To the Depth of Abyss

Chapter 133: Battle of the Long Night (8)

Land of Honor / South Territory 

Lord Albacore's pirate and Mike Sparrow's pirate are at the top of their battle. Each of their ships almost completely destroyed. Lord Albacore was nearly out of the crew. Many of Mike Sparrow's crew were withdrawn and replaced by other hunters.

All that remained are the captains of each ship.

While many of his men began to fall and be pulled from the ship, Mike still standing tall, waiting for the moment he had been waiting for.

"Come on, what are you waiting for?"

He waited for the captain of the opposing ship to get off the ship. Only then Mike able to allow himself to fight in full.

After waiting a little longer, finally the long-awaited moment had arrived.

The captain of the Albacore Soul draw his sword and walked out of his ship. The entire crew of the ship has died. The ship has been destroyed and can no longer operate. All that's left is himself.

Therefore, with a pride that would not fall, Lord Albacore got off his ship. 

When the Boss Monster Region's feet touched the ground, suddenly a pool of water appeared and flooded around the Boss Monster Region.

The Boss Monster Region stood facing the hunters, waiting for someone to challenge him to battle.

From the Hunter's side, of course, only a few people could accept the challenge. One of them is the old man, the captain of the Sparrow pirates.

The old man accepted the challenge and got off the ship.

Before he pulled out his sword, he first pulled the necklace he wears. The necklace is in the form of a ball of bluish green color, seeing it gives the impression of a green and unfolding sea water.

[South Region Blessing Summon: South stream Goddess]

At that spell; a goddess dressed all in green and holding a trident in her right hand, appears behind Mike.

Just after that, Mike drew his sword. He looked deep at the captain of the opposing ship. 

That battle became the umpteenth time between the two of them. In every battle, Mike could always feel angry and unacceptability within Lord Albacore.

"Yeah, that is right. Only a fair fight between two men can beat you."

After accepting that each other is a balanced opponent, the two of them started dashing forward. A massive battle between the captain of the Albacore and the Sparrow pirate rocked the southern territory.

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Land of Honor / North Territory 

The Lizard King successfully incapacitated. His shield got crushed, his tail got cut off, and he had multiple wounds on several parts of his body.

Of course, all that effort sacrifices a lot of energy and a lot of hard work. Even some of Tyler's men fell or were evacuated due to exhaustion or serious injuries.

"Tch, this fight would have been easier if Dustin were here."

Dustin is his partner in hunt. With his sword and the man's shield, they became a powerful combo in the city. 

But unfortunately the man's career is over.

Tyler doesn't blame what happened to the man. Because that man sacrificed himself for a very honorable reason.

"But, man! Where can I find a strong meat shield like him?!"

Tyler frustrated. However, that is not an excuse for him to stop moving forward. 

"Ah, whatever! I'll just beat you up alone!"

Well, he is not literally alone, he is with all the party that follows him. It's just only him a Platinum Hunter in the party and he's the only one who can do massive damage to the boss monster.

Not wanting to think to much, he raised his sword, Thundering, to prepare to fight the Lizard King.

At that time, the Lizard King would enter its second phase. In the first phase the Lizard King was on full defense and attacked carefully like a knight. In the second phase, when he lost all his defense, he would become more aggressive and fight more like a fighter.

The Lizard King stood up, grabbed his mace with both hands, then shouted out loud. The scream is a sign that he had entered the second phase.

"Supporters, step back and support at a further distance! Vanguard, prepare to face that big, angry man!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Tyler's men, both old and new, obeyed the order and prepared to fight the Boss Dungeon who is outside his region.

"[Thundering]!"

Tyler cast a spell. The spell activated the skill on [Thundering], making the sword enveloped in a yellow electric current. 

In the second phase, the Lizard King will attack blindly more often. Like a bull going on a rampage, he will attack anyone who gets in front of him. The Diversion Skill from Tank would have no effect on distracting him.

Therefore, good coordination must be done between parties. 

"Then now, bring it on!"

The final battle against the Lizard King will take the North Territory by storm.

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Land of Honor / Sky Territory

Deadly Vulture is still flying freely in the skies of Shield City. 

As a monster bird boss, it should be fought on a high ground like the top of West Horn Mountain.

