Spending My Retirement In A Game

Chapter 943: Taking Out Anger

Eisen stood at the front of the group, walking down the stairs. What was waiting for them there was the boss floor. Until this point, the old man had been trying his best to keep to the back. Of course, he was participating in combat, but he was, overall, acting as a support. He was trying to make sure that everyone else could act as effectively as possible. In part, he did that by focusing on the stragglers that had gotten past everyone else.

But now, it was different. Eisen was mad. Really, really mad. His blood was boiling. Metaphorically, and apparently also literally, from the marks that were forming on his arms right now. The old man sighed lightly. He entered his true demonic form, tuning it toward its yin form. Its aggressive form that was more useful for combat. His sword, which was made from his own body that had been infused with yin energy in the first place, seemed to like that. It was bascially quivering excitedly in response.

Eisen looked around, and Bree soon pointed out the direction of the boss room. It was just a few minutes' walk to there. Hopefully, enough to let him really take out some of his anger. He didn't even try to hide himself as he walked forward, and soon, a swarm of giant acid-spitting insects approached him.

But Eisen just blocked the acid, creating a wall of molten rock in front of him that completely incinerated the acid before anyone knew it. Eisen stepped past the wall, swinging his sword to the side. It grew to a massive scale, completely breaking apart the ruined buildings that the insects were crawling out of. Flames filled the interior and was shot out of the cracks between the pile of stones.

The roots of the plants caught fire as well. Despite Eisen's magic not being combat focused, against plants and insects, it was still able to do quite a bit of damage. And for those that weren't killed outright, Eisen was just able to cut into them and destroy them before anyone knew it.

Before now, the group had tried to just move through, killing the monsters while moving as fast as they possibly could. This meant their method ended up leaning toward efficiency. They did the least amount of collateral damage possible, just as a side effect of trying to move fast and deal with the monsters as quickly as they could.

But Eisen... well, he was also quite fast, but for a while other reason. He just destroyed everything in his path. The old man walked in a straight line, just cutting apart the buildings. He was like some kind of kaiju treading through a town, leaving behind a trail of destruction in its stead.

The others were going to try and take care of the stragglers for Eisen this time around, but there was genuinely so little for them to take care of. The amount of damage Eisen was causing was ridiculous. Of course, it was also incredibly exhausting. If they juts fought like this the whole time, they would need to take three times the breaks they already had to. Plus, it wouldn't even really work on monsters that were much stronger than these, which they of course were expecting to encounter fairly soon at this point. Depending on the types of monsters on those floors, over the next two or three zones, the monsters would become too strong to steamroll like this. And even here, Eisen still took considerable damage.

There were always a few splatters of acid that got through the flames somehow, digging through into Eisen's rock skin. He noticed, but he just didn't really care. It wasn't the sort of damage that would kill him, at least.

Before long, they reached the doorway to the boss room. Eisen almost wanted to just step through, though Brody was able to stop him before he could.

"Hold your horses, big guy. You sure you want to just do this? Don't want to take a break, or sit back for a bit? Boss monsters are a whole different beast, y'know?"

"Yes. I know," Eisen replied, standing in front of the doors, "I don't mind going in alone if I'm being too reckless for you guys."

Brody sighed, shaking his head, "No, no, that's definitely not how we're doing this. Seriously, just... kinda pull yourself together a bit, alright? I get that you hate the guy who made the sword, but that doesn't mean you can just put everyone else in danger."

Eisen looked at his friend, letting out a long sigh, "... You're right. Sorry," the old man replied, "Can we... just switch roles? I feel like I need to let loose for a bit longer, and I don't think I'll have the leisure to do it for all too long."

"You mean that you want me to look after the group, while you head out and take care of the big guy?"

"Mhm."

"... Sure. Let's do it that way. Just call out to me if ya need help, alright?"

"Mhm," Eisen pushed open the doors to the boss room, entering the space quickly. It was a much larger, denser town than before. It felt like this town was the more 'advanced' version of what they had seen before, created for many, many more individuals. Thick roots were slithering over the ground like snakes, and the clattering and clicking of insect chitin sounded out just a distance away.

The old man squatted down in front of the roots. They reacted to his presence, trying to wrap themselves around him, but that was fine for Eisen. He wanted to grab them in the first place. The moment he made contact with the roots, Eisen turned up his heat, setting the roots ablaze. The fire began to spread across the roots. At least, the fire would take care of those plant monsters to some degree. Now, he headed toward the insects' clicking. The moment he turned aroudnd the corner, a bus-sized beetle ran at him. Acid was dripping off its mandibles, eating away at the ground with every single drop.

Eisen wrapped his weapon in fire, and with a swift downward motion made his sword slam down on the beetle's body before it could even so much as smell Eisen. But this beetle didn't come alone; there were plenty of others gathered around, making it harder to move around. In the distance, though, Eisen could already see what the real boss monster was.

Moving around the buildings, crawling into whatever gap it could fit in, was an absolutely massive centipede. It was large even compared to Eisen right now. However, it wasn't large enough to actually really worry him. Instead, he just ran at it. The centipede destroyed buildings as it moved around the area, attempting to bury Eisen under the rubble. But he was able to simply brush it aside like it had never been a threat in the first place.

The trail of acid that it left behind was a little more concerning, but Eisen was able to just use his magic to create a path of rock that he could walk on briefly, before the rock dissolved away. He began to cut into the centipede's body, bit by bit. It was moving around to haphazardly for Eisen to get a single really good attack on it, so he had to rely on smaller, shallower attacks, just working on cracking away at its chitin.

Sooner or later, large parts of the chitin fell away. The boss monster's dark blue blood was flooding onto the ground. That blood in itself was incredibly acidic, even more so than the trails that it left behind when just moving around. If Eisen's ego-sword was made of any other material than what it was, he would be genuinely worried about it falling apart. But no, instead, it was just Eisen's body itself that was getting injured more and more.

The rock skin that made up his body during his demonic transformation was being eaten away, revealing strands of crystal underneath and between them. And soon, even those crystals were starting to disappear.

At this point, it was a battle of attrition. Eisen or the boss monster; one of them would die, it was only a matter of time. But it was clearly that the one that would lose the battle was the centipede. Massive chunks of its flesh were flying around, and together with the trail of acidic fluids, chunks of chitin were laying on the ground. The boss was slowing down more and more, until Eisen jumped off one of the half-collapsed buildings. He stabbed his sword into its body, and then increased its size to the max. Using his own bodyweight, he cut through the centipede's body whole, and before long, after wriggling on the ground for a little while, it finally passed on.

Standing over the dead boss' body, Eisen pulled out a small barrel of healing potions, downing as many of them as he needed.

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