"SH*T...That f*cker is serious about making us face off ourpanions?!" Tsuru panicked.
"There''s nothing we can do. We have to knock them down before they go fully crazy. The worst thing we could do is kill them but let''s avoid that route since we can just easily stop them."
The five had their eyes filled with ck color, meaning the corruption has taken over too much now and we are toote. Harmless Sparrow had her eyes almost go to that route but since we defeated her fast enough, she didn''t gain the ck-colored eyes the four had.
"Lucia, protect Sparrow''s body. Everyone, we will fight them off. Just be careful you don''t identally kill them. We can''t afford to do so in this situation," I am a bit afraid of this as the situation really calls for more investigation on my part. Since Alternate World seems to influence the real world if the yers who went crazy in the game were killed before they are even cured of it, will it affect them in the real world as well?
"Let''s see how you all fare against yourrades by fighting against them with no intention to kill.
The five screamed and started attacking. Kn immediately deployed the bubble to us though I immediately stopped it.
"[Magic Jammer]!"
POP!
The bubble popped but Kn is not yet done and released a domain skill, [Clockwork Domain], a skill that slows down the movements of the enemies in the vicinity of a holographic Clocktower that appears on the battlefield.
Because we are viewed by them as enemies, we are technically affected despite being part of our team so we are forced to endure it.
"Calm down you all!" Tsuru fired one cannonball at Kn to knock him out but before it can reach Kn, Tatsumaki appeared and efficiently cut the cannonball in half, rendering the attack useless.
"Sh*t... I have not seen them so skillful like this..." Tsuru gritted his teeth seeing the odd movements of the five.
"They are totally enhanced to their fullest potential. Be careful, they are not the same people you know!" As swings his sword to defeat Tatsumaki who keeps on dodging and trying to go and attack Tsuru.
Sigma stood at the back and with her arms crossed, used the golden chains and control them to strike. Vi is her opponent and despite the [Clockwork Domain], the speed of the gold chains that Sigma controls are not affected, allowing Sigma to take advantage of it and fight Vi. Before Vi could barely avoid Sigma''s gold chain if they fought one-on-one but Sigma struggled to deal damage to Vi.
Not only does Vi use her Assassin ss as an advantage, her speed and her usage of various weapons caused Sigma to have a bit of a bad time. Using her dagger and sometimes her pistol, she easily deflects the gold chains as she gets close to Sigma.
Sigma still does not move from her spot and Vi gets a few meters away from her, thetter bolted straight to her, and Sigma immediately smiled as multiple crosses fell from the sky and captured Vi in between.
"Banish the curse, [Cleansing Cross]!"
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Her ear-curdling scream was like her soul has been ripped apart forcefully from her body before her whole body emits smoke and copsed as a result. It caught all of us off guard as that was so sudden for any of us who was there. Sigma, on the other hand, remained calm and catches the unconscious body of Vi and passes it to Lucia who put the two on the ground next to her with Cotton providing the effects of the [Aromatherapy].
With Vi gone, only four left. to fight against. Leoran has been passive and just let the other 3 do the work. Although it will be a good idea to take him out immediately, he is not the main problem here but Kn. Due to his skill that inflicts slow movement on us, Popo and Tatsumaki are able to easily fight against us due to how we can''t immediately dish out attacks due to our slow movements earlier. But thanks to Sigma taking down Vi much earlier, we can now focus on dealing with Tatsumaki and Popo while we go straight and disable Kn as soon as possible.
Just as we are about to go and disable Kn, Popo transformed into a bear using the spell, [Transform: Berserk Bear], and starts going on a rampage. Seeing that As is busy dealing with Tatsumaki, I took the chance and changed my Versatile Weapon into a gauntlet and catches the hands of Popo in the form of the bear who was about to strike me down using his enhanced arms.
Popo''s strength was amplified wrestling against him is like wrestling against a real bear. Popo keeps on snarling at my face and tries to bite my face off my head while I keep on pushing Popo with the help of the gauntlet. It took a little bit of effort but I managed to overpower Popo and take him down.
I was about to deal a blow that would cancel the transformation and return him to his human form when he dodges and I was caught in a [Slow Time] ability of Kn that decreases my attack speed and movement speed for a short amount of time. Due to this Popo managed to return to fight and recover from being taken down. It''s frustrating but it''s not much of a problem. It''s just that we are forced to do the bare minimum of our attacks and not deal with fatal attacks to avoid killing them while the main boss is currentlyughing at us, amused by our struggle.
Forget Popo, for now, Kn is needed to be eliminated in this to allow us to finish the task as fast as we can.
If Kn was forcing me to slow down, then I will increase my speed a lot this time around. F*ck those slowing skills, if I am fast enough, once I get slowed down, I will return to my base speed, allowing me to do the task much easier.
Activating all the speed buff, my movement is much faster now. If they think I won''t hesitate to fight now, that''s not a big problem. With my gauntlet equipped, I run into the frontlines, catching all the slowing debuffs Kn is throwing at me. However, since I buffed myself in speed, instead of slowing me down, my normal speed returned and the buffs I received before have been slowly converted into how I should have moved without both buffs and debuffs.
"You can''t slow me!"
BANG!
One single punch and Kn was knocked out. I made sure that I controlled my punch which will only deal half the amount of damage done and knock him out. It''s hard but I pulled my punches before, so I will do it again.
But as I was about to pick up Kn who got knocked out, Leoran who was remaining passive took action and shot me with a bolt of the Crossbow that I made. The damage isn''t the biggest since I have armor and it missed the fatal spot that could deal an instant kill or critical hit against me. He shot another bolt which this time, I deflected using the gauntlet and continue to the area where Knnded after sending him in a distance and punching his face that knocked him out cold.
Leoran continues to shoot me but I am more aware of his arrows that he didn''t pose a threat to me. Popo was held back by Sigma and Tsuru and As are all dealing with Tatsumaki now. I could get straight to Leoran but I decided against it and prioritized Kn first to be added to the people Lucia is protecting.
"I apologize for letting you do the boring job, Lucia," I put Kn''s unconscious body next to Vi.
"No worries master, this is a decent task, and it''s not easy to keep your eyes peeled up to the enemies when they will target you or the others who are defenseless here. Don''t worry too much and deal with it as soon as possible."''
Once Kn is now secured, I head straight to Leoran who is now dealing against Sigma who just shrugged his attacks. To Sigma, everything Leoran was doing to her was just minor scratches he was doing. Her attention isn''t even directed to her but to Popo who is much more dangerous than Leoran to her.
While I was about to go to Leoran, Tatsumaki screamed as As absorbed the dark energy on him and feed it to his sword that feeds on dark powers. Just like Vi, Tatsumaki''s body emits smoke before he copsed. Now that Tatsumaki is out as well, only two left. Time to finish this up and show the boss that we are not just some pushovers.