The Hunt of the Night Liberator Group

With Aaron's high level of confidence, Isabella and Clara were pretty confident of the young man's strength.

The two watched Aaron approach the boss room door, walking up to the system panel for the team registration that would challenge the floor boss.

Isabella glanced at Clara, the two women seemed to look at each other. Both nodded in unison, agreeing with Aaron's decision.

They went to approach Aaron as the young man pressed his palm to register the team to challenge the floor boss.

Only the group leader can do this. Earlier, Isabella was the group leader on the first floor. Aaron knew exactly what the registration system before him was like.

[Registration successful]

[Team Name: Star Pillar Group]

[Team Leader: Aaron]

[Number of Team Members: Three]

[Challenge: Bull Axe]

[Warning!]

[The team taking the challenge cannot retreat]

[The team can leave only once the boss is dead]

[Take the challenge?]

[Yes] [No]

A notification panel appeared after Aaron and his group's identities were confirmed. The explanation in front of it said that the monster they were about to fight was Bull Axe.

Yet, there was no exact information about how and what level the monster was. Isabella guessed its level was above the average of the monsters on this floor, just like fighting the first-floor boss.

Aaron felt confident in his abilities, especially since his Additional MP was still enough to use one to two of his sub talents.

Still, Aaron had to pay attention to the efficiency of using his Additional MP. Don't let his MP run out before he reaches the 10th floor.

[Challenge accepted]

[Monster: Bull Axe]

[Level: 38]

[HP: 44000/44000]

[MP: 46000/46000]

[Element: Fire]

Another panel appeared before Aaron's face, displaying the identity of the monster that Aaron and the others would be fighting soon. 

Level 38, with the fire element, proves that boss monsters always had a higher level than the average one in this place.

Red light appeared on the monster's body, circular in shape and glowing brightly. Aaron narrowed his eyes. 

The dark pillar system must restore the monster's condition to its original condition after the earlier fight.

Aaron took a deep breath, stepping forward into the floor boss's room. Isabella and Clara followed behind by preparing their magic and talents.

"Can we defeat it, Aaron?" asked Isabella.

"We can. We just need to be alert and work together."

Isabella nodded, understanding what Aaron meant. She stepped ahead as she reached out her right hand, planning to use the rose petal talent to attack it first.

[Talent Activated]

[Sub Talent Activated]

[Rose Sword Manifestation]

[MP -2500]

A magic circle was displayed under Isabella's feet, glowing rose red and releasing thousands of petals flew over her head. 

Aaron turned to the side, seeing with certainty that the thousands of petals flew to one point and formed into something, a sword.

Wind rings were created around the rose sword, three in number, causing a strong gust of wind to form around the rose sword.

With her palm clenched, Isabella pointed her hand forward, "Be blooming, my flower!"

The rose sword darted quickly, accompanied by a slight fall of petals from the sky. Aaron and Clara saw the great power released by Isabella, a sign that the woman was not messing with the monster's abilities before her.

The bull monster pointed the tip of its axe forward, making a magic defense of its own.

The tip of the rose sword blade and the tip of the monster's axe clashed, causing a huge thunder to be caused in the place until Aaron had to use his purple magic to defend himself.

'Terrible power,' Aaron said.

The energy friction between the two magics was great enough that Aaron couldn't help anything for now. He glanced to the side. Clara seemed impressed with Isabella's rose sword ability.

Cracks were created in the bull monster's defensive wall, getting bigger and broader. In the end, the bull monster's defense magic shattered and turned into small fragments that evaporated.

Isabella smiled. Her sword darted over the monster's body and stuck right in the monster's stomach.

The woman swung her hand to the side, making the thousands of flower petals arranged in the rose sword burn brightly and explode to produce a continuous explosion.

[Damage +5800]

[Critical +6700]

[Critical +7200]

[Three Combo! Great!]

[Monster: Bull Axe]

[HP: 26000/44000]

[HP - 18000]

Two and a half of the monster's four HP bars now remained. The monster leaped violently backwards, seriously injured in several parts of its body from the sword stab and rose petal explosion.

Isabella clicked her tongue, feeling annoyed that her power had not been able to make the monster's HP leave 20000.

'A bit more,' said Isabella.

Now, it was the monster's turn to carry out its attack. Aaron asked Isabella and Clara to be aware of what might happen.

The bull monster swung its axe at the ground, forming a huge crack capable of falling a human. The crack spread all the way down to Clara's feet; Aaron reflexively pulled the woman from falling.

"Be careful!"

