Braag was caught up in his excitement as his fmethrower destroyed the eggs before him. Suddenly though he shivered. He felt as if death was staring at him.
Not far away the queen’s eyes were transfixed on the dwarf, shimmering with emotion. An enormous amount of mana was suddenly gathering on its body, causing the entire cave to shake.
Red lines appeared in the air. The party wasn’t given much time. Suddenly a pilr of solid rock burst out of the floor. It shot into the air until f a e between floor and ceiling.
Braag was standing right in its trajectory. Caught up in his task of destroying eggs he celed his skill too te.
“Ah!”
With a pained shout the dwarf was hit by the rock pilr, crashing into a nearby wall.
[-932!]
Close to half ’s HP were gone in an instant.
The sudden ge iuation caught the party off-guard. Balm quickly twirled her wand. A fortable magic fell as she used her regeion.
But the moment Final Fend cursed angrily. The young man had mao dodge oack, only to run headfirst into the . At least he was less miserable than Braag, only getting pushed away by the rock pilr.
[-951!]
“No!”
A distressed shout echoed through the cave. It came from Bloody Edge. He and Watchful Eye quickly noticed that more thaack targeted them.
Without hesitation they directly jumped from the ptform only to be greeted by even more rock pilrs. Watchful Eye was still alright, managing to weave between them.
But Bloody Edge was hit heavily in the back, getting bounced away like a tennis ball.
[-1180!]
Silver Bde watched the chaotic se with a heavy heart. She realized that the skill simply moved too fast, giving the pyers little time to react.
The difficulty had obviously increased pared to previous fights. All she could do now was to use her skill [Aura ed Prote], to try and mitigate some damage.
Balm was flustered as well, not knowing who to heal first. Usually she would alrefer tanks, but the ant queen was a strange boss.
Sihe beginning it hadn’t moved from its ptform, thus giving the tanks little to do. Eventually she decided to use her [Holy Strike].
A bright spear appeared above the Queen’s head, striking down fiercely. Immediately a wave of holy magic spread, returning some HP to the allies.
[+299!]x7
Multiple visions miraculously apahe skill. Momentarily a geous, white wing fshed behind Final Fend and Silver Bde as the effect of robe of the sacred wing triggered.
Final Fend was granted another 300HP while Silver Bde received a shield blog 300 points of damage.
At the same time white spheres of mana desded into the bodies and Fortune granting them bonus STR, INT, and AGI.
This was the effect of Balm’s passive [Boon of Life] which triggered with every third heal.
Fortune’s eyes lit up brightly. She felt the rerength c through her body.
“Nice, perfect timing, Balm!”
The mage excimed excitedly as mana trated at the tip of her staff. Instantly the first are bolt raced through the air, smming fiercely into the queen.
At least it would if not for the shield appearing at the st sed.
A heavy tremor ran through the solid rock. Cracks appeared on the shield’s surface.
“Nice! Keep going Fortune!”
“You don’t o tell me.”, answered the female mage, looking at the still appearing rock pilrs with worry.
She didn’t dare to take her time, quickly finishitack. However, the accuracy suffered under her hurry.
The sed and third bolt missed directly. However, after the fifth bolt the party members watched in joy as the first shield finally broke.
In the meahe party regained some stability. Fog on the rock pilrs and warning each other they mao avoid further damage.
Until Fortune’s sixth are bolt nded on the sed shield. This was the moment when a red line appeared, pierg right through the mage’s body.
Fortune shook. She gritted her teeth, quickly releasing atack. However, with her mind disturbed it went wide, posing no threat to the ant queen.
“Ah!”
A startled scream could be heard. Fortune was catapulted by the erupting pilr. Silver Bde flinched as she watched the geous woman flying helplessly through the air. Her flight was quickly stopped by the ceiling apanied by a painful thud before she crashed into the floor.
[-1123!]
At the same time the buff brought by Balm’s passive receded as well. Fortune’s HP were back to normal. But with the si more than 50% were gone in an instant.
