"""URAHHHH!!!"""
Several tanks used taunting shout as it attracted the aggro of the spiders.
Their eyes gleamed red as they swarmed at the tanks.
"MAGES! FIRE!!" Jonas shouted out blocking the strike of a spider.
*PHEW PHEW PHEW PHEW
Fireballs shot out in volleys as Shiro also threw a few spears. The spears exploded out in mid-air as it rained shards of sharpened ice.
Keeping an eye out for the shooters, Shiro made sure to conserve her MP. Especially since her identity will be discovered when her MP runs out.
Lyrica helped out as she would stab at the Spider Drones through the gap of the shields. Even though her sword was sharp, it would leave only a scratch should she hit in the wrong area.
This was made even more difficult since she had less space to move around with the tankers in front of her.
"SHOOTERS INBOUND!" Jonas shouted out.
Shiro immediately turned her attention to the distance as she found the shooters.
They were coloured red and had a much bigger abdominal area.
[Spider Artillery LVL 20]
'One, two, three, four….' Shiro counted mentally as she realised there were more than 13 shooters crawling towards their general direction.
Flicking her wrist, 10 ice spears rose up around her as she sent them flying towards the spiders.
She made sure each spider had 2 spears assigned to it. The first spear would pierce the head while the second pierced the weapon joint between the abdominal area and the torso.
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Her spears combusted after killing the spiders, sending shards of ice to the surrounding drones.
While she killed 5 of the spider artillery, the other mages weren't idle either since they killed the other 8 that was aiming at them.
Shiro only frowned a little since the spiders came very close to shooting their web.
If they did, they would need to dodge or she'll be forced to smack the web out of the air.
*CRRRRRRR
The ground rumbled as more heavily armoured spiders started to roll out from their burrow.
[Spider Tanks LVL 20]
"Healers! Mass heal! Mages and damage dealers! Shred those tankers first! We'll hold back the drones!"
Understanding that the tankers were priority, the mages turned their attention over.
Shiro frowned as she couldn't use any of her large-scale attacks without affecting the raid party.
Reducing their reaction due to the coldness would be detrimental.
Shaking her head, she decided to focus on the shooters and drones.
Suddenly feeling killing intent, Shiro whipped her head around and shot an ice spear towards the healers.
"AHHH!!!" One of the healers screamed drawing their attention.
When they saw the scene, they were shocked.
Shiro's ice spear had penetrated an assassin spider which then branched out and pierce through 5 more assassin spiders.
Clutching her fist, Shiro shattered the spiders into pieces before turning back to the shooters that were about to shoot.
Throwing 4 more spears, she killed two whilst the last one slammed its legs down into the building and shot out a massive ball of web.
"WEB INBOUND! EITHER BREAK IT OR DODGE IT!!!" Jonas shouted out.
Shiro frowned as the web was much larger than she had thought.
'They definitely can't dodge this.' Shiro thought with a frown. The web was too big and fast for them to dodge.
Glancing over at her MP, Shiro decided to bite the bullet and pulled out a MP potion.
Mana gathered in her hands as she spread out her cold aura. The ground started to freeze up slightly as she focused on the web.
Raising up her hand, a giant ice pillar erupted out from the side of a building as it knocked the web away.
The party was speechless seeing the sheer size of the pillar as Shiro quickly drank the MP potion to recover her mana.
She wanted to keep her MP above 50% at all times just in case anything happens. Such as backstabbing.
"NICE SHIRO! EVERYONE! KILL THE TANKERS!" Jonas shouted out.
Seeing as though the field was slightly frozen over, some of the adventurer's had some problems with their foothold so Shiro quickly crouched down and thawed all the ice.
The battle continued with a few close calls with assassins and shooters, but they managed to survive the first challenge.
Sitting down to rest, the healers healed the party.
[So how was it?] Shiro asked Lyrica with a smile.
"How was what?" She replied between pants. During the entire time, she was fighting none stop as she needed to pull her own weight.
[The experience so far. With the shooters, the tanks and the assassins.]
