Fallen Moonlight

,Hiyaaaaaak!”

,Yeona!!!”

,Raid Leader-nim!”

The ritual began abruptly.

The raid members poured out desperate attacks, but Iona didn’t budge.

No, from the beginning, the attacks didn’t even register.

[Oh Lunaris-isiyeo… a body is prepared here for you…! ]

,”N-noooo!”

A body for you.

Judging by this pattern, it was clear that the goddess Lunaris was possessing my character.

Pale moonlight pouring down from the sky.

As if to prove my prediction correct, something blurry began to descend from the sky, riding the moonlight.

The moment that blurry something touched my body.

The perspective shifted.

The first-person perspective changed to third-person, allowing me to examine my own body.

I couldn’t move my body, but I could turn the camera with simple controls.

,”Huk, huueok!”

,”Raid Leader-nim…!”

,”Raid Leader-nim is floating into the sky!”

,”It’s a flying high school girl!”

,”Yeonaaaaa!!!”

[The Fallen Moonlight Lunaris is attempting to possess the body.]

The raid members screamed as they watched my body begin to float into the air.

Helena’s voice, in particular, was close to a shriek.

[Iona… my sword… you have found a good body.]

[Ah… Lunaris-isiyeo…]

My body, my character.

Lunaris, borrowing the body of Princess Yeoni, opened her eyes and spoke.

Of course, it was a movement independent of my will.

A situation where my hands and feet were tied, and I couldn’t do anything.

All I could do was watch.

Ah.

I could use the guild chat.

Princess Yeoni-[Guys. I can’t move.]

Princess Yeoni-[Fighting.]

Having uttered all the predetermined lines, Princess Yeoni Lunaris descended to the floor.

The robe she was wearing and the cloak draped over her back were fluttering, engulfed in a strange moonlight, and her long hair, which had been hanging down, also rose as if surging into the sky.

[Do not stand in my way.]

,”M-my, my health has returned!”

,”An enemy mark has appeared above Raid Leader-nim’s head…!”

As the raid members said, a red health bar appeared above my character, Princess Yeoni’s head.

It was surrounded by a golden border.

That meant it was judged as a boss monster.

Iona, who had summoned Lunaris, stepped back, bowed her head, and began to pray.

Seeing that, it seemed that this phase required facing Lunaris’s possessed body instead of Iona.

Dogric, the main tank, shouted with a nervous expression.

,”A-attack!”

Princess Yeoni-[Attack. Hurry up and kill me.]

,”Raid Leader-nim told us to kill herself…!”

Thus began the battle.

Dogric, like any other raid, swung his sword and took Lunaris’s aggro.

I watched the battle from a third-person perspective and pondered.

Lunaris, who had taken over my body.

The fallen goddess of the moon was emitting brilliant moonlight and driving the raid members into a corner.

However, she wasn’t showing any particularly unique patterns.

Dogric calmly blocked all attacks and firmly held the aggro.

The dealers were also faithfully performing their roles.

Lunaris’s health was rapidly decreasing.

,”M-my, my Yeoni is…!”

I felt a strange chill as I looked at Helena’s expression.

Helena glared at Lunaris, who had taken over my body, with a very cold look in her eyes, unlike the magic she used.

,”Give Yeoni back!”

A huge flame erupted.

A giant meteor covering the sky fell on Lunaris’s body.

Kwagagagang-!

[Hmph…]

But Lunaris was unharmed.

The small girl who walked out of the huge explosion examined her body and raised her hand towards the room where the raid members, especially the ranged dealers, were gathered.

,”Pattern!”

,”Evade!”

,”Ranged attack!”

The raid members were moving well even without my orders.

The fact that the boss suddenly reached out to the ranged dealers meant that there was a very high probability that an attack on the ranged dealers would begin.

Pabababat!

The magicians quickly disappeared using Blink.

Hwarang, the only archer in the raid, rolled around and got out of the way.

[Did you think you could avoid it!]

Lunaris shouted at the raid members who had evaded her attack and moved her hand to the side.

At that moment, Helena’s body, which was far away, floated into the air.

,”T-this, eeeek…!”

,”Heok…!”

The appearance of a pattern I’d never seen before.

Even though they had moved, one of the ranged dealers had been caught.

Helena, floating in the air, twisted her body this way and that, but she couldn’t break free from the restraint.

[Become my blood!]

The moment Lunaris shouted loudly, Helena’s body, which had been floating in the air, began to fly quickly.

I could guess what this pattern was through Lunaris’s lines.

The vampire race was born from the fallen power of the goddess Lunaris.

Naturally, the goddess Lunaris, the source of that power, would also be able to use vampirism.

Princess Yeoni-[Block it! It’s a vampiric pattern!]

I entered the information I had learned through my genius deduction into the guild chat, but no one could release Helena.

Of course. It was a pattern they were seeing for the first time.

The ranged dealers continued to pour attacks on Lunaris, but Helena’s movements did not stop.

,”T-this, eee…!”

Helena frowned deeply, as if greatly angered.

Lunaris smiled lightly as she looked at Helena, who had arrived in front of her.

[The blood of a pure woman.]

Lunaris said, reaching out her hand towards Helena.

Immediately after that, the vampiric pattern was activated as I had expected.

Helena’s body shriveled up like a withered mummy and collapsed to the floor with a thud.

Lunaris’s health, which had been chipped away since the start of the battle, was at 15%.

But thanks to the vampirism just now, all that health was instantly restored.

