Chapter 229 - The First "Commandment" (1/2)
Ignoring the chaos caused by the announcement that occurred all over the world who is currently playing Alternate World, we are now facing a raid boss. Seeing the 15x beside the health bar of the boss means this guy is needed to be ”killed” 15 times before he can be officially killed with his final health.
”I am nervous, this is the first raid I have ever participated in! I heard that raids should be needed to be done with multiple people and I heard that most of the time, guilds and more guilds would be fighting over to the raid,” Dolly said.
”You are not wrong that raids are usually done by multiple players, usually multiple guilds fighting for the last kill. But since we will not be receiving any help from other players, we will be doing the raid by ourselves.”
I didn't say that the raids can even be soloed since this is the first raid that occurred in the game. There is no way she will believe it so I just said the most basic explanation of what the raid does.
”Heh! No worries, Dolly! As someone who has done raids before, I can assure you will beat this thing that it will never be capable of reviving again!”
We face the skeleton and soon enough, he is now regaining stability and he slowly made some movement. The mouth seems to be struggling at first but soon, it is now doing well. It also started speaking.
”HOW DARE YOU ALL KILL ME! I AM INVINCIBLE! DIE!”
The voice of the skeleton is the distorted version voice of First. So it seems like the soul of First decided to use this last bit of chance to fight back and win. As expected of a necromancer, he will do whatever it takes to win.
He slams his big hands to the ground and it shook pretty hard. However, due to his slow movement, removing his hand from the ground took some time.
”Now! Attack!
Lucia quickly bombarded the hands with flames. Atlas also used this chance to keep on hitting the bones. The rest of us are dealing damage to the boss. I didn't participate in the damage phase and instead purchased some spells from the Alchemist skill tree and distribute buffs to everyone. Since we are limited on the raid and not everyone can do a solo raid like me who already have done something similar, I will have to give them some bit of support so that we can take down the boss rapidly.
[ATK UP, MAG UP, DODGE RATE UP, CRIT RATE UP, CRIT DMG UP, DEF UP, HEALING UP, RECOVERY UP, AGILITY UP, ATK SPEED UP buffs Received]
Seeing the notifications before them, they grinned.
”Thanks, Bladeheart! Now we can deal serious damage on this sh*t!” Dolly is now fired up and seeing the buffs, it seems she is now more motivated to deal another set of attacks to the boss.
”GRAAAAAH!”
Due to the increase of buffs, the attacks were capable of reducing the HP of the First Commandment down and forced it to reach the 14th, health bar.
”YOU DARE STRUGGLE BEFORE ME!? SERVANTS! SERVANTS! RISE UP, MY SERVANTS, AND SERVE YOUR GREAT LORD!”
His red eyes glint and the skeletons that were previously killed from the death of First's original body reappeared and this time, they are filled with a red aura on their bodies.
”They resurrected?!” Topaz frowned.
”Don't worry about it guys, focus on the boss, I will take care of the skeletons!”
After that, I summoned another set of skeletons myself and helping them fight the summoned skeletons.
”STRUGGLE HUMANS! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MY WRATH! FEEL THE POWER OF A TRUE GOD!”
First slams his two hands this time to flatten the others. But since the attack is slow, everyone managed to escape the range of his attacks. The only ones who are not able to survive that attack were none other than the skeletons. who were chasing the others. Seeing that the hands of [The First Commandment] are now back on the ground, everyone immediately attacked the hands without relenting.
Aside from the occasional taunt lines he constantly throws at us, he is too big to be that strong. Also, due to him being a skeleton, he is not that much of a problem. However, I can see how some people will struggle with this raid. Due to the division of people, the players would only be capable of defending against the summoned skeletons and before they can even deal any damage to the hands, the boss will retract his hands and everyone will lose this chance.
That is why in raids, there is always an assignment on who will deal with the boss and who will deal with the mobs. In our situation, the ones who are dealing with the mobs is only me and the rest is the one dealing the main damage. Some people will say that this is an uneven distribution of forces but this is not uneven. This is the most optimal way to make sure that the boss will be down sooner than later.
As someone who is experienced dealing with multiple enemies, they are not a biggie for me. The skeletons might be countless and threaten everyone but too bad that they faced me.