Soren and Tempest surveyed the area getting a good grasp on what was around, they decided it would be safer and more efficient to have Skadi with them so they waited about an hour for her to finally meet up with them. "I assume you have the things I asked for," asked Soren after a brief reunion with his companion after they separated from an intimate welcome. Skadi responded with affirmation by opening her bag and showing the items he commissioned. Now that the preparations had been completed the three of them began exploring the Deadwood and Soren was particularly excited because the system seem led to respond to his desires.
These rewards are on another level! I guess that illustrates how difficult this will be.
The first creature they ran into was a cockatrice a terribly poisonous and grotesque creature. It had a crown and beak like a rooster, except the beak was longer. Its body resembled that of a wyvern, however, Soren's excitement was quickly culled as an exert from using his [Inspect] skill. He {ttsssk} his teeth in annoyance since it meant he would have to locate an additional creature.
"We need to fight this creature upwind at all costs, its breath can petrify us," announced Soren who took out his sword from his spatial storage. The girls took out their weapons as well while the three of them encircled the cockatrice. The cockatrice was down wind from its attackers but its a vicious creature felt itself superior to three human like creatures and launched its attack with claws on its limbs that resembled a velociraptor. It ravaged around like a crazed beast; Soren blocking, Tempest and Skadi dodging. Soren using [Blink Strike] made a deep gash into its wing and it screeched in pain and with a quick spin spun around and hit tempest who used a shoulder to block her face from getting hit. Blood splattered the ground as she rolled head over heel, once she stopped she inspected the her shoulder were a deep gash had been left. Skadi threw her axe the cockatrice jumped out of the way, but she teleported to it and managed to make a deep gash in the hide of the beast. Rage filled Tempest as she began her [Full Transformation] {AAAWWWWOOOOOOO} she howled and shot a menacing glare at the cockatrice activating her beastial spell [Predatory Gaze]. The cockatrice's body started to shutter it instinctually knew it was not the top of the food chain in the current dynamic and it also knew it would not be able to flee. It used its petrification breath as a buffer for it to escape, but being downwind it didn't realize it would get swallowed up by its own ability. Once the smoke cleared the three of them saw the cockatrice turned to stone a victim of its own ability.
I'm not sure why, but I thought that fight would be much harder.
Little did Soren know, is that fight would have been an extremely difficult fight for him if it weren't for two things. The first was being upwind for the beasts trump card, and the second was him gathering very powerful allies and he failed to realize just how strong they were. Having the great help did not prevent him from receiving two levels from beating the dangerous beast. Tempest reverted back to her normal form and began tending to her wound, she was wrestling with some of the bandages due to the strong gust of wind. After struggling for several minutes she was finally able to get situated, however the brief respite was interrupted by a horrifying roar and Tempest knew that predatory gaze would not work on this opponent. Slamming down onto the statue of the cockatrice, causing it to explode into numerous fragments was a giant creature that they did not existed. Fifteen feet tall at the shoulder and twenty feet long stood a creature with three heads bearing down at them. The first head looked as if was a dragon or wyvern, the second head a lion, and the third head was a goat or a ram of some kind. Its giant tail was a snake that bared sharp poisonous fangs that melt a rock as a drop fell from its open maw. The beast was currently all red in color and in accordance with his habit Soren used [Inspect].
"We may actually sweat with this one," Soren said as he prepared for the second round.
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Evan's POV
"There he is! GET HIM," he shouted the guards barreling into the crowd knocking people over. Evan's two body guards could no longer count the number of times they've had to do this over the past week, and always coming up empty handed. 'He's starting to become delusional, always seeing phantoms in crowds now,' thought his more senior guard Micah. Over the course of the last week Micah has seen Evan become increasingly more disheveled every day, and today his magician's robe was barely covering his undergarments with how rushed it was put together. The two guards came back from the throng of people and they could see an unhealthy shade of red encroach upon Evan's face that would seem to cause an stroke if left untreated. "How incompetent can you two be! What do I even pay you people for," berated Evan mercilessly. "There! He's there this time don't fail me again go het him," Evan shouted while pointing into a huge crowd on the other side of the town square they were walking through. This time Evan's guards did not leap into the crowd Micah gingerly walked forward with his palms open and pointing upwards, "Sir, I think you need to go home and rest you're unwell."
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"Of course I am unwell! That bastard has been stalking me for a week and no one can seem to catch him and you two dunderheads can't even catch a glimpse of him only James and I have been able to see him," retorted Evan.
"Sir we have leapt into crowd after crowd looking for the person you claim to see and no one other than you two have seen him. Unless I can see the person matching your description, we won't be jumping into any more crowds."
"Fine. You're hereby relieved of your duty James and I will take care of it ourselves."
The two guards glanced at each other before briefly sighing, put a fist over their hearts and did a slight bow before departing, Evan fuming as they walked away without looking back. "This is getting stranger and stranger," James began, "we are seeing this kid everywhere, you claimed to have seen him looking through your bedroom window last night as you were trying to lay down for sleep, but that should be impossible cause he was at my house last night unless he can be in two places at once?"
An epiphany hit Evan and he stammered, "That...that treasure, what if it revived him and now he has the power to multiply the number of bodies he has! That means he could also be hunting Greg too, though he may have a much more difficult time with him, we should warn him."
