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Chapter 321: Soloing the boss?!

The dark elf assassin snarled and took something out.

He popped it into his mouth and then once again took out something else from his person.

The next instant, before Liam could react or do anything, suddenly a thick black mist enveloped the area.

With the thick black mist unleashed, the others felt their bodies shiver. Even Alex trembled visibly.

Amidst this vicious, sinister black mist, the dark elf alone had a strange smile on his face.

Everyone saw this, and the little hope they had left after seeing Liam was also now gone.

They could tell that the dark elf had activated some sort of secret spell. With this… what was going to become of them?

Seeing the fear in everyone's face, the elf's grin widened as he confidently began his counterattack.

But there was still something odd about this situation that bothered him. Everyone else seemed to be affected.

However, weirdly, Liam alone still seemed calm and steady.

The black mist seemed to have no effect on him at all, and the elf had a bad premonition.

He watched his opponent's face turn several shades from tensed to shock and then to joy?

"COME OUT!" Liam loudly shouted, almost as soon as the black mist spread out and a strange glint appeared on the dark elf's face.

The next instant, everyone was utterly shocked as they watched a small group of chickens and rabbits appear from somewhere.

Before they could diggest this aspect, two giant golems as well appeared out of nowhere.

Liam decided to truly go all out. This battle was worth it.

The golems only had some health left because they hadn't yet fully recovered from the previous battle.

But this was surely more than enough. After all, Liam was only up against a single opponent at the moment.

After commanding the defense golem to erect its mana barrier and guard Alex and the group of other injured players, Liam did not waste this precious opportunity.

He started unleashing all hell on the dark elf.

The gap that he was struggling against earlier had suddenly disappeared because of nether's presence.

Now he was no longer lacking. It was his turn to dominate and finish this fight once and for all!

HAAAAA! Liam roared and blasted forth. The nether gave him renewed energy and filled his drained and tired body.

Fighting with this elf for a few seconds was far more tiring than any fight he had ever faced so far.

This opponent was testing his abilities to the extreme!

Liam did not hesitate and immediately started with the strongest skill in his arsenal, especially because of nether's presence.

[Nether firestorm]

He commanded the nether in the air around him, thanks to the elf's special device, and then the next instant wreaked havoc on the assassin's lean and dark body.

Without giving him a chance to use the nether for his own spells, he used all of it to cast the huge spell.

Massive flames roared as if they were alive and lit up the whole forest, even the nearby vegetation catching fire because of this.

It tasted bitter and it hurt but she didn't care. She was finally going to get out of this hell!

She shifted her gaze from the dark elf who was being pummeled on all sides to Liam to cheer him and support him.

However, his expression was strange. It was almost as if he was pensively thinking about something.

It did not look like the face of someone who was en route to an absolute dominating victory. He did not look happy at all.

Just when she wondered if something was wrong, Liam's face suddenly darkened.

Alex heard loud gasps around her and she quickly looked at the dark elf to see him laugh?

The dark elf assassin was actually laughing like a lunatic?

His voice was not audible because of all the attacks being barraged on him at the moment.

But if one looked at him, it was clear that the man was smiling.

He was grinning from ear to ear, looking at Liam with a mysterious glint in his eyes.

Just what the hell was happening?

The next instant, suddenly everything came to an abrupt stop. The dark elf's health stopped falling!

He moved, easily breaking out of Liam's spells, and dodged the numerous ghosts bumping him and crowding him.

He also easily gave the slip to the golem and appeared next to Liam without any warning.

Ka ta Ka ta Ka ta

Becoming alarmed, Liam quickly moved back several paces. He tried to remain calm and observed everything carefully.

What changed suddenly?

"KE KE KE KE! KE KE KE KE! LOOK AT YOUR FACE!" The dark elf loudly snickered, and then his smile instantly twisted into something sinister.

"Did you really think that I was going to lose?"

Chapter 322: Did you really think that I was going to lose?

"Did you really think I would lose to a puny human like you?!" The dark elf sneered.

"KE KE KE. My bad, did you think you were winning?"

"NO! YOU ARE NOT!" He slithered his tongue out, slowly licking the blade of his knife, and started laughing maniacally.

Liam ignored the dark elf's taunts and only focused on his movements, his hands, and legs, raising his concentration to the maximum level.

He did not want to be led away by any misdirection or trickery and caught off guard by the elf's actual attack that could be something else entirely.

However, the dark elf continued snickering and looked like he did not intend to take any action.

"What-" Liam's thoughts were interrupted as the elf's hands finally moved, and he reached his person, taking out something.

It was nothing fancy. It was just a tiny black ball that Liam was already familiar with.

This was the same black ball that he had recovered from the dark mages and it was the same black ball that he had handed over to the king to complete the kingdom's quest.

He tried to understand what was happening.

