The plan was indeed working as intended by Sigma but they underestimated the number of worms and leeches the Sphere contains. Although they are slaying many of the worms and leeches in batches and quick succession, it is certainly not enough to defeat the enemy very quickly.
"Sh*t, is there no end to these worms?! It's been 3 hours since we have done this and we have yet to see an end to these wriggling life forms running out!" Hagane is now grumbling as he stomps flat on one of the leeches that tried to latch on his shield.
"It's looking grim, to be honest, the monster is not even showing signs of running out of its worms! I am also out of MP Potions to use!" Dolly grumbled as she drank the final bottle of mana potion in her inventory.
"Take mine, I don't use it much since I don't use that much mana, and my recovery of it is fast, take it," Hagane then handed his share of potions to Dolly.
"Thanks, but are you sure you don't need to keep some for yourself?" Dolly asked.
"No need to worry, I made sure I still have a few of them myself. I needed my skills to survive as well so I can't afford to run out of it."
The battle continues and the group as well as some other players have joined in as well. Despite the number of players who have joined in and are helping with the strat, the boss has yet to run out of worms, making the battle pretty much tiresome. Everyone is already quite tired at this point and they have already slowed down on their movements.
"Our stun grenades are running out. Even the flashbangs are almost gone as well. Should we head back and resupply before coming back?" Sigma asked.
"That's for the best, even though I felt sore in my body already with all this fighting happening. And doing it for straight three hours is already taking a toll on my body," Harmless Sparrow is wiping her sweat as she runs out of mana to use.
"Then, let's head back. These players left behind can handle things here for now and since they are already doing our strat, we don't need to worry about them getting wiped out. Let's rest for now."
Due to Sigma's order to retreat, they returned to safety and returned to the cabin to resupply and rest as well.
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During the time Sigma and the others are retreating, I am currently pretty busy. I am conducting my usual business again. Although the business is not as great compared to the first day I did some trades, the customers are still coming in so I continued doing it. I don't have profit loss on doing so anyways so why stop?
While processing some transactions, I noticed a teleport circle appeared outside before Sigma and the others appeared looking haggard. They are clearly out of energy from all of the stuff they have done. Instead of heading inside, they all sat down on the bench outside and lay their heads on the table, clearly too exhausted to move.
I finished up all of my transactions before I went ahead to check up on the strike team.
When I got outside of the cabin, Lina is already attending to them, and she quickly tried to give them a little energy by putting food on the table. It's not as effective but it gives a little bit of a reaction to the exhausted team.
"Ugh... Bladeheart... Why is that boss too tedious to fight..." Dolly grumbled while still keeping her head lying on the table.
"Haha, why are you guys complaining? It's a raid boss, naturally, they are tedious to defeat and they cannot be defeated so fast compared to most bosses. Just because the first-wave boss is easily killed doesn't mean this boss will just go down so easily."
"Yeah, I think we are forgetting that the boss we are fighting is a raid boss, it's natural for it to take some time before it dies therefore we don't need to rush on it..." despite being exhausted, Sigma still has a rational mind to talk and ease everyone.
"Everyone is too exhausted. You guys should rest for the time being and continue the battle once you all are energized to continue," Lina suggested seeing the current situation of the group.
"There are some spare beds in the rooms here in the cabin. Use that and have your bodies get energized. Perhaps you guys should also log out for now and continue again once you guys are energized already. No point fighting with a body that is about to fall. Go and have a good rest,"
"We are so tired to move, brother... a little help..." Iron is one of the toughest guys with lots of stamina to say that, it is clear that they are not in a good time to even continue moving.
I sighed before I asked Tina, Gobu, and Lina to help me carry them to the beds so that they can recuperate. I can only chuckle in my mind seeing their current state but I cannot blame them. This boss takes a tedious amount of time to finish up and even with so many players joining in, that doesn't mean it can speed up the termination of the boss because it just takes time and patience as well as fortitude for this boss to die.
Not only that but I can also tell that once this is over, most of the players who have participated in the raid for quite some time would get a title, [Worm Slayer] as a result of killing so many worms or any kind of worm-related enemies. It's a title with effects that allows the user who has the title to deal additional damage against enemies who are worms or considered as worms. It's not that great of an effect but it can be handy at certain times, though not as much.
But even so, it seems the situation is much better now. Sooner or later, the raid boss will soon die and the final wave countdown is about to begin. However, I shouldn't be hasty. With the current boss still far from death's door, perhaps I should also take things slow and have myself go my own way as well.
My job will be much more troublesome so for now, let's enjoy the slight time of respite before the moment of truth. For now, my task is to carry these guys to their respective rooms.
"Ugh...you guys are heavy..."
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