"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL DOING?! KEEP THAT BARRIER WORKING!" – shouted the high paladin.
"WE ARE! BUT THE FIRE IS BOUNDING OF OUR BARRIERS AND SPREADING FAR AND WIDE EVERYWHERE!"
"!"
"THOSE ARE THE DWARVEN WEAPONS!" – shouted Iron Will.
"?!"
"Dwarves?!" – asked high paladin as he tried to maintain his barrier.
"YEA! DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE DRAGONS, VAMPIRES AND DWARVES, THE DWARVES WERE USING WEAPONS LIKE THESE!" – shouted Iron Will.
(I've saw the videos! And these are exactly same dwarven weapons I saw!)
"I THINK THEY ARE PLANNING ON RATTING US OUT! THEY WANT TO BURN THE ENTIRE TOWN ALONGSIDE US!"
"THEY WANT US TO LEAVE THE TOWN SO WE LOSE OUR ADVANTAGE!"
"…"
(He isn't wrong! The flames are splattering and spreading everywhere, even when we block these fire balls explosions.)
"HEY! DO WE HAVE ANY WATER MAGIC USERS?!"
"Em…. We have fire users?" – replied the mage soldier.
"OH COMMON!" – shouted the high paladin.
"NOT EVEN SINGLE ONE OF YOU KNOWS WATER MAGIC?! WHAT ABOUT ICE OR EARTH!? EVEN SAND WILL DO!"
"…."
"…."
"You got to be fucking kidding me." – said the high paladin.
"…"
"…"
"They are still not leaving." – said Maparapara while using the spyglass.
"Don't worry, they will." – said Doctor.
"And if the flames are not enough, then how about a "present"?"
"…."
"Okay. If I'm honest, things are looking bad. The fire is already starting to affect us as well." – said Iron Will.
"I think we should get out of the town before- "
"HEY! WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" – shouted the soldier below, alarming both Iron Will and High Paladin as they turned around.
"WHERE THE HELL DID THEY CAME FROM?!"
"!?"
(Wait! Isn't this Hu-?!)
Iron Will noticed Hunter being surrounded by the empire soldiers…. But the thing that instantly froze him up was a barrel located right next to the Hunter.
"Have fun." – said Hunter before using [Shadow Teleportation], diving into the shadows and disappearing right in front of everybody eyes, leaving behind the barrel like device that instantly activated.
"!"
"GET THE- "
But it was too late. Iron Will could not warn in time the soldiers to get away as the plague bomb set off, releasing a mist plague that blasted all the soldiers nearby.
"!?"
"The hell is this?!" – shouted the high paladin.
"A PLAUGE MIST! DON'T GO NEAR IT! NOR ANYBODY THAT GOT HIT! OR YOU WILL BE INFECTED!"
"!"
"USE [Impurity Cleanse]! Now!" – shouted the high paladin.
"We can't! We can't maintain barrier and heal people at the same time!" – shouted the priest.
"HELP ME! I'M BURNING! I'M BURNING!"
"Ugh…. I don't feel so good…."
"…"
The high paladin observed as the situation with each passing moment was turning worse and worse.
The paladins and priest were focused on maintaining the barrier in order to block the explosions…. But even so, the fire from the said explosion was able to spread so far that it was able to go around the barrier and start burning the town.
And as for the soldiers and knight? They tried to put out the fire, but the plague bomb made things now way more chaotic.
Fire and plague surrounded them, which ended up affecting them by one of them if not both whenever they tried to keep their distance.
"…"
"FUCK IT!" – shouted high paladin.
"ALL FORCES! FULL RETREAT!"
"WE NEED TO GET AWAY FROM THIS CITY!"
The high paladin realized that the entire town became a death trap, forcing him to order a full retreat in order to get away and start getting rid of the plague.
But there was a simple massive problem.
"THE ENEMIES ARE COMING!"
Doctor army marched towards the town while the golems continue bombarding the town.
Leaving the town was still a good idea, yes…. But the problem was now that the army of monsters was right outside, waiting for them to come out.
"MOVE IT PEOPLE! MOVE! WE NEED TO MAKE SOME DISTANCE BEFORE THEY GET US!" – shouted the high paladin as he was evacuating his people out town.
"DON'T STOP MOVING! WE NEED TO GET AWAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THE TOWN AS POSSIBLE!" – shouted Iron Will as he led the troops.
"AS SOON AS WE MAKE THE DISTACNE, WE INSTANTLY STOP AND START DEALING WITH THE INFECTED VICTIMS!"
"?"
But as they tried to run away from the town, the ground beneath them started cracking, before moments later several large worm like creatures with white exoskeleton covering their bodies.
[Undead Chimera: Eater Worm X Sand Trap Crab]
"HELP! HELP!" – shouted the soldier that was thrown into the air, before then getting devoured whole by the giant worm chimera.
"!"
"ENEMEY ATTACK! GET READY – "
"!"
Iron Will suddenly raised his sword, blocking the Hunter scythe.
"!"
