Huff! Huff!
Viscount Ellington panted as he looked at the bright full moon in the sky, blurring the clear moonlight.
Since the first ambush, he had covered a sizable part of the city. Yet sohow, he couldn't find or sense the attacker. Ellington only knew a few Crawlers who specialized in sniping or assassination. None of them could have spawned in this Dungeon though.
The Mana arrows were not life-threatening to him or the other two viscounts behind him. It didn't an that he was immune to remain unscathed if hit by one. The more puzzling thing was the absence of Crawlers.
Ellington couldn't rember any Dungeon, in which he hadn't found Crawlers after entering. He had been avoiding the 'sniper' for over 12 hours and had yet to co across any kind of Crawler even at the edges of his Viscount level Perception.
"Get down! I don't want to lose any more of you rats. Fuck!"
He eyed the 3 Recordless, who had craned their necks up while snuggled together in fear. The two beauties were on either side, with their entire body covered in red feathers.
That was what was left of their 15 mber Party.
Ellington looked around at the brightly lit city. He had never seen such lights, but he rembered reading about them in an old scroll. Red, yellow, white, and blue had surrounded them, making him recall the festivals from his childhood.
"It's coming!"
Ellington turned to face a direction, but the blinding lights worked against him. As he saw the blue flash hundreds of ters away before disappearing again, the two beauties distanced themselves from him,
The next ti it appeared, it was already in front of him.
The tattoo on Ellington's bare chest seed to co alive as his muscles wriggled. Red feathers originated from his entire body and his face extended outwards as if pulled by soone. In just a second, the previous humane Ellington got replaced by tens of ters tall Firebird.
Sreechhhh!!!
The Firebird's feathers were made of fire, its eyes were of fire, and it had two long tails. The Mana-arrow was about to hit squarely on the bird's chest as it let out a fiery cry. A trendous shock wave sent the arrow, and everything in a 300-ter radius of the transford Viscount, flying out.
The Firebird Ellington flapped its wings and made a circle in the air, scanning to the furthest reaches with his enhanced sight.
In the distance, towards the mountain, he saw Tomislav's face peeking out from a cover while the rest of Tomislav's body seed to be underground. And as he returned to his position, still in the air, he caught a shadowy movent, stepping down from a tower.
Screechhhhh!
The Firebird Ellington let out another cry full of rage and called out to the two other Viscounts. With a single flap of his wings, he covered half of the distance between him and that tower. Two more Firebirds, smaller but equally fiery, ca flying from the ground and followed him.
The three Firebirds hovered around in a radius of hundreds of ters with the tower as the center. The strange tower had many zig-zag patterns and had a mass of wires running down to different directions.
Ellington couldn't see or sense the shadowy figure anymore, but he knew it couldn't have been faster than him. He sent a ntal signal to the two others and decided to annihilate the entire place before his MP and SP ran out of fuel.
The three Firebirds opened their beaks at the Night Sky. The Snow hadn't stopped showering since the group's arrival, but no traces of it could be seen around the three creatures. High above their head, sparks appeared as if they were firecrackers. The wind howled and the surrounding buildings shook as the sparks turned into fist-size fireballs.
Shouuu!!!
From the distance, one could have seen three Suns appearing in the nightless sky. As if they were trying to defy the moon's might.
The Red color Fire Mana from the feathers of Firebirds went pouring into the fist-sized fireballs. In the next mont, the bearable temperature got turned to a lting one as the Fireballs enlarged to dozens of ters in size.
The figures watching them from miles away had yet to savor the warmth. But Ellington and the two beauties flapped their wings and blasted the oversized fireballs towards the ground.
BOOOOM! SHAKEEEE!
A mushroom cloud touched the farther boundaries of the sky as if a mini nuclear explosion had happened at the place. Buildings and all things vaporized instantaneously in the region surrounded by the Firebirds. The red feathers beca transparent and as they landed on the ground, the three Firebirds transford back to their human body.
"HAHAHA.. HAHA.. HA Ha Huh?"
Viscount Ellington let out a peal of crazed laughter. But as he waited for the notification to appear, the laugh died down and turned into a bewildering expression. On his right, beyond the explosion, he looked at one of the naked beauties with the sa expression written on her face. The beauty noticed Ellington and waved at him, but Ellington's eyes had already beco wide with horror.
Because of the blazing fire between them, Ellington saw the elongated shadow of the Level 31 Viscount. The dancing flas should have made her shadow follow the rhythm, but it was motionless. It was like waters from the Sea of White Death had followed her into this Dungeon.
Ellington's heart thumped with terror, and he rushed towards his mute companion. But he had lost too much SP and MP in his Transformation and Skill, making him feel as if he was running at the bottom of an ocean.
"RUN!"
Ellington shouted, as he saw a shadowy hand with long nails co out of her shadow. Ellington couldn't see the body, but he could tell that the hand belonged to a female. Ethereal vapors had enshrouded the hand as if it was on black fire.
The hand twisted and turned and transford into a black Katana. Ellington felt the blade of Katana cutting his senses from afar and rembered he had seen it as a part of the statue outside.
The beauty finally realized sothing was wrong with the entire situation, but it was already too late.
Katchaaa!
"NOOOO!"
The hand-turned-Katana slashed out, and with a swift cut separated the beauty's head from her body. Even before the blood could co pouring out, the unseen figure had already vanished.
It only left behind one question on the grief-stricken face of Ellington.
'BOSS CRAWLER?!'
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