Fated to Perish

**Fated to Perish** is a unique Swordsmanship Technique developed by the Great Swordsman Piaro. Piaro is deserving to be a Legend just from this technique alone. As a Great Swordsman and Eternal Hermit, it was Piaro's ultimate technique, that is until he became a Legend—the Legendary Farmer.

## Information

**Fated to Perish**, as the name suggests, it is a fearsome instantaneous death skill which was developed by Piaro before he became a Legend. Piaro is eligible to be a Legend just from this technique alone. As such, Grid once assumed that it is safe to call it a Legendary-rated skill. It was first mentioned by Asmophel as he had given a quest to Euphemina and told her; Piaro's swordsmanship has reached the peak, and whenever he uses his ultimate technique 'Fated to Perish', death would be inevitable. Meaning, it is close to an absolute invincible skill that has a 100% chance of instantly killing the target. Of course, targets classified as Bosses can't be killed instantly. However, critical damage can be dealt.

In the skill description, it has been stated that this skill can't be applied in quests and raids. This isn't really the case. As shown many times, it can be used in the raids, but the option, 'the target hit by the sword must die' doesn't activate and only critical damage is done to the raid boss. Additionally, among the Named NPCs, there are many who can resist Fated to Perish, but there is deadly damage even if it is resisted.

It is the ultimate technique of Piaro before he became a Legend. As a Legendary Farmer, he developed a new ultimate technique, the Pounding Mortar. Thus, the Fated to Perish isn't the only ultimate technique of Piaro, but one of them. Normally Piaro relies more on Pounding Mortar than Fated to Perish during every important moment. Although, the attack coefficient of Fated to Perish is higher than Pounding Mortar due to its nature of instant death, but Piaro likes to use Pounding Mortar even if the target isn’t immune to instant death. There is only one reason for that. It is because the maximum damage of Pounding Mortar goes beyond that of Fated to Perish.

## Description

[Fated to Perish]

Piaro’s unique technique. The sword will attack one point on the target.

The target hit by the sword must die.

Piaro is deserving to be a legend just from this technique alone.

Skill Mana Consumption: 40% of the maximum mana.

Skill Cooldown Time: 1 hour.

\* This skill can’t be applied in quests and raids.

## How to Obtain

### Skill Creation

* Piaro created the 'Fated to Perish' himself.

## Story

**Note:** The Story section of this article contains only small parts from some of the events of Overgeared Novel where the skill Fated to Perish was used. For the more details, please visit the related main articles present in this sub-section.

### Traitor of the Red Knights

*Chapter 37*

Traitor of the Red Knights—it is the quest that was given to Euphemina by Asmophel. She had to defeat Piaro and so Asmophel also provided her the information about Piaro and his ultimate technique—Fated to Perish. She prepared 62 days only for clearing this quest successfully and thus, she naturally had copied a skill through which she could escape from the Fated to Perish as well. The battle between her and Piaro occured. She used many skills. Piaro also recognized Euphemina's strength and wanted to use his ultimate technique. A red light emerged from Piaro's sword. It was the forerunner to the skill that Asmophel mentioned, Fated to Perish. Once the skill was activated, Euphemia wouldn't be able to avoid death. It meant that her 63 days of hardship would be for nothing. So before the Fated to Perish was activated completely, Euphemina used a magic spell, the Nightmare Projection—a skill that Euphemina had prepared to stop the Fated to Perish previously. The sword rushing toward Euphemina stopped. The red sword, which should have sliced Euphemina, cut the empty space dozens of times. It showed Piaro had properly fallen into the Abnormal State of Hallucination. Although, Euphemina succeeded in escaping the Fated to Perish and thus, escaping the instant death as well. But as she had used many skills in succession, she was extremely exhausted, so she couldn't kill Piaro at that moment. Her 63 days of effort ended in vain. The quest had already failed, and the situation would be worse if she died here. Eventually, she escaped from Piaro, who was slowly recovering from the hallucinatory state.

**Note:** Although, Euphemina escaped from the Fated to Perish, but it doesn't mean that she has a proper skill to counter the Fated to Perish. In fact, Fated to Perish was activated, Euphemina couldn't stop its activation, but she used the Nightmare Projection to divert Piaro's mind to use the skill on the empty space—the place where Piaro thought that Asmophel had come to fight against him while the former was in the hallucinatory state.

