"Duuuuu!!"
The boss monster helplessly watched as its vision swirled and its entire body was flipped over like a pancake.
BOOM!
Castra felt a gust of wind and the boss monster's whole body collapsed on the ground right behind his back, just a breath away.
The shockwave from the fall was so strong that Castra was pushed out by the wind and fell flat to the ground right on his face.
....at least he didn't become a flat pancake, hehe.
Castra hurriedly turned around to see the boss monster who was already lying there helplessly with all its feet raised to the ceiling.
"Finally, we flipped this monster!"
Castra was so relieved that he almost wanted to do a belly dance, but he restrained himself and called his companions.
"Dear summoner! Come here! Let's finish off this monster!"
As for Mario…
Castra kicked him and beat him up.
"Wake up! Wake up! Time to finish off the monster!"
Mario, still sluggish after waking up from his short coma, groggily attacked the big boss with his hands and feet, looking comical.
But a damage, no matter how small, is still a damage!
Fire and blood quickly filled the entire place around the boss monster and the boss monster could only flail helplessly, trying to flip over its huge body.
"Duuu! Duuu!"
The surviving mob monsters wanted to help, but the ring of fire surrounding the boss monster blocked their path.
"Duuuu!!"
They could only roam around anxiously, twitching their tweezers and horns.
With the boss monster unable to move, the group shamelessly ganged up on it and even Castra managed to inflict some damage from time to time with his "The Way of The Shovel" that relied entirely on the 10% crucial hit— boosted by Garfin's lucky fur.
Every time one of the people in the group attacked the boss monster, a virtual system panel would appear in front of Castra, showing the red health bar of the monster.
-100 HP
-200 HP
-300 HP
-500 HP
-1000 HP
Oops. What's that 1000 HP damage? Oh, that's Garfin's casual slap.
…damn, that's so scary.
But the boss monster's health was at least 100.000...
How long would it take to grind the boss monster's health??
As if to remind Castra that he had no time left, Poo twirled around the young man while grinning like a villain.
[Mind you, host, you only have ten minutes left~ ]
[00:10:00]
Castra broke into a cold sweat and he quickly urged his companions to attack harder.
"Dear summoner! Let's take a big stone from the ruin and hit the monster with it!"
"Mario, re-summon your natal spirit! He should be fine already, right??"
"Your Majesty— "
"What, meow?" Garfin glared at Castra as he showed off his sharp claw and Castra immediately wilted.
"N-no, you're our main force, your majesty. You're doing great!"
With the help of heavy stones and Archie who was re-summoned, in the next two minutes, the group finally grinded the boss monster's HP to 80.000.
But it was still too far away from the targeted 25.000 HP.
And Castra forgot about one thing.
How could a boss monster let their enemies attack them without doing anything?
Even if the beetle monster was flipped over and became weak, it was still...a boss monster.
Before Castra could launch the next attack, a faint stench suddenly spread from the boss monster.
The stench was so faint at first, but soon, it became more and more overwhelming!
"Everyone, be careful!"
Castra quickly distanced himself from the beetle monster, eyeing whatever this monster was going to do.
But how could he ever expect to see a censored thing coming out of the beetle's back suddenly roll itself into a huge…sand ball??
And the sand ball suddenly rushed towards the boss monster!
??
"Is this monster trying to commit suicide??"
Well, no. The sand ball didn't hit the boss monster.
On the other hand...it enveloped the boss's whole body so tightly that there was not even a gap for an ant to pass through.
In just a few seconds, a gigantic dung ball appeared in front of everyone, so big that it squeezed the remaining magic barrier and shattered it into pieces.
But the exit gates were tightly blocked by the huge dung ball.
This...
"Is this the boss monster's second phase?? But its health is still more than half...why did it suddenly awaken to the second phase??"
Mario muttered as he looked up at the gigantic dung ball that almost reached the ceiling, just like a small hill.
Not to mention...who would have thought that the dung beetle monster's second phase would be a gigantic dung ball, not a dung ball meteor attack??
Seeing the huge ball, Castra has a bad feeling.
"Everyone, don't panic! Attack the ball! The monster is already weakened!"
Castra led the team by using the big stone smashes, but then...
-5 HP.
...? What?
A stone smash that could take 500 HP away suddenly only inflicted a 5 HP damage?!
That's ridiculous!!
Garfin and the others experienced the same thing and by then, everyone realized something was wrong.
"This...this monstel's defense is too off the chalt!"
So the beetle monster's true strength was not its attack but its defense??
"This dung beetle should be an Earth element monster. They're famous for their insane defense..."
Mario glanced at Castra, who was also an earth element spirit but had no strong defense and couldn't help but scoff.
"We won't be able to even leave a scratch on that giant ball, not to mention injuring the dung beetle inside."
How...how do they grind the HP of such a giant fortress??
At the same time, the current countdown to the system shut down:
[00:05:00]