Chapter 4: The Fire Bat King
Eons: “So, any ideas on how to keep the big bat distracted while we deal with the hundreds of smaller bats?”
Lisa: “Yes. You and Rory take care of the small bats while I keep the big one busy.”
Finished saying this, Lisa put away her war hammer and her body started to transform. She started growing feathers on her body, and her arm started to get thicker with feathers, taking on the form of wings.
Eons: “Hoh, so you’re a half-breed as well.”
Lisa: “You never asked.” She relied with a big grin on her face “I’m half eagle.”
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Eons: “Rory, lets get rid of the small bats while your sister distracts the big bat.”
Rory: “W-will we r-really be a-alright? T-there are so m-m-many of them…”
Eons: “Don’t worry, I got a plan, you start gathering your mana for the spell earth spike.”
Rory: “U-um, ok!?”
Eons: “Don’t worry. I have something that will really help us, and hopefully help Lisa distract the big bat thing.”
“Mana’s Blessing” Eons yelled. Mana’s blessing was the 3rd spell that he got when he became Mana’s Champion. With this spell, Eons invokes a blessing unto the party from Mana. This blessing lasts 10 minutes, increases all of the party’s stats by 10%, and increased item drop rate & experience.
After activating Mana’s Blessing, Eons started using mana manipulation in order to be able to use Mana’s Smite. He manipulated Mana’s Smite so that itll have 20% of its original power and a radius of 15 yards for the cost of 4500 mp.
He aimed Mana’s Smite right at the middle of hundreds of fire bats. Half of the bats were instantly killed, and the other half entered into a panic state upon seeing half of their numbers destroyed.
Without pausing, after using Mana’s Smite, Eons activated his transform skill to transform into his full lion born. Upon activating his transformation, Eons starting growing in size, his arms and legs became thicker and hairier. He started growing a golden main, and a very long tail. At the end he had transform into a majestic, giant (twice as big as a normal one), golden lion.
With his full transformation into a lion, Eons experienced his stats multiplied by 2.2, and tripled his health and stamina, with the transformation lasting for 7 minutes. Unfortunelty, the transformation has his mana being reduced to a third, and after, Mana’s Blessing, Mana’s Smite, and his transformation, he only has 467 mana left.
Using 100 of his remaining mana, Eons activated his lions roar skill. With his lions roar, he and his party experience an increase in moral and had 5 extra stat points added to each stat. His opponents on the other hand had their stats reduced by 5 and had a chance to have fear inflicted upon them.
Due to the state of panic that the bats were in due to having half of their numbers annihilated in a second, all of the bats were completely inflicted with fear, with the exception of the fire bat king that Lisa was keeping busy. Since they were already in a panic state, the fear that they were inflicted was much greater than what it would’ve been, so the affects were significantly more severe.
Upon being inflicted with fear and getting stunned, all of the bats fell from the sky into the group. At this moment, Rory casted the spell earth spears, piercing many bats that were in the ground.
For the next five minutes, Rory and Eons killed every remaining bat. With Rory having only 25% of her mana left and Eons only with 2 minutes remaining in his lion form, the two joined Lisa in killing the fire bat king.
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Lisa’s fight with the fire bat king had…gone worse than she had expected it to. She had thought that by the time Rory and Eons had joined her she would still have over half of her life left, but she had greatly underestimated the air maneuverability of the fire bat. By the time they joined her she had just a little over 10% of her health while the bat still had 90% left.
From the moment that she started fighting the fire bat, it had out maneuvered her and shown her just why it was called a boss monster.
She had came into the fight without her war hammer because the war hammer would impede her flying abilities, she had chosen stability, maneuverability, and speed over the stronger damage of her hammer.
From the very beginning she was dominated by fire bat king. As soon as she came within range of it, it sped up towards her and slam into her pushing her towards a wall. The impact of the collision instantly killed 30% of her health, while the bat only lost 1%.
The second round between Lisa and the bat went a little better. She was able to fly to the side when the bat flew at her, however, when the bat turned around it spew fire at her from behind. She was able to dodge the fire attack by flying up.
When the fire hit the wall, to Lisa’s surprise the wall melted as if it was hit by acid. That’s when she realized that this bat had a venom fire spit attack. A fire attack with the properties of both fire and acid.
Being aware of that particular attack, she started to move on the attack. She hoped that by moving to attack rather than defend she would be able to restrict the movements of the bat. She went the best defense is a good offense.
This train I thought was mostly correct. However the downside was that when she attacked, the bat also aimed an attack at her, so it became a fight where the two traded hits.
For the five minutes that it took Rory and Eons to get rid of the smaller bats continued in this format for the two fighters. They would separate and then fly towards each other at extreme speeds and pass each other while attacking each other. In this format the fighting continue until Lisa reached a critical state and the bat having 90% hp left.
The way that the fight was going changed once Rory and Eons finished off the small bats. The fire bat king was so consumed with his aerial battle with Lisa that he didn’t notice when all of his minions were defeated, however Lisa did.
Lisa noticed how Eons in his lion form was circling around the bat and how Rory was gathering mana. The problem that she saw was holding the bat in place long enough for Eons to get in position. To help with this she thought what if I try moving the bat towards where Eons was.
To do this she got inspiration from an old fighting movie she watched. In that movie before two people fought they circled each other waiting for any sudden movements from the other.
During the last 5 minutes of fighting she had gotten the full attention of the bat king with her majestic eagle characteristics. She was sure that if she started circling to her right, the bat would circle to his right as well.
Lisa then went ahead and put her idea into action. She wasn’t sure what Eons was planning, but if the last month fighting together had taught her anything, it was that she could trust him. This trust that she put on him, was not misplaced.