And the elf also did not do much. He simply placed the ball between his thumb and index finger and then… without warning…

CRACK!

He snapped it.

The black ball cracked open and various streaks of light erupted out of it and immediately enveloped Liam.

"ENJOY!" The dark elf snickered.

The next second, before Liam could react, a whole lot of things flooded into his senses, or rather his brain.

He did not even have the chance to make sense of anything and was assaulted by a blinding headache.

Everything was aching as if everything was about to burst open. The mental assault was so intense that Liam's mouth involuntarily opened and was gasping for air.

Anger, pain, agony, misery, regret, sadness, every single negative emotion that he could think of assaulted him from top to bottom, taking hold of every nerve in his being.

Liam couldn't see it, but right now, his body was enveloped by something white and shimmering.

In fact, this shimmering white thing was not visible to anyone, not Alex, not the other people near her, not even to the dark elf who had caused this in the first place.

But if one could have looked closer in this white swirling mass, they could have seen hundreds or more wailing faces that kept appearing and disappearing on the white mass.

These ghosts, or rather souls, all clung to Liam at the same time, and he couldn't withstand it.

Liam tried to resist, but he buckled and keeled under such immense mental pressure.

Especially because of his ability to sense these souls, their effect on him was that much worse.

The hundreds of wailing ghosts swirled around him in the darkness, completely drowning him in pain and agony.

It was almost like he was able to hear what the souls were in agony about.

Liam clutched his head and fell to the ground, twisting and writhing in pain.

And the dark elf who was watching this started abruptly jumping up and down in utter joy!

"KE KE KE KE! KE KE KE KE!"

"I knew it! I knew it!"

"I got another interesting doll!"

"You can use nether! And you can use divinity! KE KE KE KE!"

With a vicious look in his eyes, the dark elf pointed to Liam, who was still writhing on the ground and then at Alex, who was completely as white as a sheet.

She watched everything go down numbly. She wanted to reach forward and help the man, but she couldn't move.

Her muscles wouldn't listen to her. Tears streamed out of her eyes as her only hope of living was twitching on the ground.

Fear and shock paralyzed her to the core.

They were done! They were truly done for now!

She was going to die. Liam was going to die. Mia and Rey were also probably going to die now!

Her world was crumbling right in front of her. Weren't they simply just coming here to do a quest?

That's right! Everything started with the damned kingdom quest! If only they had never bothered with it!

If it was not for that… if it was not for him… but she couldn't bring herself to blame him this time around…

She had witnessed it right in front of her eyes. Liam had tried his very best. He had fought with his life on the line.

And it was normal to go for a Kingdom quest!

They were very highly sought after quests not just by them but by everyone playing this game.

Even if it was her, she would have decided the same thing and probably done things the same way.

So she really had no one to blame. It was just random bad luck, a random curse that had doomed them all!

Breaking Alex's thoughts, the dark elf was still continuing to rant something loudly.

"This is my lucky day! KE KE KE! This is my lucky day!"

The dark elf kicked the body lying on the ground left and right and jumped over the body like a child jumping over a ledge.

It took Alex a second but her eyes immediately widened as she realized that the elf was kicking around none other than Liam's body!

Liam was dead? Just like the others? He was dead and he was also not resurrecting? Seeing this, her heart sank.

However, the dark elf squatted in front of her and loudly laughed. "He is still not dead."

The elf snickered and then hummed, turning to look at Liam. "But you are right… he looks too healthy… I need to take care of him."

"Now that I think about it… KE KE KE… I need to take care of all of you!"

"You vermins dared to run away from me, isn't that right?"

Chapter 323: My precious?!

"Now that I think about it… KE KE KE… I need to take care of all of you!"

"You vermins dared to run away from me, isn't that right?"

"So, who should I take care of first?"

"Hmmmm… Hmmm… Hmm…"

The elf snickered viciously, licking his dagger.

He then started walking around all of them, eyeing and picking out the lucky person who would be his next prey.

He dragged all the bodies and placed them in a line up facing him.

Among the 7 remaining members of the group, there was a young man, seemingly around the same age as Liam and also scrawny like his previous self.

He was the one who was shaking the most.

The dark elf grabbed him by his neck, with the person kicking and screaming weakly.

He took his dagger and in one swift move, he sliced… no he was about to slice him but he stopped.

The blade nicked the skin dripping the blood, but the elf left the person intact.

"KE KE KE. I will save you for later. I will first deal with this human who dared to hurt me."

The dark elf wiped the blood trickling down his forehead and licked it, turning his attention back to LIAM!

Alex's heart sank again.

No. No. No. She screamed inwardly, but she did not show any reactions outwardly.

This was because that would only encourage the elf to do more and target Liam more specifically.

However, her silence as well did not change anything.

