The danger of Blackwater was swiftly neutralized by the alert party. Once its most lethal mechanic was out of play, the BOSS was little more than a glorified elite—bulkier, yes, but no longer truly threatening.
After all, this was just an early-game dungeon. Once the mechanics were figured out, the challenge vanished. In later stages, even if you had the BOSS's entire ability list memorized, clearing the fight would still be brutal.
Despairer Hughesman lived up to its name only briefly before it met its own despair. Its health bar nosedived. Even when it cast Blackwater every thirty to forty seconds, it couldn't stop its inevitable collapse.
With one last piercing shriek—an AoE scream that rattled the team's health bars—the elemental body disintegrated. All that remained were two elemental armlets, dimly glowing on the ground like flickering embers. That was the corpse.
