I Got What I Came For

What incredible self-control to be able to stop on its feet in this situation. Nothing less from a highly intelligent Boss monster I suppose. Not that it matters.

「Deadly Pain.」

The Emperor Ogre desperately tried to hold its ground while I mercilessly cast a second Deadly Pain on it.

It let out an ear-splitting scream that also made me feel the pain it was suffering from. When it stopped, its eyes were boiling with rage, with nary a trace of composure left.

「Gogaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!」

The creature charged forward, beelining for me. It wanted to kill me as soon as possible.

「Flame Circle.」

I set the ground before the monster on fire. It’s time for round two.

It was a one-sided battle from then on. Letting its murderous instinct take control, the Emperor Ogre curled up its fist to hit me. I dodged and used it to counter, gradually scraping at its HP.

Several minutes later.

「Forbidden Spell – Mana Corrosion.」

Black smoke appeared and infiltrated the Emperor Ogre’s body. After a while, it collapsed slowly on to the ground.

I knew it. It couldn’t handle a second Mana Corrosion. But for good measure, I cast one more spell – just to make sure it was dead.

「Deadly Pain.」

Intelligent monsters sometimes play dead, after all. With this spell, I’ll find out right away.

But this time, it looks like the creature was dead for good.

「Now then… did it drop the item…」I muttered as I took out a stone that shone black from the monster’s corpse.

A Wisdom Stone. A crucial ingredient in creating an item that buffs up Skills.

The Mana Corrosion spell causes quality of the materials from the target monster to drop. Now that would normally be seen as a bad thing. Except this time, it worked in my favor. An Emperor Ogre actually drops an even rarer item: a Divine Stone.
In BBO, a Divine Stone is an extremely valuable item sold at high prices, but unfortunately it’s of no use to me right now. Its inferior version, the Wisdom Stone, is exactly what I need at the moment.

「As for the rest… guess I’ll take it all.」

I shoved the rest of the Emperor Ogre’s corpse into my Dimension Storage. It should serve as undeniable proof that I killed the creature. While it dropped in quality due to the Mana Corrosion, they’re still materials from a very powerful monster so there should be plenty of uses for its parts.

And with that, I left the forest. In the meantime, the residents should be getting prepared to evacuate the town. It’s best if I report back as soon as possible.

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A few moments later.
The branch manager rushed over as soon as he saw me.

「Eld, you’re a battered mess! What happened?!」

I examined my body and sure enough, I looked terrible. Parts of my clothes were burned and blood oozed from my hands from when I duked it out with the Emperor Ogre. You just don’t notice things like this in the middle of a fight, huh.

「Self Cure.」

I healed my hand with magic. I have spare clothes so I’ll just change later. Even with Anti-Flame, my outfit couldn’t handle fighting inside roaring flames continuously.

「I fought the Emperor Ogre is what happened.」

「You really did?! It’s a miracle you made it back alive. So that means…」he said, a hint of hope gleaming in his eyes.

「Yeah. I managed to kill it somehow.」I said as I showed him the Emperor Ogre’s head.

I dismembered the corpse this time. It doesn’t change the fact that it’s huge, though.