"Kitty! You are leaving yourself too wide open, Zara, and you are not letting your brother and sister in for the kill. You are not the only one who can deal a killing blow. " I quickly turned to Rajah, the male specter Tiger, and snapped, "Rajah, you are getting in Ariel's way on purpose. You might want to protect your sister, but they do not need it. Ariel, stop only sneak attacks. You need to be bolder and attack. You need to trust your sister and brother to be doing their job. I know you are all out of practice, but this miscoordination is unacceptable."
I got a couple of cries, and Kitty moved up, stroked her side against me, and purred, looking up with eyes begging for forgiveness. "No pity party, two more minutes to rest, then we are going back to it. We are down here to get you all in shape!" I demanded, and I started to go through the motions of cultivation without moving the energy. I found that it was helpful to do stretches when recharging energy, and I did not have to complete the cycle.
These were the sorts of things you learned while you were in the depths of the Dungeon. I heard a commotion behind me as I moved slowly. I opened my eyes and saw a group of men and women running toward me. They were all human. I let myself stand back up properly and blew a low-pitched whistle for a fraction of a second, and my tigers and Kitty moved.
Zara took a spot just at the entrance to the room on the right, with Rajah on the left. Ariel took a position a little back while Kitty took the center to draw attention. I watched and felt I should unsheathe my bladed whip. So I stood and waited as I heard the sound getting closer.
"Oh, Fuck! I can't believe a rare spawn Elite boss happened as we go deeper!" A woman cried.
"Stop fucking talking, you dumb tit; run fucking faster and hope we stumble into another group we can join to kill this fucking thing," A male voice yelled, "We won't be able to get back if we don't fucking kill it!" He snapped, and I saw them enter my view. They looked stunned, seeing two beast kin, and Kitty dodged out of the way as a man in thick leather armor almost plowed right into her. I noticed then two shadows rush in with a female mage who was panting with large breasts, making them bounce enticingly as she tried to catch her breath. "SHIT~!" The man said, pulling himself to a halt. I saw the man with a halberd. The group came into the room, and to my surprise, they turned around. "I don't know who you are, but can y-"
The Elite rare boss stomped into the room, and it was a MASSIVE Minotaur with chainmail on and a sword instead of an axe. The Minotaur roared and glared down at us, and I decided that I probably did not need to act, but it would be a close fight. "Kitty, Distract, Zara, maim, Rajah, Damage, Ariel, opportunities, GO!" I snapped and watched as Kitty was the first to move with her dagger. I teased the Minotaur as it tried to swing its sword to kill her, and the other group backed off. I could tell their tank was scared of the weapon.
But not all of them were useless. I saw a chain of ice bolts hit the Minotaur right in the face around the eyes as Kitty deftly dodged a strike meant to cleave her in two. Kitty then used his arm to leap again and use a dagger to cut the Minitour's face.
The cut into his skin made it roar, but that was the only moment that my Tigers needed. With Kitty being the target of his ire, Zara went in and tipped out the Achilles heel of the Minotaur as it was in the middle of lunging forward. "Step back," I simply said and stepped out of the way as the other group gasped.
The Minotaur started to fall down, but Rajah was there and coming in and bit into the armpit the monster was using as its dominant hand and then leaped back, using the momentum of the fall to rip out a chunk of muscle. The monster was tenacious and used its good arm to stop it from falling completely, but that left it right where Ariel wanted it as her brother and sister repositioned themselves. Her jaws opened and tore into the jugular and tore out a chunk of the massive creature, and the spray of blood started to paint the wall as Kitty came in and shoved a knife into the eye of the monster. They all took turns, but the Minotaur did not have a chance. Each time it tried to respond, even in death, it was from a different angle and place.
It was a death that shocked the newcomers in the room as my pets killed the Rare boss monster easily. "Seems we should start diving deeper," I commented as I watched them coordinate perfectly with each other. The monster could no longer even roar as it desperately tried to grab Kitty one last time with its one good eye to see her.
Its last sight was when Kitty slashed its last good eye and then backed away. It died moments later, and it started to sparkle for the first time in the dungeon. The blood disappeared along with the beast, leaving Kitty on a silver chest, and I heard them gasp. Then I felt my instincts tingle, and I turned to see the man bringing his halberd down towards my neck, and I chuckled.
"Wrong move," I said with a chuckle as I saw three more moves. Ah, there had been more, as I suspected.
Two daggers came out of the dark toward me, and the halberd was coming at my neck. A spell was being devised, and it would be sent my way instantly. Interestingly, they all attacked me at the same time, and I brought my leg up, kicked the halberd back, and then leaped while twisting my body over one of those daggers. I wrapped myself around the head of the first man who came at me, and I raked my claws through their throat while the second pair of daggers were still going to where I had been a second earlier. My bladed whip went out and wrapped around the rouge's neck while I was airborne and landed right in front of the mage with a smile and a fist to the stomach.
The woman coughed blood, and her mana shot out an ice shard that hit me lightly, making me chuckle as it was right into my ab, and the worst I could probably get was a bruise. I looked at the dead group around me, and I chuckled again. Look at them. A silver treasure chest comes up, and they try to kill their savior. They did not even hesitate.
"Hmmm, I like them. Too bad three of them are dead," I said as the last one fell to the ground and cut its own head off with my bladed whip. It was a brutal scene, but it showed what greed could do to someone. I turned and walked to the treasure chest, opened it, and found a beautiful pair of silver-clawed gauntlets. I smiled, "Seems Kara got a souvenir; still, I did not know this place could create things like this," I admitted, and I turned on the way back. "To report or not to report?" I asked myself, then walked over and pulled a slave collar out of my inventory, and I placed it over the coughing woman's neck, who froze and looked up as she realized she just lost her freedom.
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," I told her with a laugh, "Attacking a B ranker that just saved your life, stupid move."
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