Chapter 59: Final dungeon boss
With his preparations done, he put on the [Rangers badge] and used one of the basic mana stones to restore his mana.
He saw it once again turn into a silver ring, he walked through the gate again and crossed the bridge to the gate of the boss of the dungeon.
He did not have time to be impressed by the workmanship of the gate or all the statues, as his main goal was to simply defeat the boss, and get out of here before the black mages caught up to him.
The gate opened.
[Infested juggernaut Lv. 6]
Rank: 2
- low magic resistance Lv.1
- Terrain smash Lv. 2
- Infested rage Lv.1
- poison spray Lv.3
The boss of the dungeon was a fat knight, who also stood at 2.5 meters. He had a custom made armor that fit him perfectly. The armor style was completely different from this world's.
He had a butcher's knife for a weapon, except that it was enlarged and that it was longer than 3 meters.
The boss's face was Hidden by the helm, but he could still catch small glimpses of red-crazed eyes. The monster produced terrifying howls and grunts. It had its spit leaking out of the bird-like helm.
It lunged at him the moment he entered, Esdras charged at it but before they completely collided, he jumped, and somersaulted in the air.
While, still being in the air over the back of the juggernaut, his empty hand suddenly produced a great sword, burning with vigor he directly pierced through the armor and stabbed through the body of the juggernaut.
But it was not deep enough, although it broke through the armor, it actually consumed much more power and force than he had expected. By the time the sword stabbed into the body of the monster, it had lost much of the power behind it.
The sword was stuck, however, it immediately turned into a silver liquid and into a ring, once again in his hand. The first collision was over, and he landed on his feet.
The monster screeched in pain and stomped on the ground with its feet, causing several protrusions to appear in the entire battlefield.
The sudden appearance and change in the environment underneath caught him off guard, and he lost his balance for a short moment.
But even then, that was enough for the monster, who was extremely agile, considering how fat he was.
The butcher's knife cut through his body, and immediately cleaved the right side of his body and stopped only at his collarbone.
If he did not have an enhanced physical body that one strike would have killed him.
But this was still bad enough, however, he ignored the pain coursing through his body, and his empty hands produced a 3 meter long spear.
In order to make it that long he had to make it extremely thin, and yet it was entirely covered in his vigor. It pierced through the armor of the juggernaut once again.
The juggernaut was probably confused as to how he managed to produce and Hide weapons at will.
Esdras withdrew the spear and circled around the juggernaut to evade a second strike from the butcher's knife, which caused the ground to shatter.
He took this moment to widen the distance between them. He took a Health potion, and while one low level health portion was not enough to immediately heal his injury it could stop any further harm from happening.
After creating distance, he launched a fireball at the juggernaut, which had grown sluggish as it did not show its previous agility.
It exploded and the fire and the air pressure whirled around it. But it was clearly not enough.
And the sad thing about the spells he got was that each one took 10 seconds or more of preparation to Cast.
He continued to widen the distance between them as he launched several stone bullets, unfortunately, the juggernaut used its butcher's sword to block them.
Esdras rushed in once again, if he didn't do anything, then this battle would be prolonged, and he did not want to see that.
He also couldn't stay far away, because he was clearly losing more mana and stamina than the juggernaut so he had to change his strategy.
In the meantime, his wound was healing up nicely; perhaps, in several minutes, it would be back to normal.
He crossed over the distance, extremely quickly and launched more stone bullets which the juggernaut once again blocked. But that was exactly what he wanted as when he did that it lost sight of him.
Suddenly a blue flash lit up the area, and a broad sword cut off its sword-wielding hand along with the butcher sword. it fell on the ground and green blood sprayed out.
Esdras was in the line of the sprayed blood and noticed that his poison status bar started rising, it had poisonous blood. No matter.
He climbed over the body of the staggering juggernaut and stabbed it through the gaps between the helmet and body armor of the juggernaut.
Perhaps, if it was a normal stab, it would not have even harmed the juggernaut in the least. But it was not, it was done using [penetrating vigor]!
Through the opening of the helmet, a green poisonous spray was spat on him directly, which immediately filled up the poison status bar.
He was poisoned.
Unbelievably, even with that sword, and even with that stab, the juggernaut had somehow remained alive.
He removed its helmet to reveal its ugly malformed face, he recalled the sword and turned it into a short sword which he stabbed through the eye of the monster and twisted it.
The monster went into a frenzy and tried to bite him while slamming and destroying the ground around him, Esdras held on to the sword for his dear life.
When the monster opened its maw, he took a risk and punched it with his fist infused with all the Vigor he had left, destroying its head and scattering brain matter everywhere.
The monster still didn't fall and he didn't get any EXP notification.
Cursing, he channeled his mana to the [Rangers badge], and ten arrows shot out immediately destroying its head completely.
In the meantime, a fireball twice as big formed over his left hand, and he shot it through whatever remained of the juggernaut's neck after his head was blown off.
He expected to be blown off by the air pressure, but he wasn't. He was caught in the juggernaut's left hand and a crushing feeling came over him.
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