"Please don’t enrage…"

Lin Yixin stared at her health bar—she only had less than 30% HP left—with a worried look on her face. It wasn’t an unfounded worry. If the boss chose to enrage now, we might not be able to defeat it.

Thankfully, despite the sadistic whippings the Root Protector had been delivering our whole party, it never entered an enraged state. The girls grew increasingly excited and expectant as its HP kept dropping.

I, Lin Yixin, He Yi, Beiming Xue; our party was made up of some of the absolute best damage dealers in Floating Ice City, but the tenacious plant was able to endure another fifteen minutes of beating before it finally reached its last legs. If the Root Protector didn’t count as a high-HP high-Defense boss, then I didn’t know what could possibly earn this title.

Swhoosh!

The Purgatory Sword shuddered in my grip for an instant before firing off Purgatory Slash! It penetrated the Root Protector’s trunk completely!

4783!

Finally, the boss that stopped us in our tracks for god knows how long let out its last scream as its gigantic body toppled to the ground with a loud thud!

Swhoosh swhoosh swhoosh...

Behind me,...