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Decided to visit some new higher level awakened dungeons as I haven't done some in awhile. I met the final crab I had left on my crab challenge list to kill. Karata Maneki. This crab anons...this crab lol

This has got to be the single hardest thing I've ever fought in Elona. I can't believe the amount of grief this thing caused Kai. Hats off to the creator for this truly scary and challenging monster.

So I just came down the stairs and almost immediately my party and I are drawn to this crab inside a room full of other awakened duneon scaled monsters. Atlas, performaids, vampkin, a couple of ologs, and other nasties. I quickly start using the swarm special action to eliminate things around me with my pets doing their best to help. The crab just keeps summoning more things to him from the dungeon leading to a rather fevered fight to reach the crab and kill him but the monsters summoned keep getting in the way. I start meteoring the entire floor but I start to realize there is something horribly wrong because more and more monsters just keep showing up.

Realizing that this can't possibly be just the monsters on the same floor it's dragging to itself, I come to the conclusion that it's also casting the summon monster spell and all those monsters summoned are scaled up due to awakened dungeon. At this point my pets are getting worn down and my healer pet Mai is getting overwhelmed in keeping up with healing. Kai's barrier is also at this point on the verge of shutting down due to the stream of monsters and no rest between fights.

I attempt to silence the crab but it's considered a boss monster and I have a hard time sticking the hex. More monsters start pouring out and at this point my pets Mai and Mina are killed. When I finally land the silence hex I find that it only lasts 30 rounds. Not as much as I like but enough for me to kill the summoned monsters and bring order to the utter chaos earlier. It turns out I was correct that it was summoning monsters in and I start to every now and then reapply silence.

Kai's barrier is gone and I'm now starting to take HP damage and my pets Saya and Akeno are not looking too good. We all start to wail on the crab but since this is Karata Maneki 90% of our physical damage is reduced meaning only our magic damage from our attributed fists are doing something to the millions of HP it has. Also it's immune to bleed, poison, and any spell that is not pure magic. To say the least, it took awhile to whittle this crab down to low HP but there was one horrifying surprise waiting for me once it was that low. It had super regeneration and it was healing for millions. Much more than the damage my pets and I were dealing to it. At this point I decided to hit rampage, equip a prevent teleport item, and use the charge special action(prevent teleport was used so that charge wouldn't get interrupted).

Even after all of that, that was not enough to bring it down. At this point I dismissed my pets Saya and Akeno since they were close to dying. I came to one conclusion. I would have to summon my own inner god to bring this crab down! I casted Hero, used attribute, clear mind, uncontrollable, and used the omega shift core. I was finally starting to overpower the super regeneration but I found it unbelievable that it was still putting up a fight. When I finally got to 200% gauge I initiated a gauge attack using body blow and only then did the crab finally die.

I don't know if anyone else has fought this crab and it might be easier in a normal dungeon but in a sufficiently high enough awakened dungeon this crab is an absolute nightmare. I was able to finally slash that crab off the list but geez. Respect the crab. Holy fuck.