As I watched the skeletons prepare to attack the small group of adventurers, Shade decided to inform me of what was happening. As we were talking I had to be a little on the quite side.
(Shade): “Little Darkness, for the next few weeks groups of people from civilised worlds will be coming here to train.”
(Dark): “Why would they come to Ohmaze from their world? Wouldn’t they have dungeons there?”
(Shade): “Only some worlds have Dungeons, from the worlds I know off, Ohmaze is the only one that has dungeons like me. Jarrjius has dungeons but they tend to start around level 100 or more. The merrow come to Ohmaze because it's easier to train here rather than on Folous, which has a harsher nature.”
(Dark): “Do you know the world's they’re from?”
(Shade): “Sadly not, I've only learned of other worlds from deals and the occasional book left behind. None of the adventurers ever leave information for me. Maybe you could get some info from them, that's if you’re willing to risk fighting them.”
(Dark): “I might try, if you tell me what’s with the gates.”
(Shade): “That, little Darkness is a new trap I placed after the troll attack. When a group of people or monsters from outside make it this far into the dungeon the gates will seal them in until all monsters in the room are defeated… Crap.”
(Dark): “Don’t tell me, I'm also trapped until they either lose to me or win against me? Well at least is something interesting.”
(Shade): “Ok good. That however was not what I was thinking about though. The adventurers will start to spread rumors that this is a new boss room or mini-boss room if you win. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to be a new boss until our deal ends.”
Compulsory Quest
Due to poorly timed decisions you have to become a mini-boss for the dungeon you have a deal with for the duration of the adventurers training session. Be the dungeons mini-boss for the next 50 Days
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Rewards
-LUC+20
-Level up
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Failure
Death
You cannot reject this quest, you can no longer leave this room, EXP will be halfed due to unique conditions
(Dark): “Aw, for fucks sake. It looks like I don’t have much of a choice.”
(Shade): “Sorry little Darkness, I should have said something earlier. You’ll have a lot of fights everyday now. I hope it doesn’t interfere with your other quest for me.”
(Dark): “As long as I have an hour at night I'll be fine.”
Shade was mumbling apologies, none of them felt sincere. Feeling agitated I stared at the fight in front of me, watching them I noticed 2 things.
1)Kela was simply avoiding the fight entirely only watching the other 2.
2)Claire and Alex were working together holding back almost all of the skeletons.
Mildly impressed to see them fight as well as the level 6 merrow that gave me trouble a while ago, I started to notice that the skeletons were being destroyed steadily. It was almost like they were being played with.
During the whole fight not once did Kela fight, Claire and Alex on the other hand destroyed each and every skeleton like it was training practice. When I paid closer attention to them I notice how they were barely affected by the fight, only just breaking into a sweat.
(Kela): “Odd. I thought this was a wave room, but it was only those skeletons. Why hasn’t the gates opened? No time to rest, Alex, be on guard.”
They readied their guard and started searching the room. I wonder what they're searching fo… Shit it’s me. Floating from my shade torch making sure they don’t notice, I casual drift a couple meters from them at eye level. I Turn off Nonexistence and show myself to them and wait till they fully notice.
(Claire): “Eyes forward.”
(Alex): “Is that it? A fucking Wisp.”
(Kela): “Can it, it’s a harmless soul and there could be more.”
Barely paying attention to me as they looked around the room again, I was feeling agitated at their blatant disregard of me. Waiting for them to finish looking was getting on my nerves, I spent 10 minutes waiting for them to realise it’s just me. Finally having enough I decided to talk to them, maybe find out where they are from. Putting on the best innocent voice I could I stopped myself just before speaking. Oh I am going to have fun with these guys. Sticking with the innocent voice I started to talk.
(Dark): “Where’s mommy,*Sob* where are you mommy. *sob*”
Turning around to face me, they were all shocked excluding Kela who seemed more worried than anything.
(Dark): “Mommy I stayed in the cave like you said. *shifle* Where are you mommy.”
Alec looked at Claire, she sighed and walked closer, about a meter away when started to talk to me.
(Claire): “Are you ok. What happened.”
(Dark): “Me and mommy were running from bad men. I was hurt, she told me *sob* she told me to stay in the cave for her. *Sob* I fell asleep and woke up with all the pain gone. I couldn’t find mommy or my body.”
I could see Kela’s face soften a little. Alex walked closer towards me and lowered his weapon.
(Alex): “Maybe we can help.”
(Dark): “Mommy told me not to talk to strangers. Mommy said I've to kill them all, strangers are bad people. Please die.”
With the scraps of my sanity I fired a mana bolt right at the both of them. The instant the shots hit the both of them got knocked back, barely scratched. I floated up out of their immediate reach. Kela hardened her face again before shouting at what her student/underlings.
