The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1720 Boar Boss

Oathbreaker vanished and then appeared in front of the boss, while two more copies appeared in front of the boars and began herding them to the side of the clearing, where they wouldnʼt be in the way of the main fight.

”Everyone forward. I will take the boss. He doesnʼt hold aggro well.” Alix, the Avenger, ordered.

The demons were doing a pretty good job of holding the boss for now, but they set all the area damage spells and started to attack, it began to turn away from the demons, distracted by the damage to its back.

Oathbreaker didnʼt have a taunt type skill, so the Avenger used his and pulled its attention forward, then moved to let the Demons [Auto Parry] do the hard work for him.

It was a brilliant technique, at least at first.

Then, Cara got bored.

She dive-bombed the bossʼ face, and while her claws did a wonderful job of tearing out the creatureʼs eyes, that also made it impossible for the boss to track the tanks.

So, it started throwing attacks at whatever made noise, or what direction it was being attacked from.

Elder Socrate laughed as he realized what had happened, and wondered how it had never happened to their group before. Plenty of warriors attacked the face, going for the extra damage, but heʼd never seen the boss blinded before, unless that was an effect of Caraʼs attacks.

”Dammit. Dodge those, theyʼre going to hit hard.” The Alchemy Elder complained.

”Relax, itʼs not that bad. We spread an Eternal Lightning barrier and Limited Invulnerability to everyone. The healing totems should be enough, just keep up the damage, and we will try to ping pong him between attackers.” Karl replied.

”How is that going to work?” Socrate asked as he dodged a wave of blade energy.

Thor laughed and transformed, then punt kicked the boss across the clearing.

Now, it had no idea what it was supposed to be attacking, or what had hit it. It hadnʼt seen anything large enough to do that before it was blinded. So, it attacked blindly at Oathbreaker, who was the first to reach him.

That kept it turned away from the group for a while as the boss gained its bearings.

It tried to parry the second time that Thor kicked it, but with the weight difference, it was a bit like a ball trying to stay on the ground through pure willpower.

The Elders laughed as quietly as they could at the proud look on the Behemothʼs scaly face.

Every time that the boss looked like it was going to get oriented again and start targeting properly, Thor would smack it with his tail, or kick it and send it flying. The constant movement, and the rolling across the ground was keeping the Boarman fully disoriented, and the damage was stacking up fast, even though their two primary damage dealers were under levelled for the instance. The damage was improving as they went, but Socrate was sure that was a skill, and not actual power progression on their part.

It was much too fast for it to be real power gain, and they had seen the same effect during the Clan War, but on a much larger scale, thanks to the War Banner.

The first to fall was one of the additional boars, followed quickly by the other.

The area damage of the fight, especially Opalʼs [Toxic Fog] was so high that they simply couldnʼt hold out any longer, even with just one demon fighting them.

That didnʼt seem to change anything during the boss fight, other than that it freed up two more Oathbreakers to dart in and out of melee combat, chopping up the boss at an incredible rate.

The boss fell, and a large purple chest appeared next to the corpse.

”Is that normal?” Karl asked.

”It is for this dungeon. Unlike some others that delay the loot until the end, this one gives you all the loot up to the boss after the boss falls,” Socrate explained. ”Nice. Now, letʼs get this open... Cara began.

The Elders thought about stopping her, but she was a badger. If anyone was likely to get interesting loot from a boss chest, it was probably her. Cara popped the latch on the chest, and a System message appeared in the air. {Accept Rewards or Randomize?}

All three Elders lunged forward to stop the badger, but it was too late.

Cara reached out and smashed the [Randomize] portion of the notification with her hand, and the chest closed before raising into the air and spinning wildly. ”Come on, lucky sevens! Mama needs new shoes”

The Elders stared at the badger, wondering what she was talking about. Her words seemed to have done something, though.

The light from the spinning chest was growing more intense, shifting from purple to gold, to a rainbow that everyone assumed was the sign of

randomization.

The rainbow-coloured chest settled back onto the ground, and Cara leaned forward reverently, inspecting the surface.

Then licked it.

The chest popped open, and blinding light burst forth for a half second before fading and revealing a single piece of treasure.

{Porcine Cleaver of Carnage} Peerless Grade, Immortal Rank two-handed blade. Deals 450% of base damage as physical damage. Increases base strength by 500 points, deals double damage to boar type enemies.

Cara cheered, and held the blade over her head in both hands.

Alix laughed and took the weapon from her, as it was twice the size of her

body.

”That is absolutely ridiculous. Double damage against boar type monsters is pretty niche, but the absolute damage that it will deal is crazy. As weʼve rolled only one item from this boss, should we put it up for draw?” The Avenger

asked.

”You can have it. Iʼm a craftsman, so Iʼll make something similar and just a bit lower in quality now that I have an idea how the abilities will work together. Some things interact more easily than others, you see.

Now, should we get prepared for the second section? It sounded like it was a

larger variety than this section.” Karl explained.

”Take five, grab a snack and a drink, and we will go. There are two types of

threats here. The Kobolds have hellhounds with them as attack dogs, while the

wolverines are a wandering threat.

You can find them anywhere, they donʼt stay in place, and they wonʼt wait for

an encounter to end before they attack, so stay on guard. Other than that, itʼs straightforward until we get to the Cerberus boss.”

”Perfect. Would you like a cupcake?”