Shuddering in fear, Anemore’s bright yellow eyes trembled violently.
But Anemore couldn’t run.
It was the ruler of this place, bound and unable to escape.
The fierce nature was not gone.
It simply...
Had realized that the enemy before it was unlike any it had faced before—irrational and overwhelming.
It wanted to flee.
But it couldn’t.
Thus, there was only one choice left.
“Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii——!”
Even if it meant death, it would burn everything away.
As the ruler of the skies, it would maintain its dignity and fight.
It would burn with resolve, never forgetting its fear.
Fear, after all, was what fueled growth.
Anemore, too, was the same.
All NPCs and monsters in Eternal World were equipped with advanced AI.
So much so that it was not an exaggeration to say they had a sense of self.
Based on vast data, Anemore was capable of thinking and making judgments.
It realized the nature of its enemy—this absurd death army.
It could now sense its master.
The human, who had been calmly observing the battle from the back.
No, could it truly be a human?
It could not be sure.
But one thing was clear: this human was the one leading this battle.
“Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii——!”
With another roar, Anemore entered Phase 2. In just 2 seconds, it spread its wings and ascended once more.
In that brief moment, it made its decision.
The target was clear.
It was time to act.
Then, through its vision, Anemore noticed the swarm of Giant Killer Bees approaching.
It had experienced this before.
It wasn’t just a swarm of bees.
Though they couldn’t be seen or felt, Anemore understood.
It could sense Fiora and Valtar among them, approaching through the swarm.
Realizing this, Anemore let out another roar and used its skill.
“Piiiii——!”
Whoooosh! Whooosh—! Whoooosh——!
Anemore spread its wings wide, summoning a ferocious wind, its powerful gusts creating a massive storm.
The winds roared and coiled into a great whirlwind—on a completely different scale from the winds created in Phase 1.
It wasn’t just a gust—it was a small typhoon.
As it summoned the colossal storm, the Giant Killer Bees could no longer maintain their position in the air.
Some of the bees were ripped apart by the violent winds, their wings shredded.
Others who tried to escape the storm quickly flew out of its range.
Anemore, seeing the bees scatter, flew triumphantly into the storm, completely vanishing from sight.
It seemed to disappear, as though it had used some form of invisibility.
Unable to detect it, Luna Team panicked and reacted.
“Longfeng, can you find it?”
“...I can’t sense it???”
“W-wait, it can use invisibility too?!”
“Shit, how are we supposed to win this...?”
Luna immediately asked Longfeng, the team’s expert at detection, but even he couldn’t find it.
If Longfeng, who had the best detection skills in the area, couldn’t locate Anemore, then surely Seong wouldn’t be able to either.
For a moment, Luna wondered if they should help, but...
They couldn’t act recklessly.
It was far more dangerous to interfere and become a hindrance.
It would be better to stay quiet and wait.
As Luna Team was thrown into chaos, Seong, however, seemed completely unaffected. He simply snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Since Seong had only been using his death army so far, everyone had assumed that was all he could do.
But they were mistaken.
When Seong snapped his fingers, a large heart with a cyan glow appeared behind him.
The heart pulsed, releasing a mist of the same cyan light that gradually spread across the battlefield.
The eerie, cyan mist thickened the air, eventually covering almost half of the raid field.
At that moment, a scream echoed near Seong.
“Piiiiiiiiii!”
The sudden burst of damage startled Anemore, and it panicked, realizing its invisibility had been broken.
It tried to fly up again, but it was already too late.
As soon as Anemore’s position was revealed, a swarm of 40 Giant Killer Bees charged at it.
But this time, something was different.
From their bodies, a greenish gas began to emanate.
Anemore quickly realized what it was.
Poison.
A toxic miasma from the bodies of the undead.
It had to avoid it.
Instinctively, Anemore spread its wings wide, attempting to use the windstorm to create a barrier, but it couldn’t. The powerful storm it had summoned in Phase 1 was now beyond its reach.
It tried to create a whirlwind using the wind once again, but was too distracted by the Giant Killer Bees.
Anemore failed to notice Seong moving behind it.
With a raised finger, Seong brought his hand to his mouth, triggering the skill.
Hisssssss.
Anemore, suddenly feeling a chill, instinctively tried to look behind itself.
It didn’t want to see what was coming, but its body moved as if it had no choice.
And then, it locked eyes with... that.
A shadow-like figure, taking the form of a human, stood behind it.
But Anemore knew.
This wasn’t alive.
It was the embodiment of a curse.
In the eyes of that figure, where eyes should have been, there was only a vast, bottomless abyss.
It felt as if its very soul was being sucked into that void, and Anemore’s vision blurred.
Then, the figure reached out.
Anemore couldn’t resist.
The long, slender hand held a cyan needle, and the figure grinned widely, as if amused.
It sewed Anemore’s mouth shut, sealing its screams.
Then, with the needle still in hand, the figure extended its finger toward Anemore’s face and whispered.
Shhhh—!
The eerie laughter echoed as the figure vanished.
Anemore realized, with dawning horror, that it could no longer use any of its skills.
[The Lord’s Command seals skills for 5 seconds.]
[Raid boss 『Wind’s Watcher, Anemore』 is partially resisting.]
[Duration of resistance reduced to 3 seconds.]
“......!??!”
And as Anemore became unable to even speak, attempting to escape the situation, it was already too late.
Over 40 Giant Killer Bees, which had gotten far too close, attached themselves to Anemore's body, spreading poison.
