As Willard realized his mistake, he flapped his wings and glided downwards towards Dave, moving into a 15-meter range where he was confident of the accuracy and shot the Fire arrow.
Seeing the attack, Dave thought, "Seeing his level, either he only advanced recently or was killed repeatedly. The latter isn't believable seeing his poor accuracy even though it seems like his range is higher than 30m. There's a high chance that he might learn it from a unique skill book."
As Dave concentrated on him and shot an energy beam, Williard flapped his wings and dodged the attack just in time using the active skill, "Dash" which let his flying speed increase by 300% for the next ten seconds.
Dave was shocked seeing Williard suddenly flew like a flash and appeared in another place. In the next moment, his HP showing on his head decreased by 2285 that didn't surprise him very much since he has over 25000 HP. But soon, his face turned to serious as a series of damages appeared on his head, 2267, 2382, then critical hits twice 3674, 3522.
Not only that, as the burning effect activated upon hit, for the next ten seconds, 163, and 163… 163 and so, total 1630 HP was further removed. After nearly 16000 HP disappeared on his enemy, Williard thought, "Damn, I guess this how a level suppression looks like. I only have 22MP left. Let's use that skill and kill this guy first.
Afterward, I need to buy normal arrows in the market. Unlike other classes, Mages don't have basic attacks. While the cooldowns are very short and the attacks are strong, they still need to depend on Mana." Meanwhile, Dave was shocked his HP was dropped by more than 60%.
As there is only one second left until the effect of dash disappears, Williard flew with his top speed and reached behind Dave. Before he turned around with his energy blaster, Williard grinned while putting his hands and bring all the fingers to thumb, "goodbye, Dave." "Dragon Fire", he breathed out the fire through his hands like blowing a trumpet. A stream of flames erupted from it and burned him decreasing his HP each second by 3232, 3457, 3143, and he was turned into ash in three seconds and then disappeared while leaving two pieces of equipment behind.
Williard picked the drops and check their stats.
Kruger's Energy Blaster (+1)
Level: 35
Class: Restricted to Gunner
Grade: Silver
Attack: 451-483 (+46)
Pierce: 54 (+5)
Critical rate: 5.4% (+0.5)
"This will fetch for a good price once Auction opens." He stored in the inventory and he checked out the boots. Looking at it, a big smile appeared on his face as boots and bracers don't have class restrictions. The only equipment with class restrictions are the Weapons, Armors, and also helmets which only classes like Palladin, Guardian, and Knight can wear.
Kruger's Boots (+4)
Level: 35
Grade: Gold
HP: 2765 (+1016)
Defense: 244 (+93)
Movement Speed: 5 (+2)
Critical resist: 3.5% (+1.3)
After storing it into his inventory, Williard turned towards the boss that was held by Rock fist, the muscular teenage boy, and saw his HP was almost depleted by 90% and the Heroic boss have only 150,000 HP remaining.
As for the players, 16were killed on Will's party while on Imperial Guild's side everyone else including the two Assassins who hide at the beginning of the fight was also killed except the vice leader, Red Dragon, who was just a thousand HP away from being dead. Before Aster finished him off, Red Dragon spoke, "I'm honored to be killed by an expert like you."
After killing him off, he looked in the sky and got worried that the young master was killed but then sighed in relief after finding his game hasn't turned grey in the party that means he was alive. He hurriedly sent a voice message, "Young master, our job is finished here. Should I come there and help you out?"
Williard replied, "I'm also done here. Kill the boss before the members of Imperial Guild arrive" and then, he flapped his wings and flew towards the Giant Grey Leopard that was massacring the members in a berserk state without caring about its HP.
As he was flying towards it, he ordered in the party channel, "Range attackers, try to blind its other eye, Rock Fist, fall back and healers, all of you, focus your healing on Rock fist until he recovers fully. After recovering full, take the aggro again.
And until then, all the Guardians, come forward and try to hold it off. And everyone, stop all the attacks when it falls below 10,000 and run for your life." "Yes, Boss."
As they were trying to follow his orders while he was just flying in the air around it and waiting for his mana slowly recover. He looked at the Boss as his HP depleting to 100,000… 75,000… 50,000… 25,000… 15,000… 10,000…
As soon as Boss HP fell below 1%, a thick purple surrounded it and he shouted, "Now everyone, run, quickly." While most of them did so and moved out of the range, a few of them weren't able to and their HP dropped to zero in a second as it swiped its claws in a wide range and increasing its attack by 300%.
Williard mumbled, "no matter the level, heroic and above grade bosses are considered very dangerous when their HP down to 1%. Only an excellent Guardian or Palladin can hold them off, as for the rest…"
Williard left the party as everyone cleared the area, then immediately used Dash skill and flew towards it like a flash. As he neared its head, the boss sensed him and turned its head and swiped one of its claws at the same time towards him but since the ten seconds aren't over yet, he dodged it and then immediately used the Active Skill, "Dragon Fire." He used his hands like a trumpet and breathed out fire through it from his mouth.
Because of high defense, numbers like 1232, 974, 1423, etc… started to appear on its head decreasing its HP slowly but Williard didn't stop as his MP getting depleted and fell under 10. Just when the ten seconds are over, its claws appeared on his head, and as it about to touch him, its hands turned into ash and fell on his head as its HP became zero.
"Congratulations, you killed the level 35 Heroic Boss, Grey Leopard. 283,648 (+20%) EXP gained." Continuous level-up notifications began to ring in his ears. Because of the 20% passive EXP bonus, Williard got more than nearly 58K additional EXP that pushed him all the way to level 31. Ignoring it, he threw all of the items dropped into his bag and flew fast away from there as he thought members of Imperial Guild will arrive soon and he wasn't a fool to fight them on his own.