[2nd Named]
[Level 40 Lion Balgar]
[HP 14,049,600/20,000,000]
Kuoooong!
Balgar’s HP reached the point where the next sawtooth would appear.
Chris’s eyes sharply observed the battlefield. She needed to quickly grasp the sawtooth’s position and secure recognition so that Rain wouldn’t have a hard time.
One sawtooth penetrating the center of the battlefield is enough to maintain Balgar’s bleeding stack. The remaining sawtooths can be dribbled by the ranged DPS.
Of course, if they could land two or three more sawtooths on Balgar, they could decrease HP much faster, but with the current 3-person firepower after finishing fortress farming, they could avoid seeing the berserk pattern even with just one sawtooth.
From two, it becomes challenging for the tank. With three, wounds accumulate on the tank’s body. From then on, they can’t hold out. Even the skilled Fighter Deathly Death could barely fight while avoiding two sawtooths.
Kiiiing!
Chris secured recognition of one additional sawtooth that appeared and turned her gaze to the center of the battlefield.
And her eyes soon became dazed.
“How lovely.”
While playing in a party with Rain, Chris found it very difficult to focus on the gimmicks.
The sight of Rain fighting. It was like a painting.
Rain slightly twisted her body to avoid a sawtooth that approached close range. At that distance, it seemed like she would get wounded as it brushed past, but Rain’s body maintained a perfect gap with the sawtooth without taking any damage.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Simultaneously with Balgar’s 3-rotation pattern flying in, Rain lightly raised her sword to block the rotations. Soon, Rain’s body shook, leaving afterimages. Her body appeared behind Balgar, and started slashing his body.
Beautiful starlight sparkled around Rain. The Gothic Lolita-style dress Rain was wearing fluttered.
It seems cumbersome for battle if it were real clothes, but in-game customizations don’t hinder user movements due to the system. That outfit only accentuated Rain’s beauty.
Chris’s gaze, chasing the white hair of Rain, the silver fox, wandered aimlessly in the air.
Right now, Chris was more interested in the ashes than the chant.
She was busy capturing screenshots of Rain’s battle appearance, which looked even noble at a glance.
“Huff, huff.”
While Chris was taking screenshots of Rain while puffing air from her nose, Bae Merong’s urgent cry was heard.
“Unnie! One more sawtooth over there!”
“Oh!”
When Chris came to her senses and looked at the sawtooth; something flew in before Chris’s talisman.
Clang!
It was the ‘Flying Sword Technique,’ an auxiliary skill used by Swordsmen to draw monster recognition from a distance.
Kiiiing!
Soon, that sawtooth recognized Rain and flew towards the center of the 2nd named battle area.
“So-sorry! Rain, will you be okay?”
Rain turned her head slightly towards Chris and gave a small smile as if to reassure her.
“Aah, that’s right! Unnie will just trust our Rain!”
Chris could read a sense of satisfaction in Rain’s eyes.
It was like seeing a child’s proud demeanor shouting, ‘I can do this too!’
Rain, who was being trusted by Chris, seemed to be in a good mood.
Clang!
“Ah!”
Bae Merong, who was approaching the next sawtooth, also let out a surprised cry. Rain’s Flying Sword Technique flew in before Bae Merong and took the sawtooth’s recognition.
Clang, clang, clang!
Third, fourth, fifth.
Rain took the recognition every time a sawtooth appeared.
As Balgar’s HP decreased rapidly, more new sawtooths started appearing than those reaching the end of their durability.
Bae Merong and Chris reach the point where they can only stand in place and blankly attack Balgar.
Now, all the sawtooths were heading towards Rain. But they couldn’t inflict even a small wound on Rain, only slashing Balgar’s body. Rain’s body moved gracefully, avoiding all the sawtooths.
At the moment when the paths of two sawtooths overlapped with Rain by about half as they passed, thud! Rain’s body briefly blurred and then appeared in the same place.
Chris’s head was busy analyzing Rain’s movements.
It’s a movement I’ve never seen before. I’ve never heard of a Swordsman using an invincibility judgment skill in place. Was there such a skill?
Did she use backward evasion followed by an approach skill with almost no time gap? A skill combination that obtains only invincibility judgment in place without moving position?
Flash!
When three or four sawtooths overlapped at an angle that seemed impossible to avoid, Rain moved her body through the tiny gaps between the sawtooths using the ‘Flash Strike’ skill.
Chris and Bae Merong gaped at Rain’s unbelievable movements.
“Oh my.”
“If we show this to Death, he might quit the game.”
Kuoooong-!
Balgar, slashed by numerous sawtooths, finally let out a last roar and collapsed on the tower floor.
It was much faster than when Chris’s party cleared it all together.
“So the 2nd named could be taken down this quickly.”
“Do you think something like that is possible for others? It’s because it’s Rain. Even that Death oppa can’t do something like this, right?”
Rain, taking deep breaths while putting away her sword. Chris even felt a kind of awe towards her. It felt like the entire battle flow centered around Rain.
Pitter-patter.
Soon Chris snickered as she saw Rain approaching her with short steps.
Contrary to the beautiful and cool battle appearance that seemed like seeing a completed warrior, seeing such cute gestures could only evoke feelings of adorableness.
