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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/MrIzuarel on 2024-10-29 17:42:24+00:00.
Chapter 99
The day when we decided to get the wolf arrived. I instructed half of my girls to clear the space and the other half to place the engineer traps. Unfortunately, I could not use the hunter traps to lure the boss to us as we needed him to lose the third blade somehow before the real fight began. The hunter trap would most likely not do that trick.
At the same time, I was ready for sacrifices because making him lose that thing would not be easy.
A bunch of warriors came with me, and once we were close enough, we all used our acid skills to attack the wolf from afar. I wasn’t sure how the wolf would react, but I hoped for the best.
He got hit by two of the acid balls, which was already good since he had a 90% evasion skill. Immediately, that boy threw his blade at us…
Not gonna lie, I was killed in that attack. Cut clean in two.
Four of my warriors were also killed in the same slash, but one of the surviving ones managed to grasp the blade before it could return to the owner. She managed to teleport with that strange biological blade to our dungeon and let it fall to the ground.
While the blade was successfully extracted from the equation, the rest of the warriors started to lure that wolf to the prepared area.
This was the reason why hunter traps would not be useful in that part of the plan. Since we had already started the hostilities against the boss, the hunter trap had no effect on him.
At the same time, some of my girls activated a few of the hunter traps far away from us. This caused the other monsters in that area to leave us in peace during our little battle. Their mission was to lure as many as they could until the boss died. Each of them had hundreds of traps waiting to be used.
I was forced to wait for a while until my resurrection cooldown was over, then joined the battle. Once outside, I could see the ingenuity of my girls. They were aware they could not use weapons as equipment, but somehow, they managed to use them as part of the traps.
Every time the wolf made a movement, explosions erupted from about ten percent of them. Some were slowing the wolf down, but the exploding ones lunched daggers, swords, knifes, and other bladed weapons around that hit everything around like shrapnel.
Regular weapons were already a nasty thing during a battle, but these were weapons we had collected from dungeons and treasure chests. Some of them had really repugnant enchantments cast on them. Forget about burning or poison. These bad boys had enchantments like necrosis, parasite, and despair on them.
What exactly this meant for the victim of these enhancements will forever stay secret between me and the Geneva convention.
I could see how my girls managed to get the boss to run over the traps and injure himself. At the same time, I saw how some of them collected the weapons that didn’t stick to the boss and replaced the traps and shrapnel. Thankfully, the weapons reacted to my girls, putting them into the inventory, or else it would have been a pain to do it manually.
I wanted to participate, but I was not in a position to do so. My main purpose in this operation was to replace the fallen girls who fell victim to the boss or the flying weapons.
Yes, the weapons also harmed us. I was far enough to avoid most of them, but even with the distance between the boss and me, some of the weapons landed close to me, and I was far enough that I barely saw the boss.
That’s when I realized that most of these weapons had interesting shapes and designs. Each of them had some kind of hook or intricacy that would stick to the body of its victim unless carefully extracted. A wolf would not be able to do that.
After about half an hour, the girls dragged the boss away from the battlefield they had created and went to an open field.
At first, I was uncertain about what was happening. The field showed traces that someone had dug up every centimeter and then closed up again, but I could not understand why. Only after the boss suddenly started to burn did I realize.
My girls had buried more weapons underneath the surface, blade upwards. This wasn’t a field with explosives, but the boss would step on them hundreds of times during the fight.
I was confused about how they had managed to prepare such a space, but then I remembered that we had waited for quite a long time before attacking this boss. Preparing this space was possible during that time.
I could see the many debuffs being applied to the boss, but they weren’t strong enough to be truly fatal to such a monster, but I didn’t notice what the girls were doing.
The girls were dragging him in a flower form over that field, passing as much as possible over the center of the field. I could see they were trying to force something to happen, but I could not see it.
At various points of the fight, the boss tried to run away, but even for that eventuality, the girls were prepared. They tossed potions towards the places the boss tried to escape. Those potions were filled with poisonous gas, and the boss, being a wolf with a sensitive nose, avoided the gas like the plague.
I thought the fight would drag on for hours as we were barely making a dent on that bosses health, but then it happened . The boss passed the center of the field again and screamed horribly. At the same time, his body flashed white. It was a weak and dull flash, but something had changed in him. He felt to the side and had problems standing up again.
I could see all my weapons in his belly and legs from where I was standing. I was surprised about how many weapons that boss had endured during that fight, but I was uncertain about what happened to him exactly. Then I observed how his fur slowly turned white.
Curious about what was happening, I came closer and used my system to get a good grasp on the matter.
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Petrification: (37 seconds)
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I was stunned about this. Then I remembered that I had only one weapon, which had such an enchantment, and that weapon was consumable. I had found a club that was barely more than a stone and a stick tied together inside a heroic grade treasure chest. That weapon was a one-time-use called “Cavemen’s favorite fossil,” and my girls had used this on the boss.
No wonder my girls had constantly dragged the boss over the center of the field! The weapon had been buried there.
I was stunned by what I was looking at, but the timer was slowly ticking and more and more of the body turned white and stopped moving, then the time ran out and the debuff changed from “petrification” to “petrified”. That debuff had no timer, so it was a permanent change that the boss would not be able to get rid of without help.
Seeing how the boss was defeated without being dead, I ordered the clean-up of everything. The traps could not be collected anymore after deployment, but that was acceptable.
Once we were ready to depart, we killed the boss and collected all the rest of the weapons stuck to his body. While I was uncertain what I should feel about this, I was happy that we had won. Maybe I should look into creating more of such measures to fight the spider at some later stage.