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  Ding!

  [The {Raid Boss: 3/3}: [Judgement, The Great Abyssal Fme Sier 5)] has emerged from amidst the dark skies!]

  [If you ’t stop him in time, Elderbridge will be destroyed pletely.]

  An enormous flying, armored serpent, Judgement, emerged from within the skies; the third and st Raid Boss had already appeared. Its ability to fly was the primary problem, allowing it to ignore all the battle going on below and immediately try to assault the city of Elderbridge.

  With no more than half a kilometer away from the city, the enormous serpent rushed towards Elderbridge. As it flew across the skies, bck clouds gathered around its body, raining down fireballs made of bd purple fmes.

  “Ah, Vd! Help me out defend!”

  Teressa immediately rushed towards the skies, as she faced hundreds of giant fireballs ing down to Elderbridge, strong enough to destroy the ey if they were to fall.

  “Yeah!”

  Vd nodded, quickly gathering Ara and imbuing it into his hands. Then he gnced into the night sky and how the crimson moon was shining brightly.

  “It should be fine now then!”

  Bathing in the crimson moonlight, Vd’s Ara Aura surged rapidly from his body, abs this energy and granting him the ability to unleash divine power.

  His Divine Prote, granted by the Crimson Moon Goddess, Achlys, started fusing with his magical properties through the effects of his Css and his Css Skill.

  “{Crimson Moon Are Arts}!”

  FLAAASH!

  Crimson Moonlight surged from his fiips as he closed his palms, his mind and body putting themselves into the act of praying!

  Immediately afterwards, a divine fortervened, rapidly imbuing itself into Vd and then suddenly spreading across the entire walls of Elderbridge.

  “{Stone Walls}!”

  RUMBLE!

  Suddenly, rge five-meter-tall pilrs made of the same stone as the walls emerged, abs the boundless Crimson Moonlight and taking the shape of giant bat-like totems.

  They were twenty in total, and they all interected around Elderbridge, eg through rays of crimson moonlight.

  The ferocious eyes of the monstrous bat-like totems opened, glowing fiercely, and the moonlight gathered, taking the shape of an enormous crimson dome, a barrier proteg the ey of Elderbridge.

  “{Divine Crimson Moonlight Barrier}!”

  At the same time, Teressa also did the same thing her son did, eling the powers of the Crimson Moonlight through her triple divine prote and imbuing even more divine moonlight into the barrier.

  This was one of the pns Vd and his mother had pnned were they to ever be attacked from the skies like this! However, they hought they would have to use such a trump card so soon!

  The giant fireballs rained down upon the barrier, and as tless explosions emerged oer another, whoever remained withiy gasped as they saw a crimson barrier proteg them.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The pressure for Teressa and Vd was immehe rain of fireballs owerful, and the barriers had to be reinforced with two yers to barely be able to hold on.

  Yet…

  Crack, crack…!

  Cracks were already beginning to spread across the barrier; it was already about to break!

  “Are you kidding me?!” Vd pined. “Is this because of my low stats? Or is it because of the skill level? Or both?!”

  Vd quickly sidered using the powers of the Heavenly Demon, but that would instantly interrupt the barrier, and he had already seen that even with that overwhelming power, his attack range wasn’t too big, he would be uo protect the city, and he would still waste away the small amount of time he use that power trying to defend the city.

  He had to first stabilize its defenses before using his greatest trump card, so he would be sure that within that time frame he would be able to defeat all the oppos and be doh it!

  “Brother! Let me help, please!”

  “Camil?”

  Vd felt Camil’s powers course through his body as her Psychic Powers were ihrough her hands toug his shoulders.

  FLUOSH!

  “Thank you! Let’s try to reinforce the barrier then…”

  Psychiergy was, just like any other power, somehow reted to the Element of the Mind, and as long as Vd could visualize it as one, Geomand his Advanced Level of Alchemy, bined with his uanding of Magic like nobody else, worked together to make his visualization a reality.

  “{Geomancy}: {Psychic Barrier Reinfort}!”

