Chapter 262: Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior (1/2)

“What happened?”

The list of Players who died were flooding the System page when Edward finally arrived at the scene. Although most of them were revived by the Clerics, there were still quite a number of them lost.

“We were pushing in when the ground suddenly blew up!” Joe, whose HP was now red had temporarily pulled back to the rear, allowing a healer to restore him while he explained the situation to the confused Edward between gasps. “There’s a basement beneath, and there has to be a super macho Boss hidden inside!”

“How macho?” Edward asked, curious.

After all, Joe’s illogical body ratio was definitely exceedingly ripped even for normal Players, just his behavior was a perfect reflection of his masculinity-reckless and straightforward.

Therefore, Joe didn’t consider most physically strong creatures to be ‘macho’, but at best ‘strong’ or effeminate.

As such, any Boss he would declare to be super macho must be beyond imagination.

“How macho, huh…” Joe searched his mind for the right description, when a Swordmaster Player was sent screaming and flying through the air.

His butt was on fire as he streaked in a perfect hyperbola curve before crashing into a house, which looked sturdy before but looked about to crumble now.

Several Clerics who had yet to change class quickly ran up, dragging the Swordmaster Player out of the debris and took turns to beat him up with their war hammer to heal him.

As a matter of fact, healing was possible just by singing a song and waving the war hammer in front of him, but the movements were complex and was time-consuming, which was why the painful yet efficient method was preferred.

While the Swordmaster screamed ‘I’m fine! I’ll drink a potion for the rest! Damn it, you almost knocked my teeth off’, Joe turned to Edward and said, “That much macho.”

Edward nodded in understanding.

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Soon, the formation which the Players had assumed were complete crumbling in the face of that super macho Boss, and Edward finally saw for himself what he looked like.

First and foremost, he was a Tigerman.

But it was unlike any other Tigermen, who only had a tiger’s head while the rest of their body was more resembling of humans (a trait most nonhumans shared, which make them identical humans save for their beastlike features and in turn categorized them as non-demons). From the bone structure and physical structure, this Tigerman would resemble an actual tiger that was walking on tow legs, and its muscles were almost bursting out from every part of his body as if it was a bodybuilder—the kind of tiger that could kill a cow with a single punch.

Moreover, most Tigermen’s fur were a combination of yellow, black and white. This Tigerman, however, was a mix of red and black. Its eyes which glinted fiercely and frighteningly were amber-colored, and anyone looking into them would have the illusion of being burned.

Its body also palpated extreme temperatures, something which was obvious from how everything seemed to be shimmering. Wood and straws that were an inch too close would self-combust, whereas the footprints that the Tigerman leave in his wake were small craters of magma wells.

There was no doubt that this one was actually a fire-type monster.

Edward looked above his head and found that his name was a shining red.

[Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior (Elite), level 42]