"what's up there?! That's just sun, what happened Arya, you finally gone mad?! Haha...lol pointing at the sun," Rohan mocked Arya, as he laughed at him for pointing at the sun as if the sun would save them and help them.
"Arya, bro!! What should we do, we can easily subdue him if we want, but not sure if we will reach him before he destroys the crystal, just what's gotten into this idiot?!" Aetherius whispered to Arya, as he couldn't find a solution to the problem.
"We don't even need to do anything, don't sweat the small stuff and just wait and watch," Arya said to Aetherius, before Aetherius could say anything, something astonishing happened.
[The Boss Monster is appearing.]
An announcement rang over them, and with the announcement the crystal present on the tower, that they had been protecting for the past nine days started cracking.
*Creak*
*Creak*
"Wh-What's happening?! Isn't the goal of the stage to protect the crystal, why is it cracking, why now?! Ahhh-" Rohan asked fearfully as his plan to torture would fail if theirs no crystal and as the crystal cracked he was hit by an invisible force that threw him away.
As soon as the crystal started breaking, all the ghouls that were left alive fell on their knees and started howling and nodding as if they were doing some kind of prayer.
"What's happening, Arya, I can't understand anything!! Do you know something?! Just what the heck is happening." Aetherius was confused, he couldn't follow the events as first Rohan betrayed them, and then the crystal they had to protect started cracking, all the ghouls who just knew one thing, that is to destroy the crystal were performing some kind of prayer.
"The crystal had the boss monster Inside it, and now it's awakening," Arya answered the question of Aetherius, but this day didn't solve the problem but added more questions.
"What the f*ck, so we were just protecting that freaking creature for the past ten days?!" Aetherius cursed out loud.
"We were not protecting the crystal or the boss, but we were delaying his awakening. And the reason the ghouls wanted to destroy the crystal was to get that thing out of the crystal." As Arya explained this, all things started fixing and as if a puzzle piece got fixed, Aetherius understood the theme of the trial.
After the tower, Mana, the dungeon appeared and a lot of things changed. It also includes the curriculum of the school children, as subjects related to monsters, and towers were added in the middle school, as the tower invites the people of the age 16-17, students are taught few basic things, that they at least know.
One such thing is the concept of 'Theme', everything in the tower, be it a tutorial or the floors above all have a theme or setting they follow.
And as Arya mentioned the awakening thing, Aetherius understood this is the theme of this trial.
"So, that's the final hurdle right?!" Aetherius asked Arya, while he was focusing on the crystal that was about to be completely broken.
"Yes, that's our target and let's go and kill this one," Arya said and started sprinting towards the tower, without even waiting for Aetherius
"Hey!! Wait for me?! Haha, I will kill him." Aetherius seeing Arya sprinted, also joined him towards the tower to fight the boss.
While all this was happening, no one noticed Rohan, who was lying on the ground out cold, due to the push he received.
[The Ghoul King level-30.( Weakened)]
After the crystal fully cracked the boss monster was Ghoul King, he was the King of Ghouls a level 30 monster, though Ghoul King is a Higher tier monster, but it was currently weakened. So that players can fight it. Though for normal players even this weekend monster is very strong
But Arya and Aetherius were not normal, Arya was even higher level than the boss itself, plus the extra stats he assigned that made him even stronger.
Whereas Aetherius may be a little behind in levels, he too had higher stats, that bridged the gap between their strength.
*Gaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!*
The Boss monster roared as he was finally free, and noticing he was weakened became angry, and when he looked around he noticed, Rohan who was lying there unconscious. The Ghoul King went towards Rohan and picked him up to take his anger out and he was also hungry as he was in confinement for a long time.
Fortunately, Arya reached in time as the boss monster was about to tear Rohan apart, but Arya saved him as he slashed the hand of the boss monster and made him release Rohan. Arya caught the falling Rohan and threw it towards Aetherius who was catching up to them.
A sudden flying 'Rohan' astonished Aetherius, but he still caught him. He was very angry at Rohan because of the stunt he pulled back then, but his focus was elsewhere. So he just put Rohan on the ground and started sprinting again towards the boss monster.
As soon Aetherius reached the tower, he jumped and kicked the ghoul king's chest, causing a sudden jerk that made him fall off the tower.
The ghoul king unlike the normal ghouls had very distinct features, he was 8 feet tall, had pitch black skin, blood-red eyes with two black horns adorned his head, and on his back were two bat-like wings
As he was falling, he extended his wings and flapped them to stop himself from falling on the ground.
Arya and Aetherius didn't wait for the ghoul king to get his bearing and jumped at the ghoul king, and reached him just as he stabilized.
Arya attacked his wings with his sword, as they could allow him to move in the air which would be a nuisance during the fight while Aetherius punched his jaw with his punch.
They were fighting together in the trial for the past ten days, and both of them were very good fighters. So, their synergy was very good they covered each other's gap and attacked the ghoul king in such a way, that they didn't allow him to counterattack.
Arya had been focusing on the wings since the start of their attack and after many attacks, he was successful in it, as he ruptured the joint connecting the wings to the back.
*Gaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!*
The ghoul king screamed out loud, he was angry--very angry, at how these two insects hurt him. His already red eyes turned into a darker shade of red.
'He entered his berserk state.' Arya thought after noticing the changes.
The berserk state is a state in which only the boss monsters of the dungeon or an elite monster enter either when he gets very angry or when their HP falls below 10%.
In this state, the stats, or power output of the monster becomes 1.5 times, or to put it simply the boss monster becomes 1.5 times stronger.
Here the reason is the first one, as the ghoul king becomes very angry due to the beating he received from Arya and Aetherius plus they teared his beautiful wings.
"Aetherius, be careful! He is in his berserk state." Arya informed Aetherius to be careful.
"I know, but isn't this too soon? The fun hasn't even started yet." Aetherius complained jokingly.
"Let's go!!"
And they started to attack, the boss monster, though he entered the berserk stage, which made the boss monster 1.5 times stronger than what he was, but he still is weaker than their combined strength.
While Arya and Aetherius were busy beati--fighting the boss monster, the rest of the ghouls who were already up from their bowing position, started going towards towards Rohan.
Though The ghouls didn't have that much intelligence, they knew instinctually that they couldn't join the fight between Arya and Aetherius with the Ghoul King.
Rohan after lying who was lying defencelessly at the place Aetherius placed him noticed the ghouls heading towards him. He noticing the urgency got up and took out his daggers from his inventory.