With Silent Acacia being focused by Toxaner, it was difficult for him to retaliate. Luckily, he wasn’t alone. With a wave of his hand, Zorn appeared otlefield.

  The alligator stared at the enemy, waiting for Silent Acacia to give the order to attack. Her master quickly used a skill. [Deep e] temporarily strengthehe beast hunter’s pet depending on his own attributes.

  “Zorn, attack!”

  The pet finally received an order from her master. A densed sphere of water gathered in its maw, quickly shooting at the witch.

  [-108!]

  Silent Acacia was quite satisfied with the damage. Since Zorn died during the world boss fight, he had to retrain her from level zero. Now it was already level 17, barely enough to take part in the boss fight.

  Toxaner gred angrily at Silent Acacia, grittieeth. Drops of water dripped from her soaked clothes. Her blouse stuck close ture. Luckily – or unluckily – the white fabric revented by the game form turning transparent.

  In Liam’s past life some groups of pyers tried all means to get some i glimpses at those geous NPCs. But Fate of aboul wasn’t that kind of game, thwarting any attempts.

  Eventually one of these groups even pined loudly in the global chat and tried to garner public support to vio ge.

  After a day of chaos no one heard from those pyers again.

  Later, a retionship system was introduced allowing pyers to perform certain as if they both firmed to be in a retionship.

  However, only because it was impossible to take advantage of those NPCs didn’t mean that they would appreciate certain as.

  NPC often sidered the pyers attempts as attacks, retaliating in kind. Just like Toxaner right now.

  The witch was basically fuming, speaking in a threatening voice:

  “You freak dare to lust after my body?”

  However, Silent Acacia didn’t care that much about the NPC’s rea. He wore an embarrassed expression, looking at his girlfriend:

  “Qu, Quickstep, I didn’t pn for this. S… sorry!”

  Quickstep gnced over her shoulder, staring at her boyfriend with judging eyes. But seeing him flustered she couldn’t uphold her fa?ade, breaking out in ughter.

  “Haha, it’s alright.”

  Suddenly a cough could be heard.

  “Guys, we are still fighting. Acacia, watch out!”

  At this moment, Toxaner waved her wand again. The shadow of a giant toad enveloped her, f a stark trast to her usual graceful image.

  A deep croak left its throat, shaking the entire space. Suddenly something red fshed through the air. Silent Acacia barely mao jump to the side thanks to Liam’s early reminder.

  A sound like a striking whip followed as the tongue was fully unrolled, remaining in pce for a short time.

  “Quick! We o attack that tongue!”

  Liam urged his friends before moving into a. His full skill rotation came into py. He khat they couldn’t let the toad attack again since Silent Acacia was now out of stance.

  Seeing Liam going all out, Quickstep also didn’t dare to hold back. A whirlwind engulfed the tongue, and a bright explosio off above its head.

  The shadowy image couldn’t e. Cracks formed on its skin before the toad quickly broke apart, dissipating into the air.

  Only Toxaner remained, holding her head, obviously in a weakeate.

  “That’s our ce! Go!”

  The trio attacked quickly but after just using most of their skills they felt quite awkward with their normal attacks.

  Only Silent Acacia still had some tricks up his sleeve. With a thought Zorn fell into a rampage, her eyes turning a deep crimson. She dashed towards the witch, opening her maw wide. Blood red mana pyed around her sharp teeth as she s the enemy’s leg.

  [-660!]

  An enormous damage was dealt to the witch, brining her HP below half.

  “Ah!”

  With a startled cry Toxaner woke up from her weakeate. She saw Zorn ging t. Toxaner’s skin was suddenly tinged by a green shimmer.

  “You all die now!”

  Letting out ominous words the witstantly gathered a rge amount of mana, infusing it into her body. Suddenly the human made of flesh and blood dissolved, turning into a green liquid, which seeped into the soil.

  “Careful, spread out!”

  Liam warned his friends calmly in anticipation of the skill. But before he could expin more, two puddles of poison appeared to the left and right of Silent Acacia.

  The hunter was fused, w what the purpose of the skill was.

  “Dodge!”

