The Young Master in the Shadows

Chapter 268: Boss Battle (2)

“Alex, were you the first one to meet that thing?” Victor turned and asked the nervous girl as he unblocked her ability to move.

He waited for the monster to reach the clearing. Its movement had slowed down considerably after the green goo bath.

“Ah… Yes….” Alex replied nervously. She was still worried about facing Victor because of the toys. And now there is this monster…. He would surely punish her. Her butt was about to be erased...

“Did it appear like this when you met it?” Victor asked as he inspected the monster.

It didn’t have any strength or agility at all! It must have been using the skills of the things it ate earlier.

“At the beginning, but not as solid as it is now, There were maybe some bones under the altar…” she quickly shut up after realizing that she spoke too much.

“What Alter?” Victor asked as he looked back at the now-sweating Alex. 

“Ah… You see… When I found it, it was hovering on top of an altar….” she lied, trying to pick her words carefully.

“Did you happen to touch that altar?” Victor asked, causing Zoe to look at Alex with a gaze full of hate. She knew it!

“Maybe a little……” Alex began to explain.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH….oooooooooo.” The monster began to howl again interrupting Victor’s integration.

Victor quickly looked at the monster as it slowly formed back its foggy body, but it didn’t use bones this time, but the wood splinters of the fallen trees.

It slowly crawled its way toward Victor and the girls devouring everything in its way… including a certain lonely crate!

Zoe quickly clogged her ears with her fingers expecting an explosion but nothing happened. There were no bombs in the crate. 

Zoe frowned as she watched the crate dissolve in the smoke. It was full of wine bottles that began to dissolve one by one.

“We should run….” Zoe said nervously. “That thing will not get drunk, and it’s probably immune to poison!”

“It’s not that!” Victor said he began to slowly pull back. “Lin, take Alex and go ahead…. Zoe, Prepare to run on my signal!”

The monster slowly followed, very wary of traps as it left the clearing and entered another batch of trees where it began to devour everything. Those trees had some very ripe fruits.

“Run!” Victor said as he grabbed Zoe's hand then activated a haste talisman and began to run away!

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A big explosion, far larger than the previous one, shook the entire dungeon. It threw Victor and Zoe to the ground despite them being about a mile away at the moment. The explosion was so big that one of the giant lanterns that illuminated the garden fell from the ceiling and cracked over the ground not far from their position.

It took Victor one whole minute to slowly stand up… shit, he lost his hearing. He quickly took a healing pill as Lily’s screaming voice finally reached his mind.

“It seems injured, but it is regathering!” she was shouting.

“What? Regathering? It survived that?” Victor frowned and slowly focused his eyes to see that the wooden snake had been totally shattered, he could see that random wisps of black smoke were beginning to gather in the deep pit that was left after the explosion.

“Sh*t….” he said as he grabbed Zoe and carried her like a princess again. She would not be able to run fast enough.

“Are you ok, cousin?” he asked as he forcefully pushed a pill into her little mouth.

“Ah I am fine…” she said with a blush… He took the hit for her earlier! Why can’t she fall in love with someone like him?…. What was she thinking now? It is not the time for this….

“Where to?” Lin, who was running to Victor's side, suddenly asked. Their prepared traps have all failed.

“I don’t know…” he said for the first time, did he really need to use that bug? That boss’s elimination won’t be registered if he did that though… It would be a waste….

“Why is it this strong?” Zoe asked, “How could it survive that?”

“Exactly This thing was supposed to die by that final attack! It could have only survived if its soul was not entirely here……” he stopped abruptly and then gestured toward Alex who was still running, making her trip and falling to the ground again.

“Ahhhhhhhh…” She screamed as she hit the dirt with her pretty face.

“Dear Alex…” Victor said as he gently put Zoe down and then walked slowly toward the poor jinx girl. He was really tempted to finish her off… This was all his fault, he should have spanked her butt more…

“What?” Alex asked as she turned around then intended to stand up and fail because he was over her. Making her fall on her poor butt. 

