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Chapter 308: Stress, Mid Boss · Sep 30, 2026

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301 Chapter 301: Lord Chat, Unlucky? 2026-09-30
302 Chapter 302: Announcement To All Citizens, Hell Difficulty Tutorial Dungeon 2026-09-30
303 Chapter 303: Vale’s Sorrow 2026-09-30
304 Chapter 304: Former Vice Leader Of A Top Guild, Dreamy 2026-09-30
305 Chapter 305: Information About Dungeons 2026-09-30
306 Chapter 306: Illusive Sword Technique Copied, Glass Phantoms 2026-09-30
307 Chapter 307: Which Path To Choose, Strolling Like On A Picnic 2026-09-30
308 Chapter 308: Stress, Mid Boss 2026-09-30
309 Chapter 309: Dangerous Monster (?), Genius Isla 2026-09-30
310 Chapter 310: Clones, Overwhelming Rewards 2026-09-30
311 Chapter 311: Conditions To Upgrade The System, Shocking Truth 2026-09-30
312 Chapter 312: Materials, Materials, And Materials 2026-09-30
313 Chapter 313: Planning Trade, Harvest’s Overwhelming Results 2026-09-30
314 Chapter 314: Skill Level Up, Genes, Seed Imprinting 2026-09-30
315 Chapter 315: New Races, Fortified City 22, World Tree 2026-09-30
316 Chapter 316: Barter Exchange Rate, Shocking The Crowds in Fortified City 22 2026-09-30
317 Chapter 317: Impatient Devil 2026-09-30
318 Chapter 318: Punishing The Maid And Teaching Her Gratitude 2026-09-30
319 Chapter 319: New Wife Candidate, Confronting Professor Catherine 2026-09-30
320 Chapter 320: Wait, Materials Gathered 2026-09-30
321 Chapter 321: Building Sky Dome And City Wall, Nagas, Letter From Seventh Queen 2026-09-30
322 Chapter 322: Altered Future, Danger Coming 2026-09-30
323 Chapter 323: New Summons, SSS Rank Wind Sovereign 2026-09-30
324 Chapter 324: Cause Of Destruction, Looking For A Solution 2026-09-30
325 Chapter 325: I Can Easily Take Care Of It 2026-09-30
326 Chapter 326: Verdant Baitseed, Tomorrow’s Appointment 2026-09-30
327 Chapter 327: Our Past Together 2026-09-30
328 Chapter 328: When You Lied To Me 2026-09-30
329 Chapter 329: To You.... That I Wanted 2026-09-30
330 Chapter 330: To You... That I Forget 2026-09-30
331 Chapter 331: To You... That I Hold Now 2026-09-30
332 Chapter 332: A Goal 2026-09-30
333 Chapter 333: Two Can Play At The Same Game 2026-09-30
334 Chapter 334: Sword Empress’ Warning, Being Seduced By The Fox 2026-09-30
335 Chapter 335: I’m Going To Do It Today Itself 2026-09-30
336 Chapter 336: Catherine’s Confession 2026-09-30
337 Chapter 337: My Strange Family 2026-09-30
338 Chapter 338: Making A Deal With An Overlord 2026-09-30
339 Chapter 339: Upgrade Frenzy, First Transcendence-rank Skill, New Wife 2026-09-30
340 Chapter 340: Life Is Not A Game, Tears 2026-09-30
341 Chapter 341: Sharing Three Level 10 Skills, Isaac’s Misery 2026-09-30
342 Chapter 342: Catherine’s Status, Lord Of Titles 2026-09-30
343 Chapter 343: Sharing Made Me Reach A Level I Never Thought Was Possible 2026-09-30
344 Chapter 344: Sharing A New Apex rank Bloodline And Physique 2026-09-30
345 Chapter 345: Holy Land 2026-09-30
346 Chapter 346: Power Of Mind Skills 2026-09-30
347 Chapter 347: Corrupted Ghosts 2026-09-30
348 Chapter 348: Sky Dome And City Wall Upgrade, Preparing Countermeasures Against Mother 2026-09-30
349 Chapter 349: Black-Hearted Isaac 2026-09-30
350 Chapter 350: Quest To Become A God, Sharing Alice’s Skills 2026-09-30

Chapter 308: Stress, Mid Boss

”Stress,” Isla said simply. ”Dungeons aren’t only about fighting enemies. They test your patience and teamwork.

”Think about it, haven’t we been thinking like this...

”How long do we need to walk? How many more monsters before we reach the boss? What if we’re in the wrong corridor?

”What if monsters attack from behind while we’re lost? All those questions wear you down. That’s how they test you.”

She paused, then glanced toward Isaac.

”We were lucky. Lord Isaac handled every monster without trouble. Because of that, we never really felt that stress.”

Isaac didn’t respond immediately, but he nodded once.

He understood what she meant.

The dungeon was meant to grind down both strength and mind, yet for them, the fights had been more like a walk.

They rested briefly before moving closer to the door.

The surface shimmered faintly when they approached, like ripples on water.

Isaac turned to the group. ”You all stay outside the room and watch from there.”

Warn frowned. ”Are you sure? We can at least support you from behind.”

Isaac shook his head. ”The barrier will block everything once the fight starts. It’s safer that way.”

He was right.

Once the mid-boss room was activated, a transparent wall would replace the door.

The monster couldn’t leave, and those outside couldn’t interfere. Even sound wouldn’t pass through.

They nodded reluctantly.

