“3982 Boss” Tikari calls out from afar with that lovely voice of hers.

“Right, so that’s 39 people worth…anyone want to stack like crazy?” There are 15 of us left plus the Npc’s…not a good number.

“I suggest, either we split them up or do what Daren and Co. are doing and giving them all to Marty” Zzoid speaks out from somewhere.

What? Marty’s getting all the candy?

Sure enough we see the Npc’s all giving him the candy.

He stops munching on them and gives us a semi-guilty look.

“I arr ror or rurh” He swallows as we all look at him confused. “I have lots of luck”

Oh so candy effects is based on luck (well obviously I guess)!

But we don’t have anyone with the Lucky skill though so it’s a 50/50 on a good/bad effect…

Hmm, so giving them all to Marty would be a wise choice.

Also that’s a very good question…just how many stacks of effects does he have right now?

“Sadly one can only have 10 candy effects at once so really I just eat candy to swap out the lesser effects and because they’re delicious” He does add on as everyone's musing what to do.

Oh so the effects are swapped out after max? But is that random too?

“Hmm, so there’s not much point giving you candy then, so we should divide it equally among us” Dillydally states and everyone is inclined to nod.

Right, so that means 8 of us still haven’t had candy yet and then dividing the other 31 everyone will have 3 effects (But if we remove SirStripy and Kookle then that’s only…26(?) candy used? So 5 candy for those who’ve got good effects).

I don’t know but let’s do this…before the next wave starts.

“I say we divide it 200 per person, 300 if you don’t have an effect. That should leave us with 500 odd candy to dish out based on needs” Tikari’s quicker than me on the maths and is already ordering the numbers around.

I get my 200 and start munching them down rather distastefully (not much of a sweet tooth).

Wave 6: Beasts

Remaining Monsters: 21282

Remaining Minibosses: 14

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Well we are totally screwed…I mean why are they doing this all in one wave!?

Forcefully shoving all the candy down my throat I forget to breathe till I’ve swallowed all of them.

“S-*cough*QUAD ANIMAL, NORTH GATE”

“EVERYONE ELSE SOUTH” I scream out.

“Honey you’re with my on the east side” Roirra tells her partner and they bound off to the east”

“Guess I’m soloing west” Marty shrugs and darts over the fence, lighting fast speed and dropping out of sight.

“Point to me where they are and I will kill them all for ruining my tavern” Daren looks pretty bloodthirsty right now…

*Bang*

“OY WHAT IS WITH THIS GOD DAMNED COMMOTION!”

Oh it’s Jenna, carrying a massive sack and something else on her back!

“Oh it’s You” She looks downwards at me. Oh you are a marvelous sight as always Jenna.

But she’s negative intimacy with me again isn't she? Well that sucks.

“Jenna…my shop” Daren looks on the verge of angry tears.

“I see” She takes out a large crossbow from her back with a canister on top of it; odd but cool! “Point me in their direction” As hotblooded as Daren it seems.

“Hello…I…heard there’s a commotion” Nathan!

He shuffles out his store and sits down next to Darlene, here to watch then? Ok, fine!

Not that I want to ask you for help because you give me mandatory quests screwing up my entire quest life…

“AWOO”

Oh no they’re here.

Swiveling back round to the outside, sure enough there’s a large wave of oh yay, wolves!

And they’re sterioided with Moon!

INCOMING GIANT FREAKING BLACK WOLVES! (Though this time I actually have stats to fight it).

You know, a machine gun would be awesome to have right now.

*Bzzzzzh tufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftuff*

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I know I wished for one but what the hell was-JENNA?

Sure enough she takes off the strange cylinder, replacing it from one in her sack.

“Damn Jenna where’d you get that from” Daren looks shockingly impressed. Wait shouldn’t’ you have an idea where she got a machine gun crossbow from?

“Yidoo” She gives a menacing grin as she clanks the string back into place and aims at the closing in horde of wolves.

*Bzzzzzh tufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftufftuff*

I count at least 20 dead bristling with bolts…damn that’s freaking powerful!

