When ELo followed the others into the boss-room, his heart stopped beating for a second. What he saw was a mountain of flesh in the middle of the room.
If it wasn't so big, it could have been mistaken for a very overweight human. However, it did not possess a face.
"This must be the dad of those meat golems, there's no way we can win against this." Lara blurted out in a panicked voice.
When Elo was about to respond, the mass of meat suddenly started moving.
"IIIIKKKKKKKKKKK"
To Elo, it felt like his ears would explode at any time. Shocked, he eyed the monstrosity.
What he had thought to be fat, transformed into muscles as the golem stud up.
It's blank head almost reached the ceiling, which meant it had to be at least double the size of the normal golems.
Moreover, it's muscular body didn't show even one small impurity. In comparison to the other golems, it could be called handsome.
Even so, Elo had to agree with Lara: There was no way the team could fight this enormous enemy.
"We have to get out of here, asap!" He cried out.
As one, the entire team started running towards the entrance.
They got closer and closer, but the giant followed them on foot.
When they were about to reach the door that would get them out of the boss room, Elo could suddenly smell the sweet scent of death.
His stomach turned around, and he needed all his power to not throw up while running. The others, however, didn't possess such a strong will.
Lara fell to the floor and didn't stand up again, while Lars and Ella started vomiting all over the black stones.
When Elo thought it couldn't get any worse, a wall of rotting corpses crashed down in front of them, blocking their only way out of this nightmare.
As Elo looked around, the only one standing beside him, was Gorden and the meat giant.
When his gaze met the monster, he was overcome by terror. Although it didn't have a face, it radiated amusement. This was just a game for this monster!
His entire body started shivering, and he took two small steps backwards before he fell onto the floor.
Even if the impact was hard, he didn't even realise he had fallen. All he felt was pure terror.
Luckily, Gorden hadn't realised the monster's amusement. That's why he was the only one still standing.
When he saw that all the others couldn't fight right now, a grim expression entered his face.
As the golem was about to take one more step at him, he rushed forewards and slashed at his foot with a big stick that had appeared. Even while using two hands to swing the bat, the hit had caused next to no damage to the monster.
However, the hit had still fulfilled its premise when the monster's attention shifted towards Gorden.
But its reaction was just to fast. Nobody, not even Goreden, had believed something of this size could move at such a high speed. The monster's hand rushed down as if to crush a fly. Only because of his experience could he evade the attack.
If he had moved even one millisecond later, he would have been killed like a small insect.
Without wasting any more time, Gorden rushed towards the other side of the boss room, away from his teammates.
While the golem followed him, Ella and Lars had time to stand up again. Elo however, did not move an inch. He still couldn't believe what he felt just a few moments before.
That's why only Ella, Lars, and Gorden would fight against the boss.
But as long as they still received his stat boosts, their fighting power wouldn't decrease by a lot.
Meanwhile, the colossal golem had already cornered Gorden. He knew that the only thing he could do was buying his teammates some time and evade the golem's attacks.
He had just dodged a palm strick of one of the golem's big hands when he suddenly felt something cold behind him. He was literally standing with the back to the wall.
When the golem took a big swing at him, his heart became cold. He knew that this would be the last thing he would see in this world.
Just when he had thought he had to die, he heard a loud explosion and an inferno unleashed itself onto the back of the giant golem.
"IIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAKKKKKK"
The monster cried out, shivering in pain and rage.
It stopped paying any attention to Gorden and turned around to face its new enemy.
Lars' heart doubled its pace, and cold sweat ran down his back. When the monstrosity charged at him, he didn't even dare to breathe.
Thankfully Ella realised the danger. She ran towards him and picked him up while running.
The golem, who hadn't anticipated something like this happening, crashed into the wall behind Lars. The surface shattered, which caused big black rocks to flight all over the room.
Elo, who was still lying on the floor motionless, slowly escaped his trance when he heard the crash.
However, he had no time to think about what had happened, as an explosion of pain suddenly erupted from his stomach.
Although he had just regained the control over his body, he fell back to the ground.
When he looked at his body, he almost lost consciousness. A black stone spike, nearly as big as his entire body, stuck out of his abdomen.
He was actually nailed onto the boss room's floor.
When Ella saw the horror scene, he rushed towards Elo, almost forgetting the child in her arms.
When she reached him, he had already lost consciousness. Imidietly she fell on her knees beside him, to measure his puls.
Meanwhile, Lars had to stand up from where she had let go of him.
Thankfully, Ella could still feel a faint movement in his blood veins.
She turned around with a worried expression, but what she said didn't fit her appearance.
"Heal him, If he dies, he won't be the only one."
She rushed off towards the golem.