66 Chapter 60 ~ Hidden Reward Completion (1/2)
Charging ahead with sword and shield, the guardian bashed the sting of a scorpion away and slashes its head. The assassin behind him moves swiftly to stab that monster repeatedly on the crack of its head.
*Bam *Bam *Slash *Slice
There are many more scorpions in the area and the team workforce has been split, the knight and the priest go off on their own and protect the center. While Siola and the mage teaming up against the many wasps on the back. The former mumbled, ”Create Entry-tier Undead, Air Stinger.”
*Fwooomph*
The body of the wasp reformed into the same wasp but a darker and more horrifying creature. ”Must be nice to have summons around to take care of your business for you, huh?” said the Mage sarcastically. She is not happy that Siola's minion took her kills, even though it does not matter at all since they are in the same party.
This is the fever that plagues some DPS players. They don't want their job to be taken from them, even though it's not. Siola has done it so that the mage would conserve some more of her mana to use more spells on the other troublesome creature instead. 'Heh, I guess this is why people don't want to party with them,' she then went and said, ”Tell that to Summoners. Bastards always hide behind my puppet's butt.”
*Pfft*
Trying to hold off her laughter, the Mage turned her head around while charging her spell. Siola glanced at her bluntly, 'Hunh, why the hell is she laughing? Where's the punchline here.'
Turning around, she found the knight and the priest are being overwhelmed by the scorpions. Different from the rest, they don't have anyone to tank the damage or mitigate them to something else. Siola wants to help lessen their work, ”Hey, think you can handle it alone? I need to get my blessing from the gods.”
*Pfftt *Gwehehehe
The mage also noticed that as well, she nodded as she waves her away.
Moving just enough to get close in range, Siola closed her eyes and combined her hands. Creating a circle of magi, and then fires off multiple [Magic Arrow] from it. *Fwoosh *Fwoosh *Fwoosh *Fwoosh *Fwoosh
*Baks*
It made one of the scorpions that are about to attack the priest abruptly stunned all of a sudden. Noticing the banging sound in his ears almost defense him, the warrior turned around and deliver the final blow to the stunned monster. *BAM!
His eyes met Siola's, then he nodded as an expression of gratitude.
Soon after, they finish wrapping up the battle to an end.
”That was an awful lot of damage for a magic arrow, didn't you say you were level 40?” said the mage.
”Mhm. Well, same goes for you, those fireBALLS ain't normal either.”
”Mnghf— you,” giggling to herself, ”Y-You need to stop that, my tummy starting to get hurt.”
The knight asked, ”How many can you raise?”
Siola noticed that he's asking her, ”Just 3.”
”Hmm…” a base number. There are many ways to increase it, but Siola does not have access to them. ”Nevermind then.”
She nods without asking any further.
The party then went deeper into the dungeon while Siola and the mage are getting along quite nicely with each other, mostly gossiping and talking trash about the other occupation in their league.
Arriving at a large gothic double gate, the party went in without discussing the strategy. Since all of them know what they need to be doing, there is no need for further wasted time.
A large centipede with two heads is waiting for them inside, ”GO!”
The tank moves to circle around while the mage charged up her spell, creating a circle of magi cloaked in lava. Her hands radiated a scorching flame, and when she opened her eyes, she aimed directly to the centipede, and muttered, ”Fire Ray!”
*Bwoooooooooooooooompf*
Laser of orange flame burst out of her hands and scorched the centipede aflame. It let out a screeching sound that deafens the party's ears, but the priest lessen the pain by using his spell [Cleanse]
After successful removal of the negative effect, Siola fires off hundreds of [Magic Arrow] to the centipede, rapidly damaging herself in the process. The priest cannot heal her, but he gave her the health potion that she needs.
The knight and the assassin also made their moves by rapidly moving in sync as Siola's and the mage's spells stagger it.
The centipede then shook them off and quickly get into the ceiling, ”Kreeeghhh!” firing multiple green substances. This without a doubt, the poison that the knight mentioned some time ago.
Siola moved her hands around and activate [Clairvoyance] spell. This light up the area that the poisons are going to land, she quickly grabbed the mage's wrist and went into the safe area. The mage lifted her staff, and pointed it at the centipede, ”Flare!”
*Bwoosh *Bwoosh *Bwoosh
The centipede was stunned by the many sparkles in its eyes, *Thud*, dropping to the ground, this is the chance to deliver the heavy blow to it, but then… the centipede suddenly recovers from it.
The battle went on for another hour, and they still haven't managed to defeat it yet. ”Dammit, something's wrong here. Just how much health does it have? That thing hasn't even raged yet.”
Discussion in the middle of the battle is never a good thing, and they know it, but they need to do it. The guardian is tanking the damage while taunting it with the priest healing him from behind.
Siola closed her eyes and used [Clairvoyance] once more, and she found nothing with it.
The mage then said, ”Why don't we just push on? Maybe that thing just has that much health. This place is quite random, and that might be the case.” The knight ponders a bit, and after a while of thought, he agreed to do it.
And so, the result…
Is correct.
The centipede indeed has that much health, it took them another two hours to defeat it, and it has not raged once. When a boss rage, it would become stronger and deadlier than it ever was, but this one is not.
- Enemies Defeated: 1
- EXP Gained: 400.000
- Centipede Legs x12
”Damn, no cores again” sighed the knight.
The guardian responded, ”God, let's just stop for today, man. I'm tired. We can still grind it tomorrow.”
It was a hard decision that he had to make, but he complied. ”You guys need it that badly?” asked Siola. ”No, not really. He just wants more of them so we can have more items to sell in bulk. Ekolia just became a loot grind after that update, and the pricing for things just skyrocketed.”
”Yeah… then, we're done here?”
”Ahh, yes. Sorry that we only do one run, we've been doing this for a while now.”
”No big.”
”See you around then.”
Siola nodded at their goodbyes, and the mage winked at her as they left.