Being Attacked

[Narrator POV]

*Clump Clump Clump*

The sound of footsteps resounded in the surroundings. Accompanied with the footsteps was the sound of metal clanking together, armors of different players. A group of players walked fast yet also cautious, they didn't want to be spotted by the single 'Area boss(?)' they were following. They were group hunting today to symbolize the anniversary of their newly formed guild, it had been created 2 months before now.

"I'm sure this one will definitely drop some high class data crystals." Whispered the mage in the group. They had been hunting for hours already, trying to maximize their guilds profit.

"It better. I've already been playing longer then I should tonight just to help you guys with this." Grunted the warrior.

"Relax, I'll make sure to help you out with one of your quests later. You won't wake up late for work anyway, so stop panicking." Said the warrior in the front as the group chuckled. He was the leader of this small guild. The mist that hung around them was heavy, the 'Area boss' they were following would disappear momentarily due to the thickness of the fog.

"Guy's looking at this monster closely are you sure it's a monster and not a player instead?" Said the cleric further in the back of the group.

"Newbie stop your nagging, you do it every time we hunt as a group. It's irritating. You should get used to this if you want to fit in here." Said the guild leader. The others nodded in agreement hearing his words. However the cleric had noticed something about this specific 'boss monster' that was odd.

He continued "No no it's not that. It's just this boss has been moving for a while now, other bosses wouldn't go so far away from its area". This was true normal area bosses wouldn't leave their assigned area, it's why they were called area bosses. The group of players looked at each other, they knew what the newbie said was true however they didn't want to admit it. They were veteran players who had been playing the game since the full release of the game came out, how could they allow themselves to look more inexperienced than a new player who started only a couple weeks ago.

The guild leader narrowed his eyes to make a stern expression. He turned to face the cleric and spoke "Listen kid, we know what we are doing. All you need to worry about is healing us." The guild leader put his hand on the cleric's shoulder and tightened his grip a little.

The cleric started to sweat slightly then he nodded "Sure. No problem". The guild leader loosened his grip and patted the cleric on the back. "Besides, even if it is a player it's definitely not human. Which means we won't get any penalties from killing it. We need your healing spells, it's why we recruited you. So I need you to stay focused alright?" Said the guild leader with a small smile.

The cleric saw this and nodded seriously. "Of course sir, sorry for the complaining." The group then turned around to keep following the 'boss' and noticed that it was gone. They all immediately started to rush towards the direction of where it had gone.

"Dammit! If we lost this boss because the newbie I'm gonna kick his ass! There's no way I stayed up this late for nothing!" Screamed the the warrior.

After a few minutes of running they found the 'boss' at a dead end surrounded by naked trees with no leafs. "Oh look, it's a dead end! We cornered it."

The group was experienced so they immediately got in formation. The cleric was in the back, while the mages were on the side of him. The warrior tankers where in front of them along with the dps attackers. There was a total of 6 players against this 'boss'.

The boss was oddly not moving and just stared at the group. It hovered a few inches off the ground with its body similar to a cloth-like material. Its body emitted some sort of mysterious mist that circulated its body. It's eyes glowed white piercing through the cloth which gave the players a eerie vibe.

After a couple seconds the 'boss' made a maneuver with its hands and its body split creating multiple clones of itself then rushed the tankers and dps attackers. The group wasted no time with the tanks readying their weapons and the attackers rushed moving to block whatever move the boss would make.

The one of the attackers was the guild leader he rushed with insane speed to stop the clone, however when he swung his sword it went through it with no resistance. His eyes widened and he reflexly tried to jump back away from the clone however before he could move the clone touched him giving him debuffs for his speed, attack, and defense.

When he finally jumped back away from the clone he looked towards his guildmates to tell them about his discovery but it was too late, they had already been touched.

"Dammit! It has a physical immunity, so use spells! You guys give us some buffs!" he screamed.

The cleric and mage started to chant however before they could even finish the chant....

[ You have lost -20 HP ]

[ You are bleeding! ]

A warning notification popped up alerting them. They had been attacked....but where from? They didn't know, their buff spells had been interrupted and they were being attacked by some invisible force.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE THOSE BUFFS IM LOSING HP OVER HERE!!" screamed the tanker he also was losing hp from an unknown source.

The guild leader had been worrying about his guildmates so he turned back around towards the clone and sliced at it once again but this time he used the spell [ Fire slash ], fire burned aggressively on his sword as he swung it at the clone. The clone denigrated from the fire.

[ Party Memeber {Geo} has been killed ]

[ Party Memeber {Winterlord} has been killed ]

[ You have lost -40 HP ]

[ You have been critically injured ]

[ You are bleeding! ]

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The fight had been only 10 mins but only the guild member was standing was the leader, his other guild mates had been killed easily and quickly. He still had the debuffs and had the bleeding affect still on his status. He had only a little amount of HP and the 'area boss' stood in front of him starting at him silently.

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[Doyle's POV]

I easily felt with the other members of this 6 man group. They were a little experienced, but that was only with monsters. When it came to pvp these guys weren't very good. Literally this whole time- even before this fight started I had casted an illusion. I had already noticed that a group of players were following me, and was even more certain when I seen that they were all human race players. Like a week in a half ago the devs released information stating that heteromorphic players are killable without penalties. So of course when I saw this I used the foggy environment to my advantage.

When I was covered by the fog I Immediately switched myself with a clone and went invisible. When the battle started I let the clones distract them while I ran around stabbing and slicing them with a short sword I crafted. It's a legendary class item that has a 70% chance of a 'bleed' effect.

I looked at my status quickly.

[Debuffs: { -10% Attack } { -10% defense } { -10% Speed } { -10% Magic Defense } ]

Tch! I sucked my teeth. This game has no mercy for heteromorphic players at all. Like what the hell is this?! THEY attacked me, why the hell do I get penalized for defending myself.

Racism at it's finest! Whatever, I still have to deal with this last guy. Right now I was invisible while one of my clones was in front of the warrior. He seemed kinda pissed that I killed his friends but I don't care. It's his fault for trying to PK me.

He rushed towards my clone, seemingly using his most powerful move. Idiot... Does this guy not question anything? As he swung the sword all the elements: fire, ice, water, earth were adorned on his sword making it change colors brightly. While he was rushing towards my clone I had already started to chant the 9th tier spell [ Maximize: Vermilion Nova ]. He swung the sword with all his strength yelling at the top of his lungs. I almost broke my invisibility due to laughter but I kept myself quiet.

As he realized that what he just killed was my clone his eyes widened "W-what?!.....How?!" I finally revealed myself.

"You're an idiot" was the words I said as I shot the 9th tier spell at him incinerating him instantly.

[ Level: 73 → Level: 74 ]

The level-up notification popped up alerting me. Nice! You get pretty good chunks of exp from killing other players haha. After allotting the status point I pulled up my stats.

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[ IGN: Doyle ]

[ Gender: Male ]

[ Race: Ghost( Heteromorphic ) ]

Level: 74

Hp: 55

Mp: 95

Phy Atk: 60

Phy Def: NULL

Agility: 64

Mag Atk: 90

Mag Def: 66

Resist: 88

Special: 83

Total Stats: 601

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Ghost: 15

Wraith lord: 10

Phantasmal eternal: 2

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Illusionist: 15

Sage: 10

Arcanist: 10

Illusion Expert: 10

Weapon Master: 9

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