“EVERYONE CHAAARGE” I scream out as Jenna begins reloading once more.

I sprint forward and immediately I’m in front of a wolf, WHAT?

It’s as shocked as I am so it doesn’t dodge my full body blow, stunning it and thus I quickly finish it off.

Ok, so am I super fast?

Locking onto the next wolf, metres away, I pop in front of it in what feels like one step, kicking it’s jaw loose.

Ok so I am super speedy.

Zipping round the field, I dodge Daren’s huge sword decapitating multiple wolves with a single swing, keeping the horde at bay.

But after less than a minute my sudden speed boost disappears, landing me into the claws of a wolf for almost 40 damage! Ouch!

Though that wolf dies moments later, by seemingly no one…thank you Zzoid, but please stop laughing…

And as soon as we started, we’re finished…all the wolves are dead.

Well we must’ve fought something close to 100 of them…so the first wave (ironic I know) of beasts.

“What’s everyone’s abilities?” I call out to the rest, hoping to see what we can use.

“Invisibility, Projection and uncontrAHHAHAH” He starts into a fit of laughter from far away. Wow he got some pretty useful things.

"Tous les Loups on peur de moi, mais je ne peu pas les tuer"

Ook?

“She can’t kill wolves but they’re scared of her so that’s something” Charmine quickly translates. Well what a strangely useless combination.

More wolves start baying their way over here, a larger number this time round.

*tuff* Jenna’s machinegun crossbow starts firing once more, tearing into the mass of wolves, literally a one woman army…

Right back into the fray!

My super speed is back and it almost feels like I’m teleporting around as I bounce from wolf to wolf, killing them before they can even realize my presence.

However when my speed finally subsides, after 5 jumps apparently…I duck under the next wolf’s claws kicking it in the jaw, but getting slashed in the back.

Oh no, there’s a lot of them here.

Bitch slapping the wolf, its jaw breaks and I dive under the next attack, rolling up to a punch in the throat.

“HELP” Someone screams from closeby.

Oh no can’t have someone dying already!

But I’ve got 3 wolves to worry about.

Dammit!

Dodging under two sets of claws, but getting the third through my side, I’m going to die soon!

Break a leg, break anothers’ ribs. Sidestep the third’s attack and kick it in the back breaking its spine.

No time to finish off the ones on the floor as more come.

Super speed infront of one, fist going through it’s big eye and into its squidgy brain (EUGH).

Since my hand is already in there, use the wolf to bash away the one next to it before kicking at a third pouncing towards me.

“YAAAAH” One BC charging through causing every wolf in the vicinity to immediately cower and back away from her..but I swear they were already fearful before she came her.

Still, she’s literally a fear train, although suddenly passive...

Jumping onto a nearby feared wolf, I crack its skull with a fist and a thick wooden bolt penetrate a nearby wolf, embedding to the feathers.

No more wolves come at me after that.

Phew survived that…somehow.

Everyone retreats back to the gate, and immediately I see we’ve lost 2 people. 2 people!

The monkey-beastlady and the Robin-beastlady…both gone

“What happened?”

“Surrounded” Charmine spills a few tears on the ground, covered in blood more than likely some of it her own.

“The three of them were surrounded” Zzoid helpfully whispers into my ear. Ah, survivors guilt, not nice.

“Right, so everyone, I have a plan how we’re fighting the next group” Everyone raises their eyebrows “If we all follow BoneCrusher we should be able to kill off all the feared wolves without a hitch.”

No one seems to disagree.

"Zzoid and Jenna, kill anything that’s coming towards the village. Daren you’re up front."

They nod (well I don’t know about Zzoid but I’m guessing he does).

“Right so ski-”

*AWOOO*

Nevermind, back into action…

We make a two person wide line behind BC : Daren and Charmine first, then Blacky and the Owl-beastman.

I stay back with Jenna, mostly because I think my super speed is useful to help save others, much like how Zzoid’s strange projection ability will help with that too.

