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The blood tree's aggro was on Misha. It rushed toward her at full speed while the blood fog was still in effect.
*Mew!* (It's do-or-die now, Mis.h.!.+ Use everything to finish the boss!)
10 Seconds had pa.s.sed, and the stun effect was over. Also, her transformation timer had already reached zero half an hour ago, and Misha's appearance reverted back to her avatar.
Misha reactivated her flame field to get her barrier to the full health while her wings flapped, flying to the sky.
Tama shoved a yellow gel into Misha's mouth again, replenis.h.i.+ng her PF to the max.
Because of the fog, Misha could not see the boss. However, her 3D sense could still detect the large presence of the oncoming giant grotesque tree.
"FIREBALL!*
Misha threw more fireb.a.l.l.s at the tree again.
*BOOM*
Inferno Mastery! 703!
443!
443!
No critical happened.
The boss was left with 21k HP.
All arms from the boss extended, trying to catch Misha. At the same time, it screamed.
*SCREECH!*
The shockwave attack hit Misha!
9,999!
Meanwhile, the root spikes chased after Misha and pierced her legs!
5,341!
Misha's flame field barrier was broken, and her HP dropped from 361 to 243. Just one more attack, she would have been a goner.
"FLAME FIELD!"
The shockwave of flame field burnt the roots in Misha's legs, which broke free from the binding. Also, it dealt some damage to the boss.
74!
74!
It should have been 740 as the flame field's damage usually equaled Misha's total INT, which was 740. Unfortunately, the fire did not hit the main body of the boss.
Although Misha regained her freedom, a large hand, which extended from the tip from one of the extended branches, slammed onto Misha.
*BOOM*
5,457!
As if Misha was a fly that was swatted by a fly swatter, her body was sent flying backward like a ragdoll.
While Misha lost control of her flight momentum, Tama took out a teleport b.u.t.ton and pressed it.
*WHOOSH*
Misha teleported and regained her footing.
However…
She reappeared 50 meters behind the blood tree!
Apostle of Callisto, the field boss, sensed Misha behind itself. It turned around, rotating its body and retracting all roots and branches.
At the same time, the air distorted as it was preparing for another shockwave attack.
While the boss was preparing to scream in the next 7 seconds, Misha managed to throw more attacks.
"FIREBALL! FIREBALL!"
*BOOM*
Explosion! 7,527!
443!
About 14,000 HP left, but 3 seconds remained until the boss released another shockwave attack.
Unfortunately, the boss altered its attack pattern again!
*SCREECH!*
The scream came earlier than Misha and Tama's calculation!
9,999!
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[Silenced] and [Stunned] abnormal status appeared above Misha's avatar.
Misha's HP was also down to 8, and she could not move!
However, Tama was still the MVP of this fight. She pushed the third teleport b.u.t.ton before root attacks and branch attacks could reach them.
*WHOOSH*
The random b.u.t.ton took them 200 meters higher, but they were 500 meters away from the boss.
As Misha was still stunned by the blood tree, Tama equipped the jetpack for Misha and flew away. One of the free tentacle arms shoved another yellow gel into the banana's mouth, healing her and replenis.h.i.+ng the PF.
Even though they were flying away, the boss could still find them and chased after the duo.
But it was enough to buy time for Misha to recover from all the abnormal status effects. She took out her rifle and sprayed bullets at the boss as she was fleeing.
1!
1!
1!
The attack was meaningless, but it was better than nothing.
Still, it enraged the boss further.
The blood fog became denser as the boss reused its attack pattern, trying to blind the players and Misha.
This time, Misha could sense that all dead bodies of the players reanimated into zombies. Then, the server chat went nuts.
"I just got a message that my dead body has become a zombie!"
"Me too! I got minus 100 karma for that!"
"My karma has gone down to 500! I had five bodies turned into zombies!"
"f.u.c.k! I was just killed again! Who the f.u.c.k is fighting the boss!?"
Meanwhile, Misha got another notification.
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"DAFUQ!?"
*MYA!* (THIS GAME IS BRUTAL!)
Misha had not seen any cure or an antidote of this abnormal status. This could spell trouble for them.
"Can you heal it, Tama?"
*Mew* (I can't see anything odd in our blood cells! I can't do anything!)
"Is this the same virus that Natalie told us about?"
They recalled the talk with Natalie, who had killed many field bosses. It seemed that she had obtained something of a C-Virus, which boosted her attributes permanently by 100.
This might be the clue.
*Mew* (Let's finish this boss before we become a zombie. I don't want to live in a rotten body.)
"Agreed. Also, I want to gamble with our teleport b.u.t.ton."
*Mrrr?* (Now? What kind of gamble is that?)
