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Chapter 94: The Final Run
Chapter 94: The Final Run
"HEAVEN'S WRATH!" Stark activated his skill as soon as his shadow was dead.
It had fucked him over so many times by returning his attacks against him, so getting it out first was the best way to win.
And now that it couldn't return [Heaven's Wrath] against him....
'I CAN EASILY USE IT!' he grinned as the crimson light in the sky began to grow more and more, looking more dangerous by the second.
And after only a few seconds...
~BOOM~
The giant crimson beam descended on the monsters as they couldn't do anything but watch.
"27461! -29673! -31905!"
Just like before, Judicator, Malakar, the Mirror Master, and the Black Water Devourer managed to get away from the beam's range before getting killed.
But the Warrior and Witch weren't so fast.
They only had 75k HP, and the HP they had when he first fought them inside the glass purgatory doesn't change inside the museum, so it greatly helped as three seconds were enough to turn them to dust.
[2 down, 4 to go]
But Stark didn't stop there.
After all, in a fight where he was at complete disadvantage in terms of power and numbers... his sole strategy was to not let them rest.
How could he die if they were too busy avoiding his attacks to send their own?
The third target was Malakar since he only had 45000 HP, and also since he couldn't allow him to launch his [Mayor's Control] attack since hundreds of monsters would come out of the surrounding buildings, just like when he fought him.
All the monsters were weak, but adding that to the other bosses resulted in him dying over a hundred times to them.
"AURA SMASH!" he sent two crimson fists at him while he was getting away from the beam's radius, meaning he had only a few instants to react.
"ABYSSAL SHIELD!"
A black barrier materialized in front of Malakar just in time to save him.
Or did it now?
~BOOM, BOOM~
"-12716! -17261!"
His barrier wasn't even enough to endure the two attacks Stark sent, and to add to that, Stark kicked Malakar to the left while he was falling down, launching him inside the beam and reducing his body to dust just like the others.
'...'
"ANGER OF THE FALLEN! BODY OF A SAINT!" the angel's body turned to platinum, but that was expected since it already activated its ultimate skills at the start of every... run.
'I do wonder why these bosses don't activate their strongest skills at the start,' he shrugged, but couldn't deny that under normal circumstances he would never activate [Heaven's Wrath] so quickly.
"EVOLUTION! REINFORCE!" the Black Water Devourer also began to transform, using his skills to shape its body, making it bigger and more menacing, but also... "TOXIC COATING!"
Now if Stark even brushed against the surface of its body, he would receive the [Poison] effect, he had already experienced it during one of his runs and he didn't like it at all.
So he would need to keep his distances from the devourer and kill it from long range using his fists and spears.
Also...
"FURIOUS STRIKE," Judicator dashed toward Stark, both his weapons in hand as he spanned them, ready to slice the boy in half.
But he had died too many times to that to fall for it, so he crouched to avoid the scythe, then stepped back to dodge the crimson sword.
'Fuck... too close...' the reason he hadn't used [Invincible Dodge] to take Judicator aback and deal massive damage to him was simple: the Mirror Master was waiting for that to use [All-Area Strike].
It took him a long time, but he figured out that each time he used Invincible dodge, that damn boss would notice it and use his unavoidable attack.
And that's why he was Stark's next target.
"CLONE FRENZY," he summoned his clones, then sent them at the Mirror Master.
But before they reached him...
"AURA SMASH! CRIMSON SPEARS!" They all activated their long-ranged skills and... threw them at the devourer.
6 crimson fists with a 30% chance each to stun, and 9 spears with great chances of piercing through one of the devourer's weaknesses, were heading toward the second guardian of the domination trial.
All of them hit their targets as the devourer was too dumb and slow to actually avoid them.
~BAM, BAM, BAM~
"-31827! -21430! -24906!" and much more damage outputs came out.
In the end, with its 120000 HPs and inability to avoid anything, the devourer fell.
[4 down, 2 remain]
And at the same time...
"DOUBLE ASSAULT!" it wasn't Stark that activated his skill since he was still avoiding Judicator's attacks.
But his clones...
"-31261!" the first punch the Mirror Master received was enough to send him flying, but the clones didn't let him rest.
"G-GLASS SHARD, MULTIPLY, GLASS RAIN!" but no matter what he tried, the clones would avoid it all, the fact he was stressed and angry reducing his accuracy by a ton.
And so after only thirty seconds...
"ALL-AREA STRIKE!" he used his unavoidable attack, which was easily dodged by all the Stark(s) inside the arena using [Invincible Dodge].
"-29482" the clones punched him one last time and the Mirror Master fell, it wasn't because he hadn't been killed and his HP weren't at zero that he didn't feel pain.
Each of the strikes from the clones took out his breath, making it increasingly more difficult to cast skills!
[Mirror Master HP: 0/160000]
[5 down, 1 more]
~FWISH~
Judicator threw his scythe at the two clones, who were unable to avoid it and got cut in half, but there was no blood once they did, they just disappeared and went back inside of Stark (pause).
"..." the bosses from the memories museum can't speak, so unlike the original Judicator who couldn't shut up, this one was much calmer (although he was more aggressive in his actions).
'I like him better that way,' Stark smiled, then got ready to attack.
"DIVINE BLINDNESS," he lifted his sword in the hopes of blinding Stark.
But this time, the boy wouldn't fall for it.
~SHUT~
He closed his eyes, avoiding the light, but doing that was risky as...
~FWISH~
Judicator immediately closed the distance between them while Stark had his eyes closed.
~DODGE~
But even then, thanks to the new ability he had learned: to sense auras even when he couldn't see anything, he managed to dodge the scythe and go right behind the angel.
"DOUBLE ASSAULT," and obviously, now that he had the complete advantage...
Stark easily won against Judicator.
[All bosses defeated, congratulations!]
He was teleported back to the museum.
"I FUCKING DID IT," he laughed, happy as it was his final try.
[Quest: Beat all bosses at the same time... COMPLETE!]
[Reward: 3 skill points]
[Reward acquired]
And so just like that...
[Skill Points: 6 Available], which meant that Stark could upgrade his skills.
But before that...
"SPATIAL INVENTORY," he summoned the void next to him and pulled out the [Breakthrough Stone].
'Let's do this...'
He put a lot of his aura inside the stone while holding it, and instantly, a panel appeared.
[Do you want to initiate the breakthrough from iron to bronze?]
[Y/N]