Just got to ignore his laughter…which is really disconcerting with the whole situation…

This wave is bigger than the last, like double the size. Bajesus that’s a lot of wolves.

“ALLER ALLER ALLER” BC roars as she begins towards the wolves.

Immediately I see just how much of an effect the fear has; all the wolves closeby start cowering and get quite succinctly murdered by the other 4 (most weidling weapons. I believe Blacky stole an axe off someone…).

Daren looks to be in a particular rage, even leaving the train momentarily to pile into a group, surrounding himself an hacking away at them all, killing dozens before rejoining the train.

Well this candy can be pretty awesome

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At one point, Charmine just jumps into a crowd of wolves.

Immediately I super speed up to her, fist driving through the side of a wolf’s neck and kicking another to death, opening up an exit for her.

“I’LL BE FINE” She screams back, hacking away at the wolves with her broken sword, getting raked more than a few times…huh? How is she not dying? She's actually starting to glow red?

Well seems like she’s fine so I super speed away, ducking under a claw and returning back to Jenna’s side, pummeling a too close for comfort wolf as she reloads.

“Hey Joat, I spot something…and it’s not nice” Zzoid speaks from closeby, just what I needed to hear.

“What is it?” I ask him before zipping forward, killing an oncoming wolf and sprinting back.

“It looks like an alpha. About 8 feet tall, silver fur and red eyes…scary looking too”

Well the wave did say it had Minibosses!?

As Zzoid describes it to me, I actually spot it in the glinting moonlight, a small distance away but still quite close.

I speed towards BC

“GET BACK TO JENNA”

Speeding back, killing a few wolves on the way, I watch the train turn around, pushing against the water-like wave of wolves; massacring them by the dozens, sprinting away from the oncoming miniboss.

Unlike before, the wolves behind them and closest to the miniboss start attacking them, tearing into Blacky and almost killing him, before Daren takes over, piling into them with his massive sword.

“FOCUS ON THE BACK OF THE TRAIN” I shout to Zzoid and Jenna, who immediately starts blasting away with crossbow bolts, wiping out an entire group of wolves within seconds.

Our group reaches us thankfully, But both Charmine and Daren are still in the now small horde of maybe a few dozen wolves (wow that train was really effective).

But the miniboss is ontop of them now and it bites into Daren, tearing a chunk of his arm off.

THAT’S BAD.

Super speeding to Daren, I punch the miniboss

-30

That’s some pretty decent defense for an armourless wolf!

“DAREN GET OUT OF HERE”

I spit at the wolf gaining a little bit more agro, before speeding to the other side, kicking its front right leg, the hind left leg in quick succession.

Spotting Daren whittling his way through a group to get out of here, I speed out of the miniboss’ range and to safety with everyone else.

“Ok miniboss has 11 defense, and I have no idea how much health or damage it does…but it’s fast” it had pretty good reaction speed.

Counting maybe 30 wolves heading our way, Jenna mows them down in one go. Wowie…

“Alright, Charmine’s agroing” I point towards her as she is already fighting the wolf, getting scratched to pieces…but it’s not affecting her…did she get invincibility or something?! “Everyone else kill it”

We all charge towards it but then suddenly Charmine explodes?! Taking the Miniboss’ head with it

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What in the name of Aiag just happened?

Well whatever happened…the miniboss is dead…but so is Charmine.

Hell I don’t think there’s even a body to look at!

“Seems like she exploded” Thanks Zzoid for the perceptiveness…captain obvious.

We will never know what she just did…but what we do know is that we’re one person less with one miniboss less.

But if we take those sort of casualties every miniboss…we’re going to be 1 person by the end of this…

And Daren doesn’t look to be in the best shape, especially as most of his left forearm has been ripped off…eugh.

Though he doesn’t seem to mind as he drops his sword, heavily clunking in the ground, and cracks his knuckles...

“Seems like I’ve got to beat them up the old fashioned way then”

“Mhm, might have to join you soon on that” Jenna looks into her sack, and the floor around her already littered with empty cylinders.

