I actually did a quantity on her, huh… Then once more, what was that saying in regards to the battle and the overall scenario after I was extra apprehensive about my girlfriend’s response to me doing her in her sleep than truly getting out alive?

Fascinated with it, I used to be fairly positive it meant that I- or relatively, we had been beginning to go stir loopy on this occasion.

“Simply pull the boss already,” Steerage grumbled, the blush on her face nonetheless obvious as she shuffled her toes. “I need to get out of right here earlier than one other day passes.”

“You are the boss.”

[*BANG!*]

One shot rang out, and one other pull was initiated as we went via our standard tune and dance. Once more. With no deviation from our standard methods by any means. Actually, it was so routine that, wait… have not I considered this earlier than?

Rattling… This place actually was making us crazier the longer we spent our time right here.

“I simply caught myself considering in circles once more,” I said out loud, hoping that Steerage had one thing completely different to say to distract me from the boredom.

“As should you’re the one one like that proper now,” she scoffed, her actions nonetheless stilted as my gaze landed straight on her thighs suspiciously rubbing towards each other. “Certain, I have been considering of the way to get previous our present partitions, however the journey to unravel them was simply plain boring. It isn’t even enjoyable to do silly strats anymore.”

I adopted Steerage’s sigh as we whittled down Vesper’s well being. Navigating one debuff after one other, we inevitably reached our earlier greatest because the debuff that killed us flashed proper earlier than our eyes.

“And right here we’re,” I known as out relatively lackadaisically. “We go inside, then exit as quickly because the assault comes out?”

“That is the plan,” she sounded off.

[STATUS: COLD: 15 SECONDS]

With the debuff now utilized, we went forward and moved nearer to the boss, with the latter shortly firing off her assault that I’ve actually forgotten the identify of regardless of it having flashed earlier than my eyes in huge daring letters.

“Get out!”

[BURST: 12%]

“You heard the woman.”

I let loose a resigned chuckle as I identified the following assault. With us being ready, we weren’t caught off guard as we managed to get out of the boss’s vary simply in time earlier than the AoE hit our toes. And with that, the standing impact additionally ran out… for some motive. It did not do something, however I wasn’t going to query it additional until we get again to that time and we someway die to it.

[ENEMY HP: 24%]

“Nice, now we’re again to the standard program of attempting to kill her,” Steerage grumbled as she started her standard position of throwing out heals and buffs at me. “The rest that we’ve to look out for now?”

“None for the time being,” I known as out. “I will say it out loud when the boss throws one thing out once more.”

“For now, we simply whittle her down and hope for one of the best as standard?” Steerage sarcastically scoffed. “Yeah… Sounds about proper…”

Ignoring her apparent irritation, we went forward and did what we normally did. Vesper went and chased me down as standard, and from there, her well being slowly went down as we labored our method via this battle methodically and, funnily sufficient, lackadaisically.

Then once more, who was going responsible us for treating this battle prefer it wasn’t going to kill us? On prime of it being true in that we weren’t at risk of dying anyway, there was simply… We had been simply so sick of being caught right here that we had been doing all the pieces we may to not die from boredom. And sure, that meant me screwing Steerage to possibly give her a bit extra consolation to get her again on monitor.

So there we went, firing on all cylinders as I watched the boss’s [HP] drain all the way in which right down to the only digits. Surprisingly, her scheduled assaults at each fifth interval of her well being bar stopped after that chilly assault. As a substitute, she simply flailed round attempting to chase me. She even regarded winded as her tempo slowed, permitting me to face nonetheless at occasions as an alternative of regularly working just like the previous couple of minutes.

“One thing nonetheless hasn’t occurred?” Steerage requested, her confusion leaking via her voice. “An assault ought to’ve occurred a couple of minutes in the past based mostly on our present tempo.”

“Effectively, it hasn’t,” I shrugged. “And belief me after I say that we’re about completed with this. Hopefully, at the very least. We’re at round seven %.”

True sufficient, we had been making good progress, and I used to be actually beginning to really feel that swell of anticipation the decrease the boss’s life bar bought. Certain, it did not imply that we had been going to win, however the truth that we had been right here at this level within the first place meant that the top was nearing.

