The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1121: Big Backed Sorts

[Are you two idiots done arguing yet?]

[He Started it.]

[She started it.]

Karl shook his head in dismay, but the overkill area effects stopped, and the rest of the team was able to join the fight without having to squint through a snowstorm to find the enemy.

”They actually did quite a bit of damage to the Myceloids alone.” Don noted as the healers moved into position to top off the Undead Army.

”Yeah, those spells use a huge amount of mana, but the burst damage is unparalleled. Not many classes can output area damage that will keep up with Epic attack abilities.” Karl agreed.

The Cleric sighed. ”If only more damage dealers had skills on that level, we might not ever have to struggle with enrage timers again.

But speaking of that, we’ve got another one on this boss, but it’s a progressive enrage timer. He gets more powerful every five seconds. But there is one special mechanic. He will target someone for elimination, and once he focuses on them, they have to run or risk getting squished in a single shot if they’re not the tank.

Even if they are the tank, it’s better to run because the boss deals a huge amount of bonus damage to the targeted member.

If that one dies, or the timer expires, he will pick another one, but it resets the enrage timer, so that’s something. However, he won’t pick summoned creatures or Golems. It has been tested.”

Karl nodded. ”I think that we might be able to deal with that more easily than even the spores. Not that Hawk isn’t having fun burning spores. I haven’t seen him this happy in quite some time.”

The rest of the group wasn’t sure that happy was the word that they would use. The bird was attacking the spores as if they had personally insulted his mother. But Karl knew better.

That was happy Hawk.

”Alright, Karl, you’re up. The boss hits like a truck, and it is an area attack, so only one tank in front of him is best.” Steve instructed.

”Don, Reggie, are you ready?” Karl asked.

”Go on, Monster Man. Let’s see you work.”

Karl transformed into the Avatar of the World Dragon and charged into combat, then choke slammed the boss and began punching him in the face.

”He learned that from the badger, guaranteed.” Don laughed.

”One hundred percent. Deve’s wife did it to me one time.” Reggie agreed.

Cara smirked. She was going to be good friends with this badger woman, she was sure of it. It was just a shame that she hadn’t had more time to taunt Deve.

The boss rolled over with surprising agility and strength, then began to glow with a bright red light.

[NOPE!]

The boss’ enrage effect faded, and Karl wasn’t sure who was more confused. The group or the boss.

Cara was flying overhead laughing. Mythic Ranked [Nullify] was so much fun. More damage would have been great, but an extra Rank of [Nullify] was the all-around most entertaining option.

The warriors might not understand why the boss wasn’t enraged, but they weren’t going to question good luck, and they joined Karl in his efforts to dismember the massive Myceloid before it could reactivate its effect.

But it wasn’t in a hurry to enrage.

Instead, a beacon appeared over Cara’s head, and the Badger laughed as she flew straight into the monster’s face and clawed it before flying away and letting Karl block its advance.

”If I didn’t know better, I would say that the boss was actually mad. Not enrage effect affected, but MAD.” Reggie whispered to Cindy as Karl wrestled with the boss, holding it in place as Cara taunted it from ten metres away.

The other cleric nodded. ”For a shambling pile of mushrooms, it looks positively murderous. I wonder if that is some sort of special ability of the Chaos Badger species?”

Cindy and Don considered that. No, they didn’t think that it was an actual skill. The Chaos Badger’s personality was just perfectly suited to making people want to murder her. They could only imagine what it would be like trying to live with her after you got on her bad side.

There was a chance that Karl could keep her under control, but he didn’t seem all that interested in stopping petty squabbles and practical jokes until they actually interfered with someone’s work.

With a mighty heave, Karl tossed the boss to the ground, and the floor shook.

”Aren’t bosses supposed to be immune to status effects?” Cindy asked.

”Normally, yes. But it looks like if you use a big enough dragon, it is actually possible to knock them down. Look, it’s already getting up, though. It still totally ignores the other attempts to keep it down or stun it.”

”Maybe it’s not about a skill. What if you need the raw physical strength to overpower the boss?” Cindy suggested.

The Clerics considered that.

Smaller bosses usually had a skill or mechanism that triggered when you tried to trap them, and they always found a way not to get pinned, but there were some that you could knock down. They just didn’t get the status effect from being stunned or frozen that you would normally suffer when you were knocked down by a skill.

”We can study that later. First, increase the attack rate, or our allies are going to accuse us of slacking.”

Just as Reggie spoke, the boss suddenly glowed red and changed targets, creating a targeted enemy effect on one of the warriors.

The boss moved shockingly quickly, now that Karl wasn’t between it and its target, and the warrior took an overhand blow that knocked his axe from his hands and crushed him to the ground.

Rae turned a leg and flung the wounded warrior across the room, out of the way of the next strike. It bought enough time for Don and Reggie to heal him back up, but the man was still groggy as the boss chased him and shrugged off Karl’s efforts to restrain it again.

But it was nearly dead, and with a [Shadow Step] relocation of the targeted warrior to the other side of the boss fight area again, Rae bought the group enough time to finish it off.

{Dungeon Complete} Calculating Rewards.