Chapter 84
The battle against the Dungeon Boss, the junk-dragon, as I call it, was kicked off with Alf running up to it and started to bash at it with some Hammer Arts, I think. The halberd/Warhammer started to glow with a blue light, which wrapped itself around the hammer part of the weapon and made it visibly bigger. An Art to increase the hitbox?
The junk-dragon answered by activating some kinda magic circle, but that one got pierced with a grayish arrow fired from the fallen angel. Think that’s some anti-magic spell from Illusionism. Something about confusing the magic formula.
And it worked. The magic circle turned flicking, like a hologram that’s running empty of power before breaking. The broken pieces of mana were even scattered on the junk-dragon and inflicted damage.
Then came Alf’s attack. And it made one nasty sound! There went junk-dragon’s right arm. Too bad.
The pain kept on coming. The fallen angel kept on firing Holy-attribute spells at junk-dragon, steadily damaging the ectoplasmic connection it had with the parts that made up its body whenever she wasn’t busy disrupting the junk-dragon’s magic. Once they turned too weak, Alf took the chance and knocked off the weakened parts with a heavy smash, powered up even further with the fallen angel’s support magic.
The junk-dragon turned pissed off and tried to flatten Alf with his paws, but it couldn’t move. Its legs had been trapped with my webs! What, did you think I was just standing here and commenting? An Assassin has to work in the shadows after all.
Alf kept on breaking off parts unhindered thanks to my and the fallen angel’s assists. Has he even noticed that we’re helping him? He looks like he’s solely focused on attacking the junk-dragon..., are those tears of blood? ...need to help him find a... oh, that’s why he’s so into fishing!
I packed away that newfound piece of knowledge into my brain storage and focused on the junk-dragon. Rather, his goons. The Geists had suddenly started to produce magic circles of their own. [Kin Enhancement] must have switched that bonus skill of theirs from [Daywalker] into magic skills. Various Ghost Bullet, Darkness Bullet, and Poison Bullet circles were aimed at Alf, but I and Noire used Turn Undead Field to wipe them all away. No need to go for the magic spell when the caster’s the weakest thing around.
The junk-dragon kept on trying to break free from the webbing, but no luck there~. Your prized [Poison Attack] doesn’t work against these threads~. Darkness attribute stuff? Even less of a chance.
Junk-dragon must have realized that it couldn’t break free, so it focused solely on trying to get Alf out of the way with magic spells and that miasma-aura of its. The magic spells were shot down by the fallen angel, so no luck there. And Alf’s seen my own Aura enough to understand how to keep a distance against that cheap counterfeit that can only inflict poison-type ailments.
I found it rather tedious to be walking around, so I made a Pale Horse with the template I had saved before and used it instead of running. The new [Pale Rider] skill made us even more unnoticeable than before, so I could keep on trolling the junk-dragon with webs, spells, and whatever else I could do.