The dark elf sneered and walked over to Liam, holding the dagger close to his throat.

He then lifted it up intending to plunge it down onto Liam's back just like how he had done several times for Alex.

But at the last moment, he stared at Alex, and then he again stopped. "NO. This is a big boy. He needs something more powerful to be put down."

The dark elf sheathed the dagger back and tapped the ring on his finger.

Alex looked at him lifelessly. At this point, even her spirit was exhausted. They were just waiting to die or to be endlessly tortured.

So he just blankly looked at the cruel being, seeing what he had in store for Liam.

His ring looked ancient and archaic and the elf as well had a proud look on his face as he tapped the ring.

"Come out, my precious."

And the next second, from within this ring, emerged a small strand of a brilliant purple flame.

Just the mere presence of it somehow made the air around them more sinister.

Alex choked, not able to breathe any longer. What was happening? What the hell was this flame?

A strange ache spread across her body as if the toxins coursing through her blood were acting up.

The dull pain suddenly increased by several manifolds.

"KE KE KE!" The elf snickered looking at Alex. "It will hurt a bit. BEAR WITH IT! KE KE KE!"

"This is my precious poison flame. Since you are going to become my plaything I might as well tell you."

"Look at it."

"Look at this beautiful, spectacular flame."

"This flame is the dream of every single venomancer."

"Mere insects like you won't understand the profoundness of this flame!"

"And if I let you experience the profoundness of this flame… KE KE KE… your soul won't live to tell the tale!"

"MY BABY is so powerful that it will eat right through your soul! KE KE KE!"

The tar bomb's effect had also worn out by now so the dark elf was going in and out of stealth and playing around to his heart's content, singing praises of his flame.

He kept appearing and disappearing between the 7 individuals as if he was playing a game.

However, he stopped after a few seconds, clearly very pleased from showing off his flame to everyone.

He also enjoyed the fear and terror that was visible on everyone's face, except, of course, the guy who was still fainted and lying on the ground face down.

"Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm. Time to turn this boy into my toy!" The dark elf snickered again and then proceeded to skip over to Liam.

He leaned down and took his dagger out again.

He then looked up proudly and made a gesture as if he was attempting to show the dagger onto the flame on his other palm.

However, something felt different.

Alarmed, the dark elf quickly looked down, only to find out that the brightly dancing flame was suddenly missing.

Almost instantly, real terror and panic flooded his face.

He started searching around the ground, the charred rocks, the blasted trees from the battle, everything around him.

He searched everywhere frantically but weirdly, the dazzling brilliant flame was nowhere to be found?

How was this possible?

"NO! NO! NO!"

It was the dark elf's turn to clutch his long white hair and scream. How could such a treasured flame disappear? Just like that?

He kept turning around in circles like a lunatic, his eyes darting everywhere.

Seeing that the flame was nowhere to be found, he became even more crazed.

In his anger, he slashed one of the survivors, and in one single move, the dead body flopping down lifelessly. Everyone trembled in fear.

The elf was clearly a nutjob even before but now he was something different. He was livid as if he had lost all rationality.

He looked like he had no idea what to do now. How could something that was on his hand magically disappear?

Who could have taken it?

Who else was there here besides these worthless insects?

"GRAAAAA!" The dark elf shouted in rage!

His voice was like a furious volcano bursting out. Even the birds and the beasts in the vicinity fled away in fear.

And when he looked down, he suddenly saw an egg in front of him. It was big, and it was vibrating violently!

Liam lobbed one more tar bomb that the dark elf swiftly evaded and he also fought back in a frenzy.

Luckily the dark elf hadn't bothered to fully recover his health. But even with only half of the health remaining the battle was still uphill.

Some of the chickens and rabbits were already destroyed and only some were left.

The golems were also fully damaged and they couldn't be summoned so soon. They needed time to recover.

So this was going to be a long battle of attrition, one in which Liam did not have an advantage because of the opponent's strength and experience.

Though the enemy was an assassin because of their level difference, he might as well be a mountain that could not be mowed down.

And also, without the tar bomb, he could now vanish in and out.

Liam rammed the attacks onto the dark elf but the elf as well struck back.

He repeatedly vanished and reappeared in Liam's blind spots and dealt back the blows he received. He gave as good as he got.

"Only a couple more minutes… I need to hang on." Liam gritted his teeth and continued fighting.

He had come so far so he was also not ready to give up.

And he was not alone!

When he saw the purple flame, he had already messaged Mia and the others to send a team over to him along with the coordinates.

So the backup should be here anytime now, and he only needed to hang on until then.

Liam might not be able to solo kill the guy but he was confident enough to hold him off until the group arrived.

The two of them were fully engrossed in the battle and in the midst of this, they had completely failed to see the egg that was silently continuing to crack.

The small cracks widened and soon, the entire egg was full of cracks.