Isaac gripped his sword and pushed the door open.

The air inside was heavier, charged with mana that hummed through his bones.

He took a single step in, then another.

Behind him, the others stayed by the threshold, their figures reflected countless times on the mirrored walls.

The light from the corridor dimmed as the opened door was replaced by invisible walls.

Isaac stopped just inside the chamber and looked around. The silence was unnaturally still, like the dungeon itself was holding its breath.

A faint vibration passed through the floor.

Something was waking up.

He raised his sword, the blade gleaming with Dark Lightning Aura.

The light it gave off reflected against the mirrored walls, scattering shadows in every direction.

A tall, humanoid being emerged in the center of the chamber.

Its face was smooth glass with smoky tendrils swirling inside.

The lower half of its body faded into dark mist, floating just above the ground.

Surrounding it were several armored knights with reflective armor, each one holding a longsword made of fractured crystal.

The knights moved first.

They rushed toward Isaac, metal feet clanging against the mirrored floor.

Isaac stepped forward, calm and steady.

He swung his sword once, cutting down the first two with minimal effort.

The attack was clean. Too clean.

The moment their bodies shattered, each knight split into two smaller versions of itself.

Their armor looked thinner, but their speed increased.

He exhaled quietly and shifted his stance.

The smaller ones charged again, slashing at him from different directions.

Isaac barely moved.

He tilted his head slightly to the side, dodging a blade by a hair’s breadth, then stepped left to avoid another.

His sword flashed again.

The same thing happened.

The cut knights split again into even smaller versions.

”So they divide every time they’re cut,” Isaac muttered.

The chamber began filling with more of them.

Each time he destroyed one, two more appeared, though weaker than before.

The mirrored floor rippled slightly as the monsters summoned faint, translucent barriers around him.

He could tell they were trying to trap him.

He touched one of the invisible walls and felt resistance, then simply walked through it.

His physical stats were high enough to ignore such restrictions entirely.

Finally, after the tenth split, the smaller knights stopped dividing.

Isaac narrowed his eyes.

”Looks like now I can kill them.”

This time, when he swung his sword, the shards scattered and vanished.

Mirror Sentinel (Elite Rank) Defeated

Drop: 2 Silver Coins, EXP

As soon as the last one fell, the tall, floating figure—the boss monster—moved.

Its glass face turned toward Isaac.

The air in the room changed, growing thick and heavy.

Its gaze locked on him, and for a moment, his body froze.

He couldn’t move.

’It paralyzed me,’ Isaac realized, watching as the creature’s smoky lower half flared with energy.

The boss dashed forward.

Its arm, long and distorted like liquid glass, swung down with enough force to crush stone.

The impact filled the chamber with dust and shockwaves, shaking the mirrored walls.

When the dust settled, Isaac stood unmoved. Not a scratch on him.

He looked at the monster calmly.

”I guess this really is a tutorial dungeon,” he said, brushing his shoulder as if wiping away dust. ”A direct hit from the mid-boss feels like a tickle.”

The boss twitched, almost as if insulted.

It jumped back and raised its arm again.

Flames gathered around its palm, forming into a glowing spear that pulsed with heat.

’That’s the Flame of Judgment skill I copied from Alice. So it can copy my skills too.’

While the boss charged its attack, Isaac was already cutting down the remaining Mirror Sentinels that had reappeared.

When the boss finally threw the spear, he dodged sideways.

The spear struck the floor, exploding into waves of flame.

Isaac glanced at it briefly. ’I could block it, but there’s no point in being stupid and taking it head-on.’

The fight continued.

For the next thirty minutes, Isaac kept dodging and observing.

The boss mixed physical attacks with copied skills.

Its movements grew sharper with every exchange.

The mirrored walls around them pulsed whenever it absorbed light from its surroundings, suggesting some kind of field control.

By the end of that time, Isaac had cleared every Mirror Sentinel and fully understood how the boss fought.

’It can copy one of my attack-type skills every thirty seconds.’

’It can use a Paralyzing Gaze every minute.’

’And it can detonate the mirrors in the room for area damage.’

Once he was confident, he made his move.

The boss lunged again, its smoky body twisting like a whirlpool.

Isaac dodged its arm, stepped forward, and leaped.

His body moved in a smooth arc until he was at the creature’s head level.

Instead of swinging his sword, he simply slapped the back of his hand against its head, as if swatting a mosquito.

The impact was quiet, but the result wasn’t.

The boss’s upper body exploded into shards and smoke.

Mirror Wraith (Mid-Boss, Elite Rank) Defeated

Drop: 50 Silver Coins, Aether Glass ×10, Binding Crystals ×10, EXP

”Oh? The drops are nice,” Isaac said, lowering his hand.

He looked at the small pile of glowing items floating in front of him.

The Aether Glass and Binding Crystals were valuable.

He needed both for building Sky Dome later.

With the boss gone, the invisible barrier that had been sealing the door vanished.

The mirrored air shimmered faintly, and then the door opened.

Celia was the first to rush in.

”Isaac! That was a nice fight!” she said, practically beaming as she jogged up to him.

Beatrice, Isla, and Warn followed behind more slowly.

Their expressions carried a mix of awe and fear.

”That... was the mid-boss, right?” Warn asked, his voice uncertain.

”It was,” Isaac replied.

He began explaining what he had learned about the Mirror Sentinels and the Mirror Wraith, their division mechanic, the boss’s skill-copying, and the paralysis timing.

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