Infinite Realm

"You foul vermin." The boss glared at Sato hatefully. If looks could kill, then Sato would have died a 100 times over. It looked as if it were a male lion cuckblocked without having the ability to do anything about it.

"Uhmm, sorry? It was either us or him so we went with the weaker one. Don't worry though, you will soon meet him." Fudo teased the boss since it couldn't do anything.

The amount of hatred and anger the boss displayed through his eyes was enough to tell one that this couldn't be solved with a simple 'I'm sorry' but Fudo didn't really care.

Running over to Sato, Fudo said seriously "Sato, we have to deal with the boss before its too late."

It might seem like his earlier comment was just to tease the boss but it also served a s a test of sorts. It was already known to the players present that the boss was a monster with intellect but the degree of intelligence was unknown. Just like a human being is normally smarter than a monkey despite both creatures being intelligent, monsters with intellect had various intelligence levels or IQ. The level of intelligence is a very important factor for pro players as it gives them a hint of how they should handle such a creature.

Fudo had made that statement to see how the boss would react. Since they formation beneath it was possibly rejuvenating it mana, the boss would logically remain there until it had achieved its peak level. If it had lost its temper to the statement Fudo had made, abandoning it power supply, unless it had recovered to its peak state this would show that even though it was intelligent, it could still be manipulated with its emotions. However, in the case that the boss ignores the statement or just reacts with an aggressive facial expression without leaving the formation like it just did, this would show that the boss was one that strictly adhered to the most logical calculations. That would mean that the boss would have to be handled in a more careful and cautious manner than usual.

The good news though was that if the boss had reacted and left its area, the entire team might suffer a team wipe since they were still busy with two other one-horned trolls.

Seeing where Fudo had arrived from to make such a request, Sato pondered before replying "There's nothing we can do about it now. Try and destroy the formation while I grab its attention. Apart from this, all we can do is wait for the others. The faster they deal with the other one-horned trolls, the faster we get to dealing with the boss." Once he was done, he ran over to the other side where the boss was.

"That's a nice plan but how the hell am I supposed to do that?" Fudo cried.

"Figure it out."

. . . . .

When Sato had dealt the final blow to the one-horned troll, the other players were shocked. They weren't shocked at the fact that he had defeated a one-horned troll faster than they could but they shocked at the destructive ability of the scroll Sato had used. It dealt such a huge amount of damage in one shot and seeing as it had crashed into the wall with a loud boom, they believed it could have done more damage than it dead to the heavily injured one-horned troll.

"Damn." Swift Blade sucked in a large amount of cold air. He had earlier recovered from the beating the troll gave him and joined up with the others.

As it stood, Old Jiro and Dream Tiger acted as the main damage dealers from the back. Griffin tanked both one-horned trolls and thanks to the timely assistance of the above to alongside the saber-wielding swordsman Chesces and the true swordsman Swift Blade, Griffin was able to hold against the trolls. Kylian acted as both a healer and support, using his control-type skills to interrupt the one-horned trolls once in awhile especially in key moments, thereby giving the others a sublime opportune juncture to make massive changes to the one-horned trolls' HP and at the same time granting a short respite to Griffin.

At the rate they were handling things, it would've have taken them less than 2 minutes to finish off the two one-horned trolls but with the death of one of their brethren, the trolls got enraged and even though it wasn't a true berserk state, their strength had increased a bit. This made things a little bit harder for the players especially their MT, Griffin, who had to bear most of the attacks. Though things became harder for them, it was only by a little bit; at worst, it would take them a little longer to defeat the one-horned trolls but time was of the essence to these players.

"Come on. We have to finish this fodders soon and defeat the boss before another set of players come in." Chesces tried to motivate the team. In other to finish the trolls even faster, Chsces had ordered griffin to handle the one with the higher HP, alongside Swift Blade while the rest focused on the other one.

"Haa!" Griffin lifted his shield and roared, preparing to meet the one-horned troll's axe.

[Block]

[-3] (Griffin 117/130)

Thanks to Kylian's timely heals and his own personal amazing tanking skills, Griffin's HP was at the 90 % mark.

Once the attack was blocked, the one-horned troll didn't give up as it followed up with another attack.

*clang*

*clang*

Within 2 seconds, the troll had made 3 different moves forcing Griffin to use 2 different skills to block them. As for the third attack, Griffin, relying on his expert senses and ability, narrowly dodged it.

"[Horizontal slash]"

"Arghhh"

[-44] (One-Horned troll 326/500)

Swift Blade had used the period the one-horned troll was attacking Griffin to circle behind it and land a blow on it before quickly retreating.

[-31] (One-horned troll 295/500)

Using the minor distraction the one-horned troll had received due to the pain inflicted on it, Griffin moved forward and slashed out with his sword, successfully gaining its aggro and keeping its attention on himself.

After having battled together for awhile now, the two players gave the feeling of being tandem with one another as one attacked while the other retreated. From an outside view, one would think that they had been working together for a few months at the very least, without knowing that this synchrony of theirs was developed mid battle.

While they slowly pegged down the one-horned troll's HP, the other group did things a bit differently…

"[Entangling Vines]"

"[Spiral Shot]"

"[Greater Fireball]"

"[Horizontal Slash]"

A flurry of skills and attacks were aimed at the one-horned troll here. If Sato and Fudo's approach was to use consumables, Chesces' team's approach was to bombard the one-horned troll with skills. One control-type skill holding it down, while the other 3 players used attack after attack to quickly drop it's HP to the red before it officially went berserk.

Whether it went berserk or not didn't make much of a difference. Drunken Hog and Dream Tiger still attacked from a distance while Chesces confronted the monster with Kylian's assistance and the other two's support.

During this time, Kylian sneaked a glance at Sato and Fudo to see what they were doing.