The raid boss will slowly move toward its main destination which is the Insect Kingdom itself. It's slow but that doesn't mean the f*cker has a slow movement, it was actually moving slowly on purpose. It was like this in the past timeline as well but since the players before figured it out, the mantis revealed its real form and became a menace and that is also the time it will become quite vulnerable and easy to kill.
Since Father is asking for a plan on taking down the mantis as the one who has observed the mantis for a longer period, I decided to reveal the plan that I formulated.
Because the plan is very long, I asked them to just jump into the fray later on against the raid boss and spend the night there while I explain the strategy I came up with. I also explained to them why I wouldn't be participating and they immediately understand why. But since this isn't part of their problem, they can participate just fine and I am also more relieved if they do participate than to stop them from doing so.
It took a whole night in-game time for me to explain everything from tactics to strategies in case something happened that doesn't fall to what was expected, I added there to make sure the plan goes smoothly.
The next morning, before the sun will rise up on the horizon, everyone departed to battle for the raid. It's a raid after all and the longer they dawdle, the longer the boss will remain alive. Of course, before they left, I handed them all of the recovery items they can carry, repaired their weapons and armor, and gave them some tools to use for battle as well. I will just be watching them on the sidelines this time around so until then, I will be remaining in a passive state for a while. For that, perhaps cooking some popcorn sounds good.
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After listening to the advice of Bladeheart, Sigma and everyone headed to the battlefield as soon as possible. Even though the nighttime passed by, the battle remained the same, and players who are tired decided to swap out with other players just to stall time to keep the raid boss from proceeding further.
Sigma and the others who have already met a few of the players on the field were all not expecting the massive scale of the battle. But they immediately knew what to do first.
"Don't bother with the corrupted mobs, Head straight to the boss and fight against it. Those guys will only attack if you outright block its path. Since there are other players around, take advantage of them and head to the boss's feet as soon as you can."
The words of Bladeheart echoed through Sigma's head. She looked at everyone and seeing that they are ready, she gave the signal and all of them rush towards the boss's feet. Because the mantis is no longer that far, they don't need to run that far but it wasn't the main problem of this.
The ground they are running in is the main problem in reaching that place much faster. The battlefield is a swamp. It's just a normal swamp where monsters exist as well but until recently, the swamp is peaceful and players can farm the enemies just fine without the fear of dying. But the moment the war happened, the place also turned quite chaotic as well.
Swamp's ground is mud and water, plus some grass that sometimes tangles on armor or boots if they run through the place. It's not that troublesome but if you want to move faster, you will have to force yourself to move slowly for a bit since you have to waddle through the mud to get through which comes the next plan that Bladeheart said to them.
"Run to the swamp but once your feet start to submerge, activate your wings and start flying until you find a mushroom. Use that mushroom as a "trampoline and boost your flight to reach the enemy much faster than you should."
It was just a simple tip but the moment they actually dived into the battle, they realized that it was indeed much easier to do so than to stay waddling there in the mud. Even some players were surprised that they managed to traverse the place much faster. Because of that, the crew managed to get to the feet of the boss as fast as they can, even outpacing those players that are still struggling from wading through the mud.
"Remain near the legs of the raid boss. I noticed that the boss is able to walk into the mud without even personally stepping on it. If my assumption is correct, as long as you are near the legs, you won't even touch the mud of the swamp. Use that to your advantage and fight the boss."
Sigma and the others landed near the legs. Because the mantis walks very slowly, they are not worried about it moving fast enough and far enough for them to catch up.
Once they are now in a stable area, everyone unleashed their ultimate and strongest attacks on the boss immediately.
"Throw out your strongest attacks to the feet immediately. I noticed that it was weak enough against burst but because the players don't use it at the same time, the impact was limited. Since there is a lot of your right now, use it simultaneously and make sure that you hit the feel with all of what you got. For those who don't have a destructive ultimate attack like you, Mother, don't waste it and instead, use your strongest debuff that can be inflicted against any enemies just like defense down or attack down debuffs, That would help a lot more."
With the plan, Bladeheart's mother throws the debuff to the boss, immediately inflicting it with the planned debuff, which is then followed suit by the simultaneous attacks of everyone.
BOOM!
The attack landed and due to the simultaneous attacks done to the boss, the boss didn't expect it to experience a heavy attack happening at the same time. Due to this, the boss failed to even defend himself, it is now forced to deal with the damages that have happened simultaneously which will soon halt its recovery to focus on recovering its damage. That's when players should take a free hit to the boss as much as they can.
Seeing that the rankers who have joined in started to initiate the attack against the boss, the others who are at a loss on what to do nearby now managed to gather more reason to fight. Now, its time for the strike back.
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