Evan and James rushed through the academies doors and were racing through the hallways, they were in a rush to get to Evan's office to send out an official notice to Greg. The kid Soren walked right past them and waved before turning right down the hallway. 'What the hell, was that the kid? Impossible you have to be admitted to the academy to be in here, it's protected by magic,' thought Evan as sweat went down the nape of his neck. He and James looked at each other and they both sprinted to the hallway the saw Soren go down but when they got there it was only a few students and an adventurer who was part time teacher. The hallway was devoid of anyone else and it wasn't a place you were able to hide. "What's going on here? Where did he go it was only a few seconds before we followed him, are we really losing it," James asked in confusion.
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Soren
Race: High Devil- Cambrion (unique)
Level: 2/40
Health: 1040/1040
Str:176
Dex:139
Def: 134
Int:129
Vitality:208
Charisma:70
Magic: 300
Luck:100
Bloodline: Divine
Sin of Wrath
Title: Creature of Magic
Blessing:???????
skill points (SP) available:44, 39 shop currency (SC), free upgrade skill box x2, random skill box x1,
abilities: [30% Magic Resistance-C] [Reciprocated Helper-C] [Charm Immunity-B] [Poison Immunity-A] [Indomitable Will-B] [Iron Hide-c] [Assassins Vision-B] [Troll Libido-D] [Hydra Regeneration-S] [Trolls Musk-D] [Omnispecies Reproduction-F] [Magic Amp-A] [Mana Cost Reduction-B] [Magical Malady Immunity-S] [75 % Fire Resistance-C] [25% Hellfire Resistance-B] [Infernal Command-C] [Human Transformation-D] [Mana Regeneration- C]
Magic:
[light-D] [Radiant-B] [Holy-A] [Lightning-A] [Gravity-A] [Space/Time-B+] [Shadow- A] [Fire-D] [Hellfire-U]
Lightning Spells:
[Lightning Spear lvl-4] [Lightning Whip lvl-2] [Reflux lvl-2] [Lightning Guard lvl-1] [Zakir lvl-2]
Light Spells:
[Light lvl-1] [Healing Touch lvl-1] [Bedazzlement lvl-1] [Restoration lvl-1]
Shadow Spells:
[Shadow Spike lvl-2] [Shadow Meld lvl-2]
Space/Time Spells:
[Blink strike lvl-1]
Fire/Hellfire Spells:
skills: [Sanguine Flash lvl 3] [Polearm Mastery lvl 4] [Clawed Slash lvl 3] [Inspect lvl 4] [Lycanthrope Silat lvl 3] [Spike Bombardment lvl 3] [Hunters Stride lvl 3] [Sonic Shockwave lvl 2] [Dash lvl 3] [Haste Strike lvl 3] [Sunder lvl 2] [Concealment lvl 2]
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Inventory
-98 gold pieces
-black blade sword (midnight)
-lunar lance
-2 health potions
-2 mana potions
-400 gp
-water magic tomes 2 beginner, 3 adept, 1 advance, 1 master
-shark tooth spears, swords, axes x4
-2 magic Tridents
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Race: Silver Mane Lycanthrope
Class: Savage Miscreant
Level: 8/50
Pack Role: None
Health: 700/700
Str: 97/117
Dex: 134/154
Def: 102/122
Int: 105
Vit: 140
Sanity: 100/50
Cha: 60
Magic: 100
Bloodline: Alpha
Blood Companion: Soren
abilities: [Predatory Senses- A] [Werewolf Hide- B] [Werewolf Constitution- S] [Silver Vulnerability- S] [Wolves Bane Vulnerability- A] [Animalistic Instinct- A] [Mana Manipulation-C] [Partial Transformation- C] [Full Transformation-B] [Silver Resistance-C] [Infectious Bite- S] [Dagger Potency-C] [Spectral Hand-B] [Keen Eye-C] [Mark-B]
Magic:
[Beastial- Unique (U)] [Sun-A] [Lunar-U] [Star-A]
Beastial spells:
[Severing Claw lvl 1] [Devouring Crunch lvl 1] [Predatory Gaze lvl 1]
Star Spells:
[Aries(telekinesis) lvl 1] [Virgo(Invisibility) lvl 1]
skills: [Dagger Arts lvl-3] [Adamantine Claws lvl-2] [Lycanthrope Kempo lvl-2] [Invigorating Howl-lvl 1] [Stalker lvl-1] [Lockpicking lvl-2] [Backstab lvl-1]
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Race: Amazonian variant (Behemoth)
Class: Primordial Warlord
Level: 5/80
Health: 750/750
Str:137
Dex:101
Def: 112
Int:90
Vit:150
Cha: 110
Magic: 200
Abilities: [Regeneration-B] [Immorality-A] [Danger Sense-B] [Disease Immunity-S]
Magic:
[Ice magic] [Wind magic]
Ice Spells:
[Artic Combat lvl-3] [Frostbite lvl-1] [Avalanche lvl-1] [Icy Road lvl-1] [White Out lvl-1]
Wind Spells:
[Weapon Augmentation lvl-1] [Fleeting Foot lvl-1]
skills:
[Nemean Lion Baran lvl 1] [Axe mastery lvl 3] [Identify lvl-2] [Boulder throw lvl-3] [Shield Master lvl-2]
Bloodline: Divine
Title: Blessed by God
Blood Bound: Soren