Vol. 5 - Chapter 289 - Attack the ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel›! Impressive First Half Result!

"Hurray, we draw a rare boss!!"

After drawing the rare boss, I guess beginner's luck at its work, we immediately jumped in to fight against it.

We have 8 flutes thus giving us 32 chances to pull the rare boss but said chances are just 70% so it's not exactly good enough of a number.

That's why I'm glad that we were able to pull the rare boss right from our first try. This, too, must be the blessing of Sachineko-sama. I'm going to buy Sachineko-sama some expensive tasty meat!

"Rika, please take its aggro."

"Roger! I'm Rika, and I'm going to take your head for you are my target, ‹Warrior's Beginning›! ‹Body Double›!"

Rika immediately stepped forward at my instruction and began to gather the rare boss's aggro metre towards herself.

Rika basically doesn't need to give out her introduction when using‹Warrior's Beginning› but that just seems to be her way of doing. And if you think about it, introducing themselves is really warrior-ish.

"Wooof!"

"... Hey Zephyr, the boss just let out a dog-like shout!"

"Seems so."

That was all I could say.

"The rare boss is... quite fat for a squirrel (?) Isn't it? It would have been more cute if it was just a bit more slim."

"Woof!?"

Even though its target had been set on the Rika, the ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› looked back at us as if to say “Really?” at Ester's remark.

I don't know what it was but maybe there was something in her statement that transcends the general concept of aggro.

Though that has been said, Rika wasn't the one to ignore such an opportunity when the opponent itself showed a gap.

"I'm impressed you have the leeway to look somewhere else! ‹Shogun's Burst› ‹Flash Point›! ‹Dark Sweep›!"

"Wooo!"

"A gap, come on. ‹Force Sonic›! ‹32 Star Stream›!"

Karua also joined, raising a quite vague shout and further tilting the advantage to our side.

"Woof! Howl Howl Woof!"

"It's skin is quite thick, isn't it? ‹Flash Thrust›! ‹Triple Shoot›!"

Seeing that damage wasn't passing through much, Ester prompted to 3rd order skills.

Indeed, the recommendation level for ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› was Lv59.

The general theory was to fight it with a 3rd order skill tree that raised the ‹Skill Lv›.

I had intentionally avoided speaking about it in earlier strategy to hone their own judgement. And I could see that Ester and other members were gradually considering the skills compatibility and way to fight. They're growing.

"Hn, I'm going to increase my attacks ‹Delta Stream›! ‹Starburst Tornado›!"

Karua's skills basically revolved around chaining her combos. The single attack might just put a simple scratch but when same attacks are made consecutively, they could also do significant damage. Seems like Karua too has switched to 3rd order skills.

"‹Attribute Sword : Fire›! ‹Lightning Slash› ‹Quick Strike›!"

"Wooo!?"

We finally did some damage and made the boss falter. It seems to have taken quite a damage, I guess Karua's and mine debuff had made it through.

Boss's movement began to lag behind after the momentary flinching, giving Rika's some breather as she successfully used her defence skill to pull a huge bonus.

"Howl!"

"Fool, I already saw this move. Behold! ‹Twin Swallow Flip›!"

Karua used her unique skill.

The effect of Sakura petals dancing in the air ensues when Rika activated her unique skill at the same as ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› fired its ace move ‹Finishing Head›, following a loud crashing sound that vibrates even our internal organs, and put a huge knock back effect on rare boss.

"Howwwl!!!"

"Chance. ‹Starburst • Rain Edge›!"

Karua's strongest move, a multi-hit attack, falls on the ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› under the knock back effect and effectively pushes it into the down status.

"It's blasting time!"

"Haaa! ‹Battle Focus›! ‹Shogun's Burst›! ‹Flame Slash›! ‹Ice Strike›! ‹Flash Point›! ‹Dark Sweep›!"

"Finally, I can make a move! ‹Sacred Demon's Blessing›! ‹Shining Sabre of the Sacred Light›! ‹Rise of the Sacred Tree›! ‹Light Blade›! ‹Divine Pillar›!"

Lana and Rika also switched to full attacker mode and bombarded the boss with their strong skills.

That's sure to do a huge amount of damage.