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Added the illustration for the Chief of the Worldbreakers to C43 and Illustrations page
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Typically speaking, zombies were existences that didn’t have much intellect, if any, the zombie subordinates that Bella had were some of the rare exceptions. Currently, however, the 5 meter tall zombie that Bella and her party had encircled was another big exception. The giant zombie was completely covered in a thick and powerful armour that deflected the attacks of Bella and co, sending only sparks flying.
Bella’s party had used the same tactic as they had during their fight against the [Earth Bear] last time, using the party’s knights to surround the zombie while the other melee classes darted around looking for openings and the ranged members stood back and maintained a continuous stream of attacks. This was a tactic that tested the resilience and durability of a party’s knights as well as if the attacks of the other members behind them were strong enough. A mistake on either side could lead to the annihilation of the entire party.
This knights surrounding the giant zombie this time were Bella, Dolores, Eleanor, and Irene, with Dolores directly in front of the zombie. Back when she was still one of the demon empire’s princesses, she already had the ability to go face-to-face with a human dragon knight, albeit a low-tier one, there was no problem with letting her take on the role of the meat shield this time round. Bella and Eleanor were on the flanks and because of the fact that Irene had not yet completely absorbed the dark power that Bella ‘bestowed’ upon her, she was assigned to the comparatively safer rear.
Roland’s role was to protect the damage dealing members in the backline, standing in between the four knights and the rearguard, taking precautions against the off chance of the zombie breaking through the encirclement and charging towards the party’s backline.
Lisha was the party’s main source of damage this time, as she was the only knight here capable of using magic that could damage the giant zombie. Because this zombie was a creature of darkness, the typical dark magic abilities that the three newbie demon kings Bella, Dolores, and Eleanor were throwing at it didn’t have much effect. Unless the three of them were to summon their demon kings’ exclusive equipment and utilize their powers, only then would their dark magic would be able to significantly damage the giant zombie. Due to their surroundings however, Bella and the others didn’t want to transform unless absolutely necessary, meaning that they had to leave the task of dealing damage to the 【Magic Dragon Knight], Lisha and co.
There were four beauties in charge of dealing damage in this encounter, 【Magic Dragon Knight]Lisha who was flinging magic from the middle of the party, the archer Annie who was making swift and accurate shots from the rear, the assassin Lola who was weaving around the four knights looking for any opportunity to strike. The final member of the offensive team was the princess of the demon world, Hadias, who was circling the giant from above, responsible for looking for and reporting weaknesses and blind spots to Annie and Lola, as well as forcing the giant zombie to keep its head down.
Far behind the knights, Angel clasped her hands together, as if in prayer. She was currently reciting the first stance of the ‘Ghostly Requiem’, 《Peaceful Night》, evicting the nearby malicious spirits. Mia was responsible for placing buffs on the other members of the party as the zombies here weren’t affected at all my her curses and hexes.
Something that surprised both Mia and Angel was that all of the dark power increasing magics that Mia used didn’t have any side effects on Lisha, instead returning the same signal of being a ‘friendly’ that Kriss had given off. After discovering this, the two lolis weren’t as angry at Lisha as they were before after Lisha had given Bella’s party quite the beating back at the Anola Clark Strip.
Noesha’s job was comparatively less stressful, apart from keeping the large majority of the infected away using spatial magic, she was also responsible for creating various teleportation formations behind the others.
While simple, Noesha’s job could be considered the most important, as she was responsible for the safety of the entire party. After all, it was up to Noesha whether or not everyone would be able to escape in time, if for whatever reason they wouldn’t be able to defeat the giant zombie. A good escape route was vital for any operation.
The party’s newcomer, the unholy maiden Liz, had the easiest task. Even though she was a member of the Church of Darkness, but her class was indeed a cleric. Clerics that used dark-type magic weren’t unheard of within the 5 great human empires, just much rarer than their light magic using peers.
Because the job of applying buffs on the party had been taken by Mia, all Liz had to do was cast necromancy on the normal infected that were knocked down by Bella and the others. Under the influence of the virus, if an infected was knocked down and left alone for a period of time, they would rise again and return to the ranks of those throwing themselves at Bella’s party. But theoretically, if one were to cast necromancy magic on them before they rose again, they could be controlled like normal summoned zombies.
This was an idea that Bella had thought of and after Liz put it into practice, discovered that it did indeed work. Not far away from her, there were already quite a few infected that she had ‘resurrected’ and formed a special sort of ‘wall’, pushing the infected zombies further and further away as the infected zombies didn’t seem to attack other zombies, standing idle and staring blankly as their peers gradually edged them away from Bella and the others..
The giant zombie at the center of the encirclement swung its thick arms fearlessly at the knights that had boxed it in, the power behind each swing would force a knight back several steps. The assassin Lola took advantage of the giant zombie’s wide openings during its attacks to attack its joints with the god-tier dagger ‘Song of Light’.
If it was any normal evil beings or monsters, these attacks on its vitals would cripple their arms completely. This zombie’s joints, however, seemed to be harder than steel plate, remaining undamaged from Lola’s attacks, making the assassin question her own power for a while.
Bella and the other knights were fighting cautiously as this zombies defences could already compare with the hardest enemy that they had faced yet, the monster [Fierce Dragon]. That [Fierce Dragon] had been imbued with a Creator’s power during that fight, which was the only reason why it was so tough, but Bella couldn’t sense any Creator’s power on this zombie, meaning that it had been fighting against them using only its innate strength and defence. Compared to this zombie, the [Fierce Dragon] that Bella and the others had defeated previously was just a cheating piece of trash.
【Corpse Demon] Jerome was also questioning itself right now, during its time patrolling the area, Jerome had already annihilated several A-class mercenary companies by itself. Jerome hadn’t expected to run into such tough opponents here, even though the female knights were forced back several steps each time it attacked, but the power behind its swings was unimaginable, Jerome didn’t remember any human being able to take the brunt of its power directly and remain uninjured. One should know that the power behind Jerome’s strikes would be able to bisect the C-class monster [Earth Bear] with ease.
“Does this damn thing have invincibility cheats on or something, how the hell is a demon king supposed to survive in this world?”
Neither Lisha’s magic spells, Annie’s arrows, nor Lola’s precise attacks had any effect on this giant zombie. Bella right now really wanted to file a complaint to the Creators, demanding to know which one of them had created this b*****d and how the hell anyone was supposed to kill it.
Because they were currently fighting in the town of Sakerid, the tight roads and paths made it troublesome for Bella to summon the Dark Sanctuary’s 6 void monarchs, due to their giant size that would most likely destroy the town’s paths and alleys, making it that much harder for Bella to reach the Dak tavern to save Kriss and the others later.
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In the central area of Sakerid, 【Tenebrous Demon God] Elise was sprawled down on the ground with dark red blood splattered all around her. Not farm from her, the Betrayed had already been blasted into numerous pieces and seemed to be finally dead.
It didn’t take long however, for the scattered body parts to come back together and begin to repair themselves at a rate visible to the naked eye. Elise knew that it wouldn’t be long before this monstrosity was able to get back on its feet and continue fighting.
“*cough**cough*… This damn b*****d… seems to be able to revive… infinitely, now I… understand how that Troublemaker had lost. I should retreat for now, I can’t die here, I haven’t even found Samantha-nee yet.”
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