Asuna looked at her HP, which had only just exceeded a hundred, and felt a little embarrassed.
At its highest difficulty, the Illfang the Kobold Lord fight—Hard Mode—required a minimum level of 10.
Easy Mode, on the other hand, only required level six or seven.
Asuna and the others happened to meet that requirement. They had thought it would not be too difficult... but once the fight began, they realized this was not a monster party that three people could grind.
To force the Boss—Illfang the Kobold Lord—to make a move, Akasaka took over the monsters on Asuna's side and began fighting the level 13 lesser monster.
They needed to wear the lesser monster's HP down to 50% before the Kobold Lord would rise from its throne and prepare to attack.
Otherwise, Illfang the Kobold Lord would not trigger the game mechanic and launch an attack.
With Akasaka taking over, Asuna and Usagisawa Misumi immediately breathed a sigh of relief. They hurriedly took green HP recovery potions from their system inventories and gulped them down, quickly restoring their depleted health.
Health potions cost the same as mana potions: 50 Col each.
Limited to the first 100 bottles.
Thanks to Chisato Nishikigi's evasion ability, Akasaka appeared completely at ease.
The monster could not touch him at all, while he occasionally slashed it. All he had to do was stall for time and whittle away half of its HP bar.
Seeing that his mana was also slowly dropping, Akasaka took out a mana recovery potion from the system panel, twisted off the cap, and drank it.
He casually tossed the empty container—the test tube—onto the ground.
The test tube turned into fragments and vanished from the world.
Akasaka's mana instantly recovered by 10%.
It was 10% of his maximum mana.
That had