But at the time, the highest ground that the Land of Honor have are the Cathedral ground and the Church of Longing's floating land.

Of course it couldn't land in those two places because the two places being protected by holy barriers.

Due to his nature of not being able to leave a region quickly, he only flew in all directions in the sky of Land of Honor.

Meanwhile, in the Cathedral, Stairs of Serenity ground, a battle is going on. 

"[Sword Copying Three Swords]! [Windur]!"

Three swords covered in Arts slid down, darting towards the group of lizardmen who are trying to climb the highlands of the Stairs of Serenity.

The three swords exploded and smashed the ground around the explosion. The Lizardmen who got hit by the wind blasts or the rocks that fell down, many of them fell down and died.

"Wew." "Kane, you should just be an archer instead." "Yeah."

The twins fascinated of how Kane's power works. Among the four of them, the Sword Disciples, only Kane could launch his blades very far.

Aiden can do that, but his aiming is poor which makes him better suited for striking large targets or dealing AOE damage.

At that compliment, Kane smiled. "Well, being an Archer is too mainstream. It's cooler to be who we are now, Sword Caster. We are only few and even if this teaching becomes broad, we will become the seniors of our juniors."

Kane's statement has a point. The twins' eyes opened wide at that point.

"That's right!" "We will become the cool seniors of the Sword Casters wanna be!"

Being in their own world, the twins forgot that they are in battle.

"Don't lose your focus. Our enemies are still many."

William enters the conversation as he fires a fire ball with his staff.

It was the kindness, or rather normal treatment, that William gave to them, Sword Disciples.

"So, you finally acknowledge us?"

Kane asked the arrogant Caster a question as he cast [Sword Copying].

At that question, William smirked. "Heh, don't be arrogant just because you have mastered that teaching. Besides, you can make better use of that technique."

The twins annoyed that the arrogant Caster is still arrogant towards them. But Kane was curious about that statement.

"Then, could you tell me of making better use of my technique?"

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In the area outside the mini fortress, Aiden took a brief breath as they paused their battle.

Then suddenly, he caught an unusual sight in the northeast. 

An Arts, a fire ball, launched towards the lizardmen. Behind the fire ball followed two swords, which in the middle of the road pierced the fire ball, and enveloped the two swords in flames.

The two flame swords dashed to the lizardmen, then boom, exploded when it touched two of them. 

The explosion was quite large and took out more Lizardmen than any of the previous attacks.

"Woooooo!" "That was definitely a great combination attack!"

Kane couldn't believe he just launched an attack of that size. The attack just now is bigger than the one launched by Aiden's Flemish.

"Two is better than one. Combination attack is better than ones attack."

William said that as if he had acknowledged Kane.

His friends had done the best they could. That made Aiden's spirit burn even hotter.

"How is it, Mr. Black Hunter guy? We have found a way to overcome your troops! Soon we will finish them all and there's nothing you can do to stop that!"

Liliana shouted their definite victory. 

Even during their battle, the madman only seemed to be wasting time and not fighting in full.

It confirms that he doesn't want to lose himself and he doesn't have any more cards to draw.

However, for some reason, the madman start laugh in evil as he still bowing his head. 

"Buhaha, buhahahaha, bahahahahahahahah!"

Yep, that laugh is definitely which as we think it is.

"I have no other cards to draw?! Think twice!? You think all of this was not predicted by Soul Saint?! You are big wrong! After all, they are just useless pawns and are meant to be thrown away!"

Although Liliana shocked at the madman's change in attitude, Liliana still pissed off at that statement.

"Then why are you doing something pointless like this?!"

At Liliana's question, the madman took out something from his waist, something that had been hanging around his waist all this time. A horn, trumpet, a war horn. 

Without further madness, the madman turned the horn to his mouth.

That horn is definitely going to bring another havoc once it has sounded.

At that very time, Aiden launched one Flemish at Madman. But alas, the Flemish somehow passed the madman, as if it hit black smoke and not the madman's body.

"Too bad, if you're aiming for this horn, maybe I can't avoid it."

The madman was using Arts to dodge Aiden's attack. 

Not giving up, Liliana raised her sword, about to send an attack on the madman.

But unfortunately, the madman managed to blow the horn first.