The Goddess Of War
Chapter 55 - Graduation Exam (2)

The raid team from Hunter Academy was currently on a vast expanse of grass-filled land as well as rock hills all over its surface, which is one of the characteristics of Dungeons with Golem and Goblin monsters as their inhabitants.

Throughout the history of the Hunter-hunter experience around the world, they prefer to face Goblins rather than having to face Golems in Dungeons that from this geographical state, usually present both monsters.

Golems were usually the default monsters that could become Dungeon dwellers of any level.

What distinguishes each level of the Dungeon, is only the level of Golem magic energy. Different from Goblins who are definitely only in Dungeons with E rank.

Thus, even if the Golems were in an E rank Dungeon, to defeat them would be much more troublesome than Goblins. Will drain more Mana energy of the Hunters.

With any Dungeon level, to defeat Golem-type monsters required a lot of Mana energy until the raid team had to spend a lot of mana potion stock.

With a body formed from stones, Golems had a defense that was harder to destroy than other types of monsters.

This examinee raid team, had even nearly exhausted the stock of mana potions they had.

Since the ranks of the students were still in the range of F, E and D, then the basic status of their Mana energy was still very small and their Mana energy was more quickly drained out while being in a fight.

For that reason they more often consume mana potions to restore Mana energy, while they are still in battle.

Fortunately, since the test was conducted in an E-ranked Dungeon, then they could conquer it unhurriedly.

The raid team had already been inside the Dungeon for 4 weeks, which was actually only 4 days in the human world.

With time in the human world, an E rank Dungeon would break the fastest within 10 days. So, they still have a lot of time left.

Unlike the professional raid team which usually only takes a few hours if only faced with this lowest ranked Dungeon.

Since it was still not very urgent, then the raid team of the Academy would take several days to rest after successfully defeating a single group of monsters.

It was at that moment that they could restore the Mana energy.

However, this time the raid team would go straight to the area where the boss of the Dungeon was after taking a break in just a few hours after defeating the last group of monsters.

The team captain, who was an instructor from the Academy, decided that after seeing the inventory of mana potions and their health potions had already begun to thin out. Likewise with the supply of rations that are also only left for two more days.

After all, in order to fight the Dungeon boss, the team of instructors would be of little help. Unlike when fighting against a group of low-leveled monsters.

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Wang Liu Gong, the team captain, checked back the magic energy detection device to ascertain the amount of magic energy from the Dungeon boss they were about to encounter.

Because from a rather close distance like this, the detection device could read the magic energy of monsters more accurately.

After ascertaining the Dungeon boss's magic energy and comparing it to the total magic energy his team had, he, Wang Liu Gong was now able to determine the strategy they would undertake to subdue the Dungeon boss until there were no casualties on their side.

Wang Liu Gong finally gathered the raid team and they formed a circle.

For the safety of the main raid team consisting of the students of the Academy, Wang Liu Gong went back to check which supplies of their potions one by one because those items were the ones they needed the most later.

The main raid team consisted of 17 beginner Hunters who were students currently doing the graduation exam.

In addition there were 13 other Hunters who were Academy instructors.

The Academy's instructor served as the examination supervisor and would also be the Hunter who would take over the battle, if the circumstances were urgent.

In addition, there is also a team of miners who are tasked with retrieving magic crystals and will also be tasked with collecting monster corpses after the Dungeon was successfully conquered.

The team of miners consists of several low-ranked Hunters from the Association and novice Hunters who are first and second-year students at the Academy.

Not without reason first-year students are involved as a team of miners. Instead they were given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the state of the Dungeon.

They also did not need to worry about anything bad happening, as there were professional Hunter-hunters from the Association who would protect.

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After the re-examination was completed, the raid team finally set off to where the Dungeon boss was located, while the miner team took some time to rest after finishing their work.

After traveling for 20 minutes, the raid team finally arrived at the location of the Dungeon boss.

Wang Liu Gong asked the main raid team to gather in a circle once again.

For the sake of security, he re-explained the strategy they would implement to subdue the Dungeon's boss, as well as so that their Mana energy would be helped where the potion would be enough to deal with the Dungeon's boss.

As per the strategy, 3 Tanker moves first by settling from a small rock hill to another small rock hill to avoid the vision range of the Dungeon boss who is a Golem that has a height of about 7 meters.

The three Tankers were just hiding behind a boulder, doing nothing.

When the Tanker was ready in a position that was in accordance with the direction of the team leader, Wang Liu Gong ordered the Mage-class Hunter-hunters who had fire skills to attack the Golem.

“Shoot!”

Dozens of fireballs led to the body of the seated Golem.

Bang.. bang.. bang...!

The sound of explosions echoed in the battle area as fireballs coming from the Hunter-hunter Mage hit the Golem boss.

The golem, shocked by the impromptu attack, roared and tried to protect its head which was the point of attack.

The Golem tried to get up on its feet, but the second attack from the Mage with ice skill froze half of its body from the waist down.

Trapped by the Ice Skill Hunter-hunter Mage, the Golem could only finally shout furiously while trying to free its body from the ice trap.

