Alice knew that this battle wasn't going to be easy, even if Brock could somehow manage to keep all the other enemies at bay. Burst was going to be a difficult opponent. Put aside the fact that the whole mountain was his ally, he was also a speed and strength type boss. At Alice and Dragon's current level it would make this a battle of attrition. Once Alice entered Burst's sense range he only opened his eyes and watched as Alice approached.
"Hmph, only one I sensed two of you coming up the mountain. Do you believe you can defeat me on your own? Are you foolish or just arrogant?" Burst sneered. " Go away you stand no chance of becoming king of this mountain. It's my territory, and will remain so as long as weaklings like you come to challenge me."
Alice didn't care what the wolf had to say, on top of that Dragon wasn't about to back down either. Like a flash Dragon closed the distance on Burst and bit at his neck. Burst was surprised however he dodged in plenty of time, only to realize that was a feint and the human had already swung their long looking tooth at his head. Alice made a direct hit causing a critical hit taking 5% of Burst's life with that single attack.
Burst was shocked this human had timed him and had also predicted how he would move. Burst let out a long mournful howl, if this human wanted to fight then she could fight with the entire mountain. As Burst let out his howl the dragon latched onto his leg, was this dragon trying to eat him. Burst let out howl again but this time in pain, he tried to shake off the dragon but was unsuccessful. The Dragon wasn't letting go and was doing a significant amount of damage, he had already lost another 2% of his life to bleeding damage. Burst tried to move back but was counter attacked by the human who had lined up another head shot taking another 5% of his life. Burst didn't hesitate anymore and used his Burst skill which immediately shook off the dragon and gave him some space to work.
Alice had hoped to corner the big wolf, but after landing her second attack, he started to take the fight seriously. Now her and Dragon were circling the wolf, but every time they would start to attack the wolf would go at Dragon. The problem was that every time the wolf hit Dragon he was taking between 135 and 178 health, while Dragon was taking only 50 to 63 health from the wolf. If this kept up then Dragon would die and they'd be finished. Alice had no choice they had to fight this wolf head on with no strategy just her and Dragon going at him. Alice made her decision and immediately made her way over to Dragon to fight by her side.
"Alice you've got ten minutes to defeat that boss, that's probably going to be the amount of time I can hold off this wave of wolves, after that we all die!!" Brock sent Alice a msg through the voice chat.
Shit ten minutes is not a lot of time, we can't let this drag on. "Dragon I know you don't listen to me but let's get this guy, go all out, we either kill him or die trying." Alice really didn't want to use this strategy but time was not their friend. Dragon looked at her, Alice could have sworn that it smiled and was off in a flash. Alice shook her head and just followed suit, her dragon was just crazy it had to have a death wish.
Burst was beginning to wonder were the rest of the wolves were as it had called and nearly 3 minutes had gone by there should be at least the beginning of a wave of it's brethren. Wolves were at there best when they hunted in packs. He needed his brothers right now because he could see that the duo had made their choice, it was either victory or death. Burst bared his teeth almost like a smile, he could respect their decision. If they wanted death then he would grant it.
As human, dragon and wolf collided and began to fight with an intensity that only three beings fighting for their lives could generate. There was no strategy, it was like prize fighters that would stand in the middle of the ring and just swing till one man went down. It wasn't pretty but it was exciting.
Neither side backed down as wounds started to pile up on both sides. Dragon had part of her tail bitten off and was missing fur down her right side from were Burst's claws had swiped past. Alice was bleeding all over the place from multiple puncture wounds were Burst's powerful jaws had pierced her armor. Burst had both puncture and slash wounds all over his body from the combined attacks of Dragon and Alice. As it was Alice felt that they would win. Burst had just gone down past the 5% mark of health while her and dragon still had nearly 10% each.
"Alice you got one more minute I'm nearly out of mana and they just keep coming!!" Brock nearly shouted through the chat.
Alice had a thought, if she could just get this wolf to lift his head Dragon could go for the neck and maybe get a critical and end this fight. Alice swept the butt end of her pole sword towards the big wolfs feet hoping he'd think she was trying to trip him.
Burst started to lift his front feet not wanting to wind up on the ground.
As soon as Alice seen that, the pole sword came swinging around going for Burst's face.
Burst immediately raised his neck, that's when Burst knew he was done for as he seen a furry pink and red streak heading for his neck. With his front feet off the ground and him trying to avoid the sword attack he had no options left, Burst let out his final howl as the Jaws of death sent him to hunting grounds in the sky.
"Dragon no time to eat, here drink these we have to go help Brock!" Alice said dumping healing potions down her throat. Alice didn't want to be overrun by wolves in this clearing and if she gave Dragon time to eat the big wolf then they would definitely be overrun. " Brock were coming just hold on!" Alice sent a voice chat to Brock.
"No need after that last howl all the wolves on this side took of running like they had seen the devil. Me and Noir will be there in a minute." Brock sent a voice chat back. They had done it now all they had to do was find the Dragon Evolve core and his problems would be over.
Alice started heal herself up once Dragon had been healed up. She also went through the bosses loot. Burst had dropped some mid level healing potions and some kind of crystal. She couldn't identify the crystal but she thought that it might be the Dragon evolve core, so she offered it to Dragon to see her reaction. Dragon didn't even sniff it, so Alice put it in her inventory.
"Hey Alice did you get the core from the boss?" Brock showed up just as she put it into her inventory.
"No just some crystal I can't identify, I offered it to Dragon and she didn't even sniff at it. The Core is probably in that clearing just past those two rocks that the big wolf was in front of when we first got here come on lets go."