73. 2nd S-Rank Dungeon Clear

The raid team has slain the 11 Giant White Lionesses. But there are still more outside the barrier.

"What should we do? I don't think doing the previous strategy is good."

"I have an idea."

Jin Woo tells everyone his idea and they agree. They rest for a while to restore their energy even a little before doing their plan.

The monsters outside the barrier have stopped attacking because they know they can't break in by force now. So they are waiting for a chance.

But then Indra suddenly creates 10 barriers to isolate each of the 10 monsters. Now they can attack the monsters one by one.

Indra can't use his Binding Chains because he makes many barriers at once. Well, that's what he tells the hunters to still hide his real abilities.

He can create Binding Chains just fine and even fight these monsters alone if needed, but he still needs to hide his real power, and there's no need to expose them now because the others can do just fine with him only doing this much.

Indra opens a path between the main barrier with one of the monster cage barriers. The strategy is to let the monsters into the main barrier one by one and kill them.

It works really well even without Indra's chains holding the monsters because they just need to fight 1 monster at a time.

These Giant White Lionesses are stronger than A-Rank dungeon bosses, but not so much. Just around 2-3 times stronger, so it's still manageable for a team full of S-Ranks.

Indra doesn't even buff them this time to save his mana for the boss fight. Even the National Levels are not participating too much for the same reason.

Besides, the normal S-Ranks can defeat these monsters by themselves. It takes a while, but attacking just 1 monster at a time makes everything easier.

They can defend the monsters' physical attacks and Wind Magic attacks without much problem. Their attacks are also very powerful as most of them are damage dealers.

It doesn't take long for the 10 Giant White Lionesses to get wiped out. But there's no other monster coming, including the boss.

"Should we move deeper?"

"No. We can't see well with those bushes and trees still covering the deeper parts. The boss probably doesn't come out so it can use the environment to his advantage."

Higher ranking monsters are usually smarter than lower ranking ones. So it's not strange for an S-Rank dungeon boss to realize that coming out to fight them is a bad idea. Especially after 21 of its subordinates were killed.

"Maybe it can't leave its domain or something like that."

"That's usually not the case for field type dungeons. The bosses aren't trapped in a room like cave type dungeons. They can explore the dungeons anytime."

"It doesn't matter. We still need to find the boss. Let's burn the bushes again."

They burn the bushes that block their view again. Then after a while, they hear the powerful roar that they heard before. Just like before, some tornadoes appear again after the roar.

After the fire disappears, they feel the ground shaking. Then something comes out of the remaining bushes.

A giant male White Lion with blood red eyes shows up in front of them. It's twice the size of the Lionesses that were already as big as houses.

"That must be the boss."

"And its guards."

2 White Lionesses that are a little bigger than the previous Lionesses come out of the bushes slowly.

".... They just keep coming."

Without waiting any longer, Indra creates barriers to trap the monsters even though they are still far. He doesn't want the hunters to fight the boss and its guardians at the same time.

"We will use the same strategy as before. Let's get rid of the guardians first."

With the hunters' nods as signals, Indra makes a path to one of the guardians. The hunters quickly rush to attack it with all they have.

This guardian is stronger than the previous monsters. It has equal strength with 3 of the normal giant White Lionesses.

The hunters are having a harder time fighting the Guardian. But their teamwork is better now after fighting some monsters together.

The National Level Hunters are joining the fight now because the Guardians are strong. With their help, the guardians finally get defeated after a while without any problem even though the National Level Hunters are still holding back to save their energy.

They need to be in good condition for their fight against the boss now. To make sure they are in their best possible condition, all the hunters drink some potions to restore their mana and stamina.

They don't bother using healing potions because Indra's Heal Magic is better and consuming too many potions isn't good for their bodies.

After everyone drinks their potions, gets healed, and is buffed, they are finally ready to fight the boss. As there is only 1 enemy left, Indra decides to just dispel his barrier so they can fight freely.

The boss that finally gets freed roars at the incoming hunters. It wants to rush immediately, but suddenly multiple debuff spells hit it.

The gigantic male White Lion feels its power being suppressed. It tries to dispel the debuffs, but the spells don't budge at all.

"You are not as strong as Kamish, so don't hope you can remove my debuff spells."

To make things worse for the boss, Indra casts Binding Chains to hold it. The chains appear right before the melee hunters arrive, so they can keep hitting the boss without any fight.

Then, a massive rotating Fire Drill which is the combination spell of all the Mages flies and hits the boss's face.

It's a very strong spell, and while the boss is not as tough as Kamish, it is still also very tough. It withstands the spell even though quite a lot of its fur gets burnt.

The melee hunters attacks also can't pierce through its thick hide yet. Even Dewi and Il Hwan still can't cut the thick white hide.

But they just keep going because they know they will succeed soon. Besides, the boss can't even move and fight back now because of Indra's debuffs and chains that tie it.

They don't need to worry about the boss fighting back and just need to keep attacking it, that's their only job.

The normal S-Ranks are attacking the ankles, Dewi and Il Hwan are attacking its neck while watching out for the Mages' attacks that come quite frequently.

Right now, the boss is like a sitting duck being slaughtered. It only survives this long because of its strong defense.

But even that finally reaches its limit. With its overall power including its defense being reduced a lot by Indra's debuff spells, the boss finally succumbs to the hunters' relentless attacks.

It's still very impressive that the boss can stand their attacks for half an hour. Beast type monsters really have powerful life forces and won't die easily.

"Good job everyone. Let's leave this place quickly before it closes."

Indra takes out a very long chain as big as an adult and throws it to his sister. There is a hook on one end of the chain.

The S-Ranks don't know what they are going to do with the big chain until Dewi wraps the chain onto one of the boss's legs and then she drags it.

"A-are you planning to take the boss out of the dungeon?"

"Of course. Think of how much we will get from this thing. I'm sure wealthy countries will splurge a lot of money for these monsters. That's why I told you to move the dead monsters near the Gate. So we can tame them out and sell them. At least we can get quite a lot of compensation from the profit of selling these materials. It would be better if we could explore this dungeon to find more valuable materials, but we don't have such luxury in an S-Rank Gate."

The hunters are nodding now because it really makes sense.

"Now hurry up and go to the entrance. My sister can pull the boss alone. I guess old man Il Hwan and his son can carry the guardians. So you guys can take the other monsters out of the dungeon. Tell the hunters outside to help you, hurry."

They move quickly to take the monsters out before the Gate closes. Indra gives chains to Il Hwan and Jin Woo so they can pull the guardians like Dewi.

After the other Hunters leave, Indra makes some clones to explore the dungeon. Dewi, Il Hwan, and Jin Woo aren't surprised because they already know this ability.

Jin Woo also stealthily sends some weak shadow soldiers that won't consume too much of his mana to explore the dungeon too.

They want to see if there are valuable things in this dungeon other than the monster materials. But they can't stay here for too long or the Gate will close, so they send their clones and soldiers.

"Alright, let's leave before they get suspicious."

It takes a while for all the monsters to be taken out of the dungeon. But that's not the most important thing now because the world is more focused on the 2nd S-Rank dungeon clear.

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