Chapter 39: AM Class A (8)
Just like Noir described, the boss monster was a monstrous fusion of anglerfish, kraken, and deep-sea horror. Its jaw split open into five segments, revealing rows of sharp, moving, uneven teeth and dozens of eyes blinking across its body.
As planned, Claude covered the monster in a poisonous, melting mist, but it did not affect the boss. Thus, they knew it carried poison as well. He changed the mist into a dark fog that covered the eyes of the monster, and then he shouted to the others.
"Now!"
The damage dealers—Lexie, Noir, and the other three members of Charlie’s team—who had memorized the position of the monster boss, began attacking. Noir led the other long-range attacker while Lexie initiated the first blow.
Claude was floating in the air next to Allen, commanding the direction of the dark fog. The fog would clear on the path of the damage dealers but thicken on the area of the monster’s eyes.
The boss monster retaliated despite not seeing its opponents. Its tendrils struck everywhere. Without needing to command the two tanks, Terrius and Jerome began to engage, drawing the attention of the boss to them.
With Jerome’s taunting skill, Battle Roar, a deafening roar that forces enemies to attack the user, the boss monster’s attention turned to their direction and attacked them. Terrius dealt with the damage by freezing the water upward and using it as a shield.
Allen buffed his allies, while Kian, the support from the Charlie team, slowed the monster’s movements by creating a warping space, an illusion that only the target could see.
The boss monster retaliated using water. It created intense whirlpools and opened its jaw with a massive sucking force. The dark fog was sucked by it, and its covered eyes cleared, some were already bleeding from the attack of the damage dealers, but many were still working.