(Kela): “Why the hell did you idiots let your guard down! You're lucky its only a wisp!”
She didn’t even move from her spot, when she shouted that. Alex was the first to react, jumping and throwing something at me. I acted in kind and threw him with wind bolt across the room. I didn’t hurt him but I did humiliate him when he was stopped with a swift kick by Kela.
(Claire): “It can use wind magic.”
Almost as if it was a statement Claire didn’t bat an eyelash, on the other hand Kela lowered her hand to the sword around her waist, Alex was getting up from the floor raising his blade in earnest towards me. I started smiling to myself.
(Dark): “Only bad people would try to hurt a child!”
I fired 3 mana bolts towards Claire, she dodged only to get blocked my mana barrier. Being launched by the force of the mana bolts seemed to wind her but here leather armor took most of the damage. Pretending to Cry I launched a windblade hidden between a couple of mana bolts. As it was going to hit Claire who was still recovering, Kela jumped in the way, slicing the wind blade with one of her own.
(Kela): “This is a proper boss? How on the goddess's can it fire 2 types of magic that fast.”
(Dark): “You should know the skill, were from the same world. Mean lady!”
(Kela): “There’s no such skill from Godas!”
(Shade): *Speaking to me* “She fell for that!?”
Trying not to laugh, I was having a great time. I almost forgot about Alex when I turned around I saw his sword coming down on me. Raising a quick barrier I flew in the opposite direction. I'd taken my first proper hit cause my barrier was knocked into me, I received 120 damage. Pretending I'd suffered badly I tempted them closer.
(Dark): “Waaaaa! Why would you hurt me! *crying* I can’t move. Mommy help me.”
As they moved closer to try and deal the ‘finishing blow’ I launched a mana blast for 100 straight at Kela’s head. Colliding with her head, the blast exploded tearing her head of her shoulders causing blood to sputter over her comrades coating them with blue blood. As her body vanished into white light Claire’s banshee impression rang through me making me fear her a little. As I turned I charged and launched a wind blade for 50 mana, slicing her in half through her stomach. Her upper half flew forward and her lower half collapsed to the floor. Organs spilling through the air as her body started to shine in white light, vanishing befor her head hit the floor. When I turned to face Alex, he was panicking but struck by fear.
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(Dark): “This is for mommy.”
Slicing his head off as I finished my sentence, I watched him vanish into light. The gates opened and Shade decided it was time to speak to me again.
(Shade): “I am both impressed and horrified at what you just did little Darkness. Don’t do that again.”
(Dark): “I make no promises, but I'm going to change my act every time anyway.”
(Shade): “You have about 15 minutes before the next adventurers will come. Would you like the skeletons to be part of the mini-boss room?”
(Dark): “Yes but only once per group, just like what happened.”
(Shade): “I’ll leave you to it then.”
I floated back to the shade torch and decided to wait for the next group without practicing. I think this time I'll pretend to be angry with the group and only use mana bolt, corrosion bolt and mana blast. I'll pretend that the miniboss is multiple wisps with different abilities.
Thinking about it got me a little excited, I decided that I'll pretend to be 3 different wisps.
1)The creepy killer mommysgirl I pretended to be.
2)A mad violent woman who blames the group for killing her and her family.
3)A nice wisp that begs the adventures not to kill her friends. This one will be using mana bolt, lesser light heal and mana barrier and work with the skeletons unlike the other 2.
With my little plan set up I patiently wait for the next group to come through. I waited 10 minutes before the next group waltzed rightin. There was 5 of them this time and all of them were level 6, there was 3 hobgoblins and 2 humans. Unlike Kelas group they are uncoordinated and rarely work together. There is simply no other way to described how they fought either, all of them used basic iron swords and swung like they had just picked them up for the first time.
Watching them I was feeling disheartened since each of them were barely able to beat the skeletons. It almost doesn’t feel fun to pretend to be a mad murderous wisp. I'm still going to do it though. I floated from the shade torch and started to screech at them, getting there full attention.
(Dark): “Why did you kill them! They were my family, why! WHY!”
(Hobgob 1#): “Oh fuck, i… ah...”
(Hobgob 2#): “They attacked us.”
(Human 1#): “We only defended ourselves.”
(Hobgob 3#): “Oh for fuck sake. It’s a monster just kill it.”
At least one of them seems sensible. As soon as the 3rd hobgoblin shouted at them the last human fired a mana bolt at me. Narrowly dodging I launched a small wave of 3 Corrosion bolts at her. I watched as one of them landed on her foot and start to eat away at her. Before I even had a chance to speak I noticed that her boot was already gone.
(Dark): “Die, die, die for what you did!”
