The Northern Sea (2)
Raid....
A feature in game where you will fight a powerful boss with your guild.
A boss design with insane stats making it impossible to beat alone. Back at AO there was once a special event raid the game 10th anniversary.
I giant red portal was created in the middle of the continent connecting the Arcana continent and the spirit realm.
In the spirit realm, players were given event quests related to sealing the Vampire Queen. Players with the highest contribution will be selected by the spirit queen to help the sealing process and is also promised with an insane amount of reward.
Because of this many guild rush to make contribution
During the event, Me and Laila's guild collaborated thus easily gaining ourselves some spots on the raid.
The Vampire Queen A.K.A Elizabeth, was a monster that is impossible to beat with only player ranging from
At that time me and Laila was level 784 and 763 respectively and was one of the four
To seal Elizabeth, we got a buff from the spirit queen making the raid possible.
The buff was frankly quite broken. Our skill cooldown time was reduce by 50% and and the skill penalty was removed.
Even so the boss fight was still insanely difficult as it took 7 hours to successfully seal her.
But now we are still at
Looking at the crack on the sky, we estimated that Elizabeth will come out in about 20 minutes.
Normally, Mina would already brought us far from the crack and evacuate us to the castle. But before Mina was able to evacuate us, A strange barrier prevent us from going outside.
Even worse, the barrier seems to block signal as well thus disabling our communication aside from that, The barrier seems to contain demonic energy that weakened all people below
We estimate that when Elizabeth came out, the debuff will weaken anyone below
Because of this we are right now inside a shelter that belongs to Laila's family.
"What should we do?" (Laila)
Contrary to the dangerous situation, Laila asked with a calm face
"Of course we are going to kill it" (Rayford)
"I know, but how?" (Laila)
"We need to use that skill" (Rayford)
Saying and doing was are two different thing, we knew the only way for them to injure Elizabeth was to use [Realization], but because of the skill time limit their option was very limited.
Somehow they need to forcibly increase the time limit. There are some method in doing so
1. We just need to bare more recoil depending on the extended time. This was a method known as skill overclock, But doing is too risky as it could lead to death, in the game we could just respawn but this is real live.
2. We could slow down our body by manipulating time increase the time limit of the skill. Doing this require a capable time magic user which was difficult to find and require a method to nullify our slowed perception.
3. We could cast a environmental domain and temporarily buff our skill, but to do so, we need to buy enough time cast a domain.
Pondering our options carefully, we thought about how should we proceed with the raid.
-Bang!
Suddenly with a loud bang, Mina came bursting through the shelter door.
"Both of you! We are going to the Northern Ice Stronghold right now and wait for back up" (Mina)
"The King already know our situation and is coming here, so don't worry." (Mina)
"What about Anna?" (Rayford)
"She is recovering in the mansion above" (Mina)
"I see..." (Rayford)
"Okay let's go to the Stronghold Right no- "(Mina)
"Wait!" (Rayford)
Cutting her word, I look at Laila beside me.
Nodding at my gaze, I turned my head and said
"We have a way to kill the boss monster" (Rayford)
"..." (Mina)
Silent-
Looking at us, Mina made a weird face before replying
"Please don't do this Prince... You too miss. The energy the dungeon emitted is something on another level" (Mina)
"You two are still A rank, you both are too precious for the kingdom. We can't afford to lose a gem like you, so don't do any-" (Mina)
"But many people will die!" (Laila)
Cutting Mina's sentence, was Laila's voice
"You know that the barrier will take at least 2 hour to break, and the monster in it will definitely kill everyone in that time" (Laila)
"Anna is planning on sealing both of you and Duke Ignis eldest daughter" (Mina)
"You are planning on to seal us in a time chamber and hope of reinforcement to arrive on time..." (Laila)
"By doing so, you are sacrificing everyone in order to save us" (Laila)
"..." (Mina)
Unable to refute Laila's word, she fell silent.
"The chance of success is too vague" (Laila)
"I predict that this dungeon break is something planned, and it's target is definitely the three of us" (Laila)
"Don't say such thing, wo don't kn-" (Mina)
"It's quite obvious considering the timing." (Rayford)
"Many student candidate is currently here, they most likely already know that you and Anna is here"
"The barrier, the weakening effect, Stopping communication, the timing of the attack" (Rayford)
"Most importantly, do you thing an
Listening to our explanation, she went silent unable to refute anything. In fact she already know all of this detail.
She just didn't say anything so as not to make us panic. Seeing us already know all of this, she smiled wryly.
Seeing our calm face, she couldn't help but to marvel at us. Thinking such talent would be killed before they bloom, she felt sadness and pity.
'Such pity, if only they could grow further...'
"Don't worry, we have a way of dealing with the boss" (Laila)
"Eh?" (Mina)
Surprised at Laila's word, she doubted her ears if it heard correctly.
"We are not lying" (Rayford)
"Do you really have a way?" (Mina)
"So this is the plan" (Laila)
Ignoring her question, We started to tell her our plan on the raid about how we are going to manipulate time and reduce our skill penalty, about skill overclocking, and about how we would proceed.
Hearing our plan in detail, she thought that it is possible in theory but doing it is a another different matter then saying it, because of this she doubted us
"You know pulling that off is would need both of you to be stronger then us right?" (Mina)
"Just trust us, we know what we are doing" (Rayford)
"Now we just need Anna to agree with us" (Laila)
"I agree"
Suddenly, a voice came from behind. Turning our attention to the voice, we saw Anna in her silver armor walking towards us gracefully. If one see her in close, they would thought that they are seeing a Valkyrie from the legends.
Looking at us resolutely, she opened her mouth
"I will trust you, and handle the magic" (Anna)
Looking at Anna, Mina sighed and reluctantly agreed
"Fine... I'll do what you told me to, don't die on us okay" (Mina)
Smiling at them both, we began to focus on the raid that would come.
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A/N: This would be the last fight for this arc.
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Sorry for late update...