Ning pulled out a card in the jungle.
[Vile Veil: Shroud yourself with a veil that makes your enemies miss half their attacks. Any attack that does land deals 30% of your INT as damage back to the enemy.]
"Not bad," Ning thought. "Sacrifice." He still decided to get rid of it anyhow.
[Fate's Joker (common) has been activated.]
[You take 20% increased magical damage.]
Ning sighed. "Super Charge!"
Suddenly, a skill activated, and a bright blue light shined on top of him.
[All removable debuffs have been removed.]
[Attack speed has been increased by 40% and damage taken is reduced by 20% for 20 seconds.]
The newly acquired Fate's Joker debuff had been removed as well. Ning was quite happy about the new skill he had acquired himself.
He had scoured the market for quite a while on his way to the campsite, and once he did find the appropriate skill, he had bought it.
It had taken half a day for it to come to him, and now that it did, he was testing it out in the forest, where the most prevalent monsters around were giant moles.
[Super Charge (Uncommon)
Places a buff on you that removes all debuff and gives you 40% more attack speed and 20% damage reduction. Lasts 20 seconds.
Manacost: 250
Cooldown: 140 seconds]
Ning fought the moles in the forest for a while as he tested his new skills, and see if they could remove just the common debuffs or all debuffs.
It removed all debuffs from himself as he had hoped. What it didn't remove were the buffs that felt like debuffs, primarily the ones from the cards that transferred stats around or similar ones.
There was simply no way to remove the effects of the cards once it was activated.
"Well, at least I can freely choose to sacrifice a card now without worrying about the debuff," Ning thought.
He fought the moles some more. This time, it was primarily to just hopefully get lucky and get a legendary card as fighting was the only way to have a chance for that.
But, since his luck wasn't so good, he didn't manage to do it at all. Although, he did pull out 2 Unique cards, so the previous rabbit's foot was definitely working.
Ning then returned back to the camp where a new notice had been spread around.
They were leaving the camp tomorrow.
'Is that what they were talking about yesterday?' Ning wondered. The point of contention the other day was that if they attacked the city they were going to be attacked in the campsite, which would have to be left unguarded.
But if they left a few to guard here, they would lack in manpower in their offensive battle.
It seemed Besailach had come to a conclusion to instead just shift the entire demon army to the city instead of leaving any behind in the campsite.
'I see,' Ning thought. 'Then the war is tomorrow.'
He needed to not only think of a way to kill Besailach but also to somehow not break his oath while doing so.
'I just hope no humans attack me,' he thought. Although, he wasn't very worried, as he had been cursed with the same oath for thousands of years already.
After all, he would be punished if he killed anyone innocent. But then, even harming triggered the punishment, so maybe this one was worse.
Ning shook his head and waited for the war that came very soon.
Tomorrow had arrived before anyone knew it, and the entire demon army marched in the dead of night before the sun even rose from the east.
Their movement was already being passed along by the scouts of the Winterheart city, and somehow the city next to it was ready for battle.
They already knew about the demon's attacks, which was to say that there were traitors amidst the demons.
It was obvious who it was to Ning and the others. It was the players for sure. They were transferring information back to their friends either in-game or out of it.
They were likely even just sharing it on the forums, intentionally or not, and letting the entirety of the world learn about the attacks that were happening.
Still, the demons were not phased at all. Giant trebuchets suddenly lit up with fire at the end and hurled burning rocks onto the city.
Smaller catapults started hurling explosive materials too.
The people from the city used their skills to block what they could, but the attacks from trebuchets and catapults were too strong for them to stop.
The humans weren't unprepared either. They also had their own Trebuchet and catapults, and they even had a line of archers waiting to shoot at the enemies.
"FIRE!" Ning heard the faraway shout, and the arrows blotted the morning sky.
Thousands of arrows fell at their location, and Ning quickly pulled a card to see if he could protect himself.
The card was useless, so he sacrificed it and fortunately gained a buff to improve evasion.
Most of the arrows that were meant to hit him missed, but quite a few still landed on him due to his bad luck.
Fortunately, he had over 3000 HP now, so he wasn't going to die so easily with a couple of attacks that deal 150 damage each.
Still, he pulled out a potion and drank it immediately to heal back the health he had lost.
Another volley of arrows fell from the sky and Ning quickly found a fallen demon, who he used as cover.
"Attack the archers!" one of the generals shouted, and immediately the demons started sending powerful attacks onto the city.
From within the demon ranks, a few walked out holding a giant battering ram, and quite a few other demons protected them.
Everyone else did what they could for the battle, while the battering ram was taken to the front of the city where the gates were.
As long as they broke through the gate, the city was sure to be theirs.