"Do you think that we can dodge a shockwave attack by teleporting into the area that the wave had gone through?"
*Mew* (Ah!)
Misha descended to get into her fireball's firing range.
"FLAME FIELD!"
She got her barrier on as she shoved another yellow gel in her mouth. She had lost count of how many gels she had eaten today.
*SCREECH!*
The shockwave attack came, but Misha was prepared to gamble.
'Come on, my 30 LUC!'
She pressed the teleport b.u.t.ton before the shockwave hit her.
*WHOOSH*
Misha reappeared 10 meters in front of the blood tree!
The plan worked! She had just avoided the shockwave!
"Fireball!"
443!
She had about 8 to 10 seconds left before another shockwave arrived. Before that came, Misha had to dodge all attacks from the branches and the roots, which was not easy.
*WHOOSH*
*WHOOSH*
*WHOOSH*
After the previous fireball had been launched, root spikes from the ground attempted to pierce Misha.
The dragonewt used both her wings and the jetpack to fly upward, dodging a dozen spikes.
2 Seconds pa.s.sed, and the fireball cooldown was over.
"Fireball!"
Explosion! 7,527!
6,500 HP left! Just one more critical explosion and the boss would be dead.
But now, Misha had flown into the den of the blood tree's grotesques branches of human limbs. b.l.o.o.d.y arms and hands caught her and bound her onto the tree.
999!
999!
999!
The hands clawed Misha and tried to tear her body apart, which caused her barrier HP to decrease by 999 per attack.
"FLAME FIELD!!"
Misha burst her flame field at the close range, burning all branches and the blood tree's main body.
730!
730!
730!
Several 730 damage notification appeared as the fire wave hit many branches at once and ignited them on fire.
Misha grinned, "Let's trade damage, banana tree!"
*SCREEEEEECH!!*
The boss released another shockwave earlier than what Misha had calculated again.
9,999!
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The attack left several status effects on Misha, which foiled their teleportation b.u.t.ton plan.
*MYA!* (s.h.i.+T!!)
Tama believed that they were screwed.
But
730!
730!
730!
730!
The DOT damages on several branches reduced the boss HP bar to zero!
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Libido Level: The level of your s.e.xual desire. This level goes up and down, depending on the time of the year and your season period. However, you get various bonuses to your attributes and skills if the level is high.
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Level 0: No bonus
Level 1: 1 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 2: 2 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 3: 3 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 4: 5 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 5: 10 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 6: 20 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
Level 7: 30 free Status Attribute bonus for each level up.
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Once Misha leveled up, the level 7 libido, which was increased by her artifact earrings, revealed its true potential.
Level 5 libido gave her 10 extra attributes per level, but level 7 gave 30!
Now, Misha obtain 80 attribute points instead of 60 per level!
She was confident that she could catch up with Non and Moo's absurd status growth with this.
But it was not the time for Misha to admire her status as the s.h.i.+ny objects exploded from the boss tree as it disintegrated into dust.
*MEW!* (MISHA, LOOT EVERYTHING!!)
Misha snapped back to her senses as she looked at all items on the ground, where the boss' corpse had disappeared.
Tama could not hold back anymore. She activated her tendril attack without Misha's consent to use every tentacle she had, scrambling to grab all items into Misha's inventory.
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Lines of notification messages kept flooding Misha's screen. She could not tell what was going on anymore as she, too, knelt and picked any s.h.i.+ning items into her inventory without looking at the names.
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At the hardcore server, 12 girls gathered within a decorated room, filled with jewelry and treasures.
They were Tong's consorts, and they were the transformed figure of the 12-headed hydra, and were having a tea party.
All 12 girls had their own attendants, which stood behind them, tending to their needs.
Callisto, a servant of one of the 12 consorts, received a notification from the game system.
Upon reading through the messages, she frowned.
"What's wrong, Callisto?" Her colleagues noticed Callisto's expression.
"Someone managed to kill my servant."
"You finally got a hit? We've all gotten one or two of our servants killed in these past few days. Where was your dead servant?"
"Server 1."
"The casual one?"
"Yes."
"Hahaha! Don't worry. It's just a clone without a soul. Our real servants live in this server."
"I know. But it still annoys me."
Callisto was confident that her servants should not be so weak that they could be easily killed by a mob of casual players, even if it was a clone with 50% of its true strength.
"Forget it, Callisto. As long as the real one is still living in this world, Lilith will keep cloning them to those casual servers. It's just a spam message."
"… Well, if you say so."
Although she said that, she glanced and reread the name of the killer.
Misha Bloominglily.
Callisto's frown deepened. She had heard this name somewhere before.
She took notes of this name, planning to ask her lady later after the tea party.
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As the field boss fell, server 1 got their first event notification.
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