*BOOOM!*
The strange humanoid monster that Darius turned into suddenly raised both of his hands, gathering a flickering black energy that turned into an orb with sparkling gray spots.
Shiro-sen had informed others that one of the rats charged out and shared his vision, so Liam and the others quickly made their moves.
Old monster Dylan kept control of his terrain shifting, keeping the other rats at bay while also helping as magma pythons shot out from the hole Darius crawled out from, wrapping around him.
However, the pythons had no effect on Darius!
‘Careful! Don’t get close!’ Dylan quickly relayed this to Liam and others about what he sensed through the reaction from his Pythons. ‘His life force and energy are completely volatile! He could self-destruct and take you with him!’
‘Attack the orb he is gathering!’ Shiro-sen relayed as he sensed upsetting power from that orb. ‘We need more defense.’
He glanced at the other battlefield where Rudra and others were fighting against the phase 2 monster. The healers were constantly healing the frontline fighters while long-range attackers were attacking, but the Wyvern Warrior was faster, and some projectiles couldn’t even hit it.
It was hard to slam it down, but Rudra and other fighters on the frontline were giving their all to slam the boss in the intense clashes.
‘Rudra, if you can make sure that the Wyvern doesn’t use a large area attack, I will use the Yata no Kagami because there’s one strange rat here who is a big threat to the backliners.’
Rudra was fully focused, and hearing Shiro-sen’s words, he simply replied, ‘Do what must be done!’
On the other hand, Liam and others hurled their long-range skills after hearing a warning from Dylan, but all of their attacks couldn’t budge the strange humanoid black monster that Darius had become.
The orb Darius was gathering became bigger and bigger as it absorbed the incoming attacks and attacks that landed on his body.
“Damn it! Why are our attacks not working?” Liam cursed.
“What the fuck is that even?”
“What do we do, Elder Shiro? Found any weakness?”
Shiro-sen gritted his teeth, his eyes straining and glowing more as he pushed the nature of his skill to discover something more from that rat than what he was already seeing.
‘What is that power?! There has to be a weakness!’
The entire body of Darius and that orb he was making both looked the same. Same appearance, same texture, and same energy.
‘What if the mirror also fails to block it?’ Shiro-sen had a weird feeling as he thought and immediatly shifted his mindset, changing the strategy.
‘If stopping him doesn’t work, then we’ll send him away from here!’ Shiro-sen’s eyes glinted.
He quickly told Liam and others to focus on other rats since they were going to be released, while he told Dylan to cover Darius in a chunk of earth and hurl him as far as possible.
Without hesitation, Dylan released his control of the terrain he had shifted and, instead, shifted the ground around Darius and manipulated it to cover Darius completely into a sphere.
Roaring loudly, Dylan hurled the sphere into an arc with his full power, intending to send it as far as possible.
And this was the best way to deal with this threat because Darius wasn’t conscious. He was just commanded and forcefully in a bind with his mind corrupted.
The Emissary who was watching clicked his tongue as he saw the earthen sphere hurling away. If he was in Darius’ control, he would’ve actively forced Darius to hurl the attack prematurely, but unfortunately, he couldn’t interfere that much.
The mark only corrupted the individual to work on a destructive impulse with a linear process selected by the individual himself, using the Hollowstar’s power as the entire person and its energy would transform into Hollowstar essence like how Darius turned pitch black with gray sparks all over.
Fortunately, Shiro-sen’s quick-witted shift in tactics saved the use of Yata no Kagami because he judged that Darius, who had turned into a strange monster, wasn’t capable of reasoning or sound actions based on what he sensed.
Liam and others became busy as they fought with other rats, preventing getting close while old monster Dylan chugged potions as he went back to capturing the rats again.
On the other hand, Wyvern Warrior reached below 30% of its vitality, and all of the debuffs on it cleansed with its power again as it soared into the sky at a breakneck speed after unleashing a black gust of whirling wind that hurled away Rudra, Silvester, Hiroshi, Viktor, Rafael, Aamir, and Liang.
These seven old monsters were fighting in close range to keep the boss occupied so far, but the black gust of wind threw them away.
Rudra recovered with quickest and made a move. If he didn’t, things could get very ugly. A dimensional blue avatar rose from him as he roared, and giant energy hands grabbed the Wyvern Warrior that had turned into a sharp drill.
Arjun timely unleashed another powerful arrow while James unleashed a photon beam after chugging potions. Only these two could unleash pin-point long-range attacks without hurting Rudra, so their attacks managed to disrupt the drill.
Rudra received a powerful shock and injuries as he spewed out blood, having been forced to entirely bear the burden of that attack. But only he could do that.
‘Rudra, go and recover fast!’ Aamir said.
‘We’ll destroy that bastard’s wings now!’ Victory roared.
Silvester and Hiroshi were first to slash their blades, with veins popping all over their body as the attacks of Arjun and James had disrupted Wyvern Warrior by breaking it from its drilling form.
It was momentarily disjointed, so both swordsmen targetted a flying-wing each, intending to cut it.
And to make that successful, the others prevented the boss from recovering.
Victor’s giant icy axe with blood patterns all over landed on its left blade-wing while Aamir’s spear unleashed a vertical sparkling tornado of condensed sand and wind to the right blade-wing.
All four wings of Wyvern Warrior were struck, but it wasn’t over.
Rafael, who was using multiple weapons that were enchanted by his powerful poisons, entirely emptied his arsenal of attacks because it was time.
*Screeeeeeee!*
Wyvern Warrior roared as all of its wings received massive destruction, its scales getting destroyed with various attacks.
Christina focused on healing Rudra while other supports also did the same, as well as buffing the frontlines to enhance their attacks.
Meanwhile, the rest of the attackers, led by old monsters Bianca, Annika, and Theo, unleashed their attacks right on the Wyvern Warrior’s chest and head that were exposed.
Zauna used her cursed Shamanic staff artifact to place a curse that increased pain and damage received on the Wyvern, while others who had powerful debuff and control skills also doubled down.
This was the last bombardment of attacks to finish off the boss!
Arjun and James once again unleashed their attacks after recovering their Mana with potions, their eyes already bloodshot with all the exertion of power.
*Roarrr!!*
Wyvern Warrior roared as its wings were riddled with holes and cuts, its vitality rapidly reducing.
But it stopped at 1%, and then its vitality reached 2% as it began recovering.
“No, not anymore!” Rudra jumped as the earth cracked, fist glittering with a glassy aura cracking the space.
The blue-transparent destructive fist landed right on the Wyvern Warrior’s head!
*BOOOM!*