### Attack of the Seven Guilds

*Chapter 250*

During the Attack of the Seven Guilds on Reidan, Piaro welcomed the invaders and used the Fated to Perish on Zibal by using a hand plow as a weapon. Zibal realized that something was strange and quickly ordered the guild members to get ready for the battle. But it was too late. Piaro had already approached him. Thunder was heard as the hand plow moved and the sharp end of it was stuck in Zibal's forehead. Zibal, who was the 2nd ranked user in the Unified Rankings at that time, died instantly by a single blow from Piaro. The more than 550 guild members of allied guilds couldn't recognize the situation properly. On the other hand, Kraugel and Damian were astonished by Zibal's instantaneous death as they had never thought that Piaro was this much powerful.

### Upcoming Destruction

*Chapter 474*

While the quest Upcoming Destruction that Euphemina had accepted was ongoing, Overgeared Guild members and Grid's subordinates had to protect the Siren Kingdom from the Blood Carnival to successfully clear the quest. Regarding this event, Piaro confronted White. White knowing the identity of Piaro as the crazy farmer of Reidan, didn't want to fight against him. She wanted to fight against Grid and wanted to reach him as the latter was using the Magic Missile (Enhanced) to fight against her from a distant place. This was pretty disadvantageous to her as she was a martial artist. However, Piaro didn't want to let her go. Grid even ordered Pairo to give him the loot after White's death. Enraged at the fact that Grid was making fun of her, she eventually used the Fat Burning to get rid of Piaro. Smoke started to emerge from the body that was over 200kg. It was the process of which White’s fat was burned. Piaro was interested and all the Overgeared members, including Grid, were astonished. Then, White kicked towards Piaro while thinking: *Will he try to avoid it?* The power and torque behind the kick was tremendous. But instead of her prediction, in the blink of an eye, the moment that White was trying to predict Piaro’s response, latter used the Fated to Perish. Thus, one blow from the Piaro's hand plow and White died instantly. The Blood Carnival members and the soldiers fell into confusion at White's death.

### Belial Raid

*Chapter 570*

During the Belial Raid, Belial exploded her flames around her in order to turn the trees, which Piaro had grown, to ashes. However, Maxong was one step faster. As the Water Clan's King, Maxong was an expert with water and cast a spell. It was like a Blue Dragon ascended. Blue water rose from the ground where Belial stood, trapping her inside. Piaro coordinated with Maxong and used the Fated to Perish on Belial. His hand plow pierced Belial's forehead. Fated to Perish was an absolutely invincible skill that had a 100% chance of instantly killing the target. Of course, targets classified as bosses couldn't be instantly killed. However, critical damage could be dealt. Belial couldn't bear the pain and let out a terrible scream. It was a different reaction from when she had lost her arm previously.

### Braham and Mumud

*Chapters 664-665*

While Agnus' and Grid's quest, Braham and Mumud, was ongoing, Agnus called out for help from his guild members of Immortal Guild. In response to this, Grid also used the Summon Knights to summon Piaro in the battlefield so that Piaro could help him. Piaro appeared in response to Grid's summons. He broke White with Pounding Mortar and then used the worst technique, Fated to Perish, on Agnus. Both, Grid and Euphemina became desperate and flabbergasted at Piaro's fierce response against Agnus as both them had the quests which were ongoing. It was the Braham and Mumud (Grid) quest that was ongoing in Grid's case. Grid had to defeat Lich Mumud to clear the quest successfully. Meanwhile, Euphemina had the Mumud's Soul Liberation quest. To clear this quest, she had to destroy the Lich Mumud to liberate its soul for finally becoming the Mumud's Descendant. But their plans couldn't be executed anymore as Piaro had already used the Fated to Perish on Agnus. The death of the summoner meant the defeat of the familiar. Once Agnus started turning to grey due to the hand plow hitting his forehead, Grid and Euphemina felt despair. It was because it was natural for Mumud to die when Agnus died. Due to Piaro, Grid failed the 'Braham and Mumud' quest, while Euphemina failed to clear her 'Mumud's Soul Liberation' quest. At this time, Grid was feeling that Piaro was a troll like Braham and it was all due to one skill that had been used to kill Agnus, the Fated to Perish.

