"Roar!!!"

    "Myne, thanks for the help... although I don''t need it," Waffle wheezed out reluctantly, his words barely audible before flying high to hide his embarrassment and start attacking the boss crazily. But to his surprise, this time the boss completely ignored him, instead focusing on Myne, its eyes glowing with an eerie red light.

    Since the boss could shoot lightning from its horn, it was unsurprising that it had a high resistance to lightning attacks, and his own powerful strikes didn''t have much impact on him, except to push him into rage mode.

    Myne raised an eyebrow, seeing the boss looking at him with a not-so-friendly expression. As for why it could release a skill despite not having any listed in the appraisal results, Myne figured it must be a bloodline skill, similar to the dragon he had fought earlier. The dragon could release fire breath, even though there was no mention of it in its appraisal.

    Just as Myne wondered whether he should stop Waffle from messing around and quickly take this matter Into his own hands, and deal with this boss, who seemed very abnormal and had quite a few hidden tricks, the boss''s body was enveloped in a crimson aura. It spread its thin, translucent wings wide, revealing a chilling sight.

    The boss lifted its upper body with a strong push, crazily flapping its wings toward Myne and the others. To their utter shock, meter-long green blades, which Myne was very familiar with as one of his own attack methods, rained down upon them.

    "F*ck! Why does this guy have so many tricks up its sleeve, huh? Is it really the boss of the beginner floor?" Myne groaned, eyes wide as he saw hundreds of wind blades flying toward him. He pulled Amy and Ocea into his arms and opened a large portal in front of them. All the wind blades rushed into it.

    But this time, it seemed the boss had learned its lesson. After seeing the portal, it instantly stopped its attack and jumped aside. Just then, a portal appeared above it, and the wind blades gushed out crazily. The boss, displaying remarkable agility, and smartness; after avoiding the attack, rushed toward Myne and the others without hesitation, ignoring Waffle, who was attacking from the air.@@@@

    "Myne, careful!" Waffle shouted, but even without the warning, Myne had already noticed the boss''s movement with the help of his Presence Detect skill. He simply opened a portal beneath his feet and fell into it with Amy and Ocea, emerging on the other side of the room.

    "You three, stay out of this. Now this bastard has made me angry, how dare he look down on me so much." Myne cracked his neck, black veins throbbing on his forehead, clearly showing his anger. He used the skill King''s Intimidation, releasing a strong killing intent at the boss, making it stop just as it was about to launch another attack.

    Snap!

    Bang! Bang! Bang!

    With a single snap, a dozen or so two-meter-long sharp spikes shot up from the ground beneath the boss. It noticed them and narrowly avoided most, but one of its legs was still wounded slightly.

    Before the boss could even catch its breath, a giant red magic circle appeared beneath it, releasing a deadly red light that sent chills down its spine. The boss desperately flapped its wings and rushed out of the circle with all its might at the last moment.

    "Tsk! AoE skills take too long to cast," Myne muttered, waving his hand. Hundreds of basketball-sized fireballs rained down upon the boss like meteors, leaving it no room to dodge. The boss let out a series of pained roars, indicating that fire was less effective than lightning.

    BOOM!

    For a moment, time seemed to stop, and everything went silent. Then a loud thunderous boom echoed, and countless thunderbolts erupted from Myne''s centre, destroying everything in their path.

    The boss, running desperately, suddenly stopped with its eyes wide in horror, its body twisting unnaturally, which was obviously the result of Myne''s early preparation. The boss although tried its best, still couldn''t outrun the lightning, especially with its feet in the water. It was electrocuted and surrounded by dense lightning bolts before it could recover.

    "Is this even a power a hume can possess?" Amy looked at the purple lightning everywhere and began doubting herself.

    Although she had lived for more than a century, she had never seen any creature, except divine beasts, exhibit this level of power. Even with her high elf bloodline granting her immense mana, she couldn''t match Myne''s mana reserves. She always wondered if Myne''s skills were free to use, as she had never seen him run low on mana.

    Thud!

    "Phew, finally over. Tsk, trying to show off lightning power in front of me? Too naive," Myne taunted with a smug look as he glanced at the charred body of the boss. The body was slowly enveloped in blue light and exploded into particles, leaving behind various equipment and gold coins.

    Among the few items dropped by the boss, the one that caught Myne''s attention the most was a shiny brown shield with golden edges and a beetle-back-like pattern.

    [ Robust Shield: A shield made from a very hard material of a creature with an ancient bloodline. It has strong magic power, greatly attenuating damage from physical attacks, and high resistance to lightning attacks. It is weak against fire magic. Durability can be restored by feeding it mana.

    Durability: 2000/2000 ]

    Nice, I hope Sylphy likes it, Myne thought with a smile, placing the shield on the ground. He then threw a fireball at it to test how much damage his simple attack could cause.

    Bang!

    [ Durability: 1950/2000 ]

    He poured mana into the shield, and within ten seconds, the burn marks disappeared, returning the shield to its original state.

    "Not bad. As expected of an elite monster of this calibre, the loot is very bountiful," Myne nodded with satisfaction, putting the shield into his inventory along with the other items. He then walked toward Amy and the others.