  Liam hastily tried to remind him, but it was already too te. A figure in the shape of Toxaner but made of poison jumped out of one puddle, aiming for the other.

  It almost appeared like a pyful dolphin, but Silent Acacia, who was caught in the middle, wasn’t amused.

  He tried to turn his body, but the figure still smmed into his waist. Viscous poison doused his body, dealing massive damage.

  [-1162!]

  Silent Acacia took a sharp breath. The frail hunter was close to dying from a si. His instincts immediately kicked in. A bottle of antidote appeared in his hand. Ign the bitter smell he dow in one gulp, nullifying the poison stacks he received from the attack.

  , he gnced around. Seeing the puddle sinking into the grouook the time to quickly drink a basic health potion as well.

  Looking at the couple hundred HP he recovered he could only smile wryly.

  “Is this how it feels without Balm around?”

  Liam didn’t have time to answer as he was the arget. Seeing the two puddles appear around him he didn’t think about terattag but hastily rolled to the side.

  A spsh could be heard behind Liam’s back as the skill missed.

  “Oh no! Defend!”

  Silent Acacia shouted anxiously watg poisonous puddles appearing around Zorn.

  The alligator heard its master, curling its body. A white sheen fshed on its scales.

  [Stance -41]

  Silent Acacia let out a sigh of relief knowing that his pet was fine. He couldn’t bear to see her die again.

  Afterwards Toxaargeted Quickstep and Liam. The two kept vigint, moving at the slightest sign, causing the skill to miss.

  A few moments ter Toxaner appeared again on the green pin. Her clothes were back to normal while her skin paled, looking smooth aing.

  The party didn’t miss the ce. With their skills off cooldown, they immediately attacked with everything they got.

  Liam started his rotation with a [Holy Wave]. Hit by the holy damage the witch reacted immediately. She took a bracelet out of thin air.

  However, before she could put it on her arms, a sword strike shattered it instantly. Toxaner gred angrily at Liam, but the veteran wasn’t deterred.

  He followed up with his skills, stag holy marks before triggering them with a [Double Ssh].

  But instead of being happy, an apprehensive expression was on his face as he had to watch Toxaner gather mana arouaff and preparing for atack against Silent Acacia.

  Luckily the hunter knew his own situation. He didn’t dare to take atack. With a thought the [Stalker] skill activated.

  This was the evolved form of [Stealth] granted by Silent Acacia’s new css.

  [Stalker (rank 1)Cost: 16 Fury

  Effect: Select a target as prey. You body will be obscured, causing eo ignore you. Three targets pointing out the prey’s weakness will appear on their bodies at random intervals. Attacks hitting the targets are guaranteed critical hits. But other attacks will only deal 50% of the damage.

  If you have a pet, the effect will be applied to them as well.

  Cooldown: 20 seds]

  Silent Acacia still stood in the same pce, but a vague shadow enveloped his body.

  Toxaner had a fused look in her eyes. Suddenly she shook her head, turning towards Liam. Her wand, which had already gathered enough mana instantly unleashed an attack.

  Even Liam was caught off guard. At this point bnk range, he didn’t react fast enough, receiving a direct hit.

  [-540!]

  Liam’s body momentarily stiffened in surprise. The witch’s movements were incredibly smooth, something he wouldn’t expect from a low-leveled oppo.

  He kept this lesson in mind while putting his tration ba the fight.

  In the meantime, Silent Acacia saw a small red cross on Toxaner’s back. He didn’t miss his ce, instantly drawing his bow and releasing a powerful arrow.

  [-481!!!]

  With a grin the hunter watched his attack hit perfectly. However, while he was still happy about his success, aarget appeared.

  Silent Acacia was flustered, readying another arrow. But before he could fire, the red cross already disappeared.

  [-240!]

  The poisonous witch shook from the attacks. She took a deep breath while waving her wand, gathering mana in a desperate attempt to take her enemies down.

  Green, poisonous clouds gathered in the sky.

  However, her struggle didn’t matter anymore. At this point Quickstep, Bleary Mirage, and Zorn attacked at the same time. Toxaner’s few remaining HP emptied out instantly.