"Oh. Then it's hard. It's stressful and tense." Lyrica replied getting a towel to wipe her sweat.
[Then everything is ok. I would be more inclined to worry if it's easy since it makes a person lower their guard.] Shiro said as Lyrica nodded.
She too understood this fact.
"Alright! Let's have a little discussion about the boss. The next boss is called the spider tyrant. His main weapons are his physical attacks and speed. I want the healers to focus on us tankers since we could be heavily injured at any moment." Jonas said as they nodded.
"The weakness of the spider tyrant lies in its weak underbelly and thin joints. Damage dealers, I want you to focus on these spots."
'But the spinneret of the spider is also a weakness.' Shiro thought. The spinneret of the spider is where they shoot their webs. Naturally, this means an easy hole to strike at their internals.
Lyrica paused seeing Shiro expression. It was the same one she pulled when she asked her to attack the serpents anus, or the cloaca.
"Erm Shiro. You shouldn't strike at the spider's… rear this time. It might overwrite the aggro the tanks get and disrupted the raid team." Lyrica warned.
"…Che." Shiro clicked her tongue seeing the missed opportunity.
'Don't feel like it's a shame ah!?' Lyrica thought.
[Fine. I guess I'll have to do this fight normally then.] Shiro sighed.
Pulling Yin from her pockets, she fed him a D ranked mana stone as she too was feeling a little hungry.
Making sure that no one saw her, she popped a stone into her mouth and started to chew.
"What are you eating Shiro?" Lyrica asked seeing Shiro chew on something.
[Just a sweet I had. Unfortunately, it was the last one.]
"Shame."
The resting period was soon over as the team walked carefully towards the entrance of the burrow.
Guarding the entrance, the Spider Tyrant could be seen.
It was around 7 meters long, 3 meters tall and 4 meters wide.
It had razor sharp teeth, purple armour with red highlights, 4 pairs of legs each looking sharper than the other and eyes all over its body.
[Spider Tyrant LVL 20 – Raid Boss]
HP: 500,000/500,000
MP: 750,000/750,000
"Aim at the eyes, don't draw too much of the aggro. Healers focus on the tanks like we discussed and we can win this easily!" Jonas said as he and the group of tanks charged forwards.
"HAAA!!"
They used their respective aggro skills as the damage dealers where nervous. If they accidentally drew the aggro, they would be gone in an instant.
"DRINK YOUR BULWARK POTIONS!" Jonas shouted out to the tanks.
*CING!
Blocking initial trust of the Spider Tyrant, Jonas grabbed onto the leg as his muscles bulged.
"HAAAA!!!!" He shouted as chipped the razor edge of that leg.
*Crrkkkkk!!!
The Spider Tyrant cried out in anger as it opened it's mouth.
"TANKERS!" He shouted as 3 tankers dashed in front of him and used Shield Wall.
The Spider Tyrant spat out acid as it hit a translucent barrier.
"Tsk!" Shiro clicker her tongue as she saw the acid fly around. The acid could easily fall onto someone causing them serious damage.
Stomping down, she created an ice pillar that touched the acid and froze it entirely.
Thawing her ice, Shiro made an irritated face and gestured towards the spider.
"SPREAD OUT FROM THE TANKERS! DAMAGE DEALERS ATTACK!" Jonas shouted out understanding her annoyance of area of effect.
Shiro and Lyrica nodded at each other as they dashed towards the back of the spider.
Crouching down, Shiro started to construct a ramp as Lyrica started to run up the ramp.
Jumping up, Lyrica twisted her body as she slashed at two of the eyes.
*Crr!
The slash only left a shallow mark as the eyes were mostly unharmed.
Flicking her wrist, Shiro made another ramp as it caught Lyrica.
The Spider was furious as one of the legs shot towards her.
Clutching her fist, Shiro created a rotational dome around Lyrica and deflected the leg off.
Using the momentum from the rotational dome, Shiro created a blade as it slashed towards the leg with increased power.
*BANG!
The blade smashed against the leg, causing a wide fracture to run along the armour.
'That armour's annoyingly tough.' Shiro thought with a frown.