Once the fire bat king was in front of him, Eons did not miss his chance. He quickly activated his air walk skill and dashed up the air and pounce on the back of the bat.
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Once on the bats back, Eons slashed at the bats left wings, and with his mighty jaws bit down on the wing and started biting it off. The result was instantaneous. The fire bat was not able to keep himself afloat with only one good wing left and with Eons in his lion form still on top of him. The Bat came crashing down to the grown with Eons still on top of him. The impact on the ground instantly reduced the bats hp by half and more importantly left the bat in a stun state.
Once the bat came down on the grown, Eons quickly jumped off the bat. He jumped off just on time since at that same time, Rory unleashed a wave of harden earth spike beneath the bat that impaled it all over its body.
The earth spikes impaled the right wing of the bat to the point that it became useless. And what remained of the left wing that Eons started biting off was completely severed.
Coming down from the sky, Lisa cancelled her transformation and tooked out her war hammer. Walking up to the recently stunned and impaled bat, she started bashing it with her hammer while yelling at it.
Lisa: “This…is…for…toying…with…me…you...goddam…stupid…huff…huff…bat!!! And…never…throw…at…me…your…stupid…venom…fire…huff…huff…spit!!!!!”
Eons: “Remind me to never make your sister mad, I imagine dying by being hammered to death is quite painful”
Rory: “Y-y-yes. L-lisa is really s-scary w-when m-m-mad”
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It took Lisa half an hour after the bat was dead to stop from hammering its dead body. Once she stop she fell panting on the ground as the bats body started disappearing.
Lisa: “So, how come you’ve never used such a handy skill before?”
Eons: “hmm, what skill?”
Lisa: “You know, the one that you used in the beginning of the fight that raised our stats by 10% and increased exp and loot drop rate.”
Eons: “Ah, Mana’s blessing. Truth be told, I forgot I had that skill.”
With Eons reply all three of them started laughing. Once Lisa stopped laughing she got up from the ground, walked over to Eons, and whacked him across the head.
Lisa yelling angrily: “You Idiot!!! That skill could’ve come in handy in so many circumstances. Not to mention that increase in exp gain and loot increase would’ve been great when we were fighting those mini bosses.”
Eons: “Sorry, sorry.”
Lisa: “Haah, forget it lets see what that boss dropped.”
{{{Fire Bat King
A rare drop from the mysterious Fire Bat King that rules the fire bat cave near the town Dragus.
Can be cooked into very delicious food
1Time permanent Effect: Fire resist: +15%, agility +30, dexterity +50}}}
{{{Hide of the Fire Bat King
The hide of the mysterious Fire Bat King that rules the fire bat cave near the town Dragus. It is a true testament to the strength require to bring down this Fire Bat King.
Can be tailored into outstanding armor
Rarity: B+}}}
Lisa: “hmm, guess that this boss was one of the monsters that we needed for that quest.”
Eons: “Yea, but wasn’t he too weak compared to the others?”
Lisa: “Weak!!?? Did you miss my aerial flight with him? The only reason that you think that he was weak is because I had caught his attention long enough so that you could get rid of his wings. If you hadn’t taken out its wings, then trust me that fight would have been a lot worse. The aerial maneuverability of that thing was no joke.”
Eons: “Hmm, got it.”
Lisa sarcastically: “Yea, sure you did.”
Rory: “Umm, can we go pick the flower and the herbs now?”
Lisa & Eons: “Ah right, that’s what we came here for.”
Walking up to where the flower was, the trio started picking up all the herbs that were surrounding it. Finally an hour of picking up all the herbs, they reached and picked up the flower.
{{{Flower of the Fire Bat Cave.
A rare and beautiful flower that only grows in the depth of the Fire Bat Cave.
For being the first to successfully pick this flower, fame +100}}}
Rory: “It’s a very beautiful flower isn’t it?”
Eons: “Yes, it is. Anyway let’s leave this cave and start heading back towards the city.”
Lisa: “Nope. We are not leaving this cave just yet.”
Eons: “Hmm, and why not?”
Taking out 3 pickaxes and handing one each to Eons and Rory, she pointed towards the wall.
Lisa: “Look around, the cave walls are completely filled with ores. I can really use those ores for my blacksmithing. So we won’t be leaving till we fill a good portion of our inventories with these ores.”
And so, for three days, Lisa had all of them slaving away in mining ores. Finally on the third day, Lisa decided that they had gathered enough ore and decided to call it.
At long last, after picking hundreds of ores, and gaining 38 levels thanks to all of the fire bats, the fire bat king, and Eons Mana’s Blessing skill. The trio started leaving the cave and heading back to the town to turn in their quest. Their month long journey to the Fire Bat Cave was finally over.
{{{Status
Name: Eons
Class: Mana’s Champion
Titled: Mana’s Favored
Reputation 2000
Fame/Infamy 1200
Level: 78
Health: 23,650+(1000)=24,650
Mana: 8,780
Stamina: 5,890
Strength: 215
Vitality: 178
Agility: 225+(20)=245
Dexterity: 245
Intelligence: 367
Wisdom: 367
Endurance: 167
Fighting Spirit: 198
Misc. Stats 167
Defence 100+(200)=300
Unused stat points: 385}}}
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Couple of notes:
In this game, every level, players get 1 stat point automatically added to every stat they have, and 5 stat points that they can distribute to the 6 main stats.
Stat Points are also added depending on the action that they do. For example, a mage can get extra stat points in intelligence and wisdom from using magic because the more practice they put into magic, a deeper understanding on how magic works they learn (though most players, in this game, just think that more magic usage= more int and wis)
Last point: sorry this chapter is a bit short, felt like the best place to stop for the chapter.