The Iron Leopard’s attack ca without warning. Its tallic fur suddenly bristled outward, and hundreds of needle-sharp projectiles launched from its body in all directions like a deadly rain.
Of the 3 spells that an Iron Leopardd spawned with, it had the worst one.
Jax reacted instantly, moving forward to present his body to the attack, while covering his head with his gauntlets. The fur needles struck him with trendous force, hurting him a little, but his armor held. Most of the spray was blocked by his body and equipnt, creating a protective barrier for the others behind him.
"Roman, help!" he shouted, feeling the impact of each needle against his armor. The attack was far stronger than he had anticipated. Without his protective gear, those projectiles would have been lethal.
layne and Ning had quickly positioned themselves in front of Roman and Lucille, their own armor providing so protection. However, both knew their equipnt wasn’t strong enough to fully protect them from the iron fur assault. They were thankful for Jax’s shielding.
Roman imdiately used his spell the mont he could. Soft golden light surrounding Jax, relieving him of any wounds and pain.
Jax turned around, his axe to his side and looked at the Iron Leopard.
"That’s incredibly powerful," Jax said, genuinely surprised by the intensity of the attack. He wondered if any more was coming, but the mont he saw its fur lower, he knew the barrage had ended.
Jax imdiately charged the boss.
His Divine Threads spell activated, creating poisonous strands around the leopard. The greenish threads wrapped around the boss’s tallic body, attempting to bind it in place while the poison began its work.
He understood that the bos would likely break out of his threads if it tried to, so he made sure to only wrap its body and individual limbs. That way, it imdiately began taking poison damage.
At the sa ti, Ning searched for the Leopard’s Critical spot, but he couldn’t see one yet. He turned toward Lucille and asked, "Any information yet?"
Lucille’s analysis spell had to have been used already, so there shouldn’t have been much ti before it activated.
"I’ve got it!" she called out, her voice carrying both excitent and urgency. The spell had finally activated, providing her with crucial information about the boss. She began reading out the information verbatim.
"The boss has several spells, the main one is Needle Fur."
"Yeah, we kinda got that already," layne said. "What else does it have?"
She knew about its possible spells, but it didn’t always spawn with all of its spells.
"The others temporarily improve its speed, durability, and enhance its claw attacks with increased slashing damage. It also has a pouncing attack which you have to look out for, and a tail attack."
Even as she said that, the boss pounced on Jax, who stepped back at the last mont. layne jumped in, slashing her sword that left a train of fire in its path. It left a loud clunking sound when it connected, dealing so damage to the monster, but not a lot.
Lucille continued rapidly, knowing every second counted. "It’s resistant to bludgeoning and slashing attacks, as well as any spells with tal or Earth elents. But it’s vulnerable to Water and Lightning elents!"
The information about potential loot flowed through her mind as well. When killed, it was guaranteed to drop five 1st Stage Erald Stones and one tal Erald Stone. There’s also a chance for a sword, tal knuckles, a tal Body spell, or a Needle Spray spell.
But, the team didn’t need that information at the mont, so he ignored it, focusing only on the vulnerabilities.
The mont Lucille learned about the water vulnerability, she had acted. She imdiately summoned her Water Guardian, which she hadn’t activated until now in fear that it would be useless against a boss. If it ended up being useless against a boss, then it would just be a waste of a spell.
The Water Guardian had a long cooldown, and it also drained Navi for as long as it was active and fighting. Against regular beasts, that wouldn’t be a problem, but against Bosses, it would have to fight more than ever, which would easily drain more of her Navi.
She had hoped she wouldn’t need it from the start, but it seed luck wasn’t on her side at all.
A few seconds later, a massive octopus materialized around her, its translucent blue form covering her completely. The creature’s eight water-ford limbs spread around, and imdiately began attacking the Iron Leopard with jets of water.
The leopard wailed with so pain and anger each ti the water jet hit its body. It was clearly doing sothing.
"It’s also vulnerable to lightning," Lucille thought to herself. And while she had a lightning bolt spell that could likely deal a large amount of damage, she couldn’t use that spell here.
Jax was doing his best to hold the creature in place, but his threads weren’t working as well as usual. The Iron Leopard’s strength was quite high, allowing it to tear through the threads and run away.
Jax had also tried Earth threads, but since the leopard was resistant to Earth elents, it seed more than capable of breaking through those as well, despite their absurd weight and durability. So, Jax couldn’t keep the boss in place while Lucille charged her spell.
The poison threads were dealing damage, but slowly. Jax and layne’s regular axe attacks were having so effect, though not as much as they would have liked. The thing that was dealing most of the damage at that mont were the water jets, but the Leopard was learning to stay away and doge those as well.
"Damn it," Jax thought. The Leopard was perhaps the most straightforward of the bosses, they had fought until now, but it was strong in its own way. The thing that they needed the most here was spells that dealt damage, and none of them had that sort of spell.
The only one that did, Lucille, couldn’t use it.
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