Just then.
Lucaser was drinking merrily with his brothers.
Suddenly, the Blazing Soaring Demon Marks on him and his brothers began to burn, black flames engulfing their entire bodies almost instantly!
"Shit! These black bird marks are burning!"
"The instant death affix! It's the instant death affix!"
"Twenty points of instant death affix per second! Aaaah, I'll die in less than five seconds!"
"Don't panic! Let Big Daddy cool us down!"
"Big Daddy's here!"
"Big Daddy, hurry up and clear our instant death meters!"
"Haha, that's Big Daddy for you! My instant death meter dropped by 50%!"
"But how long will this black fire burn?"
Everyone exchanged looks.
The tavern owner was a fat, middle-aged man with a bushy beard, known as "Big Daddy." He was a priest.
Sporting a huge beer belly, he frowned as he watched the dozens of people inside the tavern burst into flames.
He had a skill that could clear greater affix meters, and it was an area-of-effect skill.
But...
That skill could only remove fifty points of instant death affix at once, and its cooldown lasted a full five minutes!
From the looks of it, he couldn't save these people at all.
And Lucaser, who had taken the lead in deciding not to die, certainly lived up to his reputation as the idea man.
This artistic young man with curly brown hair really did have ideas.
Black flames burned all over him. As the instant death meter above his head neared 100%, he finally remembered Dark Shadow's warning!
"No, I can't just sit here and wait to die."
"If I burn to death now, there's a good chance I'll really die, just like Dark Shadow said..."
"Brothers, hurry up and attack each other!"
"As long as we kill each other before our instant death