Alexia

The battle starts out with a bang when the draugr all begin sprinting forwards while swiping their swords in arcs straight towards me, sending arcs of ice flying through the air. But I just teleport right up to one of the draugr, ignoring the magical attacks entirely as I thrust my polearm into its back and swing it upwards, impaling the creature and lifting it into the air to then smash into the ground behind me. Then I teleport again, dodging the blades of two of the other draugr before I lift the draugr I still have impaled – the monster having teleported with me – into the air and smash it back down onto another draugr, sending the two clattering in a pile of bones.

All of the remaining draugr, which number four others, rush at me with their weapons raised. But I just use Quantum Burst, sending a powerful pulse of quantum energy around me and fracturing more than a few of the draugr’s bones while sending them flying.

I quickly glance at the two I smashed, finding their heads still moving despite their bodies completely being broken apart and unattached.

“Seriously?” I mutter before teleporting out of the way of a bolt of ice the two of them send flying at me despite being nothing more than heads.

That’s annoying.

I turn to look at the others before teleporting again to avoid another strike. And right when I reappear, I swing my polearm around to smash the head of another draugr, soon finding the light going out of its eyes when the quantum energy infused into my attack hits it. Then the skeleton’s body just falls apart like a sack of potatoes.

Looks like I need to either destroy the skull, or destroy the skull with magic. Doesn’t really matter which considering that all of my attacks have magic included.

With that in mind, I rush through, killing one draugr after another until each one is dead. Or redead? Since they’re undead?

Until every single one is defeated. There, that works better.

I smile a little at that thought before ignoring the System Messages and beginning to walk through the floor, soon finding another set of draugr jumping out of the ground.

There are way too many undead in this place.

I stand in place this time while raising my hand and using Quantum Bolts on all of the draugr, quickly finding them reciprocating with bolts of ice. But my bolts blast straight past theirs, proving my magic stats to be higher despite their slightly higher levels. They then smash into the draugr with a glitchy explosion, blasting apart their upper halves with ease.

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That was much easier.

A quick glance at my soul proves that I can pretty much send Quantum Bolts all day long and not be winded much. As long as I don’t go overboard that is.

Time to clear out this floor of monsters.

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After who knows how long slaughtering draugr with Quantum Bolts for days, I eventually find a hidden area on my map. Although not physically, since I can’t seem to find the hidden area. All that I can see is a flat expanse of ice with nothing to see for quite a ways.

I frown as I tap the rear of my polearm on the ice, making a clinking sound. Then I just shrug and slam it into the ice, finding nothing happening then too.

Okay then… where’s the entrance to the hidden area?

I roam around the expanse of ice for a while, feeling more than a little annoyed at the rather large size of the icon on my map that’s spanning the entire flat expanse, before I eventually notice something strange.

Why does there seem to be a shadow here?

There shouldn’t be anything that can even cast a shadow, but there’s just a tiny little shadow…

I blink at that thought before raising my head and squinting.

Huh.

Guess that answers the question of where the hidden area is.

Wasn’t expecting it to be in the sky though.

A small little black square can be seen from where I’m standing, just barely visible with the sun all around it casting a very small shadow from this distance. Although I can’t see anything about the square other than it’s a black square.

Interesting.

I jump straight up, clearing quite the distance thanks to my stats right before I begin teleporting, using my upwards momentum to continue pulling me up as I teleport. And after a few dozen teleports, the square finally begins to grow visibly larger, proving that I’m getting closer.

Then a few more dozen teleports leads me to being right underneath it, so I teleport to the side of the platform, and then above it where I find a rather unexpected sight.

Instead of a loot box like I was expecting, or even a boss monster, there’s some sort of altar. One glowing with a pale blue light and standing on a raised dais.

I slowly walk over to the dais across the several dozen meter long platform until I stop a few meters in front of it, crossing my arms as I frown at the thing.

Just what is it?

I try to identify it, but nothing happens. Then I realize that there is a rift in between me and the dais.

Wait, I’m not even in the hidden area yet?

That has me frowning for a second before I shrug, slice open the rift, and step through.

[You have entered the Tier 2 Hidden Area, the Altar of the Frozen Moon.]

Huh. Really is an altar.

But why is there an altar here, and what’s it do? I’ve never heard of an altar hidden area in a dungeon before.

Then again, I don’t exactly know much about Tier 2 dungeons in general. It’s not like it was common knowledge before the Reset.

Most people never enter Tier 1 dungeons after all, much less Tier 2.

My frown grows at that before I eventually just shrug and identify the altar again now that I’m inside of the hidden area.

And what I find has me blinking in surprise.

Huh?