Harem Online: My Party Is Full of Beautiful Celebrities-Chapter 47: Third Phrase

For a moment, Martin could only watch as Chaosgraphy cut through the monsters and went straight for the boss.

She didn’t charge in wildly. She slipped through the opening he had made, white hair flashing through the drifting blue crystal dust, and reached the boss’s side in an instant.

The instant she entered the gap in his armor, her twin swords came alive.

One slash opened the bruised flesh Martin had exposed. The next carved deeper into the same seam. Then another and another, each cut so fast and precise that hot blood burst out in violent sprays, splashing across the shattered blue crystal around them.

Strips of flesh peeled back under her blades. The exposed section widened. His HP dropped in huge chunks.

A severe bleeding effect stacked with every hit, making the opening Martin created even deadlier. On top of that, Martin’s food buff was still boosting her strength.

She was on a roll.

She didn’t care that the stun was already fading.

Her only goal was to tear out as much damage as possible before the boss could answer. Whatever happened after that, she would force her way through it.

Martin was nowhere in sight.

He had already moved on to the next step of their plan, circling through the rubble while the boss’s attention stayed pinned to Chaosgraphy. His boots crushed loose crystal fragments underfoot as he forced himself into position, warhammer low, shoulders tight, eyes locked on the boss’s shifting armor.

The weapon dragged at his arm with every step, and the constant stop-start movement was eating into his stamina faster than he wanted. Even so, he kept moving.

Out of the corner of his eye, Martin caught it.

Even while Chaosgraphy carved into the exposed section, the boss kept twisting intact armor toward Martin’s side of the field, as if instinct alone had already identified the hammer as the greater threat. He had learned.

Momentum mattered in fights like this.

Behind him, the battlefield was finally starting to settle into the shape they needed. Kill Clause and NukEncore had been breaking crystal pillars to blunt the waves of monsters, and now the pressure was thinning just enough for the team to breathe.

For the first time since phase two began, they were close to getting ahead of it.

Out of the corner of his eye, he checked the boss’s status.

[The Dark Blue Goblin Boss (Elite) Lv. 5 HP: 469/1000(+4126 SHIELD HP) MP: 323/750]

His Shield HP came from the crystal armor. But Martin had cracked it beautifully and exposed the bruised flesh beneath, which meant that Shield HP could be bypassed.

Chaosgraphy was making sure his effort didn’t go to waste.

Of course, that left her alone and vulnerable.

Even more so now that the boss’s stun had worn off.

He’s about to stun me... but you said you’d cover me from range too, so I’ll trust you, Cassandra!

The monster shook off the weakened effects and raised his needle sword. It spun again, turning into a drill-like attack that could absolutely take Chaosgraphy out of the fight. She was a pure duelist, after all.

Then, just as he lifted his arm, an arrow whistled across the battlefield and struck him square in the arm.

It was Kill Clause’s Crippling Arrow.

She had paired it with Aimed Shot, since both skills used the same stance and let her pour even more force into a single arrow. The boss’s dominant arm locked up.

He still had his other arm, but that wasn’t enough to stop Chaosgraphy. She slipped past his reach and kept up her rapid flurry of slashes.

I knew it.

You didn’t end up with us by chance, Martin. That’s why I drew that straw. That’s why I kept us as four.

Her blades kept biting into the exposed flesh.

You met me first. You brought out Elisebeth’s fun. You caught Cassandra’s eye. Then you made an opening for me like this.

Hot blood sprayed across her arms.

This is exactly how it was meant to happen. You at the front. Me cutting through the gap. Me getting to live out everything I love about being the villainess, from her very nature to the way she fights.

Her smile sharpened.

So no... this boss isn’t surviving us.

"You cut where the hammer opened!" the boss screamed.

His eyes snapped past Chaosgraphy, searching through the battlefield for Martin.

The stun had worn off again, and now he could move his dominant hand. Using his signature attack skill, he slammed his arm downward.

Chaosgraphy answered at once. She crossed her twin swords and caught the spinning needle blade at their intersection. The strength and damage boost from her parry skill surged through her body, and she knocked the attack off course before slipping clear.

At that exact moment, another arrow flashed past her and buried itself deep in the boss’s exposed side.

Nice shot.

His HP plunged.

[The Dark Blue Goblin Boss (Elite) Lv. 5 HP: 254/1000(+4126 SHIELD HP) MP: 187/750]

The field was finally bending their way.

With fewer monsters pouring in, Kill Clause no longer had to spend every shot on crowd control. Her support could start reaching Chaosgraphy instead of just the frontline pressure around them.

Martin had already seen it too. That was why he had moved. He was pulling out for the finishing setup, making room for the tether combo that would let Chaosgraphy deliver the last blow.

That left NukEncore to clean up the remaining mobs and keep the edges from collapsing.

For one brief, dangerous moment, the team’s rhythm actually felt complete.

All that’s left is for me to get to Martin’s side and—

The goblin boss’s gaze locked onto Martin through the chaos.

Not Chaosgraphy. Not Kill Clause. Not NukEncore. Martin.

"You’re the one opening me up. I’ll kill you first!" the goblin boss suddenly roared.

His Shield HP vanished at once.

A sharp, violent cracking sound ran through his crystal armor, like ice breaking under a heavy blow. The blue plates across his body fractured all at once, then burst apart into countless jagged chunks of rough crystal ore with razor-sharp edges.