-Team Fight(4)-

“Wow, three at once? That’s gotta be a new record for you…” Joy commented, feeling a little jealous at her level-up speed. Now that he had long surpassed level 100, such level-up speed had become a dream for him. At least until he hits higher level dungeons, but those monsters weren’t something one can just solo. Especially not at his current level at least.

“That’s right, and also, I think I benefitted with my magic concentration and density, also my control improved by a lot. All my skills remained the same, though.” Chiba announced excitedly, and Kenshin and Joy didn’t spare any chance to praise her for it.

After that, they left fo the deeper of the dungeon. Like before, the fire snakes appeared again, but Chiba took care of them easily. She had yet to consume an MP potion, which Kenshin noticed and nodded appreciatively. Chiba’s improvements were really outstanding, even though she was only level 45 now, she can solo these level 50+ monsters without much problem. Of course, all the items she wore all over he body played some important role, but one can’t deny her talent to use her skills ingeniously.

Three lava golems appeared, which Chiba volunteered to take care. Of course, Kenshin knew she didn’t need help with these mobs, what she needs help with were probably those elites.

She used a new tactic, level-upping thrice had increased her magic concentration and density, which decreased her magic consumption even further than before, and allowed her to be more flexible with what she could do with her skills. She created a puddle of water and then transformed into small chains, before binding them on both legs of the huge golem. As the water chains bound around the legs, it instantly froze around, turning into hard chains. When those clumsy golems took another step, they tripped over, falling one over other. These huge monsters have a huge weak point, that was, they couldn’t get up once they fall down. Chiba observed this and exploited this weak point.

Four golems kissed the ground with just one move from her, becoming sitting ducks for her to slaughter. She created four small ice javelins, aiming them to the torso area of the golems, where their core lay and allowed them to fell down. She can telepathically control these javelins, which gave her a very crucial edge that she exploited every chance she got. The javelins had some trouble going through the lava exterior, but she persisted, adding more and more water and freeze them over. The tug of war between lava’s melting power and ice’s freezing power continued for a while before the lava lost as the javelin penetrated through the core of the monster, ending its pitiful rocky life.

During these stages, Chiba led the team while Kenshin and Joy were tasked with collecting the loots. Also, these loots were nothing fancy, some unranked items, green potions, and few gold coins. After finishing off these golems, another few appeared, which she took care of the same way. It's only then she opened an MP potion bottle.

“It's for calming my mind and regain my mental energy, I have still more than enough magic power,” Chiba explained seeing Kenshin and Joy staring at her.

“She has started to treat these expensive potions as soft drinks…” Joy exclaimed, seeing her happily sipping on the blue potion, which somewhat tested like a mint-flavored smoothie. It seemed she had gotten addicted to the flavor.

“Meh! It's alright. It's not like she was doing this for the heck of it, unlike certain someone I know, who likes to drink HP potion with wine just because it tasted better.” Kenshin snorted.

“Hmm! Did I hear an insult aiming at me? Or my ears ringing?”

“Your ears must be ringing, you should go see a veterinarian.”

“Hmm! Did I hear wrong again? Did you ask me to go see an ENT specialist?”

“No, I said to go see a veterinarian.”

“Say, Kenshin, did you want to taste an Overdrive fuelled punch from me?” Joy calmly asked as if he was discussing the weather.

“Hmm! Do you think you can break my guard? It seems like you are itching for a fire fist to your face, you are already bald, do you want to burn off your eyebrows too?” Kenshin calmly retorted back.

“Its called skinhead fashion, a backward person like you won't understand it anyway.” Joy huffed in anger.

“No matter how you sugar coat it, it still didn’t change the fact that you are bald.” Kenshin didn’t hold back with an insult.

‘Are these guys 11 years olds or something?’ Chiba sweatdropped after seeing their bickerings. This would happen every now and then when these guys would suddenly start an argument out of nowhere which would normally end with her breaking it for them, or else they would really fight it out with each other regardless of the place they were in.

They continued to the same spot from where they returned the day before with Kenshin and Joy hurling insults at each other the whole way. Two elite golems pacing in front of a large stone door, which was covered in many unique runes. The boss room was what Kenshin and Joy named it.

“Chiba, can you do it?” Kenshin asked seriously.

“Let me try; unless I try, how would I know?” Chiba determinedly said, fisting her hand, as she stared at the two huge golems with determination.

“Alright, we have got your back, go on…” Joy nodded.

Chiba took a tentative step forward to the barrier that had stagnated her growth, not in a literal or physical sense, but in the mental sense. The closest golem noticed her. It took a huge step forward as it appeared before Chiba in just one step. A huge shadow cast upon her, as a massive flaming fist headed for her, ready to turn her into a mush and burn off the puddle.

Kenshin and Joy narrowed their eyes, ready to take action at any moment. Kenshin even cast [Opposites], covering Chiba within it. Joy discreetly used [Overdrive: speed] just in a moment so that he could go in a flash.

Chiba remained unmoved as the fist closed distance between them. Just as it was a few meters away from her, the heat of molten lava already hit her in the face. She rotated her hands at the same time doing a beautiful rotate like a belly dancer. The water danced around her, as it formed a ring around her with her in the center. When the molten fist was just a few inches away, she had already moved away from the strike range, at the same time, the water around her started to spin rapidly, forming a ring around her.

A sharp ring formed from water and pressure. The ring cut through the stone fist without much trouble, as she continued to dance towards its legs. The water ring around her behaved like sharp chakrams, cutting everything in its path. She danced around beautifully like a butterfly, cutting the rocky giant into tiny particles. After dismantling the huge golem’s legs, she finally stopped. Then she raised her arms up, the water ring around her started to float up and finally rotated atop her head, like a divine ring of an angel.

Then she pointed her finger at the rapidly regenerating golem on the floor that was greedily absorbing lava around it. “I know you guys won’t die with just cutting off your head, and I don’t know where your core is. But I will keep cutting you until you finally dead…fall before me, you stupid rock!!”