Chapter 29: Boss Fight

I decide to accelerate to reach the fifth floor quickly, I pass through the corridors cutting everything in my path, be they monsters or traps, the path I followed now has a trail of blood and monster bodies, I continued this way up to the 5th floor.

I arrive at a strange room, it is very large and this time there is a chest, each room on each floor had a bit of treasure but this one has no treasure beyond the chest.

‘And a trap…but where is the floor boss?’

“!!!” I dodge to the left, soon I see an attack coming from somewhere, the floor cracked with claw marks etched into the ground.

‘It’s invisible’ I move cautiously through the room, a hidden enemy is problematic.

I will rely completely on my instincts and senses to dodge and attack, I sharpen my perception to the utmost and close my eyes to focus on hearing and touch.

I feel something lightly touch my face at the same moment I use a variation of Mutieren to block the attack, it’s strong but nothing I can’t defend against.

Soon the monster retreats, from the weight and impact I judge the monster to be about 5 meters tall and quadrupedal, probably some kind of canine monster from the claws.

‘My sword is chipped…’ The attack damaged the sword, it will probably only last a few more impacts.

“…Haaa” I take a deep breath as I try to feel any variation in the environment, even the smallest things.

“!!!” I advance at once, kicking the ground to raise a piece of the floor and then kicking the piece forward.

“Raawiinggg” I hit the monster, I see drops of blood fall and take advantage of this to use magic. I learned 5 spells during this month.

[Neutral Barrier] a mana-based barrier without any element, it has no advantages but also no disadvantages.

[Explosive Life] converts the user’s own blood into explosives that are remotely activated.

[Light of Passage] creates a magical light sphere that follows you, remaining active for a few hours and illuminating the environment.

[Ice Bean Zero] fires a stream of ice at 0 degrees temperature, the temperature decreases the longer the ice stream is maintained, although the mana cost increases accordingly.

[Divide] Generates small wind flows that cut everything in a given area.

“And this is your end, you worm [Divide]” A flow of wind cuts is generated in the area where I see the blood, soon I see the monster being quickly dismembered as various cuts tear it to pieces.

For a boss, it may not seem strong, but in fact it is worthy of being the boss for a single reason at no point did I locate it without it attacking first.

Its invisibility passed my senses, which is an enormous feat, probably many would die trying to fight this monster, even people stronger than it.

Soon I continue slicing everything I encounter as I head to the tenth floor, in that chest there were only some treasures but nothing special.

The monsters in the corridor don’t even have a chance to react to my speed, the traps also can’t do much beyond a few scratches.

However, I understand why this place is an S-Rank dungeon. I realized that in this dungeon the predominant element is water, whether the monsters or the environment, everything has water mana, although the monsters have not used water magic.

And the real problem is mana.

“My mana doesn’t regenerate…” This dungeon prevents mana from regenerating, as magic is very important, the deeper you go, the more difficult it becomes to continue, and at some point you will die to some strong monster that you can’t defeat.

“You know what…I don’t need to ration mana if I get to the bottom all at once…” I stop running and start concentrating mana, my goal was never the treasures, but to go as far as I can.

This dungeon has an unknown number of floors, Thalor said it’s one of the weakest S-Rank ones and that’s why I wouldn’t have any problems with it.

Soon I gather 95% of my mana into a sphere of pure darkness, I took all the mana I could and transformed it into the Darkness element.

Then I use all that mana in an attack downward.

BOOOOOOOOM

A loud explosion sound occurs while an enormous crater that can’t be seen the bottom of is formed where it hit. I soon jump into the hole, I don’t know how far it went, but I know that with this I will reach the deepest floors.

This dungeon has never been explored before, and Thalor said it’s in the territory of a former demon king, since he died and the dungeon wasn’t considered valuable, it was abandoned.

However, there were still treasures, I just hope I didn’t obliterate too many of them. In a way, what I’m doing is cheating, after all I didn’t explore the dungeon, but as a leader, I believe that sometimes I need to find shortcuts to achieve my goals.

This dungeon prevents me from regenerating mana, and my goal is to go far, that is, if I think rationally, I don’t need to dominate each floor, just create a passage to go far.

Soon I can see the ground.

“[Neutral Barrier]” I use the barrier and hit the ground, creating a small crater, I don’t know what floor I’m on.

