Axie Online

Chapter 45 - Horizon Edge

Two hours had passed since the start of the monster attack, but the battle between the player and the NPCs against the insect-type mob monsters and their Mini-Boss, the Gigantic Wormtail, was not over yet.

News of a major invasion from monster territory towards Redgard had already spread throughout the world through the players fighting in the city in question. The news that spread quickly made the players outside the city of Redgard flock.

Even though they didn't really care about the city and its NPC inhabitants, they prioritized massive hunting to get as much experience and Byl as possible. After all, the world of Axie Online is still a virtual world and they are the players. As long as there is no reward, they will not volunteer to help.

Different from the Crimson Castle Legion members who had their headquarters and the players who settled in Redgard, they were trying to repel these monsters.

Crimson Castle actually has the permission to manage the city of Redgard as his city from the royal side. Right, what 'permit to manage' here meant was that the city of Redgard belonged to the Crimson Castle officially.

In the world of Axie Online there is a royal monarchy system as in the Middle Ages, then the nobility system in it also automatically exists. All NPCs and players can become part of the nobility in one of the kingdoms on the Plainfest continent, but all of that must be obtained from someone's contribution to the work.

The previous head of Crimson Castle had made great contributions to a kingdom and he has knighted as well as a city for him to govern. However, due to a problem in the real world, he never touched the world of Axie Online again after appointing Crystina as the next head of Crimson Castle.

When Crystina came to power at first the members disagreed and many left the Legion, but there were still some players who remained loyal to Crimson Castle. This did not discourage Crystina and worked hard to make Legion Crimson Castle one of the Top Rank Legions on a global scale.

Thanks to the hard work of Crystina and her members, Crimson Castle managed to rank eighth. The heyday of Crimson Castle has been achieved during the reign of Crystina who until now has never been stepped down or replaced by other members.

Due to its position, Redgard was a valuable city to Crimson Castle and Crystina. The desperate battle that they are currently fighting is carried out to protect Redgard which is the origin of Crimson Castle's standing.

If the past and foundation are wasted, how can we move forward in the future? It was the thoughts of the members that made them fight it out in this war.

In the town square, you can see Crystina standing staring at the insect-type mob monsters. He along with his favorite sword, Griselga's Fang spread fear on the mob monsters that came to him. It was one of Crystina's skills, Dread Aura.

Dread Aura is a Chant-type skill that is usually mastered by players who have a Warrior Class Job. Which usually uses a two-handed sword as the main weapon. This skill can make the creatures around the user who are considered enemies feel a high level of fear until they can barely move or even fall if the skill level is high enough. It could be said as a temporary Debuff.

The weakness of this skill is that the effect of Dread Aura will not be very effective or long-lasting if the opponent's level is above the user. Its strength is the opposite of its weakness, the Dread Aura effect will be more effective and durable if the opponent's level is low.

While giving Dread Aura to her enemies, Crystina raised her Griselga's Fang sword up, then swung it shattering the ground. The explosion of the swing had no impact on the surroundings but instead propagated forward crushing everything in its path.

It was one of Crystina's Physical-type skills, Push Wave. This skill is a low-level skill that is able to gather a large attack wave into one and direct it wherever the user wishes.

With a single attack from his Push Wave, the insect-type mob monsters blocking his path from the front were all killed. Not only her great strength but also her excellent fighting skills and techniques make Crystina one of the most respected players in Axie Online.

"Move!!!"

One swing containing Swing makes the enemies in front of him fly into the sky. Because Crystina chose the Ogre race that had an advantage in Strength point status, then took a Berseker Job Class that excelled in Strength and Vitality point status, plus she concentrated almost all of her CP on Strength, Crystina could even blow the enemy away with just his slashing wind.

Crystina wasn't aiming for these insects as targets, but she had already set the Gigantic Wormtail who was the mastermind behind all this as her opponent. Well even though she could kill him in one hit due to the vast difference in level and strength, Crystina's tactics were simple from the start.

The head is always attacked first to destroy the balance of the body, that is the simplest strategy that he has used since the first time he played Axie Online. Even Crystina used this strategy when Raid a Dungeon and faced Dungeon Boss or Dungeon Mini-Boss.

Shortly after he continued to fight his way through these annoying insect-type mobs, the Gigantic Wormtail had already managed to enter Crystina's range.

"Meet you, Alaskan big worm! Taste this!!"

Crystina, whose anger was peaking, took steps to swing her sword horizontally from right to left. Her strong horses also showed that she really wanted to end this endless battle.

"Ultimate Skill: Horizon Edge!"

With her loud, emotional cry, Crystina swung her Griselga's Fang with all her might horizontally. From the former trajectory of the hit, a giant red wave with blue nuances rushed towards the Gigantic Wormtail in front of him.

The nuanced red wave splits everything in its path in one attack, even people's houses also look badly damaged due to this one skill. In an instant, all of the insect-type mob monsters he had hit as well as the Gigantic Wormtail he was targeting were split apart.

The skill that Crystina had just used was one of the strongest existing skills known as Ultimate Skill by the players, Horizon Edge. The ability of this skill is very simple, but its destructive power is truly terrible.

Ultimate Skill: Horizon Edge is one of the strongest skills in the world of Axie Online. This skill indeed only showed a wave created from a sword s***h, but the destructive power of this skill was completely beyond the reach of skills of the same ability.

If other skills can multiply attacks by about 300% or 500%, this Ultimate Skill Horizon Edge can issue up to 2000% of the usual damage in one attack. Because of this skill, the mastermind of the Redgard attack had been defeated by Crystina. The players in Redgard were notified that the Boss had been defeated, now only they were left trying to rid the city of the insect-type mobs that the Gigantic Wormtail had brought with them.

"Huh, you annoying bugs!"

After her task was done, Crystina spat everywhere and walked towards the Crimson Castle building leaving hundreds of monster corpses scattered on the streets of Redgard with her favorite sword, Griselga's Fang.

From that city, the event called Monstrous Invasion spread among Axie Online players with extraordinary speed. Of course, this is the talk of any player and even discussed by Axie News.

From Redgard, Rudy and his friends learned that an Event called Monstrous Invasion had started.