assistirfilmes Chapter 45
Chapter 45
The HP of the second boss, Lion Balgar, was beyond comprehension.
There were no special gimmick structures in the battle area.
Chris' raid party had no choice but to confront it head-on.
"The boss's attack patterns are faster than expected!"
Deathmaster was barely keeping up with Balgar's rapid attacks, struggling to counter them. The ranged dealers hesitated to deal too much damage, fearing that they might draw aggro.
Balgar charged forward with his massive body, swinging his heavy fists in quick succession. His legs, firmly planted in place, did not move.
"We need to observe the situation until Deathmaster gets used to the patterns!"
Chris moved swiftly, surveying the entire battlefield with sharp eyes. With an HP pool that large, it would take a while to reach the special phase, assuming there was one.
Time-based patterns? HP-triggered patterns? It would only become clear as the fight progressed.
*Whoosh!*
Balgar extended his fists to either side and spun his massive body.
His enormous, rock-like fists, propelled by the momentum of his spin, swept across the surrounding area.
"Gasp!"
Deathmaster's eyes flashed with determination.
As Balgar’s fists approached him, Deathmaster moved fluidly, positioning his hands above and below, ready to counter.
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[Counter (B)]
[Counter the enemy's attack]
[(B-rank) Successful counter within 0.5 seconds grants 1 second of invulnerability]
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*Wham! Wham! Wham!*
Deathmaster perfectly timed his counter for Balgar’s first rotation. Balgar spun two more times, but the invulnerability from the counter negated the damage.
Immediately after, Deathmaster landed powerful punches on Balgar’s body, taking advantage of the boss’s exposed openings.
*Boom! Boom!*
Chris let out a sound of admiration.
"Perfect guard!"
Deathmaster had flawlessly earned the perfect guard advantage despite the synchronization penalty that burdened him.
"It's just like real boxing. You need to judge even the smallest distances and time everything perfectly."
*Boom! Boom!*
Deathmaster continued to weave around Balgar, delivering punches left and right.
Chris' raid party's reliable tank, the fighter Deathmaster, was using the perfect guard mechanic to his full advantage.
"All that reckless training paid off, huh?"
Chris chuckled, remembering Deathmaster’s extreme training methods.
Now that Deathmaster had switched from defense to offense, the other damage dealers could unleash their attacks more freely. Both Cherni and Beimerung began to pour out their skills without restraint.
*Crash! Boom!*
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[Second Boss]
[Lion Balgar]
[HP 19,000,541/20,000,000]
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With the combined firepower of the party, Balgar's HP began to drop rapidly.
Then, when Balgar’s HP had dropped by 5%, the first significant change occurred in the battlefield.
*Clank.*
Chris quickly turned her head toward the sound.
On the wall of the tower, a massive gear protruded.
*Whirrr!*
The gear began spinning rapidly.
*Boom!*
At that moment, Beimerung launched a fireball at the gear. Chris gave Beimerung a thumbs up.
"Nice one, Beimerung!"
"Dribbling, right? I could tell just by looking!"
With the experience of dribbling the Galovan spheres in the *Demon Army Outpost*, Beimerung reacted immediately. If the gear had moved toward the tank, Deathmaster would have been in serious trouble.
*Whirrr!*
The gear now moved toward Beimerung. She expertly led the massive gear away from the other party members while still dealing damage to Balgar.
When Balgar’s HP reached 90%, a second gear emerged from the wall.
"My turn now!"
*Boom!*
Cherni responded instantly and began dribbling the second gear.
Shortly after, a third gear appeared, and Chris took responsibility for it.
The three ranged DPS members, seasoned from countless dungeon runs, continued to dribble the gears while maintaining their relentless assault on Balgar.
Balgar's HP dropped to 80% before long.
*Crash!*
Just as the fourth gear appeared, the first one, which Beimerung had been handling, shattered against the wall. Its durability had run out after pursuing Beimerung for so long.
"A kind of time attack, then."
Deathmaster nodded. Beimerung looked uncertain as she asked.
"None of the bosses we’ve fought so far had a pattern like that, though."
Chris shook her head.
"Not exactly. Think of the second boss in *Demon’s Tomb* or *Galovan* in the *Outpost*."
"True. The longer the fight went on, the harder it became."
The *Demon’s Tomb* second boss had statues of knights that slowly came to life, and *Galovan* filled the battlefield with magic mines the longer the fight went on.
As the fight dragged on, the battlefield became more restrictive, monsters piled up, and eventually, the battle became impossible to win.
"Even though a four-person party can handle it, those were technically forms of a berserk phase."
Beimerung stomped her feet in frustration.
"So, what do we do?"
"It’s one of two things. Either we missed something, or we simply don’t have enough DPS."
"If we hadn’t wasted time adapting to the early patterns, maybe we could’ve pushed through."
But when the boss went berserk, it had over 40% of its HP left. Could they really burn through 40% more with just extra effort?
Chris shook her head.
If their DPS wasn’t enough, no party would be able to clear it.
"There’s definitely a gimmick to reduce its HP. I have some ideas. We’ll need to test a few things."
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[Second Boss]
[Lion Balgar]
[HP 3,553,007/20,000,000]
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*Wham! Wh
am! Wham!*
I perfectly guarded against the first rotation, blocked the second, and countered during the third spin.
*Whirr!*
I glanced in the direction of the sound. A massive gear was whizzing toward me. I turned my body slightly, narrowly avoiding it.
"Graaaagh!"
The gear grazed Balgar, tearing into its body.
Balgar was now covered in red wounds, his entire body bathed in blood.
His once-human-like appearance was gone, now resembling nothing more than the blood-soaked monstrosity *Blood-Maw* had been.
I smirked as I watched him.
"A time attack pattern. A gimmick-based boss."
I’d cleared every dungeon solo up to this point.
I’d encountered plenty of time attack patterns before.
The moment I saw the second boss’s HP, I knew it was a gimmick fight with a time attack mechanic.
I had already figured out how to use the gears after seeing the first gear’s erratic movements.
Usually, the game’s system didn’t allow bosses to damage their minions, but there were exceptions, like *Craksa*.
So, I figured the reverse could work, and I was right.
*Crack.*
One of the gears chasing me shattered. Dodging Balgar’s fist, I sent a flying sword at the newly revealed gear.
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[Sword Technique]
[Launches a sword at an enemy within 15 meters, attacking and then retrieving it]
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*Slash! Clang!*
The damage from the flying sword wasn’t great, but it was enough to draw the gear’s attention.
The gear locked onto me and started rolling toward the line between me and Balgar.
When the gear scraped against Balgar, it left deep wounds.
I couldn’t see any debuffs, but the more cuts that appeared on his body, the faster his HP dropped.
*Whirr!*
Three gears spun furiously, heading toward me simultaneously.
I dodged the first one, used a counter on the second, and when the third one approached, I used *Flash Step* to dash to the opposite side, slicing through Balgar as I went.
"Graaaagh!"
With a pained roar, Balgar spun three more times in rapid succession.
*Clang-clang-clang!*
I blocked them all on the spot.
At this point, I didn’t even need to rely on my own damage to win.
There was no need to aim for perfect guards or even counterattacks; all I had to do was dodge the gears.
Balgar’s HP was now dropping by hundreds of thousands per second.
I grinned at the sight of his pitiful, battered form.
"I don’t even have to hit you anymore."