The large rock covered mole charged at the group as soon as they had entered the room. Garrett, Blixie, and Kyle managed to leap out of the way avoiding getting hit but April felt a tug at her foot as she went to move that made her fall. The mole crashed through her leg disconnecting it as the mole continued to barrel past. The ground shook from the momentum of the heavy mole colliding with the wall. The group looked back to where April's foot was still held in the jaws of the large ant that had burrowed up from the ground.

"Are you okay April?" Garrett called out.

"I'm fine but I might be a bit slower unless I can get my leg back." Aprill called out as she slowly stood up, wobbly standing on one foot.

"Hey guys," Kyle called out as a pair of pincers pushed their way through the ground beneath him and up into his gelatinous body. "There are about four more ants moving through the ground, but I can't keep track of them all at once, so keep an eye out." The pincers retreated underground as holes formed on them from Kyle's acid.

The large mole pulled itself free from the wall and turned toward April and charged again. April rolled to her left avoiding the mole and swung a Kali stick at the creature. A dull clang rang out as the rock armor absorbed the impact. The mole skidded to a stop using its large claws to dig into the ground and quickly turn for another attack, but a chunk of rock smacked into its head with a dull thud but didn't cause any real damage.

"Get your leg back while I distract it." Garrett yelled. "Kyle, take care of the ants since you can sense them."

"You got it." Kyle said as the last little bit of his body disappeared down the hole the ant that had attacked him retreated down.

Garrett threw several more rock spears at the mole, but it lowered its head between its front paws. This is like throwing smalls rocks at a boulder. Garrett thought. He did notice that his attacks were slowly chipping away at the armor of the mole. Garrett looked over and saw April change the rod in her hand into a small spear and stab the ant that still held her unconnected foot in its vicelike grip, killing it before she took her leg and reconnected it to herself. "Much better." She said as she moved the leg around to make sure it was connected well.

"I could use some help over here." Garrett called out. The mole had slowly been moving forward enduring the rocks that were hurled at it from Garrett. As soon as the giant mole was less twenty feet away it uncoiled and launched itself at Garrett. In two bounds the mole was hurtling toward Garrett, its large metal claws extend in front of itself like a giant spearhead. The claws tore through Garretts midsection and burst out the back. A quick flick of the moles paw sent the top of Garretts body up and over the mole while his legs were trampled as the mole continued its charge.

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"Garrett!!!" April cried out. She crossed her two Kali sticks to form an X and focused, causing one of them to flow around the other and reshape itself. A moment later she held a large Warhammer in her hands as she charged at the side of the mole. "AHHHHHH!!!!" She yelled as the head of her hammer screamed through the air and slammed into the moles side with enough force to push it up on its two right feet. April used the rebounding momentum of he hit and spun herself around, dropping low, and in mid-swing shifted her weapon into a long staff and swept the moles feet from the other direction causing the mole to roll onto its back.

Before April could bring her weapon around to finish off the mole a small legless creature jumped from behind her and landed on the moles unprotected belly. The torso of Garrett landed with a thump and slammed the pointy end of his hammer staff into the neck of the mole. Blood sprayed as he slammed again and again until the mole stopped moving. Garrett spun around to a stunned looking April. "I better get a level out of this." He said annoyed. As the body of the mole slowly dispersed into light Garrett kindly asked April to grab his legs from nearby.

"Well, ants are done." Kyle said as he oozed out of several holes in the floor and flowed back into one blob. "You guys done up here?" He said as he looked over at the other two. He saw April picking up Garretts legs and then saw Garrett was just a torso on the ground with his arms folded in front of him. "Well, you don't have to be so short with me." He snickered.

"Haha." Garrett said sarcastically as April handed him his lower half and he used a few threads of Unseen Force to stitch himself back together. "I'm just glad I'm not using a flesh and blood body anymore. That would have been messy." He moved around to test that the new strands would hold how he wanted, then made a few slight adjustments. "How are normal people supposed to beat this dungeon on a regular basis if the boss was that hard." He asked his companions.

"Groups that would even attempt a boss of this difficulty at your level would have a group of at least five people, with one usually being a healer of some sort." The group heard Blixie reply as she flew down from the ceiling. "One member would hold the boss's attention and soak up the damage while the rest dealt damage."

"Why didn't you help us out." Kyle asked with a bit of annoyance in his voice. "Were you worried you would break a nail or were you just enjoying the show."

"As a dungeon guide, I can't get directly involved in the fights of my dungeon. I can analyze and offer advice to enhance efficiency." Blixie replied in a calm voice. "I would say you all did really well, considering there were only three of you. But I would have expected you to figure out the mole's weak points a little earlier."

"Any other advice?" Garrett said in annoyance.

"Yes." Blixie said with a smile. "Don't stand in front of a charging dire mole." she said with a chuckle.

Garrett grumble and picked up the loot dropped by the boss while the others just laughed. The group then headed toward the exit and received the same message had at the last set of stairs. Since guild rules stated they could only go to the second floor and Garrett was feeling a little angry and embarrassed they decided to choose the option of leaving the dungeon.