"Thanks Shiro." Lyrica said as she landed next to her.
Shiro nodded as she wanted to give the eyes a stab.
Crouching down, she made an ice pillar under her as she jumped towards the back of the spider.
Forming 5 ice spears around her, she launched them towards one of the eyes as they fused together to one before stabbing towards the eye.
*PUSHI!!
The spear stabbed deeply into the eyes as the Spider Tyrant cranked its body back and cried out from the pain.
Flicking her wrist, Shiro made ramp from the buildings, cushioning her landing. Breathing out heavily, she frowned at her right arm since her manoeuvre just then pushed the limits of her flexibility just then.
"BOMB IT!" Jonas shouted as the tanks had secured the aggro. Now they just needed to bomb it until it only had 1HP and deal a fatal blow.
Opening her palms, Shiro created a nano craft needle and inserted it in an ice spike.
Throwing the spike into the previous wound, her eyes grew cold as she activated needle.
The needle itself wasn't powerful in terms of armour penetration. But when it enters the body, it was another matter in itself.
[Nano Craft Needle LVL 25 (Blue)]
+10 Peirce
Skill: Consume
Consume: Use mana to multiply the amount of Nano Bots present and consume materials near it. The harder the material, the more MP it takes.
MP: 10,000/10,000
She had the idea for this when first saw the nanobots consume everything near it in order to make a certain item.
If she wanted to make a pillar in a wall, the nanobots will devour a portion of the wall to make room for the pillar.
Therefore, using the same function, she crafted this needle that wasn't like her other weapons.
Clutching her hands, she activated the skill.
*CKKKKRRR!!!!!
The spider writhed around feeling itself get eaten from the inside out.
Landing back on the ground, Shiro put another mana potion into her mouth.
"Fuu…." Breathing out slightly, she watched her MP get refilled.
Seeing that everything was in control now, she decided to take the back lines and only attack once every so often.
Though she would use her ice to give Lyrica as many opportunities to attack and gain contribution.
The entire fight lasted 30 minutes as they finally got it to 1HP.
Unfortunately, Jonas lacked the stamina to deal it one final blow.
"Is this really how it ends?" He muttered with gritted teeth.
Their teamwork wasn't flawless, but no one died. That was the best news. However, it would all be for nought if they couldn't even kill the boss.
"Shiro! Do you have anything to give the beast a final blow?!" He shouted out parrying a stab.
'Hmm… I guess it's not too hard.' Shiro thought, keeping an eye on her mana.
[I can, but I'm going to need a few buffs and MP regen.] Shiro typed out as she showed it to him.
"SILVIA! BUFF SHIRO UP!" Jonas shouted out as the faster they kill this spider tyrant the better.
Silvia nodded as she slammed her staff into the ground.
"On my authority as a Grand Healer, cast down and empower." Silvia chanted as a magic circle lit up below Shiro.
[Blessing of Empowerment.]
+10% status for 30 seconds. MP regen +100%
Shiro was surprised to see Silvia having Blessing of Empowerment on top of her Grand Healer class.
She was about to attack when Jonas stopped her.
"Silvia isn't done yet." He smiled.
"Strength of the mighty, speed of the quick, magic of the unknown."
[Tri Status Boost]
+15% STR +15% SPD +15% INT
'Why didn't she use this earlier?!' Shiro thought seeing these buffs. They weren't something a Grand Healer should have unless she studied buffs relentlessly and improved her mana control.
"I know what you're thinking. But Silvia can't use these often." Jonas shook his head.
Shrugging her shoulders, Shiro dashed forwards.
"TANKS FALL BACK!" Jonas called out as he knew Shiro's capabilities. Her large attacks will cause her own teammates danger as they couldn't avoid it.
Spreading out her cold aura, Shiro expended her mana to increase the freezing potential.
*CRRRRR!!!!!
Ice started to build up around the area as the adventurer's started to shiver.
Flicking her wrist, snow started to fall as the area around the spider tyrant became a blizzard.
Yin Style Phantom Arts: 2nd Phantom – Speed Phantom.
