Chapter 1862: Spatial Quake
Chapter 1862: Spatial Quake
Rae couldn’t use [Shadow Step] to move faster, as the other spiders were unable to use it. But they were insanely fast, rushing through the tunnel at over a hundred kilometres an hour, despite the somewhat cramped confines.
"Now, we go find the other one for ourselves. Do you know what one we get?"
"An Earth Golem, we think. It feels like stone magic. The team on the right is fighting a manticore, and the spiders get a giant worm."
"A manticore? I was told that it was a chimera."
The dryad shrugged, her vine whip waving. "It is a Manticore, the scorpion tail gives it away. Perhaps they’re just dumb?"
Karl couldn’t rule that out.
"Alright, we need to hurry, or the Obsession Demons and their team will beat us."
The dryads laughed at the thought, and Karl found himself grabbed by vines as the tunnels blurred around him. The dryads were just as fast as he was, and they knew where they were going, so there was no need to slow down to check for signs of the boss.
The tunnels didn’t get any smaller as they went, thought they turned to rough mining tunnels, instead of the formed walls of whatever ruined city this dungeon was based upon.
That seemed odd to Karl, as it was a waste of energy to mine more than the actual veins and a path to the next one.
And then the boss came in sight.
Fully thirty metres tall, the Earth Golem was so close to breaking through to Supremacy that Karl could feel its aura becoming unstable.
No wonder everyone struggled with this thing.
The dryads whipped out thorns to wrap up the boss, barbs tearing at the surface of the boss, while the vines tried to physically tear the Earth Golem apart.
With a rumble, the boss grabbed a handful of vines and whipped them around, causing the dryads to go flying around the room until they released the spell.
Even fourteen on one, their vines weren’t strong enough to outmatch the pure power of the Golem.
And that was what the System called it. {Earth Golem}, though Karl would have assumed that it was an Elemental, not some sort of rogue construct. This dungeon likely had some sort of lore behind it that he was unaware of, but he would look into it later.
Karl decided that he should be far enough from everyone else, so he took out the Blade of Champions and then activated [Blade of Divine Wrath] over it.
It coated the blade, creating a larger sword with the abilities of both, and the boss stumbled as the wave of [Oppression] hit it.
That gave the Dryads a chance to attack with a wave of [Thorn Darts], which pierced deep into the boss, and then began to sprout, cracking the stone of the Elemental’s surface. It was a truly nasty spell, and Karl could only imagine what would happen if that happened in a living target instead of a giant block of stone.
The dryads who had been tossed around the room pulsed with healing light as they rejoined the fight, and Karl decided to see just how good his new blade was.
It needed to actually hit the target, and not with a ranged skill, to activate.
So he launched himself at the boss, and let the blade pierce directly into the chest of the boss.
A massive chunk of stone exploded out from the point of impact, and a wave of holy light from the blade caused the tunnel to shake.
"Maybe don’t do that if you don’t want the dungeon to land on our heads," one of the Dryads suggested in a gentle tone.
"Right you are. That spell might not be the best choice for indoors."
"Or outdoors," the Dryad agreed helpfully.
But it had taken well over half the boss’s health in a single strike, and if Karl had followed it up, the boss would have been dead in under a second.
That was true power.
Vines from the Dryads grabbed the Earth Golem’s limbs, pulling them wide as the next wave of thorns hammered into its chest and sprouted, shattering the stone from the inside.
As [Blade of Divine Wrath] was clearly overkill in any situation, Karl swapped to [Spatial Quake].
He had never actually used it in combat before, though the [Chaos Vortex] spell that it was based on was an impressive combat ability. So, it shouldn’t have been a surprise when the boss seemed to twist in an impossible way before its left arm simply shattered under the force of the [Chaos Vortex] and the vines holding it in place were left flailing.
Now that was effective.
Karl focused [Spatial Quake] on a larger area, and began pouring mana into it to keep the spell active.
The forces began tearing the boss apart, aided by the vines and sprouts of the Dryads. The [Spatial Quake] was not cheap when you used it as a channelled attack instead of a bomb, thousands of mana per second.
But it was totally worth it, as the boss was reduced to rubble in under a minute.
[Mom, the Karl is cheating.] Rae joked as she sensed that Karl had finished with his boss.
Dana blinked slowly. They had only just engaged the Manticore, it hadn’t even been two minutes since they went to find the boss. How could Karl have even found another, much less killed it, already?
Oathbreaker sighed in defeat.
The boss had found something that was even more powerful than they were, and they were in danger of being relegated to the second option, despite their skills. Still, there was a chance that they could defeat this boss before Rae and all those spiders managed to kill off the third boss.
That was still a partial win.
The Tunnel Worm was bleeding from nearly every square centimetre of its flesh, and huge chunks had been torn out. But it was so insanely durable that it was still fighting them, trying to squash the spiders against the tunnel walls once it realized they were too fast to bite.
[I will come join the main group once I have cleared the ore from this region.] Karl informed the others.
[Stay over there, the miners won’t know that you’ve killed the boss yet, so you can start looting the dungeon in advance.] Tian suggested.
That wasn’t quite the deal, but they were definitely going to kill all three bosses, so a few minute head start wasn’t a big deal.