Chapter 4: Raid Boss
“”No.””
“Please?”
“”No!””
“Pretty please?”
“”NO!””
“Ehhhh, but whyyyyyyyy?”
Why the hell would I bring all of them out with me!? Can you imagine how much chaos a gigantic army appearing out of a dungeon would cause? Also I’m not even sure if they know common sense. Like those stupid characters in novels I read, if they start killing everything in sight or calling everyone they meet an insect, that’s going to be a pain to deal with.
There’s also the problem of food and water, where the hell do I get enough for an army this big!?
All I want is to go out and eat food, not wage war against the whole world god dammit!
*sigh* Time to make up some random excuse and hope they go along with it.
“”Because we need you guys to protect… “”
“Protect?”
“”Um…””
“Um?”
“”this door?””
I mean this door is pretty well made, it looked like it was sculpted by a master and now that I look closely… it gives off a weird purple glow? Yea, I had no better idea… This is obviously not going to work, PLAN B RUN FOR IT!
“Ah! We understand goddess-samas, you want us to guard your temple, we shall protect it with all our might!”
“””BY YOUR WILL!”””
Escape plan number 1, I’ll first run to gain speed, jump over them and fly… wait what…
When did this become my temple!? And why are you guys so happy to… oh screw it, I’m getting out of here!
The twins put on the rest of their battle gear that was so badly damaged by the dragon that they auto unequipped, which were magically repaired by the goddess. They Opened their wings and ran towards the stairs, deciding to jump and fly to the other side, then slowly climb the dungeon.
A plan this simple can’t possible go wrong, but why do I hear a beeping soun… Oh crap!
As they took the next step, blue light engulfed the twin and they disappeared.
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There are many races throughout the world, the humans, demons, beastkin, dragonkin, elves and dwarfs. The world that was split into three small wars became one great war instead. It used to be the humans versus demons, the elves versus the dwarfs and the dragonkin versus the beastkin, but then the humans, elves and beastkin created an alliance and to answer, the demons, dwarfs and dragonkin did as well.
The world was split into two and this fight continued for millenniums, until 200 years ago.
The Dungeon of Origin was created hundreds of years ago in Elenair, the goddess that created it disappeared alongside the dragon god right after creating it, leaving behind nothing except for the dungeon in the center of the six capitals.
At first everyone just thought the goddess was sleeping, but after hundreds of years, she has still not returned. Every single race was worried. They did not know what happened to their beloved goddess who created the world and watched over it. Some went searching for the high gods, to learn of what happened to the goddess, but they didn’t know, others went around the world looking for her, but none found her. With the threat of monsters throughout the land, every race forced a ceasefire to search for the goddess. The dedication the people had for the goddess was real and in these one hundred years, almost every inch of Elenair was searched, except for this dungeon…
The reason they didn’t search the dungeon was not because they didn’t want to or didn’t try, but because they couldn’t. Even with the strongest adventurer from every race, they only got down to the 70th floor, where they were eradicated by the floor boss.
In the 30th floor boss room,
Six adventurers were fighting against the floor boss Great White Snake in the closed boss room.
“Katsuro move! It’s the poison breath!” (Riku)
“Understood” (Katsuro)
Although he had full heavy armour on and a great shield with a mace, the dragonkin, Katsuro, was still able to dodge the poisonous breath.
“Ren, attack it’s head, Haruto, defend her!” (Riku)
“Okie dok” (Ren)
“Hey! Slow down Ren!” (Haruto)
“Why don’tcha speed up?” (Ren)
“WELL I CAN’T CATCH UP TO A TIGERKIN EVEN IF I SPEED UP!” (Haruto)
“Relax, this is a B+ boss, and we’re all A- ranks” (Ren)
“Don’t you remember, the ranking system is different for monsters, a monster with rank B+ is equal to 6 B+ adventurers.” (Haruto)
“And we’re A-, so relax, I’m going on ahead!” (Ren)
After that, the tigerkin, Ren, who was barely wearing anything, leaped around the snake’s head attacking it from all directions with her claws, leaving a very pissed off human, Haruto, in leather armour trying to keep up and protect her from the tail’s attack, but halfway he just gave up and started attacking the tail with his sword and shield.
*Sigh* “Sora…” (Riku)
“Don’t worry already on it” (Sora) and with that, ice shackles appeared all around the snakes body, trying to tie it down.
*Sigh* “Thanks, thank god we don’t have a second Ren or Haruto, just having them is bad enough.” (Riku)
“Um… Uhhhhh” (Aya)
“Don’t worry Aya, you’re doing great, just keep healing and buffing Katsuro.” (Riku)
“Un!” (Aya)
After giving the Human girl, Aya, confidence, the elf archer, Riku, notched another arrow and aimed at one of the snake’s eyes. Seeing this, the elf mage, Sora, focused his ice shackles around the snake’s head and neck.
After hours, the snake had an arrow in each eye, and it was bleeding everywhere. The white scales were dyed red with a tint of green, and the tail was cut off, it could no longer struggle against the ice chains binding it and fell to the ground.
