Silver Bde took a few steps towards the pass when a whispering voice suddenly echoed through the room:

  “What a pleasssant ssurprisse…

  Did y a blesssing? Did you kill… Kelsssnim?”

  “Show yourself when speaking to us!”, anded Silver Bde calmly.

  “Oh? You want to order me? Jussst like that overfident devil?

  Amusssing… But my shackless have been lifted! I have you to thank for that!”

  Silver Bde rolled her eyes. Without tinuing to talk she walked straight towards the pass. Just before she reached the wall, a violet figure suddenly broke out of a cloud of void energy, blog the tank’s way.

  Hit with a dangerous aura, Silver Bde looked the figure up and down. They were a ghostly being with the face of a devil but hair simir to dryads. Their purple body appeared to be stitched together from different races. Human legs, orc arms, thin elven waist.

  Everyone looking at this weird violet-skinned ghost couldn’t help but get a feeling of disgust.

  “Look at this faccce of yoursss. You reject my excissstencce… But you will sssoon bee part of me! When I’m doh you!”

  Towards the end the ghost’s voice turned raspy with a hint of craziness. A forked tongue came out of its mouth, almost lig Silver Bde’s face. The tank had to use all her will not to step back.

  Then, without any warning, the ghost’s rough hand transformed into a cw which aimed for Silver Bde.

  Met with the sudden attack Silver Bde wasn’t surprised. Sihe distaween her and the ghost was too close, she didn’t use her shield but jumped back to evade the cw.

  [Stance -22]

  However, Silver Bde didn’t expect the wave of void energy following the attack. It directly crashed into her chest, putting the new armor to the test.

  [-157!]

  “Hey, it’s pying tricks!”

  Cye stared at the monster in surprise, using [I].

  [Experimental Ghost of the voidRank: Hidden Boss

  Level: 24

  HP: 8500/8500

  Passive Skill: Deal ara 10% void damage with every attack.]

  Sihe enemy initiated the fight, it would be unkind not to retaliate. All the party members had such a thought, immediately taking positions. As always, the ratackers struck first.

  [-110!]

  [-57!]

  [-69!]

  The melee csses dashed forward, encirg the ghost. But the enemy didn’t wait for them to arrive. Its body suddenly fell apart, taking on ten different forms, each flying towards a party member.

  Suddenly the room was filled with violet creatures. A tall, violet orc appeared before Liam, smming his balled fist towards the warrior’s head.

  Not surprised at all, the veteraed calmly. He activated his ultimate while simultaneously taking a step back.

  [Stance -12]

  The fist powerlessly hit empty air. The orc stared at Liam with indifferent eyes, a forked tongue ing out of its mouth and produg a hissing sound.

  “Time to cut this ugly tongue of yours.”

  Liam spoke calmly while his swords fshed with a [Double Ssh].

  [-13!]

  [-8!]

  [-6!]

  The creatures formed from the ghost’s body had high resistao damage, but their HP were correspondingly low. The orc shook heavily as a fifth of its HP were gone, sg its face.

  Liam detected a twit the enemy’s shoulders. Before the orc moved, he already lowered his body and dodged to the right. A thick arm passed above his head.

  [Stance -10]

  The orished its predetermitack, the sed arm moving with the might of a storm but only findiy air. Liam already stood o his oppo. His swords crossed, engulfed by a white sheen, cutting deeply into the orc’s ghostly body.

  [-14!]

  Letting out a painful hiss the orc’s head jolted towards the side. It was an eerie sight as the head turned more than 90 degrees.

  But Liam wasn’t intimidated this easily. He titag and applying holy marks.

  [-9!]

  [-5!]

  Violet energy came out of the orostrils as it became enraged. Its arms morphed into sharp bdes. It was just about to spin around and cut the pesky fly’s head off, when it was interrupted by a [Brutal Strike.] With a brilliant explosion four holy marks exploded above its head.

  [-12!]

  [-45!]

  Trembling from the explosion, the orc looked down on its body. Cracks slowly formed on the surface of its skin. A mome broke apart, turning into violet smoke, and gathering before the pass.

  While Liam effortlessly dealt with his oppo, the others were met with some troubles.

