika. If you are going to distract me, at least learn my name. At the current rate, I have enough pots left for maybe 2 more hours.” Blondie Jr. answered while giving me attitude.
“Emma? Ex-interim? Updates please.” I demanded, trying to figure out if we have enough to last the whole duration.
“Definitely no more than 2 hours.” Emma replied. With how many boosts, support skills and everything else she has been casting for the past 5 hours, I was surprised she still had this many potions left.
“I guess only Emma gets to be named and the rest of us are just not worthy?” Freaking China girl had to get all salty instead of just answering my question.
“MIA! Shut the fuck about about random shit and tell me how much longer you can last.” I demanded.
It’s just a fucking name! What’s wrong with you people? Emma never gets butt hurt when I call her my sidekick or blondie or sugar mom or whatever the fuck else.
“About 2 hours too.” Mia answered with a slight smile. Why the fuck is she smiling? At that moment, I have decided to never call her by her name ever again.
Since the most common mana pots recover based on percentage of total mana. I realized I have fucked up majorly by chuging those shit and only recovering my meager amount of mana for a few casts of thunderbolt while this shit would be so much more useful for the rest of the party.
“Fuck. I don’t know how much time this will buy you all but I will start dropping all my mana pots. Blondie jr, China girl, you each take 15. Emma, you get the other 22 since you for sure uses the most mana. Depending on how things look in an hour and half, we will readjustest our plan.” I instructed my party members and started going into my inventory and taking and dropping my potions one at a fucking time because this stupidass fucking real life game is so shit at qol that it doesn’t even have a fucking stacking option.
“Ann or Annika. I will no longer answer to anything else.” Blonde Jr replied. Holy hell those motherfuckers are so annoying. Please let this battle end so I can get away from them! At that moment, I have decided to never call her by her name ever again either. Not like those two will be recurring characters so who gives a fuck right. right?
“THUNDERBOLT!” I finally fucking got to shout after not having enough mana to do shit for minutes. With base hp and mana regen both at 1% every 5 seconds and 2% boost per vita for hp and int for mana. My fucking 6 int grants me a whopping 1.12% mana every fucking 5 seconds and with enough mana items to boost my mana to 1500, without chugging pots, I could regen enough mana for a single fucking 500mana thunderbolt about every 150 seconds.
Two more hour has passed and we have been fucking the same fucking boss for 7 whole hours and including the time we spent on everything else, we are 10 hours into the fucking day. Breakfast was so fucking long ago that I don’t even remember what I ate and obviously we didn’t think shit would last this long to pack any food in our inventory.
“Meatshield! Cover them! I need to run to the corner to take a piss.” I yelled as I rushed to the corner of the boss room away to take a piss as fucking skeletons and golems swung at me for 0 damage while won’t leave me the fuck alone.
“You really couldn’t hold it in until we beat the boss? Here at least have some hand sanitizer.” Ex-interim said as I rushed back after finally being able to finish taking my piss while she handed me some hand sanitizer.
“I am not trying to hold in my piss for who knows how much longer this motherfucker will stay alive. You really fucking wasted a slot for some hand sanitizer? If we lose because you didn’t have enough mana for one final cast of your spell, I am deleting and blocking you from all the forums.” I threatened, while tossing the sanitizer back and pushing off stupid ass skeletons and golems that’s attacking me for 0 damage.
[https://i.imgur.com/4M7UVGl.jpg]