Seeing the Golem being trapped by the attack, the Warrior-class Hunters who had been preparing since then, finally charged forward.

The warrior immediately leapt towards the Golem.

The Golems who were aware of their presence, tried to repel the attacks of the Warriors with both hands.

Crang... crang...!

The puncture and slash from the Warrior rained down on one of the Golem arms.

At the command of the team captain, the Warriors were trying to sever one of the Golem arms to make the monster lose one of its attacking power.

“Assassin prepare!”

Wang Liu Gong exclaimed in giving orders, while continuing to closely monitor the course of the battle.

The Golem that got the wiggle of the 3 Warriors on its head and shoulders seemed busy to fend off the Warrior's attack with both hands.

Every Golem wanted to try to hit the two Warriors who were focused on beating his left arm, the fireballs from the Mage flew and prevented his attempt.

“Strike!!”

As Wang Liu Gong gave his cue, the Hunter with the Assassin class that had been preparing since earlier, jumped crashing with focus to a single point of attack.

Stab... stab...!

“Gwaaaaaoooorrrrr!!”

The dagger thrust of the Assassin team managed to destroy the purple eye of the Golem formed from Mana energy.

The Golem shouted so loudly with its voice containing magic energy, that it made some of the Hunters around it feel pain in their ears and hurt deeply.

At that moment, the Tankers left their hideouts to protect the wounded Hunter.

Upon seeing the Tanker protect the wounded Hunter and protect the area around it, two Hunters with Healer class immediately approached his comrades who were affected by the magic energy from the Golem shout earlier and helped them to recover the deep injuries experienced as quickly as possible.

Thanks to the dexterity of the Healer-healer, Warriors can recover. They finally rejoined to attack the target, according to the plan Liu Gong had instructed.

They attacked the Golem's right shoulder.

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Seeing that his direction had so far been well executed, Wang Liu Gong then pointed his hand to where the 2 Warriors were. Golem right shoulder.

It was a code to attack for the Mage team.

Looking at the code from the team captain, it was also the Mage-mage who had ice skills shooting their ice into the right shoulder of the Golem and freezing it.

As Wang Liu Gong gave another cue, the Assassin who had previously retreated after performing his first task, charged back quickly and managed to sever the Golem's frozen right hand.

Slash... slash…!

After seeing the team's already excellent achievements, Wang Liu Gong ordered all melee attackers to retreat and ordered the Tanker to protect the attacking team that was moving backwards.

1 Tanker was in charge of protecting the other team members, while the other 2 Tankers used a skill mount to lure the Golems to attack them with only one hand remaining.

On that occasion, the melee and long-range attacking team drank mana potion to recover Mana energy.

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The attacking strategy without giving the opponent the chance to act like they did, was a strategy that only someone who already had experience fighting monsters in many Dungeons could create.

Estimating the strength of opponents and comrades, then concocting a strategy that will be used to execute lightning strikes without giving the opponent a chance to counterattack, is the way that professional Hunter-hunters around the world use it.

“Gus, please protect us all. I'll talk to them,” Wang Liu Gong's plea to Gus Stevin who has also been overseeing the battles of their students since.

“Sure.”

The thick-bodied man then took out his shield and sword, then went towards the Dungeon boss.

“Everything, retreat..!”

Wang Liu Gong's orders upon seeing Gus Stevin were already in the position he wanted to be.

Except for the 3 Tankers trying to survive while distracting the Dungeon boss, all of the Hunters who were students of the Academy instantly retreated and gathered some distance away from the area the Golems were in.

By asking the other 3 Tankers to stay afloat and use the skill tunt, Gus Stevin who was now about to take over the battle, directly attacked and destroyed the two legs of the previously frozen Golem.

Although he was a Hunter with a Tanker class, he was, but the level is much higher than the Dungeon boss who is only the boss of an E rank Dungeon which usually requires enough C rank Hunters to compensate for the boss by fighting 1 on 1.

The golem could only attempt to survive Gus Stevin's attack with one hand.

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After being overwhelmed by Gus Stevin's attacks, the Golem finally concentrated all of its Mana energy to carry out the ultimate attack.

When he saw that the Golem was about to unleash its ultimate skill, Gus Stevin retreated a few meters to prepare to use the area protection skill.

“Three of you back off!” command Gus Stevin on 3 other Tankers who then immediately followed and went to the place where their colleagues were gathered.

A black fog shot out from Gus Stevin's body and sealed off his battle area with the Golem until it was 10 meters away.

At almost the same time, the Golem raised its one remaining hand, then threw it onto the ground.

Bang…!!!

Along with the sound of an explosion, the area at the scene of the fight between Gus Stevin and the Golem shattered apart leaving a hole with a diameter of 15 meters.

Since it had protected Gus Stevin by using his skills first to temper the Golem attack, there was hardly any impact whatsoever occurring where the main raid team consisting of Academy students were located.

The main raid team only felt the ground on which they stood experiencing a slight tremor.

The students who witnessed what Gus Stevin had just done, clapped their hands at the sight of the supervisory instructions being able to withstand the ultimate attack of the Dungeon boss by themselves alone.

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