"Eclipse of the holy sun" this is what Damien was looking for, this is what could stop them, he immediately began to chant
"sanctae lumen solis caecus hostibus meis et his qui consistit"
[light of the holy sun, blind my enemies, and bring them to a halt]
Ana and the lady of the marsh were still mid conflict, when small sphere of light appeared between them.
The light expanded at a rapid pace, it soon filled the entire room and rendered all within it temporarily blind and sleeping.
He ran over to Ana and lifted her up, well kind of. Damien wasn't very strong, at all, after an hour of constant walking, sitting Ana down for a rest, then proceeding to pick her back up and walk, Damien managed to find a large arch.
It was filled by some kind of blue miasma, he had no choice, he walked in...
The room they ended up in was well lit and contained a few beds, and containers, Damien lay Ana down in one of the beds and searched the room for anything useful.
He had found a set of leather armour and a robe, when he caught a glimpse of something in the corner of the room, it was a bookshelf full of old dusty books, but what caught his attention was a book near the top shelf.
It looked silver but it was hard to tell due to it being clad in dust.
As he picked it up a cloud of dust fell towards the ground claiming spots on some of the neglected objects that were scattered around the floor, he sat the book on the other bed and blew the remaining dust off of it, it had grey leather bindings with silver clouds on the front and a silver adornment on the spine, it was titled "whisper in the wind".
Damien looked over at where Ana was, she lay there still sleeping, so he decided to start reading the book, as he read he slowly realized that it was a manual on Air magic. After a couple of hours reading he had finished the book.
He closed the cover over, but as he did the book changed into a small dust tornado, and when it had subsided the book was gone.*ding**ding*
Affinity"Air"
Air affinity allows the user to redirect and control the wind (+5% Air affinity)
SkillsTempestuous Slash: Active
Compress air into an arc, the many different air currents within the arc cause it to cut and shred opponents and objects
Level 1: Single, directional arc Next Level: Single, controlled arc
Cost: 25 Mana
He was shocked at what he had just seen but only for a moment. He grabbed a small wooden chair and sat it in the center of the room.
[TEMPESTUOUS SLASH](Damien)
An arc of compressed air appeared and flew towards the chair ripping it into pieces, and then cutting half way into the stone wall behind it.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING"(Anastasia)
"...eh...well"(Damien)
"I HAD THAT SWAMP HAG"(Anastasia)
"Ana calm down"(Damien)
Damien turned round to see Ana sitting upright in her bed.
"Where are we?"(Anastasia)
"I presume the next part of the dungeon"(Damien)
Ana quickly looked round the room spotting the armour Damien had laid out, and the door. She picked up the armour and walked into a dark corner of the room.
[Shadow Form](Anastasia)
She disappeared becoming the shadow, and when she had reappeared, she was changed.
"That there is the door out of here?"(Anastasia)
"Yeah but do go ou..."(Damien)
"I'm leaving right now, you are not to follow me"(Anastasia)
"And what if I do?"(Damien)
She stared at him in the eye, making him nervous.
"Then I will kill you"(Anastasia)
The boy was in complete shock at what he had just heard, he tried to speak but, was unable.
"The next time we meet, I will not welcome you as a friend but an enemy"(Anastasia)
And with that she turned and left, Damien went to open the door but something had blocked it on the otherside.
What will I do, I am unable to go after her and the door is sealed(Damien)
He paced up and down in the room thinking about what to do when thud, Damien looked at his feet.
He was standing on a small rug, but the noise sounded hollow as if there was something below him. He ripped up the rug revealing a hatch door, he managed to lift it up revealing a ladder into a dark passageway.
He began to descend into it's depths.
He found himself in a series of damp tunnels which led out into a cavern, he spends some time searching the cavern before finding a narrow waterfall.
Beyond the waterfall lies a small, damp room. covered in remains, rubble and dead insects. Even though the room was dark he could make out small prison cells, deteriorated and consumed by time itself.
Further ahead was three paths, he takes the one on the right. Its twisted trail leads passed several empty rooms and soon he reaches a dank and unpleasant room. Spiderwebs covered everything, and large figures seemed to be wrapped in the same webs.
What happened in this place?(Damien)
He slowly walks forwards, deeper into the structures expanse. He passes various different rooms and countless passages, some are dead ends, others led to who knows where, or what. Damien eventually makes it to what is likely the final room. With an ominous granite door which blocks his path. Countless runes are all over it, somehow untouched by both time and the elements. He steps in closer to inspect it and...there was a whisper coming from the otherside.
He didn't know why but he was drawn towards this door.
"Come child be my next meal, open the door and let me devour you"(???)
Although he didn't want to he held out his and and touched the door, the granite doors sunk down into the earth and what lay before him was a spiders nest. He stepped forward into the room, but not of his own volition.
The doors closed and darkness befell the room. Damien blacked out.
When he had awoken he was in a cocoon of sticky webs, hanging just off of the ground, he was unable to see but he could hear lots of light steps coming towards him.
"So you came my child"(???)
