Chapter 5: Boss Fight

"... This is the dungeon if I remember correctly..."

Hiroto muttered while looking at the cave in front of him. Carrying a large tree branch at his right hand.

[Based on the map of the game system, this is the correct location. Are you sure you want to enter by yourself, host?]

The system, causing Hiroto to grin in response before stepping into the cave without hesitation.

"If you clear a dungeon by yourself on your first try... The game would reward you a [unique] items... so, it's only natural that I'll try to clear it myself to try my luck"

He said before looking at the large pile of mana and health potions in his inventory with a serious expression on his face.

"I spent every money that I have just to prepare for today... so I hope what I'm doing is worth it"

He said before his eyes noticed movements below him, causing him to lower his head. Making him see a large green blob crawling towards his direction.

"... [Fireball]"

He casted, causing a ball of flames to appear out of thin air and threw itself towards the slime. Creating a small explosion in front of him. Killing the slime in one hit before it started to turn into pixels.

"It's a good thing, I'm a mage..."

He said before countless slimes started to appear in front of him. Making him point his staff forward.

"[Flamethrower]"

He casted, causing a small spark of flame to appear at the tip of his staff before it started to expand. Launching a torrent of flames forward, burning everything in front of him before he deactivated the spell to save his mana.

[Your level has increased to 22]

[+5 status points]

The notification rang as Hiroto continued walking deeper into the cave. Blowing all of the slimes that he passed through to smithereens using a fireball, but due to his high level. The exp that the slimes gave him wasn't sufficient for him anymore.

"System, pour everything to VIT"

He said as he arrived in front of a large wooden gate. Making him breathe deeply as the system distributed his 40 status points to VIT, causing his defense to rise. Preparing his inventory so that he can easily access his potions. Unlike Maple who had an incredible high VIT when she first battled the boss. His skills is more INT focused so there's a large chance that the boss can one shot him if his not careful.

"System... I'll leave the use of potions to you"

[Oh? So you trust me, host. That's new, you kept whining how much you can't trust me just a while ago]

"Can you shut up and be useful for once?"

He said in annoyance before placing his hand on the wooden door. Making him nervously gulp since if he failed here, he can say goodbye to the unique set that he was hoping for.

"..."

Hiroto then grit his teeth before pushing the hate open, causing an ominous looking mist to come out of the room as the deep growl of a large monster echoed in his ear. Making him look up, causing him to see a 3 headed monster that was at least 4 times larger than him.

"... It really looks different when you face it yourself..."

He said with a large smile on his face as he entered inside. Making the gate behind him to shut close. Trapping him inside as the 3 heads all glared at his direction.

"[Earth Armor]"

He immediately casted, causing his VIT to rise up to 80 before immediately jumping towards the side. Dodging the poisonous substance that the 3 heads fired out of their mouths, causing him them to follow his tracks as the poisonous substance scattered across the floor.

"[Earth Wall]"

He casted, causing a large wall of soil to appear in front of him. Blocking the poisonous purple liquid fired by one of the heads towards his direction, causing the wall to melt upon contact with the poison. Making Hiroto immediately point his staff at the dragon and fired [Flamethrower] towards the direction of the hydra. Hitting one of its head before Hiroto rushed forward. Dodging the attacks of the two heads, but couldn't fully dodge the poisonous substance that managed to splash on his skin. Making him grit his teeth in response.

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

The notification rang as his Hp bar started to quickly decrease at an extremely dangerous level. Making his system use a health potions to heal him before Hiroto dodged one of the head that sweeped throught the ground. Trying to lock him in place, causing Hiroto to immediately land on its head.

The head roared as it felt him land on his neck. Making it open its mouth to launch a [Poison Breath] at his direction, causing Hiroto to grin as he pointed his staff inside his mouth.

"[Blaze]"

He casted as a torrent of flames spread throughout the hydra's entire head. Making the monster screech as the two head fired [Poison Breath] at his direction. Making Hiroto erect two large walls at both of his side. Temporarily blocking their attack before he rushed and climb on its body.

"[Fireball]!"

He casted. Launching two balls of flames at the two heads that tried to bite him before he jumped off its body. Creating a large pillar of soil to catch his fall before erecting another wall behind him. Blocking the 3 head's combined attacks.

"Maple really made this fight look really fucking easy..."

He said before erecting 4 pillars in front of him. Blocking the Hydra's advance as the wall behind him melted. Making the hydra release [Poison Breath] towards the pillars to melt them.

"System... Spam Mana potions for me... I'll start using Mid-Tier spells"

[Understood]

The system said, causing Hiroto to grin before he run away to form a considerable distance between them.

"[Blaze Needle]"

He casted before swinging his staff towards one of the head. Launching dozens of thin needles of extreme heat towards the head, causing his mana to quickly drain as he watch the needles sink into one of the hydra's head. Making it howl before flame burst out of its mouth.

"[Quicksand]!"

He casted as he slammed his staff on the ground, causing two large cracks to appear and spread around the hydra. Creating a large circle around the monster before the soil beneath it completely crumbled into dust. Sinking the hydra into the ground, trapping it in place before Hiroto started firing more Blaze Needles on its body.

Making the hydra randomly fire [Poison Breath] around it, causing Hiroto to erect an [Earth Wall] in front of him. Blocking the first wave of poisonous liquid but wasn't able to block the second one that was fired as soon as the wall melted. Making Hiroto frown as his body was drenched with the purple liquid.

