A fire burned at one place, while lightning struck another. Steel clashed against each other, swords against swords, spears against shields, arrows against armor.
Demons and humans had started fighting against each other once the battering ram destroyed the gates. To not let the demons get into the city, the humans had to come out.
Once the humans were out, the archers were forced off of their stations as well, since the chance of friendly fire would be quite high in such an all-out war.
Ning was glad. While he was looking at war, one with both sides fighting to the death, it wasn't horrible like real wars.
For one, there were no cries of pain and despair, as the pain was not something the players could feel, and despair was something that the NPCs were simply not programmed to feel.
There was no blood as anyone that was attacked just took damage to their HP or got inflicted with a status.
Even the dying folks were just on the ground, unmoving. Once they did die, the people would simply turn into light and vanish from the battlefield.
Ning looked around the battlefield from the way in the back. The fight was big, but the demons were winning for sure. They were slowly encroaching upon the human lands, and soon they would enter the city.
Although, Ning was sure that most of the people were already evacuated from the city just in case.
'Let's go and see if I can kill the big boss of this war,' Ning thought and moved forward.
He rushed forward, looking for Besailach wherever he could. As a commander, Ning didn't believe he was the vanguard, but he would certainly have to be close enough to give commands.
So, he walked towards the front of the war.
Suddenly, a man came from his right side, swinging swords. Ning dodged in time and backed away, but the man still came for him.
Ning saw that the man had dragonfly wings, meaning he was a player and thus from a neutral faction.
'He's trying to kill me… so I can do it, right?' Ning thought.
He dodged the next sword attack and struck the man in his chest with his spear. The physical damage Ning dealt to the man wasn't a lot, 150 at best.
However, the magic damage that Ning managed to proc, more accurately the ZAP skill from his new necklace alone did 130 damage to the man in front of him.
This was the first time Ning was fighting against another player, so he was a little surprised at how much damage he dealt to him.
'Wait, players don't have passive magical damage reduction like the monsters, do they?' Ning thought. He only then remembered that his magic damage would do quite well against the man.
Ning wanted to use Chain Lightning, but there were other people besides the man he was fighting, so he stopped.
Instead, he just attacked with his spear, dealing a massive amount of damage to the man while constantly dodging his attacks.
The man had realized that Ning's AGI was far higher than his so before he could die, he ran away.
Ning turned away from the running man, ignoring him, and went on his way to find the demon commander.
As he got to the front, the fighting got more severe. Ning was attacked multiple times, and a few of those were even just demons themselves.
He wasn't sure if they were confused due to all the fighting and were programmed to fight back, or they were the traitors that were trying to cause dissonance in the ranks.
It could also just be players that just wanted to see and sew chaos in the battlefield and so they randomly attacked whoever they could.
Ning defeated most of them, but he never really killed any. He instead kept his search for the Demon Commander, and after nearly 15 minutes, he finally found him.
The young Besailach stood on top of a moving platform that made him higher than everyone on the battlefield. From there, he could see everything that was happening and thus ordered people to fight accordingly.
Ning tried to get closer, but the number of humans that were trying to make their way to the demon was absurd.
Ning understood that he wasn't the only one that was likely given the task to kill Besailach, but it was still very surprising just how many people were given the task.
Ning started pulling out his cards while fighting the humans that attacked him while thinking that he was one of the commander's bodyguards.
Ning, unfortunately, couldn't act like he was not as he had to stay there for the right time to kill Besailach. He had come to understand that Besailach didn't just have to die, he had to kill him.
After all, given how many people there were that got the quest to kill Besailach, his life was all but over.
However, the quest Ning got still had a losing condition where if he failed to kill Besailach, the quest would disappear. For a non-timed quest, failing to kill Besailach would have meant he could do it all over again.
However, if someone else did his task before himself, then he would have most likely failed.
And for the sake of 'Demon Stats', he could not fail.
For the sake of that skill, and for the sake of gaining better rewards in the future by making a connection with the humans, Ning had to kill the demon commander by himself.
As such, he stayed by the demon's side, fighting against the horde of enemies that came towards him.
Ning pulled another card.
[Double Cast has been successfully triggered.]
[Immolation: Each one of your attacks has a chance to put a burning status on the enemy that deals 30 damage every second and lasts 4 seconds. The status stacks independently]
[Flower Rain: Rains flower petals from the sky that heal everyone in an area, including the enemies. Heals you and your allies for 100% of your INT, and heals your enemies for 50% of your INT.]
