The battle afterwards proceeded just as I had expected, we're slowly but surely shaving the HP of the field boss.
Soon, we found an opening.
"â¹Sword Attribute - Fireâº! â¹Sonic Swordâº!"
"â¹Delta Streamâº!"
"â¹Divine Pillarâº!"
"â¹Quick Slashâº!"
"Gyaaaaa!!"
"Hn, chance. â¹Vital Stabâº!"
"Kyuus!?"
We pushed the â¹Electro-Fox⺠to knockdown status soon after we took our formation and began our barrage of attacks while it was focusing on weaving its attack toward Rika.
Karua followed with a â¹Vital Stab⺠in a heartbeat.
â¹Vital Stab⺠comes with the high critical chance effect when the opponent is under knockdown status, or recovering from the delay that occurred after using a skill.
â¹Vital Stab⺠did its work by causing a critical hit and pushing the â¹Electro-Charged Fox⺠into down status.
That was the chance for us.
"Nice one, Karua! Blast it out, everyone! â¹Brave Heartâº! â¹Brave Swordâº! â¹Lightning Swordâº!"
"â¹Scale Breakâº! â¹Starburst ⢠Rain Edgeâº! â¹32 Star Stream⺠â¹Star Burst Tornadoâº!"
"â¹Shining Sabre of the Sacred Lightâº! â¹Rise of the Sacred Treeâº! â¹Light Bladeâº!"
"â¹Long Thrustâº! â¹Precision Thrustâº! â¹Triple Shootâº! â¹Legion Chargeâº! â¹Long Thrustâº!"
"There's still me, â¹Battle Focusâº! â¹Shogun's Burstâº! â¹Flame Slashâº! â¹Ice Strikeâº!"
"Gyaaaaaaa!!"
We didn't miss our chance to take advantage of the boss' first down status and greeted it with our full firepower.
This sure does cause some serious damage. Looking at how the HP bar was gradually decreasing really uplifted my spirit.
Rika, who was assigned to garner â¹Electro-Foxâº's hatred, also joined in the end and followed with her fierce onslaught, looking like she wanted to end the boss right there.
The boss was, unfortunately, out of his down status not long after.
"Gggrrryaaaaaa!!!"
"It has entered Rage Mode! Everyone, retreat at once!"
Like usual, Intermediate dungeons boss entered rage mode when its HP was reduced to red zone which would last for 3 minutes and give a buff to its STR and AGI, increasing it by 1.5 times.
There's no telling when a mistake could be made, and the boss's powerful attack forced anyone to be out of commission, so the best way to deal with it was to take distance and study its pattern.
We just have to wait until everyone is accustomed to its speed, and then make our move. There was no need to act rashly when it was just a matter of time before the boss fell.
"Grrrr!"
"! Boss' about to release a large AoE attack! Put on the protection barrier, Lana! Ester, resist it with a defensive stance!"
"Got it, â¹Holy Protection Barrierâº!"
The incoming AoE attack basically encompasses everyone with no chance to evade it.
We just have to endure this wave of attacks.
Lana immediately propped a barrier in front of herself at my instructions. â¹Holy Protection Barrier⺠was a defence magic effective against magic attack.
It has a long cooldown but conversely speaking, the defence magic was worth it value.
"â¹Extreme Speedâº! Barely on time."
Karua barely made her escape in the due time. As expected of the agility master â¹Starcatâº.
The only one who had tough was Ester so I ordered her to resist. Meanwhile, Rika and I activated our respective defence skills at the same time as the boss released its AoE attack.
"GGGRRRAAAWWWRRR!!!"
"â¹Defenseâº!"
"â¹Cloneâº!"
Electro-Fox intensely shook its tail, and then released waves of lightning like my â¹Shine Lightningâº. The only difference was that it was aimed at everyone.
Lightning struck us like the tsunami. It had a significant impact, in my opinion.
I wonder if the person on the receiving end of my â¹Shine Lightning⺠also felt the same. An out-of-place thought occurred to me.
I defended with my defence skill while Rika used an evade skill to shift the damage.
I quickly looked around once the attack was over to confirm the situation.
Rika was unharmed due to her skill. Lana and Karua also didn't receive damage under the protection barrier. That leaves behind Ester, who had to bear the brunt directly; she was ä¸ä¸.
ä¸ä¸She was on the ground in her spot.
Paralysis icon was shining on her HP bar.
"Paralyse! Lana, â¹Refreshâº!"
"â¹Wishä¸ä¸âº"
"Gyaaaa!!"
However, the â¹Electro-Fox⺠was one step faster than Lana, as its target had shifted to Ester, who was down from abnormal status.
The worst is we don't even have Sierra, who could have used her â¹Absolute Charm Shield⺠skill.
"â¹ä¸ä¸Refreshâº!"
Lana's â¹Wish Refresh⺠enveloped Ester, curing her of her paralysis aliment, although the field boss was already on the move with its attack, and it was hard to tell if Ester would be able to dodge the attack as soon as she got up.
The â¹Electro-Fox⺠rapidly shrank its tail, and just as I wondered what it was, it rushed towards Ester while releasing lightning from behind. Don't tell me it's â¹Thunder Rocket Thrustâº, a high-power charge skill! The lightning releasing from its tail was like the propulsion of a rocket. It was an immensely powerful move, and at the same time its ultimate move!
I didn't expect the field boss to use it at this point.
There wasn't much distance between Ester, who had just taken an attack, and the field boss. Not to say its AGI had been raised to 1.5 times of original in rage mode.
Ester rolled on the ground and tried to dodge, but Boss was faster than her unfortunately.
However, someone slipped in there to save the day.
"You have the nerve to ignore me, huh. Prepare for the consequences!"
It was Rika.
It seemed like she was able to make it in time since she was closer to Ester than me.
She propped her twin blades, her sharp as a knife gaze pointing at the field boss.
At this moment, she very much looked like a huntress 0n her hunt.
"Haaaaa! unique skill, â¹Twin Swallow Flipâº!"
Crash, and what followed afterwards was a loud sound like the two behemoth crashing into each other along with the effect of Sakura petals dancing.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaah!!!?
Electro-Charge Fox's painful cries echoed.
That was Rika's counter-type unique skill, which can be unlocked at the 3rd level of â¹Warrior Princess⺠skill tree ä¸ä¸â¹Twin Swallow Flipâº.
It being countertype skill make it a difficult skill but it was a trong skill if pulled at correct timing.
It was one heck of a ridiculous skill with effects like damage ignored by the opponent at succesfull parry, immense damage, a knockback effect, and above all, adding N% of the opponent's power to their own unique skill.
In other words, the field boss not only took the huge damage from Rika's counterattack, it also received the brunt of its own attack.
The knock-back effect caused it to bend backwards, with its front leg completely straight up and stiffened.
The field bossâ HP bar began to guzzle rapidly under the direct damage of its charged attack in rage mode, and soon it turned zero.
"Ga... Gya ........a....??"
Together with a befuddled cry as if it doesn't understand what just happened, it disappeared into the sea of its own effect.