Chapter 53 - Vengeance
Vengeance was the only thing I could think about as I charged to where the boss had to be. There was nothing I could do for my Grandfather, but there was something I could do for the beast that killed him.
I would either kill it or die trying.
I ignored the lesser tigers that were still left from the wave. They were of no consequence anymore, their attacks brushed off me as I ran past.
Getting closer to where the storm clouds peaked in concentration revealed the boss in all its glory.
Over double the size of the regular tigers, it stood at just over 6 feet tall. smaller than the boss lizard from the last wave but still large for a tiger. This one was built more for speed and its smaller size would aid it.
I didn't slow my charge and ran straight at it. The boss dodged my swing easily and charged up another lightning bolt that it sent at me. This one wasn't as powerful as the bolt earlier and did little to deter me.
After a few fruitless swings, I realized that there was no way I was going to be able to catch it in the open field we were in. My swings only hit air and the boss was faster than I could catch.
Fine, if you want to be like that.
Instead of chasing it around meaninglessly, I went for a different avenue of approach. It took a decent chunk of my mana, but it was worth it.
A massive [Ice Fortress] froze into place around the boss before it could get away. It was the largest creation I had made with the skill and it took the mana to prove it. It didn't wish to be so large but my will prevailed. I wasn't going to let the limitations of the skill stop me. Easily 4 times as expensive as the little huts I was making with it earlier and a mental strain unlike any other was didn't bother me. It was what I needed so I would make it so.
I trapped it in a cage of ice with only myself inside. I had isolated it for a one on one fight.
Given time, the boss would have been able to break out, but that wasn't a problem it was worrying about currently. It had to defend against the angry barbarian charging at it.