**Note:** After the Fated to Perish struck Agnus' forehead, he started turning grey. Meaning, he started dying. But half way through this process, he used the Half Lich Transformation to resist the instant death effect of Fated to Perish. Alas, he died in the end when the duration of his Half Lich Transformation ended. From this, it can be inferred that Agnus had a skill to resist the Fated to Perish for some period of time even before becoming a Legend.

### Noll Raid

*Chapter 729*

During the Noll Raid because of Maxong and Asmophel's attacks, Noll lost his balance as he was swept away by the tsunami and the sword stabbed his heart. Piaro didn’t miss this gap and used the Fated to Perish. The hand plow deeply pierced Noll's chest. Noll couldn’t even scream. Grid checked Noll's heath gauge and clicked his tongue because of the damage done by Piaro's skill.

### Giant Cave Cricket Raid

*Chapter 825*

During the Giant Cave Cricket Raid, Thanks to the Hero King's Armor, Mercedes was able to exert more damage by accumulating damage. Her swords hadn't been able to penetrate the skin of the Giant Cave Cricket earlier, but they entered easily now and caused great damage. The Cave Cricket struggled as some of its nerves were damaged. Its eight legs moved strangely in every direction, forming a sight that could induce someone to vomit. However, Grid wasn’t shaken at all. He had learned to control his emotions and used the Linked Kill Wave Pinnacle—which crushed the shell of the Cave Cricket. Then, Fated to Perish—Piaro's ultimate attack dug into the Cave Cricket's inner flesh. The Overgeared Skeletons, Randy, and Noe also attacked the Cave Cricket with all their might. The Cave Cricket's cries stirred up the forest at dawn. The effect of God's Command was activated, and Grid used a second Linked Kill Wave Pinnacle. Thus, only three people; Grid, Mercedes and Piaro—succeeded in raiding the Giant Cave Cricket—a monster who belonged to the Ancient Species and had the combat power equivalent to the 28th Great Demon.

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Piaro using the Fated to Perish on Euphemina (Manhwa Chapter 21).Piaro using the Fated to Perish on empty space due to the hallucination (Manhwa Chapter 22).

## Notes

* Fated to Perish's instant kill can be resisted by the Bosses and many Named NPCs, but there is deadly damage even if it is resisted.
* Every Legend can resist the instant death effect of Fated to Perish once in a period of 24 hours because of the 5 seconds of immortal passive provided by the title One who Became a Legend.
* Piaro likes to use Pounding Mortar more than Fated to Perish as the maximum damage done by the former is more than that of Fated to Perish.
* Despite Piaro being a Great Swordsman, the Fated Perish consumes Mana as the skill resource consumption instead of Sword Energy. From this, it can be assumed that either Piaro doesn't have the resource called 'Sword Energy' or the skill has been created specifically to only work with 'Mana' instead of Sword Energy.
* Although, Fated to Perish is a Swordsmanship Technique created by Piaro, but unlike Pagma's Sword Dances, it can also be used with weapons other than a sword. For example, after becoming a Farmer, Piaro normally uses the skill with a hand plow. Or there may be a chance that it has been transformed into a Farming Technique after Piaro becoming a Farmer or the Legendary Farmer.
* Its name in the Demon King's Subjugation event of 4th SNC was **Breaking the Shell**.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 209
2. ↑ Chapters 37 & 209
3. ↑ Chapter 209
4. ↑ Chapter 37
5. ↑ Chapters 290 & 570
6. ↑ Chapters 570, 577 & 729
7. ↑ Chapter 790
8. ↑ Chapter 349 | Piaro became a Legend, the Legendary Farmer, in Chapter 253.
9. ↑ Chapter 1209
10. ↑ Chapter 826
11. ↑ Chapters 570 & 790
12. ↑ Chapter 1209
13. ↑ Chapter 209
14. ↑ Chapters 250, 474, 570, 665 & 729
15. ↑ Chapter 953