Soon after the human girl started to scream in pain as her foot was being eaten away. Startled by the sudden scream, all of the group looked towards the woman. Almost immediately I fired a corrosion bolt at their heads. The 3rd hobgoblin looked back just in time to dodge but the other 2 almost died on contact, letting out a small yelp before collapsing on the floor. The humans were a little luck since I narrowly missed them.
(Hobgob 3#): “Gods tits that was close.”
He looked at his comrades only to fall silent and charge at me. The first human was helping the other one while this hobgoblin tried to swing his sword at me. While dodging I was pretending to be angry and managed to make the hobgoblin flinch, only for him to lose his head to a couple mana bolts. When I looked over at the other 2 they weren’t looking, I simply charged a mana blast with 100 mana and destroyed them. This was not as fun as the last fight but that's because these people didn’t focus on the fight, and they were idiots.
(Shade): “You really have a sick sense of humor little Darkness.”
(Dark): “I’ve always had a sick sense of humor, even in my previous life. I've just rarely done anything I found as entertaining since I've been quite content with now having magic.”
(Shade): “Oh thats right you didn’t have magic in your old world. Should you not have entertained yourself some how though in these past 30 days other than with magic?”
(Dark): “I haven't really needed too since I've been trying lots of different things since I could. Heck I've even been enjoying drifting through you to scare monsters off for just being here.”
(Shade): “Fair enough little Darkness, just don’t do something stupid.”
As I was about to reply a new group of people walked into the room, all 3 were human and they each had a different weapon, on wielded a spear, one was using a staff and the last a bow with a quiver, all level 8. As soon as the gates closed and the skeletons came of the walls. I floated down and started to talk to the group.
(Dark): “Please don’t kill my friends. Please leave us alone.”
(All): “No.”
(Dark): “Please leave, we don’t want to kill you.”
(Staff-man): “I’m sorry, I can quite easily see the hypocrisy.”
(Dark): “then please let us kill you se we can be at peace.”
(Bowman): “Mon then you cheeky cunt, square go like!”
(Dark): “Are you scottish by chance?”
(Bowman): “I, why the fuck wid yay care?”
(Dark): “No reason.”
Firing a mana bolt at the scotsman I felt a little unease since I was scottish in my previous life, and I know why guys like these can be like.
After that little talk noting of any real interest happened in the rest of the fight. Aside from dodging the arrows loosed by the bowman I did almost nothing. I kept healing the skeletons over and over and using my barrier to save a few that were low on health. Even the way they died was anticlimactic.
Bowman ran out of arrows and got overwhelmed by skeletons. As soon as he died the others followed in the same manner except it was a lot faster. It was a real let down.
Once the fight was over a window popped up saying I've leveled up. I was happy maybe I could get to a more appropriate level being a mini-boss. When I checked my stats screen I found that a couple of my skills have been improved as well. I could have been fine just checking my stats but I decided to prepare myself incase I'd have to fight other adventurers. It turns out I didn’t since most of them decided to wait until they figure out how to deal with the new mini-boss. Well that's was Shade said they were doing just outside after my 3rd fight, however he didn’t tell me until I wasted the whole day prepared. I spent the last hour of the day farming mana shrooms for the ceiling and my inventory.
Status Screen
Name Darkness Level 4 Race Wisp Gender Female Title Foreign Soul, Magic Melder,Under Level Champion, Eidolons Mind Health 1150/1150 Health Regen 10% per Min Mana 1,000,400/1,000,400 Mana Regen 10% per Min Stamina N/A-------------------- STR 21 INT 45 G.VIT 30 G.WIS154 AGI 31 LUC 47AEXP4241--------------------Affinity’s Fire0 Wind6 Water0 Earth0 Lightning0 Arcane0 Holy0 Demonic0 Light15 Dark15--------------------Skill List
Wisp Arts Novice level 1
--Entropic Mist Novice level 2
--Energy consumption Max level
--Mana Manipulation Novice level 6
Exp Conversion(variant) Max level
Observe Novice level 3
Advance of the Drudge Beginner level 9
Mana Bolt Max level
Mana Infusion Novice level 3
Meditation Beginner level 8
Elemental manipulation Novice level 4
Mana Blast Beginner level 5
Mana Barrier Novice level 9
Wind bolt Novice level 9
Nonexistence Max level
Wind Blade Beginner level 4
Flash Blade Novice level 3
Corrosion Bolt Novice level 1
Lesser Light Heal Novice level 2
Eidolons Craft Beginner level 1
Linguistics Max level
Touchkinesis Max level
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Author's notes
Since i'm only writing this story to improve my literary capability and for fun. I am going to try making less errors and proofread more thoroughly. My chapters will start taking more days to be released and it will be not take any more than 1 week per chapter. Hope you enjoyed so far.
Also special thanks to Killashard for constantly pointing out mistakes i overlooked.