Suddenly Watchful Eye appeared o Silver Bde. He swung his staff fiercely, crashing it into one of the ants’ back.

  [-488!]

  As a monk Watchful Eye’s damage was somewhat weaker. To pehis, however, he had increased attack speed. pared to the 0,7 attacks per sed which most swords had, a monk’s staff could attack 1,1 times per sed.

  Interweaving attacks and skills monks could deal substantial damage in a short time.

  Watchful Eye proved this by immediately following up with [Purple Earthly Fme]. With a hiss the staff got engulfed by a purple fire. He swung it sideways, dealing another blow to the ant.

  [-868!]

  Monks were master maniputors of QI. This special resource repced mana and fury. The more QI a monk had left, the more damage they dealt, making them heavy hitters at the start of the battle.

  Receiving so many fierce attacks, the on ant couldn’t endure anymore. The purple fme crept along its body, immediately turning it into ashes.

  “Good job!”

  “One down, five to go!”

  The party members gratuted each other. But the ants didn’t stop their assault.

  Angrily snapping its mandibles, the Maritim Ferocious Ant Vanguard dashed at Final Fend again. A bde aimed for its head.

  [-157!]

  It hit the ant heavily, but the stagger effect didn’t trigger this time. Without slowing down the elite was about to sm into Final Fend.

  “Careful!”

  Silver Bde couldn’t help but warn her brother. However, Final Fend didn’t py just since yesterday. With a jerk of his wrist, his on suddenly looped around his arm.

  At the st sed he took a stable posture taught with the Winding Dragon Teique and blocked the elite with his arm.

  [Stance -21]

  A strong force rushed through his body. This time it was him who staggered backwards.

  “Fend, you hold on?”

  “Don’t worry, I will buy you time!”

  Despite losing a third of his stance, Final Fend wasn’t worried. He was fident in his own css.

  “Look at this!”

  The young man excimed loudly, earning him an eyeroll from his sister. But he was too focused on the eo notice.

  With a thought his skill [ Lock] activated. He swung his arm in a leisurly way. The bde loosened again. It shrough the air.

  The elite ant seemed wary, watg the attack. But surprisingly the bde missed. The ant almost looked fused.

  But suddenly the ourned. It drew a curve around the oppo’s body, instantly tying it up.

  The ant pahrowing its body left and right but the was unstoppable, f a tight prison.

  Even the elite couldn’t escape immediately.

  Silver Bde leasantly surprised:

  “Good job! How long you stun it?”

  Final Fend thought for a moment. His skill was able to stun for a maximum of five seds. sidering the elite’s resistand Final Fend’s bonus on trol which came with his race he came up with a rough estimate:

  “A bit more than three seds I guess.”

  “Nice. Enough for us to get rid of those annoying is!”

  Listening to the versation, everyone kheir jobs. But before they could attack Silver Bde first had to endure another assault.

  Four impacts shook her body heavily.

  [Stance -16]x2

  [Stance -9]x2

  Silver Bde drew a sharp breath, gng at her status as her stance was reduce to a single point.

  “Let’s get rid of those melees first!”, shouted Silver Bde, knowing that those posed the greatest threat to her.

  The others plied, raining down attacks and skills.

  Braag’s bomb uncher began to glow red from heat. A jerk ran through his body as three bombs left the muzzle.

  Explosions rocked the earth, spshing sand all around. Silver Bde even had to lower her head.

  [-432!]

  [-259!]

  [-201!]

  The bombs dealt a rge amount of damage to its main target, but the other ant wasn’t ing out unscathed as well.

  The situation was still chaotic when a bde fshed silently, cutting into the ant’s throat. Instantly followed by a normal attack.

  [-1814!!!]

  [-694!]

  For a moment even Bloody Edge was shocked as his [Cut Throat] nded a critical hit, dealing massive damage. His attack followed almost by instinct, ending the ant’s life.

  He quickly snapped back, letting out a cold line he deemed fit for the moment:

  “What an honor to die under my bde.”

  Further away Forune nodded happily, getting anreat shot for her video.

  With his initial target on the floor Watchful Eye had to ge the trajectory of his staff, skillfully smming it into the other oppo’s fnk.

