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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8

After going into the gate, the Frontline group scans the area and prepares their weapons, while they are scanning Urle looks in front and uses one of his [Dawnbreakers] and [Shock Marauder]'s set bonus skill: {Hostile Heart Beat Monitor}\HHBM for short.

After using the Hostile Heart Beat Monitor, a transparent panel appeared in front of him, the panel is round and with a radar system in it, sometimes a dot will appear and it will disappear afterwards. It means an enemy is in that location, the radar also works for the spirits. Inanimate beings and dead beings are counters for this ability.

Urle then moved forward with the squad while constantly looking at the radar and warning about his teammates about it. The squad didn't question anything and move around the hostile entities, after all they need to save energy for the mini and final boss of the dungeon.

While moving from place to place, the radar finally picked up a new entity which is a large dot instead of a small dot. The size of the dot also indicates the mass, it does not differentiate powerful and weak after all it's a heartbeat monitor.

Urle urged them to look at the left corner side where the dot is, and they saw a giant lizard man in knight armour. It's sitting on a large rock chair in the middle of the forest.

Zaone is preparing an arrow on his bow while Olk is chanting a defense buff for Jake and Leon, while Lop is preparing a magic circle.

Zaone shot the arrow towards the Lizard man's left arm joint, the arrow had a silent wind sound and hit the joint, but due to the knight armour the Lizard man did not receive any damage, but the armour did have a slight dent on it due to the power behind Zaone's mana arrow. The lizard man starts to stand up while grabbing the shield and spear next to it.

Jane and Jake rush towards the enemy's left and right respectively and try to cut the lizard man before it grabs the weapon, but the lizard man is surprisingly fast in that heavy armour and grabs the shield first to block Jane's hit. Jake lifted his huge ax and tried to cut down the Lizard man.

The lizard man let go of the shield and dodged the strike while grabbing the sword at the side of the chair, it immediately struck towards Jake as his ax need some time to change direction. Leon rushes forward and blocks the hit for Jake.

"Thanks" Jake said while lifting his ax again trying to hit the Lizard man while Jane is already thrusting her sword towards the Lizard man's left kneecap. The lizard man roared and everyone in the Frontline was pushed back from the sound waves.

Lop finished the magic circle and started to chant,

"Shadows from the depths of the sea, darkness from the lone side of the moon, consume my enemies and their shadows. [Shadow Thrust]"

A black spear manifested on top of Lop and thrust towards the Lizard man as it was roaring, the spear went through the lizard man's armour like butter and stuck on the ground and it passed through the lizard man.

The Lizard man has a hole at the liver location and is kneeling on the ground and it puts its hands on the wound. The lizard man looked at Lop angrily and grabbed the sword while throwing it at her.

Leon jumped towards Lop and blocked the sword, Lop had a calm expression while Olk was panicking.

"Sister! Are you alright?!"

"I am fine, also with my barrier. I won't get hurt easily."

While everything is happening, Urle is on the side lines and looking at their strategy.

'Two Dealer rushing to the enemy after the long range dealer tested how well the armour is against sharp objects, while the support gives buffs to the frontliners, The mage prepares a magic circle which enhances her magic output and concentration of the magic, causing it to easily penetrate the enhanced armour with ease...'

'Seems like they are quite experienced in dungeon hunting, I could ask them to dungeon hunt next time as well if they are alright with it.'

Urle thought and walked towards them.

"Is it finally over?"

Urle waved his hands and asked.

"Yeah it's over, why didn't you participate?"

Zaone looked at him weirdly.

"Having another Backliner would've made my job easier you know..."

Zaone sighed and looked at the arrow he just shot.

"Sorry about that, I am investigating your position and strategy of fighting the enemy in order to be more useful."

Urle said while smiling

"Is that so? Alright, but make sure you're in the backline zone when we are engaging in combat. Or else you might get ambushed by random creatures."

Leon said with a concerned voice.

"It's alright, after all. I am very proficient at escaping."

Urle said while tipping his cowboy hat.

"Urle, I have been trying to ask,why are you dressing such old fashioned clothing?"

Surprisingly, Lop spoke out of curiosity.

"Ah, this clothing was gifted by my father when I was 11 years old."

Urle tries to bullshit his way out.

"Oh, it looked pretty cool I say so myself."

Jake put his ax down and took a seat on the ground.

"Jake, please. Don't sit down at random places, who would've thought if there was a monster underneath you?"

Leon looked at Jake with a disturbed face.

"Don't worry, it won't happen twice!"

Jake smiled and laughed.

"What do you mean by twice?"

Olk came into the conversation.

"Oh it did happen, it did and the aftermath isn't good... He lost his ability to sit for a week."

Leon smirked at Jake.

"Hey don't reveal my dark past!"

Jake's ears were red.

Urle giggled a bit and looked at the radar.

'Nostalgic feelings...'

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They continued moving forward after resting and were moving forward to the Boss's room.

The lizard man is one of the mini bosses called:

[Reptile Paladin]

It has strong defenses and offenses but due to the squad knowing its skills and abilities, it was taken care of easily.

It is also the only mini bosses in this dungeon that can go into the second phase, but it can be cancelled with a level 4 Crowd Control ability or by killing it immediately before it finishes transforming.

It is also proficient in using fire and light elements. It has a total of 3 skills excluding the Roar which is the transformation.

[Light Arrow]

[Fire Bolt]

[Blazing Light]

Light arrow is guiding an arrow with a light element to fight against an enemy.

Fire bolt is a fire element that is formed under the shape of a zigzag pattern, it will move in such a pattern until reaching it's destination and explodes.

Blazing light is a skill fusion between Fire and Light element, it allows the Paladin to Blind enemies while setting 50 meters around it on fire.

They finally stumbled across a temple, it's a giant temple with moss and flora around it. There are quite a number of lizard men under the temple, and there is a lizardman with a hat. It is seated on the throne while menacingly looking around the surroundings.

Urle uses his skill: [Impending Doom] and slowly takes out his right side Dawnbreaker. As he is taking out his DawnBreakers, a wave of mana is pushed out of his body forming a barrier while his spade iris is glowing red with a blue trail around the edges of the spade.

His tail split into two and turned into a stand which allowed him to stabilize himself, the Dawnbreaker had electricity going through it, and an orb was formed in front of the barrel.

The Lizard on the throne immediately becomes alert and tells the lizard men under the temple to scout the surroundings. While Leon and others are surprised by his power output, they snapped out of it and immediately went to engage with the lizard men.

Urle aimed his Dawnbreaker at the Lizard on the throne and shot the orb towards the Lizard. The lizard tried to make a barrier but realized that no mana is concentrating nearby it, so it tried to grab the nearest lizard man and threw the lizard man towards the orb. The orb went through the lizard man and turned it into ashes, the orb continued its journey towards the Lizard on the throne.

The lizard man tried to dodge the orb but failed to do so since the orb was literally in front of its face. The orb sizzled the lizard man's face as it went through the head of the lizard man. When the orb went through the face of the lizard man there was nothing there anymore...

The lizard man is called [Father Lizard] which is the Father of all lizards. He praises their God, while keeping everyone in check but this one turned into a tyrant for some reason.

After the Father Lizard died, all of the lizardmen stopped fighting and started to disappear.