Hardcore OP-ness

Chapter 30: Hunting an Elite

Michael muttered "Unlike most RPGs I've played, the drops seem to be tailor-made, specifically for the people who are farming them. I wonder if it has to do with the last or first hit? Nah, probably just randomly picks one of the people in the party... Most likely based on the Luck stat."

Then he asked Elina "In a large group of adventurers, do the chances of items appearing increase?"

She angrily bit her lip and mumbled "Yes, they do... Didn't anyone ever tell you it was rude to interrupt people?"

Ignoring her, he continued to talk to himself: "Sweet, so it's a combined effect, huh? That makes sense, cause Sarah's Luck is currently the shittiest out of the three of us. However, if we add mine and Elina's, that's a whole twenty-two points... If Inari wasn't so exhausted, I could bring her out and increase our drop-chances a bit more."

Then the vigilant Thief suddenly yelled "Enemy!" With her 'normal' vision returned, she also improved her mana-sense even farther, which made it very easy for her to notice the strange creature that was creeping-up on them.

When Michael saw it, he smirked and said "Hey, it's time for you to finally do your job... Meow-meow~, nyan-mew~?"

Upon hearing those extremely offensive remarks, to Cat-Tribe, Elina glared at him with her bright-yellow irises radiating a blinding light. Then she asked "Are you sure you wanna fight that thing? It's pretty slow, so we should be able to escape, but without a fire-mage, I don't really see how you're planning to kill it."

He snickered, as he stared at the "Natural Ursus Treant, Level-7, Rank-E, Elite." It had a ridiculous three-hundred health-points, while in the shape of a large, bio-luminescent, green bear; the total height was over four-meters, and unlike a normal animal, it was entirely made out of bark and vines.

Sarah complained "Where hell do we attack something like that?" as she glared at the giant creature, which was even standing on its hind-legs.

MIchael yelled "Don't worry brat, I'll Tank it; just keep moving around and stabbing at it!" before taking out a miscellaneous, mossy, smooth-stone. Then he snarled at the bear while roaring "Oi, look at me you ugly piece of shit! I'm gonna fucking tear your grassy-dick off!" while channeling mana into his voice, and creating the skill 'Taunt' while pitching that rock as hard as he could.

The treant lacked reproductive organs, but the spell was still extremely effective, because he managed to shatter the creature's left, bright-blue, crystalline eye. It's health quickly dropped down to 278/300, and it became 'enraged.'

After that, Sarah teleported onto the back of the treant's neck, and started furiously stabbing her rusty daggers into the various vines and relatively soft spots. With every prick, a small '-3' or '-2' would appear, but the elemental-beast didn't seem to mind her attacks.

However, it let our a rage-filled growl as it fell to all fours and began charging towards Michael. He immediately pulled out a second stone and tried to pitch it into the monster's right eye, but the bear was able to turn its head slightly, causing the rock to miss.

He yelled "I thought you said that this bastard was slow?!" as he jumped to the left, rolling across the ground, and standing back up again, while removing a handful of pebbles from his inventory. Then he used a combination of physical strength and telekinesis, to fire them like buckshot, striking the elemental-beast's torso six times: '-1,' '-2,' '-.4,' '-.8,' '-3,' '-1,' and '-2' appeared in quick succession.

Sarah had jumped off of the creature's neck after it started charging, so she was still waiting for her mana to regenerate, before she could land another flurry. Elina shouted "Michael, look out!" as dozens of thorny vines emerged from beneath the man's feet.