Chapter 58 - cocky cock (2)

The second level was through the special coop which led the party into gloomy field. The dried grass clumps here and there turned the field into a maze of sorts. Mama chickens, no, they should be called hens, had turned berserk ( probably due to multiple births. My mama always says birthing in a maddening process). Thanks to loads to shadows and shades, hens camouflaged their barely red and black giant like bodies. They were over 4feet talk and won't you know their beaks preferred men's pride as their target. Definitely a lady had planned this part of game. Chicken wings are no longer appetizing, not when they had slam a shield bearer to ground. Thankfully Bree focused to keep Royo's HP and MP at healthy level.

There was another mishap in the beginning due to fireball spell. The spell burnt down the clumps of grass and grass surrounding them and it threatened to turn into forest fire. Saachi had to waste a water AoE spell to completely cover the fire.

The clucks of hen were no longer cute, it meant reinforcement was coming. Thankfully these hens could not fly but jumping up and down or sideways was still possible. So the team had to make sure that they were not facing each other. Surviving the team's fire by jumping, rolling or bumbling may look easy, but they were painful as h**l and totally useless. Whether it was accident or deliberate, Royo got struck with two arrows inspite of jumping and rolling.

They had rest a while before facing miniboss. Fighting these ladies had sapped a lot of energy. Miniboss was more like a goon standing in road to fight. No tricks, no summon. Only berserk, berserk and berserk.

Bree : " Not good! Her agility is increasing faster. She'll turn into assassin soon. Spam all skills, don't let her agility to increase again."

Even a straight forward fight had a cheat. Thankfully this team had a wise leader to recognise it. Few rounds of spamming with mana potions to take up the brunt, finally the miniboss fell.

Corpse looting time.

Only Saachi tried this time. Equipments and weapons to suit berserker or assassin dropped. All went into Bree's kitty to be sold later. While others were resting, Saachi cleaned up the field. Unfortunately not many herbs were left, probably the hen had already eaten them.

Down the special coop, enter the third level. This time it was mama- baby combo. Awwww! Sh*t! A straight up badass and an assassin as backup. Only question is which way is less painful way to die?

On top of it, these groups also cheated by throwing sand , rising whirlwind and attack while players' vision was affected. Mama hen, you taught your child this trick, right? It was so easy to fight these little monsters in 1st level.

Saachi was happy to see mourning hen as miniboss. There was no baby chicken to fight. That was the only graceful thing. This mourning hen was size of a man, with loads of weeping and wailing, dealing mental attacks, sound attacks. Royo turned out to be useless tank in front of her. Sacchi had to heal in between as Bree's MP and HP dipped into red inspite of swallowing potions as soon as CD ended. The filed gave loads of clothing as monster drop. So it came as no surprise to see cloth armour coming as miniboss loot. The staff was fairly good. In the end, Bree decided to sell instead of using it.

The last level of dungeon.

The cocky cock.

It was definitely cocky and a cock .

There was only boss in the field, no one else. Wow, narcissism much?

The splendid crown was bigger than Royo's shield. The body bigger than man, it's beak sharper and bigger than a sword. The hardness and defence of skin- another level. The talons in feet - sharper than knife.

It aggroed on whoever stood in front of it. Did it see this as challenge to its authority? As a dungeon boss, it was shameless though. Apart from summoning minions, it tried all classes whenever it hit certain levels in HP bar. On top of it, it's regeneration rate was beyond scary.

The team was well prepared though. Lots of speciality items came out from inventories. Royo changed his shield. Kylie started using armour piercing arrows, each costing 5 times the normal ones. They swallowed special potions too. To prepare for boss, over 100 coins was spent. They went all out to this fight.

Reason 1 - it was a boss.

Reason 2 - it was a boss of the dungeon. Kill it, the dungeon would be cleared.

Reason 3 - most important - the alarm beeped, denoting that less than half an hour remained before log out. They had to kill and make announcements before logging off or the money held in escrow would go away and clients would lose interest in this mercenary -cum-advertising team.

So no probing, searching, only direct attack.

It took them nearly half an hour to whittle down HP of the boss. It has to be said. This cock had rights to be cocky. Saachi had travelled in lots of maps, ran away from level 10 monsters too but this cocky son-of-*****, this one was entirely different level.

He was gasping, holding his staff as staff as support when the cock turned towards him and.....