Clyde POV

  It worked, finally now according to the other party the boss should be basically helpless. With a look I conveyed to Cole that we should move in and finish it off. But then it did something that it wasn't supposed to be able to do, it got back up. It was using the lower two arms as makeshift legs. While this did require it to drop the shield and one of the three swords, I felt no relief from that knowledge. The main reason being there was almost no loss of mobility. There was some but not nearly as much as what the other party described. Then again according to the other party it never got back up after being cut in half.

  Fortunately, my attacks were no longer getting pulled off course by whatever enchantment had been affecting them before. Unfortunately, both mine and Cole's attacks were still being blocked by the boss's swords. If it had just been the two of us, we might have been in trouble. Darrell and Chandra weren't exactly idle though. Darrel proceeded to use the largest water vine I had seen yet to wrap up the boss's lower arms completely. Just as it became momentarily distracted trying to brute force it's way free of the water vines, Chandra through a Knife into the helmets opening destroying the skull and ending the fight.

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  There was I time when I wouldn't have known what had happened, but my battlefield awareness has been increasing steadily. It's still not to the point of having total awareness but it's no longer so bad I have to physically see my party to know where they are and have a general idea of what they're doing. Part of that is no doubt because we've been a party for so long, but I doubt that's the whole story. After all legends say that a heroic rank adventurer can sense other heroic rank adventurers even from two towns over.

  As I'm lost in thought pondering how far I've come, Lily begins treating everyone's injuries. The only one that really need serious treatment though is Cole. After making sure everyone was healed up and grabbing the loot we decided to continue on to the fourth floor. I just hope their report about the fourth floor is more reliable than their report about the boss.

  Dungeon POV

  The look on their faces when the boss got back up was priceless. Honestly, I could have changed the boss's behavior at any time, but I wanted Clyde's party to be the first to experience it. A little cruel? Maybe, but I had faith they could handle it. As they descend to the fourth floor, I turn my attention to the sixth floor. More to the point I turn my attention to creating a sixth-floor entryway. I decide to make the room a 40m x 40m x 40m room lowered slightly so that the entrance is raised about four meters by comparison. In the center of the room, I put a pond that is about 20m x 20m wide and four meters deep at the lowest point. The deepest point being the exact center.