Which after all, meant that we had been about to be free from this nightmare of a battle.

[ENEMY HP: 4%]

“No… No! I am unable to let it finish like this!”

[DESPERATION: 22%]

One thing new? “Now we have yet another assault coming.”

“Clearly,” Steerage chuckled, a touch of her pleasure seeping via. “Does it appear to be enrage?”

“Effectively, it is build up fairly quick, and we have her well being right down to round two %,” I known as out as I learn the boss’s well being values. “Critically, she’s going to die before-“

[*FWOOSH!*]

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I blinked as I respawned again to the world of the dwelling. Beside me, Steerage gave me a pointed look as she shook her head.

“You had been saying?”

“In my protection, she was about to die,” I shrugged. “Certainly, no matter it was, it wasn’t going to be that devastating.”

“Effectively, apparently, it was,” Steerage sighed, rolling her eyes in each mirth and annoyance. “Fortunately, we’re nearing the top in accordance with what you noticed, which implies that we’ll be free to get out of right here and neglect all of this even occurred.”

I could not assist however chuckle on the tone of her voice. It actually feels like she was extra excited to fake we by no means went right here within the first place. “You actually need to depart this all behind, huh…”

“Are you able to even blame me for it?” she known as out. “Our time right here has been nothing wanting a catastrophe. I do not even bear in mind why we’re right here within the first place anymore.”

Effectively, in her protection, the truth that we had been right here to supposedly examine a doomsday weapon had additionally flown over my head after all the pieces that had occurred. Then once more, this large pillar of sunshine was all of the proof we wanted for that specific job we needed to do.

“Honest sufficient,” I chuckled. I then twirled my pistols in my fingers, pointing them on the boss as I gave Steerage a figuring out smirk. “So, we could break via this occasion then?”

“Manner forward of you,” she scoffed, pulling up her [Keystroke] in entrance of her. “I am uninterested in this fixed combating. I need to get again to precise adventuring and assembly my characters.”

I chuckled as I pulled the set off. No phrases had been wanted as we went via the battle like a well-oiled machine. Motivated by each inner and exterior components, we demolished each mechanic this boss needed to throw at us. She did not even flinch once we someway did sufficient harm to skip a mechanic or two of hers with how practiced we had been in fixing it. So expert had been we with this particular battle that our uptime and harm numbers had been beginning to go increased than we normally did.

By the top of it, we had been again to the place we final died, with Vesper screaming out her desperation to match the identify of her self-same assault.

“No… No! I am unable to let it finish like this!”

[DESPERATION: 15%]

“Right here it comes!” I known as out.

“Simply hold pumping harm!” Steerage excitedly replied, her [Manifest] glowing as she threw out her personal assaults so as to add to the harm. “We will kill her earlier than it goes off!”

Doing as I used to be instructed, we did our greatest to maintain our harm up. And positive sufficient…

[COMBAT COMPLETED]

The world pale to black as what seemed to be a cutscene performed itself in my head. Screaming bloody homicide, Vesper cried out into the sky, the sheer hatred and desperation in her voice nearly making me really feel pity for her earlier than she fell to the bottom unmoving. Whether or not or not she was lifeless, I wasn’t positive. However one factor was for sure, she wasn’t going to be getting up any time quickly.

As soon as that cutscene completed taking part in, I used to be again to my very own perspective, Steerage nearly leaping for pleasure as she hugged me like her life trusted it. In fact, I returned the gesture, not even bothering with the truth that we had been nonetheless in the midst of a warzone.

“It is over! It is lastly over!” she cheered. “We’re free! And I do not care how exhausting we’ve to battle. We’re getting out of right here the second we’re all collectively once more!”

I could not assist however return her enthusiasm with a loud giggle. I already had a sense she was going to say that, and I wasn’t going to try to deny her what she wished.

I additionally wished to go away this place myself. It simply occurred proper after a disastrous occasion that we inadvertently prompted ourselves.

Additionally, did I severely not get any [EXP] from that battle? Once more?

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