The adult fire raptors surrounded the fire raptor king as if they are protecting the latter from the threat. Adrian seeing the situation could only frown as the difficulty in killing the mobs just skyrocketed.
“We should bait them with Charon since he does not take damage from them. Have them attack Charon so we could see if they have patterns in their attacks.” Levin Cloud suggested and Adrian agreed.
Adrian agreed with the suggestion but something bothered him. Charon floated towards the group of fire raptors and immediately activated Soul Siphon. The blue sphere of light covered all of the fire raptors including the Fire Raptor King. Each of the fire raptors lost 20% of their health but the fire raptor king only lost 15% of its total health.
“It seems Soul Siphon’s health steal is lesser if the monster is more powerful. The Fire Raptor King is a superior version of the Fire Raptor so it makes sense that it would be lesser.” Adrian observed.
He did not think it is strange because Charon would be game breaking if he could immediately absorb 20% of for example a boss monster’s health. Adrian guessed that for boss monsters, the health absorbed would probably be 5% to 10%.
Charon immediately shared all the barrier health equally to all the party members except for itself because it did not need it. This was the mistake Adrian had made as he thought only holy magic could damage Charon. Seeing as the ordinary adult fire raptors’ attacks pass through Charon, the fiery mane of the fire raptor king glowed with a golden fire.
While Charon is busy teasing the other fire raptors, the fire raptor king spat out a fireball with golden specks. The attack made the fire raptor king exhausted but the fireball struck Charon successfully. The other adult fire raptors stopped attacking Charon.
[Your soulbound Charon has died. You can re-summon Charon in two hours.]
“What! How did Charon die!?” Adrian exclaimed as he checked the system logs.
[Charon has been hit by an attack containing a king’s energy.]
[The Unbothered passive skill has been nullified by king’s energy. Charon will take damage.]
[The Fire Raptor King has dealt deadly 100,000 damage to Charon.]
[Charon has died.]
“That Fire Raptor King skill has a fixed damage skill that can nullify protective passive skills. We must be careful.” Adrian stated.
“It does have that but look. It seems exhausted when it fired off that fireball.” Levin Cloud added.
“I want to seal it and sell it as a mount.” Adrian suddenly replied.
“Did you not have loads of money from the auction?” Levin Cloud asked.
“I already used almost all of it to upgrade my game pod. I can now play for fifteen hours. Muahahah!” Adrian replied which made Levin Cloud a little bit envious but even the elf priest is saving up coins for that occasion.
“It would still take me about a month of grinding to upgrade mine.” Levin Cloud stated with a sigh.
“We could split the money I get from selling that Fire Raptor King.” Adrian stated as he eyed the said monster.
“If you could seal it. We have to take care of the other adult fire raptors first.” Levin Cloud added as the fire raptors is once again protecting their weakened king.
“Now would be the perfect time. Charon’s shields did not disappear even if it got taken out. The fire raptor king is also weakened so it would not join the fight. Kanlaon could deal with two while you, I, and Sirius deal with the other three. I will summon Saena to heal Kanlaon so you could focus on me and Sirius.” Adrian stated and Levin Cloud nodded.
Adrian summoned his bow psyche armament and decided to kite three fire raptors while Kanlaon would attract the other two. Saena is summoned and Adrian told her to only assist Kanlaon as Levin Cloud would focus on the other group.
The group no longer hid from their position as the fire raptors dared not to move far away from their king. Adrian first took their attention by firing arrows at the huddled fire raptors. He wanted to kite at least four of them but only two came charging at him.
Kanlaon in his soul form sneaked up to the remaining group of fire raptors. When Kanlaon is close enough, he fired off his breath attack that shrouded the group of fire raptors including the fire raptor king. The soul form is released because Kanlaon attacked but it was worth it as the fire raptors screeched in pain from the breath attack.
The two fire raptors charging at Adrian heard the cries of their kin and immediately turned around. The two fire raptors changed targets to Kanlaon. Adrian could only click his tongue and improvise as he thought the aggro would not switch if the fire raptors would not be damaged.
“They have herd mentality instincts.” Adrian muttered as he commanded Sirius via their soul link to attack one of the fire raptors that is charging towards Kanlaon.
