Chapter 0067

Erica’s pov

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: That comment about Kaleseze was bull.

Erica didn’t doubt for a moment Sylphie knew about the other team stalking the [Sinister Black Wyvern]. She too good to discount the outside factor. Erica suspect there was something wrong with the scenarios since Sylphie told them to stalk the [Sinister Black Wyvern] instead of tagging and bagging it.

[Party - Sylphie]: Whatever do you mean?

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: You knew there was another group out there stalking the [Sinister Black Wyvern] but you weren’t 100% sure so you sent Leviene out there as bait.

Sylphie nonchalantly shrug her shoulders. Her demeanor was too calm for Erica not to be suspicious. Then there was the devilishly demonic smile Erica has come to know as Sylphie’s signature ‘someone’s going to get into trouble’ smile.

[Party - Sylphie]: Better them than us.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: Don’t you mean better Leviene than us.

[Party - Sylphie]: No. You’ll see once in rez Leviene. Be ready to kill all the stragglers.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: …

Erica didn’t understand. Ever since she was transported to Arashia, she began to question everything she thought she knew about her family, from Leviene’s holy mother image to the truth about her extended family. Now Sylphie, who was supposed to be the loving cousin, changed into a diabolical schemer who sent her much loved cousin to her death.

Erica saw the troubled glances the brothers were giving the cousins. Aetharious and Egarious were cautious in their interaction with the cousins, so they didn’t say anything when they saw the blatant betrayal.

The double cross was so obvious, the only player who didn’t realize anything is the dead Perrian Let out there.

Erica read the confusion from their gazes. The brothers have been model allies during the last two days. They were conscientious of the group. They looked after all the party members, even the suspicious Leviene. There wasn’t a hint of betrayal from the brothers.

There wasn’t a hint of betrayal from Sylphie either. From their interaction with the girls so far, Sylphie had always pampered Leviene and Erica antagonized the short Perrian Let. If there was a scheme, then the likely suspect would be the brothers!

Erica’s eyes conveyed her confusion to the brothers. “I’m in the dark as much as you guys are.”

Until Sylphie rez Leviene.

Erica finally understood Sylphie’s previous comment about better them than us.

Leviene… was a monster once she was resurrected.

Erica saw hints about Leviene’s true ability when she was zombie killing the idiots at Pixie Hill. Leviene’s performances back then was in the realm of possibilities. The experienced gamer used terrain, the element of surprise and her superior gaming knowledge to her advantage to pick off the enemies one by one.

Although her abilities back then was great, superb even, Erica never realized how powerful Leviene was in her altered state. It was only after killing mobs several levels higher than than her did she realized it takes a more than good gaming skills and luck to kill more than one player, much less an entire party.

Erica watch as Rayael changed to Altreyes, cast Camouflage on herself, moved to a safe corner to change into Leviene to heal herself then got ready to slaughter the enemies.

The opponents number 12.

Erica knew killing 12 players around the same level they are isn’t easy. Erica might be able to do it if everyone backed up her up, however, she doesn’t have Leviene’s courage or in this case, stupidity. She can’t charge into her death.

No one wants to die.

Even though Arashia resembles a virtual reality game and Erica saw first hand players resurrecting themselves when they were killed at Pixie Hill, Erica isn’t keen on dying anytime soon.

Leviene isn’t keen on dying either, but she has the courage to pick herself back up again once she did die.

The experienced gamer maybe a monster but even she couldn’t take on 12 people all alone. Erica watched as Leviene changed into Rayael to tag the [Sinister Black Wyvern] then pulled the boss towards the other group.

[Party - Sylphie]: She’s training the mob.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: Training?

[Party - Sylphie]: Training and kiting a mob means to pull the mob and pull it towards a certain destination. Kiting means the player attacks the mobs with the intent to kill from range, Training is the act of pulling a mob then running towards other players with the intent of using the pulled mobs to kill and/or harm the player.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: So she is going to use the Sinister Black Wyvern to kill the other party?

