The bitack of the two bosses worked well to drive Radiant Shield into the fireball.

  [-1895!]

  The tank shook as he felt his heavy armor heat up, resembling a sauna.

  Balm hesitated for a moment but held back her [Heal], knowing that the important skill should be used to full efficy.

  Meanwhile the other fireballs moved slowly around the room. Everyone avoided them calmly. Even Cye and Fortune weren’t met with much difficulty despite casting their spells.

  Only when Rouna’ar came close did the pyers scramble to evade. However, the two bosses’ movements weren’t random, prioritizing Kelsnim’s safety.

  The melee pyers felt quite annoyed as something would e in their way every time they tried to attack the devil child.

  Silent Acaoticed the situation and decided to try his luck. He sent out two arrows, one being a normal attad one being enhanced by the [Ensnaring Arrow] skill.

  [-510!!!]

  [-306!]

  Silent Acacia doubted whether he had been blessed by the goddess of luot only had he nded a critical hit, but his skill even stuhe enemy for almost a sed.

  Liam’s eyes lit up immediately notig the dey in Kelsnim’s movement. The devil child was just about to hide behind one of his fire balls when Silent Acacia’s arrow arrived.

  This slight dey was all Liam needed. He glided over the floor, cirg a fireball by a hair’s breadth. A sulfuric smell entered his nose ing from the fming sphere.

  Kelsnim even turned his head towards him, greeted with aed grin.

  Swords flowed through the air, drawing a graceful painting as skills were unleashed oer another until five holy marks exploded above Kelsnim.

  [-474!]

  Liam’s skillful bo took away more than a thousand HP, redug Kelsnim’s health almost to half.

  “How dare you defy me?! I am a mighty devil’s child! I am Kelsnim! Fear my might, ignorant adventurers!”

  Kelsnim bellowed angrily. He sent atack Silver Bde’s way before returning to his smoke form and floating below the ceiling. Ominous intations came out of his mouth.

  “He is casting! Expert, what should we do?”

  At this moment golden pilrs gradually grew from the floor.

  “Destroy those! Quick!”

  The others didn’t need much more expnation. Watchful Eye was already swinging his staff at a pilr right o him. With a heavy impact the pilr stopped growing, but it didn’t fall apart yet. A quick look revealed that it lost only one of its three HP.

  “Don’t waste time! Use your skill!”

  Listening to Liam the taciturn man used his [QI Push] skill. His staff collided with the pilr again before unleashing an explosive QI. The single skill ted as two impacts, breaking apart the pilr.

  Not far away Silver Bde was close to a pilr as well. She attacked once, followed by [Brutal Strike]. Right theurned her head to the side, frowning slightly. She noticed a fming ball about to collide with her.

  Sihey were seemingly in a hurry, she decided to allow the fire to hit her while swinging her sword to destroy the pilr.

  [-1804!]

  Three pilrs remained but they were quickly taken care of by Bleary Mirage, Quickstep, and Bloody Edge, who had a distinct advah their two swords.

  “Arhh!”

  Kelsnim let out an angry roar. His smoke form ed, and the ghost faces turned unstable, slowly disappearing together with the fire balls.

  Bloody Edge sighed in relief as one of the fming spheres was just about to run into him.

  “Watch out!”

  Silent Acacia’s shout startled the thief. While dealing with the pilr he fot to keep an eye on Rouna’ar. Heavy steps sounded behind him as a mace swung towards his back.

  The moment the heavy on touched his body, about to break his bones, Bloody Edge’s passive luckily activated.

  The thief turned into a spark of light, vanishing from the spot and appearing not far away ih. A figure made of light remained in front of the demon. Hit by the mace it erupted into brilliant rays of light, attempting to blind the enemy. Unfortunately, Rouna’ar proved resistant, not affected by the light.

  But with Kelsnim’s fireballs disappearing Rouna’ar also ended his skill. Both bosses gathered at the ter of the room, staring angrily at the pyers.

  Silver Bde and Radiant Shield didn’t dey and ehe enemies. Heavy attacks fell on their shields.

  [Stance -22]

  [Stance -24]

  “Out of big moves? Well, then it’s my time to shine!”

  Cye tauhe two bosses while unleashing her skill. A cage of lightning surrounded Kelsnim, f the mage to remain in one pce.

