Chapter 18.) Re: Floor 4 Raid

With Kite screaming his name, Gyro charged in for an attack.

Kite and Shin see the boss getting ready to attack, they both charge forward hoping to reach Gyro before the boss does.

"GYRO NOO, IT'S ABOUT TO SWING!" Kite yells

The boss swung one of his scythes towards where Gyro was heading.

Gyro manages to force himself out of the way by pushing his shield onto it's scythe but this causes his shield to break.

Just as the scythe touches the ground, the boss swings his other one horizontally in an attempt to split Gyro in half.

*Shadow Step*

Inorin appears in Gyro's place but is laying on the floor.

The scythe goes over Inorin just barely missing him.

"What the… but how??" Kite questions

"Wait…where's Gyro?" Shin asks

"He's over here, perfectly fine."

Everyone looks back to whom the voice came from, to see Koeda pointing at an injured Gyro next to her.

"But how?"

"It doesn't matter, we have more important things to focus on." Inorin says as he rolls himself off the ground.

"I didn't want to butt in but It looks like I have to…"

"Shin, do your special move again."

"I can't, it's still on cool down for the next 15 seconds." He replies

"Ok fine… Payne, do that one move you used on Koeda the day we fought on the 1st floor."

"I'm still frozen but thanks to the mage's buffing magic I only have 6 more seconds.

What are you planning on doing with it?"

"I'm going to redirect it obviously."

Inorin had already stolen the redirect ability Payne used, all that was left was to enhance it.

5 seconds later they both began casting.

*Illusion Magic: Debiruzufōku*

*Redirect/Enhance*

Payne shot an invisible pitchfork straight at Inorin's Enhanced Redirect Mirror.

You could see the reflection of the invisible pitchfork as it entered the mirror.

Immediately after 5 mirrors appeared around the boss' body. One over each foot, one on two of it's arms, and the last one on its forehead.

Each mirror unleashed a Pitchfork the size of Poseidon's Trident that could now be seen.

The tridents pierced into the boss's body, starting at it's feet (restricting movement), then it's arms (restricting attack), and finally it's forehead (paralyzing it completely).

Everyone just watched with a dazed look on their faces.

"What are you all waiting for!? ATTACK!" Inorin screamed

"Oh… yeah, he's right. Let's go all out and end it right here!" After finally recovering from his daze, Shin gave everyone orders.

Ayumi and Daisuke both casted ranged attack magic while the slayers and berserkers charged in, all except for Gyro that is.

"Gyro, protect Payne!"

With their combined attacks, they managed to drop its health to 25%. But this allowed the boss to awaken, as it switches it's attacks every time it loses a quarter of it's health.

It broke free of the paralysis but still had it's movement restricted and could only use two arms.

It dropped one axe and one scythe and switched to a sword and shield.

"A shield??" Everyone questioned as they backed off

"That isn't very 'Death God' like, sorry but we don't do shields." Inorin said as he got ready to attack.

He didn't want to use any skills that weren't in the realm of a Rogue in order to not blow his cover but knew he had to end the battle quickly.

"Souei, Koeda, after my second attack you finish it off."

"What are you going to do?"

"It doesn't matter, just follow his lead." Koeda replies

Inorin proceeded to call forth a black hole above the boss' head immediately after. He didn't know if the black hole was strong enough to completely suck up the boss so he told Souei and Koeda to attack right after.

And just as he thought, it wasn't, but it was for all of the boss' weapons, pulling them clean out of his arms.

Everyone else just stood there in awe after seeing a Rogue use a Mage exclusive skill.

"I thought you said he was a Rogue!?" Shin asked

"He is, I've seen him fight before!" Vaush replied

"Clearly he's not, how else would you explain this?"

"I don't know. Maybe he maxed out his agility stats to make him as fast as a Rogue."

*Finishing Blow*

Inorin's second attack was a Finishing Blow. Four of the dark arrows were directed at the boss' head and the other two were directed at his knees.

The boss immediately shielded his face with all of his arms and managed to block but was knocked back due to the four arrows colliding at the same time.

"DO IT NOW!" Inorin yelled

Souei and Koeda began running up to the boss right as the last two arrows were connecting with the boss' knees

Koeda used *Destruction Wave* completely incasing the boss in fire.

At the same time, Souei used *Jingu Bang*, a Weapon Master Slayer exclusive skill allowing him to control the length and weight of his spear.

His spear became 15 feet long while still retaining the same weight as its regular size.

Using this spear Souei stabbed the boss multiple times while it was on the ground burning from the fire caused by Koeda.

Souei's Karma Power had dropped drastically during this time due to over using this ability and his spear started to shrink while also becoming heavier. His spear now had the weight of a pillar but was back to its normal size and he could no longer hold onto it.

After seeing Souei drop his spear, Shin broke out of his awestruck state and screamed…

"EVERYONE ATTACK! The boss is at 8% now, we can finish this!"

Everyone began casting skills to finally finish the boss off. Throwing everything they had at it while it was still recovering from the beating Souei put it through.

Inorin ran over to grab Souei who was still standing right in front of the boss and ran him back to where the Medics were. Then used Shadow Step to trade places with Souei's spear.

Souei, almost completely drained of Karma, asked the two Medics to cast a KP replenishment spell.

"Sorry, I don't have any spell for that." Yuichi replied

"I- I have s-something for that!" Haruka butted in to say

She proceeded to cast two KP replenish spells on Souei; one to give an immediate boost in KP *Undowning*, and another to gradually refill KP as time passes by *Restart*.

Souei was no longer feeling sluggish and was ready to get back into the fight. But by time he got back to the front the boss was falling and Gyro was laying on the final blow.

'Raid Completed! Death God's Arm Has Fallen'

Gyro got the Final Attack Bonus which provided him a skull shoulder armor plate which granted buff to Constitution and weapon proficiency.

'Top Raid Contributors:

Haruka

Inorin

Souei'

The top three contributors get extra XP and money than everyone else.

Haruka came in first due to have the most spells cast and the most health healed.

And Inorin and Souei both had the most damage dealt out of everyone respectively.

The doors were now open and everyone was allowed to leave, they all somehow managed to stay alive until the end.