《HERO CHRONICLES:》Chapter 18: [ Unexpected BOSS fight ]
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Is it coming from my right? or my left? Shit!
I know I was surrounded by deadly attacks although I don’t know how or why, I just feel it. Once again, I put strength in my right foot and jumped in the air. I can feel the weight of my body shifting to the front while balancing it by doing graceful spin-kicks. My hands and feet flowed gently like water.
As expected, 2 explode in my previous position.
“Hahahahaha I can feel it! I can feel it!”
My laughter echoed inside the room.
I don’t know why or how I did it but the fact that I can feel the danger and the attacks even though I didn’t see it makes me ecstatic.
“Amazing! Very amazing!”
With this unknown ability, I can feel my confidence rising up!
There are only two monster frogs left! I can do this!
Landing perfectly at the ground, I immediately dashed towards the two monster frogs in my front.
When my boots stomped on the ground my body shot like an arrow aiming at the two monster frog. With my claymore raised, a bluish light immediately appeared.
Shua!
My claymore slashed down, attacking the monster frog in the right four times. But it was still not enough, I twisted my right wrist holding the claymore and making it parallel to the ground while also doing the same thing to the short sword at my left.
I swing my swords horizontally while spinning my whole body.
“Way of the Dragon God 2nd defensive form: Dragon Cyclone!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!”
Suddenly an enormous blast raged upwards from the ground with me as the center. The monster frogs, caught up in the maelstrom were lifted up into the air with no way to resist.
“What the!?”
The monster frogs were whirled up in midair while vacuum blades cut up their bodies. Before long they fell down shrieking in pain.
Even me who casted it can only look at it dumbfounded.
Really now! I can’t believe it. ‘Way of the Dragon God 2nd defensive form: Dragon Cyclone’ was a defensive move that can be used if the user was surrounded by an enemy to gain a brief moment of time to collect yourself and gain momentum by parrying the opponent’s weapons in circular motion.
Obviously making a tornado in reality will be utterly impossible so I didn’t expect it to have an effect like this. Using it inside this virtual world is really amazing!
Are all my martial arts treated as sword skills in this world? Can it also have different effects I wonder!
“But even so, this is an awesome discovery! More like this is an amazing skill! hahaha”
I should buy that old geezer some chicken wings if ever I manage to return.
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Hehehe-----ge-!?
My happiness vanished in an instant when I noticed my bar has been depleted.
Sigh! I was using various moves and was engrossed in the fight that I didn’t notice my bar.
Well, it would be weird if I still have left with all those flashy moves! Ah-ah! I should have bought even one
potion----no wait, I still have those although I’m not an alchemist, if I just eat it directly I
can regain 100 points of
No choice I need to use it…
As I opened my inventory, the strange feeling well up again inside my chest.
Wha--!?
It was coming from behind me! I wanted to dodge immediately but it was too late. A claw from above suddenly descended hitting my chest.
A series of attack hit me, although none of them was a critical hit because I manage to deflect it by hair’s breath, it was still dangerous.
Aaaaargh! It hurts!
Like something was burning inside my chest, pain surged in my body! My in an instant was reduced by a huge amount leaving me in the critical state with only less than 50 of health.
Blood oozed out from my mouth. From just one attack, I can feel that my internal organs were bleeding badly.
Phew~ that was dangerous!
I dare say I was smiling while thinking this.
No no no, it’s not what you think, okay. I’m neither a pervert nor a masochist, it’s just that this sensation, this feelings and this thrilling moments! This is what I am looking for! No school, no books, no tests no frog face teachers nothing else just a fight to the death!
The excitement of putting your life in the line as well as the actions straight out from anime's and light novels is just exhilarating! It’s the best!
Smiling, I raised my head and look towards the monster who attacked me. Aside from the two monster frogs which were starting to recover, there is a new monster standing in front of me. It was far bigger from the previous monster frog.
Chief Poison Fin Frog (E-BOSS)
Level ??
My whole body froze.
Oh my god! An E-Boss!? I had unexpectedly met a BOSS monster this early!?
I wonder, did the monster frog call it?
In the lowest BOSS level is E and the highest is SSS. Every level of BOSS class monsters was sub-divided into low, medium and high level monsters.
From doing a quick estimation, the BOSS monster was more than 2 meters long. You could tell that the is bad news with just a look from a distance; well it was a fact that it is an existence not to be messed with in my current level and strength. Although this belong to the E-level which means it is a low level Boss class monster. However, with my current strength, level and equipment, any logical person would turn around and ran for their lives. BOSS monsters aren’t something a newbie could handle.
