NOVEL NEXT Chapter 71: Defeat The Raid Boss!
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“Did you think that I was the weakest because I was the first to come?!”
Zergeous roared, rushing towards Argentia while making the ground around him tremble and shake. His enormous body, now completely red after losing his armor, had undergone a sudden transformation.
Undergoing a Berserk transformation, his attack power and speed skyrocketed, so strong he was that, despite his low defenses, he wasn’t even getting hit that much due to his unparalleled offense.
“You were completely wrong! RAAAAHHH!”
With a ferocious scream, Zergeous swung his six fists against Argentia, covering his body with tremendous wounds as he punched through his scales and flesh.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
“Uuaarrggh!”
Argentia was sent flying away after being punched six times in a row by fists that were over five meters big, clashing over the nearby forest and rolling over it.
“Uuggh…!”
He gritted his sharp teeth, quickly standing up to see Zergeous appear above him once more, rushing down with all his strength and weight to crush him!
“I won’t die! I will definitely not die until I slay you, foul dragon!”
Zergeous flames erupted with Vengeful Flames, the fire that not only Judgement could conjure but other powerful members of their strange kind.
“Dammit! You tough bastard…!”
Argentia quickly imbued all of his Arcana into his claws, tail, and jaws, receiving the incoming punches with a beastly barrage of slashing claws, piercing speartail attacks, and bites.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“Agh!”
However, Zergeous was simply too mighty; his fists managed to get through Argentia’s claws and shatter them, and he even punched his mouth, almost dislocating his jaws in the process.
“You’re weak despite your size! You’re nothing but an oversized lizard! Ahahahahaha!”
Zergeous, strangely enough, was not being affected by the venom of Argentia anymore, which was one of the dragon’s greatest trump cards, which ended up becoming nothing but a useless fluid with no uses.
“I’ll crush you to death!”
“RAAAHHH!”
Argentia roared with all of his draconic might, unleashing a powerful draconic breath of moonlight and venom combined into purple flames, erupting and impacting Zergeous directly at point blank.
BOOOM!
“Uuggh…! HAH!”
Although Zergeous felt his skin burning and getting charred, it felt like his state gave him the ability to ignore all damage and even pain.
Even if his body was dying right now, he would simply not stop until his opponent was dead before dropping dead himself.
And Chris knew it, glancing from afar.
“What a tough bastard! Won’t he die already?!”
Pointing his bow at Argentia, he fired several arrows made of light, which pierced the dragon’s flesh and injected large quantities of healing light, recovering his wounds.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
“Ah, my priestess' healing light!” Argentia said. “With her help, it doesn’t matter how long this battle lasts, Zergeous! I shall see you dead by my own claws!”
The huge dragon stood up again, clashing against Zergeous, who charged against him, resisting the immense weight of the six-armed giant as his spear started piercing his chest and neck, constantly trying to make him bleed.
Yet despite the seemingly lethal wounds, Zergeous was simply not dying! It was as if he was in an undead-like state; no matter how much blood he lost or how much his bones were crushed, he would remain alive until Argentia died!
“Hahaha! HAHAHAHA! You can’t kill me!”
Zergeous laughed, punching Argentia with all six of his fists and blowing away several of the dragon’s teeth at the same time! But Argentia didn’t stand there watching; he quickly opened his jaws, biting through Zergeous muscular shoulders and tearing apart his flesh.
“Shithead!”
However, Zergeous followed by kicking the dragon’s stomach before punching his chest, neck, shoulders, and crotch again, with a force and technique equal to a martial artist!
BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!
“Uuaagggh!”
The dragon was sent flying again, collapsing over the forest and rolling down, gasping for air and vomiting blood. Chris panicked; he couldn’t simply look at this anymore!
“I have to do something! Argentia is simply not strong enough! But why? Isn’t his Tier Level really high?!” Chris wondered, flying towards the battle between the two giants.
He glanced at his status and all his skills, and then his equipment. His little trident hypercharged with his Arcana, rapidly growing larger as it unleashed lightning everywhere.
