Vol. 5 - Chapter 290 - Versus ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› second half! How to set up the trap.

"Grawwwwr!!"

The rare boss ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› recovered from the down status and boy was its eyes smouldering with rage.

Though the target was still set at Rika. Rika was seriously amazing.

"Crumble"

"! Quick stop! It's the ‹Charge› skill! ‹Sonic Sword›!"

The rare boss's whole body, who was howling facing the sky, began to shine and absorbed the light orb like things from all over. It was its self buff skill 一一 ‹Charge›!

The self buff skill increases the rare boss ATK and AGI and gives a lightning attribute to all its attacks.

When in buff mode, its body crackled with lightning as if it was constantly clad in lightning stripes and there was also a low chance of inflicting us with DOT (damage over time) when attacking us.

But if you think it was already strong enough, then you're in for a surprise as what makes ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› even more dangerous was it could stack the said buff multiple times.

The rare boss was capable of stacking ‹Charge› buff four times and each stack makes it further strong.

However it also has a demerit and that is the rare boss is defenceless during activating ‹Charge› so we could force our way to cancel its skill midway if we manage to do a certain damage.

As they said, opportunities lie within the difficulty.

And if we spell out moves right, we could also force it to enter into shutdown mode if we managed to cancel its skill.

The videos of forcing the rare boss into shutdown mode while low level and equipped with poor equipment was quite popular in the ‹Dungeon Activity›'s capture site.

Though there were also some videos where others would miss the chance and instead have tables turned on them which was hilarious.

Alas, it's not time to soak into the old memories.

It's only for several seconds that the rare boss stays in defenceless state due to ‹Charge› skill. We must pass a certain amount of damage in the span of said several seconds if we want to take it down.

It was a race against time.

"‹Blessing of the guardian dog›!"

"‹Long Thrust›! ‹Legion Thrust›! ‹Legion Charge›!"

"‹Scale Break›! ‹Vital Stab›! ‹Slash›!

"‹Blade Toss›! ‹Parallel Slash›! ‹Cross Slash›! ‹Blade Strike›! ‹Swallow Flip›!"

"‹Shine Lightning›!"

Everyone follows up with the spare attacks they could do. They had just finished using their 3rd order skill when the rare boss was under down status and were still in cooldown. Thus, our attacks consisted mostly of first order and occasionally skills from 3rd order.

Damage wasn't just enough.

"How!l"

"Ku, we failed."

And soon, the rare boss finished invoking its skill.

Personifying its name, the rare boss's whole body was illuminating in ‘electricity’ as it awakened.

We just have bad timing this time, it just happened to have right after we finished using our strong moves when the boss was in down status.

Well the other reason is also because everyone's level was still not that high. Lana, Ester and mine level is 56 while Rika and Karua level is 48 and 49 respectively.

On the other side, the recommendation level to take on the ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› is 59, so we're a bit under-level to do enough damage in a short time.

"That's what it is. Everyone, be careful! I'm going to set-up a measure against my boss! So hold it until then!"

"Alright!"

"Roger!"

"Oh~!"

Lana, Ester and Karua replied respectively.

Rika was standing in the frontline with the blades in her hand ready. Boss's momentum was bound to rise from this point, this the part where the tank should be extremely cautious.

"I'm leaving it to you, Rika!"

"Leave it to me!"

I received a reliable answer. She might be the lowest level among the whole party, however she's the most reliable at the moment.

"*Howl grr-grr Howl"

"Haaa, ‹Take & Return›! ‹Begone›!一一"

Rika wasted no time in responding to the boss's agility ‘skill’.

"Lana, blessing!"

"‹Divine Protection›! ‹Blessing of the Everlasting Demon›! ‹Healing Prayer›!"

At my beckon, Lana followed up with the buffs and supported Rika.

‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› unique skill was a charging type, it was called ---- «I'm the Tribulation Lightning».

I and Rika stood across from each other with the trap sandwich between us and prepared our defensive measure.

"Ester, Lana, I'm leaving the support to you!"

"! Understood!"

"Just leave it to me!"

"‹Divine Protection›! ‹Sacred Devil's Blessing›! ‹Blessing of Everlasting Demon›!"

