Chapter 221: The Devil Is A Devil Even When Its Dead (2/2)

They just couldn’t get rid of them before the little devils reached them—and from the looks of their dark-green razor-sharp talons, they definitely carried the zombie blight too!

It would be game over the Players if they were all infected. The blight rapidly shreds their HP, and all the little devils needed to do was buy time so that they could infect everyone!

Mufasa, being a Player who had his skill points invested purely in Kengyoku without any AoE skills was overwhelmed by the horde in no time at all, swiftly becoming the first victim.

But as things become very dangerous, Princess Leah who had slowly faded into the role of side character felt as if something unseen was poking at her brain. She was promptly inspired, realizing that she was a Warrior Princess and not an ordinary Player with a sword.

Hence, she threw aside her longsword, illogically drew a flagpole lance taller than herself out of nowhere and stabbed it firmly into the ground.

“Blitzkrieg Formation! Temporal Drag!”

Hence, a golden halo immediately cascaded away around the girl from beneath the flagpole and unfurled outwards.

All the Players within the circle of light promptly felt their bodies becoming much lighter, whereas the little devils would become much slower when the same light touched them!

“Well done!” Edward’s eyes twinkled. Having assumed that this would be a team wipe, he swiftly relayed new instructions to the other Players. “Hit them now! Don’t mind it if your attacks aren’t in sync—just hit hard!”

Having escaped imminent doom, the Players rallied and cast a myriad of skills at the horde of little devils, with most spells detonating amidst the creatures with colorful fireworks.

Eventually, only a handful of the little devils were left when they finally reached the Players. Even if they were quite agile in movement after being caught in Temporal Drag, they were actually weaker than Player zombies and were soon mostly culled by the other Players.

But just as the Players assumed that the day was once and became at ease and even started chatting while fighting, whatever little demons that remained began to balloon like a pufferfish—just like Nightcry’s corpse did not too long ago.

“Tsk, are these things going to split apart too?!”

The Players shuddered at the thought of those little devils bursting into even smaller, mini devils, and began to focus their firepower to kill them all immediately.

And yet, the little devils weren’t bursting into mini devils.

In the instant that the Players struck their bloated bodies, they burst apart like a pricked balloon, letting loose green gasses with the scent of apples that shrouded all the Players.

“I’m hit…” Edward dropped to the ground.

The green gas was naturally zombie blight—and unlike how it was transmitted by touch or open wounds before, the debuff effect stacks according to the amount of green gas that each Player breathed in. Even if the Clerics and Holy Lancers would persistently purify them, only one layer of debuff could be removed!

Moreover, their skills were on cool down—meaning that every Player would become a zombie before their zombie blight status fades!