'It's about time.'
Right after he thought that the real reason for Eliza's earlier warning happened, a silver haze rose up from Silverwing's body, its eyes glowing with a similar coloured light as one of its skills, the Unique Skill Variant of Tenacity was activated.
Eliza's eyes widened as Silverwing's life force surged, washing over its body right after.
When the silver haze died down, Silverwing's appearance was revealed for them to see.
"You gotta be fucking kidding me!"
The battle priestess screamed out as she looked at the now unscathed body of Silverwing, its beak pointed upward and a mocking glance in its eyes as it gazed at them.
Its injuries had completely recovered.
Now…it was time for Round 2.
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Silverwing was an Event Limited boss that only appeared in Aidos Online a maximum of three times during its years of Service.
And it was touted as one of the most difficult bosses in the game, due to its ridiculous set of Unique skills and absurd amount of HP.
It was as if the developers placed Silverwing there to torture the players of the game.
If only they knew that an Irregular existence like Silverwing existed in reality, somewhere in the universe.
Yes, Silverwing, was an Irregular just like Evan, something that Evan was able to tell just the way the Undead Dragon from Cheverton had done when it saw him.
And the creature just displayed one of the reasons why it had that title.
Without waiting for the party to recover from their shock, Silverwing launched multiple ice chunks and shot towards Evan's direction, intending on taking out the wielder of that dangerous crimson law essence.
The boy whipped into motion, shooting towards the monster with his eyes locked on it.
Because Silverwing was flying along the ice chunks, there were more gaps for him to slip through. He created a series of Void steps and leapt into the air, darting over faster than Silverwing could catch him with its energy-coated beak and sailing over the bird's head.
"Blade cannon!"
The slash of reddish gold aura followed the five fist-sized bullets of the same energy, bashing through Silverwing's feathers and paving the way for the accompanying slashes to rend its flesh.
'No soul damage, huh? Guess that's the best I can do without using the skill.'
Evan thought to himself as he used Hookshot and Everlasting chains in conjunction, shooting a golden chain that pierced through Silverwing's flesh and within an instant, he was already on its body.
Three jagged ice spikes collided with the air where he was a second ago, but Evan was already taking advantage of Hook shot's paralysis effect to release another attack.
His hand blurred and within the few seconds of Silverwing's paralysis, Evan had drawn a dozen sword lines on its back with his aura.
"KIAAA!!!"
Silverwing shrieked and broke free from the paralysis, wheeling around its body and spreading its wings wide.
From the corner of its vision, it saw dozens of incoming dark, lighting, flame and water projectiles coming from all sides, narrowing its brows and flapping its wings hard in response.
The resulting gale violently uprooted all the spikes of ice on the ground, creating a hail of ice that was hard to predict.
More magic circles formed and released spikes of ice to collide with all the elemental projectiles fired by the spirits and nullify them.
Nevertheless, the moment it took to do that, Evan saw three rings of green light appearing on his wrists and legs, buffs from Eliza that he appreciated as he unleashed a point-blank elemental vortex.
***BOOOOMM!!!
Silverwing's body crashed violently on the ground as the mass of spiralling magic power struck true.
[Rock-Paper-Scissors!]
Kayla's sudden shout had sixteen lightning energy blocks forming in front of one of the birds' wings, reforging in a giant fist and punching Silverwing's head to the side.
It then turned into a giant hand and slapped one of the bird's wings, before finally transforming into a giant scissors and attempting to snip said wing off.
For the other wing, Kuro's shadows surged forward, releasing multiple projectiles of dark light that punctured its wings and perforated them.
Before Milena could throw in her own attack after getting Eliza's buffs, the bird roared and tried to use its Frost Nova again, but this time, Evan and Kayla were alert so they instantly blinked/zapped out of the range.
As for Kuro, he simply delved into his shadow and reappeared behind Eliza.
The frosty winds swept through the hall once more, but they failed to hit any targets.
Silverwing didn't mind as it only did that to stop Kayla from actually snipping off its wing, turning towards the person responsible for their increased damage and beelining towards her.
