The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1238: Manipulated Flags

{Well, now we know what level six difficulty looks like.} Karl sighed, then recast [Avatar] using the [Amulet of Destruction]

{Amulet of Destruction} Immortal Rank. Epic Grade. Increases the effect of one spell per minute by one Rank in the Mortal Ranks, or one Sub-Rank for Immortals.

Now, he was an Immortal-Ranked Avatar, and his attacks would do full damage to the boss.

Not his skills, but his actual physical attacks should.

But there was one thing that he hadn’t thought about when he cast the spell.

With [Behemoth] and [Brutality] active, his size was more than tripled, and an Immortal Rank Dragon was already a hundred metres long without buffs.

He took up half the clearing on his own and nobody could fight with him in the way.

Karl reversed the effect using [Unobtrusive Behemoth], and shrunk himself to a svelte sixty metres long, which was still massive, but somewhat more manageable than the three hundred metres long that he had been.

Then, he slammed into the Demonic Ape and pulled its attention away from the group.

The waves of Earth Spikes started ten metres from the boss, which would be tight for Deve alone. But with the Golems, the Druid had chosen to drop his Bear form for this fight, and embrace his ranged abilities.

The few that he had.

It was a whole new experience for him, dancing around the spikes coming from the boss, and not standing so close that the effects targeted at the ranged attackers didn’t matter to him.

However, it was nice that he wasn’t going to finish a dungeon with sore muscles.

Healing and regeneration were great for fixing the body, but somehow, they never quite took out that lingering ache from being repeatedly injured.

With Cara using [Nullify] to disrupt the boss, it wasn’t doing much damage, but the area attack wouldn’t collapse to her efforts, and the Demonic Ape was hardly taking any damage from them.

It was taking damage, though.

Karl roared as a blow hit him on the sensitive spot at his elbow, then doused the Ape in Ghostfire in retaliation.

That only made the beast more insensibly angry, but the enrage effect was already gone, after peaking when the boss reached Immortal Rank.

Trying to keep the boss in one spot simply wasn’t happening, Karl realized. It was intent on not letting him trap its arms or get a good grip, so it was darting in and out with its strikes.

That made it difficult for even the Epic Golems to efficiently target their attacks. But given the circumstances, and the constant barrage of earth spikes, nobody was going to be simply going all out on attack anyhow.

Karl watched with trepidation as the boss’ health reached halfway on the meter below its name, then sighed in relief when nothing happened.

They might be at one level above peak difficulty, thanks to Cara, but the boss was still manageable with the five of them, and a lot of bleeding damage.

An absolutely insane amount of bleeding damage, really. Especially after you added all the ongoing damage from the Myceloid King Epic Golems.

Their spore attacks were continually damaging the Ape, who either didn’t understand how to stop the damage, or lacked the ability. So, with every passing minute, its health was falling faster, and the fact that their skills were reduced by ninety percent was slowly beginning to not matter.

After all, even if you needed ten times as many attacks to kill the boss, two hundred stacks of continual damage added up.

As they continued to attack, Deve quickly adapted, and began adding poison damage to his attacks. It wasn’t an often used skill because the damage normally wasn’t worth the energy.

But when the boss was taking fifteen minutes of constant combat to die, it would probably be his highest total damage skill for the fight.

At ten percent health, the boss began to pulse with red energy, restarting its enrage timer. But by then, it was losing a percent every few seconds, and there wasn’t much that it could do but try to get past Karl to fight the weaker members.

{Dungeon Complete} Calculating rewards.

{Rewards Granted}

Deve smiled as he saw an item appear in his inventory.

{Maul of Brutality} Rare Grade, Immortal Rank. Deals 385 Percent Base Weapon Damage as physical damage on impact. Improves user strength by 80 Percent of base.

Now, normally a Rare Grade drop wasn’t much of anything. But when it was Immortal Rank? The base weapon damage was more than the combined damage of the Totem Ranked Epic Grade weapon that he was using right now.

And every strike did four times that much.

Since all his melee skills were based on adjusted weapon damage, he had effectively quadrupled his damage output with a single drop.

Absolutely broken.

However, the badger looked much too smug. She had definitely gotten something good.

And she still owed him for this latest chaos.

Dana winked at Karl as she checked her inventory, then took out a new sword, glimmering white and scattering snowflakes as she held it.

{Blade of Icy Touch} Epic Grade, Immortal Rank. Deals 300 Percent Base Weapon Damage as added Ice Damage on attack. [Icy Touch] effect slows targeted enemies by 50 percent on failed resistance check, stacking up to three times.

Karl whistled in appreciation as he read the description. Even if the enemy had reductions to movement impairing skills, that thing was likely to still freeze them.

[But why an evil weapon? It’s because the apes are Demonic, isn’t it?] Hawk complained.

[Teach her Frozen Apocalypse.] Remi agreed.

Karl chuckled and activated [Follow Me, Little One].

{Champion Karl offers knowledge.} Skill [Frozen Apocalypse] will be transferred to his lovely Dana Mage.

Hawk squawked in annoyance. His sister was turning the Dana Mage against fire. Fortunately, the Dana Mage already knew the real and proper version of [Apocalypse].

Cara returned to her space before Deve could yell at her, and Lars laughed at the expression on the Druid’s face.

“You have a fated relationship with the Badger species, my friend. They exist simply to troll you for their own amusement.” The white dragon joked.