*YOWL*

Panthers…oh god not these lot again!

I mean the wolves weren’t too bad but the panthers are a lot higher level normally and they’re a lot faster when steroided up…

Peeking at my remaining group…many there’s not many of us left: Me, Zzoid, Daren, Jenna, Blacky, the Owl and BC…this isn’t going to end well.

Luckily it seems like there’s only 100 of them coming at us. Ok not impossible then.

Already Jenna’s at it, culling the horde down a substantial amount. Jeez that’s over 100 metres away, hell of a distance for a ranged attack…

Fear train starts rushing out and so do I, taking out only 2 panthers before retreating.

I do get to watch some die almost magically…most likely from Zzoid, while the ones around stop and try sniff the enemy out… wow that’s stopped a good number of them.

This wave doesn’t last long since the fear train still has an effect on the panthers, and they kill them off with ease.

Halleulaih to candy effects.

Though I do wonder what Blacky have or the Owl…hmm…

“Blacky, Owl, what did your candy give you?” I ask after they come back, looking pretty worn out.

“I don’t get hungry…I’m colourblind and my teeth have grown” He opens his jaw and sure enough his front canines are sticking out quite a lot.

Wow what useless effects…

“The name is Sino and I’ve got rock music playing in my head right now. Apart from that…” He raises his hands in the air in exhasperation.

How have these two even survived this long?

“Zzoid, you are our only hope”

“Oh thanks Joat, I’ve always known I am the one”

Yeah yeah, gloat all you can because you may not be alive in a few minutes time if we’re not lucky.

But seemingly we are; the next wave of panthers is still quite small, like exactly the same amount as before kind of small.

So they get massacred all the same, but both the axe and the mace break in battle…so no one has a weapon but Jenna…perfect and now all that we need is for her to run out of ammo.

“Guys, after this round I’m going to be out of ammo” Jenna warns us all…I wish I stopped jinxing everything (but I still don’t believe in it!).

Next round is worse; a lot more panthers come out. But with the fear train in action most cower and don’t really reach Jenna.

Those that do are quickly dispatched on the way by both me and Zzoid.

Well that was a surprisingly easy couple of rounds.

While I have everyone lie down for a few minutes, Zzoid ties magically visible cloth (probably his beginner clothes) around Daren’s still bleeding arm.

Don’t know why no one tied it up before but Daren’s looking pretty pale…and he looks to be out of action for now.

That isn’t good.

“Blacky, take Daren to the carriage, away from Kookle”

“Why there?”

“Because that is where we’re going to have our last stand” I mean we’re down to 6 people…we’re not going to be able to fend of hundreds of them forever…especially now as we don’t have the machinegun crossbow anymore…

“We should back up there now” Zzoid calls out pensively…hmm he may be right, but we shouldn’t do it so early.

“Wait why are we retreating? Sino hoots queringly

“Because there’s 6 of us and literal hundreds of them…” And I’m not the best at math’s either…

“Oh…we were fighting against hundreds of them?”

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Is he blind or something?

Maybe that’s one of the candy effects…he’s gone blind.

Either that or he just doesn’t know how to count (probably more likely).

Joat, we’re going to back up into the village square now, things are too hectic out on the field…and we’re slowly being wiped out.

Dillydally sends me an ominous message. So it’s not only us who are slowly getting wiped out…

“Right, we’re going into the village centre, now”

I start jogging over there, followed by everyone and we quickly meet the remaining members of Squad Animal: Tikari and Dillydally…wait, just 2 of them?

“How?” Literally everyone but those 2 are dead (not counting SirStripy or Kookle)?!

“Lost Kandien to the wolves…got too much agro. The rest, died in the miniboss, big Alpha…” He looks dejectedly at the ground.

“But how did you survive this wave with just the two of you?”

“Dillydally gains strength everytime he kills something…it’s pretty over powered if you ask me” Tikari graces my ears with her voice.

“My stats are inflated to the point of they’re going to hit 4 digits sometime soon”

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Seriously? Why didn’t I get something godly like that!?

