"Wait, let me eat some bread," Ning said and brought out some food. He was fine in regards to HP, but his mana was quite low.
So, he brought out a piece of bread and quickly ate it to regenerate his health and mana.
There were far better options out there to quickly regenerate your health and mana, like potions or just some better food, but for now, Ning had to do with a bread that made him wait over 3 minutes to fully get his mana back.
At the same time, the others did the same before entering.
Ning checked his stats again and realized that he was quite a way away from leveling up still. However, the Shroom king should be enough for him to level up right now.
"Let's go."
The group entered the boss room and saw a massive Vileshroom that was nearly 5 meters tall in front of them. The monster was black-stripped with a purple head and a snarling face on its body.
Its two arms and legs were each over 3 meters long, on top of the monster's body being about 3 meters wide itself.
All over its body were multiple mushrooms growing as well, making the monster look quite terrifying.
The Assassin used his Observer Stone to check the boss's stats, but it didn't work.
"Dammit! Its level is too high. I have a really low chance," the assassin said.
"I think the boss has something like 20 Levels and 2500 HP. I remember hearing that in the city gates," the ranger said.
"What about its DEF and AGI?" the swordsman asked.
Ning tried using his own Observer stone, but that broke without working too. Not only was the level difference high, but even his luck was low, making it hard for him to activate the stone.
"If no one can do it, then let's just fight anyway," the fire mage said and prepared her first attack.
As soon as she did, the boss moved.
The boss was faster than they had expected and it rushed forward.
The fire mage used her DPS skill to damage the boss and immediately moved away.
Ning used his Wind Arrows, the Assassin used his Back Attack, the swordsman used his Sword Thrust, and the Ranger used her crossbow attack that dealt critical damage.
As soon as their attacks landed, they all realized a massive problem.
They dealt very little damage.
Compared to the Vileshroom they fought outside, the Shroom King took half as much magical damage, meaning that he had 50% Magic resistance normally, and quite a lot less physical damage as well.
The swordsman did some calculations based on what he knew about how DEF worked and realized that the Vileshroom had around 50 DEF stat.
This was a little annoying, but they fought it still.
The monster slowly swung its arm around, trying to hit someone, but Ning and the rest dodged the attacks and continued hitting it.
In the meantime, Ning drew a card from his Deck of Infinite faces and hesitated to use it.
[Negate Magic: Negates the next instance of magic damage dealt to you. Buff lasts 120 seconds after activated.]
'Does the Shroom King even have magic damage? What if it does and I use it too early?' Ning thought. However, he could wait too long either. After all, he needed his skill to go on cooldown so he could draw another card soon.
As he was deliberating, the Shroom King stopped attacking with its hands and pulled out a mushroom from its body.
Then, with a rather surprising speed, it shot the mushroom at Ning.
Ning who had been ready to attack was caught off guard as the mushroom was thrown in his direction.
"Activate!"
[Negate Magic has been activated.]
[Fate's Aid (Common) has been activated.]
The mushroom hit him in the chest, and he saw a notification.
[You have taken 81 Damage]
'Dammit!' Ning thought. That mushroom was physical damage and not magical.
The card he activated ended up not blocking the damage. He still continued in his path and fought.
The Shroom King continued chucking mushrooms in all directions, while the group slowly chipped down its health.
Ning kept his focus on the boss's health, and when it reached 50%, the boss stopped attacking.
"It's entering another phase, careful," the swordsman cried out.
They all watched curiously, trying to figure out just what the boss was going to do now that it had stopped.
That was when they saw something else move. Many things.
Nearly a third of all the different mushrooms on the boss's body poked out further to look like tiny Vileshrooms. Then, they all took a deep breath, and the group realized what was happening.
A third of nearly 30 different tiny Vileshrooms shot out Seed Bullet in all directions.
They all tried to dodge, but the fire mage was hit by 3 of the 5 bullets and took 40 damage each.
The Vileshrooms returned back to the Shroom King's body, and another 10 of the other ones popped out, targeting them all again.
This time, they all moved before they were even targeted and started attacking again.
They easily dodged all the attacks and fought the Shroom King, once again slowly chipping its HP down.
Ning drew out another card, [Crowd Morale], that improved his and his party's STR and AGI, by 5% each.
That only slightly improved the damage they did, but that was still a welcome buff, and it also allowed Ning to have a 20% Critical chance now to deal 200% damage of his normal attack.
They fought until the Shroom King was down to 20% HP, in which case the Shroom King went through another phase change.
The tiny Vileshrooms in its body all popped out and fell to the ground. Those Tiny Vileshroom merged together to form two proper Vileshrooms.
Now, on top of just the Shroom King, they would also have to fight with two other monsters if they wanted to defeat the boss.
They were annoyed at the change, but they would do it all the same.
