Ch. 22 Dungeon Boss?

Q'ill! I screwed up there here! I messed up on my puzzle room.

It's fine dear this would have happened, either way, let's focus on what happens now, you ready to give them a fight to the best of your ability?

She said that with eyes clear of blame for my mistakes. Yes! Even if I die here I'll give it all I got.

Back in room nine, the mages were standing in front of a large pair of doors. This seems to have been a puzzle using water, It looks like the dungeon is not as smart as we originally thought or it simply looked down at us. One of the Scholar's apprentices said to the group of mages under him.

Send a report to my master and sir Knight, these doors definitely lead to a boss. The amount of mana escaping the doors is a bit alarming though...

One of the soldiers saluted and went to report outside.

The apprentice looked at the 80 soldiers and 30 mages with him and thought about testing the waters for his teacher and getting merit or better kill the boss and get rewarded, with the mentality that the Dungeon has run out of ideas by its nine-room he orders his troops to access the Boss Room.

The troops proceeded to push the doors and found a giant arena-like room full of poison Ivys, a giant rainbow lily in the middle, its vines covering most of the back of the arena serving as a barrier to another door behind it.

A King Lily? No... there normally white with purple dots, this, it's a Variant!

The scholar apprentice quickly recoiled back in fear, a Variant is not rare on powerful dungeons, but for one to show up in a newly born Dungeon can only mean that it has received the full support and resources of its Core. No wonder there are no powerful creatures this dungeon focus all its resources on the Boss.

The apprentice was worried, looking at the large army under him he exhaled slowly and took control of his emotions, no matter what it's just one opponent.

He quickly ordered the soldiers to move to the front those with earth affinity ready to defend themselves from the boss's attacks.

Upon the soldiers reaching seven feet from the boss, it suddenly moves, its vines shot toward them, the soldiers blocked the attack but were sent flying. Ten mages quickly cast the 2nd circle (Firebolt) and bombarded King Lily. The boss swing one of its vines across the firebolts the bolts, however, exploded on contact destroying the vine clearing a path to its flower, it quickly twisted three more vines around its flower making contact with the remaining firebolts, the explosion destroyed the vines and scratch the petals.

The mages had ordered themselves in set's of ten, casting spells in a rotation shortly after each other, the second round of spells came as soon as the first made contact, this time a shower of 2nd circle (Wind Scythe) with a rain of 2nd circle (Boulder Toss) nearly ready, waiting for impact.

The lily seemly aware of the attacks quickly uproots pushing all the ground 10 feet from it upwards the 15 or so soldiers near it thrown along with the landslide becoming the monster's shield.

Out of the 80 soldiers, 40 were Earth affinity and were used as frontline, now that they were about to be killed by their own members they quickly stop saving Elemental Mana and used the (Elemental Earth Armor) to protect themselves, however, seven of them died to the (Boulder Toss) after their armor melted to the previous spells Flames.

The now freed roots wrapped around 12 of the fallen soldiers using them as shields while attempting to reach the mages. The remaining soldiers however were not there just for show, the 20 fire affinity soldiers became one size bigger with steam and flames around their bodies jumping and cutting the roots aimed at the mages, the remaining 20 wind affinity soldiers quickly rescue the fallen soldiers buried under rubble, the mages started to heal them as the rest cycle between fire and wind spells.

The boss seems to avoid the fire at all cost while letting its vines be slash into segments by the wind spells.

After a while the mages were running out of Elemental Mana, looking at the Lily it was quickly recovering, the Dungeon had truly focus all its resources on it. With no other choice, the apprentice gave out orders.

One last rush, if we failed immediately retrieve, waste the Cores Mana as much as possible!

Yes, sir! the army replied going back to a rotation the mages blasted the boss with fire, wind, and earth spells saving their mana for escaping. The fire affinity soldiers rushed in behind the Earth ones, now fully incase in armor the vines not able to knock them back, as they pushed forward the wind soldiers attempted to slice apart as many of the Ivy vines as they could, it was surprisingly easy, the vines and leaves littered there path as they walk closer to the boss now retrieving.

The boss overwhelmed by so many attacks was now against the Core Rooms doors, desperately swinging its vines forward as they regroup in a desperate attempt to pass the hearty soldiers. Seeing this the mages walked to the middle of the room covered in the bosses body parts, however, as soon as the apprentice got close to the middle a forewarning feeling of death passed throughout his body, looking at the boss, the giant flower with six beautiful petals of rainbow colors surrounding a single strangely looking style, the style uncoiled giving way to fourteen anthers, a mouth with sharp teeth grinning at the mages.

Somethings wrong! Escape! Now!

It was too late, the pieces of vines that were not burned quickly turned into snakes trapping and cutting their bodies the frightened mages quickly used (Fire Shield) or (Immolate) their struggle quickly ended as the small vines slit their throat or slither inside there mouths bursting out of there bellies in a horrible shower of blood.

The soldiers panic as the vines killed the mages and attempted to escape, with the wind soldiers having the most luck and nearly making it out before they turn into a pincushion for a shower of razor-sharp leaves, the earth soldiers were slowly crushed to a mess of flesh, by the king lily. Lastly, the fire soldiers prove a pain, but they suffer the same fate as the mages and had all of their orifices violently penetrated, exploding into a mass of flesh.

Looking at this from her hidden corner, Q'ill was shocked, dam... sweetie is brutal! Mhmmm... maybe I should cast (Clear Mind) again, I get the feeling he is worse than the lingering wills, hehe.