These Familiars Are Strange

"This is where the Boss Monster is." I said to myself in a heavy voice that was filled with conviction.

After clearing out a few of the Elite Monsters, it was finally time for me to fight the Boss Monster.

With the loot that came from clearing out those Elite Monsters, I felt much more confident in taking down the Boss Monster.

Before, I was only 50% confident in taking down the Boss Monster. Now, I was 99% confident that I would be able to take it down without a problem.

The only reason I didn't say that I was 100% confident was because there were all kinds of things that could go wrong while fighting the Boss Monster. I didn't want to be too cocky and let my guard down.

In a dungeon, one always had to prepare for any and all possibilities.

But since I was here and the Boss Monster was in front of me.

"Tap." 

Before I could enter the area where the Boss Monster was, the Echo Bat stopped me by tapping me on the shoulder.

I was surprised by this, but I trusted the Echo Bat.

It had saved me quite a few times, so it was worthy of my trust.

The Echo Bat leaned in and gestured a few times with one hand while covering it up with the other hand.

"Is that so?" I asked the Echo Bat and it gave a simple nod in response.

"In that case, I guess we should put on a play." I said with a faint devious smile.

…

"Are you sure that he's going in? It seems like he's hesitating." Tie Gang asked in a slow and heavy voice.

"I'm sure of it. I've been watching him for a while now and he's clearly heading for the Boss Monster." Xiang Chun said with a firm nod.

Tie Gang didn't say anything in response, but the others came to Xiang Chun's defense.

"Boss, when has little sister Xiang ever been wrong about this kind of thing?"

"Right, we just have to wait for him to weaken the Boss Monster and then we'll take care of both of them."

"It'll be easy, we've done this many times before."

Even though everyone seemed to be supporting Xiang Chun, Tie Gang still had a frown on his face.

It wasn't that he didn't trust his team, it was just that he had a bad feeling about this.

He didn't know why he had a bad feeling about this, but it was a strong bad feeling. For someone like Tie Gang who trusted his feelings in most things that he did, this was a large red flag.

It was just that when everyone seemed to be in favour of this plan, it was hard for him to stop them.

For a group of vultures like them who specialized in picking off scraps from others, this was a very normal thing for them to do.

But he couldn't shake that bad feeling that he had…

In the end, Tie Gang gave a slow nod, but he still said, "If anything seems off, we're running right away."

The others nodded in agreement to this.

He was still their boss, so he had a certain amount of prestige among them and they would listen to his orders.

After coming to this decision, Tie Gang didn't waste any time in changing his mood.

He went from worried to serious as he started giving orders to his men.

"I want a complete net of the entire area so he can't escape."

"Make sure that we have full sight of the fight between him and the Boss Monster."

"Also, make sure that we're able to take him down with a single blow or else we'll miss our chance."

The others quickly followed his order and started setting up around the Boss Monster arena. The way that they moved showed that they were very familiar with what Tie Gang was telling them to do.

It showed that they had done this many times before.

Xiang Chun, the one that had led them here used her charm to get the others to help her, but from time to time, she looked at Tie Gang with a serious look.

The way that she looked at him was as if she was unhappy with the way that he led their group.

It seemed like she wanted more from this…

"Has he started fighting the Boss Monster yet?" Tie Gang asked the scouts that were watching.

When he didn't get a reply, Tie Gang asked this again in a more serious voice.

It was only then that the scouts came back to their senses and said, "I've never seen someone fight a Boss Monster like this before…The way that he's tamed all of these monsters to fight the Boss Monster for him, how is that even fair?"

Tie Gang couldn't help feeling confused when he heard this, so he came forward to take a look.

When he saw what was happening in the Boss Arena, he too was caught off guard.

That was because this was a sight that he had never seen before.

They had already seen that this person they were stalking had Fanged Wolves at his command since he had been traveling with this pack of Fanged Wolves, but he never expected him to be able to tame other monsters as well.

There were snakes, monkeys, armadillos, and even what seemed to be rats that were running all around the Boss Monster.

For some reason, the Boss Monster wasn't able to take down the monsters that ran around it. 

Whenever the Boss Monster wanted to use some kind of powerful attack to take care of the monsters that ran around it, it was as if it suddenly froze.

It was as if there was something that suddenly stopped its movement.

It was only for a second, but it was enough for the monsters to evade the attacks.

At the same time, the continued attacks of the monsters were slowly wearing down the Boss Monster.

"Just what kind of ability does he have?" Tie Gang couldn't help asking in a shocked voice.