Finally, on the ninth floor, Grey thought as he stepped out of the portal.
Grey entered the floor, filled with flowing magma and towering flames.
[Floor 9: Abyss of ash]
[Challenge type: Boss fight]
[Challenge starts in 3sec]
A single monster stood in the heart of the inferno, towering and still. A massive, humanoid demon, wrapped in chains, his flesh cracked like shattered stone, glowing with magma beneath. Magma dripped from his limbs, smoking where it struck the ground.
[Vulkrak the blistered, Level: 45, Skills: Chainflame: Sweeps a burning chain in a circle,
Blister Roar: Explosive shout burns and interrupts spells. Inferno Mark: Marks a target, after 4s, it explodes.]
Grey froze, shocked by the drastic increase in power level. He had faced lots of enemy bosses, and even he had managed to hit level 23, but this was different.
He immediately ordered his army of thralls to attack the demon, while he activated rotting thrall command.
Vulkrak moved.
Chainflame
As it casts the skill, a chain of flame spun around it, incinerating all the thralls within a 5m radius around it.
Undeterred, Alice dashed forward at an inhuman speed, claws glowing with poison.
She struck at Vulkrak's face, but no damage was done to it. With a strong kick, Alice was thrown far back, her bones cracking.
The matriarch, undeterred, lunged at the demon while it snapped its jaw on its hand.
Seeing the matriarch approach it, it opened its mouth wide open.
Blister roar.
The matriarch was pushed back by the explosive shockwave.
Bone spear, Grey shouted as several sharpened white lances shot towards Vulkrak at immense speed, impaling it from the sides.
Vulkrak growled, magma falling from where the spears had struck. But that was all, the spear was unable to deal any fatal damage.
Grey narrowed his eyes. He had lost over 80% of his forces, his mana was running thin, but he had not been able to do anything to the monster in front of him.
Alice, who had been away, suddenly attacked from behind, tearing the demon with her flame whip. But it could not even deal any damage, due to the demon itself being resistant to flame.
It grabbed Alice on the head and slammed her to the floor, before it flung her away.
Then, it raised its hand, and a sigil attached itself to her stomach.
Grey, seeing the sigil, tightened his jaws.
Then, with a soft explosion, Alice's body was blown into several pieces.
Grey held back the urge to cry, with several thoughts running through his mind.
I just caused her to die again, he thought. I am a fool for thinking I will be able to kill the demon while holding back, he thought.
As he said this, 100 thralls fell, and their bodies flew towards him.
Then their bones twisted, forming a huge throne of bones behind him.
Crypt Throne Manifestation.
Grey sat on the throne calmly, and immediately, the chair rose into the sky, giving Grey a full view of the battle.
The thralls that remained on the field were strengthened by more than 200%.
They all swarmed Vulkrak, covering him in a sea of thralls. Even the previous bosses joined them.
Grey clenched his fist and used corpse plague eruption.
Death energy spilt outward, eroding muscle and magma alike. The demon roared and stumbled, its movements heavy, sluggish. Its body cracked and peeled, magma veins dimming.
Then, Grey used a skill of the throne, and several death rays shot towards the beast, piercing and corroding it from several angles.
With a final roar, Vulkrak fell, its body lifeless.
Grey's throne dissipated, and he fell to the floor, face pale.
He looked at the destruction caused by the battle before he fell limply to the floor.