"It is a summoning circle!" Adrian shouted as he knows that kind of magic formation.
The Faceless Arch Priest seemed to be trying to summon the Faceless Arch Fiend that they are warned about. All the players shifted their focus to the new mini boss that has appeared. They must kill it now in order to stop it from summoning a new monster.
What the players did not know is that the Faceless Arch Priest is equivalent to an actual dungeon boss with the level of 200. It is actually the Faceless Arch Fiend that is equivalent to a level 200 mini boss. The players nearest the Faceless Arch Priest all used their attacks that stops channeling.
Numerous spells that could apply the silence debuff are fired towards the Faceless Arch Priest as it is the standard way of stopping a mage or magic using enemy to stop using magic. It would have been an easy solution if not for the barrier that negated skills to come through the Faceless Arch Priest.
The area of the influence for the ability negating barrier is about one meter with the Faceless Arch Priest in the center. The players knew that they could not attack it with skills, so they used normal attacks that are long ranged. The arrows and other throwable weapons hit the Faceless Arch Priest.
Despite numerous attacks and projectiles reaching the Faceless Arch Priest, it did not stop chanting and the magic circle started to shine brighter than it has before. The melee players tried to shorten the distance with the Faceless Arch Priest, but the other faceless monsters blocked them.
"At this rate, it will be able to summon whatever it is trying to summon." One of the players on their side stated.
"Lycan get ready." Adrian stated in their team chat as it was enabled for this battle.
A special chat is actually enabled foe big fights as there would be utter confusion if it is not. The special party chat will lessen the noise of the other players and would send the voice of their allies directly on their channel. It is designed so that players will not suddenly faint due to their hearing sensory organ being overloaded.
"Be ready for what?" Lycan stated but a portal appeared below his feet.
Lycan fell on the portal and appeared about ten meters above the Faceless Arch Priest. The Faceless Arch Priest did not expect that someone would reach it, but all spells are still disabled in the area around it.
Lycan immediately knew that the Faceless Arch Priest is not looking at him as a threat which is why he transformed his hand into its werewolf transformation. When Lycan reached the barrier, his transformation did not get dispelled. The Faceless Priest did not expect this and Lycan aimed for the neck of the former.
A deep gash formed behind of the Faceless Arch Priest as the robes that covered its body is torn and revealed its true body. Four arms that are like bony fleshy sticks while its legs are twisted together like a vine. It is floating above the ground which was not seen before when robes covered its body.
The most notable thing would be that its face is like a U shape with two mouths on each horizontal. Like the other faceless monsters, it has no face, but it could somehow see the world around it clearly. Lycan's attack managed to stop the chanting of the Faceless Arch Priest and the summoning circle started to low in a dimmer light as if it is fading.
"I did it!" Lycan shouted but the Faceless Arch Priest started to point its bony fingers towards him.
Before Lycan got hurt, Adrian already casted Quantum Cascade in advance just to pull Lycan away. Thankfully, Lycan is outside the influence of the anti-magic spell that the Faceless Arch Priest uses. Lycan's troubles did not stop there as lightning is still launched out of the finger of the Faceless Arch Priest.
Adrian did not let Lycan get hurt as even he does not know how hard hitting the monster really is. He does not want Lycan to be the guinea pig of the group. He thought it was best that the other players be that. Adrian summoned a mirror behind Lycan to return him back to the team formation.
The mirror absorbed the attack of the Faceless Arch Priest and it got destroyed. Even Adrian received 5% of his health as total damage and lost 10% of his mana from the backlash. When the Faceless Arch Priest's magic clashed with Adrian's mirror, a spear is suddenly hurled towards it which prompted it to use its spell that negated damage once again.
"It seems to be using an anti-magic shell and a kinetic force sapping shell. Attacks that are hurled towards it will not be effective. We need to go and hit it face to face. We also do not have long until we need to rest. Let us kill it first so that we can weaken the dark god.
That thing is connected to the dark god after all. I could see that it pulled mana directly from the dark god as if it is tethered to it." The angel that tossed the spear stated.
"Let us go with your idea. Maybe we could also strike down another pest in the process." An angel carrying a sword and shield stated as he glanced at Adrian's group for a split second.
"Let us go." The angel that wielded a great sword stated.
"Valiant warriors! We shall rid this place of that plague. Give us enough time to do so." The angel that wielded a spear stated as it used some sort of telekinetic force to summon back the spear that he tossed.
Adrian just smiled as he felt the gaze of intense bloodlust for a split second. He already knew that the angels do not like him but that is also the same for them. Adrian does not like them either.