Unfortunately for the voices of reason within the party, nobody spoke out loud quickly enough to warn Hawk before he headed out to start pulling trash mobs to them.
He had one group left before the third boss, just enough that they wouldn't pull the second before they were ready. But now he was off to gather everything, just in case it was only a glitch with the Plague Demon boss.
Now that they'd noticed the pattern, the first pull of mobs past the boss location was noticeably weaker than the ones who had co before it.
It wasn't enough that it was glaringly obvious, not more than five percent weaker.
But when you were looking, you couldn't miss it.
"Alright, we've got this. It's all easier trash mobs and three progressively easier bosses. With a bit of luck, we can clear two before we need another al
break." Karl encouraged the group.
The other Immortals laughed at the thought. Three al breaks in a single dungeon was insane.
Usually, they wouldn't take more than an hour or two before you were finished and ready to go ho. That was what they were expecting today, but they were at least four hours into grinding dozens of boss level demons, and they were barely half finished.
Hopefully, the rewards would make it all worth the effort in the end, and they would walk out of here as wealthy folks.
Everyone else who entered had five bosses that would drop good loot, plus whatever they got from the trash. But their group had twenty to thirty bosses for every greater boss, and there was no telling what they were going to get.
If it was giving them loot at the usual rate of one rare item per boss, with an epic item every five bosses, they were going to be insanely wealthy.
But if the improved bosses dropped sothing better than Epic grade, it might just change their lives.
{This isn't bad. I don't even have to heal anymore, I can just throw rocks.} Tian cheered as Hawk pulled more Demons to them.
With Karl in Cat Demon form, he was also easier to fight around and over. It made him a bit less able to block the mobs from reaching them, but that was no longer their primary concern.
He had changed the Dark Elven Kings for Oathbreaker Demons, and they were both larger and faster than the Elves they replaced.
The Dark Elven Kings had a wider variety of skills, where the Oathbreaker relied on [Teleport] and its damage spreading ability. But when they were working as tanks and not crowd control, it didn't matter.
[Boss Incoming!] Hawk cheered as the oversized Wrath Demon left his platform, running toward the fight.
[Keep them coming! We've got this!] Cara cheered.
"Cara behave. Hawk, stop pulling mobs until we kill the boss." Dana warned.
"Boss?" Swag asked, right before a massive blade ca whistling toward his head.
"Oh, that boss."
Outside the Dungeon, concern was growing.
The colour of the dungeon entrance hadn't changed back to normal, and the first entrants had just returned.
Or perhaps, they should say survivors.
"Everything was going alright, we had downed the third boss, and we were about to start on the fourth of five, an Obsession Demon. Then there was a System Notification," the team leader explained.
"A notification?"
The man nodded. "It said {Difficulty Changed from Veteran to Nightmare} Then, the demon started laughing at us and left its platform to co hunt us.
What sort of boss leaves their spot?
But when it hit the mage, we all took damage. Nearly half our life, except for the Druid. He held off the boss while we fled, and then I summoned him to the
exit.
There wasn't even a chance to fight back. One hit and we were almost dead. If he had managed to hit anyone other than the druid with the second shot, before we were out of the dungeon, there wouldn't have been survivors."
The other groups looked horrified. "So, you're saying that the other groups, the ones who haven't co out yet, might all be dead?"
The man nodded. "I think that's likely if they were fighting a boss when the difficulty changed. Does anyone know what happened right before the change?
Did soone do sothing? Cast a spell? Win a duel?"
The Berserker and the New Ho Clan's Assassin looked at each other.
"Uh, we were duelling at the ti, but it changed while we were fighting." "Wait, your group, the ones from New Ho with the cute fox girl, went in just before it changed. It didn't change imdiately, but they were the last to enter before it changed."
"That's The Moron and his friends. You can't think that bunch of misfits could have changed the difficulty of a dungeon?"
One of the Peak Immortal mages laughed. "If anyone could change a dungeon difficulty accidentally, it's that idiot. The first ti I t him at a trial, he inford that the Gods were going to promote him straight to Supre Rank, so he didn't need to have a skill for forming his Immortal Spirit." One of the other Immortals laugh. "I know who you an now. He traded a Supre Ranked Fire Lotus for a Rare Grade Supre Ranked sword."
The Fire Lotus was an extrely rare resource for fire mage advancent, worth far more than any blade at the sa Rank, and certainly more than a
Rare Grade blade.
"Exactly. It's his usual group and a pair of newbies, the fox girl and her husband. I'm not taking the bla for that dungeon change. Soone from the earlier groups must have set new boss kill record.
They weren't in there long enough to have finished a boss fight."
The Immortals who had arrived before him nodded. That assessnt was right.
They hadn't been in there nearly long enough to have reached a boss, much less finished a fight.
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