The possessed Cye turowards Bloody Edge. She might be angry that she received damage form a friend. Or not. No one could tell from her indifferent face.

  This didn’t stop her, though, from swinging her wand and sending an attack at Bloody Edge.

  [-705!]

  “Damn, have you always been this strong?”, asked the thief with an exasperated expression.

  Forced to helplessly watch this se Silver Bde gradually turned anxious. Obviously attag the boss didn’t work. Were they forced to kill their trolled friends?

  Just as the tank was about to give the order, she remembered the se when Liam disappeared. His words echoed in her ears.

  Remember to use the bracelet when…

  Silver Bde’s eyes lit up brightly.

  How didn’t I think of this?

  With a flip of her wrist the bracelet carrying a divine blessing appeared in her hand. It spread a gentle, warm glow. Suddenly it seemed to have felt something.

  The bracelet’s power trated, shining on Cye and Radiant Shield.

  The two pyers spectating from the sky felt a strong pull. With a jolt they abruptly returo their bodies.

  Cye looked left and right, blinking her eyes, and shaking her limbs.

  “Am I back? What a strange feeling…”

  The blond woman shivered, hoping o experienething like this again.

  Notig their two friends’ lively movements, the others excimed gdly:

  “Shield, Cye, are you back? Finally!”

  “Did the skill break? we kill the boss now?”

  “Let’s go! Good job Silver Bde!”

  A wave of relief swept over everyone.

  “I’ve been waiting for this! Die!”

  Fortu out a shout, venting her emotions. Her eyes had turned a red color, revealiruggle to hold back the skill, which had finished casting.

  A foreboding pressure engulfed the room. Large amounts of mana gathered on Fortune’s staff before rag towards the sky. A geous but oppressive ade of sparkling blue mana formed below the o.

  It brewed for a sed before a pulse ran through the cloud, pelling it to deo one majestic spear floating above the boss’s head.

  The ghost servant’s faces turned upwards, showing despair is if it khat its end was near.

  Apanied by a thunderous roar the magic spear crashed into the ghost’s head.

  [-282!]

  A violent explosion shook the whole room. The ghost servant trembled, letting out a saddened howl.

  Suddenly the boss dissolved into hundreds of small ghosts. Only the inal seven ghosts stood out somewhat, being slightly bigger.

  At this point only the bck banner which the ghost servant carried on its back remaianding in the air. It swayed eerily, surrounded by bck magic. A su force came from the banner, abs all the ghosts.

  The inal seven held on for a bit longer but eventually no ghost remained in the hall.

  “You will pay for this!”

  A familiar raspy voice sent shivers down everyone’s spi came from a small bck portal which had suddenly opened. A red-skinned hand reached out of the portal, retrieved the banner, and disappeared again.

  From one moment to the silence fell on the room.

  The friends g each other, seeing the plicated emotions in each other’s eyes, filled with relief, joy, and worry.

  When Silver Bde let out a sigh and was just about to talk, another voice came first.

  “Adventurers! You did it! I knew I could t on you.”

  Major Onrabell desded from the sky, looking somewhat weak. Cye eyed her skeptically:

  “Hey, we fought such a difficult boss. Where have you been?”

  Before the major could ahe sound of a gate being opened caught everyone’s attention followed by a ugh:

  “Don’t bme the major. She separated the e between the boss and the bck river or else that old ghost would’ve shown some more tricks.”

  “Liam! Are you fine?!”

  Silver Bde excimed happily, even using the wrong name. But no one cared as the party swarmed Liam, asking about his situation.

  Liam felt a touch of warmth feeling everyone’s care for him.

  “Don’t wuys. I’m fine now.”

  “Then I’m relieved, my friend.”

  “Good, good.”

  “But… what about the future?”

  Silver Bde’s question made everyone frown.

  “Today it was Mirage who got attacked, tomorrow it could be us. What should we do?”, asked Silent Acacia with a heavy voice.

  “I…”

  Silver Bde just wao answer when Onrabell’s impatient voice sounded.

  “Adventurers, our army ’t hold out all day!”

  “Let’s talk about it ter. I have some ideas.”, said Silver Bde, postponing the discussion.

