"He's fucking dead!" Lita screams as the massive boss tosses her brother to the side. Her health bar deep in the red and most of her party being decimated within minutes. Tears wet her face as she readies her self destruct spell.
This entire journey has been hell. Lita had entered the dungeon with her twin brother and a large group of friends, now it's just herself and two others left alive. "I give up." The words choke out in gasps. The party's tank is going toe to toe with the massive thing. It's an amalgamation of people from the University.
"I can't hold on much longer!" The large ice yeti roars.
The primary healer is sending buffs and healing spells at an extraordinary pace. She ended up as a sort of pixie.
Lita was the only one who went with a human race, she doesn't remember what other choices the AI had picked for her, but she recalls them being shit choices. As she sits beside a large tree, all hope lost, the voice chimes loud.
"A combatant has joined the fray." The smug voice of the AI rings from nowhere. The sounds of loud voices and a small pitter patter drive hope into her heart.
"Kill the fucker! And I'll eat it's heart after!" A light flashes and a figure appears out of nowhere. A large bat in it's hands, it swings wildly at the boss mob.
She watches as this stranger takes swing after bloody swing, the head of the school's dean flung off the body and splashed somewhere in the swamp. A ray of ice shoots from the mouth of the old English professor. Lita wipes her face, seeing this strange person help out when they could've just left the party for dead, gave her a second wind. She reaches down for her dagger, a flower blossoms immediately where her dagger once laid. She stares transfixed as the large flower grows, the petals start to reveal themselves and her dagger sits in the center of it. She slowly reaches out to grab it, fingers trembling around the handle. A faint yellow light flows like... she jumps to her feet letting a scream out. She is reminded of springs back on Earth, constant sneezing and taking allergy medicine like a druggie with an Oxy problem.
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The voice of the AI calls out as the pollen covers her, "You have been pollinated, this status will last 5 minutes or until the object that has been pollinated is no longer touching your person, Whichever comes second." A phantom sneeze almost comes.
She runs over to the boss, a renewed vigor and health bar. She leaps to the face of Becky, the lady was constantly giving everyone in the group a hard time. "Why were you always such a bitch to us?" Lita screams as she uses her dagger skill, viper strike, a rapid attack that inflicts poison damage.
The face starts to scream, Lita feels little foot steps running up her body and when it gets to her arm she looks at a small fluffy hamster. It leaps into the wide open mouth. Lita looks dumbstruck as she continues her attacks.
The fight continues for a few short minutes longer, the moment was marked by a fountain of gore erupting from the mouth of Becky followed by a loud screeching, "I told you I was going to eat the heart!" Lita leaps off the dying boss and lands in marshy wetland. She walks over to her two remaining friends, and they make their way to the lifeless bodies of their two dead friends.
Rex the ice yeti and Alice the pixie both managed to level up to 71 after the battle and Lita checks her level: 67.
They take their time gathering the bodies of their fallen party. The stranger that saved them is nowhere to be seen. Lita only briefly wishes to thank him, but if he's gone then there's nothing she can do. The bodies are placed neatly side by side. She goes to where her brother lies. He became a changeling, he died as a skyfowl, bird like creature. She wept, barely able to recognize the man she spent her first 19 years of life with. His feathers were the same shade of dark brown as his hair was, and his green eyes dim but still green.
"Please take a few steps back." A chilling voice behind the group spoke. The three did as requested, not turning around. The sadness in them turned to slight wariness. That was unwarranted though because as soon as they moved a garden of multicolored flowers grew around the corpses. The flowers bloomed in a way that covered the bodies in a blanket of reds and blues and oranges. "I placed them in a grove of restful flowers, I can't bring them back, not even the AI can do that. I hope this will at least ease their passing."
Lita slowly turned around and saw the person responsible for their rescue. The first thing she noticed was the 2 player killer skulls, then the level 88.