  FLAAASH!

  Invisible Psychiergy ing from Camil and her Ara energy reserves rushed into the enormous barrier, the tless cracks suddenly being filled by this invisible ray-colored energy.

  RUMBLE!

  The barrier grew three times as thicker, with an additional yer of defehe rain of fireballs ended after that, and the city down below remained unscathed.

  “We did it, Camil!” Vd smiled, relieved. “Camil?”

  He g his sister, only to gasp as he saw Camil’s nose bleeding and her face looking dizzy and exhausted, almost about to pass out.

  “Uhh… I’m… gd… My head hurts…”

  “Camil!”

  Vd barely mao catch Camil before she was to fall from the walls.

  “Drink these, Camil!”

  He quickly took out the healing potions he received from the newbie gift, letting her drink one of them, then an Ara potion afterwards.

  “Hahh… Hahh… Brother…”

  She seemed to have recovered a bit after drinking them; she was no longer bleeding, but she seemed to be having a terrible fever and headache.

  “Drink this too! And… right, blood! Do you need blood?”

  As Vd was feeding her a Stamina Potion, he quickly waved his hand as he imbued the Divine Moonlight Powers into his Blood Manipution.

  “{Blood Bending}!”

  As he saw the soldiers, his pnts, and the bzing doppelgangers fighting the monsters ing from the ground and alsentia and Chris fighting the first Raid Boss, he maniputed the blood from the nearby corpses, creating several rivers of crimson blood that lifted all the way to the walls where they were.

  “Vd! What happeo your sister?!”

  Teressa couldn’t go check them as she was holding the barrier, but she immediately noticed that her daughter seemed exhausted in her son’s arms.

  “She almost passed out after helping us with the barrier; I’ll feed her blood; just hold on for a few more seds, mom!”

  “Okay!”

  Teressa looked into the skies; suddenly, she realized Judgement was looking directly at her, into her eyes; his presence alo shivers down her spine.

  “So you’re even using the powers of the Moon Goddesses against me?”

  He g the powerful barrier while squinting his eyes and then smiled defiantly, showing his sharp teeth. The draic serpent’s fmes grew ever rger.

  “You think that stop my Vengeful Fmes?!”

  FLUOSH!

  His entire body suddeed with even more fire as he rushed down towards the city; apanying him were over three hundred Armored Wyverns, also covered in his Vengeful Fmes and made even stronger.

  “Then I’ll simply have to destroy that barrier with all I have!”

  “No!”

  “Dammit!”

  Vd and Teressa were uo stop Judgement, as he rushed down with all his body and cshed against the barrier with the bination of his weight and his bzing prowess.

  CRAAASH!

  The barrier trembled; tless cracks appeared across it once more; it was barely able to tank Judgement’s charge, but another hit would surely shatter it.

  “Stop it, you damn serpent!”

  Teressa swung her hands upwards as a gigantic wave of frost engulfed Judgement pletely, sending him flying into the skies again and rapidly beginning to turn off his fmes!

  “Ugh?! My fire…!” Judgement muttered. “No, MY FLAMES ARE STRONGER!”

  FLUOSH!

  However, he overcharged his own body with his Ara, produg even more fmes than before aroying Teressa’s frost c his body.

  “Punishment must be given!” he roared. “You will all die so we all pro, my wyverns!”

  Slightly tired after having been almost frozen alive, Judgement required some recovery of a couple minutes, sending his wyverns towards the barriers, aiming to destroy them pletely.

  “Hahhh… Hahh… I also o drink blood; I’m exhausted already!” Teressa muttered. “Dammit, you damn… Ugh!”

  She furiously roared, releasing another wave of frost. Dozens of wyverns were instantly frozen and then shattered into pieces, but those that mao survive quickly freed themselves from her ice, the Vengeful Fmes c their bodies and helping them survive even her deadly cold.

  “Those fug things…!”

  Teressa g her son, desperately feeding blood to Camil before she was to pass out or, even worse, die from brain damage after having overused her Psychic Powers.

