Chapter 453: Broadcasted to the World
[The Tree of Life and Death, Yewdrassil, has used Yewdrassil's Wrath.]
The Tree of Life and Death glowed in two different light including the roots that it spread. A beautiful light is then spread out from the tree of life and death. The whole area it covered then exploded in these two-colored lights.
The Asmodian Abomination released a scream of pain as the shell of energy protecting its body is disintegrating. It knew that its life is coming to an end, but it cannot accept its fate. It struggled and even burned its own soul to protect itself.
Since the Asmodian Abomination still has Cristobal's soul, it used it as an energy source first. The image of a ghostly Cristobal wailing like he is getting burned by the fires of hell is heard. It would have been effective if the soul used is that of a being that is not mortal. Cristobal's soul is already worn down due to how old it is.
The Asmodian Abomination or the remnant will of the dark god could not accept that he will die without even getting the chance to fully revive. It now regrets its decision in choosing an Asmodian body as its new host. The remnant will of the dark god suddenly felt the creeping sensation of something clutching its soul and dragging it away.
In the Asmodian Abomination's subconscious, numerous vines started to spread. The vines are either lush and strong or decayed and rotten. These vines suddenly gripped the soul of the remnant will. The remnant will tried to escape but it is no use. The more it struggles then the more it tightens.
The remnant will started burning some of its essence to try and escape but it felt it has been caught. The one to actually hold on to the remnant will is Cristobal's soul that has been guided by the tree of life and death. A big grin is seen plastered in Cristobal's face. The smile is true but the intentions behind it is not pure.
"You shall come with me to the Realm of Hades to be punished for your crimes. I will keep you company lie you did for me for the last hundreds of years." Cristobal stated with a creepy smile.
The remnant will tried to escape but Cristobal refused to let go. As soon as the two of them are covered in the two distinct vines of the tree of life and death, it clamped on them. As soon as the soul of the body left, the Asmodian Abomination turned to particles of light.
Seeing as it used its last attack, the tree of life and death gathered itself into a seed. The seed then rose back into the heavens while the ground it rooted on returned to normal. The raid party all slumped down upon receiving their rewards.
[You have killed the Asmodian Abomination.]
[You have gained experience points.]
[You have gained the title 'Slayer of Abominations'.]
[You have done a great service by killing off The Mad Warlock Cristobal. The spirits of the elementals that Cristobal has tortured and experimented on has given you, their blessing.]
[You have gained 5% All elemental Affinity and Resistance.]
Everyone rested as they could not stand anymore. They stretched their stamina to their limits despite Lauma's gift restoring it the first time. They raided a boss monster that is fifty levels higher than them, and they succeeded.
Adrian leveled up five times as he is the lowest level while the others gained two or three levels. After a few seconds of resting a world message is triggered that is sent to all players.
[Congratulations to the Cristobal Raid Party group for managing to defeat a world boss. They have gained recognition as the third party to slay a world boss. All members of the raid group will gain a 20% experience boost for two months.]
Every player received this world message, and they are shocked. The members of the raid party are fairly unknown except for the core members of the Evergreen guild. Faust became shocked as he learned of the names of the party members when he clicked on the party name.
The forums and news channels suddenly started buzzing because of this achievement. The forums became wild as there is a dark god on the loose, yet they managed to kill a world boss. The Evergreen guild took quite a lot of praise and heat due to this achievement.
The praise they got is from those who greatly valued their achievement for defeating a world boss. The heat they got is from bashers who criticized them for not prioritizing the extermination of the dark god that appeared. It has always been this case as you can never satisfy all the people even if you did your best to succeed.
The Evergreen guild members suddenly had a boost of morale since they saw the names of prominent members in the raid group. Although most of the attention is gained by the Evergreen guild, other guilds and people started to wonder who the other members were.
The undead players suddenly recognized the name of their undead prince. The other names were not very familiar because this is the first time that they have heard of it. The whole community suddenly started to pay attention on the names of the people they do not know.
The players searched for each of the names on the leaderboards and they realized that they were not high in ranking. The other names were not even in the top ten, but they managed to join the Evergreen guild in defeating the world boss. All kinds of rumors and speculations started to float in the forums because of this.
The only one who is not in the raid that has a clear idea of what happened is Faust. He is smart enough to notice Equinox' name (Adrian) in the party. He could more or less determine that it was Adrian that brought them to the world boss because of his peculiarities.
"We must become friendly with him or just strike a relationship." Faust thought as he saw the information that is gathered when the allied nations tried to kill the dark god. It is good information but it was bad news.