“I’m not going to let him die! Healing him is just not convenient; I’ll fight as well.”
He rushed over Zergeous as his blood-covered fists were about to finish off Argentia, only for a thunderous sound to resonate from the skies.
RUMBLE!
A giant trident of lightning pierced through Zergeous hands, two of them at the same time from his right side, splattering them into pieces!
CRAAASH!
“W-Wha…?!”
Zergeous didn’t feel pain, but he was shocked nonetheless, glaring into the skies to find a small incubus pointing his bow and arrows at him.
“I prefer being a support, but it can’t be helped! I’ll beat your ass myself; you fuck!”
Despite how adorable he looked; he had terrible manners.
“What?! What with that fly? Is that the one healing you all the time?!”
Zergeous smiled, suddenly gathering Vengeful flames into his fists.
“I’ll burn her to ashes then!”
With a furious roar, the giant swung his fists towards the skies.
“Master! No!”
Argentia panicked, quickly wrapping his tail around the giant’s waist and pulling him down towards his body.
CRASH!
“Ugh! You want to burn instead?!”
“If I have to die for you to begone, then so be it, you demon!”
“BURN!”
Zergeous roared furiously, conjuring his deadly Vengeful Flames and spending almost all of his Arcana left in that single attack.
FLUOOOSH!
“Uuuaaaaggghhh!”
Flames engulfed Argentia’s entire body from every single angle, burning him constantly; he was being roasted alive; his screams reverberated across the entire territory of Elderbridge.
“ARGENTIA!”
Chris screamed, rushing down towards the two burning giants and quickly conjuring his magic.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Suddenly, dozens of arrows made of spiritual flames materialized around his body, through the power of the Fire Spirit Arrow Creation Skill.
Chris wasn’t able to do what Vlad could do, he wasn’t good at learning Alchemy himself, and there was simply an innate talent that Player Avatars had above others.
Therefore, he couldn’t as easily combine his Skills or Spells.
Though, through Magic Archery, that was different.
Somehow, only through Archery…
“{Silver Moonlight Archery Arts}: {Flame Absorbing Moonlight Arrow Rain}!”
He could combine elements and create new techniques once he focused and put all his mind into it!
Perhaps the innate Magic Archery Talent that Fairies and Elves had was passed down from Alitheus father, the Fairy King.
Or maybe it was just a coincidence.
Nonetheless, this was Chris only talent!
“Let Argentia GO!”
With a furious scream, dozens after dozens of fiery arrows made of white and silver colored moonlight flames reached Zergeous, piercing his body and then exploding.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As they exploded, the Vengeful Flames of Zergeous were absorbed, suddenly disappearing within the range of the explosions.
How? Through the power of Fire Spirit Arrow Creation and the Divinity of Selene, the goddess of the silver moon that blessed him, Chris was able to achieve this miracle.
Absorb the flames through the “living” flames of the Spirit Arrows, and then through the divinity of Selene, make it disappear.
This way, he was able to both deal damage and turn off the deadly fire; it was more efficient than trying to turn it off using water or ice!
“Uuuggghhh!”
Zergeous for the first time started experiencing pain. The giant glared at Chris with his bald head and his two sharp crimson eyes; his flames were no longer working! And to make it worse, what was hurting so much were the divine energies infused into each arrow.
“Another blessed by a Moon Goddess?!” he screamed. “Why would the Moon Goddess of the Silver Moon ever bless sinful monsters such as you?! Murderers that slaughtered my people!”
“I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, man!” said Chris, as he suddenly created several new arrows. “I hadn’t even made this Avatar when that thing happened! And I’m not even a Vampire!”
“SHUT UP AND DIE!”
With all his might, Zergeous jumped into the skies; his remaining four fists reached Chris; he couldn’t even use fire anymore, but he could punch a small fly to death, no problem.
“Aaahh!”
BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM! BAAAM!
Four punches reached Chris, and as his entire body was torn to shreds, splattering into pieces into the ground below, blood and guts hitting the ground, the magic arrow he conjured dissipated.