"Sorry, I wasn't focusing earlier."

A bright red light appeared from within the crack and surprisingly began to emit hot flames that could kill a human at once. Aaron and his team were caught between the two cracks of fire that appeared.

"Relax, this won't get us hurt."

Feeling safe, an unexpected fire circle emerged from the floor. Aaron felt his feet warming up, he suddenly asked the others to avoid the flame circle area.

Aaron and the others jumped out of the flames. Aaron's guess was right. The flame circle was a pillar of fire that emerged from underground.

[Damage -1450]

Aaron turned his head, seeing Isabella hit by the attack, precisely hit by the hot beam of fire when she was trying to dodge. Aaron gasped in shock.

"Isabella? Are you alright?" asked Aaron, worried.

"Don't worry. It's just a small wound; it will heal with HP Potion."

Isabella fell to her knees as she downed a gulp of HP Potion. Suddenly, the burns on the woman's right hand disappeared and healed as before, except for her clothes could not recover.

Aaron smiled to see Isabella recovering. The fire cracks subsided, as did the circular pillar of fire. It was a clear sign that the bull monster's attack had stopped.

"Go near Isabella, Clara."

"What are you gonna do?" asked Clara.

"I will kill the monster before me."

Clara nodded. She stepped back and met Isabella as she asked about her condition. Both women looked forward. Aaron seemed to be standing confidently while looking straight at the bull monster.

Aaron brought out purple energy from his palms, stepping closer to the bull monster that continued to roar loudly to intimidate Aaron, but Aaron was not affected at all.

[Talent Activated]

[Sub Talent Activated]

[Energy Devouring Sword]

[MP -40000]

Purple-colored dark energy began to gather in one hand; Isabella squinted. Previously, she saw that Aaron's talent attacks would collect energy in both palms. But now, it seemed different.

"Is he planning to use another sub-talent?" Isabella asked.

"Another sub talent? Is it powerful?"

"I'm sure it is."

The purple light in Aaron's palm stretched and formed a huge purple sword with lightning and rumbling wind surrounding it. 

The monster stuck the blade of its axe in the ground, then seemed to bring its palms together to summon protective magic power.

Having sufficiently formed the dark magic sword, Aaron swung it powerfully forward accompanied by a furious shout. 

Both hands of the bull monster were pointed upwards, blocking the power of Aaron's purple sword.

It was different from the protective magic that had been used to withstand Isabella's attack. The protective magic this time shattered as it clashed with the power of dark energy with Aaron.

The bull monster's eyes widened; it didn't expect its defensive magic to be destroyed so easily.

When the monster tried to dodge, Aaron's purple sword attack hit its body first. Huge damage appeared before Aaron, such a huge amount that he was sure this attack could kill the monster.

[Damage +58500]

[Monster: Bull Axe]

[HP: 0/44000]

[HP - 57000]

Sure enough! The HP bar of the monster before Aaron ran out immediately, indicating that the Bull Axe monster had been defeated.

Aaron smiled, still holding the purple sword that continued to emit a great rumble around the monster's carcass. 

Slowly, the monster carcass started to shatter and split into small shards of light, then evaporated into the sky and vanished.

[EXP +25466]

[TP +12733]

[4500 RL]

[DING! Congratulations on getting a new title]

[9. Fast Conquer]

[Defeated Two Floor Bosses within a week]

[DING! Congratulations on getting the last hit reward]

[2 Soul Core Elixir Lv.1]

[2 Blue Amethyst Gem Lv. 2]

[4 Red Ruby Gem Lv.3]

[1 Amygdala Silver Armor]

Clara gasped. She never thought Aaron could defeat the monster in a single attack. Slowly, blue lights began to glow in the room, indicating that the floor boss had been defeated.

[CONGRATULATIONS!]

[You have successfully completed the Dark Pillar's second-floor boss challenge]

[The third floor of Dark Pillar Tower has been unlocked]

[Floor Access Privilege: 3]

[Want to go to the next floor?]

[Yes] [No]

Not only appeared before Aaron but also in front of Isabella and Clara. The two women stepped closer to Aaron, Clara showing that she also managed to get EXP, although not as much as Aaron and Isabella.

"How did it go? Are we gonna go straight to the next floor?" asked Isabella.

"You won't be able to escape from here!"

The words came from a man who appeared before the boss's room door. He came accompanied by five people, none of whom Aaron knew, but Isabella was familiar with two of the six.

"Denis!" complained Isabella.

"Do you know him?"

"He's the leader of the Night Liberator Group on the second floor."