Chapter 8. Fake Wizard and Assassin

I said all that to Drag, but to be honest I'm having a bit of trouble getting to space.

Even though I no longer need air to breathe, to reach the moon I need a speed of more than a hundred thousand kilometers per hour. To reach that speed, I've enchanted my body with speed enchant three times and even used Baal but my speed still can't reach the speed needed to reach outer space.

At this rate I can't reach it, I thought.

The limit of enchantments that can be applied to one body just three and I've used them all and Baal is a unique skill that can only be used once. I had run out of ways to accelerate my pace and I only reached the ionosphere after nearly five minutes of flying.

"Damn it!!"

I had to think about how I could increase my speed to reach the minimum speed to pass through the atmosphere, but nothing came to my mind. None of my skills can be used to do that! I can only curse myself for not looking for another skill to increase my speed.

"You don't get abilities like these wings huh."

Just as I had given up and was about to return to land, I could hear a voice from behind me. When I turned around, I saw someone… though it wasn't a person but a skull wearing all black armor and cape. The figure wore a hood that covered his face. A pair of white wings adorned his back which made him look like an angel of death.

"You're..."

I immediately checked the person but seeing that there was a HP above his head, I hypothesized that he was a player.

"...a player?"

"Yup. I will help you deal with this monster… no, you will help me kill this monster."

He made it here meaning he had a skill that gave him super speed. Even so I'm not sure the speed will get us to the moon. The fastest combination I know of during beta is Deadless Lancer's which combines Skada, Runecraft type Speed, and Hounding Beast and its just ground speed, air speed will drop drastically.

I combined Baal, Charisma, then enchant to increase my speed so I'm pretty sure I reached the deadless lancer's speed. But I'm sure this guy in front of me made it to this place in less time than me. He must have seen me off the ground and chased after me.

No, that's also weird. How did he know I was gone from the earth? I'm sure there are only a few players who pick up the hawk eye skill and they're usually archers. And even though he could see, he shouldn't know where I was going. What actually happened here!?

"I saw you walking away from your friend. Since it seemed strange, I asked your friend and finally got here."

Drag? He asked Drag?

No, I'm not surprised that he asked Drag. What makes me feel weird is that he can see us and can chase after me. This means that he has high observation skills and fast flying skills.

Out of curiosity, I finally asked him.

"You… you're a dungeon conqueror?" I asked.

"Yes. More or less."

I just noticed but this guy's voice is heavier than mine or Drag's. Even though Drag and I are in our thirties, but her voice is louder than ours! In other words, he may be near or over 40 years of age. That old and still playing games like this? He really is something. Well i can't really say that myself.

"I'm fine with cooperating with you, but how do I know you won't kill me while we're fighting the boss and allow you to take all the rewards?"

Rewards from defeating layer bosses are more and more

"Firstly, I'm not at all interested in that gift you mean. My main goal is to take the life of this monster. Second, your life in this world has absolutely no value so you're not at all tempting to kill."

He thinks the killings in this world are real murders? Is he a psychopath? But he definitely had unique skills from clearing world dungeons on his own. In terms of ability, there seemed to be no choice but to agree to his cooperation request.

"Okay! I'll believe in you!"

I manipulated my window to request a party to the player in front of me. He pressed agree without thinking. I looked at the party menu and found the character's name.

"Hassan..."

The player, Hassan, then held out his hand. I reached for the hand and in an instant both of us shot off at a speed that was much faster than my previous speed.

"Hurry up..." I said.

"Still not fast enough."

"Eh?"

"At our current speed, it will still take a few hours to reach the moon. For that I need your help, an enchanter."

"..."

Oh, I see. He also knew that he couldn't reach the moon alone even at this speed, so he invited me to a party. It's true, with his speed accelerated with the Enchant then...

"Enchant: Speed! Speed! Speed!"

...we can reach enough speed to reach the moon!!

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It was a twenty-minute journey over three hundred kilometers against gravity, but we made it through! We made it to the moon and saw a giant serpent creature that probably looked more like a dragon.

The giant snake was almost as big as the moon just for its head. The snake has horns on its head. The horn is shaped like an elephant's horn. In addition, on the body there are fins that grow on the fish. Overall, it looks like a dragon from Chinese and Norse mythology combined into one.

"I guess... the one who designed this monster was too lazy or something..." I said.

"I agree with that." replied Hassan.

We have flown individually with our respective abilities. I took out all my weaponry, all my jewels. Meanwhile I saw Hassan just getting ready with his sword.

"Are you a saber or an assassin?" I asked.

Honestly without needing him to answer I can already see the assassin symbol next to his name in the party window. But usually, assassins use short blades or oddly bows, not this big sword he's holding.