Argentia, who was barely alive while most of his body was completely cooked, glanced into the skies with the only eye left that hadn’t burned and popped.
“M-Master…?!”
Zergeous smiled, laughing.
“Hahaha! THAT WAS EASY! NOW IT’S YOUR YURN, LIZARD!”
As Zergeous rushed down to eliminate Argentia, suddenly, the blood and guts on the floor exploded into pink smoke, dissipating.
“Huh?”
Zergeous barely was able to notice that, but once he realized what it meant.
It was already too late.
“Wha…?!”
He glanced into the skies again, and Chris was right there; no, twelve of him were there.
Illusion, Prankster, Shenanigans, and Jester, Skills that seemed rather weak to most Players.
Had quite a lot of uses.
Illusions: he could use the reflection of light to create things that didn’t exist but that others would see at what he modeled them as.
Pranker, it increased the chances of successfully convincing someone of something that is not true; if they believe it, the effectiveness of Skills and Magic increases exponentially based on Skill Level.
Shenanigans increase the chances for successful attempts at risky actions; sometimes betting your life has a higher chance of success than doing the “safe thing” thanks to this Skill.
And lastly, Jester.
The ability to make Jokes, Pranks, and Shenanigans, a temporary reality, materializing.
Combining these Skills allowed Chris to not only create illusions that could be believable.
But temporarily, even illusions that were tangible.
And could attack foes!
However, the activation timing had to be perfect, just like right now.
Zergeous not only noticed there were twelve exact copies of Chris in the sky.
But that there were strange golden rivers of energy flowing into them at the same time.
“Huh?!”
And then he noticed these rivers were coming from him!
“What the…?!”
His lifeforce was being drained every second and given to Chris.
“Remember the arrows I fired at you earlier? Well, they are still stuck on your back, you know?”
Chris’ Demonic and Spiritual Aura suddenly grew larger and larger; absorbing all the Lifeforce of a Raid Boss such as Zergeous while he was alive was a tremendous feast.
Through the powers of Lifeforce Stealing Attack, a Skill he developed as an Incubus, Chris was able to steal the lifeforce of things he attacked.
He figured out it was possible to even constantly drain it from an arrow he fired at a foe that got stuck inside their body.
Just like right now.
FLUOSH!
Dozens of giant arrows made of Holy Light and Spiritual, Demonic Energies continued growing larger.
A huge grape bunch-shaped spirit materialized behind him, feeding his arrows with spirit energy.
“So what?! I’LL KILL YOU AGAIN!”
Zergeous quickly attempted to jump back towards Chris to end him.
A grave mistake.
“Hey, the Moon just changed to silver, you know?”
“Ah? What?!”
As Zergeous was about to attack Chris again, he noticed the silver moonlight above the skies shining the brightest, its moonlight bathing over Argentia.
His wounds didn’t recover, but his entire body started bulging with muscles, growing twice his normal size, gaining a sudden surge of stamina and strength.
Chris finally figured out why Argentia was so damn weak before.
He was a Silver Moon Dragon after all…
“ZERGEOUS!!!”
Argentia’s roar echoed behind the multi-armed giant as his claws and tail wrapped around the giant’s body, his titanic strength becoming on par with the multi-armed giant!
“Aarrgh! You again?! How are you fully recovered?!”
“The grace of my goddess has blessed me with great strength! Priestess! Now!”
“Thank you.”
Chris fired his arrow, and his illusions followed.
In that very moment, dozens of spiritual holy light arrows pierced through Zergeous entire body.
Unable to escape, evade, or use his arms as shields, Zergeous was pierced by such arrows.
“T-This can’t… be!”
And then his body blew up into pieces.
BOOOM!
“No…!”
BOOOM!
“My… liege!”
BOOOM!
“My King…!”
BOOOM!
“I’ve… failed you…”
As his body fell apart into pieces over the ground and it no longer moved, Chris sighed in relief.
“Figured it out; if I wanted you to die for real, I just had to tear you to shreds.”
Despite his cute face, this incubus was quite the devil.
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