With the fight about to start, Silver Bde naturally first ied the oppo.

  [Reyr, the devilish nephilimRank: Boss

  Level: 9

  HP: 1.000.000/10.000

  Skill 1: ???

  Skill 2: ???

  Skill 3: ???]

  “Huh? What’s up with those HP?”

  “This ’t be right.”

  “There o be a trick behind it.”

  Naturally it wasn’t difficult to figure out. Silent Acacia poi the dark liquid blobs.

  “Destroy those first!”

  Everyone agreed readily. Silver Bde and Radiant Shield cautiously approached Reyr, pnning to hold the boss back, while the rest swarmed out to destroy the blobs.

  Boom!

  An explosion shook the room. Everyoopped iracks, staring at Cye who had just destroyed the first blob from a distance.

  “Don’t you dare!”

  Reyr growled angrily, smashing his two spears against the ground. A wave of dark magic travelled along the floor, aiming for Cye.

  “Oh no! Dodge!”

  Silver Bde was too slow, not able to intercept the attack. Cye felt her chest tighten. But she was quite a distance away from Reyr, giving her enough time to step to the side.

  Unfortunately, Quickstep stood in the liween the mage and the boss. Expeg the skill tet Cye, she was too te to evade, getting hit directly.

  [-222!]

  Quickstep drew a sharp breath as she lost nearly half her HP from a siack.

  “Careful guys! Don’t attack randomly!”

  Radiant Shield and Silver Bde showed grave expression as they neared Reyr. A subscious pressure barreled down on them, dampening their movement.

  “That looks like a magic attack, let me block it!”, announced Silver Bde.

  But Radiant Shield had some doubts:

  “Should we even block it? Maybe it is better for the others to evade.”

  “You got a point.”

  While the two tank were still discussing, Reyr was already turning towards them. He raised his spears and swung them at Radiant Shield.

  [Stance -13]

  [Stance -8]

  The burly warrior’s body trembled, air almost leaving his lungs.

  “Damn, looks like it’s a mix of magical and physical damage again.”

  “Everyone! Careful!”

  Silent Acacia realized that none of the melee attackers dared to get he blobs after the earlier explosion, thus taking things into his own hands.

  He fired an arrow, followed by another deafening explosiht after, Reyr turn his way with murderous eyes, ready to kill.

  “Don’t stand in the way!”

  The young thief warned his teammates as he saw a wave of dark magiing towards him like a predator in the night.

  He watched with relief as nobody stood in the way, dodging effortlessly with a few light steps.

  The wave tinued for a bit before crashing into the wall.

  “Good job!”

  “That’s it!”

  Fortu enced by Silent Acacia’s ease, destroying the blob.

  At this moment the two tanks wore solemn faces as Reyr raised his saber for atack.

  But when an explosion reached their ears, he stopped his movements, fog on Fortune.

  “He stopped!”

  “That’s the strategy! We o keep him occupied!”

  As the party tio destroy the blobs, they gradually figured out more tricks. But implementing them was still difficult.

  Reyr mao get two more attacks in, putting heavy pressure on Silver Bde and Radiant Shield.

  However, after a few moments the blobs were finally destroyed.

  “Phew, done! I hope we fight normally now!”

  The party watched carefully as Reyr’s es with the bck liquid broke.

  “You! Why are you resisting?! I won’t kill you!”

  The powerful nephilim growled as the bck color on his skin surged like a stormy sea. He gritted his teeth, stabbing one of his spears into the floor.

  The dark energy around his oreated, gathering on his y hand and morphing into a viscous dark liquid.

  He raised his disgusting hand, swinging it towards Silver Bde.

  Liam couldn’t help but shout a warning:

  “Don’t block! Dodge!”

  Silver Bde was just about to raise her shield when she reacted instinctively, evading backwards.

  [Stance -8]

  The liquid nded on the ground, melting off a yer of stone.

  “Thanks!”

  Silver Bde was gd not to get doused by the disgusting attack.

  But Reyr’s movements didn’t cease yet. His other spear, now without the dark energy engulfing it, hacked towards Radiant Shield.

  The tank gritted his teeth. Surmising that this hysical attack, he took a step to the side, weling the saber with his shield.

  [Stance -10]

  “My stance is almost used up!”, informed the tank gravely.

  “Damn, the fight didn’t even start yet!”

  “Hurry up, guys!”

  Liam waved his sword, rallying the party to attack. His on cut through the air, reag Reyr’s stomach.