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So the only sane choice I should have is to escape and run away while I still can.
But before I realized it I already opened my inventory, taking out 3 and 3 and started to devise a plan on how to kill it.
Even though I haven’t fought a dangerous opponent of this degree and my sense have all been restricted by my unique skill prohibiting me to panic and run away this instant, the pressure and excitement caused by the arrival of this monster made my blood boils.
This is probably the reason why I really wanted to fight these monsters and survive!
Defeat them and conquer them, in this way I will become stronger and stronger! One could say my instincts were whispering this to me.
Well, with such feelings, I prepared to use everything I possessed and learn to kill the enemies in front of me.
And so the third round of the death mach begins!
---00---
After eating the and the my and immediately increased by 300 each. Miraculously, the wounds on my body especially my internal organs seemed it had already recovered. So it means, as long as I can recover my even the deepest wound will heal in an instant? Amazing~
Hehe ready for round three, fella’s?
Apart from the new acquainted friend of mine, the two level 4 have already lost too much so I decided to kill them first.
Calmly standing up, I step over the ground and suddenly burst over to them. Putting strength in my left leg, my body leaves the ground and flew in the air passing the Boss monster. I chain two kicks towards the two monster frogs then
I spin my body mid air and with raising my swords with full strength, slashing them: forming a cross like pattern.
Bang!
The two frogs couldn’t even make a single sound as they fell in the ground and die. In an instant, I deliver the two monster frogs in their makers.
Phew~
Letting out my breath, I took a step forward; I coolly looked at the BOSS monster while deliberately putting on an impudent expression.
Shrugging my shoulders, I spoke in a voice as emotionless as I could muster while smiling wryly.
“Your minions are all dead, now you’re next you freaking overgrown frog!”
“Croooak!”
With a loud roar, the revealed its bloodthirsty face and rushed directly towards me.
So fast!
But I’m prepared for it. My pupils contracted as I quickly dodged to the side and spin around while positioning myself
behind the BOSS Frog.
Clenching my teeth, I put power into my feet kicking the BOSS frogs head.
BANG!
Its whole body loses balance and fell in the ground. Without stopping my attack, I twisted my body and the edge of my sword starts glowing.
PENG!
Slashing towards the BOSS frog’s exposed back, I felt as if I was hitting steel.
The hell! What sort of body is that monster has?
I quickly made a calculation. Although I can’t see its level, I can still see its health which is around 5000 in numerical perspective so I would need to hit it at least…. Wha-!? 80 to 100 times to defeat it?
Absurd! So absurd!
The BOSS monster frog let out a ‘Croak! Croak!’ sound as it turned its body and revealed its tongue.
Not good!
I focused my attention in the BOSS Frog’s tongue and saw it. From the tip of its tongue, one grey line extended. It was pointing at my head.
---the moment I saw this, with all of my strength, I quickly jumped forward to the right. I’ve already saw this before
when I was fighting with the frog minions so I already know what it is. Immediately after, a violet thing like line passed through to the left of my body.
Phew~ that was too dangerous! I don’t think I will survive if I was hit with that thing even once. Better be careful or
else it would be good bye tempura and good bye life!
I must maintain distance for now because I don’t think I’ll win if I fight it directly.
Turning my back I immediately sprinted away from the BOSS frog. But it seems it won’t let me off the hook that easily.
Looking at the fearless BOSS frog in pursuit, rather than fear or anxiousness I felt satisfaction and excitement.
That’s right, chased me. Chased me to hell you idiot overgrown frog! wahahaha
The next attack was not the but the
Barrage of was fired towards me with the sound ‘Gurururu’ as if a Gatling gun has just been used.
While screaming ‘No fair!’ inside my head, I spun a complete rotation as to avoid the incoming barrage.
Truthfully that wasn’t playing fair! More than half of it; even though I can see those grey lines, I can only avoid them due to intuition. If not for my amazing and awesome superhuman reflexes, I would have been a goner right now although it was actually thanks to my
But still this overgrown frog is really shameless! Doesn’t it know that I’m just a level four noob!? Compared to him which is a BOSS class monster, I’m just a pebble in the road so why does it go all-out fighting me?
It’s like a lion fighting a rabbit! Although it is the truth that I’m as cute and charming as a rabbit but still that’s just insane! Definitely!
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