Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest-Chapter 1543: Who’s Behind This?

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Rita might have only seen that silhouette for a split second as she looked around, but she couldn't forget its shape and form, it was indeed the body of a human, the shadow of one perhaps, or something.

But the silhouette and shape, they were indeed humanoid! And above all, they were also wearing a black robe that covered most of their body. She was unable to see more details either though, but she panicked.

After all, this meant that they weren't fighting against just nature, but against someone that was actively controlling this Nightmare Cloud to become a deadly trap for everyone in here.

If she didn't talk and told everyone what she saw, they might end up fighting against endless hordes of Nightmareborns artificially created by someone else, ultimately ending in their demise.

"E-Everyone! I saw something, a guy was in there, hiding in the clouds! A dude! A person!" She exclaimed.

"What?!" Mark asked. "Really?"

"But how did they follow us all the way here?!" Lily wondered.

"I am sure they couldn't, I close the gate behind us! Also SWORD is protecting the Domain…!" Elayne said. "I am even connected to it and can now see through it with Nature and the Totems, and everything is fine!"

"So they were already in here?!" Wondered Elena. "Ah, the things are coming! Mom! We have to fight them together!"

"Rita! Where did you see that guy?!" Mark asked.

"Don't try anything stupid Mark!" Rita knew why he was asking. "Are you going to go chase after them? Maybe that's what they want! We can't get lost in here, remember?"

"I-I know that!" Mark sighed. "But where did you see him?"

"Aah, over there! I'm sure, over that formation that looks like a face…!" Rita pointed into the distance.

There was a large quantity of black clouds swirling together, three small tornadoes were also in that area, two shaped like eyes next to one another, and a third beneath the two, making it look like a wailing face.

Whether that was intentional or just coincidence, Rita didn't know.

"I see, so that's where they're hiding… But the Dream Realm is too dangerous to go on alone…!"

Mark quickly leaped out of the barrier and then started fighting after learning from Rita, joining Elayne right away without even hesitating.

"Ignias!"

"Understood!"

His knife rapidly transformed into a giant, blazing sword, as Mark's entire body was covered on blazing flames turning into a wooden giant of over ten meters, made of black wood as hard as mithril, with a helmet shaped like the skull of a dragon.

"{Sextuple Slash}!"

He swung the blazing sword against the incoming black hand Nightmareborns, as he unleashed a storm of slashing, blazing attacks that intercepted all attackers, covering them on deadly slicing flames.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Each of his attacks were suddenly multiplied by six, dealing serious damage with a few swings of his sword, the many hand-shaped monsters groaned in agony, as several pieces of their bodies, mostly their fingers, were sliced apart one after another.

"Mark!"

Elayne smiled, feeling relieved he had arrived, she had already taken down one of these resilient monsters using her shield's power, but with so many more, she knew it wouldn't be easy at all to stand her own ground, even less in a Realm so hostile to living beings.

"Elayne! Rita saw a man! A hooded person was hiding behind a black cloud!"

"Eh?!"

Elayne was surprised as she heard him talk, but as they were fighting, they couldn't speak as much as they wanted, the giant Nightmareborns attacked them, firing their laser beams incessantly.

"Use your shield, Mark!"

"I know!"

The two quickly used their shields, which suddenly grew thrice as big as before by absorbing their Mana and Spiritual Energy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

An endless rain of laser beams reached them, generating countless explosions they defended against using their magic shields, Fortress-shaped Auras surged from the shields, covering their entire bodies as they moved.

Meanwhile, Morpheus' summons, the Dream Fae and the Nightmare Undead distracted the monsters as much as possible, firing beams of pink light or throwing explosive cursed nightmare weapons at them.

However, they were still rather weak even with the Bellflower Tree Wooden Armor on top of their bodies, the Hands slammed their palms at them, crushing them with ease one after another.

"The Familiars are dying too quickly!" Elayne seemed annoyed. "At this rate they'll surround the entire barrier and destroy it!"

"We can't let that happen!" Mark roared. "Ignias, all out!"

"Fine!"

FLAAASH!

Ignias transformed into an even larger blazing, volcanic sword as she assimilated Mark's metallic wood and his Phoenix Spirit Flames and Red Dragon Spirit Flames.

With the combination of Sextuple Slash and other Abilities, Mark rushed forward like a blazing titan, fitting of his BNLO Avatar name.

"{Apocalyptic Infernal Onslaught}! + {Sextuple Slash}!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

An endless rain of blazing slashes reached the group of hand-shaped Nightmareborns, who kept firing their laser beams, unable to damage him due to his shield.

Their entire bodies were rapidly cut down constantly, even as they resisted the initial slashing attacks by the dozens, after receiving over a hundred attacks, they were bound to receive immense damage!

"GRYAAAAGGGH!"

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The overaccumulation of slashing wounds and flames over their bodies quickly made their entire beings combust and explode, dying on the spot one after another.

"RAAAAHHH!"

Mark roared mightily, killing one, then two, three, four, and five in a single row!

As the hands agonizing died, more kept emerging from the clouds, chasing after Elayne, who received them with a confident smile.

"You're much tougher and stronger than the other Nightmareborns… but so what?!"

As she roared, she swung Irene with all her strength, and took out her Gaia's All Purpose Tool, infusing her with spirits and transforming the weapon into an enormous golden shovel.

Irene also went back to her blazing red colored shovel form.

And with both of them…

"Now…!"

Elayne activated her Farmer Skills, which were finally Soul-Bound to her too.

"{Aeternitas Divine Time Spirit Farming Tool Arts}: {First Form: Sowing the Field}!"

RUMBLE!

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