While the party happily shared their loot, Silent Acacia looked at the remaining mobs with a twinkle in his eyes.

  In his mind, the fights were too easy, not posing much of a challenge.

  “Ok. Acacia, you pull the group.”, said Silver Bde.

  “On it.”

  The young thief sneaked forward, cirg the pirates. Radiant Shield looked at him strangely, w what Silent Acacia to.

  But suddenly an arrow shot into the densely packed pirates.

  Multiple heads turned, at least eight pirates attracted.

  Silent Acacia grinned as he hastily returo the group.

  “Hey, why did you pull so many?”

  “It’s alright. The fights are too easy.”

  “You could’ve asked us first!”

  A part of the group was not happy. They felt the pressure as nine pirates turo attack, two of them ranged.

  “Guys, focus!”

  Silver Bde hastily stopped the party from discussing. But after this fight they would have to front Silent Acacia.

  The thief stood in the back, feeling somewhat guilty as he noticed the nervousness among the group.

  Cye and Balm hastily began attag, spending their mana freely.

  Silent Acacia gritted his teeth. He dashed to the side, redireg the pirates.

  “What are you doing?!”

  “Quick, grab as much aggro as you !”

  “Kid, you’re making everything even more chaotic.”

  Now two pirates were focused on Cye and Balm, while the rest chased after Silent Acacia.

  Silver Bde had to stay in pd defend their mages, leaving only Radiant Shield to hastily catch up to the group of pirates and drawing aggro.

  The burly man soon got attacked by two pirates.

  Liam shook his head as he also attacked, luring one more pirate away, leaving three of them to chase after Silent Acacia.

  The thief made use of his agility to run circles, preventing the pirates from catg up.

  But the twed attackers were free to shoot. Silent Acacia was distracted, quickly grazed by a bullet.

  [-84!]

  The thief felt his heart sink as he lost more than half of his HP.

  >>> <<<

  Name:

  Silent Acacia

  Level:

  4

  Race:

  inal Nephilim

  Css:

  thief

  Primary Attributes:

  STR:

  8

  INT:

  1

  AGI:

  15

  HP:

  124/124

  Fury:

  0/43

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  >>> <<<

  He gritted his teeth, direg his focus on the ratackers.

  Meanwhile the rest of the party did their best to free up Silver Bde.

  [Stance -6]

  [Stance -6]

  The tank defended against two pirates while everyoacked.

  [-38!]

  [-43!]

  Sun’s Knight and Quickstep attacked with their swords, dealing solid damage.

  [-44!]

  [-39!]

  Cye and Balm attacked as well. However, the pirates weren’t dohey raised their sabers again.

  “Let me!”

  Cye warned her party as she hastily casted one of the standard spells among mages.

  [Push (rank 1)

  Cost: 10 Mana

  Effect: Push back all enemies in a 2-meter radius around you, dazing them for 1 sed.

  Cooldown: 8 seds]

  A white shockwave spread from Cye. The pirates didn’t mao get their attacks off, tumbling backwards.

  “Good job!”

  Another wave of skill directly followed, sending the two pirates to the afterlife.

  “Friends, I could use some help!”

  Radiant Shield shouted frantically. At this moment his stance was used up. Oack went through, hitting him squarely in the chest.

  [-72!]

  The tank flinched as he lost close to ohird of his HP. The others khe situation was bad, hastily ing to help.

  Balm learned from Cye, using her own [Push] to e the wave of attacks.

  As the team worked together, juggling the skills, awo pirates soon fell.

  “Bleary Mirage, Silent Acacia! Bring them over!”

  The two young men quickly plied, their stance about to be used up as well. They returo the party, where Silver Bde and Radiant Shield did their jobs and aggroed the pirates.

  At this point eveanks didn’t have much stance left. But the ratackers among the oppos were still firing freely, needing the tanks to block.

  Thus, the party had to coordinate perfectly, using their crowd trol skills to prevent the melee pirates from attag.

  Liam was impressed as the team worked together well. The pirates didn’t get off atatil they died.

  Afterwards the party made quick process with the twed oppos.

  Everyoook a deep breath after the fight was over.

  Sun’s knight frowned, staring at Silent Acacia:

  “Damn, why the f*ck would you do this?!”

  Silent Acacia felt unfortable, only enced by his girlfriend’s hold on his hand.

  “I’m sorry. I thought the hts were to.”

  “What’s bad about b? We are not pressed for time.”

