Chapter 30: Green Gas


    "...!!" Btedly noticing the green gas blowing towards her, Frey was quickly engulfed in it.


    "Frey!" Shinto shouted out in shock from the sudden attack from Centripedas. His eyes quickly turned towards her health bar as he saw that it was dropping rapidly


    ''Damn it...!'' He clicked his tongue as he rushed towards the boss, ''I forgot that this boss had a poison ability!''


    "Frey! Move out of the way!" Shinto continued making his way to the Centripedas.


    "R-Right..." Frey stumbled back from the monsters sudden attack. She had not been expecting such an attack to hit her. The attack took nearly half her health, along with that was a status ailment, poison, which is rapidly eating her remaining health.


    If Frey were to stay at the spot shes at right, her death would be ensured with the monsters sweeping attack. However, no matter how much she tried to move away from the boss, the Centripedas stuck closely to her as it continued it''s enraging attacks.


    While he ran over towards the boss, Shinto took a nce towards his skill window, checking out the cooldown of his abilities. Taking a look at the cooldown, he cursed inwardly, Damn it... The skill''s still on cooldown! She''ll be dead if I wait even for ten seconds!''


    "Ah...!" Frey cried out as she was struck by the attack. Her health dropped down to 1/3 as she was on death''s door.


    Being unable to heal Frey as Mark of Umbra was still on cooldown for a minute, Shinto had to take away the aggro from Frey, however, it was no easy feat.


    "Argh... Damn aggro...!" Shinto cursed as he tried to take away the monsters aggro away from Frey, however with his low damage output, he couldn''t do much on the aggro. Thus, he had to rely on another means to steal away it''s aggro.


    Shinto hurriedly scrutinized his surroundings. With his enhanced vision, he could see the wide-area clearly. Turning left and right in a frenzy, his eyes locked onto a medium-sized rock at the corner of the room.


    Wasting no time, he swiftly turned towards Frey as he shouted out, "Frey! Head to the top-left direction of where you''re at! Just run till you see a rock, then hide behind it for the time being!"


    "W-What...? But, how do I shake off this boss from chasing after me if I run?" She asked in a hurdle as she focused all her strength into dodging the attacks from Centripedas.


    "I''ll handle it, just do it now before an attack hits you!"


    "On it...!" Nodding her head, Frey hurriedly made her way over towards the top-left direction. Though following behind her was the persistent boss. Centripedas was very agile, so it could close in on the distance between Frey if she stumbles even a little bit.


    "Ack...! What do I do?! It''s still chasing me!" She cried out.


    "Just go and don''t look behind!" Shinto shouted out as he made his way over towards the charging Centripedas. Nearing the monster, he leapt forward, immediately closing the distance between him and it.


    The moment he reached his desired destination, Shinto hurriedly intercepted between the monster and the running Frey, quickly taking a strike from Centripedas.


    "Argh...!" He stumbled back from the direct attack from the monster. Although the attack left him with 3/4 of his HP, he was satisfied. The aggro was now on him rather than Frey.


    "SCREEE!!!" The monster roared as it unleashed a grass gas from its mouth again.


    ''Damn it...! This attack again! If I were to be hit by it I''ll surely be the one to die instead!'' He clicked his tongue as he focused on avoiding the gas. However, the monster moved its body over to where Shinto wanted to jump to.


    "What...?" Seeing the monster''s movement, he abruptly stopped himself from jumping. ''...This Damn boss.'' He cursed. The monster had sessfully predicted where Shinto was going to dodge to, if he had jumped, he would be struck by the monsters attack instead of the gas but if he hadn''t he would be hit by the gas.


    Either option he chose, he would receive damage. Shinto couldn''t change towards a different direction to dodge to as the interval between the gas and him moving away was too short of a time to do anything.


    ''Tsk... I''ll have to take the poison.''


    Unable to do anything about the situation, Shinto braced himself for the gas.


    ''I''ll have to stall for more time...''


    His Mark of Umbra had just gotten out of cooldown. With him taking the gas instead, he would be able to survive if he used the skill on himself.


    If Shinto dies here, the boss fight would be a lost cause. Thus, he had to take the gamble of stalling for more time.


    As the gas protruded out from Centripedas''s mouth over towards Shinto, he prepared to use Mark of Umbra. Just as the attack hit him, he was greeted with a surprising notification.


    [ You have resisted the poison! ]


    "...!!" His eyes opened wide as he read the notification. Although he still received damage from the gas, he didn''t care. What was dangerous about the attack was the poison-effect.


    ''I resisted the poison? But I don''t have any poison resistance to it...?'' His thoughts became a mess as he pondered on the matter.


    However, his thoughts were cut short, as he snapped back into reality. He was in the middle of battle, he shouldn''t think of any other matters besides the one in front of him.


    "This is good..." He smiled as he jumped backwards, quickly he turned over towards the rock where Frey hid, "Freye out, it''s your turn!"


    Sending a Mark of Umbra over to Frey, Shinto hurriedly retreated back.


    "H-Huh...?" Frey stared at her health suddenly rising up again.


    "Quick, Frey, end this battle!"


    "Ah right...!" Her expression brightened as she was all healthy again. Hastily making her way back to the Centripedas that was still on Shinto, she quickly initiated multiple skills onto the monster, "We meet again centipede-thingy! This is for poisoning me, no hard feelings!"


    Firstly using Blitz Fist, she followed it up with multiple basic attacks, as she ends herbo with Frontal Collision.


    The monster''s health instantly fell into the red from its halfway point. The monster let out ast roar as it sent gas after gas of poison around the area. However, itsst hurrah was cut short. Shinto leapt forward from the rear lines as he sent a point of light over towards Centripedas, turning it into grey ash.