( Rocky’s POV )

At the same time as Sophia and Perseus received their sentencing at the Olympian Council, Rocky and his team somehow made their way to the end of the Floor22 dungeon.

Staring across the massive boss room gate, Rocky concluded that it had to be the third and final boss room, holding the most dangerous creature that they had fought yet.

“Alright guys, this is it…. This is our last stop, if we conquer the monster inside we will be done with our floor leveling for the week….” Rocky said, as he tried his best to give the team a pep talk to try and elevate their morale.

Having now spent close to three days within this enclosed dungeon, barely resting at all, the group was now approaching its psychological limit.

However, if they were to get out of here alive, they needed to hold themselves together and be at their fighting best as the last monster was not going to be an easy enemy. Chapter Explore:

“The last monster that we are going to face should be the ‘Dark Phoenix’.

According to adventurers who have previously fought it, the monster in the third and final boss room of this dungeon is a massive bird made of darkness that has a hard impenetrable darkness core, which is nearly impossible to break.

The beast does not have any ‘Fire’ type abilities and its name ‘Dark Phoenix’ is just a name given by climbers based on its bird-like appearance, while its real species name is unknown.

The moment we go inside the Boss room, the dark phoenix should start attacking us by swooping down on us…. So especially beware against that first attack, since it is notorious for killing many.

Once we get past the first attack, my plan is that we get into a tight back-to-back formation and provide the bird with no openings to exploit.

Regardless of what angle the bird attacks us from, our strategy should remain the same, which is to defend first and to try and land a clean strike on its core, whenever we get a chance to do so.

Since this boss monster has no underlings supporting it in melee battle, as long as we hold strong defensively and don’t get picked off individually, we are assured to win the fight sooner or later…..

Although its core is said to be indestructible, there are multiple reports confirming that after taking lots of heavy hits, the core does slowly start to crack like a nut until it’s destroyed, so it’s not as if the difficulty of defeating this opponent is a actually near impossible” Rocky said, as he shared his perspective on what he thought the best approach to this fight was.

“I think the plan Sir Rocky suggested is perfect for this boss raid…. I am ready to play my part in it” Erin said, as he gave his vote of confidence to Rocky.

“Well… I don’t really know anything about battle plans, and Rocky seems like a responsible leader, so it’s a ‘go’ from me too” Kronos said, as he held up a double thumbs up sign.

“Buhara is always ready to follow Rocky into a fight ….. let’s end this now!” Said Buhara as he smashed his fist into his palm, showing his eagerness to end this dungeon run.

“Alright guys…. Remember, the bird lunges at us as soon as we enter, so stay alert” Rocky said as he pushed open the dungeon door and dashed into it.

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*SCREECH*

Almost as soon as Rocky ran into the boss room, he heard a loud screeching sound that echoed multiple times across the room as a massive shadowy figure swooped down to grab him in its talons.

*Roll*

Rolling over, Rocky avoided the attack as he got back to his feet, however, to his absolute surprise, as he got up once more in the near pitch-dark room, he found himself staring at another set of talons right in front of him.

‘Shit–’ thought Rocky as he felt the second birds talons trying to close in around his body, however, he vehemently fought them off using all his strength.

“Gyaahh–” Rocky screamed as he used the strength of his entire body to prevent the talons from closing in around him, as after a split second the bird opened them once again and flew past Rocky, as it could no longer stay in the same spot without losing altitude.

*Thud*

*Thud*

A moment later, it was Kronos and Buhara who stood shoulder to shoulder against him, as Erin illuminated the entire room revealing the presence of not just one, but two enemy birds floating in the space above them.

“What the fuck? Why are there two birds instead of only one?” Said Erin as he felt flabbergasted at the sight of two enemies, however, there was nothing that they could do about it.

‘Vorithra Sylithen’ had set in, altering the dungeon conditions once again, as it provided the group with an unexpected challenge for their last fight.

“Alright guys, stay calm…. Our plan stays the same.

These birds do not possess formidable attacking capabilities and if we hold our defenses strong, we can still win this.

Don’t worry and stick to the plan.

We will get through this together…. I promise” Rocky said, as he tried to make sure that the team remained calm in the face of this unexpected challenge.

*SCREECH*

As the birds swooped down once again, this time they attacked Buhara and Kronos, however, Buhara countered his attacker using a fireball spell, while Kronos unleashed a sword projection that forced his attacker to alter its flight path.

Unfortunately, both their attacks missed their mark, as while it successfully helped them defend, they did not land a scratch on the enemy either, which was crucial if they wanted to win this fight.

As per Rocky’s original plan, if the group faced only one bird at a time they could have easily did the job of both attacking and defending, however, faced with two enemies at once they were stretched to their limits just trying to not get hurt.

‘This raid is going to be tough….’ Rocky thought, as he grit his teeth and prepared to attack the bird who was now coming for him.

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