  “But wasn’t it much more fun this time?”

  “No!”

  “I think he has a point.”, intervened Cye carefully.

  Silent Acacia suddenly felt his eyes light up as he found an alley.

  “Right? What’s the point of pying a game if it isn’t fun?”

  “I don’t think we have the same idea about fun!”, stated Sun’s knight.

  The others watched with subtle expressions, each having their own opinions.

  Liam observed calmly. Gathering this preliminary group only happened on a whim. If it didn’t work out, he would have to ge pyers.

  Liam hoped to form a group of friends to py the game with. Fate of aboul ultimately was not a game which could be pyed solo. Even with his advantages.

  “Guys, guys. Please calm down!”

  Silver Bde opened her arms wide. The petent tank mao get everyone’s respect, a good sign for a leader.

  Thus, the discussion died down as she spoke up.

  “Silent Acacia, if you have any ideas iure, please discuss them with the group first. We slowly test out our limits.”

  “Alright, sorry.”

  “Good. Now let’s tiably, get rid of the elite, and face the boss. Everyone ok with this?”

  “Sure.”

  “Let’s go.”

  “Let’s be the first to kill a boss!”

  Most of the group was eager to tinue. Liam eyed Cye strangely.

  Where does your enthusiasm e from? I never mentioned anything about a boss…

  The veteran shook his head, w with the party as they killed swaths of pirates. Soon only five normal pirates and the two elites remained.

  “Ok let’s be careful and pull the normal mobs first.”

  “Yes.”

  Silent Acacia plied, shooting an arrow from a carefully chosen angle.

  But to everyone’s surprise the two elites suddenly stared at the thief.

  “You! How dared you mess with us!”

  “Give us your head as pensation!”

  Silent Acacia froze in pce for a moment.

  “I… I didn’t pull them!”

  This time Liam didn’t want the group tue, speaking up for the thief.

  “Those elites attack automatically after too many pirates die! Get ready, guys!”

  “You heard him! Focus the small mobs first! Quick!”

  Silver Bde ordered the group, knowing that the uping fight wouldn’t be easy. She ied the elite.

  [Osick’s right hand

  Rae

  Level: 7

  HP: 900/900]

  [Osick’s left hand

  Rae

  Level: 7

  HP: 1200/1200]

  Meanwhile the normal pirates were already bombarded with attacks. Cye and Balm used everything to get them low.

  A moment ter close bat began. The two elites focused on Silver Bde and Radiant Shield.

  [Stance -16]

  [Stance -12]

  Silver Bde was shocked by the tremor running through her shield.

  “Oh no! Don’t let them nd atack!”

  The other party members felt an urge in their hearts. They repeated their tricks, preventing the normal pirates from attag.

  Their HP quickly dropped.

  But the elite weren’t impressed. Osick’s right hand obviously had a higher attack speed, her saber swinging quickly.

  Silver Bde narrowed her eyes as she used [Brutal Strike].

  [-24!]

  [Stun 1sed]

  The tank took a deep breath as she realized how little damage she did. But at least the elite was interrupted itack as well.

  Liam calmly attacked the normal mobs, building up his fury.

  The rest of the team used everything they had to quickly get rid of the pirates. A few seds ter only the elites remained.

  “Focus this ohe other is a tank!”, ordered Silver Bde, pointing at Osick’s right hand.

  “Got it!”

  Instantly two blinding lights shot at the elite’s head as the mages used their [Holy Strike]

  [-87!]

  [-75!]

  [-9!]

  “Wow nie!”

  “Haha, my [Holy Strike] effect triggered!”

  “Little rats!”

  The elite cursed angrily as a rge k of her HP disappeared. The others followed up with their attacks. Having used their fury against the weaker mobs they had to do with normal attacks for now.

  The elites followed up with another wave of attacks.

  “I got this!”

  Cye excimed proudly as she used [Push]. But this time the elites weren’t moved.

  “What happened?”

  “Careful!”

  Everyone was shocked. Silver Bde and Radiant Shield reacted instinctively, raising their shields.

  [Stance -16]

  [Stance -12]

  “We are almost out of stance, what’s going on?”

  “The elites get used to crowd trol.”, expined Liam dryly.

  “What?!”

  Silver Bde realized that this was bad news for them.

  “Get rid of this one, hurry!”

  Attacks rained down on the less tae, eager to whittle it down.

  But it proved to be difficult. A saber sshed through the air.

  [-100!]