"Heh… I haven't forgotten – ABOUT YOU!" – shouted Iron Will before then knocking away Hunter and then using skill [Light Sword Art: Flying Slash], unleashing a flying slash of light at close range…. But it did not hit the Hunter as she easily dodged the attack.
"…"
(Iron Will.) – thought Thanatos as she observed the man taking out his second sword from inventory, causing him to now duel wield.
(From what I know he is one of the highest ranking paladins players in the game.)
(And by the looks of things, he recently even gotten a power up.)
"[Victory Charge]!" – Iron Will suddenly shot himself at the Hunter, instantly closing up the distance between the two, before then using [Hero Slash], swinging his sword and instantly cutting in half Hunter while unleashing a wave of light.
"!"
But he didn't really hit.
[Master Rouge] skill.
[Perfect Dodge]
[Dodge the next upcoming attack no matter what, unless they have the {{Sure Hit}} effect or posses very large AOE range.]
"[Scythe Art: Reap]!"
Hunter emerged from the Iron Will right side out of nowhere while using skill, before then landing a solid hit on the man before he could even try to block the attack with his swords.
"[Heaven Purging Blade]!" – Iron Will once again swung his blade, trying to hit Hunter who just leaped away dodging the blade of light…. But not the beam of light that was fired from it that also tracked her movement and chased after her, forcing Hunter to deploy her [Darkness Barrier Extra] to absorb and block the hit.
But as soon as she blocked the attack, Iron Will was alright near her, swinging his sword once again, but missing once again as Hunter was able to quickly leap away, getting away from the paladin while making some distance.
(Damn! They are fast!) – thought both Thanatos and Iron Will.
(I know that he is an assassin and stuff, but he can also dive in shadows.)
(I can probably start firing AOEs left and right….. But what if he dives into shadows again?)
(For a paladin, he is moving quiet fast, even without using buff type skills… Or maybe he had already sued them before hand?) – thought Thanatos.
(Either way, the [Darkness Barrier Extra] was instantly shattered by his attack. For me who uses dark and shadow magic, the light magic is a bad match up.)
(Poison is also out of the options, since he can probably purify it…. That leaves blood magic.)
"…"
(Well, I don't really need consider the whole match up thing in the first place.)
(Since from the very beginning my goal was to stall them.)
"H-help!"
"Shit! The monsters! The monsters are here!"
"!?"
Iron Will turned around in fear, noticing that the Doctor main army has already started attacking empire army.
"!"
(The hell is going on?!) – thought the high paladin who helped evacuate the last remaining soldiers, only to then notice that the Doctor army already fighting the soldier that were supposed to run away.
(I've told them to run! What the hell they are doing!? Why did they stayed behind to fight!?) – thought the high paladin as he started running towards the fight, trying to join it…. Only to immediately stop as a large shadow suddenly covered the entire area around him.
"STOP DODGING YOU BASTARD AND FACE ME!" – shouted Iron Will as he swung his blade over and over, firing slashes of light that were flying everywhere, even cutting one random unlucky monster to bits…. But never hitting Hunter who was keep dodging the attack over and over, before then unleashing the [Poison Mist] around herself, causing Iron Will to instantly lose the sight of her, which ended up putting him on the high alert.
"…"
But it did not took long for the Hunter to leap out of the poisonous fog, leaping at the Iron Will, ready to strike him down.
"[Light Sword Art: Instant Slash]!" – but before her scythe could reach the paladin, he activated his skill, instantly swinging his blade that cut in half Hunter.
"!?"
But once again, he didn't.
What he cut instead was blood in a form of the Hunter, while the real one rushed in and was about to strike Iron Will from below.
[Vampire Assassin] skill.
[Blood Buddy]
[Create a familiar that looks exactly like the caster and gave them a single command to carry out. Once the times runs out, the command is executed or interrupted, including attacking the familiar itself, the creature will perish.]
(Got you!)
"[Scythe Art: Execution Scythe]!"
Hunter swung her scythe, ready to impale Iron Will head from below…. But as the scythe was about land a strike, a barrier suddenly manifested around the paladin, blocking the attack.
"!?"
(Wait?! Isn't this the same bloody thing the Daughter Of Mercy had?!) – thought Thanatos before then leaping away once again to dodge Iron Will swords.
(Dammit! I've already used [Sacrificial Barrier]?! That guy is really fucking deadly.)
(I should-)
"!"
Iron Will quickly stepped to the side, dodging something that went flying his way.
"!?"
(High paladin?!) – as Iron Will turned around to see what was thrown, he realized that it was a person…. Or more specifically, their corpse.
"What took you so long?" – asked Hunter.
"Well… I was taking care of some annoyance that caught my attention. But as you can see I've already dealt with them." – replied Doctor as he walked towards Hunter.
"Anyway, am I interrupting your duel? Want me to go away?"
"…"
"Nah." – said Hunter as she turned around.
"You can have him."
"I will just go around, hunting everybody that tries to escape."
"Sounds good." – said Doctor as Hunter just walked away.
"…"
"Well then…."
"I guess you are dealing with me now, buddy."
"Don't make it boring."