After the magam hounds ca the last mini-boss, the Fla Lord, Cael’Zaroth.
The chamber he guarded was a vast, circular furnace buried in the heart of the dungeon. Walls pulsed with heat so intense that the very air shimred, and veins of pure lava coursed like rivers across the ceiling, dripping molten droplets into a pit below.
At the center stood Cael’Zaroth, no hulking brute like Vak’Rath, and no seductive caster like the fire witch. He was lithe and tall, draped in robes forged from flowing fire, and his limbs flickered like coiled serpents of living fla.
[Ding! Mini-Boss Encounter: Cael’Zaroth, Fla Lord of Rebirth – Lv. 38]
"Be careful," Damon said, eyes narrowing. "This one cos back stronger after dying. Don’t blow everything in phase one."
Kate tilted her head. "So... we kill him twice?"
"Exactly," Damon muttered, already stepping forward.
The Fla Lord raised a hand, and the ground responded violently. Fire geysers erupted, carving trenches into the battlefield and dividing it into isolated floating platforms of obsidian. Then, he spoke, his voice layered with a dozen echoes.
"Only fla endures. Let show you the aning of rebirth."
Damon smiled wryly at the irony. The Fla Lord vanished into smoke, reappearing midair to hurl a barrage of fla spears down on them. Mark intercepted with a punch that shattered two into sparks, while Kate’s orbs flared to life, catching the rest midair with precise counterbursts of blood magic.
Damon waited until Cael’Zaroth landed and then struck. He burst forward the mont Cael’Zaroth’s feet touched the obsidian platform. His axe ignited mid-swing, flas trailing behind as [Ashen Cleave] erupted in a wide arc.
The impact sent a shockwave through the stone, causing the platform to tremble. Cael’Zaroth deflected the strike with a motion so fluid it looked like dancing, his robe rippling as though it were fla itself.
"Your fire is borrowed," Cael’Zaroth hissed, and with a twist of his hand, he unleashed a focused beam of pure fla.
Damon dove through it with [Shadowstep], appearing above the fla lord’s head and bringing the axe down in a spiraling strike. A direct hit. Cael’Zaroth flared in pain as a chunk of his shoulder exploded into embers.
Below, Mark launched himself across a floating platform with a thundering leap, landing beside Damon just in ti to punch Cael’Zaroth square in the gut, sending the fla lord skidding backward into a lava trench.
At the sa ti, Kate raised both hands as her blood orbs converged. She sent all six of them at the Lord, aiming for this weakest mont.
The boss’s health plumted below 10%, and the lava veins flared bright red.
"It’s coming!" Damon shouted.
Cael’Zaroth laughed, a hollow, echoing sound. "Let the ashes rember my na."
Then, his body burst into fla, disintegrating into cinders.
A molten phoenix-shaped fla erupted from the ashes, wings outstretched, and descended back into Cael’Zaroth’s scorched outline. His body reford, larger, brighter, hotter.
[Ding! Cael’Zaroth – Reborn: Lv. 42]
[Fla Aura upgraded: All fire damage increased by 50%. Heat zones expanded.]
The reborn Cael’Zaroth erged like a god forged from fury. His robes were gone, replaced by swirling fire that clung to him like living armor.
Where his eyes once flickered, now twin vortexes of white-hot fla burned without rcy. Every breath he exhaled sent tongues of fire rippling across the platforms, and the entire chamber began to tremble with unstable energy.
Kate wiped sweat from her brow, her blood shields visibly wilting under the rising heat. "This is insane. The floor’s going to lt."
"Just bear with it for a couple of seconds." Damon charged forward without hesitation. This ti, he activated [Innate Enhancent].
Cael’Zaroth was not the only one who had beco stronger. Farming all the mobs until now, he had amassed a total of 15 stat points, which boosted his strength and intelligence quite a bit.
His body pulsed with raw strength, and a swing of the axe sent a wave of blast outward, rippling through Cael’Zaroth’s fla shell.
The Fla Lord stumbled slightly.
Damon then activated [ShadowStep] to appear right behind the Fla Lord. He swung the axe for a second ti, aiming straight for a critical point. An insane damage number popped out.
-50,000
Both Kate and Mark gasped in shock. Just a few minutes back, when they had started this dungeon, Damon was only dealing damage in four digits. Sure, during the course of the dungeon, he had probably leveled up once or twice. But what was this insane damage number?
It just did not make sense!
Their plus 50 stat point buff was nothing when compared to this monstrous growth!
Damon did not let up. After that brutal attack, he followed up with two more similar attacks. Kate and Mark realized that if they did not contribute, the boss’s health with reach zero in a couple of seconds, and the fight would actually end.
They did not want to leech off Damon. So Kate took the cue, channeling all six of her orbs into a condensed crimson cot.
-5000
Mark followed through with a brutal uppercut that sent the Fla Lord airborne.
-6400
Damon Shadowstepped into the sky, appearing above him with the Axe blazing brighter than ever before. He brought it down in a flaming execution arc.
The blow landed.
-43000
Following it up, Damon sent a few more swings before the fla lord could no longer hold out.
Cael’Zaroth scread. Damon dragged the Fla Lord to one of the remaining platforms and struck his claw into the man’s open wound.
This was the boss he was most excited about in this entire dungeon. If he could just sohow extract his rebirth ability...
[Ding! Cael’Zaroth Defeated – Rebirth Cycle Interrupted]
[Ding! Bloodline Extraction successful.]
[Ding! Skill Acquired: Fla Cloak (C-Rank, Passive)]
Engulf your body in a thin veil of heat that slightly increases defense, passively damages lee attackers, and provides minor immunity to burn debuffs.
[Ding! Fire Affinity 2]
[Ding! You have gained experience points.]
[Ding! You have leveled up!]
[Dungeon Progress: 100% – Final Gate Opening]
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Golden Ticket Bonus Chapter~~
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