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

The notification begun to rang as the system continued to spam health potions to keep him alive. Making Hiroto grit his teeth as he felt his body slightly ache from the poison.

"[Blaze]"

He casted, launching a wide wave of flames in front of him but wasn't able to reach the Hydra due to its short range. Blocking their view before Hiroto hit the butt of his staff on the ground.

"[Rock Prison]"

He casted as the rocks beneath them started to move. Protruding out of the ground as it started to extent upwards. Surrounding the Hydra's body as it trapped it inside of a large cage of stone. Making Hiroto point his staff in the air.

"This is the reason why I fucking hate long incantations"

He said as his mana to quickly drain but with the help of the system. Managing to maintain the activation process of the spell as his mana potions started to deplete in his inventory.

A large bright light then started to form above the cage, causing two of the Hydra's head to look up the blinding light while the other one fired [Poison Breath] at Hiroto. Making Hiroto grit his teeth as he couldn't cast another spell during the activation of this high level spell due to his quickly depleting mana, causing the liquid drench his body as the effects of the poison started to kick in.

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

[-70 Hp]

The notifications rang as he watched both his mana and health bar alternately decrease and increase at the same time.

[You have acquired [Poison Resistance (Advance]]

"Finally..."

Hiroto muttered with a large grin on his face as the effects of the poison to dissipate.

"Let's see how you deal with this..."

He muttered before the temperature of the cave started to spike, evaporating the water underground as the ground started to release small ounce of water vapor in the air.

"[Solar Flare]"

He casted as he swung his staff downwards, causing the bright orb in the sky to burst as flames engulfed the Hydra's entire body. Melting a large portion of the part of the cave and turning it to lava.

"..."

Hiroto remained silent, staring at the hellish like scene in front of him as the fire started to die down. While only the sound of the flames were heard, causing Hiroto to sigh in relief.

[Your level has increased to 25]

[+15 Status Points]

The notification rang as the body of the hydra turned into particles before a single chest replaced its body.

[Congratulations, host. You're not as useless as we thought you were]

"... Make up your mind if you want to praise or insult me"

He said in an exhausted voice before he walked towards the chest. Opening it with his right hand as golden light came out of the chest before a series of notifications appeared in front of him.

[You have acquired [Moonlight Cloak]]

[You have acquired [Twilight Scepter]]

"... This is new..."

He muttered before clicking the button at the buttom right corner of the notification, causing more information about the equipment to appear in front of him.

[Unique Series -]

"I already know about that"

He said as he skipped that and moved his eyes on the stats provided by the equipment.

[Moonlight Cloak

+ 40 VIT

- 100% Mana Regeneration during night time.

+ 10 INT for every 1 hour that the player is basked in moonlight.

- Self-Repairs during night-time.

- Empty Skill Slot]

"... Are you the one who made this system?"

[No, but it was prepared by the system for you once you achieve this kind of feat. It was especially made for your role as a mage]

The system explained, causing Hiroto to smile at it in gratitude as it started to see the system in a new light, but immediately regretted it when he read what the system said next.

[What? Are you brimming with gratitude towards us, then please be more-]

"Why won't you shove that pride up your ass? You were the one who dragged me in here and forced me into a debt, so don't go bragging your ass off since this isn't enough. I can't even bring this shit back at my dimension"

He said in exasperation before equiping the armor, causing his body to get covered by a long black cloak with silver lines at the ends of the cloth. Inside was a simple black leather armor with the same designs as the cloak while his hands and feet were covered by black leather armor with diamond shaped silver decorated its top.

"Not bad"

Hiroto said with a smile on his face while looking at his new equipment before he equipped his new staff, causing a large scepter that was taller than his own body to appear in his hand. The scepter had a long black pole while a silver cresent moon served as the scepter's head. In the middle of the cresent moon is a single black jewel that floated in the air.

[Twilight Scepter

+ 50 INT

- Turns moonlight present in the holder's body into mana.

- Self-Repairs during night-time.

- Empty Skill Slot]

"... So... My equipment works best during night-time, and acts like a normal equipment during daytime... That feature is really fucking shit but... I guess it does fit with the theme of the armor"

He said before a look of regret surfaced on his face. Making him look at the scepter with slight greed in his eyes.

"I really want to bring this scepter back, but... That means I have to act as a Cupid for Maple with another character... if the character that I'm possesing doesn't count then... I guess I have to give up bringing my equipment back at my dimension"

He said with a sigh before preparing to leave the dungeon, causing him to look around to see that the entire dungeon was repaired back to its original appearance.

"System... If I summon Maple... will she bring her equipment with her?"

[Yes, since you'll be pulling her avatar out of this dimension. Unlike you who will leave it behind, that's why rest assured since she'll retain her original equipment]

The system said as Hiroto stepped out of the dungeon.

"Thanks goodness"

He said with a sigh of relief, before the system added a few more words to its explanation, but was ignored by Hiroto who closed his eyes while stretching his body. Breathing in the fresh air as his body relaxed.

[Even her ability to level up and strengthen herself in this game will be retained. The only thing that she wouldn't be able to retain is her ability to obtain skills since she would be cut off from the game system of this dimension]

The system said before immediately removing the words in its screen. Giving Hiroto no chance to read the additional information.

"... What the hell was that? I didn't even get to read it"

[It's nothing important, host]