“Bow!”

“《Guard stance》!”

Ciara’s reaction was a little slow at the start of the battle as the boss was already charging me faster than any monster we’ve seen. Rare bosses have higher statuses so if you become to complacent with the normal bosses during bosspop, a rare boss could be a problem.

“《Guardians protection》!”

Ranas buff was cast at almost the same time that the wolf’s attention switched to Ciara.

“Gau!”

“Ku, it’s heavy.”

Ciara’s face cramped at the power of the rare boss, it was like nothing she’d experienced thus far. Oh, I shouldn’t be standing around, I ran forward and used my skill aiming for a debut.

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“《Hero’s sword》!”

“Gauu!”

I hit it, dealing a lot of damage and applying a defense debuff. The skill has a long cool down time but it has a debuff so I like to start out with it.

“Me next! 《Preciouー”

“Gaugaugaugau!”

“Wait Ester! Fall back!”

It’s tail had turned red, probably because I had dealt a lot of damage quickly. It’s [explosive tail] attack was coming and it worked as an AOE. But Ester had already jumped in close, it would be hard for her to get out of range.

“Ciara! Cover Ester!”

“《Cover shield》!”

Ciara reacted immediately without any doubt in my instructions. Ciara dove in front of Ester at the last second.

“Bow!”

“《Defense》”

The battle wolf spun in a circle attacking, I used defense to guard but the target wasn’t me.

[《T/n: sorry I think I messed up earlier and thought he meant defense stat instead of a skill…. It’s a skill…》]

“Kya!”

I heard Ester scream but I couldn’t see her because of the explosion. She should still be alright because she was wearing decent armor, so she shouldn’t be down in just one blow. There was also Rana’s buff.

I decided to take advantage of the opening after the wolf’s attack.

“《Sonic sword》”

“Bau!”

It was much easier to land critical hits during the moments after its skill where it didn’t move. I snuck through the flames and landed a vicious blow on it. Critical hit! It was down!

“Now! Attack together!”

“《Heaー》hey, wait! 《Blade of light》《pillar of light》!”

“《Fireball》《Fire lance》《Ice lance》!”

When the wolf fell down Rana got confused and stopped trying to heal and attacked instead. Hannah had been waiting for a chance to strike since the start of the fight and had responded immediately. The magic fell upon the wolf dealing a lot of damage while I tried to deal as much as possible with normal attacks.

After that the boss slowly regained its feet.

“Ciara, pull aggro!”

“《Provocation》《Guard stance》!”

Ester and Ciara had gone down from the previous skill as well but since the boss had been downed as well it wasn’t a major issue. After they got back up the target had switched to me because I’d dealt so much damage. As such I asked Ciara to pull aggro again.

“My apologies Zephyrus.”

“Don’t worry about it, concentrate on the fight!”

“R, right!”

Ester was worried about having gone down but it was our first rare boss battle so it can’t be helped.

“《Prayer of total recovery》 yay, I’d been wanting to use that one! Oh I have this one too! 《Rain of life》!”

Rana was just happy she got to use recovery magic. Now that our HP was back up, it was time to get back in the fight.

“Rana, lion! Ester, start landing some blows!”

“《Lion’s blessing》!”

“Ok! 《Long thrust》《Precious thrust》《Legion thrust》!!!”

The boss had less than half health now but my debuff was also timing out.

“《Shield smite》!”

Ciara also saw and opportunity to sneak in some damage. If even the tank is attacking then I can’t be left out!

“《Hero’s sword》!”

“Gau!”

I landed the skill beautifully, reapplying the debuff and causing knockback so the boss was stopped in place for a moment.

“《Fire lance》《Ice lance》《fireball》!”

“《Blade of light》《pillar of light》!”

“《Shine lightning》!”

“Gagau!”

I threw some magic out as well just to deal a bit of extra damage. We fought cautiously on the lookout for its unique skill until I realized that the bosses HP had dropped into the danger zone.

“Ester, you can go ahead.”

“Ok! 《Long thrust》!”

“Gau…uuu..”

Ester landed her blow reducing the bosses HP to 0 and causing it to disappear into a cascade of light. It left behind 4 silver chests.