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"What, all that three hours of posturing was just to make you watch commercials and come back to life?"
"Leader...it hurts so much..."
Seeing that Asuna Yuuki and Megumi Kato were clenching their teeth and their faces showed pain, Asagiri and Kotoko Iwanaga immediately realized that the screams coming from those faces were mental attacks.
Asagiri and Kotoko Iwanaga have very high mental strength, and the former is completely immune to mental influences, so she only finds it noisy. However, Asuna Yuuki and Megumi Kato, whose mental strength is relatively lower, have been greatly affected by this mental interference.
Realizing this, Kotoko Iwanaga immediately took action, her dark purple eyes staring directly at a human face on the ground, and activated her skill "Cursed Gaze".
The face she attacked did stop screaming, but the faces around it were unaffected. Seeing this, the three players with mental abilities immediately activated their skills, but compared to hundreds or thousands of faces, they could only interfere with a small portion of them.
"hateful……"
Despite the dizziness and disorientation, Asuna Yuuki slowly gripped the shimmering sword blade with her left hand, intending to use the pain of cutting her palm to force herself back to consciousness.
Just then, the mask on the woman wearing the fox demon mask turned into a beam of light and transformed into a snow-white fox with three tails. She herself knelt down as if praying to a god, clasped her hands together, and whispered a prayer.
"Spirit Protection Technique".
As she finished speaking, the fox's body transformed into a shower of light, falling upon all the players.
After the light rain merged into their bodies, Asuna Yuuki and Megumi Kato felt themselves instantly regain their senses. Although most of the players in the teams behind them were still feeling unwell, they had recovered from being unable to move to being able to fight.
"She cannot move while activating this ability."
Upon hearing the words of the man in the white suit, Asagiri immediately understood what he meant and nodded slightly.
"Okay, your team just needs to provide support from the sidelines. As for the main attack..."
Asagiri gazed at the dozens of parasitic players formed by strips of flesh, her eyes gleaming with excitement.
"Just leave it to us."
"You guy..."
The parasitic player, controlled by the strange entity and possessing a protective shield, had a contorted expression and roared angrily.
"Do you really have to be so ruthless as to wipe them all out?!"
Upon hearing this, the players present were all stunned.
Is this something a bizarre being like you should say?
Which one is the real boss?
"Yes."
As Chaowu uttered those words, he had already appeared in front of the gray, semi-transparent protective shield. The sharp ice spear he conjured pierced through the shield. Before the parasitic players could react, he had already thrown the rope dart in his right hand, piercing the head of the parasitic player who had cast the shield. Only after completing the lightning-fast instant kill did he speak calmly.
"Your abilities are too troublesome. You might as well just die."
Seeing this, the other player teams present were about to go and help when nearly a hundred more parasites appeared and surrounded them.
"Oh? You're putting all your power into fighting us, and then turning those ordinary people into parasites to delay the players and prevent them from coming to our aid? That's quite interesting."
"Flickering".
The assassin-type parasitic player activated his skill, instantly appearing in front of Asagiri, his dagger aimed at Asagiri's chest. However, Asagiri seemed to have anticipated this, throwing a punch before Asagiri even appeared.
"boom!!"
With a muffled thud, Asagiri's left fist pierced through the opponent's chest. Then, she used the Holy Cross, which is effective against strange creatures, to burn the opponent's body to ashes. She casually flicked the ashes off her hands.
"It's not a good habit to say the skill name before using an ability."
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Chapter 28: The War Between Parasites and Players.
Just as Asagiri finished speaking, a modern crossbow suddenly appeared in the hand of a parasitic player, and a bolt shot towards his chest with a whooshing sound.
"boom."
A layer of black particles appeared in front of Chaowu, directly withstanding the sharp crossbow bolts.
"IBM".
Kotoko Iwanaga created black particles that transformed into two black bandaged humanoid figures. Then, she looked at the parasitic players who looked bewildered, as if they had no idea what had just happened. A hint of a smile appeared in her dark purple eyes, and she spoke softly with interest.
“I see… Some of you don’t have strong enough mental power to see my Little Black… That makes things easier.”
At this point, Kotoko Iwanaga called out to Asagiri.
