Chapter 1265: Dana Unleashed

Dana stepped into the challenge area, and the massive Demon gave her a skeptical look. The little fox woman didn’t look like much of an opponent.

But he didn’t hold back as he went for the attack.

This time he didn’t go for the brute force start. Instead, he aimed to swat her entirely out of the arena, using her smaller size to his advantage.

But while he was fast, Dana didn’t rely on her physique to move.

Her new blade sang as it met the Demon’s axe, and Dana flipped into the air, twirling like a dancer as she waved her free hand and a wave of petals tore into Carnage.

The Demon roared in rage as he realized that he had been tricked.

Damnable fox.

He aimed for Dana’s landing spot, his axe cleaving an arc through the air that left a flaming rift behind it. But Dana didn’t land, she reversed her momentum and danced away from the attacks in midair.

Then she activated [Blade Flurry] and dozens of magical blades tore into Carnage’s flesh.

“I thought that you were the scary one.” The dwarf mumbled as he watched Dana play hide and seek with the Demon.

Carnage attacked, and Dana either danced out of the way of his blade, or used [Teleport] to avoid area attacks and come at him from a different angle.

Karl shook his head. “Nope, I’m just the loud one in the front. Her class is amazing. Probably better suited to duels than mine is, even if I hadn’t buffed her abilities before the fight.”

[Eternal Lightning] shattered under the weight of a particularly brutal fire blast, and Dana replaced it with one of her own barrier spells.

Outside interference during the fight would be a loss, but she had more than enough skills to finish what she started.

To the eyes of the others, she was a blur of white fur and Sakura pink energy attacks as she used [Petal Wind], one of her advanced movement skills, to move instantly between dozens of spots and launch attacks before moving out of the way of the Demon’s counterattacks.

Carnage was bleeding heavily from every part of his body, and Dana was looking exhausted from the massive amount of mana that she was burning.

She hadn’t been putting enough effort into endurance training, she realized. The average fight was too easy, she had never needed to go all out in melee combat.

Not a single time since she advanced.

Another flaming strike sent her crashing to the ground, but Dana was moving again before the next hit could land, and three more long wounds flashed into existence on Carnage’s legs, nearly toppling the massive Demon.

Then a parry sent Carnage’s axe wide and Dana darted forward.

The axe was abandoned, and the Demon grabbed the mage, intending to rip her apart. But it was too late, and blood bloomed from his chest as a stream of petals erupted from the tip of Dana’s blade and slid through a narrow crack in his armour.

Blood burst from his mouth as the attack cut through his heart, and the Demon collapsed, still clutching Dana in a death grip.

{Challenge Successful.}

{Select Another Challenger or Complete Trial?}

Dana limped over to the edge of the battlefield, and slumped to the ground as Tian started healing her, and Cara slid a pillow under her head.

“Well, that sucked. I need to work on my cardio. You have no idea how exhausting it is to move that fast for that long.” She grumbled.

“But you won, and that’s two in a row. Not only that, but you managed it faster than Karl. By quite a bit.” The Berserker informed her.

Dana smiled. “Well, that’s something, anyhow. Are you going next?”

Rae mentally frowned. If he went next, she probably wouldn’t get to go. Wrath Demon on Wrath Demon was a pretty even match, but the boss had an Epic Constitution like Karl, according to his nameplate. Just like the Epic Golems.

The Berserker wasn’t stronger, wasn’t faster, and most likely wasn’t smarter either.

Dana tried not to laugh at the Spider’s derogatory opinion of the Berserker’s skills. The man had his own pride and skills. This was a good opportunity for him to practice his duelling.

The Berserker stepped onto the floor, and a fresh version of Carnage appeared with an even more excited smile than the last two fights.

“Don’t you get the feeling that it is the same boss over and over? Like, not a new copy, but the same one resurrected with memories and all.” Dana asked.

Karl frowned as he examined the eager look on the Demon’s face.

“That is definitely the same boss. Look at his arm. There is a wound still healing from the last fight. He’s just being refreshed by the dungeon between fights.” Karl agreed.

The Shaman cussed quietly. “And that means that every fight gets harder, as the default boss learns more tricks from the previous opponents. He won’t fall for the same trick twice, and he’s had the whole dungeon to study our combat styles.

Karl didn’t go into combat at all during the dungeon, he just let his beasts and golems do it. Dana didn’t go anything close to all out during the rest of the dungeon, she didn’t have to.

But now? Against a Berserker who has already used all his best skills more than once while Carnage was watching?”

[He’s screwed either way. Carnage has two hundred kilos of muscle on him, and he’s faster.] Rae added silently.

Plus, they were both Berserkers.

Carnage made the first move, and the two axes met with a vicious bang. The berserker slid backward with the force, just as Karl had, but he wasn’t quite fast enough to recover, and the next three strikes put him further off balance as he retreated and tried to get back on the offensive.

[Stomp] paused Carnage’s advance long enough for the berserker to recover, and for a moment, they were evenly matched.

But then, the tables turned in Carnage’s favour.

A misstep put the Berserker too close, and his axe went wide of Carnage’s back.

The boss dropped his weapon and grabbed the berserker’s head, then bashed his horns into the other Demon’s forehead.

That was it, he was out cold.

Unlike most bosses, Carnage simply stopped fighting at that point, and the System sent them a message.

{Challenge Failed.}

{Distributing Bonus Rewards.}