Chapter 246 - There’s a Cure!? (1/2)
Chapter 246 – There's a Cure!?
Had it been an ordinary fight between monsters and players, the latter would never complain or panic because of a few death.
However, the stake of this game was too high. Players played it seriously as if they were in a real war.
”Magnus is converted! Get away from him!”
”Watch your ally's PF! If it's zero, kill them before they got converted! Don't worry about the penalty!”
”A knight got on the wall! Concentrate fire on that guy!”
Chaotic shouting and commanding mixed in as players tried to communicate with their friends or their party members.
During the chaos, Tama controlled Misha's body to kick a converted player to the face and sunk her tentacles into his flesh.
The long tentacles were like parasite snakes, digging into his body and began drinking his blood.
Although he kept struggling to pull Tama's tentacles off himself, his strength could not fight against Misha and Tama's 8,960 STR.
500!
500!
Red numbers appeared on his head, while green numbers showed up on above Misha's avatar.
+500!
+500!
But once Tama's mouth found the victim's heart, the color changed to blue.
+500!
It only appeared once, but the precious psych force recovered. Misha's PF increased a bit to extend her life as she was too busy fighting against black slimes in her mind space.
Tama kept glancing at the converted player's HP. The moment it was lower than 2,000 HP, she released the knight and tossed it to a player with high PF remaining.
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
Players and NPC mercenaries were like hyenas whenever a boss' HP almost reached zero. All of them fought to get the last shot to obtain EXP and rewards.
Tama did not care about those anymore since Misha's life was more important.
*BOOM*
The monster died and exploded all items that the converted player had, including a status orb and other goodies, such as upgrade stones, enhance stones, and the likes.
The slime knight entered the mind space of the nearest player instantly, which stopped him from looting the items.
Tama heaved a sigh of relief that the knight did not invade Misha's mind. She glanced at Misha's remaining PF.
1,750 / 18,400
It dropped to a critical state. Within a few more minutes, Misha would have none remaining if this kept up.
Tama pulled another kobold and used the same trick, drinking its blood to the last drop to get the blue recovery number.
+100!
A normal kobold could only give 100 PF to Misha using this tactic, but Tama took 3-4 seconds to get it. On the other hand, Misha's PF dropped at a rate of 50 per second.
They were running out of time!
*Mew* (I can't push the fight anymore. I have to retreat!)
Tama piloted Misha's body away from the fight, retreating from the front line.
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In the sky, Shurka and Mii encountered a similar situation. The girl's PF kept decreasing as she continued to kill black slimes in her mind space. Meanwhile, Mii tried her best to boost her master's psych force, but she could not keep up.
*Mii* (Shurka, hang in there.)
>
570 / 15,000
>
520 / 15,000
*Mii* (Not good! Retreating!)
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Not only Shurka and Misha fled from the battle because of their low PF, Sasha, Natalie, Des, and Non retreated from the outer wall defense line toward the second city wall.
They panted as they sat on the ground, dying for air to breathe.
Their PF was in the red, almost hit zero.
Five thousand players were also in a similar condition as they ran away for their lives without caring about the loot or rewards, lying on the ground on the frontline.
It was not worth risking their lives for small gains like status points or upgrade stones. After all, they were aware that once the slime defeated them in their mind space, they might die for real.
Over 2,000 players were converted during the fight, and they joined forces with kobolds.
3,000 players were still struggling on the frontline, killing as many slimes as they could.
Remaining 10,000 kept running back and forth between the city and the battlefront. Some were killed during the fight against kobolds, so they ran back to rejoin the battle again. Some lifestyle players carried medical supplies to help others. Some players helped the local NPCs in the city, migrating elders and children away toward the inner city area as the outer walls were about to fall.
Everyone believed that the first layer of defense would fall soon despite the help of NPCs and mercenaries.
After all, they might be able to kill all kobolds, but they might not survive another wave of monsters, led by Calisto.
Still, one felionian did not give up.
”CATTO SLASHU!!”
*BOOM*
Moo's glaive cut through 10 Kobolds. After they were dead, the felionian only paused for a second before he resumed combat.
”CATTO CUTTO!!”
*BOOM*
20 Kobolds killed this time.
”CATTO D.I.C.KU SLAPPU!!”
*BOOM*