The boss was a large red skinned demon with large twisting horns and smoky black hair around his face and head. He wore two golden arm bracers with one reinforced with leather padding, he held a huge golden plated hammer with a cylindrical head with two flat faces to it and a staff of white wood reinforced with steel.
"Want a go at this guy alone?" I ask the my friends who stood by my side taking in every detail of the boss that stood before us.
"Why not, we're high enough levels and combined we can keep each other alive. Any way if we start to loose we can just run out of the room and try again later." Oliver answers decisively. We all draw our weapons and begin to walk into the room while instantly taking our practiced battle formation, me and Andrew B at the front to take the initial attacks and do as much damage as possible and to have Andrew and Oliver switching into the battle when the enemy is occupied with either me or Andrew B, this took advantage of Andrew's speed and Oliver's flanking damage. If this strategy would work against a boss, however, was yet to be seen.
As we got closer to the boss it raised it's head and it's name and four health bars were now visible, it was called Baran the General Taurus. Suddenly it charged forward with tremendous speed with it's heavy hammer held high. Me and Andrew B counter charged the boss and we were just able to raise our blocks before it dropped it's hammer upon us. The attack, aimed at me, came down with a thud after I deftly dodged it's path and then swinging my sword at the beast's flank cutting through it's flesh and but doing only a small amount of damage. Meanwhile both Andrews had taken this opportunity to attack the boss with more power and accuracy than I was able to achieve and their combined hits to it's chest the boss stumbled back with half a bar of health now gone. Oliver and me then went on the offensive with me jumping up and stabbing hard at it's sword arm's shoulder while Oliver went for it's legs. However after our attacks hit home the beast gave out a howl of fury and took one of his hands from it's hammer's staff and used it to punch me with extreme power and knocking me to the other side of the room. The combined force of the strike and the impact of the stone ground cut out a large chunk of my health and winded me. When I was finally able to stand back up with my black sword as a support I saw that my friends were agilely avoiding the Boss's wild swings with a variety of evading manoeuvres before quickly moving back in to land a hit or two and then move out again. Even though I could still feel the dull pain of the boss's hit in my chest and stomach I charged into the fight to rejoin my friends who were slowly but surely taking down the boss's health. I followed the example of my friends and without getting as close as I had before I started dealing a lot of damage without taking any.
When we began to think that this was going to be an easy fight, Baran hit half health and therefore his battle flow changed. He threw his Hammer at us, the swinging head and staff of the hammer flew at us and barely missed us before smashing into the wall and then falling to the ground. He then charged at us head first which hit both Andrew and Oliver to the ground with it's horns, it then span on the spot and punched Andrew B across the room as it had earlier done to me. It then turned to me and lowered it's head in preparation for another horn charge. As it charged at me I ran at it and at the last second jumped into the air, turned and stabbed my sword hard down onto it's wide back. The beast raised it's head and tried to hit me off of its back, however I turned my blade upside down and began to cut down it's back with the serrated edge of my sword. A few seconds of this and the boss's swings had come extremely close to hitting me off so I decided to kick off from it's back where I landed heavily on the ground.
I looked up by the boss's head and it was now in red health. It quickly turned to face me and started to violently strike at me with all the power it could muster, these attacks seemed impossible to block so I was left with just evasion. However this didn't last long as my three friends were now up and running back into the fight. Oliver span around and threw his axe which planted itself into the neck of the boss, Andrew had came in from the side and with a jump stabbed rapidly at the boss's arm while Andrew B came from the other side and had begun to slash at the boss's side.
The boss changed it's target and swung it's arm round hitting Andrew B's shield and missing Andrew who had quickly jumped back away from the hit. Now the boss had turned it's back to me in it's failed attempt to hit it's new attackers, I took this opportunity to charge back at it and summoning up my strongest sword skill I ran past the beast leaving a deep wound across it's whole side. I turned to see the boss fall backwards, defeated and explode into hundreds of particles.
A large white "Congratulations!" appeared in the sky and each of our drop panels opened up in front of us. We all looked down, exhausted yet relieved, at our panels. I saw that I had obtained the Boss' hammer weapon and a good amount of Col which would last me a while. I looked back up at the other three to see them sheathing their weapons and walking to the central area of the room before they all sat down to regain some energy before we entered the next floor.
I walked over to them while sheathing my sword and asked "Anything interesting dropped for you?" they look at me and shake their heads, I look at Oliver and direct my words to him "I got his hammer, but as I'm not going to use it do you want it?" I ask him.
"Sure, why not. I've been needing to get a higher level weapon for a while now as well." He replies after looking down at his axe for a few seconds. So I quickly trade him the hammer which he then quickly goes to equip. It was large had two circular flat ends on the silver coloured cylindrical head and a white wood staff handle which made the weapon as tall as Oliver.
I then turn my attention to the large, polished, dark wooden door with a large brass door knob on the other side of the room and begin to walk towards it. When I reached it I slowly opened it up to see the luminous shifting whiteness of the floor portal and with a quick look back at the others I walk through it.