Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 75
Chapter Title: World Boss, 'Green Dragon' (2)
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*Thud!*
We Got Married, Guild Master of the GG Clan from the Alpharion Empire, slammed a powerful Crushing Fist into the flank of the World Boss, the Green Dragon.
*Whoosh!*
Immediately after, a tail swipe, deceptively fast for the Green Dragon's massive body that seemed to span dozens of meters, swept across the entire battlefield.
*Tap!*
We Got Married dodged the attack using the invincibility frames of his backward dodge, creating a wide berth between himself and the Green Dragon.
*Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!*
"Kuaaah!"
"Aaargh!"
The sight of dozens of players gathered around the Green Dragon being sent flying all at once was truly a spectacle. It would have been a more amusing scene if all those players hadn't belonged to the Alpharion Empire.
We Got Married muttered with a look of displeasure.
"Damn, so many players trying to get a piece of the action. They should be off fighting the Betarion Empire guys."
Not all the Alpharion Empire players gathered in the faction battlefield, Berbeia Forest, were part of the GG Clan alliance.
The GG Clan alliance was currently composed of the White Skull Corps and No Mercy, who were forming a defensive line on the outskirts of the forest, and the Red and White guild, which served as the main force for the World Boss raid.
While most of the Alpharion Empire players currently in Berbeia Forest were members of the GG Clan alliance, there were a significant number of unaffiliated players who didn't follow their command.
Of course, one couldn't blame the individual players.
They were also trying to contribute to the World Boss raid and claim their share of the rewards.
Though if they died and got kicked out of the faction battlefield, it would all be for naught.
In truth, the most challenging aspect of raiding the first World Boss, the Green Dragon, wasn't its terrifying attack patterns.
It was the nature of the 'Faction Battlefield'.
You couldn't change your item setup inside the battlefield.
If you died, you would be hit with a penalty cooldown before you could re-enter.
But they needed both PvE players for the boss raid and PvP players to hold off the enemy faction.
Even if the PvE players tried to focus on the raid, it would be over if they lost the 'Faction War'.
If they lost the war, they might end up just feeding the raid strategy to the Betarion Empire, letting them claim the World Boss kill.
"We can only take this thing down if the PvE and PvP players all work together."
No matter how many attacks the main force of the GG Clan, equipped in their PvP gear, landed on the dragon, it would amount to little more than getting a tag in.
Ultimately, the Red and White guild, with their PvE setups, had to be the ones to kill the World Boss.
We Got Married surveyed the battlefield.
*Crash!*
[Iron Golem]
[HP 27,720,505/50,000,000]
The main force of the Red and White guild was focusing their attacks on one of the guardians.
With damage output far superior to the PvP-geared GG Clan members, they were rapidly chipping away at the guardian's HP.
*Thud!*
The Fighter, Death of Death, who was tanking the guardian, was expertly handling the Iron Golem's vicious attacks with nimble movements and precise counters. Even so, he never let up on his own assault.
"The current arena rank 1, Death of Death."
Death of Death, the tank for Chris's Attack Squad—a party with first-clear experience in dungeons—and the Fighter who had never relinquished his number one spot in the 1v1 arena. We Got Married was also a top-ranked arena player, but he had to admit that Death of Death was a cut above.
It was hard to understand why a player of Death of Death's caliber was tanking a guardian instead of being the main tank for the Green Dragon.
But a glance at the white flash moving swiftly in front of the Green Dragon was enough to understand why Death of Death was on sub-tank duty.
We Got Married clicked his tongue in amazement.
"Is that even a move a player can make?"
*Swoosh!*
The Green Dragon's massive foreleg came crashing down toward the small, white-clad girl.
*Shhhk.*
*Craaash!*
The dragon's paw passed through the girl's body, which flickered lightly, leaving behind an afterimage before slamming into the bare ground. The powerful impact sent tremors through the earth.
It wasn't an invincibility skill. She had dodged that vicious paw with pure physical movement.
Starlight constantly rained down around the girl's body as her sword began to trace beautiful arcs.
*Fsh-fsh-fsh-fsh!*
"Kaaaaah—!!"
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
The Green Dragon roared, repeatedly stomping its paw at the girl. Each time, her body moved nimbly, continuously striking the dragon's leg.
The Green Dragon's bloodshot reptilian eyes were locked solely on the white-clad girl. She had dodged its terrifying patterns and secured solid aggro with her pure damage output alone.
*Stomp, stomp, stomp!*
The Green Dragon began to stomp its hind legs, trying to shake off the players clinging to its rear. *Thwack, thwack!* Numerous players were sent flying, but the main force of the Red and White guild, who were dealing with the guardian, remained unharmed.
Because the main tank, the girl, was positioned in front of the colossal Green Dragon, opposite from the horde of other players, there were not many attack patterns for them to deal with—mostly just the tail swipe and the hind leg stomp.
The girl distinguished between patterns that had to be dodged with movement, those that required invincibility skills, and those that had to be blocked.