Balm pted for a moment whether to use her heal on Fortune. But at this moment the queen’s skill finally ended.
The rock pilrs disappeared, and the queen id down her body, looking exhausted.
“Dare to throw me around? Taste this!”
Braag was embarrassed by his unsightly appearance earlier. But his emotions quickly turned into aowards the queen, giving him an outlet to vent.
With a thought his ultimate skill [Blessing of Wealth] instantly activated. An illusolden appeared behind his back, rotating slowly. It emitted a sacred aura as if it was the truth of the world.
A panel popped up before Braag’s eyes.
>>> <<<
Name:
Braag the Virtuous
Level:
16
Race:
Mountain Dwarf
Css:
Missionary of Wealth
Primary Attributes:
STR:
30
INT:
28
AGI:
5
HP:
2176/2176
Mana:
96/164
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>>> <<<
>>> <<<
Sedary Attributes:
PRES:
10
MRES:
7
DEX:
40
ST:
18
HASTE:
15
SRC:
3
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>>> <<<
God of Wealth's Favor:
127
Braag’s ultimate allowed him tthen his attributes depending on his curreh. With 254 silver s to his name, he could spend 127 points.
Very much to the dwarf’s distress, however, this ability was capped at ten times his current level.
Without thinking much about it Braag tapped on DEX, putting all his points into the dexterity stat. This was the attribute pying the highest role in increasing his damage output.
The behind his back sped up, shining a sacred light on the dwarf.
“Take this, stupid monster!”
Braag shouted excitedly. [Big Berta] had already e off cooldown. His uncher’s muscles bulge, spitting out the terrifyingly rge bomb.
Bloody Edge was just about to approach the queen ant again when he felt something behind his back. Gng over his shoulder, his body suddenly trembled.
“Are you crazy?”
Swearing at Braag, the thief hastily built up some distance.
Boom!
[-2533!]
A deafening explosion shook the entire cave. Cracks spread through the rock. Dust rained down, itg everyohroats.
Unfortunately f, though, the Queen’s shield was still there to protect her. The massive damage was borne by it, causing it to burst into pieces.
“Nice!”
Fortune shouted excitedly. She loved to put such ses in her videos. If it to her a video couldn’t have enough explosions.
But Silver Bde was no less excited. Finally, there was no obstacle left. It was time to sy the boss.
Her thoughts were mirrored iher’s as. Fortune, Bloody Edge, Watchful Eye, Final Fend, Balm… everyone instantly moved, attag at the same time.
Attacks rained down on the queen ant.
With a st twitch of her body the boss monster finally colpsed. Her eyes closed and silence fell on the cave.
“Finally did it!”, excimed Balm.
“Good job guys! This might be the most difficult boss so far!”
“You’re only half right, sis. It’s also because we are short of three people.”
“Makes se the same time, you and me couldn’t py a rge role sihe queen never moved to attack.”
A few steps could be heard as everyohered around Silver Bde. Fortune added her evaluation:
“The biggest credit goes t. If he didn’t have a good way to destroy those eggs the fight could’ve taken forever.”
“I’m curious if the queen could’ve used that shield skill again.”
Everyone shivered thinking about this possibility.
“Maybe we should take care of more pleasant matters. Braag, why don’t you loot the queen?”
“Only the queen?”, asked Balm puzzledly. But looking past Silver Bde she noticed that the attendant’s bodies had va some points.
“That’s stingy…”
“Well, it would be quite the loophole. Or else we could force the queen to spawn endless minions for us to harvest.”, chuckled Fortune.
Braag was already close to the queen when he heard Fortune’s words. While reag out his ha out a sigh:
“Sounds like a dream.”
Quickly the boss’s body disappeared. A bunch of loot fell int’s iory.
However, fusion could be seen on his face wheared at the item in his hand bathed in a deep green light with occasional flickers of yellow.
A moment ter aed grin formed ’s face.
The others noticed the strange sight as well. Not feeling like teasing them, Braag quickly posted the item into the party chat:
