Chapter 74: Boss Raid - Re:x2!!
[RAIDS ONLINE @ Location: Area CC+86, Great Tomb.]
At the empty plains where nothing but the great lengths of a crumbled wall can be seen as a landmark, three members of the Guardian Beast team have gathered together with hundreds of RAIDS ONLINE players from different guilds and groups.
"Hey, weakling!... I said that I was going to play this game so I could spend more time with my beautiful goddess. So why isn't she here? Why the faq you're the one here with me?"
"Can you at least tone down the cursing, EeveE?"
"Just answer me already!"
"Because BlueHeroine will attract the attention of Icarus if she's here."
Due to EeveE's high-starting Link Force at 57 percent, which is the highest recorded ever since the beginning of RAIDS ONLINE, she was also being hunted not only by a Rank B Ragnarok Beast but also by another Rank A Ragnarok Beast.
At their last meeting, two nights ago, the Guardian Beast team forced EeveE to immediately log out of RAIDS ONLINE before any high-ranking Ragnarok Beasts arrived at their location that was on the hunt for EeveE.
Luel, BlueHeroine, and EeveE were able to safely escape back to the Moon Base without any encounter with high-ranking Ragnarok Beasts.
However, players from all over the world map of RAIDS ONLINE have encountered two high-ranking Ragnarok Beasts moving toward the location of the Guardian Beast which proves that EeveE is indeed being hunted.
With the opportunity at hand to study and gather more information about high-ranking Ragnarok Beasts, SilverPup proposed another Boss Raid with EeveE as bait.
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"I present to you, the Rank B Ragnarok Beast Fafnir."
SilverPup cheerfully shows a holographic screen to Luel and EeveE, who are sitting at the top of the crumbling wall away from other players.
As SilverPup sat beside them, the video showing the Rank B Ragnarok Beast Fafnir annihilating a party of RAIDS ONLINE players continued to play in front of Luel and EeveE.
A 30-meter class blackened gold dragon. That's the appearance of the Rank B Ragnarok Beast Fafnir.
Compared to a western dragon with large wings attached to its back, Fafnir looks more like a salamander with wings attached to its forelimbs. Like what Luel, EeveE, and SilverPup can see in the video, Fafnir couldn't fly high in the night sky and could only glide after jumping from the ground.
"So why do you think this Ragnarok Beast got its codename?"
SilverPup mischievously asks Luel and EeveE, waiting for a dumb answer from two ignorant noob players as she thinks of them behind their backs.
"Fafnir?... The treasure loving dragon?"
"So Lucent knows his preference. What about you, YuriB*?"
"I don't care about that, Poodle!"
"Sheesh... You two are so boring that I'm starting to miss BlueB*."
As to why the Rank B Ragnarok Beast Fafnir got its codename, it is because its dragon scale is made of gold. And instead of being a fire-breathing dragon, Fafnir's dragon breath is made of lava.
"Fafnir is a Ragnarok Beast that rivals the Devour Nine-tailed Beast Fiamma Class. Its gold scale can resist the Devour Fiamma's Blaze and its lava dragon breath is a killer to all the players."
"So it's death by lava this time."
Hearing the last part of SilverPup's lecture, Luel can't help but display a dreadful expression while thinking of how painful it is to be burned by lava.
They're up for a different pain similar to death. Or so Luel thought. However...
"You're not planning to die for YuriB*, aren't you Lucent?"
SilverPup question came from the fact that the Guardian Beast team has an agreement regarding the Boss Raid with EeveE as bait.
That agreement includes two things.
First, BlueHeroine won't join the Boss Raid as not to repeat what happened last time when she attracted and brought the Rank B Ragnarok Beast Icarus on the Boss Raid against the Rank A Ragnarok Beast Cerberus.
Second, is that Luel and SilverPup can't be killed so that the Rank C Ragnarok Beast Garmr won't respawn again. At whatever cost, the two of them, or at least one of them, should escape and survive.
"But we should at least protect EeveE as much as we can..."
"As if a weakling like you can protect me."
"See that, Lucent? With that attitude, I'm gonna push this b*tch into to volcano just to save myself."
"Who are you calling a b*tch, Poodle?!"
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"For our guest of honor, it's none other than the famous and annoying snake, the Rank A Ragnarok Beast Orochi."
...Do you really have to keep acting like a clown??...
"Hey!... I'm trying to cheer up this boring night for both of you so learn to appreciate a girl's effort, right Lucent?"
...Yep, if you're a girl...
Or so Luel wanted to say but kept it to himself.
"Anyway... By Oroch, you mean something like a Hydra, SilverPup?"
"Idiot, Lucent... Hydra and Orochi are totally different."
"Pfft... She calls you an idiot... Hahaha..."
While Eevee is laughing at Luel with a dumbfounded face after getting called an idiot, SilverPup continues her lecture about the difference between Hydra and Orochi as a Ragnarok Beast in RAIDS ONLINE.
Hydra is a Rank B Ragnarok Beast with the appearance of a 30-meter class serpent dragon. Like its lore told in mythology, once one of its heads was cut, two more shall rise. It has a high regeneration ability and can integrate Water Element into its attack.
Orochi, on the other hand, is a Rank A Ragnarok Beast with the appearance of a 40-meter class eight-head snake. It doesn't multiply its head once it is cut but still has a high regeneration ability.
What makes Orochi a Rank A Ragnarok Beast is that its eight heads have different Elements on their attacks.
"Basically, Hydra rivals the Devour Asherah Class while Orochi rivals the Devour Fiamma Class. Get that, Lucent, YuriB*?"
"I don't get it. But we will learn more once we fight them, right Poodle?"
"Yep... YuriB* has her own world."
"Just make sure to survive, SilverPup."
"Are you worried about me, Lucent?... Sheesh, don't cheat on your wife while she's not here."
"What wife?"
"Nothing, let's just focus on the fight!"
...We got incoming swarm from both sides of the wall!!!...
"Let's deal with these mobs before the main guess arrives!"
...WARGHHHH!!!...