After the break, I decided that it was time to move on. G was sleeping on the floor, but readily got up when she sensed my iions.

  “Time to get that alchemist css and then be able to produergy drinks left and right.”

  “Awoo, awooo!”

  G looked eager for the fight. She probably was going to obtain a new css toiven that the previous boss chamber was able to grant her a power up. Speaking of the ice phoenix, perhaps I should pick a flying animal the ime to tame. Given how G was growing, a flying animal would be able to grow that much as well and then I would be able to ride it and have the ability to fight in the sky. Most enemies would be uo fight back against us.

  Having a bird like pet and one like a feliype would make the plete set for an archer for me to have, but I didn’t see many types of flying animals that it would be cool to have alongside me.

  I also thought that I should cel tame at least oh G and see what happens. Even bae, I had plicated feelings about people who had pets, even more so the type that kept them in cages. It felt really odd that birds would have to leave like that when they could chirp so well that it was almost music…

  While I was thinking about that, we reached the boss chamber and then found the pce covered in boulders that got in the way of our vision. The air was , uhe rest of the byrinth, so we didn’t have to worry about poison slowly causing trouble.

  I was hoping to hear the sound of s given that the monster was a Minotaur, but this one was sealed here… it began to move and made the ground shake a bit. Before long, we saw the creature emerging behind one of the boulders around.

  “I k…. Still, what weird message is that the byrinth is passing us with this?”

  The Minotaur boss was far more thaypical horned brute the legends spoke of. It was a chimera, a grotesque amalgamation of human a. Its t frame stood at least four times the height of an average man, a muscled juggernaut sculpted from nightmares. Its torso bore the humanoid shape of a warrior, rippling with strength, but its legs were those of a massive bull, hooved and impossibly powerful.

  Its arms were a grotesque hybrid of human a, bulging with unnatural sinew and tipped with cws instead of fingers. The creature’s face was where the horror truly solidified, partially huma dominated by the monstrous features of a bull-like beast. Wickedly sharp horns jutted out from its skull, framing glowing, hateful eyes. Its mouth was lined with jagged teeth, more fitting for a predator than a grazing animal, and it exuded a guttural roar that sent tremors through the ground.

  Every inch of its form seemed engio inspire fear, and the way it moved, with an unnatural, terrifying brute strength, made it clear that this was no ordinary beast. The Minotaur chimera was a monstrosity born from the melding of man a.

  “I wonder if this kind of thing came from a rift or… it has a tragic backstory as the same as the Minotaur from Greece.”

  That didn’t matter sihe beast roared and then ged toward me. G still took her p front of me to block the beast, but the monster was simply te for her to defeat alone, with only my magic as support.

  I grabbed my bow, expeg that I wouldn’t have to pull too much strain in my left arm. In the moment, the beast jumped and then smmed down both arms to smash us, but both of us jumped to the side and avoided the attack.

  The rger fists of the monster made the room shake and then pebbles flew in all dires, obsg my vision. Still, I knew where the beast was and still unleashed an arrow at the monster using twenty pert of my attack.

  The Minotaur raised its left arm and blocked the attack… the arrow barely pierced its skin. Still, the shog effect began to work and then the beast aralyzed for a moment, which G used as the ce to ssh her cws at the monster’s neck.

  Her frost cws cut the neck of the monster, but they only made a bit of blood fall from the wound. My arrow fell from the srm of the monster and no longer shocked the beast. The creature turned around to face G…

  ‘What about thirty pert then?’

  I had to find the right amount of strength soon… mana drain worked with physical damage caused, and the previous attack didn’t cause any of it, so I just wasted most of my mana.

  The beast exposed it’s bae, imagining that I didn’t have enough power to hurt it, but sretted when the arrow pierced its back… only a bit, but it was enough to paralyze it with the shock effect for a sed. A sed that G used to jump and then target the eyes of the monster…

  Although the beast aralyzed, the shod damage caused were just a bit above before and the monster was able to move its head to the side… G cws only sshed the cheeks of the monster.

