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Chapter 48: Lilith, the Demoness of Night

Chapter 48: Lilith, the Demoness of Night

Darkness.

Unrelenting, suffocating darkness.

BZZZ!

Lilith’s power engulfed the battlefield, drowning them in a world where sight was meaningless and fear took form.

Whispers slithered in the void, ancient incantations of despair, each syllable grating against the mind like rusted blades.

The graphical design and implementation of Warstar was revolutionary.

Despite the fact that Genevieve and the others played from behind a monitor, with their headsets on, they experienced all the sensations in this moment almost at the same level of realness that Noah experienced it inside the game.

Noah’s grip on his Spellforged Battle Lance tightened.

His instincts were razor-sharp, but even he felt the oppressive weight of the Night Queen’s domain.

Noah knew that the difficulty of each floor boss would rise the higher they climb the Demon’s Tower, but still, was this jump in power not too much?

"Hold formation!" He barked, his voice cutting through the void.

After managing to stay alive against her onslaught for some time, they finally learned the rhythm of her attacks; the way shadows pulsed before a strike, the subtle shifts in the air before a curse landed.

All of it was complicated but they learned fast.

In that moment, Aria finally moved.

Whoosh!

Her Avatar, Reckless Storm dashed through the darkness, her blades gleaming with fleeting light, carving through Lilith’s summoned specters.

While she moved, Benjamin’s Captain Batman ignited the battlefield with infernos, the fire providing brief windows of clarity in the darkness, revealing the twisting nightmare that they fought in.

Caleb’s summoned spirits formed a protective vanguard, warding off hexes and intercepting Lilith’s shadow constructs even as he directed more energy towards protecting Genevieve this time around.

Most times, though they had more HP and MP, pro Warstar players preferred brute-force type bosses to intelligent and cunning ones.

Aamon, the Grand Marquis of Hell was a brute-force type boss.

But the Demoness of Night? As a Warlock, she was insidious and deadly.

With the others all working hard, Genevieve also did her part as she weaved her divine magic through the battle, mending wounds, purging curses, and illuminating the battlefield in bursts of radiant energy.

As for Noah?

He was everywhere at once!

Against a terrifying and insidiously dangerous opponent like the Demoness, he dared not hold back.

His lance was a streak of piercing destruction, each thrust not just an attack but a ripple of kinetic force that tore through illusions, forced the darkness to part, and left Lilith with nowhere to hide.

The Demoness of Night shrieked in frustration.

"You wretches! You dare bring light into my realm?!"

With a gesture, the void around them collapsed inward, forming a colossal, writhing maw of pure darkness.

This was the Demoness’ ultimate spell, a high-level Warlock spell.

=Eclipse Devourer!

Noah’s response?

He charged straight at her.

The moment that the spell was unleashed, he struck, his lance glowing with spellforged energy, tearing through the darkness like a comet piercing the abyss.

The impact shattered the Eclipse Devourer, sending terrible shockwaves through the battlefield.

Lilith stumbled, her HP plummeting to below 10%, entering red blood state.

Lilith’s red blood state transformation was that she gains the ability of unlimited teleportation when inside darkness and shadows.

Against any other raid party, such a sudden change would most likely result in a party wipe but this was no ordinary raid party.

This was a raid party of ex pro Warstar retirees.

With Noah leading the cadence of the battle calmly, everything went according to plan as she was contained.

Victory was within reach, but then, everything suddenly changed.

"Muahahahaha...!"

A deep, guttural laugh rolled through the chamber.

The walls shuddered, and the oppressive darkness of Lilith’s domain was suddenly drowned out by something even worse, something ancient, something significantly greater.

Then, the world split open.

"...!" Noah’s eyes widened.

BZZZ!

A colossal rift of molten fire and hellish energy erupted in the middle of the battlefield, and from it emerged a figure of pure malevolence.

Magoth, the Duke of Hell.

"This...," Benjamin muttered, stunned. "What gothic timing!"

As the only level 20 dungeon in the Beginner Village, just like other dungeons, Demon’s Tower also had hidden bosses apart from the 5 floor bosses.

There are 2 hidden bosses in Demon’s Tower, the first being Magoth, the Duke of Hell and then Kali, the Aura Demoness.

Noah and his raid party just encountered Magoth at the worst timing possible, when Lilith, the Demoness of Night was still in her red blood state.

Magoth...

His towering form, clad in obsidian armor laced with runes of infernal power radiated an aura so suffocating it made even Lilith’s presence feel insignificant.

His horned helm cast shadows over his burning, pupilless eyes. And in his gautleted hand, he wielded a jagged, flaming greatsword the size of a small house.

The Duke of Hell was absolutely gigantic.

"Ahh... Lilith, you always were a failure," Magoth mumbled, his voice causing the very air to tremble.

The soundtrack, sound effects, and graphics were all topnotch, giving this cutscene a perfectly realistic feel.

The Duke of Hell looked at his wounded counterpart. "To think mere mortals have you on your last breath..., how pathetic".

Lilith hissed, staggering back. "You dare interfere in my domain?!"

Magoth sneered. "Your domain? You are but a pawn, a shadow of true power". He lifted his greatsword, pointing it at Noah and his team. "These mortals have proven themselves worthy. It is only fair that they are granted a warrior’s death," he paused. "By my hand".

Then, he swung his sword.

A wave of hellfire erupted outward, consuming everything in its path.

BOOM!

Noah barely had time to react.

"Move!" He bellowed, throwing up a defensive kinetic barrier just in time to absorb the brunt of the attack.

The sheer force accompanying the attack still sent the team skidding back, their HP bars flickering dangerously.

Lilith snarled, her once-arrogant composure replaced by sheer fury. "You dare steal my prey?! I will not stand for this!"

For the first time in the battle, the boss was no longer focused solely on them.

Now, it was a three-way war.

"..."

Noah and his teammates were perplexed. ’W-what?!’

’What the hell are we seeing here?’

Every single one of them had 11 years of Warstar-playing experience and in all that time, this was the first time that Noah saw 2 bosses fighting themselves.

’Holy..., is the game that advanced already?’

In hindsight, it made sense.

No matter how powerful they were, taking on the Demoness of Night and the Duke of Hell at the same time in Hell Mode was a recipe for disaster.

Most likely, the system initiated this algorithm to level the playing field for the players, to see if they had what it took to fish in rowdy waters.

But still, it was a crazy change.

Noah grinned despite the overwhelming odds. "Well, this just got a whole lot more interesting!"