Sadly, Evan blinked right in front of his target, a gigantic elemental projected weapon of flames in his hands.
To make sure his Energy sword master class buffs were there, he left the weapon in the shape of a sword, just that its sheer size was massive.
The bird swung its ice-coated talons at Evan, attempting to rip him in two but Evan swung the sword and blocked the attack, sending the bird reeling backwards and spewing blood everywhere.
Seizing the chance, Evan infused more energy into the sword and swung it once more, succeeding in dealing more damage to Silverwing, but the bird's talons got a hit in on him too.
Blood splashed as Evan's clothes, made out of grandmaster spider monster threads, were ripped apart and his body was sent flying towards Eliza.
"Breath of Life!"
The girl had the skill activated already before she had even caught his body, channelling the healing power right into the wound he had just received.
And as expected of a unique skill, the massive gash on his torso healed rapidly, with all the cold energy being expelled.
As for the exchange between Evan and Silverwing, it was obvious who had come out worse from it.
Milena took advantage of Silverwing's' momentary pause due to the pain of losing its leg again and vaulted onto its back.
"Descending Coelacanth!"
A huge burst of water spread across the birds back, with a massive coelacanth manifesting from Milena's body and slamming onto Silverwing's body, drenching it in even more water.
It let out a roar and thrashed wildly, but Milena had already left the scene, and it was time for Kayla to shine…literally.
[Pseudo-Authority of Lightning!
Descend!!]
Dark clouds gathered over the massive cavern, followed by the descent of a massive arrow of lighting that dripped down onto Silverwing's body.
Drenched in water, the bird knew just how much of a bad idea it was to get hit with lightning at this time, but Kuro wasn't going to let it get away.
[Shadow Bind!!]
Tendrils of darkness emerged from Silverwing's shadow and latched onto it, holding it in place long enough for Kayla's lightning bolt to descend.
**BZZZZCHHKKKTTTT!!!!
Kayla's lightning bolt electrocuted Silverwing's body with so much lightning that Evan could swear he could see the bird's skeleton flashing.
Its massive frame crashed down onto the ground after getting hit with that bolt, but Eliza noticed its life force washing over its body strangely.
She consumed two charges of her skill and sent out her life essence, trying to block the Creature's skill activation and she actually succeeded…for three seconds.
"KIAK!"
Silverwing let out a short screech and it rebounded her life essence, even devouring some of it and turning using it to supplement its own.
A silver haze covered its body and by the time Silverwing's body hit the ground, its wounds had vanished once more.
"Evan! How many times can this thing do that?!"
"It depends on how much life fo-?!"
His eyes widened as he sensed magic power swelling up from Silverwing's direction, specifically, its throat.
It spread out its wings and backed away, sinking its talons into the ground.
Its beak yawned opened and a four-ringed magic circle appeared.
No one needed to be told about how bad that was.
Evan tossed three energy stones to Eliza and she instantly used them to generate multi-layered barriers in front of her.
Kuro, Kayla and Milena also retreated behind it for cover as Eliza activated support magic.
"Elemental Damage Breach-Negative.
Elemental Ward, Ice!"
Just as the words left Eliza's lips…
Silver laser beams blanketed everything in sight.
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How fast could a high-velocity beam of ice move?
**BOOM!!
From the compression shockwaves similar to high explosive blast waves that spread out omnidirectionally, Evan knew that at the very least, sound was slow in comparison.
***KAAABOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!
The ground trembled beneath the colossal explosion as the beam of icy energy collided with Eliza's angled barriers and unleashed an ear-shattering explosion that reverberated through the air.
The impact created a shockwave that ripped through the surroundings and caused debris to fly in the air.
Citizens of the closer city of Shelde saw their second earthquake of the day, just one that was far greater in intensity than the previous one.
When the echoes of the Collison subsided, a lingering gaze of icy smoke and dust blanketed the aftermath, casting an eerie silence over the area.
The wall behind them had crumbled to bits and parts of the hallways they walked through had been ravaged.
'That had to have gotten them down for the count.'
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