  Argentia was still wrestling against the first raid boss, who ended up being incredibly resilient and powerful. Now haviered a berserk state once he lost all his armor, he was making the dragon bleed all over. Chris had to stantly heal him.

  “If this tinues…!” she muttered. “Elderbridge will…!”

  Despite how far they got, they still had not enough forces. The pnts and the soldiers had held back really well at the beginning, but almost half of them had already died.

  “I have to grab… Vd and Camil a out of here before…!”

  She was already desperate, thinking only of her own survival and that of her kids; it wasn’t just because she was a merciless vampire; this would be the thought process of any mother in this situation.

  “SHYAAAH!”

  The roars of the furious Wyverns woke her up from her daze, as they started attag and b the barrier, stantly spreading the smaller cracks.

  At the same time, Judgement was already almost fully recovered, his fmes burning even strohan before.

  “I have to…!”

  As Teressa was about to let the barrier break and escape, suddenly…

  FLASH!

  A bright pink light emerged, in the shape of a neon pink star.

  “Huh?”

  FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

  Then, the star divided into many at the same time, spreading across the skies and engulfing the wyverns in explosions ht pink and purple light.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  The wyverns, uo avoid as they were slightly hypnotized by the stars, were blown up to pieces oer another.

  “W-Wha… Who was that?!”

  Teressa gnced around, suddenly notig something.

  “CHARGE!”

  A group of citizens rushed into battle, wearing expensive-looking armor and equipment and wielding powerful magic ons.

  Moon Elves, Werewolves, Imps, Goblins, Orcs, Blood Elves, Succubus and Incubus, and many more, of all shapes and sizes, attacked the wyverns.

  Using the shattering barrier as their foothold, they rushed towards battle, swinging their swords and sshing the monsters’ wings, using their axes to cleave their heads off, and using magibard them from afar.

  “Huh?”

  Teressa couldn’t believe it; the wyverns started dying in masse, rapidly dropping dead over the barrier oer another.

  Leading this army of hundreds of people, there was a single woman, some sort of Succubus girl with pink hair and bright star-shaped eyes.

  “Hehehe! Are you guys enjoying the show? Kill as many monsters as you ! So you get all the Points! This is the first event of many, so don’t waste your time! Kill, kill, kill!”

  As she giggled and cheered the many people, her melodic voice, like a song, enhaheir strength, their stats skyrocketed, and everyone became even stronger.

  They ultimately split into two armies, one of them jumping off the walls aing involved in the war surrounding Elderbridge’s walls.

  “Don’t waste any points; kill all the armored fuckers!”

  “Hahaha! I’m going to buy some expensive shit with those points!”

  “Vd and Alitheus are hogging all the rewards; don’t let them!”

  “Hey bastard, that monster was mine!”

  “I didn’t see your name on it! Wanna go?! These are my points!”

  They were an unruly bunannerless sdrels; however, they were fighting and helping Elderbridge, and Teressa, Vd, and Alitheus immediately realized who they were.

  “Pyers?!”

  As Vd tinued feeding blood to his sister until she looked much better, suddenly, the girl leading the Pyers appeared above her.

  “Heheh! And we found him! Here he is, guys! Vd, the most famous Pyer of FSO in person! Huh? Are you having a hard time? What happeo your sister?”

  “W-What?”

  Vd didn’t know what to even say, but he was being filmed live, and there were tens of thousands of people watg him in this very moment.

  “Ooh! Aren’t you shy? I like shy guys!” giggled the girl. “I’m Queenie! A super-duper famous streamer and the idol of FSO! o meet you handsome! We’ve e as backup! I hope you don’t mind us stealing some of your points!”

  “N-No, not at all! By all means, go ahead!” Vd smiled. “Please, kill them all!”

  “You heard him, boys!” ughed the girl. “Go kill them all!”

  “OOOOHHHHH!”

  The pyers roared, charging against the monsters like a relentless army of even worse monsters.

  The greed and drive of gamers must never be uimated.

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  Pach