  Silver Bde showed incredibly quick thinking. Notig how every party member was assigned one oppo she didn’t care for her own, but instead smmed her shield into the bear poung on Watchful Eye.

  Radiant Shield didn’t fet his role as well. He used his [A Padin’s Challenge] skill to protect the three mages from harm. But this also put him in a tough spot surrounded by four enemies.

  In one wave of attacks, he almost lost a quarter of his stance. Meanwhile, the mages, having already started their casts, weren’t in any position to help. Radiant Shield looked indignant, doing his best to fight off the attag creatures.

  Balm attacked anxiously but her damage was too low, barely moving the enemies’ HP bars. The helplessness made her doubt her choice of being a healer.

  Eventually Cye and Fortune looked at each other, deg to interrupt their casting. Now freed up, they could assist Radiant Shield, fog their attacks to quickly eliminated one creature.

  The exact opposite situation could be observed at Silent Acacia’s side. When a tall, violet, wolf arrived o him, it was suddenly faced with two enemies.

  Silent Acacia took the time to leisurely dodge attacks while Zorn bit at the oppo. Although she didn’t deal too much damage, it was only a matter of time until the wolf fell.

  A few seds ter Silent Acacia’s oppourned into smoke, which gathered in front of the pass, where Liam’s oppo appeared just a few moments ago.

  “Good job, Acacia! you help Radiant Shield while I free up Quickstep and Bloody Edge?”

  “Sure.”

  Silent Acacia had no reason to reject Liam’s suggestion. He brought Zorn with him and attacked a slim elf swinging its daggers at Radiant Shield.

  With the first two enemies falling a rea ensued. Soon the ghostly creatures were defeated, ref before the pass.

  However, this first move already cost the party quite a bit. Silver Bde had lost a lot of stand Radiant Shield even had a dent in his HP bar.

  “Let’s retaliate in kind, my friends!”, said the tank with gritted teeth. He and the other melee batants formed a circle around the ing void energy, which quickly took on the form of a ghost.

  Silver Bde took a look at the boss, inf her friends:

  “At least our efforts weren’t wasted. The boss lost a thousand HP.”

  “As it should be…”, ented Radiant Shield.

  Meanwhile the others instantly brought out their skills. For a moment the ghost was devoured by a wave of attacks. Swords, daggers, magic, everything sought to take its life.

  An unfortable feeling traveled through the ghost’s body. It hissed angrily, sshing its cws at Silver Bde.

  This time the tank wasn’t surprised by the void damage, blog it all professionally. But another cw arrived in quick succession.

  Silver Bde sighed, knowing that her stance was about to be used up.

  Shield and cw collided heavily. The impact traveled through Silver Bde’s body, shaking her bones. A weak feeling hit her arm as her stance dropped to zero, allowing some damage through.

  [-716!]

  [-157!]

  “Dam’s vanquish this ghost immediately!”

  Bloody Edge urged his friends as he appeared from stealth, sending out fgers formed from blinding holy light.

  [-217!]

  [-86!]

  [-43!]

  “And here I thought ghosts should be weak to holy damage…”

  “You’re n. But void corrupted enemies usually don’t have such obvious weaknesses.”, expined Liam calmly while four holy marks exploded above the boss’s head.”

  [-373!]

  Besieged by so many ehe ghost swiped his eyes over the pyers. A mog look was in its gaze.

  “Litte adventurersss, I am a ssuperior lifeform! Obediently be assimited by me!”

  “Superior? You ’t even talk properly.”

  “You!!!”

  Mocked by Cye the ghost stared at her ily. Its head swelled as if the anger was gathering in its brain. Cye looked at its silly appearand couldn’t hold back her ughter.

  Obviously, this ehe ghost even further. Without warnings it lu the mage at an incredible pace.

  Radiant Shield could barely follow the ghost with his eyes.

  “Is this a natural taunting ability?”

  “I feel like Cye would’ve made a great tank.”

  Cye wao curse at her friends, but she didn’t have the ability to do so. She was once again looking down on everyone from the sky, helplessly watg her own body caught withing the ghost’s.

  “Great! Your power ssshal be mine!”

  The ghost had aed expression, swinging its cw through the air. Surprisingly a violet sphere formed, shooting towards Silver Bde.