The Raptor Orclets were horrible creatures that harassed The Old Sea, and its borders. They were nothing short of weird lizards who shouldn't be in the water to begin with, they were invasive creatures, and the sea didn't have room for them, but yet they were adaptive as much as they were invasive!
This micro universe was said to be a few thousand years old, but that may not be the case. Some of the recorded goblin history may be a few thousand years old, but this universe was a lot older than that, potentially a few million years old, even!
The fact that these odd, Raptor Orclets had evolved to live in the sea, was a hint of how old the universe was. Unless the raptors found a way to adapt magically, then their grand harassment of the sea was an advantage that built up slowly, over the course of a few million years!
“Shoot em, you bastards! Don't move around like old, demented ladies!” Timothy shouted.
At this point he had stopped shooting lightning bolts, on the count that the enemies were approaching too quickly. He summoned the Bone Multiplier ability, and this was the smartest thing to do, because the swarm of these horrid raptors of the sea had surrounded the team, so he did his best to keep the team from getting clawed! They needed some space.
The name ‘Raptor’ suggested many things, but primarily, it suggested that the raptors were both fast, and had these horrible, long, reptilian claws on them that would surely leave most mages begging to be killed if they got clawed even once!
Paired with the explosive speed that their finless, six-foot long, serpentine tail provided them with, the main attack of these raptors was no laughing matter! They were ruthless, and it was best to avoid their attacks!
Now in any other circumstances the team would've been dead already, but Ortana had coated everyone with a protective forcefield. This was one of the few abilities that she had, but it was one that saved the team time and time again!
It didn't take too much mana to keep the forcefields running, because as powerful as they may be, a single swipe from the orcs wasn't nearly enough to break the forcefields! When she felt that the force fields were getting strained, she just renewed them, and thus the team was untouchable for the time being. She was spending roughly five-hundred mana points a second, and with half-a-million points in her mana pool, she could protect the group for a while.
“Ugly, green bastards!” Tim grunted, as he worked his magic on the fifty raptors that were in his deadly grip. “With jaws like that, they'd even force a sea orc to bleed to death! Look at that bastard, one of his own teeth is close to poking his eye out!”
Of course, no one heard him, because the raptors that were circling around them, kept grunting sharply, like angered apes! The sounds they made were terrifying, but their futile attempts to break the forcefield wasn't getting them anywhere right now, as every raptor that got too close would end up getting shot!
Skendus paralyzed a bunch of them, for example, and the paralyzed bodies of the raptors were piling up around him! His huge, ten-foot long sawfish body was almost covered by the immobile bodies of his enemies. Of course he managed to kill a bunch of raptors too, because his new abilities, when backed up with his great mana quality, managed to send a lot of his targets into a deadly shock, so he killed well over a hundred raptors by himself!
Ortana was occupied keeping the force fields up, so she couldn’t attack as often, but her friends were making up for it. Arvena and Gustav may have shrunk the sea by a millionth of a fraction with all the fireballs they were shooting!
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They were true forces of nature to be reckoned with, as fifteen-foot wide fireballs were just flying around willy nilly, without any proper aiming to guide them! They killed well over six hundred raptors this way, collectively, but as effective as their attack may be, and as strong as they may be individually, they still weren't close to dismantling half of the swarm in front of them! Mother nature seems to have her own ways of balancing the forces of the world.
“If these bastards had magical powers, all the fire in the universe couldn't have helped us today. I'm so glad that they're just stupid lizards with claws.” Tim muttered, as by now, he has gotten a very good look at the raptors.
The fact of the matter was that he had grabbed onto tens of live, raptor skeletons, so he had a very good idea of how their insides looked, nevertheless their outsides! Furthermore, as he used the Bone Multiplier ability, he had also altered the bone structure of the fifty raptors that were within his grasp.
Timothy made their two-foot long claws even stronger, and sharper. Afterwards, he made the raptors attack their own swarm, and the damage he ended up dealing this way was substantial. He killed another hundred raptors, and well over two-hundred of them will bleed to death sooner or later!
“Attack! My mischievous lizards!” He yelled out, jokingly, until the very last slave of his was clawed to death by other raptors who were defending themselves.
Tim made quite a dent on what remained of the swarm. Paired with the few hundred raptors that his friends managed to kill, they were now halfway there to eradicating the swarm that had attacked them! Though they built an advantage for themselves now, they were hoping that the raptors would just swim away and flee, because it didn't feel right to have the sea painted red, and littered with hundreds of bodies! They didn’t want to be the culprits behind this, even though they were currently dominant. The team felt like monsters, well, apart from Timothy.
Timothy didn’t feel any remorse for these creatures whatsoever, and even started messing with their carcasses. He didn’t get any system points when he made the raptors fight one another, but he did spend a lot of mana, on the count of the Bone Multiplier ability being cranked to the max up until a moment ago! It was an expensive power, so now he was hoping to balance things out. He got ready to inflict harm on the raptors directly this time, he wasn't going to make them fight one another this time around.
[You just spent another 65,000 mana points! Are you sure that you want to keep using the Bone Multiplier ability?] The system put him under pressure.
“Yup,” He said, and seconds later, he made well over a hundred carcasses explode, in the most literal, and brutal way possible!
It took a lot less mana to steal their bones, so he did exactly that. He exploded each of their skeletons into hundreds of pieces, because he was powerful enough to do so, and then he shot those bits against the swarm with every bit of speed he could muster!
Some raptors were killed on the spot, and this was good, but a greater portion just got scratched a couple of times, because the carcasses of their raptor friends blocked plenty of the bony bolts! Some raptors were more hurt than others, but all and all, he just managed to kill another sixty-one of them in the end.
[You just killed 61 Raptor Orclets, and won another 12,200 system points as a reward. You also spent another 28,000 mana points!] The system stated.
The system flashed the mana depletion in front of his eyes, violently, as to remind him that he'd need almost an entire day to replenish it under natural circumstances. Although he acknowledged the warning, he wasn’t ready to listen to it just yet, so he started exploding the skeletons of the raptors that were heading towards him!
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