  Simultaneously Fortune unleashed her are bolts. They shot through the air, aiming to fell Kelsnim. Notig the threat however, Rouna’ar suddenly took a step to the side, blog the magic.

  The smaller devil child was hidden behind the tall demon, only hit by the first are bolt. Five more crashed into Rouna’ar’s broad chest.

  [-303!]

  [-216]x5

  But the bck abyss demon couldn’t be everywhere. Bloody Edge appeared behind Kelsnim, stabbing his daggers into the enemy’s back.

  The devil child moved to avoid the thief, toug the lighting cage surrounding it.

  [-223!]

  [-127!]

  [-150!]

  [-46!]

  Lighting shot through Kelsnim’s body. The devil child was hit by the shock, immediately withdrawing his hand, not getting paralyzed.

  But with his hasty movements the devil child directly ran into Quickstep’s swords, which produced a whirlwind around him.

  [-51!]

  [-51!]

  The fierce storm cut into Kelsnim’s skin, shaving away at his HP. With some luck even the skill’s bleed effect triggered, increasing the damage even more.

  Seeing Kelsnim caught between the pyers, Rouna’ar’s eyes reddened. His mace crashed into the ground, creating a far-reag fissure.

  “You all deserve to die!”

  Standing this close even the agile pyers found it difficult to dodge. The fissure spread below their feet and bck magic erupted.

  Realizing the severity of the situation, Silver Bde didn’t hesitate to use her ultimate skill [Might of the Vanguard]. An illusionary, t shield appeared behind her back emitting vast amounts of mana.

  Every ally basking in its glow felt a faint e as a protective magic settled around their bodies.

  Silver Bde was not a sed too te as the fissure spread, hitting Quickstep, Watchful Eye, and Bleary Mirage.

  Everyone was hit with around 1400 physical and 650 magical damage. Seeing these huge damage numbers Balm was already prepared to use her AOE healing skill.

  She quickly noticed, however, that her friends’ HP bars didn’t move. Instead, the shield behind Silver Bde’s shook heavily with each hit, but it held on.

  Cye looked at Silver Bde full of surprise:

  “Hey, Silver! You had such a trick up your sleeves?”

  “Well, I never found a good ce to use it.”

  “Maybe you’re too careful. How long does it st?”

  “My passive saves all the magic damage I tank, including blocked attacks. And this shield withstand three times that amount. But physical damage against it is doubled.”

  “Sounds pr…

  Hey, that’s cheating!”

  Cye was just about to praise her bestest friend wheiced a movement from Kelsnim. The devil child had taken on his smoke form to avoid Rouna’ar’s attack. He floated towards a safe pce to the side, directly ign Cye’s lightning cage.

  “Adventurers, this will be your end!”

  The devil child spoke more empty threats while swinging his staff. Ghostly faces surrou, letting out a bone-pierg wail. The pyers were once again hit with a stun.

  However, not only NPCs developed immunity. The difficulty of stunning pyers also increased with every subsequent try. Thus, Silver Bde, Bleary Mirage, and Cye remained ued.

  “Stupid boss! Look how it’s done!”

  Cye suddenly felt like she met a moment of brilliance wheiced Kelsnim regain his solid form close to her.

  The cast for her [Bindings of Lightning] finished just in time. But instead of using it on Kelsnim, who might shake off the skill with his smoke form, she targeted Rouna’ar.

  A crag rope of lightning ected the young woman and the tall demon. Before the first tick of damage came through Cye swuaff again. [Statiain] activated.

  Lightning began to domihe room. A domain with a radius of 5 meters spread around Cye, just enough to envelop Kelsnim within. Instantly, lightning bolts erupted striking the devil child.

  They only dealt a single point of damage, but their high frequency erfect ter Cye’s passive. Suddenly lightning pyed on the devil child’s skin as he was hit with a paralytic effect.

  As soon as [Bindings of Lightning] began dealing damage to Rouna’ar, a thin bolt fshed, striking Kelsnim’s chest as part of Cye’s passive.

  [-208!]

  [-46!]

  “Haha, you call me Master of Lightning from now on!”

  “Wow, nice move!”

  Hearing Liam’s praise, Cye’s chest swelled with pride, in danger of exploding.

  The powerful bck abyss demon on the trary didn’t seem pleased in the least. It smmed its mace violently on top of Radiant Shield’s head.

  Silver Bde’s ultimate skill trembled fiercely, bursting apart with a deafening rumble.