Around the time when Russia's S-Rank Gate is cleared, Australia's S-Rank dungeon raid has just entered a crucial stage.
Quite a number of the Ice Yetis have been killed by the buffed S-Ranks' bombardment. They are trapped inside the barrier and keep receiving attacks, after all.
Their attacks can't even touch the Hunters because Indra always closes the holes on the barrier that are used to attack the Ice Yetis before their attacks can hit the Hunters outside.
So it becomes a one-sided war where only the Hunters' attacks are hitting the Ice Yetis and their attacks are so powerful because of Indra's super buffs.
Now the boss finally appears. It's an Ice Yeti thrice the size of the other Ice Yetis. The boss has 2 heads and 4 arms.
Its whole body is almost fully covered with clear crystals as if wearing armor. The crystal on its head even looks like a real crown along with its 9 horns.
The only places without Ice Crystal armor are its face, palms, and soles of feet. It will be very difficult to break through its defense.
Just looking at the boss is enough to make the Hunters intimidated. They are also worried if their attacks will be strong enough to break through the boss's defense.
"WHAT ARE YOU BEING SCARED FOR?"
Indra shouts as he closes all the holes on his barrier. He gathers everyone's attention with that shout. He has been standing on top of his barrier since the raid started, so his voice can be heard from all directions.
"WHY ARE YOU SO SCARED WHEN YOU WON'T EVEN FIGHT THE BOSS? I'VE TOLD YOU THIS WON'T BE A FIGHT, THIS WON'T BE A WAR. A FIGHT IS WHERE YOU ATTACK AND GET ATTACKED, YOU HIT AND GET HIT. BUT HAVE YOU GOTTEN ATTACKED OR HIT? NO! OUR ATTACKS ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HIT THEM AND THEY CAN'T HIT US. THIS IS JUST A SLAUGHTER, NOT A WAR. WE ARE JUST SLAUGHTERING THEM. SO WHAT IF IT'S THE BOSS? IT JUST MEANS WE WILL NEED A LONGER TIME TO KILL IT. OR DO YOU NOT BELIEVE IN MY BARRIER? THE BARRIER THAT THE STRONGEST MONSTER, KAMISH THE DRAGON COULDN'T EVEN SCRATCH?"
Indra's loud speech makes the Hunter realize they are worrying over something useless. They aren't even fighting here as Indra says. This is not even a raid, this is just a massacre.
Seeing the Hunters are motivated again, Indra smiles satisfiedly. Then he casts buffs on the Hunters again before ordering the Healers to stack more buffs to increase their firepower.
But he doesn't open the attack holes on the barrier yet. Indra casts debuffs on the monsters first to reduce their power and defense. Then he finally opens the attack holes so the Hunters can attack.
Powerful magic attacks are flying toward the monsters from all sides. Indra keeps looking at the boss from above to monitor it while still paying attention to the other monsters.
He keeps closing the attack holes to block the monsters' attacks. Fortunately, the Ice Yetis' main attacks are physical attacks. But they can't get closer to the barrier to even use their physical attacks because of the Hunters' bombardment.
So their only option is to use long range attacks, but they don't have that many long range attacks. These long range attacks are also not their strongest attacks, so their attacks are quite weak for S-Rank monsters.
The attacks they can use so far are just Ice Breath and Ice Spear. They shoot cold breath from their mouths that freezes things. As for Ice Spear, they create ice spikes around them and then throw those ice spikes at their targets.
But all of their attacks are blocked by Indra's barrier. Their Ice Breaths create thick ice on the barrier though, so the Hunters need to break the ice first when Indra opens the attack holes again.
Luckily, the ice isn't that hard to break with their buffed attacks. So they can keep attacking the monsters with their strongest attacks.
It's also a good thing that most of the Mages are Fire Mages. There are even some Wind Mages that can enhance the Fire Mages' spells.
Fire elemental attacks are very effective against these Ice Yetis, after all. The heat of their fire spells even melts the ice made by the Ice Yetis' freezing cold mana inside the barrier.