  [-41!]

  Bloody Edge eealth, sneaking behind the boss. His eyes were focused on the part where both wings met, having already figured out this oint of the nephilim.

  With a quick flourish of his dagger, he stabbed precisely.

  But not only did the expected critical hit not occur, Bloody Edge was even uo nd a normal attack.

  Holy and dark magibined below his dagger, showing signs of flict yet f a shield. A small explosion followed, throwing the thief backwards.

  [-100!]

  “Oh, e on!”

  Bloody Edge shouted indignantly as he dragged up his body from the floor.

  Balm looked around in , asking Silver Bde:

  “Should I heal once?”

  “Yes. Heal Quickstep.”

  “Why not me?”, pined Bloody Edge.

  “You’re a thief, learn to dodge!”

  Bloody Edge rolled his eyes but didn’t tiue.

  A green magic fell on Quickstep, bringing her back to full HP.

  “Thanks guys!”

  With Bloody Edge’s failed attempt, the melees didn’t mao do a lot of damage.

  But a momehe ratackers were ready.

  Cye waved her magical on, eager to let everyone marvel at her prowess. But…

  [-31!]

  The blond woman rolled her eyes as her damage was once again below Liam’s.

  Naturally Fortune and Balm weren’t much better off.

  Reyr appeared to have a mog look in his eyes as his saber aimed for Radiant Shield. The tank khat his stance was running low, brag for the damage.

  [-46!]

  “Looks like you hold on for a while.”

  “We’ll see.”

  Subsequently the fight entered a routine of attag and being attacked. The party began using their skills, only saving their trolling skills for critical moments.

  Soon, Reyr dropped more than a thousand HP.

  “Why tile? Let me show you true bliss!”

  The boss spoke angrily as bck liquid gathered towards him. It covered his body, shielding him but als him to stand in pce.

  Cye threw another probing attack, dealing a pitiful damage of 1.

  Reizing that the boss was about to pull off a big move, the party retreated wisely in advance, keeping their eyes focused on Reyr.

  Suddenly Balm frowned, perceiving a movement behind her.

  She turned around, looking at a patch of bck liquid. It whirled left and right, eventually trating towards the ter, f a strange figure.

  Standing upright it barely reached Balm’s waist. It had a sticky body surface, with cws for hands. Even without a face it emitted a strange bloodlust.

  “Ew, guys! What… what is that?”

  When Balm’s question reached the party, they looked around the room, finding dozens such figures rising from the ground.

  [Liquid PuppetRank: on

  Level: 5

  HP: 1/1]

  “We’re surrounded…”, Silver Bde’s voice was stern, pting how to deal with the situation.

  Meanwhile, the puppets already moved towards the party, their steps slow but threatening.

  The ranged csses quickly began to fire. The puppets fell one by one, but they were just too many.

  Soon, they came into attack range.

  Everyone did their best to dodge hastily. But within the narrow space the party found it difficult to maneuver. While running into each other they also had no time to get in attacks of their own.

  Eventually Silver Bde waved her sword:

  “Fet dodging, guys! Attack them!”

  The others nodded, swinging their ons. After a few seds they g Quickstep, who mao open up some space.

  “Hey, tell us your strategy!”, excimed Cye.

  “It’s my sword’s effect! Finally, it proves useful!”

  [Saber of the blue tideCategory: Unon

  Effect 2: Every attack deals spsh damage of 0,5%(PDMG) water damage.]

  Although the damage caused as spsh damage was low, it was a great ter to the many puppets.

  Seeing this, Cye hit her own forehead.

  “How could I fet this!”

  With a griook out a small dark sphere. She was just about to throw it when Liam hastily stopped her.

  “Don’t! Save them!”

  “Why?”, asked the mage relutly.

  Liam opened his mouth, but he didn’t know what to say. Telling the party now that they won’t be able to defeat the boss would be a heavy blow to morale.

  Fortunately, Cye plied, heless. Thus, the party tinued fighting the puppets arduously.

  However, with this strategy the puppets were able to chip away at everyone’s health bar little by little. Soon, Bloody Edge was close to death.

  He sighed, knowing that Liam wouldn’t allow him to use a health potion.

  Luckily, just before the thief was about to die, the liquid surrounding Reyr surged wildly.

  It spun, f a nguid whirlpool, a su force suddenly affeg the puppets.

  Those stopped in pce before helplessly being dragged towards Reyr and dissolving into the whirlpool.