  Liam nodded while taking the lead to walk to the other side of the room. Although he was safe now, he didn’t fet his promise to crush everyone else’s dreams of getting the first clear.

  Onrabell saw the adventurers finally focus ba the dungeon. She floated above everyone’s head, pushing open a smaller door at the other side of the room.

  The party followed her, stepping into the room. A strange se preseself. In the room were a row of tables with lifeless demons lying oheir bodies looking well preserved as if they could open their eyes at any time.

  Everywhere in the room were all kinds of magical devices, tubes taining strange liquids, and various herbs.

  A few bck banners hung from the ceiliing a cold, ghostly feeling.

  Cye looked around, her face turning more and more unhappy:

  “What is this? Where is our reward?! That stupid boss didn’t drop any loot!”

  Liam chuckled. Not wanting to test Cye’s patience he approached another door to the side and ope.

  “Here, take whatever you want.”

  Immediately everyone’s eyes lit up looking into the small room taining two treasure chests and various racks with armors and ons.

  “Haha, watch me get the best equipment ever for us!”, boasted Cye happily as she reached for the first chest.

  After a moment a pair of trousers appeared in her hand. She proudly posted its information in the group chat.

  It iece of rare equipment fes with the effect of increasing the damage of the first skill used in bat. A fight immediately broke out between Fortune and Cye.

  Fortune didn’t dare to roll the dice against Cye. She spent a long time ving Cye that this equipment was more effective in her hands.

  Eventually Cye gave in when Fortune reminded her that she already had her own rare equipment.

  Feeling like she made a loss, Cye prayed ara two seds before opening the chest. But her luck wasn’t good, at least in her opinion.

  The chest revealed two pieces of equipment, both part of the red tiger set. Silent Acacia was almost tempted but with the equipment mainly strengthening INT he could only relutly give up.

  “What is all this? Have I gotten possessed for nothing?”, pined Cye in annoyance.

  Seeing her like this, Silver Bde could only chuckle.

  “We already got a rare item. Don’t be too greedy.”

  Cye rolled her eyes unhappily and focused oher ons stored in the room.

  “Huh.”

  The mage let out a curious sound, iing a small dagger.

  [Cursed bck cger Category: on, cursed

  Level requirement: 18

  Attack Damage: 13

  Attack Speed: 0,9

  Effect: Deal an additional 4% damage to members of the order fa.

  Curse: Each time you use this on to attack, lose 100 HP.

  A basic dagger mass produced for the inhabitants of hell. It has been imbued with a curse during an experiment.]

  “A cursed on? That’s new!”

  Cye’s excmation drew everyone’s attention. Intrigued they looked at the other ons and armor in the room. Most of them were nothing special, only iing because of the air of y they carried.

  But a few of the party members still found some equipment which could serve them well.

  The luckiest among them was Balm who received a pair of unon boots, which carried an area healing spell, with the only drawback being that her damage would be reduced.

  Haviied the small treasure chamber the party returo the first room.

  Taking a look around they found Onrabell h before a map hanging above an alchemy table. She basically radiated an aura of ‘talk to me to tihe quest’.

  Silver Bde approached the fairy, studying the map as well. She found that it showed some isnds located within Deavin O. A few points were marked separately with more information.

  Everyone looked curiously, studying the map until a familiar name fell into their eyes.

  “Look guys, her Holiness Lewriova!”

  “Right. But what’s that writteo her name? Sigil of the Thousand-Year-War?”

  Hearing the party members’ voices, Onrabell suddenly appeared startled as if only now perceiving their presence. She waved her hands quickly, rolling up the map aing it disappear.

  “Hmm what was that?”

  “Haha, don’t worry about it adventurers. Just fet whatever you saw…”

  Cye narrowed her eyes, staring skeptically at the fairy.

  “Why are you so flustered?”

  “It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it.”

  “Fine. If you don’t want to tell me, I will just ask our walking encyclopedia!”

  Showing a beaming smile Cye averted her eyes from the fairy, looking at Liam.

  “Do you really wao spoiler you?”, asked the young man chug.

  “Yes!”

  mykrail