“Manma Manma”

“Thats the mother mushroom.”

“Manma”

Hannah’s eyes opened wide as her gaze followed my finger. The boss of the poisonous mushroom dungeon was three meters tall with a wide body. On top it had a wide umbrella like thing, it’s lower body was red with purple spots. It’s look seemed to scream poisonous. It had thick arms and short stubby legs, its face was situated lower down on its body than you would have thought but it’s mouth was filled with large fangs.

The boss started to move although it was pretty slow.

“Manma!”

“Attack together!”

“Manma!?”

If we start the attack before it can get close or summon the smaller mushrooms then we can’t be counterattacked. It has a large amount of HP so this is a good tactic to shave off a bit of it before it can properly engage us.

“{Lion’s blessing}{Protection of the holy devil}{Blade of light}!”

“{Fireball}{Flame Lance}{Ice Lance}”

“{Shine lightning}{Lightning Burst}”

“Manma!”

“Zephyrus I know you’re having fun but don’t get too carried away. The boss looks angry now. {Provocation}!”

Oops, it seems my whole body had been trembling with excitement and Ciara had to bring me back to my senses.

“Manma!”

“Stop saying that! This isn’t the impression I had of you at all! {Sonic Sword}!”

“Ma!?”

Now I was angry and put all my anger into this strike. When it hit I was rewarded with a critical hit and a down.

“Attack!!!!”

“Hey, wait, my cool down isn’t over yet! {Pillar of light}!”

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“{Fireball}! Maybe I should replace the ability ball?”

The rearguard was left in disarray because of the unexpected down. Maybe I should succumb to my anger more often, this was a good result. Hannah was now struggling to change out the ability balls but it probably would have been faster to just wait for the cooldown to end.

“Hya! {Spear Assault}{Long thrust}{Precious thrust}!”

“{Shield smite!}”

“{Hero’s sword}{Hayabusa Strike}{Lightning Slash}!”

“Ma!?”

I unleashed my new skills from the third stage of the job. I was very satisfied with their power when seeing how much damage they dealt to the boss. They were also pretty flashy and I was happy about that as well.

“Zephyrus, what was that? It was cool!{Blade of light}!”

“Wasn’t it!? Uooh! Hey, are you trying to hit me?”

Rana was amazed by my new skills and accidentally fired her blade of light at me instead of the boss. If I hadn’t turned around I would have been hit.”

“Oops, Sorry. It’s your fault for showing me something so cool while I was trying to attack.”

“My fault!?”

Rana has a habit of just casting her magic whenever the cooldown is over. And this happened because my skills caused her to be facing me when it was. Although I’ll forgive her this time since she was Tsundere about it.

“Will you two concentrate! It’s getting back up!”

“Lady Rana, You can talk later.”

“Hii….”

When the boss got back up it was extremely angry and its attention was focused entirely on…me.

“Manma!Manma!Manma!”

“It’s going to attack with the spores! Everyone besides Ciara fall back!”

When it shakes the large umbrella thing on top of its head it releases spores that will cause poison if they’re touched. The only problem was that it was coming directly at me, it was kind of scary.”

“{Provocation}{Guard Stance}!”

After Ciara used her skills the target changed to her, with a Abnormal state resistance of level 10 the spore attack shouldn’t have much effect on her.

“Manma!”

“Guh, that hurt…”

“{Healing Prayer}”

The boss had slammed it’s fist into Ciara’s shield causing a loud bang. It had a tremendous amount of power and managed to damage Ciara through her shield.

“ManmaManmaManma!!”

“It’s going to summon! Everyone fall back!”

Spores game out from the boss falling to the ground. Once there they began to grow until there were a total of thirty smaller mushrooms. It would have been dangerous if Ciara had been surrounded. However she had fallen back and there was now two of use to split them between.

“{Appeal}!”

Ciara’s provocation hadn’t finished it’s cooldown yet but I started off by taking the attention of a dozen or so.

“{Shine lightning}Keep attacking but make sure not to hit the mom!”

“{Legion thrust}!”

“{Pillar of light}!”

“{Dark Javelin}!”

Everyone attack and it seemed that Hannah had successfully replaced her ability ball.

“{Provocation}!”

Ciara was keeping the attention of the other mushrooms while everyone helped me out. Now that there was only three left in front of me I asked everyone to go help out Ciara.

“{Guard Rush}!”

Guard rush was an attack that allowed Ciara to defend at the same time. It wasn’t as flashy as some of the other skills but it was very practical. And soon we had annihilated the smaller mushrooms. Then we all once again began to attack Mama slowly lowering it’s HP.

After that it summoned the smaller mushrooms two more times and we dealt with them the same way. We continued our attack until the boss only had 10% of it’s health left. From that point it’s hands lit on fire and it became enraged. I quickly shouted for Ciara to fall back, although it seems odd for a mushroom to be on fire, a flaming Mama punch is dangerous even for a tank. Of course there are countermeasures for it.

“Ciara fall back. We’re going to attack from a distance!”

“Ma!?”

Even if it has high damage capability right now it doesn’t matter if it can’t actually land the attack. After everyone’s attacks landed the HP finally became 0 and caused it to disappear leaving behind several drops and a single silver chest.