With so many attacks from low angles, it was easy to dodge. By flying upward, Misha escaped from the focus fire of all field bosses.

"Since when have I aggroed all the bosses?"

*Mew* (Since you used that puppeteer skill...)

"I see."

Misha dropped 15 fireb.a.l.l.s toward the crowd of kobolds. One of them landed next to Deauc.o.c.k.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

Out of 15 attacks, 5 triggered explosion critical. Also, they killed 3 knights and 10 injured bosses.

13 Black slimes jumped from the dead bodies and possessed Misha right away!

Misha's conscience also dove back into her mind s.p.a.ce and got ready to fight 13 new invaders.

Tama took over Misha's body and continued dodging everything while she made her character summoning fireb.a.l.l.s by using the game shortcut menus.

*Meh-Heh Mew!* (Oh! This is fun!)

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All black slimes appeared inside Misha's mind s.p.a.ce.

"Kill the imposter!"

"Kill the copycat!"

"Copycat! I hate cats!"

All of them roared and howled, but they had not noticed the scene before them yet.

Before them, a hundred floating eyeb.a.l.l.s were glaring at them. Misha had transformed her soul into one of them and created 99 duplicates of herself, waiting for the slime's arrival.

Noticed the clueless black slimes visiting her home, all eyeb.a.l.l.s squinted, sneering at the newcomers.

Blast x 100!

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3 Seconds later, after the 13 black slimes entered Misha's mind s.p.a.ce…

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Long lines of game messages flooded the game interface, which made Tama yelped in surprise.

*Mew!?* (What!? That's too fast!)

"Thanos snap. It's very effective in home games," Misha giggled.

It was a perk of fighting in one's soul s.p.a.ce. When Misha fought in someone else's mind s.p.a.ce, her power would be limited to what her soul could exert. In other words, she could only process and convert her imagination to reality manually by turning the soul's energy into weaponry.

On the contrary, fighting in her s.p.a.ce was like fighting with an a.s.sisting program. By creating a vague concept in her mind, her body, soul, and soul core helped her processed the data and turned them into reality in the room, making her power processing faster and more efficient.

In summary, it was like fighting in someone else's mind s.p.a.ce was a manual mode, while the home game combat was auto-mode with an a.s.sisting tool.

However, this method consumed the game avatar's psyche force. Her PF dropped from 3,610 to 1,610 just now. It could be said that one blast skill inside Misha's mind s.p.a.ce consumed 20 of her PF. Therefore, a hundred blast shaved 2,000 PF in one go.

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Misha ignored the upgrade details for now. She looked at the remaining kobolds and their leader, the slime knight Deauc.o.c.k.

"Concentrate all attack on the imposter!" Deauc.o.c.k kept yelling while he hid behind other kobolds.

Then, he did something that no one had thought that an NPC could do.

Deauc.o.c.k opened his inventory menu and brought out a bottle of healing potion.

+9,999

+9,999

Each potion bottle contained one litre of content, and one gulp could heal 9,999 HP.

Nevertheless, Deauc.o.c.k poured the entire bottle-worth of potion down his throat, which made his HP bar recovered back to 100%.

Seeing how an NPC could recover by using a player's item, Misha was on the verge of swearing at Lilith and Deauc.o.c.k.

*MYAAA!!* (NOT FAIR!!)

"HOW DAFUQ CAN AN NPC HEAL ITSELF!? THAT'S NOT FAIR!"

Deauc.o.c.k yelled back as he flipped a middle finger at Misha, "SCREW YOU! YOU THINK IT'S FAIR FOR YOU LOTS TO BE ABLE TO USE ITEMS BUT WE CAN'T!? TALK ABOUT FAIRNESS, HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN YOUR G.o.dd.a.m.n BARRIER HP!? DO YOU THINK IT'S NORMAL FOR A PLAYER TO HAVE OVER 300,000 HP!?"

