Hero of Darkness

Just by looking at the floor boss that was slithering in between the trees, Kahn felt like something was crawling under his skin. 

One thing he knew for sure.. He could not fight this floor boss head-on. Because after suffering through the effects of those hallucinations and reuniting with his family again.. He had no will to endure that trauma once more.

[How do I kill it?] asked Kahn to himself because there were truly few options if he wanted to kill this floor boss. Because after the recent experience, it became a personal grudge for him. He was going to kill the damn monster no matter what.

Kahn thought of possible plans such as putting the monster in a corner or surrounding it from all the sides and ambushing it. But after some time of thinking, he thought of it as a naive choice because other than the information of the fog, he had no clue about the different abilities and skills of this floor boss at all. Planning anything prematurely could spell disaster for him.

This opponent was indeed really strong based on the aura he felt around it. And most importantly.. Despite being 8 meters tall and nearly 30 meters long, the creature was extremely well versed in hiding as if it was part of the environment itself. Because even Kahn, who was now a Grandmaster level fighter had a hard time to sense and track it down.

"I guess I have no other choice." said Kahn and went a kilometer away and deactivated shadow walk. He let out 2 minotaurs & 10 nymphs from his shadow and went back into hiding again. He was going to use these subordinates as a sacrificial lamb so he could learn about the skills of this boss and prepare accordingly.

When Kahn was 500 meters away from the boss, he found that the boss could sense the incoming enemies from a mile away. Means it had extremely well hearing.. Or maybe smell given how it was letting out its tongue more often.

If not for Kahn's Shadow Walk which completely hid his presence, aura and heat signatures; he would have been found a long time ago.

But unexpectedly, the boss didn't choose to fight them head on.. It slithered across the woods and kept releasing a fog from the various outlet-like openings on its body, trying to scare its prey and then attack them when they were in turmoil because of this hallucinogenic chemical that was mixed into the fog.

A small battle erupted between his subordinates and the floor boss. Little did the boss know that these subordinates he used as fodders didn't possess any free will of their own. They only acted as per his command.

So the boss ended up revealing more of its fighting skills when it felt like it was playing with food.

Kahn understood one thing that the floor boss had the advantage in speed and quick reflexes but other than the fog that was coming out from its secretory glands from outlets on its body. The boss had only one offensive ability. And that was the long tendrils that were coming from its back which also had hard spear-like pointy ends.

And during the fight, it used these flexible and agile tendrils as long-range weapons and attacked multiple opponents at the same time.

Even the tough-skinned Minotaurs fell against this ability. Kahn too possessed the Extension skill that was similar to this skill but it had a very short range and the pikes that were thrown from his bodies were detached as soon as they came out of his hands and he couldn't take them back inside him.

These tendrils on the other hand would still be connected to the monster boss and some of these tendrils had hook-like ends.

"Is that it? And this fucker scared the shit out of me.." said Kahn as he was stupefied how this floor boss left him witless but in reality, it had the combat strength similar to the Nymph floor boss. Even the Minotaur floor boss he previously fought on the earlier floor had more combat skills and innate abilities than this one.

If you left the advantage of the hallucinogenic fog it could create, there really wasn't much this boss could do. Other than the tendrils, it had no offensive skills that could be used in a long & arduous battle. 

The most commendable trait it had was the speed and reflexes during the fight. Plus the sensing ability through hearing and smell was indeed very useful even for someone like Kahn whose hearing had a range of 30 meters at best if he wanted to hear whispers and talks from a distance. 

"Ah.. Fuck it!" spoke Kahn as he left the shadows of the tree.

[Grab its attention and keep it busy.] ordered Kahn to his subordinates and his small army left his shadow in seconds.

He used shadow walk again as he disappeared while his army under the lead of Omega attacked and surrounded the floor boss. And since the fog didn't work on his subordinates.. The floor boss was forced into a corner.

Blackwall taunted the boss with his skills, forcing it to focus and attack him while Omega and Jugram dealt a lot of damage. Ceril played a vital role as he kept shooting highly damaging magic spells and Armin provided many attack buffs to the other generals.

In half an hour, the floor boss was excessively bleeding from various places but it couldn't even run away because the enemies had one strong fighter in all directions and had extremely well-timed attacking coordination. With the advantage of using the fog being turned useless, the floor boss turned into a disappointing opponent.

After having its complete attention on the enemies it was facing, it failed to sense a black shadow coming its way. 

When it was fighting against the onslaught, it felt a swift pain. 

Kacha! 

The floor boss's head was pierced through by a longsword. Before it could sense what was happening.. The head was split into two and the giant slithering body dropped on the ground. 

A human figure that was holding the pierced sword in his hand and was currently standing on the back of the floor boss where those tendrils came from sighed in disappointment. 

He easily finished this boss by bullying it with numbers while losing only a few of his subordinates and landed the killing blow when it was completely exhausted and distracted. 

"My dissapointment is immeasurable and my day ruined." spoke Kahn with a dejected face. 

"I hope at least the abilities are useful." said Kahn and put his hand on the corpse. 

"Absorb!"