But their attacks don't seem to be as effective on the boss. Indra guesses that the boss must have a very high magic resistance. Its crystal armor must have also increased its defense very significantly.
"Well, we can just chip your defense slowly until you can't take it anymore."
Indra casts Binding Chains on the boss to restrict its movements.
The hunters are startled when numerous black chains suddenly appear from the ground around the boss. The black chains tie the boss's limbs and mouths to prevent the boss from attacking.
"DON'T PANIC! IT'S MY SPELL. THOSE CHAINS WILL STOP THE BOSS, SO JUST KEEP ATTACKING!"
Even Kamish couldn't break off his chains easily when he was not this strong yet. Now he has gotten much stronger, so he's sure that even Kamish won't be able to break his chains at all, not to mention this Twin Head Ice Yeti.
Indra can actually bind every monster here to make it easier for the Hunters. But he won't do that even if he has more than enough mana.
He wants the Hunters to understand that it's not easy to clear S-Rank dungeons even with everything being in their favor.
Also, he hopes they can polish their skills by being able to use spells to their hearts' contents without any worry.
With the boss unable to move, the Hunters' attacks on the normal Ice Yetis are unstoppable. They steadily kill the Ice Yetis with their powerful attacks while the boss is unable to do anything.
After some time, all the normal Ice Yetis are finally killed, leaving only the furious boss that can only watch its subordinates being massacred by humans.
Indra sees that the Hunters are tired and many are low on mana. So he orders them to rest for a while as he closes the barrier completely.
They obey his order and take a rest. The Hunter Association's staff members even hand out drinks and potions to them to relieve their fatigue and recover their mana.
Meanwhile, Indra who stands on top of his barrier is opening a small hole on it. He takes out a pile of magic crystals and monster cores of different grades.
"I can't waste such a great test subject, right?"
He takes out his phone and starts recording a video.
"Explosive Rune Magic test using different materials. 1st material: tennis ball-sized Magic Crystal."
He picks a magic crystal the size of a tennis ball from the pile. It has some runes engraved on it.
Indra infuses a little magic power into the crystal before dropping it onto the Twin Head Ice Yeti boss that stands right below him.
The magic crystal falls on the boss and an explosion occurs when they get in contact. It startles the resting Hunters because none of them are attacking the boss.
"No worries! I am just testing new weapons I develop. Keep resting!"
The hunters don't know what to say after they hear Indra. They look at each other and shrug their shoulders before they continue to rest.
"Hmm, the explosion is quite powerful. It should be strong enough to kill even some D-Rank monsters if they are hit directly. Even C-Rank boss monsters should be injured badly with that much power. But it will be hard to defeat B-Rank monsters. Further tests on monsters of those ranks are needed."
Then he tests the power of the Explosive Runes engraved on monster cores of different ranks starting from a normal E-Rank monster core up to an A-Rank boss core.
The explosion of an E-Rank monster core is smaller than the magic crystal. The D-Rank boss's core explosion finally can match the magic crystal explosion.
But the Twin Head Ice Yeti boss isn't injured at all by those explosions. Until when Indra uses the B-Rank boss's monster core.
The B-Rank boss core explosion can only crack the Twin Head Ice Yeti's crystal crown a little. It's a great result which makes Indra smile from ear to ear.
Then without a doubt, the normal A-Rank monster core explosion is stronger than the B-Rank boss core explosion.
Its explosion can break the boss's crystal armor, so its power is terrifying. Such power is even stronger than S-Rank Mages' spells, after all.
Then lastly, he tests the A-Rank boss core. Its explosion is so powerful that the whole barrier is filled with fire.
The whole city shakes even though the explosion happens inside the barrier. Its power scares even the S-Rank hunters around the barrier who have gotten speechless since the B-Rank boss core explosion.
When the smoke disappears after a minute, the S-Ranks' jaws drop to the ground. After all, they see the S-Rank dungeon boss is dead already.
"This.... Can't he just raid this dungeon alone?"
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