  “Grrrr…”

  “Sirl… I am a work in progress.”

  It was time for forty pert… I felt like a moron doing that. Like I was a vilin mog the hero by slowly increasing my attack power. The hing I would do was use 120 pert or some shit, like it ossible.

  The mourned around to look at both of us in annoyahe monster was tough and strong, but it wasn’t very agile aerous. Naturally, a boss of this level would have a lot of limitations.

  The monster charged after raising both of its thick arms to protect its head… it wasn’t stupid, it decided to smash us while proteg itself. I almost fell bad for the beast sihat wasn’t a bad idea. It would be easy to dispose of it with some decay arrows, but right now, I wao test the limits of my left arm.

  When I was about to unleash the arrow, I felt a sharp pain in the wound… that made my aim move a bit to the side and the arrow barely scraped the arm of the monster.

  “Crap…”

  We jumped to the side again, but the beast was waiting for that and soon swung both of its rge arms to the side to hit us… we only escaped because I used Demon’s S of reflex.

  “Attack freely, girl.”

  I activated Beast’s Fury and then G began to torment the weakened monster… I had found the limits of my arm and the bow and I found them g. Just three arrows made me feel some pain and I couldn’t risk deying the closing of the wound.

  I could feel my mana beiored… I khat the boss could be sidered an abomination, but I didn’t think that it would actually be an undead or abyssal creature. It made sehat it was undead, si probably had the dead parts of a human and a bull monster.

  Still, G attacks only caused minor wounds on the mohe creature closed its eyes to avoid losing them and even its eyelids were that hard to damage.

  “Go for the eyebrows, girl.”

  Beast Fury enraged G too, but she still uood my order and began to ssh apart the monster in that area… It didn’t take long for the moo have its face covered in blood and then the Demon’s Snare disappeared.

  When the monster was free, it was barely able to keep its eyes open. It tried to then, but more blood came out.

  “Hhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh!”

  The monster roared in anger as it looked at both of us, but it also khat charging mindlessly would be its end… this made me wonder, if this thing was created by the byrinth and they could spawn monsters left and right, how did the byrinths get all the data to create those kinds of creatures? Actually, did it create them ht them from some unknown pce? Some monsters showed a high level of intelligence like this one, despite their ditions.

  “... All right, time to end this.”

  I didn’t want to think too much about the mohat I was hunting. It would give me some troublesome ideas about their very existend I didn’t hat kind of trouble in my life.

  At this point in the fight, two against one was unfair, and the boss was so wouhat anything else now would be simply bullying. With that in mind, I moved the sleeve from my left arm and then pulled the b of my hand crossbow.

  That still put some strain on my left arm, but with a single bolt being there, the pressure would be weaker… in the end, I fired a decay bolt ented by the power of wind… it pierced through the head of the monster without resistance.

  You received 3500 experience points.

  You pleted a trial. Please choose between the csses: Dark Padin, Pyromancer, and Alchemist.

  You obtaihe Alchemist css.

  You improved the Mana Regeion parameter.

  You unlocked the Aptitude: Chemical Mastery.

  You unlocked the skill: Explosive Fsk.

  You unlocked the skill: Restorative Brew.

  Chemical Mastery: Gain experience points based on the quality of the potioed.

  Active Skills - Explosive Fsk: Throw a fsk that shatters on impact, dealing area-of-effect damage equal to yical and physical power and causing a lingering fire effect. Cost: 20 mana.

  Restorative Brew: Your potions restore five pert more health and mana to a target.

  For a ge, the system didn’t try to screw me over, so I sighed in relief, it looked like G got a new css too, so we finally achieved oal and could leave this hellhole. For a short while, I absorbed the knowledge of the css and uood how to create the explosive fsk… I could use all sorts of materials, I just had to make them go haywire with my mana.

  ‘Well, time to go now.’

  WritingMaeGun