"Leader, as always, fight freely!"
Asagiri dodged a longsword slashed at her by a parasitic player, wrapped her right hand around the opponent's neck with a rope dart chain, and slammed the Holy Cross directly onto the opponent's head with her left hand. Only after the flames of holy light had burned the opponent's body to ashes did she reply softly.
"It's finally starting."
The four members of the team had a clear division of labor in battle. Asuna Yuuki was in charge of the front line, Kotoko Iwanaga used her various abilities to provide ranged support, and Megumi Kato, after obtaining the Bloodstained Nightingale Bow and the skill "Sniper", used her exclusive talent that made it difficult for her to attract aggro to deal damage from a distance. She could also switch to Berserker Assassin at critical moments to protect Kotoko Iwanaga, who was a warlock.
As for the morning mist...
His fighting style is too free. He can throw a ranged spell one moment and switch to melee the next. Not only does he change his fighting style, but he also keeps switching the persona he uses. Even Yuuki Asuna, who has the fastest reaction and speed, has a hard time keeping up with him, let alone coordinating with him.
So they were directly assigned to be free agents.
"boom!"
Asagiri saw a tall, parasitic player approaching him and immediately thrust out his rope dart. However, the opponent displayed astonishing speed, no less than his own. A layer of metal armor-like material appeared on his right arm, which he used to slap away the incoming rope dart with his palm. At the same time, he delivered a whip kick to Asagiri's waist.
"Castling."
The next second, the mist that was standing there disappeared and was replaced by a human-like demon who was completely black with dark red patterns on his body.
The human asura crouched down slightly, raising his left arm to block the parasitic player's whip kick. With a loud bang, the human asura's massive body moved to the side by nearly a meter, and his left arm showed a very obvious dent.
"To be able to inflict such damage on a human Asura... that must be a Fighter."
Just as Asagiri had swapped positions with Shura, he had no time to catch his breath before the parasitic players controlled by the strange entity launched another attack on him.
"Roots entwine!"
Several thick, wriggling plant roots broke through the ground and wrapped directly around Asagi's legs.
Immediately afterwards, a short, parasitic player met Asagiri's gaze, his dark green pupils gleaming with an eerie light.
"Cursed Gaze!"
Cursed Gaze is a basic skill for warlock classes, not an exclusive ability of Kotoko Iwanaga. It's quite normal for parasitic players to include warlocks who possess this skill.
What the parasitic player didn't expect was that Asagiri didn't avoid his gaze at all. Instead, she stared intently into his eyes as if she couldn't wait.
Immediately afterwards, he felt a strong sense of fear. In Asagiri's dark eyes, he seemed to see a ball of burning black flame. The gazes that met between them were like a rope connecting their souls. The ball of black flame followed the rope, drilling straight into his eye socket from Asagiri's eyes.
"Do not……"
The parasitic player's body began to tremble violently, and its surface once again transformed into writhing strips of flesh. Finally, amidst desperate screams, it suddenly collapsed, and the flesh strips that made up its body turned into ashes that scattered and disappeared in the banquet hall.
"It's so ugly."
With a slight exertion, Asagiri broke free from the bindings of the thick plant roots. Looking at the more than twenty parasitic players surrounding her, she reached out her right hand, grabbed a tarot card phantom in mid-air, and slowly crushed it with her five fingers.
"Persona, Alice".
Alice, with blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a cute dress and holding a teddy bear, appeared in the arena, looking at the parasitic players around her with a sweet and innocent smile.
"Please die for me."
As Alice finished speaking, the bodies of seven parasitic players, just like the warlock parasitic player from before, trembled violently before turning to ashes and disappearing.
Seeing this, the man in the white suit and the others who were fighting the parasitic players were all somewhat shocked.
What ability is this?
Without any warning or sense of any power fluctuation, it was as if the little girl had simply said a word, and the souls of the parasitic players obediently followed her orders and died on their own.
The other players were simply shocked and surprised, but the man in the white suit and his teammates exchanged glances, and all of them couldn't help but show complicated expressions.
What just happened...
It reminded them of the last instance.
The same thing happened with the "god" in the last dungeon. Without any warning or fluctuation of power, their two teammates disappeared in the blink of an eye. It was only through the friend system in the eye icon app that they confirmed that their two teammates had died.
