The Arpen players launched a huge counterattack from both land and sky. Before, their attacks were largely rendered useless thanks to the large level advantage and the tactics that the Haven army used. However, thanks to the tsunami, the Haven shield wall has been heavily disrupted. In addition, the leftover ice and chill has made it harder for the wizards to conduct their spellcasting. To make up for their weakness, the Haven army’s necromancers start moving out (I think it’s Haven army due to their high levels, I may be wrong though). Unlike the other classes, Necromancers show their true power later in the battle, when the battlefield has filled with corpses. Because of the fast growing nature of their jobs and the Undead Legion quests, most of the Haven’s necromancers have already exceeded level 460.
The Dark Gamers are watching the fighting, trying to decide if they should intervene or not. Although they want to fight for Arpen, they are only willing to do so if there is a chance of winning. Otherwise, they would be wasting levels and skill levels which would cost them real money (the time spent recovering those levels and skills can’t be spent taking job requests). One of them remarks that if the Haven empire even shows the slightest signs of crumbling, they will attack.
Suddenly, a great singing voice boomed out in the sky. The song tells of a storm with gusty winds and cold rain, shaking the house. One player shouts out “This messed up pitch, tempo, lyrics! There’s only one person!..” and all the players look up. Descending with the countless Avians was one man standing on a wyvern (yes, I believe he’s standing and not riding), with the Red Star sword in his hand. The song continues, talking about how the storm causes the body to shake, so you’re (he’s addressing the audience here) going to have to turn on the electric blanket. There’s also something about using the boiler, gas vs electricity costs, and the young people today not knowing the suffering that the others went through. The Avians flying with him try to figure out what he’s talking about and one of them suggests that Weed’s song is like the ancient Lizardmen songs, which have extremely complex rhythms. Another one (or the same one) mentions that it might be a poem which includes real life social conditions, with the main one being the physical pain and well-being of the elderly (something also about income inequality and labour). The Avians give up on trying to interpret Weed’s songs (Editor’s note: They aren’t the only ones -.-) and decide to sing along, even though they don’t know the meaning of the song.
Once the Haven wizards spotted Weed, they immediately focus their spells on him, sending hundreds of spells flying towards Weed. Weed tells the wyvern, Sanya to avoid it (he may have said that all of the other wyverns could do it?) and while shedding tears, Sanya performs several high speed maneuvers and dodges the spells (the wyvern is an extremely fast flying creature and they are also at the maximum range for the spells). Weed looks over the battlefield to decide where he should attack. After judging the wizards to be too well guarded, he decides to assist Hess Tiger instead. He orders Sanya to fly towards Hess, who is extremely easy to locate thanks to the pillar of fire and lava that are burning everything for hundreds of meters surrounding him. Once Sanya had reached a height of about 600 meters from the ground, Weed jumps off the wyvern. Because of the dangers of falling several thousands of feet to the ground and the hundreds of magical arrows (or magic and arrows) heading towards him, he takes out his ancient shield. The shield intercepts the storm of projectiles and magic (Weed loses 14% of his HP), and Weed continues to plummet towards the ground. However, in contrary to the Haven wizards’ expectations (I think that they stopped attacking because they knew he was going to die), Weed landed gently onto the ground. This was thanks to the feathers that he had purchased from Lavias which protects the user from fall damage. Weed meets up with Hess Tiger and his followers, and they proceed to wreak havoc among the Haven lines.
Weed gets several rare 400+ items (a belt and a hammer) from killing Hermes players, and he notes that because of their high notoriety (presumably from looting+killing), their item drop rates have increased. 3 Knight players charge towards Weed, declaring that they’ll take his neck. Weed checks their level and find that they all range around level 430. He blinks in and casts fire explosion, fire of extinction, and (something) hell. It mentions how Weed is in the peak fighting condition right now. The dragon sword Red Star absorbs fire to strengthen its users and the characteristic of the Desert Warriors is to strengthen and control fire. When Weed is fighting with Hess Tiger, his damage dealt is essentially doubled and all stats as a whole are increased by 30% (with the largest boots in strength and agility). He gets an increase in fencing level, +1 strength, and a small reputation boost. The player group following them cheers for Weed and Hess Tiger (I think he says something about doing a deed worthy of standing beside Weed or something? Extremely confusing sentence) quickly kills 10 enemy players in a flash. It turns out that one of the players was a notorious murder and Hess revealed a big smile. He mentions how in the past, he also fought this way against the greedy king (? Need somebody to check this sentence). Weed glosses over Hess’ statement and holds a hand out to Hess. Hess dutifully hands over the items that he picked up. Weed then causes Van Hawke and Tori (it mentions that Van Hawke has gotten stronger and all of his Death Knight related skills have gone up one rank, although it’ll take a very long time for him to reach the level of an Abyssal knight again). Weed calls Van Hawke incompetent while Tori is trying his best to remain unnoticed, and Weed tells them to seize control of the summoned undead (?) while trying to remain alive. Weed and Hess continue fighting, with the two attracting more enemies every minute (they are the two most targeted men on the battlefield after all). A dark mage casts several high level curses towards the two, but the protection of the goddess of black magic destroys the curse heading towards Hess while Weed is immune to the curse thanks to Red Star (it also mentions something about the ruler of the continent having resistance to harmful magic). Weed gets surprise-attacked by a thief and loses 13% of his life (it mentions that thieves essentially serve as the assassins of the battlefield. They have high enough combat strength to fight in battle (unlike assassins who end things in one hit), while still having enough stealth to remain unnoticed). The thief follows up with a flurry of attacks but Hess casts an AoE fire magic, healing Weed and incinerating the thief. In this fashion, they carve their way through the Haven Army.