Adrian used Shooting Star to aim at one of the fire raptors that is luckily only charging in a straight line. Sirius came out of Adrian’s shadow and immediately used Portal Assault to lessen the distance with the other fire raptor. Adrian’s attack hit the unsuspecting fire raptor that made it fall down to the ground.
Sirius reappeared above the other fire raptor and went to bite its neck. Sirius is successful but both he and the fire raptor tumbled across the ground. Levin Cloud immediately healed Sirius upon him taking damage.
Kanlaon’s breath attack ended and the bodies of the fire raptors are visibly damaged. Kanlaon’s breath attack is super effective because he focused on using the abyss element that is pure bone chilling energy. It seems fire raptors are susceptible to the extremely cold temperature as Kanlaon’s attack shaved a lot of their health.
The fire raptor king looked at Kanlaon menacingly and even growled threateningly. The three fire raptors started running in circles with Kanlaon in the middle. Even though Kanlaon could fly, the ceiling of the cave structure is not high enough as the fire raptors jumped and used their talons to attack Kanlaon.
It was difficult to dodge because of the speed of the fire raptors and their impeccable teamwork to attack Kanlaon. If Kanlaon would dodge to the right then a fire raptor would jump from his right then aim for the former’s eyes. The fire raptors all aimed at Kanlaon’s eyes because they could not penetrate the frostfire dragon’s scales.
Adrian upon seeing Kanlaon’s health slowly getting shaved off immediately used Orion’s Wrath. Adrian flew to the air that his head almost touched the ceiling. He then let loose three Shooting Stars that hit each of the fire raptors attacking Kanlaon allowing the latter to get some distance. The fire raptors already broke the barrier protecting Kanlaon and 10% of his health.
After the last Shooting Star that was shot, a fireball with golden flames came shooting towards Adrian. Adrian did not immediately noticed it as he took aim carefully and precisely that he only focused on the fire raptors not the fire raptor king. Adrian thought he would get killed and is ready to revive again but a golden shield enveloped him.
“Sanctuary” Levin Cloud shouted and Adrian became unable to move.
The fireball with golden specks hit Adrian but Levin Cloud’s timely save came in time. Adrian did not take damage from the attack and the Fire Raptor King looked more exhausted than before. Sirius used Phantom Rush to immediately dispose of the two fire raptors that are heavily damaged while Kanlaon took his time with the three.
Seeing its pack being slaughtered, the fire raptor king no longer tried to recover strength and charged towards Kanlaon. The eyes of the fire raptor king is now glowing red indicating that it is in berserk mode. It no longer cared if its stamina ran out as it attacked Kanlaon fiercely.
Seeing their king attacking wantonly, the fire raptors did the same and no longer cared of dodging. This however did not prove to be useful as it made it easy for the group to kill off the adult fire raptors. Adrian commanded Sirius and Kanlaon to not heavily damage the fire raptor king and the two soulbounds understood.
The two soulbounds focused on the erratic fire raptors and before long each of them fell leaving the fire raptor king. The fire raptor king is also heavily damaged and panting on the ground with a bleeding status effect because of Sirius. The fire raptor king has 10% of its total health remaining and could no longer stand up because of complete exhaustion. 𝘳𝘦.𝒸𝑜𝘮
While Levin Cloud is collecting the loot, Adrian started the sealing process. A magic circle appeared below the fire raptor king and chains manifested. The chains bounded the fire raptor king and pulled it inside the magic circle.
As if utilizing the strength it has left, the fire raptor king resisted and the magic circle broke. The fire raptor king spat out blood and now it only has 5% of its health remaining. Adrian once again started the sealing process and the fire raptor king could now barely resist as its form is slowly sinking inside the magic circle.
Just as half of its body is about to enter, a flaming napalm is aimed towards Adrian that is currently focused on sealing the fire raptor king. Kanlaon immediately knew the danger and he picked up Adrian from his spot and moved the latter from harms’ way. The flaming napalm hit the fire raptor king and ended its life.
[The Fire Raptor King has been killed. You have gained experience points.]
[You have leveled up.]
Adrian looked towards the direction where the attack came from and he could finally see the monster he is looking for.
Monster: Fire Drake
Level: 150
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