Pride Online

Chapter 248: Strike Back! Part X

“I am. ...Thanks for saving us just in time.”

“You were in trouble. I had to.”

Hearing that, Shin moved his lips like he was about to smile but chose to just nod silently. And that made the brown-haired girl with emerald, green eyes let out a loud laugh instantly.

“You know her?”

Tryne walked to cling to Shin’s shoulder like he was too exhausted to stand by himself.

“She’s a friend,” Shin replied casually.

“Oh, I didn’t know you had such a pretty friend.” Tryne drawled delightedly. “...Hi, my name is Tryne. I have to thank you for saving us in time like this.”

“It’s okay, Tryne. I’m happy to help anyway.” After speaking, she looked down at Shin’s arm. “Oh my god, Shin, you’re hurt! You have a curse on your arm again?”

“Er, this is fine. I’ll just need some potion to dispel it later.”

Shin said carefreely, before gesturing a sign for them to hurry up and move on to the center of the town for now, even though he was still curious about how this woman got here and saved him.

“How would this be cured by a potion? I’m going to dispel the curse for you myself. You can’t let it stick with you like this. You don’t know what else’s going to happen next!”

“But...”

“Please stop being stubborn!”

She said and then took the liberty of grabbing his cursed arm up and dispelling it. Seeing that, Tryne blew a whistle out right away, before sending Shin a knowing look. Then he whispered,

“Your girl’s so fine, Shin. How come you never told me about her before?”

Shin could not say anything, it was like he would rather pierce the man next to him with his look instead. However, the cheeky one like Tryne was not bothered by that at all. He just laughed that he could successfully annoy Shin, before letting himself down on the ground exhaustedly.

“Waree, let’s do this later. It’s still not safe around here. At least, let’s get to the center of the town first, so we...”

“Come on, Shin. It’s okay.” Tryne cut it again. “You’ve annihilated all the Chimeras, so there shouldn’t be anything coming out for a while. Also, Waree’s come to help us now. Anyway, could you please heal me as well? My MP is all gone, and I’d be grateful if you could share 5% of yours.”

“Tryne!” Shin snapped.

“Sure. No problem.”

But Waree agreed so easily before she started casting a spell to cure the deadly fire curse on Shin’s arm instantly.

“Waree, I’m serious. Right now, we should find some safe place...”

“Don’t worry, Shin. Now and here are safe. Everything is about to get fixed soon. And that’s why we have to come and help you out like this.”

She said and smiled sweetly at Shin, making the man let out a long sigh, ...She was still the same woman he could not disagree with her words. Damn it.

After that, Waree started healing. A bright small aura around her hand was moving through Shin’s wound as gently as possible. So, right now, there was some time for those amethyst eyes to look at Waree.

“So, how did you get in here? I thought Dores town was sealed by the district spell that no one would be able to break in anymore. Did the GMs fix this already? But how is the barrier still here?” He shot questions at her in a combo right away.

“Long story. I’ll tell you later.” Waree replied smilingly.

At the same time, GM Anne hurriedly ran to catch up with Waree. She stopped with slight panting as she placed her hand on the Hell bound like she needed something to support her body.

“You ran too fast, Nam. I couldn’t catch up with you.”

“I’m sorry, Anne. I was just too worried about him since he’s the type that likes doing something ridiculously brave.”

Hearing that, Rattana paused and looked at Shin, who was nodding at her slightly as a matter of courtesy. Then she realized that Nam was in the same party as the number one hunter like Shin in the recent Ouroboros hunt.

But well, ...she just never thought that they would be this close.

She thought, then curled up a big knowing smile, a smile that a person like Shin could see what was behind it right away. But he did not say anything about that, because that would probably turn out to be him digging his own grave.

“Anyway, Anne, how’s it going? Is there any player left in the area?” Waree asked.

“No, there’s not. And about the monsters, I’ve handled most of those bad ones already.”

After answering, Rattana let out a long sigh.

“Have you heard from Da, yet?”

“No.” She shook her head. “Signals from a further range are not working at all, but I think that he will be joining us soon.”

“Okay.”

After that, the girls smiled at each other, before suddenly, there was a notification sound coming from Rattana’s information window.

“Anne, can you hear me?”

“Angie? Did you fix the communication system?”

Rattana answered right away after she heard Angie’s voice. Even though that voice sounded a little bit off, that was still a confirmation that some of the systems had started functioning again now.