Boss's unique skill activated as soon as Lana finished putting buffs.

"Howwwwwwl (I'm the Wolf)!!"

"Engrave it in your mind, you're not a wolf or anything! ‹Defense›!"

"Howl!?"

I activated my defence skill while making a retort that I used to make while playing the ‹Dungeon Activity› as a game.

I felt like I saw the boss making an astonished expression while charging at us.

"Get ready to be pushed! Secret Art ‹Repel›!"

Crash and thus followed a loud sound.

Rika's and mine's defence skill versus ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel›'s unique skill collided.

Eventually, we strike at the same time.

"Ack!"

"Ku一一!"

"Hooowl!!"

I and Rika were pushed back behind and stiffened. We also received around 200 damage when I checked it out. Was this the best our defence skills could do? talk about power. (T/N : Zephyr's HP at level 50 was 340~ for more context)

That being said, the boss was also stiffened on the spot, though it wasn't knockbacked unlike us.

We may not have been able to win in terms of defence but we also managed to stop the boss ' unique skill with our double defensive skills.

And that was the desired result I wanted, because the place the rare boss had stopped was the same place I had set-up ‹Poison Swamp Trap›.

Instantly, electricity on the back of the boss went berserk.

"Howwwww!!"

That's right, electric shock.

There's the thing called weak attribute in the ‹Dungeon Activity›, i.e. all the monster's have an attribute that is their weak point.

Take ‹Water Attribute› for an example, it's extremely powerful against ‹Fire Attribute› or ‹Lightning Attribute›, so forcing the ‹Lightning Attribute› boss into the ‹Poison Swamp Trap› which sort out as a ‹Water Trap› brought it's potential damage to a notch higher than normal.

And that hasn't changed in reality either.

‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› was in the state where its body was covered in lightning stripes due to ‹Charge› skill. So by pushing it into the ‹Water Trap› can give it a weak ‹Paralysis - 15~20 sec› status debuff.

The original DOT effect of the ‹Poison Swamp› was also stacked alongside and made it take huge damage.

The longer it stayed in the trap, the lesser the trap effects became, though the electric shock had also resolved the boss's ‹Charge› skill and that was what I was anticipating..

"Right now is the time, Ester, Karua!"

"‹Princess Knight Awakening›! 一一‹Long Thrust›! ‹Quick Lightning Slash›! ‹Triple Shoot›! ‹Long Thrust›! ‹Precision Thrust›! ‹Legion Charge›! ‹Long Thrust›!"

"‹Scale Break›! ‹32 Star Stream›! ‹Delta Stream›! ‹Starburst Tornado›! ‹StarBurst • Rain Edge›! ‹Twin Cat Scratches›!"

"Don't forget I'm here too! ‹Shining Sabre of Sacred Light›! ‹Rise of the Divine Tree›! ‹Light Blade›! ‹Divine Pillar›!"

"Great, you guys caused a knockback effect! ‹Brave Heart›! ‹Sonic Sword›! ‹Brave Slash›! ‹Lightning Slash›! ‹Quick Strike›!"

"Late but here I'm, ‹Shogun's Burst›! ‹Flame Slash›! ‹Lightning Slash›! ‹Ice Strike›! ‹Flash Point›! ‹Dark Swipe›!"

"Howwwwl!!"

HP was guzzling down in the blink of an eye as everyone mounted their attacks one after another.

Not long after, ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› finally freed itself out of the ‹Poison Swamp› and however by that time, its HP had already been reduced to 30% with the combination of our all-out onslaught and DOT.

Rika was once again back to her flawless tank role when there was no more ‹Charging› skill buff over the boss, and kept the battle in equilibrium. We also succeeded in cancelling the ‹Charge› skill that the boss tried to activate from the second time onwards.

We almost had a close encounter when the boss's HP had reached the red zone but Rika was somehow able to respond to the agile movements.

"Hn, and that's end, ‹StarBurst • Rain Edge›!"

"Howw......ww... lll!"

And in the end, ‹Electric Bear-cum-Squirrel› HP succumbed to zero under Karua's continuous slash attacks that fell down like the raindrops one after another.

A formidable enemy it was, it met it demise, sank into sea of effect and left behind 一一 four gold chest in its place.