“How does this work,” I say while trying to get the flight skill to work. I read the item description over and over again trying to make sense of it.
Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor:
+9DEF, +6RES,+25% Resistance to poison, gain flight skill for 60 seconds 200/200 Durability.
Armor Ability cool down 15min.
Chest piece of a fused Steel Chest Piece and the body of an Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream exoskeleton.
“It doesn’t say how to activate it, I mean if it worked like my other skills it should be a voice command but no matter how many times, I say the words flight I got nothing,” I say with a heavy sigh. I think over and over again until I remember I have one skill that doesn’t require a voice command “Armor-Plated Skin”.
“It can’t be that simple,” I say with shaky laughter. I close my eyes to focus on a single thought and that’s the simple image of what it would be like to soar through the air. The image in my head is crystal clear of me soaring through the sky high above the tree line looking out on the crystal-clear ocean that’s surrounding the island. I suddenly feel myself getting lighter which snaps me out of my deep thoughts, and once I open my eyes, I notice that two insect-like wings have sprouted from the two holes on the back of the armor set.
“Well that explains why there are two giant holes in the back,” I say looking at the wings that are slowly retracting back into the armor.
“Now I just need to remember that feeling and maybe I can start flying through the air like superman,” I say while striking a superman pose. I close my eyes to focus on that feeling of flight, however, that feeling doesn’t come as easily as it did before.
“Am I overthinking this, it’s so frustrating I mean I was able to use the Armor-plated skin skill no problem but why is the flight skill such a hassle,” I say pacing back and forth “Okay focus now Miles you got this”. I close my eyes and again begin to focus on the image of me flying above the tree lines and after what feels like forever, I start to feel the wings at my back start to flutter. I don’t dare open my eyes and continue to focus on my mental image and as I do I feel the fluttering getting stronger and stronger until I feel my entire body start to hover a few feet off the air.
“Oh man, this is an incredible feeling,” I say while keeping my eyes closed “I want to remember this feeling so it's easier later on”. I focus on what it would feel like to soar even higher and once I do I feel the wings flutter even faster lifting me higher in the air. I also focus on the feeling of falling and as if the wings on my back are responding to my very thoughts, I start to feel the wings slow down causing me to slowly descend to the ground.
***DING***
[Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor] skill on cooldown!!!
00:15:00…….00:14:59……..00:14:58
“Oh, Shit,” I say looking down at the floor seeing now that I’m about 20 feet in the air. I immediately fall like a rock in the sky barely being able to land on my feet.
“Oww that hurt’s I need to keep an eye on that timer, I would hate to be a few hundred feet in the air when the timer runs out,” I shudder at the thought. I sit down by a nearby tree and open my map, once the map is open, I see the pillar of light off in the distance of my flagged campsite.
“Oh man I have a long way to go to get back to camp, I need to hurry up I can’t play with my new armor anymore since it’ll be dark in a few hours and who knows what kind of creatures come out at night,” I say moving my body up in a standing position to begin the long trek back to my camp.
***DING***
[Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor] armor skill can be used again.
“Finally,” I say while trying to immediately try to activate the skill again. To my surprise I can summon the wings on my back rather quickly however getting them to take flight is another issue altogether. I continue to walk through all the while trying to get my insect wings to flap so I can cover ground more quickly that is until I hear the sounds of a more intense wing flapping noise. Hearing this I look back at my wings and notice that they aren’t moving at all.
“Shit that’s not me,” I say while pulling out a bee saber and a Flintlock pistol. I scan the area searching desperately for the source of the fluttering of insect wings and as I do I hear it getting louder and louder with each passing second that is until I finally find the source of the fluttering.
“SCCCCRRREEEEETTTTCCCCHHHHHHH” the Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream yells at an almost deafening volume. I put my hands over my ears to lessen the effect of the bee's scream, but unfortunately for me, the bee sees this and dives bombs stinger first right towards me. I’m able to barely remove my hands from my ears to block the incoming attack, but due to my delayed response it makes my block somewhat awkward.
Due to my awkward footing, the bee can easily pin me to the ground with a stinger going straight toward my face. I instinctively grab the stinger to insure it doesn’t pierce my skull, but as I do my body is being bombarded with blows from its six claws.
“Thank god for this armor,” I think to myself as I continue to hold the stinger in place. The stinger gets closer and closer to my face as my body begins to succumb to the bee's mighty blows. I try to hold the bee back but a combination of fear and muscle failure causes the stinger to become now a few inches from my eyes causing me to close my eyes. At the last possible second out of reflex, I picture an image of myself with steel-plated skin on my face. I move my face to the side and feel an intense pain on my cheek, however, I feel like this pain isn’t going to cause any permeant damage.
I open my eyes to see the bee struggling to remove its stinger that has now been fully lodged in the ground. I open my inventory and pull out my remaining pistol, and I point it toward the bee's head and I pull the trigger. Green blood explodes all over my face and body as the bee falls over dead.
“God, you suck,” I say as I push the bee off me.
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I immediately press the yes icon and wait for the dissolving process to start however I still hear wings fluttering all around me.
