âWhatâs with that goofy reply? I mean boss hunting you know? Boss hunting.â
Way too reckless.
So what sheâs saying isâŠ
âSorry, I donât want to die yet.â
âI donât want to die either!â
She was angry for some reason.
I mightâve said that, but Iâm still here.
âIn the first place, the whole reason we made the guild was so we could hunt bosses! Since we canât defeat them alone, we could defeat them one day with teammates⊠thatâs why we built it!â
âWe only have two people thoughâŠâ
âYou canât refuse my order Zeph!â
So thatâs it.
Thatâs how itâs going to be.
âOkay! Letâs start thinking of some strategies or something! Letâs go already!â
Millyâs smile was full of self-confidence.
Certainly there are several bosses that you can hunt with only two people.
But thatâs a gamble, and the King of Death could kill the both of us with a light pat at this level.
Bosses are challenged only by skilled adventurers, moreover only when theyâre in a party.
âAgain, this is too reckless, itâs better to just give up.â
âDonât worry! Thereâs surely a way to win!â
Iâm a bit suspicious butâŠ
âIâll bombard the boss with my magic first, and before the boss notices me, youâll teleport me away! We recover our magic once weâre out of sight, and then we repeat!â
âI donât know if Iâm going to have to repeat this, but the King of Death has self-recovery abilities. Escaping after firing low-grade magic wonât be sufficient, we need something more powerful.â
âThatâs true, well how about this Zeph⊠We bind the bossâs movement with Green Wall and then we both bombard him with magic from afar.â
âThe boss is immune to binding spells.â
Huh~ She sighed, while I continued.
âYouâve probably never fought a boss before. Theyâre not that easy, I can see us doing boss hunts someday but now is not the time. Itâs more efficient to just raise our levels at the moment.â
âEfficiency this, efficiency that, thatâs all you ever talk aboutâŠâ
âZeph, you idiot~~!!â
Milly teleported away while saying so.
Well, I guess I was a bit shortsighted.
Wait⊠That direction isâŠ!
âThat idiot canât beâŠ!â
I immediately chased after Milly by teleport.
â Taking the farthest distance possible while still being in the range of her spell, Milly aimed at the King of Death, bombarding it with Red Blaster.
Heat waves emitted from Millyâs palm eradicated the zombies in a single blow, but the attack didnât end there.
The heat wave continued towards the King of Death.
-Red system intermediate magic, Red Blaster.
The most efficient magic power to attack power conversion spell, itâs possible to attack everything in the direction itâs casted as long as the spell isnât canceled.
The King of Death didnât even flinch, and started advancing towards Milly. She immediately started retreating after she casted Red Blaster.
âTeleport~tsu!â
She pulled back quite the distance, until she couldnât be noticed by the King of Death anymore.
âFufun~ âȘ Iâm amazing, because I can fight the boss by myself! â
She started meditating, while adjusting her position in relevance to the King of Death. After, she casts Red Blaster at maximum range, and runs away right afterâŠ
Bombard the King of Death with magic.
Then teleport away once he notices her.
This⊠repeated about 3 or 4 times.
In just this short amount of time, Millyâs face was already covered with fatigue.
Her breathing was rough, and she was covered in sweat.
The âfight to the deathâ barely lasted a few minutes.
Her spirit and tension had died out, she couldnât meditate properly or cast any more spells.
While the King of death didnât seem affected at all.
Continuing this, especially in this state wonât do anything.
She knew it, butâŠ
ââŠI got this far!â
With an unsteady body, she measured the distance.
Her vision was hazy, her feet wobbly.
AndâŠ
She made an error with her visual estimation, and got into the King of Deathâs field of view.
Of course, it immediately turned towards her and began its a.s.sault.
Milly noticed her mistake even with her hazy head, and tried to escape with teleport, but because she couldnât concentrate properly, it wasnât invoked successfully.
The King of Death lifted up its bishopâs staff, where in the next moment it would surely split Millyâs head in two,
I flew in with teleport at the last minute, pushed Milly away, and received the bishopâs staff with my left arm.
*Hishihishi* I could feel my arm breaking.
It was slammed towards the ground, and my body was sent flying towards Milly.
My mind went black for a moment, but I canât afford to lose consciousness.
I grasped Millyâs arm, and escaped with teleport.
The King of Death who had missed its prey gnashed its teeth together, and started wandering again.
â Millyâs house.
âYou big idiot!! I said not to fight it! You wouldâve died if I wasnât there to save you!!â
Tears rolled down Millyâs face as I scolded her.
Milly apologized while crying the entire trip back to her room.
A little while ago, I activated a magic buff to protect myself.
The chant is long, so you canât use it in combat, it was magic that took 90 percent of the damage from an opponentâs attack once.
Yet it was still enough to break my arm.
At least Milly learned the true fear of fighting a boss.
âNow you know why I was so cautious, right?â
âYeah⊠I know, Iâm sorry⊠If I didnât act so selfishly, your armâŠâ
âŠit mightâve turned into a trauma.
In the future Milly is going to be a very important human resource.
Fighting boss monsters with me is one of the reasons why sheâll be important, so itâll be troubling if she gets traumatized.
I need to dispel this as soon as possible, the longer we leave it, the longer itâll take for her to recover.
d.a.m.n⊠Itâs just that troublesomeâŠ
Even though I said it wasnât efficientâŠ
My left arm started aching again.
Itâs completely broken nowâŠ
Its started to heal after strengthening my self-recovery ability.
But the recovery of bone damage or deep wounds would still take a long time.
This situation is full of things I wouldnât consider good.
d.a.m.n, Iâm getting angryâŠ
The King of Death.
âMilly.â
ââŠyeah?â
Somehow sheâs become timid.
Looks like the damage was deeper than I thought.
I guess thereâs only one thing we can do.
âGive me seven days. Seven days to prepare and plan, then we defeat the King of Death.â
With a blank look Milly just stared at me, so I grabbed her shoulder and flashed a smile.