Chapter 158 - To the next floor (2/2)

Their strategy was quite effective. In case, the troll moved in any direction, the members in that directions would stop their skills while the other three attacked causing it to change directions. This was quite simple and could be used to keep the troll in a loop. It was always a common strategy to keep monsters which didn't have magical attacks at bay while shearing off their health. It was much more effective on a troll which moved at a very slow pace enabling the others to easily escape.

This continued to carry on with this strategy for a couple of minutes when Dhrome finally hit 10% mark of its health putting it in a berserk state. After that, it continued to pursue the closest group. It also pulled out another pair of weapons, a large axe and shield which it began to use in tandem with each other. It seemed quite capable in using the shield to block any fire attacks by the players and shaman.

The group it was following currently had a shaman servant, Bitter Beast and the two dwarves. The two dwarfs had only listened to Merlin's commands after Dhrome started fighting and Merlin threatened to use Chrome to kill them if they didn't follow his orders. But still it was the weakest team, the two dwarves weren't that fast and Dhrome was catching up on them.

The others were firing at Dhrome, but the dwarves which were running towards Merlin's direction were in no way less trouble due to their slower movement speed. They were always a bit slower than the others due to their smaller sizes and Dhrome in its berserk state was a bit faster than them.

Merlin was wondering whether he should help them or not, if it was worth it. ”Merlin, we know that there are three floors and we didn't yet find the way to the next floor. We need the two munchkins,” messaged Shadow as he saw that Merlin was not mobilizing his troll servant.

Merlin nodded towards him as he had the troll and the other two shamans to intercept Dhrome. ”Attack it with all you have. I will have the troll support you,” shouted Merlin. The troll pulled out his club and threw it at Dhrome which struck its torso halting it for a second. It was enough for the dwarves to put some distance between them.

The throw was too fast that it Dhrome didn't manage to deflect it and was actually stunned for half a second. The other players attacks suddenly weren't blocked and hit him again almost doubling the rate of loss of his HP.

As it got out of the stunned state, it immediately continued in its pursuit of the dwarves again, but it gave enough time for the chrome to block it from attacking the dwarves. The troll wasn't great at it either, a single strike from the boss's axe pushed chrome back from him. It also dealt a damage of 1500 HP.

”Dude, that thing is crazy strong. The only good thing is that it was slow,” said Tetsujin as chrome was pushed back.

”No shit, the troll was supposed to have a high defence,” said Merlin as he commanded chrome to retreat slowly. Though chrome had higher health limit than all others in his team and very high defence, it had been fighting the orcs for quite some time and its health had gone down from tanking a number of attacks. He was sure that a couple more attacks from the boss would put his servant in red health state.

”Use only magical attacks or dynamites for the boss and somebody heal my troll. I will only use it to block if someone is in danger,” said Merlin. ”Also make those dwarves stay as far away from the troll as possible.”

They continued to run away from the boss and fired spells at it. Shadow and ones who could only do physical attacks used dynamites instead. He felt that it was more like the situations that players usually had in his previous life in this room. Everyone was running away and evading while only using magical attacks or tools to deal damage as they didn't want to get close to him. It was extremely time consuming as the boss was also quite adept at using the shield in its hand.

The boss came close to the others a couple of times, but Merlin had the troll block its attacks. Soon, the boss succ.u.mbed to their attacks. Without the other orcs and shamans that usually helped it, it didn't take much time for them to kill the boss.

”System: Congratulations on obtaining the first kill of Dhrome. You will receive the first kill rewards in your mail on exiting the dungeon.”

Merlin went ahead and started to scavenge the body of the boss. He found much less from it than that he found from the previous boss. It was probably due to the large number of attacks that landed on it from the players. It was common knowledge that monsters killed by a large number of random attacks at multiple places tend to leave less loot on their death. The others also checked the other corpses in the hall before they returned. They were about to discuss the loot when Merlin interrupted.

”There is a key in his pocket,” said Merlin pulling out a half-foot long black key carved out of stone.

”That is the key to the dungeon,” said one of the dwarves. ”That is where they went, follow me,” he continued as he ran out of the room and pointed near the locked door just outside the room.

”The warehouse is the entrance to next floor where we have ore access. There were a bunch of gems that we found in the ore. That is the reason they attacked us. To steal our metals. He wants to get a hold of something in the ore which lord Bungar has,” said the dwarf.

Merlin immediately put key in the door and opened it. All they found was a large empty room with nothing but a few dead dwarves and an open square shaped trapdoor at the far end of the room. This stairs wasn't like the previous ones and was quite smaller like it was made only for dwarves.