[Party - Sylphie]: That is my guess.

Erica had to hand it to her. She wouldn’t have thought of it.

The [Sinister Black Wyvern] was enraged by Rayael. It went on a rampage against the intruder and her allies.

The [Sinister Black Wyvern] has four attack method in its arsenal - bite, claw, tail attack and fire breath, a fire magical attack similar to a flame thrower. Bite, claw and tail attacks are easily avoided as long as the tank has some agility. The previous Leviene might have had a hard time with the three attacks considering at normal times she is a clumsy oaf.

Leviene’s hand eye coordination isn’t bad as long as she isn’t rushing. A great example was the legendary dress incident Erica heard Leviene never forgave her for. It was never Erica’s intention to try and scam the young Leviene. Opportunity just presented itself when Leviene pulled Erica to get a drink. In her haste, she spilled the drink on Erica’s dress.

Leviene knew her weakness well enough to enter the nursing field instead of becoming a surgeon. At the time, Erica was puzzled why, until she saw Leviene at a family gathering running around, trying to clean up a mess. What was a minor spill becomes a total electrical blackout.

Suffice to say, Leviene is a mite clumsy.

The zoned out Leviene poses a grace Erica wished she had. She dodged the incoming attacks like a ballerina performing on stage, all flexibility and grace. The other party never had a chance.

The opposing party had to choose between fighting the [Sinister Black Wyvern] or killing Leviene. At first, they decided to divide their forces. One group consist of four dps was sent to kill Leviene and their main force made up of a plate wearing tank, two healers and five dps went to kill the [Sinister Black Wyvern].

Erica can already tell the leader of the group is inept and should be replaced as soon as possible. Coming from years of experience managing a company, any outliers or problems, no matter how small, should be fixed right away or it would snow ball into a bigger problem.

Leviene is a big problem they thought was a small problem.

Erica watched as Leviene flew circles around the [Sinister Black Wyvern] all the while trailed by her pursuers. The three melee dps can’t even get near Leviene, much less hurt her while the range miss half of her attacks.

The attacks that manage to hit her were negated by her HOT spells.

In the beginning of the game, unless a player has really good gear, it is very hard to kill a healer. As a balance to the impressive healing, they can do, healers lack strong attacks. Since Leviene went full healing, the other party can barely whittle her health down. During the entire fight, Leviene’s health never got below 50%.

The other party changes their strategy to focus on the [Sinister Black Wyvern] once they saw the pathetic damage Leviene did. It was the chance Leviene was waiting for. She immediately changes to Altreyes and killed off two of their range.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: Wouldn’t it been better if she went for their healers?

[Party - Sylphie]: Healers are too hard to kill right now.

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: Are we going to help her?

[Party - Sylphie]: Do you want to die?

Erica shut up. In Leviene’s current state, Erica knew she can’t differentiate between friends or foes It is true that party members can’t harm each other, however, the [Sinister Black Wyvern] can kill them.

Once the other side realize Leviene can easily decimate their rearguard, they change their strategy. Now all of their dps was sent to kill Leviene while the healers and tank focus on the [Sinister Black Wyvern].

Altreyes change into Leviene to cast her one heal and a HOT then change into Rayael. A strategy might work the first time, but won’t work the second time. Therefore, Rayael changed her strategy.

The Guardian ran to intercept the [Sinister Black Wyvern] attack with seven players behind her then rushed towards her pursuers and unleashed the [Sinister Black Wyvern] fire breath attack.

Rayael was able to catch her pursuers by surprised. By the time they reacted, half their life was gone.

[Party - Aetharious]: Oh god. Not another insane Guardian!

[Party - TresBelleSoliel]: ???

[Party - Sylphie]: Starting killing the dps now!

When Sylphie issued the ordered to attack, Erica and Egarious immediate head out to attack Rayael’s pursuer. Little Aetharious was a bit slow. He was bemoaning the fact they had to group up with an insane Guardian.

Erica will follow up on the little comment Aetharious made previously, but now it is time to kill.