“But once I’m out of combat I’m back to normal”

Still pretty bloody OP to me!

“Right, well we’re definitely going to need you in the next while then” I give him a pat on the shoulder. I know he’s feeling guilty the rest of his Squad is dead…

“I estimate we’ve killed about 1,500 on our side and 1 miniboss…guessing it’s the same with you?”

“It doesn’t matter how many I kill, as long as none reach you” I stroke her tiny chin softly.

“Yes around the same” Zzoid explains since I can only gaze at this shining beauty.

“So we should be getting a miniboss every 1500 of them then…so we should be ready for a miniboss next round” Why must she look so divine when musing so deeply?

The sounds of combat on the west finish and faster than I can register, Marty is standing on top of the carriage, with a most worrying Casper on the drivers seat trying to get him down off there.

“Well seems like we’re losing quite a few people and my guess is we’re maybe a third of the way” He states and leaps down, cracking his neck. “Just means we’ve got two thirds of the way to go” Great, thanks for the inspirational speech Marty…not.

Roirra and Regnar both appear a few minutes later, armour ragged, shield bent and sword broken, along with an empty quiver.

Well if they’re so beaten up we don’t exactly hve much of a fighting force for the next two thirds of the wave.

“Damn, Pantheress’ are really difficult to deal with!” Roirra spits on the ground, unstringing the bow.

Regnar just silently nods as he drops the sword and shield on the ground, both now useless.

“Quick question…why isn’t the rest of the village helping us?” Zzoid asks from somewhere…well that is a really good question indeed.

“Well that’s because I was preparing something” A new chirpy voice responds from a distance.

Coming out of the side of the house into a wide alleyway, a short, frail looking man with spiky red hair and a mousy face grunts as he heaves on a rope, taut and disappearing into the open side of his house.

The Hispanic couple go over and pull on the rope too, revealing it to be attached to something wooden on wheels.

It’s a rectangle…with hundreds of holes in it.

No idea what it is, but it’s surely beautiful.

“Yidoo, took your time” Jenna goes over and gives him a little plonk on the head.

“I had to fill up the canister, takes ages to do that you know” He whines as he continues to pull out the giant machine crossbow, moving it to face the southern entrance.

“Wow that looks WAHAHAH-ke a wooden missile launcher” Zzoid laughs uncontrollably as he speaks…

“A yrkra wana? What’s that” Yidoo cocks his head, raising a thick red eyebrow.

Ah missile launcher isn’t a word in this world then.

“What this thing is you’ll see very soon” He smiles devilishly and grabs hold of the crank that is attatched to the back of the thing…whatever it is.

“Ok so Yidoo’s got the southern entrance, we shouldn’t need to worry about that for a little while” Marty says and Yidoo nods, well ok then.

Great so one more Npc added to the line of defense…but we’re still 6 short if I remember correctly (there are 14 villagers or that’s what we were told when the village was a raid instance).

“Could we go grab Jarken?” I ask Jenna, who just responds with a look.

Ok guess not then.

But damn he and everyone else in there would be really appreciated right now...also where are the rest of the villagers?

“INCOMING” SirStripy shouts and we all look around…what’s attacking?!

*hiss*

Swerving towards the rooftops, sure enough there’s a lizard hissing at us…along with a few hundred others.

Oh my that’s a lot of them!

“SNAKES” Someone shouts over to my right, but I don’t have any time to look at there as there are a dozen or so lizards jumping my way. Wait htere's 2 types of animals attacking?

Speeding to the roof (I think I’m actually teleporting…)I start kicking away at the 5 foot long lizards with razor sharp claws and a mad look in their eyes. These things are huge!

Fighting on the rooftop there’s only a dozen or so here which get quickly obliterated by me.

*Braaaaar*

That’s a bear sound!? 3 types attacking us? are we going to have to deal with everything all at once?!

*BuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuff*

What the hell was that???

Spending half a second to look away from the oncoming lizards, I spot a wall of dead bear and quite literally a storm of bolts bursting out of the strange rectangle…damn that’s awesome!