He was in a panic, not knowing what was happening around him.
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[TEMPESTUOUS SLASH](Damien)
The webs were decimated allowing Damien see that he was currently in a Spiders nest, his slash had killed what should of looked like spiders, they were currently mush with bodily parts strewn across the room.
"The meal fights back, this should be fun"(???)
Damien was on edge looking around for the source of the voice. When he heard something behind him...
He jumped out to the side, barely avoiding both the abdomen and the stinger of the giant spider.
"Hmm interesting, this one is stronger than my normal prey"(???)
Damien just avoided a second attack when he retaliated by removing the spiders main advantage. The pages of the grimoire flipped to one near the back. The only problem is that he is losing all of the spells of which the previous owner had written. With now only a few remaining.
"incendite tenebras unde inimicus meus hidis"(Damien)
[light the darkness from which my enemy hides]
A bolt of light fired straight up hitting the roof before bursting into floating specs of light, they looked like overcharged fireflies, and soon the entire room was lit by them, Damien could now see his opponent clearly. A massive black spider with a white skull on it's underside, which also contained a stinger equal in size to a longsword.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BEAUTIFUL HOME CHILD?"(???)
"Just lightened it up a bit"(Damien)
[TEMPESTUOUS SLASH](Damien)
He was aiming for the spiders main weapon, it's stinger, but the spider had moved, and instead he cut one of its back legs.
It released a screech like that of a banshee, as the leg fell to the ground, the spiders blue blood bubbled as it spilled out onto the stone, leaving a small hole. The blood was corrosive and he would have to be careful not to get any on him.
The spider was bleeding, dripping the corrosive blood onto the ground below.
"Feed my children on the flesh of this human"(???)
Suddenly from small holes in the wall hordes of smaller spiders, rushed out towards Damien.
[DUST BARRAGE](Damien)
A wind picked up around Damien, it circled him and was getting stronger and began to pick up small segments of rock and dust, the spiders drew nearer, and were swallowed up by the storm, soon the circling wall of rock had turned blue from the blood of the spiders.
The tornado turned into a compressed sphere of rock and acidic blood.
The large spider began to descend quickly towards Damien, it had turned berserk and flew at him as it neared, the sphere was launched at the spider exploding mid air.
Damien ran hiding in one of the spider holes near the ground, he looked out at the the ground embedded with corroded rocks and burned by acid.*ding**ding*
He was looking to see what he had obtained when...
Anastasia pov
I wanted to get as far away from that boy as I could, I barred the door with a large amount of water. Outside was a frozen wasteland and shortly after barring the door the water had frozen.
I don't know why I feel so angry, so much has happened, I am a champion supposed to save a world which abandoned me from being destroyed, Damien was getting on my nerves about it, then a marsh hag attacked me for cutting down a stupid tree.
And when i finally got a chance to vent my anger that idiot blinds me and drags me away.
When I get out of here I am leaving the forest, with Hoshimi and I'm going to live a good life, and while I'm at it pay a nice little visit to my parents.
"Kehkehkehkeh...*cough*.. I really need to work on my evil laugh"(Anastasia)
3rd person pov
She was in a frozen tundra, all that surrounded her was ice and snow she had been walking alongside a frozen lake and was knee deep in snow. When she had spotted a frozen body next to the ice he had a satchel by his side.
Ana ran over and grabbed the satchel searching for anything she could use. When she found a peculiar object, it was a blood red scroll and what it contained was drawings of some one wielding a staff.
It was the last image which made her read the scroll, the drawing showed the staff on fire and the man still using it.
When she had finished she rolled the scroll back up, but as she did it got hot and began to burn. It turned to ash before her very eyes. *ding*ding*
Affinity"Fire"
Allows the user to create and control flames (+5% Fire affinity)
SkillsArcane Inferno: Active
covers the blade of the users weapon in fire which can be either launched, until it hits another object or used to add fire damage to each strike
Level 1: Weak flames Next Level: Stronger flames
Cost: 20 Mana
She smiled.
[ARCANE INFERNO](Anastasia)
Her scythe's blade was set alight and she cut a line in the direction she was walking, towards a frozen tree. As she cut down the flames leaped from the blade in a straight line across the ground until it hit the tree, which turned to charcoal within minutes.
This cleared a path through the snow allowing her to walk through with little or no effort. she smiled and whistled a happy tune as she walked down the path she created. a large black crow landed on the ground near her, and it began to caw loudly.
"you interrupted my whistling"(Anastasia)
The crow cawed again, and Ana's scythe began to burn again, she slashed sideways at the bird, and let's just say it never cawed again. she smirked and continued on her way whistling once more.
She began seeing more and more of these crows, and killed the ones who couldn't escape her flames.
she had arrived at a large clearing in front of a glacial cavern, she went to walk forwards when a golem rose up from the snow standing around 8ft tall wielding an axe carved from ice.
"you are impure and may not enter"(Golem)
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!"(Anastasia)
An arc of flames cut the golem in half.
"I am liking this"(Anastasia)
She tried to walk towards the entrance but...