  [-488!]

  But this wasn’t all. A strong energy suddenly ran through his staff, erupting at its tip. A rge amount of QI smmed into the ant’s body.

  The rge i couldn’t remain on its feet. The heavy push threw it through the air. Watchful Eye proved his aim as the ant smmed into one of its ranged panions.

  [-715!]

  [-280!]

  [-280!]

  The collisio some damage to both ants.

  “You could do that?”

  The others stared at Watchful Eye in surprise. But Brag saw his ce at this moment. He didn’t dey, pressing his hand on a special sto the side of his on.

  He watched with tears in his eyes as money vanished form his iory. This was the effect of his unique passive [Money buy everything], which allowed Braag to boost his damage by spending money.

  At a rate of 25% of damage for one fourth of his current level in silver s, Braag instantly lost 20 silver to double his attack.

  “Die, you stupid i!”

  Helplessly diverting his aowards the enemies, he used his skill.

  The bomb uncher in his hands suddenly bulged. It looked weird, like a snake havien a big mouse. A sphere was slowly pushed through the pipe. Shortly before it reached the end, it finally sped up.

  The party members looked towards the sky where a rge bck ball sailed through the air. With a pulsing surface it spelled danger for anyone daring to stand in its way.

  The bomb appeared to move incredibly slow, but it reached its target heless.

  Bloody Edge gulped when the bomb was only a hair’s breath away from the three ants in the distance.

  Boom!

  A deafening explosion washed over the party. Fmes reached towards the sky. Braag’s bomb indiscriminately dealt damage in a rge area.

  [-1212!]

  [-1550!]

  The already injured ant stood no ce. It’s HP emptied out immediately. When the dust and smoke cleared up only a single leg remained behind.TheThe

  At the same time the two caster ants didn’t look much better. The single skill almost killed them i.

  Fortuurowards the dwarf o her in disbelief.

  “Damn, how did you do this?”

  Seeing the geous womaing sly, Braag felt much better about all the money he spent.

  “It’s just my passive. I expin ter.”

  “Great! And if you repeat this, please do! This is perfey video!”

  “Of course, of course!”

  Fortune saw Braag in a new light. Since she herself choose a css with rge-scale, destructive spells to create spectacur se for her video, she was more than happy that Braag could cause simir ses.

  While the tent creator was happily imagining all the possibilities, she suddenly felt something. Her staff lit up brightly as her [Are Bolts] skill was finally ready.

  Looking at the devastated enemies, she hastily sulted with Silver Bde:

  “Silver, should I attack the elite?”

  “Yes!”

  Immediately Fortune focused on the rge ant vanguard. Her mind fell calm, all distrag thoughts pushed aside. She took a deep breath.

  Swingiaff bolts of are magic erupted oer another.

  Small magical explosions shook the ant’s body as the bolts smmed against its sturdy, bck carapad its scaly fins.

  [-763!]x4

  Fortune wiped the sweat from her forehead. trolling the are bolts took quite a lot from her. Only after the skill ended did she notice the strange silen the air.

  Swiping her eyes Fortune was hit with disbelieving faces. The first to find his voice was Final Fend:

  “Damn, you almost one-shot that elite!”

  “Fortuhat was awesome!”, agreed Balm with admiration in her eyes.

  The others also voiced their agreement. Fortu somewhat embarrassed. She was used to being praised.

  “Wow you are seous!”

  “You are a goddess oh!”

  “You figure is perfect!”

  Fortune had grown numb to such fttery long ago. It was different now that her new friends were genuinely impressed by her skills.

  With an almost shy smile, Fortune answered joyfully:

  “Thanks guys. I trained a lot and finally brought my are bolt to rank two!”

  Silver Bde was shocked by the revetion. This meant that Fortune was the first out of their group to upgrade a skill other than Liam.

  And it was not just any skill, but a magical one.

  It hasn’t been that long since Liam expined his theory on how to improve magical skills. The party discussed it among themselves. With experienced martial artists they were able to figure out more about mana pathways and meridians.

  However, their current uanding was far from perfect. Thus, Fortune’s success was nothihan incredible.