-25 ow!

Teleporting (I’ve decided I’m teleporting) behind a lizard I kick it off the roof before punching another and getting grabbed around the waist by a third. It gets a fist on the top of its skull.

Soon my roof is empty, having killed dozens of them and I have a moment to glance down to see what’s the situation; Dillydally is wading through a stream of bears his pace increasing by the second, while everyone else covers Yidoo, BC’s fear having some effect on the oncoming horde, creating chaos infront of everyone, who add to this chaos by massacring everything infront of them.

These Npc’s are just insane: Marty is nowhere to be seen but a huge trail of bodies shows where’s he’s been.

Jenna and Co. are punching away, getting badly bitten by snakes and lizards but still powering through. Daren's even back up looking slightly better and fighting with his life on the line.

Nathan has multiple crates of potions and is bouncing about, forcefully pouring different coloured potions down everyone's throat or smashing it on them without a care.

Darlene is sitting and drinking by Yidoo who is constantly cranking his machine which is decimating the oncoming bears…like literally not even a single one gets within metres of this contraption.

-33

I got distracted too long.

Kicking the lizard, I teleport into the group, getting a snake bite for 42 damage (OUCH) within a moment of being there.

Immediately I get a magenta tinted potion forced down my throat, then a silver, olive, copper, aquamarine and a few more who’s colours I don’t get to register because I’m being splashed with them in quick succession.

You have healed 100hp

+30 defense

+200hp max

+50 movement speed

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I don’t have time to see the other effects but damn! Buffs! So that’s how everyone’s somehow surviving all this. Sure enough Nathan gives me another dozen or so potions, staggered as he flits to other people frantically.

I hope to Aiag I’m not forced to pay these back…

“I NEED TO RELOAD” Yiddo screams over the din of battle, to the dismay of us all.

Oh god.

*HISS*

Oh Aiag!

Pouncing from the rooftop is a Lizard, easily double the size of the others, with yellow and black stripes…definitely poisonous.

And a second one jumps from another roof onto us: Fully black and darting around almost as fast as the snakes (well vipers) that keep coming from literally everywhere.

Both miniboss lizards pounce towards us, but neither reach the ground alive; Dillydally barrels into one midair, literally crushing its entire side, while Marty appears on top of the other, arms embedded through the eyes to the elbow.

Jeez, both of them are so op right now.

“BLACKY” Someone shouts and I turn to see him drop, the dozen vipers on him obliterated moments later by those nearby.

Damn, how many monsters are going to attack us at one time!?

The bears seem to be wiped out for I don’t see any, but boars are charging through the southern gate and vipers are darting towards us, small, fiery red and extremely hard to dodge (most cases I’m getting bit and having a surprisingly fast Nathan shove healing and antidote potions down my throat).

“RELOADED” Yidoo screams after an eternity and I notice Jenna appear on my left, grabbing and crushing a darting viper with her bare hands, venomous fangs just inches from my neck.

*buffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffbuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuffBuffbuff*

The squeals of dying boars is almost heavenly in my ears. But not as heavenly as Tikari exhaling from effort.

She’s in danger!!

Powering towards her, I jump in front of her, receiving a tusk in the stomach before swatting the boar away and punching a lizard, now rare, in my pounce.

“Are you alright?” I call out to Tikari as she is now protected, but I’m worried she’s hurt.

“I’m fine, just keep fighting”

“For you, anything!” I grab a boars tusk (well impaling my hand really) and break it off, thrusting the tusk into the boars eye before feeling really sticky all of a sudden.

“SPIDERS” SirStripy calls out from up above.

Glancing at the rooftops I see spiders have replaced the lizards, skittering over and many shooting webs in our direction.

Suddenly, our entire half circle of people are stuck in webs, unable to move our feet but still flailing away at everything in front of us.

Two massive spiders hog the roofs, and two pythons also join them, spitting acid towards us.