In unbearable pain as if its body were melting away, Anemore struggled to escape, but at that moment, its eyes met Seong's.
As if something still remained, Seong raised his hand.
Anemore’s yellow eyes began to tremble violently.
The fact that Sick Poison had been applied meant that the Giant Killer Bee Undeads were now recognized as corpses.
And if they were corpses, there was a skill Seong could use.
Seong remembered this skill and snapped his fingers.
Snap!
Boom! Boom!
The explosive sounds and the overwhelming heat and damage that followed.
Despite being unable to fully regain consciousness, Anemore could somehow hear it clearly.
The next snap of Seong's fingers.
Snap!
Could the corpse be torn apart even further?
In that moment, Anemore could see it.
The poisonous miasma that spread from the scattered remains igniting in a flash.
Anemore knew it had to avoid it, but its skill was still sealed.
The blindingly hot light and heat spread outward from the center of Anemore’s body.
And finally, the deafening explosion rang out.
Boom!!!
The explosion hit Anemore directly in the air, and Anemore lost consciousness instantly, falling to the ground.
The massive damage knocked it out cold.
However, it wasn’t for long.
Anemore snapped back to consciousness as it fell, but its condition was far from normal.
Its once-proud pale feathers were scorched and burned to ash, and its body was covered in horrific burns, feathers torn from its skin.
Though it looked gruesome, that wasn’t what mattered.
It had to survive.
It had to fly into the sky and avoid the attacks.
The two thoughts that filled Anemore’s mind made it spread its wings to soar once more.
But then, a voice from behind stopped it.
The voices, ones it never wanted to hear, echoed in its mind.
Without thinking, Anemore turned around and saw Valtar and Fiora, with their wings made of blood, soaring toward it.
“Pii, piiiiiii!!?”
It had forgotten about these two due to the tremendous explosion.
These two it shouldn’t have forgotten.
But still, it was okay.
In the sky, Anemore still had the advantage.
That’s what it thought as it prepared to face them, not letting its guard down.
But then, something cyan-colored flew from the ground, and Anemore tried to avoid it, but Valtar and Fiora blocked its escape.
Whoooosh!
“Piiieeek!”
The sharp cyan spear pierced Anemore’s chest with no chance for it to dodge.
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At that moment, darkness began to creep up and engulf Anemore’s body.
[Dark damage is applied.]
[The target resists partially.]
[For the next 3 seconds, all senses and vision are impaired.]
With all of its senses blocked, Anemore lost all perception—sight, hearing, touch, and even intuition. It couldn’t even tell if it was still flying or if it had been struck by Valtar and Fiora.
But it tried to struggle as much as it could.
It couldn’t feel its body move, but it could sense something before the numbness set in.
It fought, fueled by its will to survive.
Trying to avoid any more damage.
After what felt like the longest 3 seconds in its life, when all senses returned, Anemore could finally feel again.
“......Pii?”
It could feel that its once-proud wide wings were horribly shredded, and pieces of its body had been torn away.
It could also see the death legion surrounding it, closing in from every direction.
Anemore tried to fly out of the cyan mist that had filled the area, but every time it tried, Barfur, Fiora, and Valtar blocked its movements, and the death legion relentlessly attacked.
“Piiieeeek——!”
Using its skill, Anemore tried to push the death legion back and escape, but its wings had already been torn apart, leaving it unable to fly.
The Wind's Watcher was no longer a friend of the wind.
The death legion advanced once again, closing the distance quickly, and Anemore could hear the sound of their march.
Clack! Clack! Clack—!
The sound of the army’s march.
And Anemore clenched its eyes shut.
It could feel that it would not survive here.
“Piiiiiiii.......”
A sorrowful scream rang out.
Luna Team, watching the scene, could feel the hairs on the back of their necks standing up as they swallowed nervously.
He really did it.
On his first raid, and alone, he succeeded.
The shock that the power shown to them wasn’t even his full strength had long faded.
To think that such power was possible at this level.
And that, truly, he could clear a raid solo already.
How much time had passed?
When the sorrowful scream finally stopped, countless system messages popped up.
[The raid boss 『Wind’s Watcher, Anemore』 has been defeated.]
[Level Up!] ×6 [Level 64 reached.]
[Level 60 reached, unlocking a new skill for 『Overlord』.]
[Legendary grade skill, 『Whirling Blood』, obtained.]
[Contribution is attributed solely to one person.]
[Single-player raid confirmed.]
[Single-player defeat confirmed.]
[Rewards are enhanced.]
[First defeat.]
[Rewards are enhanced.]
[Defeat rewards granted.]
[As it is a single-player raid, all rewards are granted to 『Seong』 the user.]
[Obtained unique grade set item, 『Wind’s Watcher Set』.]
[Obtained unique grade item, 『Skill Book – Summon Spirit of the Storm』.]
[Obtained unique grade item, 『Essence of the Wind』.]
[Raid boss defeated.] [Title, 『New Raider』, obtained.]
[Single-player raid boss defeat.]
[Title, 『Genius Raider』, obtained.]
[First to defeat raid boss 『Wind’s Watcher, Anemore』.]
[Title, 『Anemore Slayer』, obtained.]
Incredible rewards.
But that wasn’t the main focus. Seong, instead, looked at Anemore’s corpse.
Even though the notification to raise the corpse for the death army hadn’t appeared, there was another notification.
‘This is perfect.’