Everyone was looking at me weirdly, they had finished about 10 minutes ago as they all had less than 5 boxes. "Where the hell did you get so many boxes?" Oscar asked in confusion. He had had the most boxes out of all of them until I had pulled out my eight boxes and put him to shame.
"I got them from achievements, just like you guys." I said trying to act as innocent as possible. "Yeah right." Oscar replied under his breath before asking "What do we do now?"
"We go and kill the boss, is everyone's Mana and HP back up?" I asked and got nods all around. "If we kill this boss fast we might get an achievement for being the first to kill a boss, so let's hurry up and get going okay?" Everyone's eyes lit up when I said about the achievements, so we got into formation and headed into the boss room.
[You have entered the room of the Mighty Skeleton Warrior. He will make sure that all who trespass will die by his skeletal hand]*
[You have gained an achievement!
You are the first party to enter a boss room. This completes all prerequisites for the {First Boss Room} badge, it is awarded. As a reward you will be gifted 1x lvl 20 item box, 500 EXP, 1000 vis and the Boss Hunter special ability (allows the user to earn 2x Loot when fighting a Boss) (you may except rewards in the mail menu)]
I briefly scanned the messages, accepted the rewards, then turned my attention to the boss monster stood in the middle of the room. The room was a circle around 30 meters in diameter.
The boss was about seven feet tall and looked much like the Behemoth Skeletons* we fought earlier. He wielded a giant two handed axe but had a long sword on his waist and a small shield on his back.
I sent out my undead first to take off some damage, out of the 20 something undead only 8 made it to him and started hacking and ripping at his legs.
The skeletal warrior lost his balance and fell on the undead crushing them all. Whilst this was happening Lucy, Lana, Rose and Cole were all firing off spells continuously. Me and Mike then rushed the skelton who was now sprawled out on the floor and began setting off attacks. Oscar stayed back to defend the mages just in case the skeleton had ranged attacks.
I activated Triple Burst which was now level two and brought down my dagger on the skeleton's face. The head was a weak point for all undead so that is were I striked. Mike attacked the skeleton's right wrist so that he had to drop his axe.
The skeleton then threw me and Mike away to either side of him and got up, drawing his sword. The large health bar floating above his head was now about 70% gone, he pulled his shield from his back and threw it straight at Oscar, he easily deflected it and it pierced the wall above were he was stood.
The skeleton then drew his sword and charged in my direction, I activated Ultimate Stealth and he stopped, turned around and headed for Mike instead. Mike had a high defence so he parried the blow and struck at the monsters head again, the health bar was now at 18%.
Four spells were fired off from behind Oscar, leaving the skeleton's health at 6% I activated Triple Burst again and struck the monster on the back of his neck, his head rolled and he slumped to his knees before turning into a large cloud of smoke and entering our bodies.
[You have leveled up!]
[You have gained an achievement!
You are the first party to defeat a boss monster. This completes all prerequisites for the {First Boss Fight} badge, it is awarded. As a reward you will be gifted 1x lvl 20 item box, 500 EXP, 1000 vis and the Boss Fighter Special ability (allows the user to take 100% more damage when fighting Boss Monsters) (you may accept rewards in the mail menu)]
[You have gained an achievement!
You have defeated a Boss Monster. This completes all prerequisites for the {Boss Killer} badge, it is awarded. As a reward you will be gifted 1x lvl 10 item box, 500 EXP and 1000 vis (you may except rewards in the mail menu)]
[You have gained 15 achievements!
This completes all prerequisites for the {15 Achievements} badge, it is awarded. As a reward you will be gifted 5x Skill Points, 20x Stat Points and 1000 Vis (you may except rewards in the mail menu)]
[You will be teleported out of the boss room in 60 minutes.]
I looked around to see that everyone got the first two achievements which made me happy. I looked over to where the boss had died to see the items that it left behind were glowing red.
Surprisingly they weren't items they were 'Boss Chests'. It seems that when you kill a Boss Monster it drops chests instead of items. There were 16 boxes all in all and they didn't have any level restriction either.
They were all sat in neat little rows lined out on the floor. We must have got 8 boxes but our new special ability doubles the loot, that was kind of OP.
I walked up to the first chest and opened it, everyone else did the same.
[Helm of Scipio Africanus - Used by General Scipio during the Battle of Llipa in which he cut down 206 men and captured Margo Barca - DEF +500 SEN + 8 - Durability : 180/180 - Requirements - Must have INT 20+ - Ability : Life Drain (allows the user to take an opponent's HP, 200 per minute)]
I had actually heard of this battle in history class, Scipio was only 25 and yet he was appointed as General due to no one else wanting to attack Hannibal Barca who was the commander of the Carthaginian army against Rome. Scipio used the tactic of hiding his heavily armed troops in a ship off to the side of the base and charging them in when he was pinned down. This was one of the feats that earned him the title of Africanus.
I put the helm on and set it to invisible. It looked really cool, it was made from bronze and stained red from blood, but it didn't go with my assassin ensemble so I left it invisible.
*[Mighty Skeleton Warrior - Rank F (Boss) - Stationed here by his master to make sure that all who trespass will die by his skeletal hand - Strong : Dark - Weak : Fire, Light]