NOVEL NEXT Chapter 47: Death Flag
"Then don't fall behind, Lucent... Charge x Howl x Orion's Fangs!"
"I know, SilverPup... Charge x Howl x Orion's Claws!"
...Full Moon! / New Moon!...
SilverPup activates her Full Moon Skill, engulfing her whole body in a silver light aura that highly increases her strength, while Luel activates his New Moon Skill, which highly increases his speed given by the sliver shadow aura that engulfs his body.
...ROOAAARRRRR!!!...
With the roar of the two Rank C Ragnarok Beast Lycans signaling the start of the fight, SilverPup and Luel make their move.
"I'm taking the one on the left, Lucent!"
"Then leave the right one to me!"
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The ground under SilverPup shattered as she gathered her strength on her legs and made a powerful dash towards one of the Rank C Lycan.
SilverPup's opponent lowers its stance with both of its hands on the ground. It then made a powerful dash, the same as SilverPup's move, to intercept her with its large open mouth.
The 6-meter class Rank C Lycan has a large mouth that can swallow SilverPup in a single bite, yet SilverPup easily catches both of its jaws and stops its dash with her highly increased strength.
"You think you're stronger than me because you're much bigger, right? Then take this!"
SilverPup lifts the 6-meter class Rank C Ragnarok and throws it mid-air toward the ceiling of the underground tunnel.
...BAMM!...
The Rank C Ragnarok Beast got slammed into the ceiling of the underground tunnel. And as it falls toward the ground, SilverPup follows up with another attack.
...BOOM!...
SilverPup made a powerful jump straight toward the falling Rank C Lycan. The sheer force of her jump created a crater on the ground along with a loud shockwave as she made a lift mid-air.
"Orion's Fangs!"
In the blink of an eye, SilverPup reaches the falling Rank C Lycan. She then activates her Orion's Fangs Skill, transforming the silver light aura that engulfs her body into the form of a large wolf head that tears apart the Rank C Lycan's body in half.
SilverPup's fight ended in just a few seconds. And as she lands safely on the ground with a cool victory post, she looks towards Luel who's also about to finish his fight against his opponent.
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Different from SilverPup, who chose to fight with highly increased strength using her Full Moon Skill, Luel settled with the highly increased speed given back his New Moon Skill.
The New Moon Skill allows Luel to continue to use his Aura Blades Skill, yet that would drain the power of his Devour Beast within his avatar.
"Orion's Claws!"
That's why Luel decided to fight like Shiba, taking advantage of the much larger Rank C Lycan and slowly tearing apart its flesh and bone with her silver shadow aura claws while swiftly running around and evading its attacks with his highly increased speed.
Tearing apart its joints at its ankles and knees, on its wrists, elbows, and shoulders, and cutting its tendons within its muscles. It's a painful and cruel way to make the opponent suffer a slow and painful death, but Luel wouldn't care less. After all, his fighting a Ragnarok Beast that wouldn't think twice to kill him and eat him like a piece of meat.
...ROOAAA...
The Rank C Lycan tried to scream and call for reinforcement, but Luel immediately cut its throat.
Luel's fight didn't end there yet, as the Rank C Lycan remained alive even with its bleeding neck along with the dark aura coming out from all of its open wounds.
Unable to stand due to the cuts on its legs, the Rank C Lycan tried to crawl on the ground away from Luel.
Seeing the wretched Rank C Lycan, Luel indeed feels conflicted about getting proud of his strength as a RAIDS ONLINE player.
Just a month ago, as he started playing RAIDS ONLINE, he's always the one crawling on the ground being killed and eaten by different Ragnarok Beasts.
It's not that Luel feels overjoyed that the situation is now reversed or that he takes pleasure in having revenge. It's just that he's proud that all of SilverPup and BlueHeroine's efforts in helping him become a stronger RAIDS ONLINE player are finally taking effect and didn't go to waste.
"Orion's Fangs!"
To put an end to his opponent, Luel activate his Orion's Fangs Devour Skill, changing the silver shadow aura engulfing his body into the form of a large wolf head to finish the Rank C Lycan and devour the dark aura coming out of its body.
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"That took quite a few minutes, but you're definitely improving, Lucent."
SilverPup approaches Luel, giving him a nice compliment about his fighting skills.
"Thanks for your help, SilverPup."
In response to SilverPup's remark, Luel gave sincere gratitude. It's kind of awkward but Luel really wanted to express how thankful he is to SilverPup training him and helping him increase his Link Force.
Luel is expecting a bit of a teasing reply from SilverPup due to her playful and cheerful behavior, and he definitely gets what he's expecting.
"Stop with that, Lucent... Are you trying to raise a death flag for either of us before the start of the main fight?"
"Pfft, Hahaha..."
SilverPup's remark made Luel laugh. And upon seeing Luel laughing at her joke, SilverPup can't help but laugh as well.
"Pfft... Someone really gonna end up getting killed between us, Lucent... Hahaha..."
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After Luel and SilverPup finish their fight against the two 6-meter class Rank C Ragnarok Beast Lycans, the Guardian Beast continues moving towards the deepest part of the underground tunnel of the Caverns Passages.
But as they continued on their path, they were greeted with an unexpected surprise. Or rather, decorations to welcome their arrival.
"Can someone explain to me what we're looking at?"
Luel made that remark upon seeing the wretched bodies of RAIDS ONLINE players scattered around the wide underground tunnels on their path.
Unlike other VRMMORPG, where the player's avatar simply disintegrates after getting killed, in RAIDS ONLINE, the avatar's dead bodies remain. It's either they discompose given time, which rarely happens, or be eaten by lower-ranking Ragnarok Beasts like the Rank E Mutated Rabies.
"Why are there so many dead avatars here, PoodlePup?"
To answer BlueHeroine's question, SilverPup asks her own question to the two who are responsible for tracking down the Unique Rank C Ragnarok Beast Garmr.
"Corgi, Shiba... Can you tell me how you two easily find Garmr's Nest?"
"It's simple, SilverPup-senpai."
"We just follow the trail from the videos of other RAIDS ONLINE party who got annihilated trying to Raid Garmr a few days ago."
...Then that means that Garmr is at full strength right now!!...
...ROOAAARRRRR!!!...