Hawk’s dinner was ready right on time, and the bird came out just as they were ready to face the boss.
Not that they had a lot of planning to do, they had all faced one of these in the dungeon before and knew the basic strategy of it. But changing equipment to reduce the number of additional spawns would only take them so far, and the group needed to make a plan for the fight.
Karl was somewhat involved, as he had the summoned Demons with him, who were guaranteed to make a mess, but he was the healer, his primary duty for the run was to warn them if they were going to do something that would get them killed.
As Hawk appeared in crow form on his shoulder, Karl addressed the group.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Hawk. Despite his current form, he is a Dark Flame Phoenix, and his fire magic will burn away the small plague demon spawn as they appear from the boss’s blood.
He’s one of my bonded beasts.
With him in the fight, you won’t have to dedicate someone to dealing with the blood spawn, and his cauterizing flames will reduce the amount that spills from Carnage’s attacks."
Hawk nodded happily, always eager to show off the might of his flames.
The team leader nodded to Carnage, who led the way into combat against the now enraged Plague Demon.
Sure, Demons fought each other all the time, and Wrath Demons fought just for the sport. But these humans had brought Wrath Demons to his territory to attack him? They would pay dearly for that.
The massive Demon spewed a wave of green sticky fluid on the floor, which Carnage simply leapt over, before the slime began to condense into smaller plague demons.
That was a new attack that none of them had seen before, and Karl wondered if it was brought on by the difficulty settings, or simply by rage.
Either way, it wouldn’t last.
Hawk took to the sky, shifting into Phoenix form before dousing the slime puddle in dark blue flames that scorched the small demons to ash within seconds.
However, those seconds forced the rest of the team to spread out to avoid the threat, and Carnage made it to the boss alone.
That meant massive axes against corpulent flesh, and more waves of blood spawn plague demons for Hawk to scorch while the majority of the group got in position behind the boss.
They circled left, while Karl went right, and stopped to the left of the boss where he could clearly see the whole fight, with nobody out of range of his healing skills. Then, he let the Dryads do their work, and try to restrain the boss with their vines.
That would be easier said than done, as the creature was massively strong on a level that not even Carnage could compete with.
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