"I don't want to hear that from a magician who wields a sword. Well, skip it..." Hassan replied.

"Alright..."

I turned my face away from Hassan and stared at the monster I couldn't even describe in word [ big ] in front of me.

"...there are monsters to hunt!" I said.

"...there are lives to be taken!" Hassan said, along with my words.

I flew to the left side of the monster while Hassan flew to the right side of the monster. I flew while throwing and activating the magic gem I was carrying. Besides that, I took out the sword that I had enchanted my strongest skill with.

"Extinction!!"

I activated the skill inside the sword. An extremely majestic lightning struck the snake's entire body. As long as the lightning struck him, I activated many magic gems to attack him as well. Even so, after two full minutes of lightning striking, the monster's HP was only eroded by about five percent.

"Only five percent even with an A rank skill huh..."

I wanted to activate the skill again, but I've run out of the swords I've enchanted with that skill. The swords that could be enchanted with that skill were those of rank A and above. I can only get it a little with my gold for now and it's all gone.

'I have to use that skill directly huh...' I thought.

I continued to dodge attacks from the snake. Because of the two of us, the snake attacks randomly so we can take turns dealing damage safely when one of us is attacked.

After ten minutes had passed, the snake's HP had reached fifty percent. The one who contributed the most damage was Hassan, I don't know what unique skill he used but he could do more damage than the damage I dealt with all the skills I put out.

And finally, because his HP was below fifty percent, I finally can dare myself to use my strongest skill combo. I looked at the amount of MP and buff I received. My MP is enough to activate it and my magic attack buff is enough to end it.

"Caster."

Hassan suddenly contacted me via party chat.

"What?" I replied.

"Let's finish together with our strongest attack."

"Hooh, okay. But I'm not responsible if I get the bonus."

"Not a problem."

Hassan seems to think the same, which is ready to use his strongest attack.

I take out all the magic gems that contain magic enchants. I threw it in the air. Since there was no gravity all the magic gems floated in the air. I then activated all twenty magic gems.

"Enchantments!"

All the magic gems shattered, and a magic circle appeared from all the magic gems.

I looked at Hassan. From his sword emerged a dark aura and light and the sword seemed to enlarge. Just swing it, then he can slash the monster.

Hassan and I made eye contact for a while then simultaneously activated our strongest skills.

"Quadruplet Maximize Boost Magic: Barq Sayf Alianqirad!"

"Azrael!"

I activated a magic skill whose number had been doubled four times with quadruplet magic while its attack power was amplified by maximize magic and its rank was raised with boost magic.

Meanwhile, while swinging the sword at the monster Hassan activated his skill. Azrael huh… a unique skill of the angel series, the reverse series of the demon series from Baal.

Black and white swords sliced ​​open the snake's body while an incomparably much more majestic and powerful lightning bolt struck it. The combined attack of two EX rank skills, even layer bosses with layers of HP seemed impossible to withstand that attack!

After the lightning finished striking, We saw that its HP had gone down completely. I wanted to scream with joy, but it turned out to be just a trap.

"WHAT!?"

"..."

The snake's HP had already reached zero percent, but it still wasn't dead. Skills like battle continuation must be activated automatically when their HP decreases to a certain level.

"Bothersome one." said Hassan.

"How is this going..." I said.

Not only he did not die, his HP began to recover every second even if only a little. I've run out of MP and magic gems, meanwhile Hassan who uses more MP than me must be run out of MP too. We are already in a state of not being able to fight anymore and this layer boss even has this skill? Very cheating!

SHOOTT!!!

"!!"

"!!!"

While I was cursing the development team and thinking of a way to fight, something hit the snake's head and took out all of its HP.

I looked in the direction it was coming from, but there was nothing from a few kilometers away, even if I used my hawk eye to be sure. But the direction that something was coming from was the earth hundreds of kilometers away.

"Don't tell me someone shoot something to this place from the earth? Also, with this insane precision?" I said in awe.

And then that's when I realized...

"FUCK!!! I DON'T GET THE LAST HIT BONUS!!!"

...it wasn't me who defeated that layer boss.

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"Hey, have you heard about the madman shooting at the sky during the layer boss raid?"

"Hahaha!! I saw him! He's in an Italian server like me!"

"Is he stupid?"

"I heard he's stout like a bear, so maybe he's a muscle brain! Wwwwwww"

"By the way how do we finish the raid this time? I heard the boss layer's HP didn't decrease at all?"

"There's no way a developer could make an invincible boss like that! Someone must have found a certain mechanism to defeat him."

"I bet it's the Queen of Knights! She used twice her unique skill!"

"Hahaha, maybe!"