This isn't even fair anymore

Chapter 19

Monday December 22,2012

12:02 pm

(Ivan's POV)

As I make my way towards the center, I start to look for the boss of the room. I notice that the room was about the size of about five football fields put together and the roof was in the shape of a dome. I see Anenoid walking around the edges of the room. I suddenly hear a loud roar above me; Without thinking I make the air pick me up and carry me to the edge of the room. Shortly after a large beast dropped where I was previously standing. Like all the other monsters in the dungeon, this monster was a robot. The first thing I notice was the size, the robot took up half of the room and it almost reached the roof; it didn't help that the robot had the body of a dog that overdosed on steroids. I look up at its face, well I should say faces. The robot had three heads connected to one neck, each head looked like it was going to tear off your throat if it saw you. Each head had one pipe connected to it, each pipe was a different color: there was a baby blue colored pipe, a scarlet colored pipe, and an indigo colored pipe.; Each was pipe wrapped around its body.

How Am' I supposed to kill this? A sword isn't an option since I can't reach its belly, maybe Tribute will work? Please tell me this boss has a weakness. The last boss was so easy to figure out its weakness, but this one however, what Am' I supposed to do against that? I should have gone back when I had the chance. Out of nowhere I got a notification for a quest.

New Quest!

Kill the boss!

Rewards:

800 xp

$125

20 points

New Skill

Bo staff of the elements

10x Health large sized potions

10x Stamina large sized potions

5x Insta- heals

Mini Robot Cerberus blueprints

Failure consequences:

Death

Accept?

Yes

No

I click yes and I turn to look at the robot. Maybe Inspect will help?

Mechanical Cerberus- Lvl??

Master of three elements

Description: ???

Hp: ??

Mp:??

Stamina:??

Str: ??

Dex: ??

Vit: ??

Wis: ??

Int: ??

Luc: ??

Of course I don't get to know the bosses stats. No, let's not make it far and make the bosses huge robots that can kill me when they breathe. At least I have a clue to what it attacks with, but the problem is what kind of elements does it use? I know the real Cerberus guards the gate of the underworld in Greek mythology, so maybe it uses fire; then again I don't know if Greek mythology is real like some other mythology or what their underworld is like. For all I know their underworld is made out of ice. My thoughts were interrupted by violent shaking below my feet. I see some parts of the floor rise, the part I was on was quickly raised up into the air. I try to move but I lose my balance and fall onto the floor. I slowly push myself up onto my knees. I wait for the floor to stop moving until I decide to get back stand back up. I quickly notice that a ring was formed around the Robot Cerberus

At least it won't be able move around a lot. The room suddenly gets engulfed in darkness. Yay! I don't get too see anything while I fight it! I see a bright blue ball form in the air. I run to the side, but only after I run a few feet before I fall off the edge of the room. I let out a scream for a second before I catch myself with the wind. I fly up to the top of the ring. As I reach the top, I hear an explosion and see a laser of blue going across the room. What the hell is going on?

I drop myself onto the floor. I hear footsteps heading towards my direction, I suddenly get swept off my feet. I started to struggle for a little bit, but I wasn't able to do anything to the thing that was carrying me. I hear a voice quietly whisper in my ear.

"Can you stop? I'm trying to run away from the scary ice monster." Oh, it was only Anenoid. Wait what about an Ice monster? I stop struggling and I look for an ice monster. I didn't see an ice monster, I bet its hiding in the dark somewhere. Anenoid stops and he puts me down.

"Stay still and don't move your head." I suddenly see a bright flash of light. I flinch and I close my eyes. I slowly open my eyes, I was able to see through most of the darkness; I couldn't see more than twenty feet in front of me, but it was a something. I sense something behind me, I quickly launch myself to the side. I look behind me, but all I saw was Anenoid disappearing into thin air.

When I land, my foot slips on something and I fall onto my back. I feel my shirt slowly soak up something cold and wet. I try to use my hands to pick myself up, but my hands kept slipping. God dammit! I manipulate the wind to lift me up into the air, I go over to the place I was at before and drop myself onto the ground. I turn around to look at what I slipped on; I see three huge blocks of ice quickly melting. So, the robot can control ice, good to know. A block of ice suddenly stops melting and it instead starts to grow.

I quickly run the other around. Nope I don't want to know what is was going to do, but I know it was going to be a good thing for me. I didn't get more than ten feet before I feel something cold warp around my waist. I get pulled back, in a matter of seconds, I was where the blocks of ice where. I get pulled to the ground; I land on my arm, but something pushes me onto my back. I see a Cerberus head slowly creep closer to me. When it was inches away from me it opened its mouth. In its mouth I see a row of sharp teeth, but that wasn't what caught my attention. In the back of its mouth there was some kind of machine that was in the back of its throat. The machine had two metal rods sticking out of it, there was a generator hanging off the roof of its mouth. The generator sounded like it was constantly being banged by a hammer.

