Macrocube Dosigma

A small white cube emerged and multiplied into an enormous entity with arms and legs made of cubes. Two cubed fists burned with fiery power as the rectangular armored feet stomped onto the magenta ground. A big block sprouted from the body, extending into a large rectangular head with a cycloptic red eye and a pair of spiky antler horns. The stats of the boss appeared as the boss roared.

Macrocube Dosigma

Level 200

HP: [200,000/200,000]

Trait 1: Pressurized Vicinity

Trait 2: Valor Cubed

"That big?" Ritom's jaw dropped. "200,000?"

"C-can we... beat that?" Mivangeline looked at Chloridium.

"Hey," Chloridium elbowed her. "Remember your training. Observe your enemy, strategize, and adapt. We will help you the best we can."

Mivangeline nodded.

"Guys?" Naivern pointed to the ceiling.

They saw two giant cubes spawn scrounger drones from the ceiling.

Cubic Scrounger Apiary

Level 50

HP: [50,000/50,000]

"What's the word, Commander?" Ritom drew his pyrotechnic blade. "What the? Our stats!"

The party realized that Dosigma was sapping their stats with Pressurized Vicinity and gaining them via Valor Cubed. Mivangeline knew how to counter the boss' traits.

"Naivern! You're the stat buffer. We need you to equalize the battlefield!" Mivangeline ordered. "Ampyria, take your police droids to occupy the scroungers and take out the beehives!"

As Ampyria and her droid battalion flew to besiege the apiaries and fight the drones, Naivern played her guitar to raise the party's stats and lower Dosigma's. The boss growled, stomping its huge feet towards the group.

"Ranged in the back with Naivern!" Mivangeline pointed. "The tanks are with me!"

"We're with you, Mivangeline!" Shien swung his clarinet staff.

Ruddigus, Esarin, Chloridium, and Enshiron protected Naivern and bombarded Dosigma with their ranged weaponry as Dosigma cracked the ground with its flaming fists. Mivangeline, Shien, Elysia, Phoenicia, and Ritom slashed against Dosigma's feet while dodging its fire breath.

Phoenicia and Elysia punched with their fists while Ritom burned the boss with his fiery blade. Mivangeline slashed her kunai as Shien smacked his bo staff. Their efforts slowly dwindled Dosigma's massive HP as the boss pummeled back with its scorching fists.

Ritom flashed his flamethrower at Dosigma's face, only to aggravate it and make him kick him into Shien. "Dang! Despite all the status effects we do, its defense is still too high!"

"Could be worse without Naivern maintaining our stats!" Chloridium fired his arm cannons at the boss.

Mivangeline rolled away from being smashed by Dosigma's fist. "We just need to keep up the pressure!"

Dosigma lowered its head to prick its antler horns at the team, knocking them back. The boss clapped his hands together to create a huge fire orb. Dosigma slammed it down to make a destructive explosion that sent everyone flying, knocking their HP to 25%. As the front team lay injured on the ground, Dosigma pounded his fists onto his chest before charging towards Shien.

"I don't think so, you no-brain blockhead!" Esarin fired a rocket in the face to make Dosigma trip.

"My monster cards deal damage equal to their attack points!" Ruddigus fired his minigun to cover Mivangeline's team. "Taste my Blue-Eyes! 3000 damage each!"

"My front team comrades!" Enshiron fired a blood-red typhoon arrow at Dosigma. "With my traits, I shall heal you all!"

As the boss was knocked back by the catastrophic wind arrow, the front team members saw their HP rise.

"Awesomeness!" Shien hopped up to smack his clarinet staff at Dosigma's leg. "You're the best buddy!"

"I always am, my quaint boy!" Enshiron smiled from afar.

"Thank you, Enshiron!" Mivangeline nodded to him as she helped the others up.

"Wait, how did Enshiron do that?" Elysia drew her machete to help Ritom cut against Dosigma's flaming punches.

"Enshiron's first trait is Vampiric Zephyr. Every 30 minutes, he can launch a powerful wind attack that restores his health equal to the damage he deals onto an enemy," Phoenicia dodged a fire breath from Dosigma's mouth. "His second trait, Nebula's Communal, allows all of his nearby allies to be healed whenever he is healed."

"Cool!"

Enshiron Kiiros

Level 86

HP: [78,895/78,895]

Trait 1: Vampiric Zephyr

Trait 2: Nebula's Communal

Everything was working as Mivangeline planned. While Ampyria's team of aerial droids kept the scrounger horde distracted from the others, Mivangeline led her group in attacking Dosigma at close range. Naivern maintained everyone's stats as Enshiron's ranged group provided support fire from a safe distance.

However, as the drones fought Ampyria's aerial force, the apiaries produced swarms at an exponential rate. Some scroungers broke formation out to attack Naivern, forcing Enshiron to shift his attention from the boss to protect her.