A massive boar piles through the northern gate, facing off Dillydally for a short moment, losing quite easily…But Dillydally slowly I see him get overpowered; the webs finally taking effect after dozens of bindings. His movement now sealed, everything piles on him; dozens of vipers, tens of boars and lots of spiders, needle-like legs spearing through him.

But even then he kills dozens of them, finishing off the boar miniboss with a last punch before dropping under the sheer amount of beasts attacking him.

Dammit!

BC’s dead now, taken out by the acid spit and numerous attacks, dead before Nathan can heal her.

Tikari’s targeted by the acid so I stand in front of her, getting the full 330 acid damage, melting to the immediate 200 ongoing damage and seeing as my last sight: two boars gore into her from the sides…dammit, I failed to protect her

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(Tikair’s POV)

Boss is dead…but I’m somehow still fine.

Thanks to the old man’s potions the beasts aren’t having too much of an effect on me, but that acid is dangerous.

Acid Resistance +50

Thanks whoever you are…

-150

-100

I get a healing potion shoved down my throat and another splashed onto me stopping the effects…phew.

Placing my webbed arm in front of him, I get 2 vipers biting into it but I don’t care because they only do 8 damage each.

Zzoid appears in front of me, melting before my eyes. Oh no!

I’m the only player left alive? No wait, the owl, is still somehow alive, swerving his upper body to dodge the acid spit dodging so many attacks I don't know how! And he's singing too?!

The gorgeous lady in tight leather pants (I believe she’s called Jenna) doesn’t look too good and Daren, the innkeeper is actually unconscious, face white as snow.

“RELOADING” Yidoo shouts uneccesarily as no one can react to that; we’re all stuck where we are, beasts slowly passing through our gaps and trying to catch the old man.

Only the man called Marty is free.

“CHARRRRRRGE”

The door to Jarkens bursts open and storming out is everyone! Finally!

The webs finally stop my arms and I get multiple giant spiders spearing me with their legs…but they don’t do any damage!

Even though the entire village is overrun with boars and a few bears along with the odd lizard and still a numerous amount of vipers and Spiders covering the rooftops, I think we’re still at an advantage.

The newcomers, all wielding a weapon just pile into every beast they come into; no skill, just pure brute force.

It’s completely one sided; spiders drop onto them only to be speared by multiple spears. Boars charge only to be bashed away by maces. Vipers dart towards them only to be sliced by swords and axes and nothing that goes against them up front can stop them as the giant human called Jarken literally clears the area with a massive double-headed axe.

Hundreds of beasts die within seconds, all the minibosses already dead by Marty’s hand I’m assuming as I spot him slicing open one of the Matriarch spiders’ abdomens before disappearing hastily.

Another few vipers bite into me, their fire damage still painful, but nowhere near as bad as they would be without whatever potions the old man gave me.

Someone kills them for me not sure who as there are literally dozens of them piling through, murdering every monster in the vicinity.

I stand there watching for a long while, seeing them get all the agro, and even though they’re surrounded I don’t see them having much trouble.

Just the number of weapons flailing in the air is enough to halt any sort of assault against them.

The rooftops finally get cleaned up by Marty while I spot Roirra and Regnar still fighting through the webbing, somehow still able to move, along with the old man who is chucking potions towards the mass of players, targeting mostly the women my eyes do catch oddly enough.

We’re going to owe the old man a lot…

Fighting lasts for so long, long enough that I feel the odd sensation of heat and liquid leave my body, the feeling of something strong encasing me drift away.

I see the rooftops devoid of life, the streets, littered with beasts and the corpses of a few unlucky players, and only a few beast still fighting, losing badly.

Another short while and the sounds of battle stop completely...leaving an unnerving silence…

*Ding*

Wave 6 Complete!

Personal Kills: 455

Total Deaths: 23

MVP: Marty: 8421, 9 Minibosses

It’s…it’s ov-

Wave 7, Final Wave!: Fireborn Slime

Remaining Monsters: 1

Remaining Bosses: 1

*gulp*

Boss really is the root to all problems isn’t he?

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So close to arc end! Next chappie will be RL! so look forward to that :D

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