Blind Gunner

6.

What's behind the wooden door isn't something that I ever thought about before. As soon as we opened the door, we were greeted by a misty swamp. Hundreds of white storks flew like a mob of moths, then perched on a fallen tree trunk. It happened maybe because they heard the noise of our footsteps. Various small animals such as frogs and water bugs moved away as we stepped into the middle of the swamp. Phantom asked us not to split up. He said the boss could hide anywhere and if one of us might accidentally pull out the aggro, he could easily take over.

"Where are the nuts?!" Evo looks very impatient. I looked around but found nothing but solid white fog. "I can beat the nut with just one slash!" Evo said so arrogantly.

A red arrow appeared beneath my feet. "What is this?" I pointed at the arrow.

Phantom threw the shield he was carrying in front of me in one direction. The sound of cracking tree trunks filled the silent swamp, accompanied by a deafening screech. "Stay right here!" He shouts before running in one direction.

Phantom dashed through the fog. He looked very in a hurry, followed by Evo behind him. Not wanting to be left alone, I decided to follow them. Tendrils filled the arena in front of me, and I retreated. About 8 meters from where I was standing, still shrouded in fog, I could faintly see a creature resembling a soldier with tendrils sticking out from several parts of its body. A wooden warrior in armor, complete with a wooden sword and shield of the same material. "The nutcracker?!" Shocked, and confused when I saw a nearly 2-meter-high nutcracker that was so alive.

I saw how Phantom blocked every attack from the nutcracker using a shield and Evo attacked from the other side. I understand now what Yoga told me about a team. I immediately prepared with my bow, but when it was about to shoot the area around us turned red. "Interrupt!" Phantom turned to me, he then hit the nut making it fall. Nutcracker had failed to cast his skill.

Evo leaped into the air, flashes of red light flashing from his two blades as he slashed at the nutcracker's body. Then he returned to the ground. Not long after the nutcracker fell, he then disappeared into beads of light that rose into the sky.

"Done!" I assumed Evo meant that we had won.

"Good job Monck. If you are late to give the warning, we will die!"

From killing the bean, we got an item drop. I got a mana item from the boss which turned out to be quite cheap, but still sellable. Evo gets a white wooden shield. He said he would take the color of the shield, not the model. I don't understand what he meaning. While Phantom gets a valuable item when compared to us. The herbal item is the king's bark which is useful as a consuming buff material that will give the effect of increasing 5% the attack and accuracy for 1 hour. This item is usually sold for 100k per piece in the market. The luckiest Phantom on us.

"Let's move to the next floor!" Phantom asked us to get ready for the 2nd floor and don't forget to bring all the drop items we got from the Nutcracker.

...

I know this place. The 2nd floor of the celestial tower is the Damavand volcano area where the mad dragon Jawzahr lives. Unlike the actual map, in the celestial tower, the dragon roams around accompanied by small creatures like the nutcracker or rather the boss on the first floor celestial tower in its tiny version.

"Maybe we will lose!" I looked at the Phantom who was so pessimistic. "We have never gone this far," I began to feel afraid. "Should we retreat now?"

I don't want to back down. Because I once beat Jawzahr with yoga. I hope that here too we can do the same. "Could we try first?" I wish we had tried it first, if we really can't then we'll back off.

Jawzahr was already in front of us, maybe 20 meters away. There are still so many opportunities for us to retreat. "Let's try!" It turns out that Evo agrees with me.

Phantom ran to Jawzahr's toward. He swung his sword to attract the dragon's attention and then led it towards a narrow area under the cliff. Jawzahr's movements were now restricted, with the Phantom who sacrificed himself trapped with Jawzahr in a narrow area under the cliff so that Evo and I could attack from a safe distance.

This trick works. The small area of ​​the overdraft made it impossible for Jawzahr to issue a jump attack straight at us which inflicted a slow debuff and even the slash of his tail became very easy to dodge. I admit the Phantom trick is good.

I used the same strategy as when defeating Jawzahr together with Yoga. Starting the initial combo with a skill that gives Jawzahr a slow effect. Followed by a skill to help recover mana points for 60 seconds. Now and then I throw a shot that causes paralysis and silent debuff to lower the attack speed of Jawzahr. Buy time for 15 seconds to charge destruction fire. After 15 seconds, I then used the armor destroying skill to lower Jawzahr defense and dodge the possible guard Jawzahr gave so that it would lower the attack of my damage. Followed by shooting destruction shots that have been collected for 15 seconds. It worked again as I thought.

As Jawzahr's body unraveled like a nutcracker, they looked at me with pretentious expressions. "Wow.., dude! Amazing" Evo was at a loss for words. He had not yet cast a unit skill and the dragon had already fallen. I walked over to the Phantom to help him up from the overdraft.

The item drop we got from killing Jawzahr was a crystal mana item with a sapphire color. "We are very lucky today!" said Phantom. Phantom asked us to hurry to the next floor. I feel like it will take a long time to complete each floor in the celestial tower.

...

The place we went to next was a toy warehouse with a Christmas tree and jumbo-sized gift boxes lined up. A brown teddy sitting quietly accompanied by several miniature toy cars maybe 5 to 7 meters high. The atmosphere of toy barn was so quiet. If there's sound, then it's just some rotary mechanical toy being rattled around in a rigid motion by an old mechanical system.

Phantom asked us to walk behind him. "Be careful!" Phantom asked us to avoid the small toys milling about.

I heard a faint child's laughter from behind the red door with some gold ornaments behind the Christmas tree. We looked at each other. This is the first time they enter on the 3rd floor and the first time for me to join a dungeon. "Is it there?" our minds are guessing.

"I don't know," Phantom asked us to wait outside. He walked towards the door carefully while avoiding the small toys there. Slowly open the doorknob and peek at what's inside.

The little boy's laughter grew louder and louder. The Phantom was bounced off by something along with the two doors that were wide open revealing a white creature resembling a faceless little angel hovering around. "Retreat!" Phantom instructed as quickly as he could. Evo pulled Phantom's arm which fell after being bounced, but this only made Charmain turn his head towards us. He flew slowly with 6 white wings while occasionally playing the small harp in his hand.

Phantom threw his shield to stun Charmain in 10 seconds, he wanted to create an opportunity for us to escape from the 3rd floor of the celestial tower. Slows Charmain's movement after he wakes up so Evo can take Phantom out, but this only makes Charmain angry. The color of his body which was originally white as snow suddenly turned red like blood with a black liquid oozing out from a large hole in his face.

"Immune!" We panicked when Phantom's shield throw didn't stun Charmain and seemed to infuriate him instead.

I, who was already in front of the exit, immediately ran to help them, but before I could reach the two an ice cannon shot out of the big hole in Charmain's face. I and Evo managed to dodge, but not Phantom. "Fatal damage...!" Phantom tried to stand up with his body covered in ice, he was hit by the freezing effect of the ice cannon for a while. This will be very troublesome for us because the Phantom's movement becomes very slow.

Evo cursed annoyed, I know this is too sudden. Didn't think that just peeking through the gap in the door could attract Charmain's attention. "Monk, fast kill, or our tank will die!" Because of the ice cannon attack, the Phantom's HP barely left 10%.