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dumbfounded, not because he
doesn’t know where the boss is, but because all his armor and even his weapon
have broken. He is standing there in nothing but the casual clothes which are
normally under his armor.
    ‘Damn it, Matrix! How many times have I told you that you need
to maintain your weapon and armor in good repair!’  I inwardly curse, understanding that all his equipment has broken
due to their durability being at half.
    Matrix stands there stupidly, looking down at his bare hands as
the boss flicks its wrist and delivers a whip lash to Matrix’s back. The strike
creates a deafening shockwave that sends me sliding back several meters. Poor
Matrix flies several tens of meters before hitting a wall and becoming a corpse
on the ground. The attack dealt critical damage, and without a single shred of
armor for protection, he died instantly.
    I barely have time to curse before ‘Gas Child’ automatically
targets me and attacks with his whip. I begin to raise my bow to defend against
the attack, using the ‘Grand Elven Bow’s’ ability to be used as a shield,
before remembering that it is nearly broken.
    I jump to the side in an attempt to dodge, but my speed is not
as fast as Matrix’s. The whip follows its characteristic trait of fluctuating
in speed, lashing at me nearly instantly. I feel a wind brush past me as I
narrowly dodge, before a shockwave buffets my body and sends me flying several meters
away. The game doesn’t permit players to feel any significant pain, but the
rotating of my vision as I tumble is enough to nauseate me.
    The attack takes just over a third off of my health, leaving my
limbs feeling a little heavier than before. Standing up slowly, I see that the
boss is steadily approaching me. I realize that when facing straight on, it is
incredibly difficult to capture the timing of the boss’s movements.
    I nock two arrows and hastily release them at the enemy. My
accuracy improves dramatically thanks to the target not moving sideways. I
quickly use the sacred art ‘Wind Piercer’, firing an arrow of wind at the boss
before retreating.
    My concentration wavers as I see the boss falter and become
unsteady from the wind based attack. His health visibly drops a fraction from
the attack as well.
    The attack also seems to cause ‘Gas Child’ to rage, his speed
explosively increasing as he leaps toward me. The whip in his hand strikes
toward me while circling around itself. I attempt to dodge the whip again, but
it seems to track my movements and make dodging impossible. The whip gathers
around my body before tightly binding me.
    Trapped by the purple-black whip wrapped around me, all my
struggles to free myself are fruitless. With another flick of his wrist, the
boss lifts me up with his whip and swings me around himself. My vision blurs
slightly and I feel the semi-solid whip release me. The next thing I notice is
a dull itch on the back of my head and shoulders.
    I can vaguely feel the wall behind me, but my limbs refuse to
move no matter how hard I struggle and my mind is still reeling from the flight
and slow to respond. As my head clears and my focus sharpens, I see the boss
standing a few meters away from me. His whip comes swinging down once more and
then everything turns black with a single message.
    You have died.
    Due to having no one in the vicinity of
your body, your soul disperses and revival magic can no longer be used on you.
Your soul has reformed in the Great Church of Grenton.
    Do you wish to revive immediately?
                    Yes/No
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    Matrix and I challenge the hidden tomb three more times and
defeat the sub boss on the third attempt, but fall miserably to the mundane
enemies deeper in the dungeon. Our party is far too small and not levelled high
enough to be able to go further, so I make a video out of all the footage I
have.
    The video of us in the dungeon takes quite well with the viewers
and even