Chapter 174 First Trial [5]

"Can you create anything other than swords?"

"No, only swords."

"Didn't you created daggers on Floor 2 while we were dealing with Boss monster?"

Henry danced between two Lvl.3 Marshall Frogs. These frogs were 3 meters tall and could shoot out their tongues like a projectile.

Nevertheless, Henry was calmly dealing with them.

"In ancient times, the distinction between swords and daggers was paper thin. You could call a shortsword a dagger and a dagger a shortsword."

"Then maybe you can create any weapon as long as you think of it as a sword?"

"Maybe? Maybe not? I don't know."

In this situation, Nathan wasn't in the wrong for not explaining his abilities in detail. It was normal for awakeners to hide their stigma and abilities. Henry too knew this, thus he didn't pursue the matter any further.

Henry took 5minutes to defeat the frogs.

He sat down and looked at the ground with a defeated gaze.

"No drop this time, too."

Nathan and Henry have been on Floor 3 for 5 more hours already. During that time, Katrina never came to them.

After much discussion, they decided to focus on dungeon clearing.

"Be careful of the Floor boss this time."

"It has a troublesome [Trait]?"

"Yeah, it's a treant and has [Illusion]. It's a bit tricky to deal with."

Like earlier, Henry was taking the major burden of dealing with monsters.

It took them 5 hours to reach the boss zone.

"There is nothing here"

They searched the boss's zone carefully but found nothing.

Completing their search, they rendezvoused in front of a giant rock inside the boss zone.

The swamp was filled with rocks and trees. The large rock stood out from the rest. It was a good landmark.

"Did the boss leave his area?"

"That shouldn't be possible... at least on lower floors."

Henry couldn't understand where did the boss vanish.

The stairs to the next floor weren't there, thus the boss wasn't dead. It has to be in the area.

While both of them were trying to figure out the mystery, they failed to notice the mist that slowly converging.

A moment later, the mist solidified into a humanoid creature.

"What is that?!"

Schwing-

Henry gasped.

It was a man with white skin and black hair. The only color he had were black eyes.

Henry's sword passed through the man without inflicting any damage.

"It's an illusion. The boss is nearby."

They knew there would be no other cadets on this floor, thus the man had to be a monster.

Several other figures appeared simultaneously.

One after another, all of them were illusions. The entire area was filled with black mist.

Swish-

Henry, ignoring the illusion, was trying to find the boss. However, that turned out to be a mistake.

"Ughhh..."

There was a cut along Henry's arm.

The illusion had inflicted damage on him.

This was enough for Henry to realize how much dangerous it was to ignore the illusion.

"Don't look away from your opponent! Don't be fooled by their appearance!"

Nathan yelled at Henry, who was still dazed.

He grimly watched his surroundings.

They couldn't damage the illusion, but the vice versa was not true. They had to find the boss quickly or they would be defeated.

"I don't think this is only 'a bit' tricky"

"I think... that was supposed to be for groups of five-six people."

Henry admitted his mistake. He didn't know the boss could be this troublesome to deal with.

"Any weakness?"

"The tips of the roots"

"Any weakness that we can use at this moment?"

"I don't think so."

Schwing-!

Henry swung his sword at the illusions. Even if they couldn't hurt them, attacking the illusions distorted their figures for a few seconds.

Using those few precious seconds, they were running around while avoiding being attacked and looking out for the boss. However, the number of illusions was steadily increasing.

In a few minutes, they wouldn't be able to avoid the confrontation any longer.

It didn't help that they were tired from fighting monsters non-stop. Their stamina would hit rock bottom in at most an hour.

They couldn't take their time to find the boss.

Nathan swiftly scoured the area with his gaze.

"Nathan, we're in trouble..."

They were finally surrounded.

Henry gripped his sword tightly, his gaze tense and his limbs taut. He was going to blindly charge in.

The method was suicidal, however, they only needed to find the boss' body once.

Henry was confident in taking down a Lvl.3 1-star in one move.

"Wait, listen to me..."

Suddenly, Nathan grabbed his shoulder and stopped him from charging in.

"Go Super Sayain"

"Ha?"

"I'm telling you to use that light beacon of yours."

Henry gave Nathan a dubious look. How was that going to help them?

"I don't have time to explain, hurry!"

The illusions were only a few meters away from them. Henry realized.

They didn't have time!

He nodded and....

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

...went Super Saiyan!

Nathan whistled as he saw a pillar of light shooting into the sky.

But he immediately looked around.

A smile crept on his face.

The illusions and the mist have vanished!

He spun on his heels and tried to locate the boss however, luck wasn't on his side.

Swish-

A root suddenly appeared and slashed at Henry.

Henry was thrown off his position, and the pillar of light disappeared.?????????v??.c??

Nathan ran to Henry and picked him up. There was a long cut on Henry's thigh. His combat ability had dropped by a large margin.

Henry also realized this.

"I found the bo-"

"Nathan, I'll cover for you. In the meantime, get out of the boss zone."

"There is no need for that I foun-"

"Even if the boss monster is strong, it wouldn't be able to use [Illusion] endlessly to hide, use that chan-"

Slap-

A crisp echo rang.

"I found the boss"

Henry held his cheek and nodded dazedly.

Nathan pointed to the big rock behind them. At this moment, the illusions were struggling to form back.

"That's the boss, however..."

Nathan looked back at the 'rock'.

"It has a hostage"

Henry's eyes widened, and he stared at Nathan.

"Your mentor?"

Nathan nodded silently, nevertheless, his eyes held a strange glint at these turns of events.