|3rd POV|
Tanaka dodges the incoming paw and attacks the Cerberus launch toward him. However, while he successfully dodged the Cerberus attack, he did not see the sneaking ghoul behind him and got attacked by the ghoul.
At this moment, Tanaka is really grateful for the Gamer's Mind skill. If there is no Gamer's Mind skill, he will be screaming right now and forget about the massive three-headed dog in front of him.
Tanaka grits his teeth in pain and jumps away from the ghoul before firing his arrow at it.
The fight between Tanaka and the Cerberus is really tough because the amount of ghoul following the Cerberus makes it really hard to get close. Every time he gets close, Tanaka will be attacked by at least ten-level three ghouls.
Tanaka nocks another arrow and fires it toward the massive Cerberus. However, instead of a normal arrow, he uses his charged shot skill. His reason? To reduce the number of ghouls on the ground.
Tanaka smiles a little when he sees the HP bar of the ghoul on the ground decreasing at a rapid pace. The food buff and the buff skill he has are really helping in this fight. It is fortunate that the ghoul grouping together makes his AOE attack more effective.
"Magic Arrow!"
Tanaka fired another AOE attack, and this time he killed three ghouls at once. Seeing the opening, he dashes toward the Cerberus and takes up the Hydra Dagger from his inventory once more.
When he reaches the Cerberus, Tanaka slices the ankle of the Cerberus and continues to slice the ankle ten more times. The Cerberus roar as Tanaka can see the HP of the mini-boss start decreasing at a fast pace.
Seeing more than twenty ghouls coming at him, Tanaka dashed away from under the Cerberus. Even though he managed to get away, he did not get away unscathed. Two ghouls successfully land a clean hit on his back and make him bleed.
Tanaka takes out a medium health potion from his inventory that heals a thousand of his HP and drinks it all at once. He ignores the bitter taste of the potions as his mind decides the bitter taste is not really important right now.
When he knows that he creates enough distance, Tanaka fires another arrow at Cerberus. For now, he needs to reduce the HP of the mini-boss little by little. It really annoys him when he sees the Ghoul keep replenishing every time he kills one of them.
It means that he needs to do that risky play every time he wants to cause enough damage.
Tanaka continues to dodge wave after wave of attacks of the Cerberus that keep trashing the boss arena. The pillar around him already turned into rubble, and it was a good thing because he can use it to dodge the incoming attack rather easily.
Tanaka gets up on the pillar rubble and fires another arrow.
"Piercing Shot!"
The piercing shot hit Cerberus right in the eyes, and they saw the burning effect get bigger. With both burn effects from the bow and the poison from the Hydra Dagger, the Cerberus' HP is decreased at a faster pace.
However, when the HP of Cerberus reached the halfway point, the boss changed. The rotten flesh of the boss changed into something disturbing. The rotten green flesh changed into purple flesh, oozing a purple liquid.
When the purple liquid falls on the ghoul, it melts the ghoul.
"What the hell?!?"
Cerebus (Mutated)| |Level: 5| |HP: 12.000/12.000|
"Its HP is full again?!? And it increased!"
Tanaka frowned at the HP of the Cerberus that refilled. Not only that, but the Cerberus also became more dangerous than before.
And true to his thinking, Cerberus charges at him and headbutt him right in the stomach, throwing him away to the wall. Tanaka coughs blood from the impact. He got up quick enough to see the pouch under the neck of the Cerberus to swole up.
Tanaka widens his eyes when he sees the Cerberus open up its mouths and decide it is time to dodge. He was just in time to dodge an incoming purple beam. He looks at where he used to be and sees that the purple beam eats all the wall and the ground like a corrosive liquid.
"I really need to beat this boss fast. Lucky for me, the ghoul under the boss has been killed by the corrosive liquid. The bad news, there is a corrosive liquid underneath the boss. I need to make the boss move away from the corrosive pool."
Tanaka ran toward the clearing with a plan in mind, but to his surprise, the Cerberus did not charge at him like before; but rather, he kept firing the corrosive beam at him. It looks like the boss has changed its attack pattern.
"Dammit"
Tanaka runs away from the beam and fires another arrow at Cerberus. Still, to his surprise, the boss tries to destroy his arrow with a blast of the corrosive beam but fortunately for him, his arrow is made of Mithril and durable woods.
The arrow hit right at Cerberus' throat.
"Piercing Shot!"
"Charged Shot!"
"Magic Arrow!"
"Twin Shot!"
Tanaka kept firing at the Cerberus and slowly closing the distance between him and the Cerberus. When he is close enough to the Cerberus, who is busy deflecting his arrow, he dashes forward with all his strength and stabs the burning Cerberus with his Hydra Dagger.
He continues to stab Cerberus' feet with his Dagger for a few seconds before he runs away from the boss when a corrosive liquid falls on his head. Tanaka grits his head and feels like being fried inside a boiling hot oil.
Tanaka ran away from the Cerberus as fast as he could while dodging the corrosive beam being fired by the mini-boss. He decides that this will be the tactic to beat the mini-boss. Hit and run while waiting for the burning and poison effect to do its job, decreasing the boss HP.
Of course, Tanaka did not just stay and wait for the poison and burning effect to disappear. No, he kept firing his arrow and kept the burning effect stuck until the monster died.
After a few seconds of continuous fire, he can see the Cerberus stop dripping corrosive liquid. Seeing his chance, Tanaka began his charges once again. He began to run toward the Cerberus.
When he arrives, he stabs Cerberus once again and adds more stack to the poison debuff. Tanaka continues to stab and slice the Cerberus until the poison stack reaches its max.
Slowly but surely, the HP of the Cerberus reaches a quarter of its full HP. Not only that, the Max HP of the boss already decreased because of the Unique Effect of the dagger.
Tanaka jumps to the left to dodge as the Cerberus jumps high in the air and falls on the ground. When the boss lands on the ground, he fires another arrow at it.
"Piercing shot!"
"Charged Shot!"
"Multi-Shot!"
"Twin Shot!"
"Magic Arrow!"
"Binding Shot!"
Tanaka uses all his archery skills and uses the last shot to bind the monster in place. As the monster is bound in one place, he fires as many arrows as he can. His hand looks like a blur to normal eyes.
After a few seconds, the boss roars for the last time before it falls to the ground, dead.
Congratulations!|