“Ren! Haruto! Finish it!” (Riku)
[Cleave]
[Empower]
With the armour scales gone from the neck, Haruto’s Cleave was able to easily cut into the snake’s neck, but due to the sheer size of the snake, he could only cute off 3/4 of the neck. That’s where Ren comes in, with her incredible speed and empowered her claws, she was able to separate the head from the body.
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The greenish red blood spewed everywhere covering most of the area around the snake. Katsuro was far away, defending the Riku, Sora and Aya, so the four of them did not get splashed by it. However, Ren and Haruto weren’t so lucky, they were at point blank range, and could not avoid getting fully drenched in the poisonous blood.
“Aya! Quick, heal them, the blood’s poisonous!” (Riku)
“Un!... got it” (Aya)
[Detoxify]
“Phew, thanks Aya, you really saved me” (Haruto)
“Aya-chan! You healed Haruto first! Does that mean what I think it means?” (Ren)
“EHHHHH!!!” (Aya)
“Awww my cute innocent Aya is growing up, onee-chan is proud” (Ren)
“NO! That’s not it!” (Aya)
“It’s fine, don’t worry onee-chan will support you, even if you’re after the no good weakling.” (Ren)
“HEY!” (Haruto)
“Um… I don’t think Haruto is weak…” (Aya)
“EH!? So you’re not going to deny you’re after him? How courageous!” (Ren)
“Ah! NO!!!!! I’m not after him!” (Aya)
“it’s okay, it’s okay onee-chan knows, you’re just shy, don’t worry, onee-chan will help you!” (Ren)
And the three of them continued messing around. With Ren teasing Aya whose face is as red as a tomato and ocassionally sneaking insults in while teasing Haruto. On the other side, the three grown men were gathering the material from the snake.
“Look who gets all the girls.” (Riku)
“Haha, it’ll be nice to be young again I guess” (Sora)
“Come on, you two are younger than me, I’m already over 90!” (Katsuro)
“Well mentally I guess, since your race in human terms in over 40, but technically, we’re still older, since we’re over 120” (Riku)
“Cmon Riku, you know our age in human terms are only around 30” (Sora)
“I guess… *sigh* we’re old… HEY GUYS! WE’RE DONE COLLCTING LET’S MOVE!” (Riku)
“”Coming””
And the party of six was just about to move on to the next room, when the doors that opened after the floor boss’s death slammed down and closed themselves.
“What’s going on!” (Haruto)
“No clue, my Trap Detection skill isn’t going off. Sora?” (Riku)
“I don’t sense any magi… WAIT! Magic is gathering at the center of the room!” (Sora)
“Everyone! Get ready for battle!” (Riku)
The six veteran adventurers instantly got ready and as the mood tensed, a blue light shined in the middle of the room.
From the blue light, twin girls with closed eyes appeared. Their beauty was out of this world. With luxurious dresses, five rings on each hand, a necklace, a white and black cloth wrapped around the sole of their feet and arms like bracers respectively, and a black and white ribbon on the opposite sides of their heads combined with the gigantic black and white wing coming out of their backs, they looked as beautiful as the goddess herself!
The party stood there speechless, not knowing what to do.
They have never heard of any monster like them, nor any beings with a single gigantic black or white wing.
The party literally did not know what to do. They stood there admiring the beauty of the twin goddesses that appeared.
The first one to regain his consciousness was Riku, being the party leader, he was the first to snap out of their stupor and immediately used Identify on them.
The result, however, left him speechless…
Name: ???
Race: ???
Gender: ???
Job: ???
Rank: ???
Strength: ???
Intelligence: ???
Agility: ???
Magic Power: ???
There was no age… there was no age in identify! It could only mean one thing, the beings in front of him could not age and only highly evolved entities could not age meaning they’re extremely strong! Question marks is the result given if the stat of the target is a lot higher than the users, that he can understand, but the stats the beings has… It frightened him extremely! There was no defensive stat, only attack and more attack meaning these two in front of him, were power type monsters and those are usually the more aggressive type. With two monsters that is way out of their league being possibly extremely aggressive, it was the worst situation possible. This same result was returned from both of them, meaning their party had to face not 1, but two of them! It was insane!
Riku immediately shouted his teammates names to get them out of their stupor and they reacted. Katsuro immediately stepped in front to block any incoming attack. Behind him stood Haruto and Ren in a V formation protecting Aya within. Behind Aya, stood Riku and sora, defending the back from possible attacks. It was their strongest defensive formation, the diamond formation, but the situation was still critical. The best he can hope for, is to buy time for Sora to activate the Return magic to send as many of them alive as possible out of the dungeon.
As sweat rolled down from his forehead, he quickly made hand signs, signaling Sora, telling him the plan, while watching the beings every move. He already gambled on screaming at his teammates to get them out of their stupor, so he could not risk agitating the beings anymore, and chose to make hand signs for Sora to read.
After sora read the plan, he immediately used Thought Transfer to tell his teammates, and as he finished telling his teammates the plan, the beings tilted their heads in the opposite directions, and a pair of angelic voices rang out.
““What are you guys doing?””
THEY CAN TALK IN THE SAME LANGUAGE AS US!?