“Did you by any chance take anything from that…. Altar?” he asked very coldly, sending shivers down her poor spine.

“Ahhh… Yes….. ahhh…. I remember now….” she said as she nervously took out a sword hilt from her ring. “It is useless! I tried swinging it at him but it didn’t work!” she explained as Victor quickly grabbed the hilt from her hands and began to inspect it.

“Sh*t” Victor said.

Victor now knew how that thing was sealed. This sword must have contained Isphigar's soul… Not its entirety as the fruit had worked on it, but probably just a part of it. That’s why it could leave its chamber, as the real boss chamber was technically this sword!

The idiot Alex had been dragging it with him all this time!

“Young master…. Why are you looking at me like that?” Alex asked as she felt that Victor was really intending to kill her.

“Just deciding on your punishment…” he said as he looked at the sword hilt again… 

“Sh*t!” he cursed again. 

He pondered if he should destroy the sword with the soul poison, but he had no way to make sure that the soul part in it would not escape as the sword lost its power. If the soul really escaped, that thing would be free and would never fall for his tricks again.

And it would be a waste to destroy this. But as long as that thing exists, the dungeon would not close.

“Young master, it is on the move again!” Lily, who was tasked with the survey, reported again. That monster was building itself again using dirt.

“Zoe! quickly! Bind this weapon, then use it to kill the monster.” Victor finally thought of something. This sword should be able to kill it. 

“Ahhh… You should do it!” She said she was not really confident about her ability.

“I can’t, this weapon requires its wielder to be headless…. I don’t want to lose my head you see… my pretty face is the only redeeming feature I have left…” he began to mumble some nonsense as he pushed the sword into her hand.

“Cousin… I am not headless….” Zoe began to speak then paused as the sword hilt began to shine in her hand and an ethereal blade appeared above it.

“Ahhh,” she was shocked.

“As a hero, you can wield all kinds of weapons regardless of their welding conditions!” Victor whispered in her ear.

“How did you know…..” she didn’t continue to ask as she felt his hand grab hers.

“Not now, You are not in a good shape, I will help you deliver the hit!” he said, preparing to use her state as an excuse to share the reward for the final hit.

“I can do it by myself!” she protested with a blushed face, he was too close to her, and she could feel his breath on her ear as he held her from behind.

“I don’t want you to be hurt…” he softly scammed her. Making Lily who was watching spit to the side. Why was her young master a pervert? Why can’t she have a nice well behaved young master?

“But….” Zoe wanted to protest.

“No Butts! We don’t have time!” Victor said as he carried her light body then jumped high with the help of the levitating necklace. 

Zoe had no time to think when she heard his voice, “Aim down!” he said, helping her adjust the ethereal sword in her hand to direct down onto the monster that had just reformed and was crawling out of the pit.

The moment it touched it, the black smoke forming the monster’s body began to burn then suddenly exploded like a chamber filled with gas, hurting both Victor and Zoe who were now surrounded by the fire.

Zoe screamed in pain, but suddenly she heard a shattering noise and felt her body getting hugged by a warm embrace as she began to levitate upwards. It took her a second to realize that Victor had surrounded her with his body taking most of the damage. He could barely fly a little away from the burning pit before falling to the ground on its side.

“Young master!” “Victor!” Lily and Lin ran to his side to check on him. He was really burnt badly. Even Alex, who was at the moment considering how to escape, forgot her plan as she hurried toward him. They totally ignored the system prompt.

Zoe looked at Victor who collapsed over her with panic, tears began to fill her eyes. Although she rarely cried, she couldn’t help herself now.

“Don’t worry…” Victor spat with difficulty as he flipped over to lay on his back then began to laugh like a maniac. The girls surrounding him frowned as if wondering if his head was injured then began to smile as he miraculously began to heal.

RECOGNIZED SKILLS HAD BEEN UPGRADED…

Victor had risen by 21 levels! And his contract skill had improved! Maybe this was because he used it a lot to scam little girls in the dungeon. No matter what, this would spare him a lot of headaches later.

He quickly pressed <No>

Failed points were reallocated to Order...