I wonder if I can feel pain…
The Atronach was falling, through some sort of mental state he was able to become calm, he had too many life experiences in his mind to freak out in this type of situation.
He noticed that there were special floating stone spheres that seem to move on their own above his shoulders, when he saw them he almost immediately felt a connection. It was intimate to the point where they felt like extra arms or legs.
I’m dumb, I forgot to check out everything about myself, I didn’t even notice I had these…
With a mental suggestion, just a pure thought, the orbs went in a circular pattern.
As the Atronach was falling, the orbs pushed away all the dirt blocking his vision and nearby. With about eight apple-sized stone orbs flying really fast around him, everything was quickly pushed away. At first, they spun around him somewhat slow but he noticed they quickly sped up as if there was no gravity or friction affecting them.
The orbs went all the way out six-feet around him, they made a sphere with a diameter of six-feet matching his domain capabilities. All of this was done with a simple thought, he imagined pushing away the dirt with these orbs, and they did.
At this point, he had already been falling for a few seconds, though short, a stone giant creature would fall pretty far in that amount of time.
The Atronach looked down, what he saw with his Eagle-Vision was… a huge massive cavern.
The hole he fell through provided almost a sunbeam of light that penetrated the dark cavern, and what was down there?
Eyes.
WHOLY SHIT!
Thousands upon thousands of red eyes looked up due to the commotion, and the sunbeam landed directly on a behemoth of a creature.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
The calm he had a second ago, yeah that flew out the window when a three-story sized spider was looking at you.
And he was headed right for it at Mach 2.
The creature’s eyes were clearly full of intelligence as it wasn’t expecting a glowing stone giant to come flying through the roof, all one-hundred of its eyes was blinking in a not-so-similar time, which made it a hell of a lot spookier.
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The back of the creature was shiny, yet, it had three faces that looked like crying ghosts on its back. It was one huge-terrifying creature.
Within a couple of seconds, the entire cavern seemed to be moving, with the Atronach’s good vision his small glowing eyes adjusted to the light and he saw hundreds of small spiders in every direction around the big momma spider.
Without any more time to get more awareness of the situation, he hit the big o’l spider… in the face… at Mach 2.
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*BOOM*
The Cavern rang out similar to that of a mountain crashing on… well, another mountain.
*SQUISH*
Green blood, red guts, and chitin were sent flying everywhere. The Atronach saw with his domain vision and was capable of seeing what just happened, even though it was now covered in everything it didn’t want to be covered in.
Well, I hit that THING pretty hard… in the face as well.
*Squee! Squee! Squee!*
Thousands of squeaky shrills filled the Cavern, however, something caught The Atronach’s attention before he could sweat over the situation.
[Ding!]
[You have killed the Three-Faced Terror Queen]
[Ding!]
[Through a gruesome and hard-fought battle with astounding intelligence and strength, you have killed a creature that is a Master-Prime creature, which is 7 Grades higher than you].
[Ding!]
[Would you like your rewards now? Rewards can be taken at any time, just say “Rewards”]
It’s dead already? ALSO, IT WAS SEVEN GRADES HIGHER THAN ME!
No.
[Ding!]
[Rewards are shelved]
The Atronach was literally in the carapace of the Spider Queen, it’s eyes were nowhere to be seen as it landed so hard on its face the one-hundred eyes burst. He was slightly freaking out, but more excited than anything.
He looked around and literally climbed out of the busted up head of the Queen Spider. All around him were spiders, their eyes weren’t blinking and just stared straight at him.
Oh shit.
Then they faced each other and started to tear each other’s limbs off and eat each other.
Oh… shit?
When he climbed out he saw a small swarm of them come charging at him, but almost ninety-percent started to try to dominate the others. Fierce all-out killings broke out over the entire Cavern, shrills were sounding out constantly.
The Atronach just looked at those who were coming at him, he brought up his stoney hands and prepared to Crush the lot. For the Queen, it probably would’ve been dangerous, but these tiny peasants were nothing to him. They were like kids coming at an adult who was four times their size.
He noticed that there were no webs coming from these spiders, they didn’t have the ability to spin webs, if they did, he would’ve probably been screwed. In-fact the cavern was pretty bare, besides countless animal bones littered in various patterns.
When the spiders reach him, he switched to his Domain-Vision, eight stone balls shot out like bowling balls and penetrated the spiders easily, this stopped the brunt of their charge and then he began his slaughter.
With a smash, he squished a couple of spiders instantly, they were truly weak in front of him. With a kick, he punted a spider and it flew far hitting a group fighting each other a hundred feet away from him.
With a smack, a spider was eviscerated into green mist and chitin shrapnel. The stone orbs flew around him in a circular fashion easily penetrating dozens of spiders every couple of seconds.
Within ten minutes the cavern started to quiet down, over a thousand spiders laid dead, about a hundred at his hands alone. A very tiny amount of spiders were alive but clearly injured as they looked at each other and the Atronach Fearfully.
HAHAHA! THAT WAS SO FUN!
A green stone giant stood in the middle of the Cavern, blood, limbs, and pieces of spider carapace were draped over its entire body.
Though he was uninjured, his fists which were made of stone were slightly cracked, but he could feel as if they would heal given some certain condition. It was a feeling deep inside of him, like a lost memory.
I’ll look into what all this is later, I should get out of here first.
He was about to leave, but he saw a sparkling purple flower with translucent petals in the back of the Cavern, some of the injured spiders were making way over there.
He walked up to it and a memory quickly came into place.
The Ethereal Rose. It’s actually real.
This wasn’t just one memory, it was six of them that surfaced, six of his past life memories all knew of this particular flower. His greed seemed to skyrocket at the moment, and a sense of satisfaction for the slaughter.
HAHAHA! These spiders are not intelligent, this thing is ripe, if one of them eaten it they could’ve been promoted to a higher level of existence instantly.
The Ethereal Rose, legend says that whatever consumes it will have a higher perception to the point of seeing mystical things. I remember that mighty figures were created purely due to this little thing. Assassins with no rivals, sages who could see the future and the past, clerics who could see people aura. With this flower, one could be Etheral, if one wanted, no one could find you.
The Atronach plucked the Glass Rose, it was sparkling and a masterpiece of nature, it’s beauty alone stood at the peak of legendary plants.
A feeling deep inside him told him he could consume it by putting it near his chest. It was an instinct of any creature, a primal feeling that humans and other intelligent species lost. However, he still had it, for better or for worse.
What’s the worst that can happen. It’s just a flower.
Wait… ain’t I just a rock?