I see a bright blue orb start to from in between the metal rods. My eyes widen and I feel my chest tighten. I feel Gamer's Mind calm me down; I see Anenoid repeatedly dogging waves of fire by what I assume is teleporting. I suddenly remember that the room was covered in darkness. I use Shadow Swimming, I instantly feel the pressure around my waist disappear, I imagine myself gliding through the air, kind of like before when I first tried flying. I move to the other side of the ring before I my Mp ran out. I land on my feet and I take out two medium sized Mp potions. I open the bottles and I chug both of them at once. I start coughing. Okay, maybe I shouldn't drink both at once. I run around the ring until a I see a beam of blue come towards my chest. I quickly launch myself to the side, the beam barely grazes my skin. A Cerberus head slowly comes into view, it opens its mouth and I see that it was the same head from before. It had the same machine and everything.

The rods on the machine suddenly start to glow a bright blue. I prepare to launch myself, but one of the rods falls off. The rod that remained faded to a dirty brown color. The head stops moving with its mouth still open. Is- is it going to attack? I hear something clatter beneath feet; I look down only to see a block ice. In less than a second the block of ice turns into a large spike; I barely had time to doge, it grazed the side of my leg. I fly up into the air, without thinking I decide to hide in the non-moving Cerberus head.

I land in the back of its throat. Hopefully the mouth doesn't close on me. My chest felt like it was out of air, my breathing was ragged, my legs were shaking. I move my feet a little bit, I feel my foot tap something. I feel a shiver go up my spine, I quickly jump back. I expected to see another robot, but instead there was a handle. I slowly shuffle towards the handle; I bend down and grab the handle. I pull hard on it; a piece of the floor comes off. A bright light comes. I look into the hole; I didn't get to see much but I assumed it led into the body. Should I go in? The hatch has to be here for a reason.

I take a deep breath and jump in. The placed I jumped into had only one path to follow. I follow the path until the path opened up into a smaller room. The room had pipes going around the room, on the other side of the room there was a lever on the wall. Why does this room feel like a trap? I walk up to the lever, but when I was halfway through the room I hear a soft hum above me. I sense something aim for the top of my head; I jump back and barely doge a beam of blue. When the beam struck the floor, it left a black mark. In a blur I see something small drop from the ceiling.

It took me a while to comprehend what was going on. The robot had the body of a Pitbull with indigo colored pipes going from the top of its head to the tips of its toes. I take a few steps back. The pipes on the dogs body slowly turn dark blue, a bright blue line slowly begins to appear on its body. The line going through its body reminded me of veins in a human body. I send a wind arrow at it. A bright blue whip suddenly comes out of its back, the whip aims for the arrow, but my arrow goes through it. The robot disappears and then appears in front of me. I send a wave of wind at, but it jumps out of the way. It rushes towards my leg, not having enough time to react, it bites down on my leg. I feel its teeth dig into my skin, I wince, and I start to shake my leg. I hear a hum coming from its mouth. I feel the robots teeth become hot, shortly after its teeth felt like it was on fire. I try to ignore the pain but every second felt like torture. I bring out my katana and stab it in the middle of its torso. I feel a shock go up my arms, I let go of my sword and leave in it the robot. The dog lets go of my leg, it uses its whip and tries to aim for my face. I quickly duck and aim a wind arrow at its head. The arrow hits its head but it barely leaves a scratch on it.

The dog jumps a few feet back. I take a few steps forward, ignoring the burning sensation in my leg. I take out Tribute and use five points of my Mp for ammo. I aim but the dog starts to rush at me. I try to keep up with it, but the dog kept moving from side to side. I wait until it was few feet away from me until I decide to use Wind's Cannon on the top of its body. The dog was quickly fell on its stomach, I aim Tribute and pull the trigger. The bullet goes through its head, I wait for it for move, but so far there was no movement coming from it. I take a deep breath and slowly exhale. I can't believe that worked.

I walk up to the body and I pull out my sword. I walk over to the lever, every step I took felt like I was going to pass out. I pull down on the lever, but it wouldn't budge. I put my weight on it, after a while the lever went down. I hear a loud ringing come from outside the room. My whole body tenses up, I wait for something to happen. When I felt like it was safe, I started to head towards the hole I came from. When I got to the hole, I used the wind to lift myself up. When I got up to the surface I hear crackling and something shatter. I fly out of the mouth. What I saw didn't look good.

