The bird monster had divided in two. It still maintained its mana pool.

The mana quantity of the individual bosses was not halved. If anything, it had only multiplied by two. After all, there were now two entities with the exact same reading.

’You’re not going to be a problem now,’ Roe thought.

’I’m going to have to take more drastic measures.’

His staff continued firing beams. This wasn’t to do much, just to keep things moving and put pressure on the bosses.

The beams being fired weren’t controlled by Roe. They were automated.

He, on the other hand, charged forward, planning to close the distance and land an all-or-nothing spell.

He charged up electrical energy and fired a surge.

It didn’t connect.

He wasn’t able to make contact.

’My spells are all so useless,’ he thought.

’I have all this mana, yet I can’t do anything.’

’I don’t excel at anything exceptional.’

’I don’t, but what I do excel at is staff and mana control.’

’No, what I excel at is the fundamentals.’

’Fundamentals. Okay.’

Roe was deep in thought.

He needed to prove something to himself, that he could take on this boss.

’Mana reinforcement,’ he thought.

’That’s the most basic skill. Enhancing one’s moves with their own mana.’

’Since I have more than the average amount of mana, I think I have more than enough to spare.’

Roe wasn’t moving this time.

He stood still, thinking.

He wasn’t attacked. After all, he had set his staff to direct counter instinctively.

He wasn’t needed.

The bosses would rev things up eventually.

The staff began rotating violently to stop the beams as they came from different locations.

Roe noticed the staff was swinging vertically and horizontally as time went by. It needed to swing to keep up with the speed of the opponents’ beams.

Roe didn’t know how long his staff could keep that up. He wasn’t going to risk it, so he didn’t.

He began charging his body with mana.

He began to surge. He felt lighter and heavier at the same time.

Usually, mana enhancement would be limited to just the hand, leg, or whatever body part was to be used for enhancement.

"I guess I’m going brute force," Roe said.

He charged, his whole body teeming with mana.

He meant to jump lightly.

He didn’t.

He leaped instead.

Instantly, he was much higher than he expected. The bosses didn’t expect him to be up there.

They were still targeting the ground below. In this case, the sky.

Only then did the bosses notice their attacks were no longer being blocked or countered.

They just didn’t notice in time as a massive beam was thrust toward them.

Roe landed, hoping that would have finished the job.

The moment he leaped, he called his staff. This was the reason the birds faced no counter.

He charged up a super beam. The buildup time took basically nothing out of him. After all, he was already supercharged thanks to the reinforcement.

This was a natural way to increase his mana output.

’I’m still learning,’ he thought with a big grin.

The smoke generated from the impact this time was less violent as it had a place to dissipate, and it did.

The sight wasn’t exactly what Roe was expecting.

"Now four, huh? I guess it wouldn’t be a fight if you weren’t something tough," Roe said.

"After this one, you’ll probably add one more."

He noticed they all still had the same mana reading. This meant he was facing four times the monster he originally started with.

’I’m hoping one more kill ends things.’

He reinforced his body with mana again.

He lunged forward, and almost as if he had teleported, he was under one of the bird monsters. He jumped, hoping to take advantage of his new leaping attack.

As he charged, his fist met the head of the rather large monster.

A left punch followed.

He was able to maintain his footing as he stood atop his staff. The monster tried to land a couple of punches, but thanks to the staff taking the wheel, Roe successfully evaded its attacks.

Just then, Roe set up a massive charge of electrical energy and fired it.

The others began attacking with beams of their own.

One of them even came in close, trying to grab Roe with its giant hands. The staff continued to hang in there. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"No, this isn’t the time for you guys. I’m coming to you. Just wait your turn!" he shouted.

’No. The charge is already nearly gone.’

He was referring to the electrical surge he had fired at that one boss.

Suddenly, he started falling, and just like that, this boss was also destroyed.

He had called his staff to his hand and instantly fired a supercharged mana beam. Since he was no longer on his staff, he started his descent.

This was no issue.

He simply resummoned it.

He was now safely and firmly mounted on the clouds.

"Now five of you. Let’s end this," he noted.

Just like he said, there were now five.

Roe believed that if he killed all five, he would be done with the boss.

It didn’t have to be all at once.

’There’s no way I could even output something capable of clearing them all,’ he thought.

He fired a pulse that erected a field.

Field of Power was now active.

He had separated them.

Three were in the field, and now just two were outside, free to roam.

"You two will answer to me," he said.

He swung his staff.

Suddenly, it disappeared.

Reinforcement activated.

He charged, leaped, and landed a punch that sent one of the bosses flying.

A beam followed, not from Roe. However, it was the other bird that initiated it.

It hit.

It had made contact.

Roe hadn’t set his staff to counter. It was one command at a time.

Two other beams followed.

Both hit.

Both claimed their targets.

Only one was from the same boss.

The other was from Roe’s staff.

The other boss had been killed.

Roe and this one were now alone.

All it took was a single surge.

The boss was momentarily immobilized.

Roe leaped up.

He wanted to test his own strength.

He wasn’t going to kill this one with his staff.

’I hope I don’t regret this.’

Roe was on the clock. Soon, the surge would no longer have an effect on the boss.

The boss lay flat.

Roe was now standing and looking at its center.

He breathed.

He focused all the mana on one point, no longer trying to circulate it evenly.

He thrust his fist forward.

The boss that had been struggling to resist the charge no longer did.

Dead things don’t struggle, not even bosses.

Roe’s fist went clean through it.