“Rain, good work! Sorry unnie missed the sawtooth recognition. Was it very hard?”
Shake shake.
Rain’s head shook slightly. It means it’s okay. Chris smiled broadly.
“From the middle, you were blatantly taking recognition first. You must have been confident. It was certainly a play worthy of confidence.”
Bae Merong also approached and praised Rain. Rain’s body seemed to bounce in place. Rain clearly looked to be in a good mood.
Chris grinned and adjusted the fit of the Gothic Lolita dress Rain was wearing.
“How is it, do you like the clothes?”
“Yes. It’s pretty.”
Although she made a slightly uncomfortable expression when first wearing it, now she seems to have adapted quite well. Rain would occasionally turn her body and smile while looking down at her dress.
Rain’s recent appearance seemed like the process of a cat that didn’t allow human touch gradually opening up.
While Chris and Bae Merong were clinging to Rain, a slightly disgruntled voice was heard from the railing of the stairs leading up to the upper floor.
“Excuse me, bus drivers? It seems to be over, can I come up now?”
“Ah, customer! Sorry!”
Bae Merong hurriedly ran to the bus customer.
Chris and Rain watched and giggled.
[3rd Named]
[Level 40 Demon General Aspero]
[HP 874,360/6,000,000]
Boom boom boom boom!
Amidst the continuous demonic energy sphere explosions, Chris and Bae Merong quickly moved their bodies while recalling the sphere generation pattern.
Even in the midst of that, Aspero’s fierce offensive was focused on Rain. Bae Merong was ready to activate Ice Prison at any time without letting go of the tension.
The role of ranged DPS in the 3rd named is preparing party protection skills and extreme DPS. Basically, if you just remember the demonic energy sphere generation locations, you don’t need to make urgent evasive maneuvers.
However, one pattern where Aspero’s chimera part arm stretches and includes ranged DPS in its attack range is quite threatening. But in clears with Rain, they didn’t need to worry about that pattern.
Boom!
Aspero’s chimera arm stretched and directly hit the wall behind Rain. Rain’s sword moved erratically for a moment as she lowered her head to avoid the arm.
Rip rip rip rip!
Aspero’s arm burst apart as it was slashed by the sword’s trajectory. That arm soon regenerated, but Aspero had no choice but to do normal melee attacks again.
“That pattern, it was possible to destroy body parts.”
“That was the most threatening. We had to pay attention to both the spheres and the chimera arm attack range.”
“She’s been luring it in the opposite direction of the DPS from the first arm stretching pattern, right? I can’t believe the Aspero fight can be this comfortable.”
Thanks to that, Chris and Bae Merong, who gained leeway, continued the battle while having light conversations.
The smoothly progressing battle soon reached Aspero’s last-ditch pattern.
“Kuaat!”
Thud.
Woong woong woong woong.
Along with Aspero’s precursor movement, purple spheres started filling the battle area.
The start of the 0% last-ditch pattern, 6 full area-of-effect explosions.
The three bus drivers rotated invincibility skills in the pre-arranged order.
Boom boom boom boom!
The 3rd explosion, here they secured invincibility skill cooldowns through Bae Merong’s party protection skill Ice Prison.
The following 4th and 5th explosions. All three got through without damage using invincibility skills with returned cooldowns.
Woong woong woong woong.
And the precursor to the 6th explosion. Simultaneously, Chris shouted.
“Prepare for impact! Since we’re three people, we only have one party protection skill, so we have to take this one hit with our bodies!”
Chris and Bae Merong positioned their bodies between the spheres generated around them. They can take one hit with their bodies if they’re not hit directly.
Boom boom boom boom!
In the last explosion, Chris and Bae Merong’s bodies were swept up in its aftermath.
“Kuhuk!”
Chris, who barely survived in the explosion, immediately bit into a potion. And she looked at the center of the battle area where the explosion’s aftermath hadn’t cleared yet. Her eyes frantically searched for Rain.
“Rain, are you okay!? You’re alive, right?”
Thump thump.
Rain, whom she was anxiously looking for, walked out of the dust without a scratch. Chris’s expression brightened upon confirming that sight.
“Rain!”
“Don’t tell me you got through it with the new skill’s invincibility judgment?”
Rain nodded at Bae Merong’s question.
The extremely short invincibility judgment that Deathly Death succeeded only once during the initial clear.
Rain was using it as if breathing.
Chris couldn’t help but stick out her tongue.
“Well, well.”
Chris’s party successfully finished today’s bus operation. Although early opening bus prices are quite high, customers kept coming thanks to Chris Raid Party’s reputation.
“Good work today.”
Chris saw off Rain, who was bowing her head, with a broad smile.
“See you tomorrow! Rain worked hard too!”
Rain smiled slightly and waved her hand. Her figure soon disappeared from Chris’s sight.
Rain’s emotional expressions are increasing day by day. Their relationship is also flowing in a good direction.
But today, Chris could read a different sign on Rain’s face than usual.
A sense of discomfort.
It was a subtle sense of discomfort that Chris could notice because she had been endlessly chasing Rain’s figure with her eyes.
I’m not sure what’s different yet, but it was definitely different from usual.
Chris muttered quietly.
“It’s bothering me.”