"I'll make sure to get you off quickly."
The necromancer stretched his arm towards Dylan, and several projectiles of smoke flew toward the knight's heavy armor, bursting in full on him. However, the latter did not seem to suffer more damage than that, and began to charge towards the boss. His cursed sword cut the magic... Did his armor resist the magic too ?
If that was the case, the necromancer could not win against him.
Arriving at Loptr, the black knight brought his sword down with the intention of slicing his opponent in half. The necromancer disappeared at the same time, his body becoming a mass of dark smoke, which quickly reformed in the back of Dylan.
The boss snapped his fingers, and hands came out of the ground, similar to those of the zombies that Sasaki had encountered earlier in the bar, catching the criminal's ankles firmly in order to immobilize him.
"Dylan, this will be my last warning." Loptr had his arm extended again towards his opponent's exposed back, and around his hand danced mauve lights, synonymous with a powerful spell that was ready to be cast against the knight. The latter contented himself with laughing at the words of the patron, and with a great movement of the sword, cut off the few hands which held him motionless.
"So try to see if your spell can reach me, I'm sure it won't do anything to me." Dylan snapped, turning to the necromancer. The knight took his momentum again and rushed at Loptr, who had no choice but to put his threat to execution.
A mass of luminous energy that had taken the form of a skull had formed in the hand he held open to the black knight, and he finally shot the projectile at him when he realized he was not counting to surrender. The skull exploded in contact with Dylan's armor, causing a blow that made the tables and chairs fly around. Sasaki had to stay on the ground in hope she would not be pushed back too. If such a powerful spell could not defeat the knight...
"I warned you." Loptr said, raising his glasses once more, a movement he could not help but do. But a dark blade came out of the smoke now filling the bar and passed neat through his skin, cutting his forearm that he had lifted to his face, and missing his throat by a few inches. The pain was not long to come, and the necromancer stepped back a few steps trembling, clenching his teeth.
"I warned you too, your pitiful spells are no longer able to do me any harm." The silhouette of the black knight stepped out of the smoke, approaching the wounded boss. He had no scratches, and still seemed in good shape. If his armor stopped all the magic, Loptr had no chance of winning...
"Come on, I'll kill you and we're done, okay ? And then I'll do what I came here to do initially." Dylan raised his sword, preparing to shoot it down on Loptr. Even if he avoided the blow, he could do nothing against him... There had to be a solution ! He could not be invincible... She had to do something !
She had left school because she was tired of having to be influenced by the strongest. She had come to play this game to relax, and to be someone strong too, just for a moment. And now that she was here, and she had a chance to act, she was going to stay weak and watch her boss get killed ?
Sasaki stood up and reached out to Dylan as if to stop his movement. She was too far away, she would not reach him in time... And yet, when he should have been on the hook for several seconds now, he did not move, and remained frozen like a statue, the sword toward the sky.
Loptr did not lose his opportunity to fight back and jumped up. A blade came out of his arm where Dylan had cut him, and he stuck it into the knight's face, passing between the few tiny holes in the helmet that allowed him to breathe. Blood covered the dark armor of the man, while he staggered back, the blade still planted in him.
"What... Petrification... It's... My spell ! Who... Who used it ?" He screamed in rage, turning around the room to try to see the player who had caused his loss by preventing him from attacking. His gaze fixed on Sasaki, who still had her arm outstretched, not really knowing what she had done unwittingly.
"How... how could you use my own spell ?" So that was the spell that had kept her from getting up when she was sitting next to him ? She also did not know how she did it, but she seems to be able to use it too, even though she was not supposed to have magic...
"I..." Seeing Dylan approach her, she tried to back off and stumbled over a piece of table she had not seen, making her fall on the buttocks. How could he still be alive when he had a blade stuck in his face ?
The knight arrived towards her, determined to avenge himself, but fortunately he was stopped by a violent blow of scepter which thrust the blade even more in his skull. It was Marigold who had intervened and who had used her weapon to give a blow more physical than magical to their opponent. At the same time, since magic did not work...
The cursed armor fell to the ground as the knight's body turned into an infinity of white fireflies, which flew away before disappearing. The pieces of metal rolled on the floor in a loud clatter, and the sword sank into the bar's floor. Dylan was gone, and it seemed that death in this game only drives the player's body, and leaves the equipment behind.
"Loptr, are you all right ?" The head waitress had hurried to the boss and leaned over him anxiously. The latter had gone to pick up his cut arm which had fallen to the ground.
"Yes, that's fine, it's nothing serious... I could always stitch it up, so it's not very embarrassing to lose a member for a necromancer." He answered, sighing. There was not a single customer, he had endangered the lives of his employees, and his restaurant was a mess. If he could, he would have preferred to fight outside.
"Thanks for your help, Sasaki. Without you, I probably would have lost a little more than just my forearm." Loptr approached her and held out his hand to help her up.
"I... I don't really know what I did..." The girl justified herself by turning her head a little embarrassed. She did not really know how, but she had finally managed something!
"You said you did not know your class, don't you ? I think I know what it's all about."
The boss's words illuminated Sasaki's face as she looked to his eyes. She was finally going to know what she had been looking for since she arrived. What class had been assigned to her...
"It's an extremely rare class I've only heard about... A class that can be either very weak or very powerful, depending on how it's played. The only class in the game without any spell or skill... The polymorph."