--- Divinity: Part 2
--- [Alex’s perspective] Two years after the E-rank exam
“Watch out!” – Lett
“Don’t worry, I got it.” – Shin
A giant lion slams it’s paw right on top of Shin.
“…” – Shin
“Oh no…” – Lett
Is he okay?!!
Shit!
Wait…!
Suddenly, an ice sword pokes out from the top of the paw.
The lion screams in pain and tries to pull it’s paw away.
Before it’s able to pull it back, the sword travels through the paw, splitting it in two.
Shin stands up in the middle of the split paw.
“I told you I got it!” – Shin
The lion yet again tries to get away, but Shin cuts off the entire limb.
It loses balance and falls.
“I’ll take it form here.” – Illian
“Aight.” – Shin
Illian rushes towards the head of the lion.
The lion opens its mouth and starts breathing fire; the fire accompanied by a deafening roar.
I quickly get in the way and point my palms towards the flames.
A dark void opens up in my palms and the fire is absorbed into it.
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“Thanks, but I could have survived it on my own. I had my ‘shadow clone’ up.” – Illian
“I see, but there’s no need to blow your one clone of the day on something I can easily deal with.” – Alex
“That’s true.” – Illian
Illian continues to rush towards the lion’s head.
The beast opens its mouth in an attempt to breathe more fire, but Illian is close enough to stop it.
He kicks it in the jaw, instantly shutting the mouth.
The teeth slamming into each other breaks a few of them.
He follows up his attack and kicks it as hard as he can in the nose.
The lion realizes how much danger it is in and starts panicking.
It flails its limbs around and starts breathing fire around uncontrollably.
A claw catches Shin off guard, but Lett quickly teleports in, pushes him out of the way, then teleports out again.
Illian stands in the fire while charging up an attack.
Normally, any of us would die from a direct attack like that, but not him.
All damage he takes is redirected to his ‘shadow clone’.
It’s only when he would have taken enough damage to kill him, that the clone vanishes, and he is once again vulnerable.
He releases his charged attack, slamming his leg into the lion’s head.
The kick is so powerful that the lion instantly dies on contact.
The flailing and fire breathing stops…
The fire would have killed him, but the shadow clone took all the damage instead.
The clone is destroyed, and his unnaturally large shadow shrinks back to normal.
“Good job, guys!” – Lett
There were some hick-ups here and there, but overall, it went pretty smoothly.
This was a 6-man E-rank dungeon, and we took it down with only four.
We’ve improved a lot these last couple years…
After failing the E-rank exam, me and Shin started learning SDM.
It was rough, but we eventually got decent enough at it.
We took the E-rank exam that was held the year after, and we both passed.
After becoming E-rank hunters, we met Illian while looking for a mission.
He had a 3-man E-rank mission he wanted to do, but didn’t want to do it alone.
He saw us looking for a mission ourselves and asked if we wanted to join him.
We accepted and he turned out to be a cool guy.
We continued to team up a few times and he quickly became our friend.
Since then, he has been with us on every mission.
We went on one mission with Luna too, but she ranked up, so she has been very busy doing D-rank missions instead.
She’s the same rank as Vic now…
“Let’s head back to the guild.” – Lett
“Sure.” – Shin
--- We get back to the guild and accept our reward
“How about a two day break before we go back to work?” – Shin
“Sounds good.” – Illian
“Yup!” – Lett
“Okay, I’ll go continue my training then.” – Alex
Shin looks at me and sighs.
“Don’t you ever want to take a break? Just chill for a while?” – Shin
“Fine… But just this once, okay? We can’t get complacent if we want to rank up any time soon.” – Alex
“Yay! Let’s go get some dinner then. You guys tagging along?” – Shin
“Why not.” – Illian
“Yeah, I’m starving!” – Lett
“Alright then.” – Shin