,”Heok… the Vice Guild Leader-nim…!”

,”Hel-sajang-nim has become a mummy…!”

,”It’s a high school girl mummy!!!”

I watched the fussing raid members and pondered.

Raid bosses could sometimes provide hints on how to attack through the lines they occasionally uttered or the surrounding environment.

This Lunaris was no different.

Vampirism.

And the blood of a pure woman was mentioned.

Perhaps there was a hidden meaning in this line.

It was then.

,”It’s a man!”

A voice that burst out as if in a fit.

A raid member who was very interested in the story shouted loudly.

He was shining his eyes as if he had realized some great truth.

Princess Yeoni-[What do you mean, a man?]

,”A male character! The goddess Lunaris hates men very much!”

Princess Yeoni-[Don’t stop dealing and keep explaining.]

,”Ah! Yes! So, the goddess Lunaris in this world in the past…”

Princess Yeoni-[Just the conclusion, briefly. Please.]

,”Yes… um, if a male character gets caught during the vampiric pattern…”

Princess Yeoni-[Make a male character get caught?]

,”Yes… I think that’s the way to attack it…”

The raid member’s voice grew smaller and smaller as if he was losing confidence, but it was a way to attack that was worth trying.

I quickly wrote in the guild chat.

Princess Yeoni-[Did you hear that? All of you playing male characters. Try to get caught by any means.]

But was that as easy as it sounded?

In the next vampiric pattern that appeared, the Snow Mage was caught.

,”Ah… if my blood becomes one with the Blood Demon King-nim…!”

Princess Yeoni-[Don’t say weird things.]

Helena-[How awful.]

,”Blood Demon King-nim…!”

The Snow Mage’s end was the same as Helena’s.

The Snow Mage’s shriveled corpse was placed next to Helena’s corpse.

Of course, the situation after that was no different.

The raid dealers quickly chipped away at Lunaris’s health, but the vampiric pattern that reappeared caused her health to rise to 100%.

The person who was caught this time was Yerin.

Lunaris, who had vamped a total of three people, spread her hands wide and opened her mouth.

[Enough power has been gathered.]

A newly appearing pattern.

While all the raid members were looking at Lunaris with nervous expressions, Lunaris, who had raised her hand above the sky, exploded a huge light.

Paaang-!

Pale moonlight spread throughout the map where the battle was taking place.

The health of the raid members exposed to that light was instantly reduced to 0%.

The appearance of a wipe mechanic.

It seemed that if the vampiric pattern was not blocked more than three times, a wipe mechanic would appear.

In that situation where all the raid members had become corpses, I was finally able to regain freedom of my body.

The raid members, who had gathered again outside the boss room, sat down with serious expressions.

The meeting time that started naturally after the first try had arrived.

,”What do you think about this pattern?”

,”Um… maybe it’s being caught according to the aggro ranking…”

,”Isn’t it the DPS ranking? All the people who were caught were staying in 2nd place in DPS.”

,”Oh, that’s a possible point.”

I nodded with my arms crossed.

As expected of my raid members.

They were finding a way to attack on their own without me even thinking about it.

,”The vampiric pattern is definitely that the 2nd place in DPS is being dragged away. But I don’t know the selection conditions for Lunaris’s possessed body…”

,”Isn’t that the 1st place in damage?”

The gazes of the raid members, who were exchanging opinions, turned to me.

Every time that happened, I struck a cool pose and made a solemn expression.

,”Seems right, doesn’t it?”

,”Yes. It seems that way.”

,”Then next time…”

The Iona-Lunaris pattern that was organized in that way was as follows.

First, a pattern that is activated when Iona’s health falls below a certain level.

Iona’s phase changes, and one dealer who has met certain conditions is caught and placed as a sacrificial offering on the altar.

The dealer who is caught at this time is the most powerful person in the raid.

The raid member who is dragged to the altar becomes Lunaris’s possessed body, and a new boss battle begins in that state.

The Lunaris that appears at this time does not have any particularly difficult patterns, but if her health falls below a certain level, she activates the vampiric pattern.

The user who is selected for the vampiric pattern at this time was the second strongest person in the raid.

,”It’s a boss that requires damage control…?”

,”That’s going to be tough?”

,”Wouldn’t it be okay if Hwarang-nim hit a little weaker?”

,”But the target of vampirism eventually dies, right? If Hwarang-nim gets dragged away and dies, the next dealer will be…”

,”Iyap-nim?”

,”Let’s try it for now.”

I looked at the raid members with fresh eyes.

Now, even without me, they had reached the point where they could share their opinions and find a way to attack the raid on their own.

Is this what the heart of a parent who has raised a child is like?

I nodded as I looked at the raid members.

,”Raid Leader-nim. Did you hear everything? How is it?”

,”There’s nothing to point out. It’s perfect. It seems like the raid will run well even if I’m not there.”

I only tell the unadulterated truth.

But the expressions of the raid members were not good.

I tilted my head, wondering if I had made some kind of mistake, and the raid members said.

,”Don’t say things like that… Raid Leader-nim not being here.”

,”That’s right. Deron without Raid Leader-nim, I can’t even imagine it.”

Here I go again.

I opened my mouth with a confident expression at the raid members’ worries.

,”That’s just a figure of speech. I’m never quitting Deron. I’m going to do Deron until I die.”

I said that and turned my body.

The conversation ends here, now it was time to face it in practice.

,”Let’s start.”