“I’ve hacked into the data system of the game now. So, I need to ask just to be sure that you want me to destroy some of the data and use some viruses to trigger the firewall to function again, right?”

“There’s probably no other way. So, please do that, Angie.”

Rattana said grudgingly. She knew that doing this would greatly damage the game, but it could not be helped if she was concerned about the safety of many players who were stuck in Dores right now. It was because this did not only affect their levels if they accidentally died right now, but this also affected their brains directly as well!

BOOM!!

But suddenly, there was a loud thundering sound being heard with massive lightning flashing all over the area, making the red-light barrier fade down obviously.

“Angie’s started working, huh? She is as brilliant as usual.”

Waree said with a smile, making Shin, who was looking at her, raise his eyebrows in question.

“I’ll tell you later.”

And he could only nod at her in reply again.

“It works,” Rattana said. “Right now, the enemy’s district gets clearly weaker. Just 10% more, and it will be gone for good. We’re about to get through this, Nam!”

She turned to smile at Waree, and the gorgeous girl nodded in reply as she kept on healing Shin’s arm at the same time.

RUMMMBLE!!

Right after that, the four jumped unexpectedly, because the ground that they were standing on started quaking strongly. And that made Rattana frown her eyebrows tightly.

“What’s happening now?” Tryne shouted out aloud.

“Anne!” Waree called out to her senior, getting her focus back on the present again.

“Yeah, yeah, I know,” Rattana answered. “Angie, what’s happening? Why the system suddenly started getting askew again? If you’ve triggered the firewall to work again, there shouldn’t be a problem anymore, right?”

“...Rus ...s ...ne”

Angie’s voice that replied to her was not heard in a proper sentence, because the signal started to get jammed again.

“What did you say? Angie, I can’t hear you. Can you say it again, please?”

“T ...there’s a virus, Anne. We totally stepped into the enemy’s trap. After I attacked the system, their virus was also triggered to be activated instantly. And right now, it is...”

Even though the signal was cut off before Angie could finish speaking, most of her words still made Waree and Rattana look at each other frightenedly.

“Oh, crap!” And both yelled out at the same time.

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RUMMMBLEEE!!!

The ground was still shaking violently. The sky started to obviously look frantic again. The red-light barrier from the district seal might have started fading away from Dores, but a sign of a new disaster started appearing instead. And that made the beautiful face of someone frown!

“Uh-oh, I guess it’s started working now. And I’m so curious about what’s going to come out of the egg.”

The annoying voice was Nero’s, who still had many swords from Viola sticking out of him. And there was also a shining silver claymore placed against his throat as well.

“Do you realize what you have done, Nero?! You bastard!” Viola snapped.

Meanwhile, Sander and Allen were standing nearby like they were observing Viola’s next move.

If she cut Nero’s head off right now, everything would end. But she did not know what would happen next. Since he said that he could control this virus, it meant that he and the virus linked together. And in this case, after Nero died, the virus might blast itself up and possibly cause the game to be damaged...

Or a worse case, it might affect Wisana as well...

After thinking about it thoroughly, Viola pressed her lips together tightly, before gazing at Nero.

“Keep this in mind, Nero, I’ll get back at you someday for sure. You can look forward to it. And when the day comes, I’ll cut your head off. Don’t forget this!”

Hearing what she said, Nero burst out laughing.

“Yeah, I’ll be looking forward to that.”

WHUP!

After that, Viola got the sword away from the enemy’s throat, making every sword that stabbed through Nero disappear as well. Then, the one who was fixed between life and death fell defeatedly to the ground right away.

“Ran! Let’s hurry back to where the event occurs. We’ve got a lot of work to do!”

Viola finished speaking and let go of the claymore sword, making it disappear in the air. Then she left these bastards without minding about them anymore, as well as Sander who was catching up behind her.

After they left, Allen let out a small, relieved sigh, before leaping in to check on Nero.

“You look pathetic.” He noticed.

“Defeated as well, HEHEHE.” Nero let out a dry laugh, before trying to sit on the ground. “But this has been going according to our plan anyway, Allen. So, let’s begin our show in the grandest way possible, shall we?”

“Cool, let’s do that.”

Allen smiled widely, while he was holding his hand out for Nero to grab and pull himself to his feet.

Then, the two of them looked at each other, before grinning.

“Then I’ll title this show as...the Fall of Pride, sounds good?”

“That’s the best.”