371. World Story (7)

Honestly, the job’s Awakening isn’t that painful.

If a World Boss died or got critically injured from taking a user’s Awakening skill head-on, wouldn’t that be a bit lame?

Even with the Saintess’s buff, getting hit directly only deals about 5% damage.

Frankly, even that 5% is ridiculous. Because theoretically, getting hit by 20 Awakening skills at once would mean instant death.

The World Boss dies if hit by 20 people’s Awakening skills? But the chance of me getting hit by a user’s Awakening skill is almost nonexistent.

If you just use the Awakening skill raw, the wind-up and follow-through are so ridiculously long that you need several conditions to hit me.

If you use it raw like now, there’s no way I’d get hit.

But I couldn’t avoid it.

No, I didn’t avoid it.

The moment I tried to dodge the Berserker’s Awakening skill, I realized what was behind me.

‘Ah, shit!’

I remembered the basement behind me.

The basement blocks mana, as well as all sounds and vibrations.

Sound and vibration blocking are normal, but mana blocking is a pretty high-performance magic.

If it can even block the search of the administrator, who is classified as a god in this Leore world, you can tell how elaborate it is.

The problem is that it’s not a place to protect something. You can avoid location tracking, but you can’t stop it once your location is revealed.

In other words, the durability is just that of a normal room.

A room where people live normally.

Realizing that such a room would be within the range of a user’s Awakening skill buffed by the Saintess, I gathered as much strength as possible to lift my sword and block the Berserker’s Awakening skill, so as not to damage the room behind me as much as possible.

NPCs are very cruel in the Leore world.

Users are resurrected every time and live in this world, unless the penalty is a freeze on any death.

But after the Leore Great Cataclysm patch, NPCs now die.

NPCs cannot be resurrected once they die.

For me now, the elf sisters are more important than any other NPC.

They are important because they are key figures in the world-class quest, but they are also precious because they are the first NPCs I’ve ever grown attached to.

That’s why I tried my best to block the Berserker’s Awakening skill with all my might, but.

Due to the unexpected attack of the Awakening skill and the increased damage from the Saintess’s buff, I couldn’t block the Awakening skill, and my sword was pushed back, and the Berserker’s greatsword devastated the surrounding area.

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,You crazy bastard!

The Reverse Guild Leader shouted at the user who used the Awakening skill in the city, in the most crowded city, Yggdrasil, and inside a building.

Moreover, with the sister elves they had to save behind Arang, it was a stupid thing to do to launch such a wide and powerful attack.

,I-I’m sorry…!

The Berserker user who used the Awakening skill also realized his mistake and apologized.

The Berserker user, who used the Awakening skill without realizing it because he thought he could beat Arang, the most famous in Leore, looked ahead with anxious eyes.

Of course, Arang was safe.

There was only a red wound effect starting from his left shoulder and going down.

It was obvious that Arang would survive, and it wasn’t Arang’s survival that mattered, but whether the elf sisters behind Arang survived.

,A, no!!! A, wake up, Armia! Armia!

Arang quickly came to his senses at Ryusia’s cry, which was heard from the dust, and ran to where the elf sisters were.

,Ah…

Arang slumped down as he watched Armia disappearing into particles in the devastated basement.

,A, Arang-a! Heal Armia, heal Armia!

Eryusia, who now even called him by his name, her favorability having risen slightly from 0, desperately shouted for him to heal her sister, but Eryusia and Arang both knew.

The fact that particles were already scattering from her body meant that Leore had already pronounced her dead.

Normally, when you are judged to be dead, your whole body turns into particles and explodes with a kwaang! and you die in almost 1 second, but the Leore system wanted to emphasize Armia’s death, so Armia’s body was definitely fast, but it was slowly turning into particles and disappearing.

Both of them were hit by the Berserker’s Awakening attack, but Eryusia is under Miko’s protection.

Even Arang in World Boss state has Miko’s protection, which is so powerful that he can only attack after his health is reduced by more than half.

Thanks to that, Eryusia didn’t take any damage from the Berserker’s Awakening skill, but Armia is different.