Could the blonde little girl that guy just summoned be a "god" as well?
"what happened?"
Seeing the fear on the faces of the parasitic players, Asagiri crushed another tarot card and switched his Persona from Alice to the original Mita. Amidst the creaking of the original Mita puppet's jointed jaw, he instantly rushed in front of the parasitic fighter and delivered a side kick.
"boom!!!"
The fighter raised his arms to block, using his right arm, which was clad in gauntlets, to shield himself. His feet slid backward several centimeters by scraping the ground, but he didn't seem to be injured.
"Physical enhancement".
"The protection of the earth."
"A fence made of thorns".
As she watched the fighter's body swell slightly, enveloped in a layer of earthy yellow light, and surrounded by a cage made of growing thorns that trapped both of them, Asagiri simply said softly.
"Tian Ji's horse racing strategy, is it to delay my actions?... That's quite clever."
"We were treated like inferior horses..."
As she watched the other parasitic players slowly closing in on her, Asuna Yuuki showed her displeasure and snorted coldly.
"It's really unpleasant to feel looked down upon."
"Wind Protection."
Upon hearing Asuna Yuuki's words and seeing that she was ready for battle, Kotoko Iwanaga understood and raised her hand, aiming at the parasitic players standing there, and spoke softly.
"Touch of the Dead".
Nearly a hundred pale, twisted arms emerged from the ground, like vengeful ghosts searching for a scapegoat, reaching out to grab the parasitic players. As their attention was diverted by the ghostly hands and they tried to dodge the touch of the pale arms, a figure in deep red had already rushed into the formation.
Asuna Yuuki was incredibly fast, even faster than Asagiri in her Asura-enhanced state. These parasitic players were no match for her; before they could even see her movements clearly, their bodies were pierced by the flashing light in her hand.
Just a few seconds later, Asuna Yuuki also immediately withdrew. The moment she disappeared, a burst of fire erupted from the spot where she had been standing.
"boom!!!"
Asuna Yuuki retreated to Kotoko Iwanaga and Megumi Kato's side, watching the parasitic players who were affected by the fire but recovered immediately after a few seconds. She adjusted her breathing slightly and spoke in a calm tone.
"We can defeat them, but they're hard to kill."
Kato Megumi nodded slightly, looking at the parasitic players who had recovered completely, and said softly.
"Yes, it's quite troublesome."
The three women have discovered that the parasitic players on this floor are different from those before. Perhaps it is because this floor is the domain of that strange existence, so it does not need to control these parasitic players through split tentacles, but can create them directly. Moreover, the vitality of these parasitic players is so strong that they are almost immortal. Only by directly destroying their spirit, like Asagiri did, can they be completely killed.
The problem is that, including Kotoko Iwanaga, only five of the players present possess mental attack abilities, and their effects are merely interference and influence, unable to directly destroy the parasitic player's mind.
"call……"
Meanwhile, Asagiri, who was trapped in the Thorn Cage and fighting against the parasitic player, realized the seriousness of the situation when she saw that her Holy Cross had only caused a slight burn to the enemy and then healed immediately.
The Holy Cross is an attack with both holy and fire attributes, which is effective against these parasitic players with bizarre properties. However, for a parasitic player like the one in front of you, who already possessed high defense in life, this is the maximum damage you can inflict.
"Castling."
Facing the punch thrown by the parasitic player, Asagiri immediately switched places with the original Mita, who was outside the cage. Then, together with Asuna Yuuki, Kotoko Iwanaga, and Megumi Kato, she led the four-person team of men in white suits back to the entrance of the banquet hall.
Seeing this, the parasitic players temporarily stopped their attack, and the ordinary parasites that were being manipulated by the strange entity and fighting against the other players also retreated a distance.
"Do you still want to resist?"
The voices of dozens of parasitic players, along with the faces on the surrounding walls and ground, overlapped and merged together.
"As long as you become a part of me, you can live."
"Come on... come on..."
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Chapter 29 The Supreme Power.
Faced with the words spoken by hundreds of "people" at the same time, most of the players present couldn't help but cover their ears, their faces showing pain.
"broken."