CH 283

The battle afterwards proceeds just as I had expected, we're slowly but surely shaving the HP of the field boss.

Soon we found an opening.

"‹Sword Attribute - Fire›! ‹Sonic Sword›!"

"‹Delta Stream›!"

"‹Divine Pillar›!"

"‹Quick Slash›!"

"Gyaaaaa!!"

"Hn, chance. ‹Vital Stab›!"

"Kyuus!?"

We pushed the Electro-Fox to the knockdown status soon after we took our formation and began our barrage of attacks while it was focusing on weaving its attack towards Rika.

Karua followed with the ‹Vital Stab› in a heartbeat.

‹Vital Stab› comes with the high critical chance effect when the opponent is under knockdown status or recovering from the delay that occurred after using a skill.

‹Vital Stab› did its work by causing a critical hit and pushing ‹Electro-Charged Fox› into down status.

That was the chance for us.

"Nice one, Karua! Blast it out, everyone! ‹Brave Heart›! ‹Brave Sword›! ‹Lightning Sword›!"

"‹Scale Break›! ‹Starburst • Rain Edge›! ‹32 Star Stream› ‹Star Burst Tornado›!"

"‹Shining Sabre of the Sacred Light›! ‹Rise of the Sacred Tree›! ‹Light Blade›!"

"‹Long Thrust›! ‹Precision Thrust›! ‹Triple Shoot›! ‹Legion Charge›! ‹Long Thrust›!"

"Don't leave me behind, ‹Battle Focus›! ‹Shogun's Burst›! ‹Flame Slash›! ‹Ice Strike›!"

"Gyaaaaaaa!!"

We didn't miss our chance to take advantage of the boss's first down status and greeted it with our full firepower.

This sure does cause some serious damage. Looking at how the HP bar was gradually decreasing really uplifted my spirit.

Rika, who was assigned to garner Electro-Fox's hate, also joined in the end and followed with her fierce onslaught looking like she wanted to end the boss right there.

The boss was, unfortunately, out of his down status not long after.

"Gggrrryaaaaaa!!!"

"It has entered Rage Mode! Everyone, retreat at once!"

Like usual, Intermediate dungeon entered the rage mode when its HP was reduced to red zone which would last for 3 minutes and give a buff to its STR and AGI, increasing it by 1.5 times.

There's no telling when a mistake was made and the boss's powerful attack forced anyone to be out of commission so the best way to deal with it was to take the distance and study its pattern.

We just have to wait until everyone is accustomed to its speed and then make our move. There was no need to act rash when it was just a matter of time before the boss fell.

"Grrrr!"

"! Boss's about to release a large AoE attack! Put the protection barrier, Lana! Ester, resist it with defense stance!"

"Got it, ‹Holy Protection Barrier›!"

The incoming AoE attack basically encompass everyone with no chance to evade.

Then we just have to endure this wave of attack.

Lana immediately propped a barrier in front of herself at my instruction. ‹Holy Protection Barrier› was a defence magic effective against magic attack.

It has a long cooldown but Converse speaking, the defence magic was just that strong.

"‹Extreme Speed›! Barely on time."

Karua barely made her escape in the due time. As expected of the agility master ‹Starcat›.

However it was hard for Ester to escape in time so I ordered her to resist. Meanwhile, I and Rika activated our respective defence skills at the same time as the boss released its AoE attack.

"GGGRRRAAAWWWRRR!!!"

"‹Defense›!"

"‹Clone›!"

I saw Electro-Fox's tail shaking intensely and then it released waves of lightning like my ‹Shine Lightning›. The only difference was that it was aiming for everyone.

A lightning dawned upon us like the tsunami. It had quite the impact to say.

I wonder if the person on the receiving side of my ‹Shine Lightning› also felt the same. An out of place thought occurred to me.

I defended with my defence skill while Rika used an evade skill to shift the damage.

I quickly looked around once the attack was over to confirm the situation.

Rika was unharmed due to her skill. Lana and Karua also didn't receive damage under the protection barrier. That leaves behind Ester who had to bear the brunt directly, she was 一一.

一一She was on the ground in her spot.

The Paralysis icon was shining on her HP bar.

"Paralyse! Lana, ‹Refresh›!"

"‹Wish一一›"

"Gyaaaa!!"

However Electro-Fox was one step faster than Lana as its target had shifted to Ester who was down from abnormal status.

The worst is we don't even have Sierra who could have used her ‹Absolute Charm Shield› skill.

"‹一一Refresh›!"

Lana's ‹Wish Refresh› enveloped Ester, curing her of her paralysis aliment albeit the field boss was already on its move with its attack and it was hard to tell if Ester would be able to dodge the attack as soon as she got up.

The Electro-Fox rapidly shrink its tail and just as I wondered what was it, it rushed towards Ester while releasing lightning from behind. Don't tell me it's ‹Thunder Rocket Thrust›, a high power charge skill! The lightning releasing from its tail was like the propulsion of a rocket, It was an immensely powerful move and at the same time, its ultimate move!

I didn't expect field boss to use it at this point.

There wasn't much distance between Ester, who had just taken an attack and the field boss. Not to say its AGI had been raised to 1.5 times in rage mode.

Ester rolled on the ground and tried to dodge but it was too late.

However, someone slipped in there.

"You have the nerve to ignore me huh. Prepare for the consequences!"

It was Rika.

It seemed like she was able to make it in time since she was closer to Ester than me.

She propped her twin blades, her sharp as knife gaze pointing at the field boss.

She was like the huntress preying on her catch.

"Haaaaa! unique skill ‹Twin Swallow Flip›!"

Crash, and what followed afterwards was a loud sound like the two behemoth crashing into each other. Effect of Sakura petals dancing ensues.

"Ga,aaaaaaaaaah!!!?

Electro-Charge Fox's painful cries echoed.

That was Rika's counter type unique skill which one can be unlocked at the 3rd order skill tree of ‹Warrior Princess›, 一一‹Twin Swallow Flip›.

It was quite difficult to pull it at current timing since it was a counter type skill, however its power was equally impactful on the flip side.

It was one heck of a ridiculous skill with effects like damage ignored by the opponent, immense damage, knock back effect and above all, adding N% of the opponent's power to their own unique skill.

In other words, the field boss not only took the huge damage from Rika's counterattack, it also received the brunt of its own attack.

The knock back effect caused it to bend backwards, with its front leg completely straight up and stiffened.

Field boss HP bar began to guzzle down rapidly under the direct damage of its charged attack on the rage mode and soon, it turned zero.

"Ga... Gya ........a....??"

Together with a befuddled cry as if it doesn't understand what just happened, it disappeared into the sea of its own effect.