I saw fires scattered across the floor. The places where there wasn't much fire there was spikes made of ice. What happened here? I hear something whoosh by my head; I suddenly get grabbed my arm. I couldn't move my body, but I wasn't worried, I somehow knew Anenoid was using the shadows to move around the place. Anenoid takes me behind a spike, he slowly comes out of the shadow. I expected him to look normal, but right now he didn't look so good. He had cuts over his body. He put his hands on his knees and started gasping for air, I take a closer look at him and notice how tired he looked. He was drenched in sweat and some of his clothes wouldn't even be considered clothes anymore, his clothes looked like pieces of string. I hear fire crackling in the distance; I was only gone for like five minutes how did it get this bad?

I look back at the robot Cerberus. I wonder if the other heads have hatches in them? It would be convenient if that was the way to beat it. I look back at the head the head I came out from. The head had its mouth opened, it didn't look like it was going to move anytime soon. I guess it wouldn't hurt to at least try checking, well maybe it would hurt a little bit.

"Anenoid I think I figured out how to beat the robot." Anenoid didn't respond, he was too busy struggling to breathe. In short rapid breaths he responded.

"H-how?" I started to explain what happened when I was inside the head. By the time I was done explaining Anenoid was able to breathe normally.

"So do you have a plan or are we just going to wing it?" I think about it for a little bit before an idea pops up.

"Can you use the shadows to get me into one of the mouths, then you go into the other mouth." He puts his finger on his chin.

"Okay then, where is the hatch?"

"In the back part of the mouth."

He nods his head. He sneaks a peek at the robot. "Yeah sure, that sounds like a great plan." Anenoid says with a shaky voice. He slowly walks up to me and grabs my arm. I feel my body get absorbed into the shadows. Anenoid quickly flies over to mouth of one of the heads. The head opens its mouth and fire flew out of its mouth. Anenoid quickly rushes into the mouth. We get to the back of the mouth before I get forced out of the shadows. I land on both of my feet; I start to look around for the hatch, it took me a minute before I found it. I open the hatch and jump in; I wonder if Anenoid is going to follow me or not. Like the other head there was only one path on follow. The path led to a room that looked exactly like the other room I was in earlier. I take out Tribute and aim at the ceiling.

In the ceiling there was a huge gap. I guess that's where the robot came from. I slowly inch towards the other side of the room. Hopefully this room doesn't have a robot dog. I get to the middle of the room before I feel something staring at my back. I quickly turn around only to be met with a sea of fire coming towards me. I jump to the side but my arm couldn't get out of the way in time. I grit my teeth before getting out a bottle of water and slicing it in half. The water falls on to my arm, the burning feeling quickly went away. I turn my head to see what kind of robot was attacking me.

Like the other room the robot was had the body of a Pitbull but that was where the similarities ended. Its entire was engulfed in flames. Its body had a dull red and crimson colored pattern. I'm guessing that it used fire for its attacks. Maybe I can use the same trick on this dog. I put a few points of Mp into my gun and aim at it. I pull the trigger, before the bullet could reach the dog the dog jumped up into the air and send fireballs at me. I run to my side; I aim my gun and fire it. This time the bullet was able to hit the robot in the leg. It lands on its side with a loud clang. The sound fill the room, after a while my ears start to ring. I ignore it the ringing and put Tribute back into my Inventory. I run at the dog and take out my katana.

I hear a growl coming for the dog. A hand made of fire comes out of the dog. I use Wind's Cannon to doge the hand. The hand suddenly changes its directions, I wait until was a few feet away from me before changing my direction with Wind's Cannon. The hand misses me. I sprint at the dog with all the strength in my legs. I feel my chest tingle, I didn't know what it was about to do so I tossed my sword up into the air and jump to the side. A beam of fire grazes the skin of my arm. Before the robot could do anything else, I use the wind to make so that my sword was pointing at the robot. The robot opens its mouth, a ball starts to form in its mouth. I quickly bring down my sword through its head.

The ball slowly fades away and its body goes limp. I put my hands on my knees and I start gasping for air. I take out a small health potion to drink. I throw the bottle on the ground; I walk over to the lever and pull it down. I feel the room start to shake violently. I decide to rush out of the body. Every step I took the more violent the shaking became. I get to the hatch and I quickly use the wind to pick myself up. I fly out of the mouth and I fall onto the floor. Behind me I hear the robot Cerberus let out a whimper before being followed by a loud crash.

I feel a massive burst of wind come from the crash, it didn't bother me that much, it actually made the perk Wind's Kiss activate. What did bother me was the debris constantly flying around my head. I raise my hands over my head to protect myself. Luckily no debris hit me.

Thank god that's over. That boss fight wasn't even fair.