A tentacled figure came out of the water, the tentacled figure had several crystals on its body, this would explain the light underneath, the tentacled figure was only one, the color of the tentacle was purple.
The tentacled creature began to "wriggle" starting to move making several attacks to hit the adventurers.
Fia quickly reacted to the tentacled creature's attack suddenly a message appeared [Dungeon Boss: Crystalline Tentacle.]
'Boss? Are you telling me this is the boss!?' Fia thought slightly shocked it was the first time she had seen a monster like that. Without even realizing it the tentacled monster released a strange transparent liquid that became projectiles that were launched against.
Fia who was hit from the side noticed a familiarity in the liquid, 'wait a minute, this liquid is similar to the one in the puddle don't tell me that...' At that moment Fia realized that "Water" were nothing but the monster's fluids.
The tentacled monster made another attack, a sweep from right to left, some were hit by the monster's sweep, and fell to the ground.
Fia instantly charged an electric spell Lightning small lightning bolts came out of Fia's hand, but the small lightning bolts were for some strange reason absorbed.
'W-what?' Fia thought to see her lightning bolts absorbed by the monster, she tried again but with poor results. Then she noticed something, the crystals were strangely brighter.
At that moment a flash of light passed through Fia's mind, she understood that those were magic crystals with the property of absorbing magic, which was a problem, but there was a but, magic crystals can absorb a limited amount of mana, when they exceed the limit they crack and become useless.
'No, doing it this way would only be a waste of time and considerable mana, I could activate the archetypal fusion but then I would be discovered, tsk the situation is more problematic than I thought.
'Wait a minute maybe I have an idea but I should see-' Just as Fia tried to formulate a method a powerful thud was heard, the tentacled monster was slammed hard to the ground.
The spot where the creature was slammed ended up destroyed opening a small sinkhole not too deep.
Fia instinctively looked up and saw a human, most likely in his thirties or older, his hair was brown and wavy, his eyes were a light yellow. The man was wearing a normal jacket but under the jacket there was a light iron plate, the pants were classic sports pants.
The man who hit the tentacled creature used a hammer as a weapon, from the figure it could not be seen that he is person.
Brian Xei, heir of the Xei family, a family that descends from the dwarves, is currently one of the families with the most contributions to society.
Brian is the first born of the family, his father is about sixty years old, while his mother is about fifty five.
Brian disappeared from the world of hunting for a while because he had family business, such as his marriage, the Xei family is one of the families in direct contact with the Furdor family so he and Maxwell were friends.
'So it's true that gorillas make friends with gorillas' Fia thought sarcastically seeing Brian with a hammer that weighs about 500 kg, a nice little beast the dwarves would say seeing a war hammer like that.
At that moment the idea to beat the monster came, how could she not have thought of it before! All she had to do was hit hard, Fia nicknamed this tactic 'The gorilla tactic' a light laugh came out of her mouth when she thought about the name again (she had imagined gorillas beating a monster to death without giving it a moment to breathe, and who also made monkey noises while beating him to death.)
The 'plan' was simple, those with greater strength had to attack the monster to stun it slightly and then simultaneously hit it at that moment, but there was a but, namely that the stun interval of the tentacle monster was 7 seconds which was enough, but if during the temporary stun the ground below collapsed it was a big problem.
While Fia was racking her brains, Maxwell who was standing with his shield almost broken raised, noticed that purple needles came out of the monster's suckers. 'You don't tell me' thought Maxwell when he saw those needles, several needles came out of the tentacle monster's suckers and one grazed Maxwell.
"Ugh" Maxwell let out a slight cry of pain, the point that had been superficially hit wasn't who knows how deep, in fact it wasn't deep at all but it hurt like hell. The light blood that was coming out turned into a slightly purple and viscous substance. It was poison, but a special type of poison or at least that's what it seemed like. The poison was slowly moving through the blood vessels of those who had been hit.
Maxwell's vision started to become slightly blurry and he began to lose consciousness. Suddenly he felt his mouth open and something cold and liquid approached his mouth it was very bitter but at the same time he wanted to drink it. Taking a deep breath from his nostrils Maxwell gulped it all down.
Maxwell slowly began to regain consciousness, his perception began to return to normal, but he still felt numb in his body, it seemed to him that he had suddenly woken up during a dream.
Slowly his vision began to return to normal, he saw a figure in front of him, the figure was blurry, even though he still had poor vision he managed to recognize the black of her hair and the green of a jacket, at that moment he realized that it was Fia who was holding him? Impossible he think.
"Apparently even gorillas are vulnerable to poison" Said the blurry figure of Fia, after a moment Maxwell regained consciousness and jumped in fear, while Fia was laughing.