*Whoooosh!*
The dragon's massive foreleg swung toward the girl, sweeping across the entire 180-degree area in front of it.
That was the pattern that had caused all the previous raid attempts to fail.
A Swordsman or a Fighter could block it without taking much damage, but they would be sent flying in the direction of the swing. The tank's position would shift, endangering the DPS at the flank and rear.
Then came the follow-up 360-degree tail swipe. Blocking that would also send you flying. You wouldn't die, but with the tank out of position, they couldn't protect the DPS from subsequent patterns.
All the ranged players with party protection skills were focused on the guardian. Their skills wouldn't reach the girl, who was on the other side of the Green Dragon's enormous body.
We Got Married forgot his duty of monitoring the faction war, his palms sweating as he focused on the girl's movements.
*Shhhk.*
Just as the 180-degree frontal paw swipe reached her, the girl's form flickered for an instant and vanished. Then, she reappeared in the same spot.
We Got Married's jaw dropped.
"A counter?"
The moment the paw came within inches of her body, she had targeted it and deflected it with a counter.
Was the window to target the paw even 0.1 seconds long? This was completely different from all previous strategies, which had relied on party protection skills to keep the main tank alive.
The girl was main-tanking all by herself, with no party protection, relying on pure physical skill.
*Whoosh!*
The tail swipe followed immediately. The other party members, who were attacking the guardian, were shielded by a party protection skill and took no damage, while the girl evaded it with a backward dodge.
*Scraaaape!*
The dragon's paw scraped the ground, swinging up at the girl in a rapid uppercut.
If she blocked that, she would be launched into the air.
The girl had already used her counter and backward dodge.
How would she handle this?
*Clang!*
She blocked the paw, but her body was flung high into the air. The sight of the white-clad girl fluttering in the sky was perilous.
*Creaaak.*
Then, the Green Dragon opened its massive jaws, intending to swallow the girl suspended in the air.
This was a crisis.
We Got Married almost shouted without realizing it.
Was it impossible without party protection after all?
*Spin.*
Suddenly, the girl's body rotated once in mid-air.
*Flash!*
Descending from the air with a flash of light, the girl's body tore from the edge of the dragon's maw, leaving a long, thin gash down its neck.
"Kaaaaah—!!!"
For the first time, the Green Dragon let out a roar filled with pain.
*Thud.*
At the same moment, the guardian golem that the main DPS of the Red and White guild had been fighting collapsed its massive body to the ground.
Until the raid members took down one guardian, the girl had been facing the Green Dragon practically alone.
The sound snapped We Got Married back to his senses.
He wasn't the only one mesmerized by her movements.
The main force of the GG Clan around him had also been watching, their palms sweating.
"The Betarion Empire bastards are starting to enter the forest!"
At the report that followed, We Got Married returned to his primary duty as the Guild Master of the GG Clan.
"Alright, listen up, GG Clan main force! We stop those Plan B bastards from getting here, no matter what!"
They had to protect the Red and White guild.
Led by the white-clad female swordsman, they clearly had the skill to clear the World Boss.
There were still quite a few individual players alive, but most of them would undoubtedly be wiped out by the first special pattern breath attack.
The GG Clan alliance would hold off the Betarion Empire and Plan B.
The Red and White guild would slay the Green Dragon.
We Got Married, Guild Master of the GG Clan, gave a nod to the raid leader, Chris, before pulling back from the front lines of the Green Dragon raid with his guild members.
"Kaaaaah—!!"
The Green Dragon's roars echoed continuously, reaching even the outskirts of Berbeia Forest, a place filled with enormous trees.
*Pat-pat-pat-pat-!*
The GG Clan's main force was running toward the direction from which the report of Plan B's advance had come.
The players of the Betarion Empire, having regrouped their forces, had finally begun to re-enter the forest.
If they, armed with their PvP gear, reached the Green Dragon, the PvE-geared Red and White guild would have a hard time continuing the raid.
And then, the opponent We Got Married had to stop appeared before him.
*Kekeke!*
Appearing with a frivolous laugh was the Guild Master of Plan B, Gyuam Jo Hyeon-su.
Having switched from raid leader back to the guild master of a war guild, he was now in his PvP setup, fully prepared to hunt players.
He shot We Got Married a sneer.
We Got Married returned it with a confident smile.
"Guild Master of Plan B, Gyuam Jo Hyeon-su. You won't reach the Green Dragon."
"Keke, after your attack squad gets wiped, we'll just take over the forest to block you from re-entering and push you out bit by bit."
"You think so? We're planning to take down the Green Dragon this time, no matter what."
Jo Hyeon-su's face contorted.
"What nonsense... Fine. Let's deal with you GG Clan guys first, then we'll see."
As Jo Hyeon-su raised his hand, the main forces of Plan B appeared from all directions, brandishing their weapons as they charged forward.
"Waaaaah—!"
Here, in the faction battlefield, Berbeia Forest.
The war for the World Boss raid had begun in earnest.