Dashing around the back of the Spider Tyrant, Shiro jumped up and was able to get a clear shot of it from above.
Snow started to wrap around her arm as a giant ice sword was being made.
Making a foothold for herself, Shiro made sure it moved as to not put the entire weight of the sword on her body.
Yin Style Phantom Arts: 3rd Phantom – Counter Weight Phantom.
Her tiny body shifted as the momentum of the sword swung towards the head of the spider.
Letting go of the sword, Shiro jumped up and flicked her wrist one last time.
Four ice tendrils shot out of the ground as they grabbed onto the handle of the sword and slashed it downwards, increasing the momentum further.
*BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sword slammed into the weak join of the head and decapitated the Spider Tyrant.
"….WE DID IT!!!!" Some one shouted as everyone cheered at the downed corpse of the Spider Tyrant.
"Someone find the mana stone!" Jonas shouted as he sat down.
For raid bosses like this, they had a certain amount of time to collect the mana stone before the body would automatically collect itself.
As for Shiro, she was slowly descending as to not hurt her arm.
'The harvest isn't too bad.' Shiro thought as the contributions both she and Lyrica made were decent.
She had a contribution of 15% while Lyrica had 5%.
Landing softly, she walked over to the fatigued Silvia.
[Thank you for the buffs.] Shiro smiled.
"Ah don't worry about it." Silvia replied.
[May I know where you learned to use the buffs?]
"I didn't learn from anywhere. I studied text by myself."
[Are you in this party permanently?] Shiro asked. She was planning on making a party to go raiding, and a talent like Silvia couldn't be let up on.
"Shiro are you trying to poach my teammate? Hahaha." Jonas laughed as he walked over.
[Half and half. Having her help out at times would make things easier.] Shiro shrugged not denying this fact.
"I'm afraid I'm in this party for good." Silvia smiled.
[Shame. But if I need your help in a Dungeon run and raid may I ask for your assistance?]
"We'll see. I'll have to charge you for my services thought." Silvia giggled.
[Naturally.] Shiro nodded in understanding.
Leaving the duo, she walked back to Lyrica.
[How do you feel about this fight?]
"A little tough, I won't lie. The defence of that thing was crazy strong." Lyrica sighed.
[Well it isn't a raid boss for nothing. With bosses like this, you need to have a lot of patience. On top of that, you need to be able to judge the timings. When you can slip in another attack, or when you need to back out.] Shiro smiled.
"You sound like you've done raids a lot." Lyrica said.
[I suppose you can say that. When I think about raids and the such, information just floods to my head.] Shiro smiled.
"Heh~ mysterious."
[As mysterious as a 13 year old level 28 can be I guess.]
Shiro shrugged.
Waiting for a little while, they managed to find the stone and the corpse dispersed.
Her loot from the boss was a piece of armour, a weapon and money. The basics.
Scrapping both, Shiro looked over at Lyrica and realised she levelled up.
[What did you get?] Shiro asked.
"I got a level 20 sword. I can use it as one of the ingredients to evolve my blade." She replied.
[Hold onto it for now. It might come in handy later.] Shiro smiled.
As everyone rested, Jonas explained the next section.
"Seen as though we can deal with the bosses without a problem. We'll continue this fight. The next area is the maze. There are several traps and false entrances. The maze resets with every Dungeon Raid so we don't know the exact outline. BUT, we are able to know the general path since the maze follows a rough outline."
He then proceeded to talk about the path as it involved using several levers to open doors and progressing through them.
"There are a total of 10 chests, but 7 are fake. We aren't going to attempt to get them since our main goal is to get the bosses, is that clear!" Jonas shouted out.
"YES!" They replied.
They knew the danger of carelessly picking a chest as it could lead to the entire party dying. That was a thing no one wanted.
After they finished discussing the plan, everyone gathered together as they entered the burrow.
The eerie silence freaked Lyrica out a bit as she held onto Shiro.
"Here's the first divergent. The pattern shows that the lever would be at the end of the right path 70% of the time so we'll enter there first. If there isn't a lever, we'll backtrack." He said as the team followed.
