Chapter 287: Saria: [Raid Boss] (1)

Chapter 287: Saria: [Raid Boss] (1)

[Sanctified grounds] activated along with Pareths other holy skills.

Name : Pareth

Health :2 905 692 / 2 905 692

Stamina :1 177 925 / 1 177 925

Mana : 49 800 / 49 800

Name : Sofia Aphenoreth

Health :31 050 / 31 050

Stamina :31 148 / 31 149

Mana : 407 633 / 417 100

Pareth charged forward. In a single leap, he was now inside of Sarias red circle, close enough to reach her. His sword sliced the air, carrying all the momentum of his charge. Saria blocked the blow with the shaft of her weapon. The impact carried great force, yet Saria only slid back a few centimeters, unwavering.

A red crown appeared high above Pareths skull like a secondary halo.

Fall back.

Sofia gave the order as she ripped off one of [The Book of Skeletons]s pages and threw a first piercing-type angel bolt. Pareth moved back to the side, freeing the path for the bolt at the last moment.

It missed, through some kind of instantaneous short-distance teleportation, Saria had moved out of the way of the bolt, which pierced through the remains of the mechanical boss and hit the other side of the room an instant later.

Sofia noticed the red crown disappearing from above Pareth, and fog gathered near her in the shape of a tall female skeleton holding a broom. She started preparing another bolt on her scepter, explosive.

Saria raised her polearm overhead. The motion was wide, predictable, and before her blade fell, she dashed in Sofias direction. Despite being slightly slower, Pareth managed to step in and intercept her midway, his shield meeting the blade of her fauchard.

The shield of light shattered, but Pareths armor held, he struck back, stabbing with his sword, the red crown instantly reappearing above his head. Once again, Saria teleported just out of reach of his sword. Pareths sword extended, from a shortsword to a longsword, reaching Saria anyway. The sword colliding with the blue armor created sparks of blue fire, but failed to pierce through.

The broom-wielding [Solar Sun Nun] was finally ready, though her health was ridiculously low, she was Sofias fastest skeleton, she ran forward as Saria disengaged with a backstep.

So far, the fight was clean, almost surgical. Both sides were carefully analyzing the skills and capabilities of the other. To Sofia, the red crown was worrying, and she was starting to think that, considering her reactions to Pareths attack, Sarias health pool must be gigantic.

Yes! Space!

One of the best effects she could have gotten, Saria was hit by the space affliction, preventing her from teleporting for the next ten seconds.

Pareth instantly came back out to benefit from the two stacks of Dominus blessings heal, as Sofias bones were the second blessed construct. His arms were slowly regrowing.

She tried to switch positions with him earlier, but it failed because of his [Displacement skills immunity] passive. Then she used it on me. I need to keep a distance from my skeletons from now on.

The exploding bolt kept on charging. And Sofia called out Bookie again. To replace Pareth for now, she summoned the five fire salamanders as she flew back. They would hold out well against the fire spell and hopefully be harder to dispatch than the nun.

Pareth teleported several times to keep up with her, and Saria, free to move again, was hot on their track. She flew past the forming salamanders, not stopping, she used a skill of her own, summoning ten ghosts of a monster Sofia knew well. Quetzalcoatlus.

The salamander skeletons brawled with the ghosts, spitting lava at them while Saria came dangerously close to Sofia and Pareth. Unwilling to try taking a hit, Sofia let the few backup graveyard skeletons she kept near her pull her underground as she summoned a heavy rain of blood to hinder Sarias vision.

With Pareth back inside her armor, she would be hard to track from above ground, especially with the rune hiding her mana, still, the graveyard skeletons spread out, a single one of them quickly carrying her to a far corner of the room while deep underground.

Health :31 050 / 31 050

Stamina :31 097 / 31 149

Mana : 314 940 / 417 100

The mana is still fine. About thirty thousand of that is into this angel bolt, I cant miss. I need to use it before the space element affliction runs out and she can teleport again.

The salamanders died

Sofia finally emerged from the ground, far from Saria and her ghosts. She instantly flew up, reaching the ceiling of the room. As if she had eyes on the back of her head, Saria instantly turned to face her, once again running in her direction.

Sofia patiently waited, charging up her bolt, the blue plasma was starting to get a bit wild around her scepter. Summoning another ray of light, she covered Saria in rot again.

Saria kept charging, her blue weapon shone fiercely as she drew closer. Now!

Pareth appeared, using his [Chains of the four seals]. The glowing chains surged from the ground and the ceiling, grabbing a hold of Sarias limbs. Yet just like the graveyard skeletons before, a forceful wave of magic instantly broke them. Her momentum had barely slowed. She was much faster than Sofia could hope to escape.

The way Sarias polearm shone, this was no ordinary strike. It was brimming with mana, and since it was applied on a weapon, [Heat Death] might not be able to prevent its effect.

Sofia could either block with her scepter and try to activate [Heat Death] anyway, her bolts channeling would likely be interrupted but she might only suffer minor damage, or

Sofia ordered Pareth to enter her storage again, wielding her pulsating bolt of plasma like a sword, her weapon met Sarias.Ñøv€l-B1n was the first platform to present this chapter.