Armia was once strong enough to go 1v1 with a belly-covering person who used despair, but after being tortured and harassed countless times by the crow NPC, Armia, whose mind and body were already near their limit, couldn’t withstand the Berserker’s Awakening skill.

Eryusia tried to stop the red afterimages on Armia’s body with her hands, but in the end.

Armia disappeared, becoming beautiful yet death-sentencing particles.

Eryusia reached out to gather even the particles that made up Armia’s body, but Eryusia’s hand only waved in the air at the intangible particles.

==

As soon as Armia died, my head became complicated.

Armia’s death is definitely an illusion. Because she’s an NPC.

But Armia was the first NPC to make me feel guilty, and I even tried to heal and protect her to resolve that guilt.

But I couldn’t protect her.

I feel sorry, but tears are welling up.

It wasn’t me, it was Arang’s emotions that were the problem.

That feeling of his favorite stuffed animal being broken.

With his emotions heightened due to his period, Arang’s emotions became intense when Armia, whom he was trying to cherish, died.

Keudeuk.

Not wanting to show other users my pouting face, I went into Eryusia’s arms, who was waving her hands in the air, unable to believe her sister’s death.

,Ah… ah…

Eryusia hugged me with both hands in the air and whispered in my ear in a heavy voice filled with anger that I had never heard before.

,Arang-a… release the collar around my neck.

As soon as I heard those words, I was so happy that I overcame the sadness Arang felt from Armia’s death.

Maybe it’s because I’m a hardcore game addict, but I thought the event that was happening now was an event that would instantly raise her favorability, so I released the collar around Eryusia’s neck.

==

,Damn it!!!

The Reverse Guild Leader shouted roughly at the interface that showed that the quest in front of him had failed.

In addition, the quest that came up had a desperate explanation written on it.

[ Sister’s Death ]

Eryusia, enraged by the user who killed her sister Armia, harbors hostility towards the Reverse Guild.

This alone is quite unpleasant, but the problem was that there was more.

As if to prove that she didn’t receive the protection of the administrator Miko just because of her beauty, she unleashed powerful magic, but a problem arose after Shueri blocked it.

,Miko-nim…?

Eryusia and Shueri both received the power of Miko, the administrator of the Second World.

Of course, they couldn’t help but know where each other’s power came from.

Eryusia looked at Shueri, who had blocked her attack, and couldn’t understand.

She thought Miko would take some action to save her and her sister.

Because she felt Miko using search magic directly with her body.

But why was the person who came to save her the one who killed her sister? And someone who received Miko’s power.

There is only one conclusion.

Miko abandoned her.

That she didn’t try to find her and Armia to save them, but to kill them.

From Eryusia’s point of view, this was the only way she could think.

,It’s all a misunderstanding! We, we came to save Eryusia-nim and Armia-nim…!

Shueri desperately shouted at Eryusia, who was gathering mana to attack them, but her cry only made Eryusia even angrier.

,Don’t lie!

Eryusia began to think that all the tortures she had suffered so far and everything her sister Armia had suffered was due to Shueri and the Reverse Guild, not the Munchkin Cat Guild.

She couldn’t help but think that way.

When you think about it, everything was full of strangeness.

How did an ordinary human have a mana blocking collar?

How did an ordinary human have a mana blocking room?

How did an ordinary human figure out where she was and kidnap her?

But if all those questions were Miko’s plan, then everything would make sense.

Eryusia began to fire magic indiscriminately and fought to kill the Reverse Guild members and Shueri, but no matter how strong an elf she was, she was no match for the top users who had received the Saintess’s buff.

Moreover, as if the doubts Eryusia had were true, Miko’s protection on Eryusia did not block the attacks of Shueri and the Reverse users.

Eryusia eventually exhausted all her mana and sat down on the spot.

The Reverse Guild Leader felt sorry and apologetic as he looked at the elf, but at the moment he raised his sword towards Eryusia, who seemed to have given up on life.

Two people shouted.

Shueri shouted not to kill Eryusia, thinking that she had driven Armia to her death with her wrong choice.

Arang shouted that he was there for Eryusia, who had given up on everything.