Suddenly I feel danger, barely dodging in time.

“That’s… my arm…” I look at my shoulder and see, I lost my arm and the sword was broken so fast that I didn’t even see it, if it weren’t for my instincts, I would have lost my head.

The place where I am is like a circular closed arena, it reminds me of a glass dome, I see what attacked me, it seems to be some kind of golem or puppet.

A white humanoid without expression, it has 4 arms and uses 4 swords, the folds of the knees and elbows are like a toy, while I see several other signs indicating this fact.

“I lost my sword…and I’m up against a possible boss…” This thing is strong, I feel that, if I’m not careful, I’ll die, it’s not time to focus only on swordsmanship, but I never imagined I’d end up in such a bad place, now I only have 5% of my initial magic.

“[Explosive Life]” I transform all the spilled blood into explosives, it may be useful to activate later.

This thing assumes an attack stance.

“A monster that knows swordsmanship? It couldn’t get any better…” I say sarcastically as I see that it’s not just a stance, but a swordsman’s stance.

[Essence of Creation]

This is the first time I use this ability, I soon create a sword, I look at my sword, it doesn’t seem very good, its shape is slightly deformed and its blade lacks sharpness, but it will serve for now. I create another to try to balance it. Fortunately, my quick regeneration has already made my new arm.

“…Tsk…” My disadvantage becomes evident, my fighting style is with 2 swords while this thing’s is with 4, I’ll have to somehow manage to defend the other 2.

I wait, I don’t know what style this thing uses, so I can’t be careless. It slowly walks towards me. Soon it picks up speed and starts running, I take steps back and kick my severed arm towards the monster.

It uses the sword to cut.

“[Explosive Life]” an explosion happens while I use what I learned from the lion-octopus and kick the ground for momentum, advancing directly at the distracted monster.

It defends my attack with the 4 swords while the ground under its feet cracks with the impact, I use my tail to try to pierce its stomach while pressing it with Durchbrechen to break its guard.

It jumps back, but I use Nachreisen to keep pressing it, if I give this thing space to recover its stance, I’ll have problems, so I have to press it as much as I can.

The swords give off sparks, my brute force presses the monster, preventing it from using any of the 4 hands, at the moment it tries to take one of the hands off, it will be split in two by the broken stance.

“URGKK” I receive a kick in the stomach, although I defended with my tail, it was stronger than expected, so I stop pressing it and it manages to retreat far away.

Soon it resumes its attack stance and waits, its movements are now cautious, as if it had learned that recklessly advancing is dangerous.

[Shadow Sculpture]

I fill the ground with hidden sharks, if this thing isn’t careful, I’ll tear it to pieces.

Soon I advance, taking the initiative, it blocks my blows as we begin to exchange attacks, and it soon forces me to be on the defensive, protecting myself from the attacks.

Several small cuts start to hit me, but I ignore them, I just need to defend the real blows, small scratches are nothing.

I jump back, it tries to come but a shark emerges, biting the place, the monster dodges backwards without being hit.

I make the sharks start to surround it, now several fins are circling it, the monster keeps its focus on all of them carefully.

‘What will it do in this situation?’ I’ve already understood its fighting style a bit better, in a few more minutes I’ll be able to defend perfectly.

A sudden movement catches me by surprise.

“Hyaaa” I scream in pain as I feel a sword piercing my head.

“YOU BASTARD” I yell at him as I pull the sword out of my skull, I feel my blood flowing down my face, I honestly got scared when I saw the sword so close, luckily I’m hard to kill.

I never imagined taking direct damage to the brain, at least I saw that I remain fully conscious even with a sword in my brain.

“I’M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKER, FILTHY WORM” I start concentrating all the magic I have left in the sword. I advance on him to use Scheitelhau, a vertical descending cut, he soon takes a defensive stance, at the moment my blade hits his…

“[Shadowed Cutting Blade]” a blade of darkness parts his swords and body in two, making a huge cut mark on the floor and wall.

“Urk…I’m dizzy…” The world starts to spin, the effects of being at 0% mana are just appearing.

I sit on the ground to wait for the dizziness to subside, while the sharks destroy the monster and return to hiding in the ground to protect me if necessary.

“Ohohoho, I never imagined someone would come to this place” I hear an arrogant and disdainful voice and soon look at who spoke to me and see.

“A sword?”

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