- Chapter Twenty Eight -

We're now only a few hundred yards from the entrance and we can already hear the battle. Screams filled the air around us and like madmen, we rushed towards the sounds of pain and death.

About 20 yards from the entrance, we saw 10 figures rushing out of the doors. Milo, of all people, came running out of the dungeon along side 8 or 9 members of Blue Diamond. Fear and unprecedented horror plastered on their faces.

"Again!?" Shouted Freya, as she thought back to when he left her and her guild for dead. But no one thought he'd abandon his own guild, much less his own brother.

It's apparently much worse than we thought. Blue Diamond's guild is now less than half its size, and it looked like Aeroguard had already lost two archers on top of losing Milo.

We entered the room and immediately separated into our earlier groups. Parks led the archers over to help Aeroguard and you could immediately see the relief on Flynn's face when they showed up.

Mine and Thad's groups are going to take on the boss while Freya and Gojira's groups help Valhalla and the rest of Blue Diamond take on its sentinels.

I read in the player manual about the boss for this floor on the walk here. Illfang the Kobold Lord.

It's easily three meters tall, muscular, covered in red fur with crimson eyes. It uses a large bone axe and a leather shield. Behind its waist it carries a meter and a half long nōdachi weapon. But that's not even the worst part... it has "Ruin Kobold Sentinelminions". Hundreds of em.

"They keep respawning!" Flynn yelled as he shot another minion through the eye.

Parks looked over to an opening in the wall where all of the minions were coming from. Every time a minion died, one came running through the opening.

"We need to push them back to that opening and hold them there!" He yelled, pointing towards it. "That's where they're respawning!"

Across the room and what seemed like a mile away, mine and Thad's groups met up with a tank from Blue Diamond as he was fighting off three minions.

I came up behind one, slashing it across the back just as Sampson lunged and sunk his beak into the dying minions neck. It instantly shattered into blue shards.

The Blue Diamond tank had a terrified look on his face as he and Thad took out the other two.

"They won't stop spawning! I've killed at least 50!" He yelled as he tried to catch his breath.

"Our archers will hold them." Thad replied, "We need to worry about the boss."

"Good luck! No one but Banshee can get close enough to it without dying!" The tank replied, hysterical.

As if summoned, a short Asian female assassin appeared in the tank's shadow. "It's hopeless!" She yelled, panting. "I can't do enough damage to it!"

Ronin and I looked at each other and nodded. "What if you had 3 more assassin's?" I asked her.

Just then, 7 more minions charged us as Illfang shot into the air from across the room and landed within 15 feet from me. It's roar was bone chattering.

I raised my sword just in time to block a massive incoming hit. The blow was insane and almost took me completely off my feet. I hadn't fought ANYTHING this strong in the game thus far.

Ronin grabbed Banshee and they disappeared into the shadows, hopefully going to get some help.

Thad came around and connected a sickening blow to it's midsection which got it to jump away, giving me just enough time to recover.