Chapter 155 - Servant and Shaman (1/2)

Balthazar was quite surprised by this sudden turn of events. He didn't expect the team to be strong enough to make the troll fall down. It also hit its head on a wall and a bunch of bones, got pushed into its body by the fall causing it to lose about 30% of its health from just the fall along with multiple bleed effects.

This completely different from the usual way to handle the troll, but it looked like it was completely feasible with the new strength of the team. Tetsujin made quick dash towards as kicked the club away from the troll. He then proceeded with a jump and the gauntlets on his hands grew spikes as he smashed them into the troll's head.

It seemed like they planned to keep the troll down on the bones of the dwarfs. The team had been playing a defensive game for quite some time moving through the keep and were frustrated and decided to vent some of the boredom with their skills. Shadow and Sultan were the only ones who looked calm. Everyone else was busy spamming their skills.

As they were doing this, the dwarves in the cage began to shout for help as soon as the troll fell. Shadow decided that it was best to release these dwarves at this time. With the troll down, he doubted that it would be fast enough to stop him releasing them. The dwarves usually help the players in taking down monsters and for the first clear, it is best that they had more help to finish faster.

He immediately picked open the lock of the cage and the two dwarves went out to pick a couple of weapons from beside the bones and joined the fight. The others were also working on it while Merlin cast a spell which shocked the whole lot of them.

A black mist rose out of his staff and into the skull of the troll. The name of the troll suddenly changed to green and Merlin shouted for all of them to stop the attack. He had used the Subjugation skill of his Sceptre. The troll was now completely under his control.

[Prison Warden Chrome] (Merlin Grimlock's Servant)

Level 15;

HP: 5600/10000;

”You used Subjugation?” asked Shadow. ”Good call.”

”This is going to make it much easier to take care of the boss of this floor,” he thought.

”Give us all the equipment, materials, tools, designs and recipes you have with you,” asked Merlin. It was the first time that he had used the subjugation skill on a boss monster where it actually worked. He wanted to try out all the things possible and the first thing on his agenda was to get all possible loot from it.

The troll pulled out a bunch of armaments and threw them down in front of Merlin. He also put in a weapon design. It was about to disrobe too, when Merlin quickly noticed and told it to not do that. Balthazar was quite surprised. It was a very hard thing to pickpocket from boss monsters and the like and in many cases impossible as they would attack you as soon as you are near them like this one. This was the first time that he had seen all the loot from a boss monster.

”You should use this more often,” said Grenadier mage looking at the loot in front of him.

”I got lucky with this one. This is the first time it worked on a boss. It doesn't even have a 60% success rate with elites,” said Merlin shaking his head. It was only possible when the monsters are not noticing or otherwise distracted to have a decent success rate.

There were a total of 12 armament put down by the troll, including the club that it carried. There were six bronze, three silver grade and two of them were even level 14 gold great swords. The last one was its club. It was a great haul. Especially, the two great swords, they were actually a pair of swords exactly similar to each other.

Balthazar knew the weapons as they would be used by the troll in its berserk state. They were a pair of great swords that were the same color as the troll. The passive effect was very effective in handling the last boss.

[Chrome's Great sword] (Two handed sword)

Level 15;

Attack Power +40;

Requirement: Strength 30; Endurance: 20;

Strength +7;

Special Effect: Dwarf Soper: Attacks have a 10% chance to induce dwarves into a trance like state.

Active Skill: Chain Slash: Covers the blade with a mana that would push the opponent back slightly on every successful slash allowing one to chain their attacks. Duration: 3 seconds. Cooldown: 10 min. MP: 50 per slash.

Durability :40/40;

Getting the great sword would be considered really lucky as its attributes and passive effect were quite useful later in the dungeon. Their team had no berserker. In the game, a player could use weapons of other occupations in manual mode and the don't have the advantage of using suitable skills. Only skills provided by the equipment could be made use of in this manner. It was hard enough to learn to use their own weapon in manual mode, let alone the weapon of other occupation.

Tetsujin was the only one who could reasonably use the great sword as his main weapons were gauntlets which allowed him to hold and used other weapons. He also used to play as a berserker in previous games and due to it, he was capable of using it decently to a certain extent. Due to the unique gauntlet, he also had better attributes than other level 14 players and could immediately equip the sword. The other sword was just placed in the bag with plans on selling it or keeping it safe when others joined the adventurer team.

Though it has very little effect on a boss, it is still useful compared to not having one at all. He just hoped that Tetsujin would be able to use the weapon effectively. Apart from that the chain slash skill is also very useful skill especially in PvP matches. Sadly, there wouldn't be any competitions so early.

[Chrome's Club] (Gold Two handed hammer)

Attack Power +35;

Requirement: Strength: 40;

Agility +4;

Active Skill: Smash: Makes a vertical swing of the Club causing double damage. MP: 200; Cooldown: 5 min.