"The apiaries have little HP left, but our rockets can't hit them with that many scrounger drones protecting it!" Ampyria launched explosive dice at the drone miasma.

"Commander!" Chloridium fired at the scoungers that buzzed around Mivangeline's team. "Those scroungers are getting out of control!"

"Oh, no!" Mivangeline dodged Dosigma's foot.

Dosigma positioned his head to face his antlers at Mivangeline.

"Mivangeline!" Shien clashed his clarinet staff against Dosigma's antlers.

"Eep!"

Dosigma grabbed Shien and squeezed him with his rectangular fingers.

"Don't worry! I will rescue the little Niang!" Phoenicia jumped to punch Dosigma's hand to save Shien.

Mivangeline froze with anxiety, watching the scrounger miasma overwhelming Ampyria's forces.

"Hey!" Chloridium turned to Mivangeline. "You got this, commander! Time for a new plan, right?"

"Um, r-right."

Mivangeline dodged a fire fist from Dosigma and checked if her Paladin's Aegis was available. She thought of luring the scroungers away from Ampyria's team, but it was under cooldown. Mivangeline then noticed Ritom flash his flamethrower at Dosigma.

"His pyrotechnic blade," Mivangeline had an idea. "Ritom! We need your flamethrower to blast through the scroungers. Ampyria's team needs an opening to give the beehives a final blow!"

"Uh, okay?" Ritom swatted a lone scrounger away from stinging Elysia. "But my flames aren't enough to destroy that many!"

"You don't have to destroy all of them! Just enough for Ampyria to pass through. I think if you concentrate your fire on the apiaries, it will provide Ampyria a path to finish them. Can you do that?"

"It will take a load of my flamethrower's energy to focus my firepower. Plus, it will overheat."

"But can you do it?" Mivangeline sliced a scrounger drone in half.

"Well, I won't be able to use my flamethrower mode for a while, but I could," Ritom looked for the hives within the swarm.

"Good," Mivangeline then pointed at the middle of the miasma where the beehives were slightly visible. "See the apiaries there? Aim at the center of the swarm!"

"Okay, then here goes nothing!" Ritom fired his flamethrower at the horde of scroungers.

He concentrated his weapon's trajectory at the heart of the wasp miasma. As the fire beam burst through, the scroungers buzzed away from the scorching heat.

"There's our opening!" Ampyria pointed at the visible hives through Ritom's path. "Let's go before the scroungers regroup!"

"Hey, beauty brat! Less talking and more doing!" Ritom clenched his teeth. "I can feel my flamethrower overheating!"

Ampyria and the droids soared through the path, zigzagging their way to the apiaries through the passage.

"Ow! Hot!" Ritom dropped his smoking flamethrower. "Aw, man! Hurry up, Ampyria!"

As the flame dispersed, the scroungers closed in on Ampyria's team. Ampyria threw her exploding dice at the scroungers to protect her droids. When they were close enough, they blasted their rockets into the two beehives. As the apiaries' HP dropped to zero, the scrounger miasma disintegrated along with them.

"Great work!" Mivangeline commented.

"For once, you did something right, Ritom!" Ampyria grinned.

"What do you mean, you brat?" Ritom jumped. "You don't even say thank you?"

"Calling your android guide a brat is a code violation 55578, especially since I'm the most beautiful android!"

"Why you little-"

Dosigma kicked Ritom into the air while he wasn't looking.

"Ritom!" Shien and Phoenicia clashed with Dosigma's fire punch in a deadlock.

"Here's your thank you!" Ampyria caught Ritom and threw him into Dosigma's head.

Ritom landed on top of the boss' head, making Dosigma lose his focus on Shien and Phoenicia.

"Ritom! What are you doing, you numbskull?" Elysia jumped to cut Dosigma on the knee with her machete.

"I don't know!" Ritom frantically held onto Dosigma's antlers.

"Hit the eye, you dope!" Ampyria yelled.

"With what, smartypants? My blade is down there!"

"Isn't it obvious? With your fist!"

"Um, fine," Ritom punched Dosigma's eye.

Dosigma roared as he shook Ritom off onto the ground.

"Nice one, Ritom!" Shien patted his shoulder.

"Ugh," Ritom rolled his eyes. "This is why I don't like Ampyria."

Dosigma breathed fire at Ritom, but Shien and Elysia dragged him away in time. With the beehives and scroungers gone, the party can focus on Dosigma.

Macrocube Dosigma

Level 200

HP: [99,843/200,000]

"Good job, everyone!" Mivangeline told the team. "We can do this! Attack!"

"Yes!" Shien shook a fist at Dosigma. "This is what you get for trying to choke me to death!"

Everyone fell when the boss room vibrated. The party gasped to see a large tab appear in front of them.

!Warning!

!Phase II Begins!