“Dammit, I’m not done am I,” I say while storing my used pistol and picking up my first pistol.
RELOADING: [FLINTLOCK PISTOL]
Time remaining: 00:00:08…….00:00:07……00:00:06
“That’s new, but I can’t focus on that now I have to ready myself,” I say while scanning the area for more targets. After a few moments of me scanning it sounds like they are right on top of me causing me to look up and to my horror I see 6 more bees swarming the area above. Seven of the bees look just like the rest, but one of them is significantly bigger than the rest and is solid black with two red diagonal lines across its chest.
Target: Crimson Ferocious Bee-Scream:
HP: ??/??
MP: ??/??
Stamina: ??/??
New Quest: [Defeat the Bee swarm]
Did somebody call the exterminator!!!!
Objective: Kill the bee swarm
Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream 1/6
Crimson Ferocious Bee-Scream 0/1
Reward: +1 INT stat
“Alright let’s dance mother fuckers” I say while pointing my gun at the closest one “Bulls Eye Shot”. I feel the skill pulsate in my hand crawling towards my trigger finger and as I squeeze the trigger, I feel the skill spread to my flintlock pistol. The steel ball soars through the air piercing the skull of the closest bee.
“SSSSCCCCRRRRRREEEEETTTTCCCHHHH” the remaining bees scream as the corpse falls to the ground. I cover my ears again however this time I do not take my eyes off the bee swarm that continues to circle me. After a few moments, two bees summons the courage to dive bomb towards me stinger at the ready. Seeing this and learning from my mistakes I quickly lower my hands to engage. I wait until the closest one gets within a few feet of me and abandon my weapons to bear hug the stinger. The bee struggles by thrashing back and forth to break free but my grip is too strong for it to escape. I keep a close eye on the other bee as it continues to dive bomb towards me, and once it gets within a few feet of me I move the bee that’s in my grip so its back is facing the incoming attack.
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The bee is going so fast that it can’t correct its flight path in time and pierces the first bee’s hard exoskeleton killing it right on the spot. Before the second bee has a chance to remove the dead body and fly away, I quickly pick up my dropped bee saber and thrust it toward its head. I’m surprised at how easily the bee saber pierces its skull as if I’m poking at a tub of butter, however, once I pull the blade out, I’m reminded that this is a monster and not butter as its green blood spurts out coating my blade in blood.
“That’s two down four more to go,” I say making a swiping motion to remove the blood from my blade “Who’s next”. I store my bee blade and pull out my other pistol so now I have a pistol in each hand and fire each pistol at two different targets. To my disappointment I miss both times, I immediately store both pistols back and pull out my two bee sabers.
RELOADING: [FLINTLOCK PISTOL]
Time remaining: 00:00:08…….00:00:07……00:00:06
RELOADING: [FLINTLOCK PISTOL]
Time remaining: 00:00:08…….00:00:07……00:00:06
“Come on let's do this,” I scream at the four remaining bees as they continue to circle in the air. I scan each bee anticipating for them to make a move, but they continue to remain circling in the air.
“Come on don’t tell me you're scared,” I say while bending my knees as if I’m going to jump in the air “If you’re not going to come to me, I’ll come to you”. Come on come on I think to myself as I quickly search my mind for the image of me flying in the air. The wings on my back quickly sprout and react just like its muscle memory and flutter at a speed that I haven’t seen before. I quickly feel my body levitate off the ground, and as I look toward the closest target, I picture myself dive bombing towards it just like they have done to me so far. The wings on my back flutter so fast I can’t even see them anymore and now I’m no longer just hovering in the air I am now flying towards the closest target like a rocket.
I don’t know who was more surprised me or the bee, however all I do know is I wasn’t going to waste its confusion and I quickly slash at its head decapitating it on the spot. The three remaining bees have now collected their composure and are now flying at an even greater speed than I could produce. I quickly switch my blades for pistols and take aim and fire quickly at the two closest targets. I have more luck this time as I miss one but hit the crimson bee in the chest, however, it does little damage but at the very least it slows it down. I desperately switch out my pistols and retrieve an undead bone axe as I watch as the two bees quickly close the gap between us.
I swing my undead bone axe aiming for the head of one bee but to my dismay, I slightly miss and strike the bee in its chest.
“SSSSCCCRRREEETTTTCCCCHHHHH” the injured bee screams as I pull and pull at my undead bone axe but it won’t dislodge from its body. I don’t dare let go of my axe but I then suddenly feel intense wind pressure on my face as I now notice we are extremely high up from the ground. While keeping one hand on my axe I pull out one of my steel knives and stab the bee in the neck severing its vocal cord.
Target: Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream:
HP: 4/10
MP: 6/8
Stamina: 12/30
Status:
Cursed, Mute
“Who cares if your mute,” I yell as I continue to stab the bee in the face with my steel knife until its wings stop fluttering and falls landing on the remaining ivory bee momentarily blinding it. As it the bee stumbles I have pulled out a steel spear and am now dive bombing towards it piercing it square in the chest. The steel spear pierced to the other end of its hard exoskeleton and now looks like it has a giant stick poking out of its chest.