The surviving kobolds sent their sword waves at Misha again, forcing her to fly away, dodging all attacks from the field bosses.

From Misha's point of view, her gaming experience changed from a VRMMO game into a bullet-h.e.l.l shooter game. She kept throwing fireb.a.l.l.s to counter-attack while she avoided all kobolds' crescent wind cutters.

9,999!

9,999!

These wind cutter skills slashed Misha's barrier, which had a bigger hitbox than her real body, steadily decreasing her s.h.i.+eld HP. Moreover, they could cut through the dome of fire, which could potentially kill Misha in one hit had it slice the real body inside the flame field.

*Clink*

After getting hit by countless sword slashes, the flame field HP reached zero.

Without an external s.h.i.+eld, Misha's life was at risk.

*Mew* (Don't bother creating another barrier. It's a waste of PF.)

"I agree. Let's save it for soul battles and fireb.a.l.l.s."

Tama poured vitamin drink into her mouth, storing them in her belly inside Misha's body while ejecting some of the liquid into the fairy overlord's stomach.

It was a cheating move that Misha did not have to drink the potion herself. Tama stored the vitamin drink in her egg-like body, but she could share it with Misha at any moment, like a dam saving water for the emergency.

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+9,999 PF!

Misha's PF restored to 100%.

*ZAP*

While Misha and Deauc.o.c.k took their time to recover their HP or PF, electricity branches connected 20 kobolds together and stunned them.

The chain lightning skill came from Sasha, who rushed here to help Misha.

Deauc.o.c.k realized that he had a tunnel vision as Misha was not the only opponent he had to fight.

There were other players, who regained their weapons and items from their dead bodies. The weak players that Deauc.o.c.k ignored returned to the battlefield.

*BOOM*

A giant thunderbolt landed in the middle of the kobold army and ended the life of 5 kobolds, stealing Misha's kill-shot in the process.

Not only was Sasha here, but Natalie also arrived. As she was falling behind in terms of level and overall strength, she resorted this trick to get more EXP and bonuses from the kills.

"Sorry, Misha. I need those! Chain lightning!"

20 More kobolds were electrocuted.

*BANG*

*BANG*

Yellow needles reappeared on the battlefield as players picked their guns and fired at the kobolds, contributing the damages.

Even Giles Corey joined the fray and killed a kobold. However, most of the INWTRUE guild members focused on looting corpses for status...o...b.. and fellow players' dropped items.

With more support, Misha's burden lessened. She began collecting fireb.a.l.l.s around her. This time, she planned to end the fight by using the fireball carpet bomb tactic again.

Delaying and gathering fireb.a.l.l.s had a requirement. The caster needed at least 200 INT to control two fireb.a.l.l.s at a time, 300 INT for 3 fireb.a.l.l.s, 500 INT for 5 fireb.a.l.l.s, and so on.

Misha glanced at her current INT in the status menu, checking what the maximum fireb.a.l.l.s she could have.

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7,744 INT

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'Something is terribly wrong here.'

Misha was amazed by her sudden growth in strength after she had devoured the previous 13 black slimes. Checking her other status attributes again, she found out that most of them increased by at least 400 points.

Moreover, her overall strength increased from 15,819 to 19,125!

'I don't know how, but I'll take it!'

Her overall strength was higher than Deauc.o.c.k, who only had 15,000 power now. Therefore, she should obtain the defense buff from the game if Deauc.o.c.k attacked her.

Still, Misha did not let her guard down. After all, sword wave attacks dealt fixed damage, so the threat of the kobold's wind cutter sword waves had not changed.

While Misha was happy with the increase of her stats, she drank some water to clean her dry throat. Accidentally, her eyes glanced at Sasha's power indicator above her head.

27,991

"PFFFFT!"

Misha spat all water in her mouth from shock.

"HOW THE HECK!?"

Above the sky, there were stars.

At long last, Misha realized now how noob she was. She should not be happy because of a small gain from the fairy overlord's abilities to steal power from dead souls as other players also progressed at a rapid speed.

