Red Orc swung his mace at the attacking Warriors, who backed away from his furious swings, and they waited for another opportunity.
In that moment, Maureen cast more Fireballs, and Fritz rained Red Orc with arrows.
The injuries began to take their toll on Red Orc, weakening his attacks, and he turned quite sluggish.
However, then it happened...
[Red Orc: 50%]
Red Orc got a new boost of energy, and he swung his mace, but then he let go of it, and it went flying through the air.
It was heading towards Maureen and Fritz!
Red Orc just wanted to quickly get rid of the annoying Mage and Ranger!
"Earth Wall!"
In that moment, Maureen summoned a thick earth wall, and it blocked the flying mace from hitting her and Fritz.
"What are you doing?"
Maureen asked Rosabella with a slight anger in her tone as she wasn’t doing anything.
"Uh, saving mana for the last phase!"
Rosabella said.
"I will be out of mana soon if I have to do everything by myself, so fucking help me out here, alright?"
Maureen asked angrily.
"Ok..."
Rosabella said with a sigh and ignored Fang Raon’s advice to keep saving mana and started firing Fireballs at Red Orc.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Red Orc stumbled with the fire raging down around him, and he then reached his hand towards his mace.
The mace started twitching, and it suddenly flew back into his hand.
"Tank’s Taunt!"
Rich had picked up his shield again and attracted Red Orc’s overwhelming anger once again.
This time around, Red Orc hurled his mace at him, but Rich defended himself with the tall shield, and it ricocheted away.
In that moment, Red Orc summoned the mace back into his hand, and he smashed into the tall shield.
Rich felt the impact reverberate through his arm, and he fell to the ground.
"ROAR!"
Red Orc raised his mace high and smashed it into Rich’s chest, crushing his ribcage. Rich let out a weak gurgle of blood.
"Rich!"
Maureen shouted.
"Shit..."
Rich said weakly and saw his health drop to red, barely hanging on by the thread of life.
In that moment, Marcia’s and Tessa’s healing staffs glowed, and Rich’s health climbed back up slowly.
The broken ribcage began to heal itself, and the dented-looking chest rose and fell with a shaky breath.
He wasn’t dying anymore, but he definitely couldn’t fight for a while.
"Basic Slash!"
Junior ran his sword across Red Orc’s back, and following that, Alexis drove his sword into the Orc’s back.
"Sword Stab!"
Alexis shouted.
It was a [Tier I] skill that he purchased from the merchant, and that’s why he only had a steel shortsword and not the shield and armor Junior had.
The skill took a lot of grinding to get.
[Red Orc: 29%]
"Arag?"
Red Orc turned to look at the two Warriors with anger, but then, Fang Raon chopped his sword at the back of his knee.
It forced Red Orc to bend down to the ground, and Fang Raon immediately followed with a slash to the neck.
Yet, Red Orc’s thick neck muscles stopped him from slicing his head off.
’This wooden broadsword is shitty. If I had that steel shortsword, I would’ve been able to do much greater damage!’
Fang Raon quickly backed away again.
Fritz fired the last remaining arrows that he had, and they stuck into Red Orc’s back.
"I am out of arrows!"
He shouted.
This was the weakness that Rangers had. If they ran out of arrows, they would be pretty much handicapped.
It was why High Ranker Rangers carried hundreds of arrows in their inventory, and even as backup, they had a sword.
"We are close to ending this. Fritz, just stay at the back!"
Junior shouted.
[Red Orc: 20%]
Fireballs burned through the air and hit Red Orc. It was constant bombardment that weakened the creature, but it still stood its ground.
"Huff! Huff! Huff!"
Maureen and Rosabella both started to look exhausted, with sweat running down their foreheads.
Their mana was running out, and both of them had only enough to throw one Fireball each, and after that they would have just enough energy to keep standing.
Junior raised his shield to block the mace that came down hard towards him, and his shield-wielding arm got knocked back.
He was lucky that his shoulder didn’t dislocate in the process.
"Urgh!"
Junior’s expression looked ugly.
In that moment, from the shadows, Dewrey jumped onto the shoulders of Red Orc and stabbed him furiously with his daggers.
He had been keeping a low profile, and everybody had forgotten that he was even here. It was the power of the Assassin.
The daggers dug into Red Orc’s muscles, and he kept screaming in pain.
In that moment...
[Red Orc: 10%]
"The last phase is about to start!"
Junior shouted.
Red Orc’s eyes started burning with molten lava, and his mace got engulfed with scarlet-red flames.
He swung the mace, which Junior dodged, but Alexis wasn’t ready for it and took a direct hit to the shoulder.
Alexis flew backwards with a broken arm and couldn’t hold his shield anymore.
"Hurry, Tessa!"
Marcia shouted.
The two Helpers healed Alexis’ injury, but in that moment, Red Orc’s furious gaze got directed at them.
Red Orc aimed his burning hand at them and fired flame at them—it was like his hand was a flamethrower—it scorched the ground around them.
"Hurry, Earth Wall!"
Maureen shouted, but when she tried casting that, her head started hurting really bad, like she was splitting in half.
"Ahhhh!"
Rosabella tried to cast Earth Wall as well, but her eyes started bleeding, and she collapsed on the ground.
Earth Wall costs way more mana than Fireball, and they simply didn’t have enough.
"Ah..."
Tessa only saw a wave of fire coming at her and thought that it was quite a pretty sight for such a dangerous attack.
The flames engulfed her, and she was scorched into ashes.
[-100 HP]
[Tessa: 0 HP]
"...Tessa!"
Rosabella screamed.
"Ah... ah..."
Marcia breathed heavily, and she was happy that she wasn’t the one that was the main target of the attack.