“SSSSCCCCRRRREEETTTTCCCHHHHH” the bee screams in pain. Ignoring the tremendous pain in my ears I pull out a bee saber and shove it directly in its mouth. The bee continues to scream however it's now muffled somewhat; I push my saber down with all my strength to completely pierce its mouth only then does the screaming stop.
***DING***
[Ivory Ferocious Bee-Scream Armor] skill on cooldown!!!
00:15:00…….00:14:59……..00:14:58
“SHIT SHIT SHIT FUCK SHIT SHIT FUCK” I scream as I look down and notice the island is now very very small so small that if I don’t do something I will most definitely die. Before I can finish properly freaking out I see I still have one more target left.
“You’re my ticket downstairs,” I say pointing my blade toward it as I continue to fall. The Crimson bee screams in anger at his fallen comrades and flies towards me at an astonishing speed. I raise my blades to defend fully expecting for it to come at me stinger first just like the rest, however, I am caught off guard as it matches my decent speed so we are now face to face. The Crimson bee swipes and slashes at me using its six arms I can block some of them, but I feel my flesh getting torn to shreds as I am unable to keep up.
As I continue to feel my body getting ripped apart, I try to focus on applying my Armor-plated skin to the rest of my body. It takes a few moments, but I finally feel my skill spread across my entire body, and it’s as if I have gained a second wind. As I continue to block what I can as I get in closer to the bee and with all the strength I can muster I headbutt the bee in the face. The bee is dazed for a few precious moments, enough for me to grab hold of the bee and maneuver to its back, while I’m on its back I take out two knives and stab them both on its shoulder blades. I grab onto my knives holding on for dear life and strangely enough, the handles on my knives begin to heat up as I watch the ground getting closer. The crimson bee tries to ascend in the air more but every time I feel both of us ascending, I twist the knives causing the bee to scream, and with every twist of my knife, it forces the bee to descend.
This goes on back and forth with both of us trying desperately to overpower the other as we both make our descent to the ground. We get to a point where I feel like I can survive a fall from this distance with little injuries, I release my knives and allow myself to fall to the ground. I hit tree after tree destroying them in the process but thanks to my armor-platted skin I feel very little pain. Once I finally make it to the ground I skid across the floor and begin to scan the area for the crimson bee.
STATS:
Name: Miles Egan
Class: Waste of Skin
Health: 5/15
MP: 7/13
Stamina: 9/22
Status:
Burn, Temporarily Deaf
“First Aid, First Aid,” I say while scanning the area relying on my other senses to find the crimson bee. After a few moments of me scanning like crazy I see the crimson bee emerge from some of the destroyed trees. I’m surprised he’s not flying but I then notice that one of its wings is missing.
“Welcome to my world,” I say pulling out an undead bone axe and twirling it in my hand. The crimson bee rushes towards me and once it gets within a few feet of me I turn my body to the side letting it pass me but not without taking a strike at some of its six arms. I, fortunately, can cut off one of its arms.
“How do you like that assho…..” my thoughts are cut short as I watch as the wound on the bee that I just cut off is not spouting the green blood but is instead a small flame similar to a cigarette lighter. The flame slowly dies down as it cauterizes the wound.
“Now that’s cool, no wonder my knifes got hot earlier,” I say storing my blades and pulling out my pistols.
“I can’t get too close I can probably kill it hand to hand but who knows what happens when it dies it could explode spewing fire everywhere,” I say aiming my two pistols at it. Looking at the bee I see that it has recovered from the loss of one of its limbs and is now continuing its assault on me. I fire once and I hit it square in the chest, it does nothing but stagger it for a few moments. Not wanting to waste another shot I aim towards one of its legs and with a little bit of luck on my side I am able to shoot off one of its legs. I watch in amazement as the same process of it losing one of its arms is applied to its legs as well.
“You are one tough bastard,” I say as I see the crimson bee attempt to stand up. I exchange my flintlock pistols for a steel axe.
“I’m not a one-trick pony but this has worked so well for me in the past,” I say as I raise my axe above my head “Bulls eye shot,”. The axe flies through the air until it gets within a mere foot away from it. The crimson bee easily swipes the axe away despite it being severely injured.
“Mega Tough bastard,” I say with a smirk. I hate this but I don’t have any choice I have to get in close but if I’m fast enough I can catch him by surprise and finish this in one hit and get to a safe distance. I pull out a steel spear reading myself for what’s about to come.
“Burst of speed,” I say as I feel the skill pulsate in my legs and once I feel like the skill has taken hold I run at it as fast as I can. I run so fast that the Crimson bee is startled at first but quickly raises its hands to block. I continue to run regardless of him raising its five hands. I run past it positioning myself directly behind it and push the tip of my spear as hard as possible to the back of its skull which completely penetrates its skull and it falls over dead. With my burst of speed skill still active, I rush away from it afraid of what’s going to happen.
I stand and watch at a safe distance as its body begins to develop small embers all over its body which quickly begins to make the body erupt into a roaring fire.
Quest Complete:
Quest: [Defeat the Bee swarm]
Did somebody call the exterminator!!!!
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