This was not a single-player game. Everyone, including Misha's friends, was competing to get stronger than others.

*Mew* (We should start looting status...o...b.. or boss drops now. Your friends are surpa.s.sing us.)

"True. Forget about the carpet bomb. Let's switch our attack strategy to blast and fireball. Do me a favor, check the status for me, and find me a useful skill I just learned."

Misha did not have time to scan the new skills that she had obtained from the black slime knights. For the sake of gaining more stats, she threw all five fireb.a.l.l.s and flew closer to the kobolds on the ground.

*BOOM*

Explosion! 114,265!

One of the five fireb.a.l.l.s triggered another explosion, which killed another kobold.

The black slime jumped into Misha's soul right away, which froze her action.

But she regained her senses 2 seconds later.

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Still, Deauc.o.c.k capitalized the gap of 2 seconds. He kicked the ground and jumped like a human bullet, flying toward Misha.

By the time that Misha could react, Deauc.o.c.k's sword slashed at Misha.

*CLANK*

Parried!

It was Tama's tentacle arm that transformed into a long blade, which blocked Deauc.o.c.k's strike.

*Mew Mew* (I found a few useful skills in the list! You have Swordsmans.h.i.+p, Ignore Defense, and Armor Break.)

It seemed that the slime knights Misha had killed were a felionian swordsman, who had a similar skill set as Moo.

From her inventory, the empty hands of Misha pulled an iron sword, an ordinary grade weapon from a dead body, and swung at Deauc.o.c.k, retaliating.

*CLANK*

Deauc.o.c.k also parried the sword strike.

Upon receiving the impact, his body lost the jumping momentum and fell to earth.

Misha did not allow Deauc.o.c.k to escape. She folded her wings and glided down while she pointed her palm at the falling knight.

Fireball!

"Humph!"

Deauc.o.c.k gathered his power in his sword and slashed at the incoming ball of fire.

Sword Wave!

The skill cut through the basketball-size fireball, destroying the skill attack, and reached Misha.

The latter also mimicked Deauc.o.c.k's strike and slashed at the sword wave.

*SWUA*

The slash destroyed the crescent wind cutter, but Misha received collateral damage from the fragments of the sword wave skill.

1,000!

1,000!

Her HP dropped from 2,974 to 974. Tama immediately drank a potion and stored the remaining liquid in her egg body, as she did with the PF drink.

+9,999!

Misha's HP restored.

Deauc.o.c.k clicked his tongue. He backflipped and landed on the ground.

*AWOOOO!*

Knowing that Misha did not have a barrier on, he howled and created a shockwave attack.

Misha countered the shockwave with her shockwave.

Flame Field!

*BOOM*

Two shockwaves collided and canceled each other.

Seeing that the battle was getting tricky, Misha planned to summon more fireb.a.l.l.s to finish off Deauc.o.c.k with multi-explosion.

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"Hmm?"

Misha did not remember that she had used a fireball during the last few seconds.

Upon checking her surroundings with the 3D sense, she detected 5 fireb.a.l.l.s around her.

"Huh? Since when?"

*Meh-Heh Mew!* (Praise me, you banana heathen.)

It was Tama who activated fireball skill in Misha's stead.

Eggcat parasites were smart creatures. As she had lived together with Misha for a long time, she grew up and adapted to the changes. Since she had experienced controlling Misha's body and her game skills, Tama began using Misha's powers when the latter forgot to use them or did not pay attention.

Then, this happened.

Tama had been summoning fireb.a.l.l.s and managed them like how Misha used to do.

Now, she became a second player, who was controlling Misha's game avatar, turning this game into a co-op VRMMO game using one character.

*Meh-Heh Mew!* (Fireball, motherf.u.c.ker!)

Again, Tama summoned more exploding b.a.l.l.s to orbit around Misha. 6th fireball appeared.

Misha: "…"

Deauc.o.c.k: "…"