Chapter 26: Boss raid

Chapter 26: Boss raid

[Boss Monster

Race: Giant Mountain Eagle

Name: None

Level: 139

Strength: 215

Dexterity: 311

Endurance: 175

Wisdom: 223

Skills:

{Gravity Control} (B-Rank)

{Wind Magic} (Tier-3)

Description: Peak predator of this mountain range, not even the overlord of the wyverns ever managed to stand up against her.

Currently, a mother defending her soon-to-be-born children.

Evaluation: Can compete with middle-Rank B beasts thanks to its rare skill of gravity control.}

Since Brick Garrison remained in place without countering, the beast immediately grasped its adversary's inability to harm her and started targeting the others without holding anything back.

While the human tried his best to block it and minimize the damage to his allies, the rest of the group didn't just stand there and sprang into action, assisting in any way they could by throwing arrows and spells at the monster.

Meanwhile, the not-so-bright third team leader, upon spotting the monster's nest, reckoned it a wise move to target it, so that the beast would panic and get in his way while taking damage from the other members.

According to him, this plan would work, after all, it was written in, "Twenty Unusual Ways to Defeat a Monster.", written by a renowned European A-Rank awakened.

He was sure it would work.

His life, however, was not scripted, much less part of a movie.

The monster, preoccupied with the intruders, failed to notice the fireball that was hurtling towards its nest until it was too late, igniting the dried branches and causing the nest to collapse in flames which finally caught the eagle's attention.

The only thing she was holding back for was to guard her baby and not create too much destruction near its nest, now that both reasons to keep the humans away from her nest had vanished, the monster abandoned the restraint and fought to the extreme, bringing out power way over its usual limits.

Casting a vast gravitational field upon all the awakened, the eagle left its adversaries to float defenselessly in the air before ascending high up, preparing for her last suicidal attack by imbuing herself with various weight spells to augment her descent.

The bird now descended at a terrifying rate, causing the air around them to whistle once again.

"Mr. Garrison, what's with the long face?"

"Mr. Garrison..."

"Mr. Garrison..."

"Mr. Garrison..."

The tumultuous chaos overwhelmed his already weakened mind, and after taking a long breath, he finally spoke, silencing all the reporters momentarily.

"Dear citizens of America, I have reflected on my shortcomings and concluded that I may not yet be ready to lead a great group like the association in this city. From now on, I will step back for a while to regroup and return stronger than before. Until then, I'll appoint someone to fill my role."

The other members of the group were as surprised as the crowd, sparking whispers and commentary, and since it was on broadcast, many people watching the TV from home also commented and bid farewell to the protector of Chicago city.

Unfazed, Hans discreetly slipped away using {Stealth}.

Meanwhile, the arrogant and dumb third team leader was enjoying the spotlight, and boasted about his noble actions inside the gate, belittling all the fellow members, apart from Garrison obviously, since he was eager for a promotion, and the now vacant seat of the branch leader required that person's favor.

The fellow boasted so much that many of the reporters moved over to the other team leaders, asking them about what had happened.

The two talked about the team leader of the fifth team, and his brave actions which stirred up clamor among everyone, prompting headlines like, 'An Unknown Savior for the C-Rank Gate!' and 'America's Benefactor Keeps His Identity Hidden!', to floor Chicago newspapers for the following few days, embarrassing Hans to death.

However, despite the gossip and the interviews, there wasn't a single person who had heard or knew anything about this famous fifth team leader.

Feeling exhausted, Hans let himself drown in his bed, closing his already heavy eyelids.

[You have contributed greatly in clearing the C-Rank gate: Mountain's Chain.]

[You have been rewarded with the rare path tome: {Gravity Control}(Tier-5).]

[Because of your higher affinity with mana and its repetitive use, the skill {Breeze}

(Tier-0) has evolved into {Wind Gust}(Tier-1).]

The next morning, when Hans woke up, he remained a little quiet and tried to lay low, just as advised by Emily.

When she met him for the first time after the famous gate raid, Emily made fun of him calling Hans with names like, "America's Benefactor" or "Mr. Unknown" while trying to hold her laughter back as hard as she could.

This made their bond a bit stronger, evolving into friendship.

Hans also visited the kid many times and made stops at the blacksmith.

He decided to utilize the dragon's scales he had obtained from the previous raid, thinking that they were too good of a material to be left collecting dust on the shelf, and requested for the blacksmith to craft an armor out of them.

Also, during the last gate raid, Hans realized how physical protection and endurance could prove useful in critical situations, he almost considered requesting a sword, but ultimately decided not to after finding out the exorbitant price he had to pay for the chest plate.

If he had decided to request a sword to be made on measure for him, Hand didn't doubt that he would need to borrow money once again.