As they progressed with the maze, Shiro mentally mapped the entire area. The maze so far was like a ants hive, cross sections, false paths, levels and the such made it hard to traverse in a short amount of time.
It was only after 2hrs did they exit out the maze without harm.
What welcomed them was a kingdom. Giant luminescent rocks glowed overhead as it gave the area an ominous purple-blue glow.
Webs and eggs were scattered everywhere as they could see a building, somewhat resembling that of a palace.
Between the palace and them, there was a huge ravine where nothing could be seen at the bottom.
In front of that ravine, a platform could be seen with 3 crystals in three different locations. The crystals were huge as it was hard to miss. Spiders swarmed around the crystals as there were openings for more spiders to come.
"The next bosses are in there. But first, we'll have to open the gates for the boss. We'll need to defend three crystals in three directions. We'll assign 10 people at each crystal and 5 in the middle.
The job of the 5 is to try thin out the herd. But the most important is to shout out the location of the Spider Knight. When you see the knight, you must call out its location and which crystal it's heading towards." Jonas said as he made sure everyone understood.
"When we know the direction of the spider knight, 2 people from each crystal must go to it along with the five in the middle. This leaves us with 8 people on two crystals, no one in the middle, and 19 people focusing on the spider knight.
The 19 people focusing on the knight must kill him before he reaches the crystal. Once he's dead, we must grab his head and run to the centre. The head will then glow brightly as the carrier must stand still for a whole minute. In this time, every spider is aggroed to him so we need to defend him.
Similar to last time, 2 people from each crystal must go and help him. This gives us 11 people protecting the carrier.
After the minute has passed, the light around him will glow green. The carrier must them run to any crystal and pass on the light by touching it.
We then repeat this process on the other crystals until we have all three being lit up got it?"
"Yes!" They responded. Everyone here knew the basics as even if they didn't they can just keep the role of killing the mobs around the crystal.
[I have a question.]
"Go on."
[Let's label the crystals 1 to 3. This will make it easier and less confusing.] Shiro suggested.
"Hmm… true. Alright let's go with that. The crystal closest to us is 1, the one to the left is 2 and the right is 3.
For the people in the centre, it shall be Shiro, Lyrica, Silvia, Josh and Ken. The people for crystal 1 is…"
Jonas proceeded to assign roles as he then picked two people from each team to assist in killing the Spider knight.
"You know your roles, you know where you should be. Now all that's left is to execute. Let's go!" Jonas said as they dashed towards the platform.
Shiro froze the ground beneath her feet as her eyes narrowed at the spiders in the centre.
Giving Lyrica a glance, they nodded at each other as Shiro flicked her wrist and spikes shot up, piercing the spiders.
Lyrica put strength into her legs as she dashed forwards. Vaulting up using her dual ended blade, she killed all the spiders.
"CENTRE CLEARED!" Silvia shouted out as Shiro flicked her wrist and made her a small platform. This was to give her a better sight of the platform and increase her healing potential.
"CRYSTAL 1 CLEAR!" Jonas shouted out as they made short work of the spiders near crystal 1.
"CRYSTAL 3 CLEAR!"
"CRYSTAL 2 NEEDS HELP!"
Hearing the call, Shiro turned towards them and flicked her wrist. 3 ice spears shot out and broke apart as they pierced the remaining spiders.
"THANKS!"
"ALL CRYSTALS CLEAR! ACTIVATE ON GO! 3! 2! 1! GO!" Silvia shouted as the three crystals erupted with blue light.
*CRRRRAAKKKK!!!!!!!!
Echoes of spiders rang out as they started to flood out from the walls.
[Lyrica, in a while, I want you to carry the head.] Shiro typed as Lyrica was the best option in her opinion. The main reason was due to her level. Being the lowest level here, it was best for her to take the head so others can help cover for her.
"Alright." Lyrica nodded as it was probably for the best.
The spiders continued to crawl in as the team tried their best to kill them the moment they appear.
