BXBX NOVEL Chapter 510 The Raid Begins (V): The Draconic Gargoyle
My eyes did not deceive me, one look at the features of the boss is clear, it was a dragon. It might not have the same aura most dragons have but it was still a dragon on a smaller scale. But despite calling it a dragon on a smaller side, this is still quite big and that is not something we can just scoff off.
When we approach it at a sufficient distance, the petrification of the boss started to crack which also means it is about to awaken and reveal its true form.
"Get ready boys and gals! We are in for a big challenge! It\'s a Draconic Gargoyle!" Queen Tanya immediately went into a battle stance with a huge grin on her face.
Queen Tori also pull several talismans out of thin air and is ready to throw them whenever necessary. Seeing the movement of the statue monster, everyone also did their battle stance. It didn\'t make users wait that long as the cracks are starting to get bigger and the ground starts to shake meaning the monster inside the petrified state is trying to break free from its current state.
Not only that but when the monster finally managed to break free of its big wings, the surroundings started to dim, and gets really hard to see anything.
"It looks like this guy has the ability [Eclipse] as a passive," Queen Tori analyzed.
"[Eclipse]?" Topaz who was near Queen Tori asked.
"It\'s a minor passive that would allow the user to clad the surroundings in darkness, enhancing the dark element traits. Most of the enemies using this ability are Necromancers and Liches due to how it benefits them on using it."
As Queen Tori explained it, the upper body of the dragon has finally been freed from the certification state and its HP and name have finally been revealed, of course, the same prediction Queen Tanya said before.
[Draconic Gargoyle]
Level 300
HP: ????????/??????? (To reveal the HP, reduce it to a certain extent or do a special condition)
MP:10000/10000
Trait: Dragon, Dark
I grit my teeth in frustration. Not only is the level quite high but there is a special condition to reveal its HP that has been hidden by question marks. That means that the HP of the boss is infinite until the time the amount of HP has been dealt with the boss, of course, that could be prevented if instead of reducing its HP to a certain extent, the special conditions were met. Of course, with the battle happening, there is no way we can even have a nitpick to check around the surroundings just to find this special condition.
"First come, first serve!" Queen Tanya immediately leaps off the ground and jumps toward the dragon with a huge grin on her face as she wields her scythe ready to strike.
The dragon immediately noticed her and it immediately raised its arms and clap them together to squish Queen Tanya to smithereens. But Queen Tanya already anticipated that and she used a sort of teleportation and instead of being clapped by the dragon, she managed to dodge it and close the gaps between her and the dragon.
SWISH!
A huge gash wound appeared the moment the scythe of Queen Tanya hit the dragon causing the dragon to scream in pain. Queen Tanya returned to the ground after inflicting a huge gash wound. But contrary to her previous look of smiling, she looks disappointed when she landed.
"This bastard is immune to death effects and it is even immune to my curse attacks. It looks like it is indeed quite immune to any dark-related attacks like mine so all I can offer is pure physical attacks."
The dragon seems really pissed that the bottom half of the dragon that was still petrified before has been forcefully cracked and it seems to be too pissed as it tries to locate Queen Tanya.
BANG!
A single bullet almost caused the dragon to stagger. Of course, out of all of us, the only one capable of using guns is only me so it is none other than me who shot it using the Pain Delivery gun. As always, the gun is doing its job of dealing a huge chunk of damage.
"Hey! We can\'t afford to let just Queen Tanya and Bladeheart deal damage! Let\'s also do our part!" Harmless Sparrow sparked her blade in flames and charged toward the boss. The others also did the same while the magicians and those who can deal attacks against it in the distance started to attack too.
Queen Tori throws her talisman and a huge talisman stick figure appeared which is controlled by Queen Tori herself.
"Go ahead, guys! I will try to restrain the dragon! Use this chance to bombard it with attacks!"
The draconic gargoyle saw the stick figure talisman that appeared out of nowhere and seeing it almost rivaling in size, the dragon was furious and immediately breathed a large breath of fire. Queen Tori immediately throws another talisman and a small barrier erected itself in the middle of the attack of the draconic gargoyle and the talisman.
That made the draconic gargoyle more furious and decided to attack the talisman. And with the attention of the enemy directed to Queen Tori\'s abilities, we immediately took this chance to unleash our skills. For me, I decided to test out one of the new skills that I haven\'t tested out after the Versatile Weapon received some new skills after devouring the Pendragon.
"[Avarice]!"
The moment I activated the skill, half of my MP was reduced immediately which I didn\'t expect as the skill didn\'t mention how much MP would be consumed if I used the skill. I don\'t know the exact stats of the boss so I don\'t know the effects but the moment the [Avarice] was activated, the Versatile Weapon changes into the mouth of the shadow dragon and extends itself to take a bite to the boss.
"CHOMP!"
Of course, that chomp didn\'t deal any damage. After all, it wasn\'t a damaging skill but a skill that inflicts stat reduction debuff.
-Avarice was activated.
-Temporary buffs are granted based on the stats that were absorbed. All buffs will last for 10 minutes.
-All parameters have been temporarily increased by 500
-Attacks will have the Piercing effect
-Attack UP Vs. Dragon Beings.
-Defense UP
-Status resistance against dragon-type attacks increased.
-Critical hit damage increased
-Guaranteed Crit rate for every attack
-HP increased by 10,000
-MP increased by 5000
-HP Regen increased to 1000 HP healed per second
-Lifesteal increased
The string of buffs that were granted to me was so immense that I didn\'t expect all of them to come in at once. And all of them are great stuff. Seeing how these buffs temporarily increased my prowess, I decided to use this chance to deal big damage.
I leap and landed on the tail of the dragon. I started running behind its back while it is still busy attacking the talisman that Queen Tori unleashed and most of the strongest attacks are coming from Queen Tanya. Sigma and the others are dealing decent damage but due to their levels, it\'s not even comparable.
Once I reached its wing area, I changed the weapon into an ax and brought the giant ax down to the wings. With all of the buffs that I received, the moment the ax landed, it should have at least done a little bit of damage, especially since our level difference is quite big. But instead of big damage, I instead managed to penetrate its attacks. I just realized that the attack that I have dealt with just now has penetration damage. That alone will ignore any kind of defense values the monster has and will immediately deal damage, just pure damage alone.
And due to that, the attack didn\'t only deal quite a large amount of damage, but it also break off one of its wings that causing it to lose one of them, making the guy unbalanced without one wing.
ROARRRRR!
The boss wailed in agony after the giant wing fell from its back and blood spurted out from being chopped.
"I am not done yet!"
I swing my ax once more and this time, the next target is the other wing. The draconic gargoyle wanted to prevent my attack from happening and covered it using its huge and scaly hands. But I am not even fazed about it and continued to push all of my strength toward the boss, and brought down the ax downwards.
CHOP!
On one swing, a limb has been cut off and its blood started to spurt out in a huge succession. It was so strong that even if the draconic gargoyle tried to protect its other wing, it failed after the single swing. Not only did it cut off the hand that tried to cover and protect its wings, even the wings that were protected were instead cut off too which made two parts of its body disappear.