"SPIDER KNIGHT SPOTTED!! NEAR CRYSTAL 2!" Silvia shouted as Shiro made 5 ramps for them to get to the knights faster.
Two people from each crystal followed as they saw the knight.
The knight was around 2 meters tall, and 3 meters wide. Metallic looking black armour and slow moving speed.
[Spider Knight LVL 20]
HP: 75,000/75,000
"KILL!"
Flicking her wrist, Shiro flipped the knight on its back as she jumped up and made another ice spike.
Piercing the knight, she kicked off the spear and landed softly.
Lyrica dashed right after and cut towards the fleshy sections between the joints.
The whole ordeal didn't take more than a few minutes as the knight was killed.
Making an ice cleaver, Shiro cut off the head of the spider and kicked it towards Lyrica.
Dashing back to the centre, the head in Lyrica's hand glowed just like what Jonas said.
Sliding on her feet slightly, Shiro spun her body as she created a dome around Lyrica and a frozen field in the centre at the same time.
Slamming her palms into the ground, pillars rose up as they were primed and ready to fire towards intruders.
Quickly drinking another MP potion, Shiro clenched her fist since the spiders were already swarming towards her.
*PHEW PHEW PHEW PHEW!
Spears of ice shot out from the pillars as it pierced a few of the spiders.
They were coming from every direction except up and down. With the help of the others, they were able to keep the spiders at bay whilst still helping each of the crystals.
A minute passed as the head evaporated and absorbed into Lyrica's body.
"RUN TO CRYSTAL 1!"
"GOT IT! Lyrica shouted back as she dashed towards crystal 1. With Shiro's ice to help, she was able to arrive in breakneck speeds.
Placing her palms on the crystal. The light transferred over as the crystal changed colours.
"NICE! ROTATION 1 IS DONE! 2 MORE! LET'S KEEP THIS UP, EVERYONE!" Jonas shouted out words of encouragement as the overall potential of this raid party was much higher than he expected.
Returning back to their respective location, Lyrica took a moment to get her breath back.
The hardest part to this wasn't the fact that it was difficult to kill the knights, but rather stamina issues. With the constant bombardment of the spiders, it took a massive toll on their stamina.
"SECOND KNIGHT FOUND! CRYSTAL 3!"
Repeating the process, they managed to pass rotation 2 without problems.
However, at this point, everyone was tired as the defence was getting harder.
Shiro was fine as her method of attack was her magic. As for Lyrica and the other close ranged combatants, they were struggling heavily as they could barely get a moment to take a break.
Since this was the last rotation, everyone was tense and their nerves were strained.
It was in situations like this that a person was tested. Chances of failure or mistakes were at an all-time high as even Shiro was feeling a little nervous. Not because she couldn't handle it, but rather due to her teammates.
"FINAL KNIGHT! CRYSTAL 2!"
Dashing towards the final knight, Shiro noticed the damage per second decrease dramatically as they had to spend almost 10 minutes to kill it.
Thankfully, it was the last knight so they could get a break.
"STOP!" Shiro shouted out instinctively, seeing what someone was about to do.
They tripped over their own leg as they were about to stab the head of the dead knight. If that happened, they would need to survive for almost an hour for another knight to appear.
Gritting her teeth, she flicked her wrist as she blasted the adventurer away, freezing him to the wall.
Silvia understood why Shiro had to do it and quickly healed the adventurer up.
Fortunately, nothing else went wrong as all three crystals glowed green and sent out 3 pulses. This forced the spiders away as they finally had a moment to take a break.
"Fuuuu…." Wiping away her sweat, Shiro sat down with fatigue.
"Good job guys! Take this moment to rest up before the next fight!" Jonas called out as they took a short break.
The guy who Shiro had to blast away wasn't too pleased as he was constantly glaring at her.
Seeing this, Lyrica got annoyed at it was the man's fault that they could have been wiped.
She was about to stand up and walk over when Shiro grabbed Lyrica's arm.
[Don't go causing trouble. He's only glaring. If we increase the discord within our party, it will only hinder us and not benefit.] Shiro shook her head.
Lyrica frowned as she could only swallow back her anger.
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