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Chapter 20: The forgotten archer
“Hey Neuron I got it” Kyle shouted while eating, causing the pieces of meat he ate to splatter around everywhere
“Kyle, you are so gross, did your mother not teach you to first chew and then talk?”
“Hmmm” ~munch~ ~munch~ ~Gulp~ “Neuron I got it”
“Yeah, I understood you the first time”
”You jump towards the door touch it and then you can make that thread so you don’t fall down!”
“Great idea, only problem is, I can`t jump so far”
“Even with a start up?”
“I never tried, and I’m not trying it for the first time on a pit where spikes are at the bottom!”
“Hmmm, good, so now we only have to evaluate how far you can jump”
After saying this Kyle took Two of Neurons arrows, put one down before his feet, and the other approximately ten meters ahead.
“Good, now jump”
And Neuron did, he flew, and flew, right over the arrow Kyle placed, till he finally landed.
“Neuron you beat Mike Powell”
“Who?”
“Never mind, but that was awesome; you jumped at least 15m”
“Yeah, but I’m worried, what I shall do when I get to know that door better”
Now that things are cleared and ready Neuron breathed in some air, and started running with a shout, he neared the pitfall, jumped up, and was flying towards the door, and then crashing in it.
* You have lost 100Hp
“Ugh” *Damn, I’m losing consciousness*
“Neuron, quickly form the thread!”
*Uh, oh*
“Mana thread!”
Now Neuron was dangling from the door while trying to open it.
When he was finally done he saw the room to witch this door let, it was a big circular room with a coffin in the middle, and some valuables piled up under another statue that stood in the far back of the room, that depicted a Warrior
*Huh, I thought this was the grave of an archer?*
Then finally Kyle could make his way over the trap, which somehow was disarmed, right at the moment the door opened.
~Whistle~ “You really made a dent inside that door, …. Hey wait, is that your face imprint” Guahahaha
“Lemme see, …..right there it is! Wow, is that some kind of cartoon,?” Geheheaheha
After finally regaining their composure and making some screenshots of course, both of them approached the pile of Portable loot, but as soon as they arrived there They heard a creak sound and after turning around they saw the door slowly shutting itself, while torches all around the room lit themselves
“You know what that means?”
“Yeah, Boss Fight!”
Then the lid of the coffin began to move and hit the floor with a loud bang. Then from within skeleton showed up. Its gear was totally rotted away, it could only be presumed to be some kind of leather armor much like Neuron was wearing in fact.´On his back he had a rotten quiver and a bow. It was a mystery why the arrows never fell out of that thing, while fighting.
“Neuron, he is covered with rags, how will he ever drop a rare item?”
“hmm, Boah, holy shit!” Neuron gasped after he had gotten closer look on that bow the skeleton was holding in his hands.
“What?”
“He uses a freaking Compound bow”
“?”
“Those bows can`t shoot as far as Longbows, because they require thicker arrows, if not the high strength output would snap every arrow it shot in half. But why is such a modern Bow appearing inside this medieval game?”
“Dunno, but if what you say is true we`re in a hell of a fight”
While they chatted the archer readied his bow and shot an arrow straight at Kyle, who barely managed to block it with his shield, but what he didn`t expect, was the big impact that arrow produced, it even left a dent inside his shield.
The battle started quite a while ago, so Kyle and Neuron invented a strategy to deal with it. As always Kyle would fight with the enemy, but this time due to it being an archer who naturally searched to distance himself from his foes, thus Neuron played a crucial art in fighting.
He would shoot arrows at the skeleton. But sadly archers are pretty useless against skeletons, they have unlimited stamina to dodge attacks, and because they have no flesh they provide a smaller target for arrows. The abdomen, legs and arms are out of question, so there only was the head and ribcage as target for Neuron. But that luckily didn`t matter for him, because every time he shot an arrow he also activated mana connection forming a thread, that hindered the skeletons movement, so that Kyle could smash it with his war hammer.
Apparently blunt damage was really affective against skeletons, because he could break their bones easily. But this skeleton was quiet agile and even managed to dodge Kyle’s slow hits. They were slow but also powerful. That the skeleton could testify if he is ever asked, because one time he couldn`t dodge completely and Kyle managed to shatter one of its rips.
So they both tried their best to not let it shoot arrows, but due to its high mobility it sometimes appeared behind them so all they could do was dodge or block. In times like these Neuron just hid behind Kyle, if he could. While the fight progressed they both used up quite all of their stamina, but the skeleton was moving like the battle just started, well he was a bit sluggish cause he now had two rips less and a crack inside its skull, due to an arrow slicking out of its left eye socket, but this didn`t hinder its eyesight, because he had no eyes.
But then the worst happened. Till now the skeleton only shot normal arrows, but now, being at 30% health he pulled out his trump card.
After that it focused his fire only at Neuron, cause the skeleton now realized that it could deal with the armored guy easily. But the one who stopped him from moving had to die first.
While Neuron managed to dodge the first arrow he was blown away by the force of what appeared to be an explosion, due to the force of the explosion he laid on the ground when the next arrow cleanly hit him with a loud bang
* You have died
After seeing Neuron die Kyle gave up hope to defeat that skeleton, but as arrows hit his shield and reduced his health to ten percent he got up again with glare inside his eyes
*If I can`t defeat that guy, I just have to drag him with me*
His opinion changed because he got a system message
* Your health has dropped below ten percent, if you aren`t treated properly, you will bleed to death.
You can now activate your special class skill: Last Word
While he got up, he shouted at the top of his lungs:”LAST WORD!”
A red glow formed itself around his body, while quickly checking his health and mana he noticed that it was full again. Then he got hit by an exploding arrow, but it didn`t even scratch him, cause all his health was recovered in an instant.
* 4 Minutes 50 Seconds till you die
Noticing that he had to hurry Kyle activated Push and Mana coating at the same time and dashed at the archer. He was now much faster than before, covering the distance of 5m in a second flat. There he hit the archer with full force, but he didn`t stop, he charged ahead, till he embedded the skeleton to the wall. At this moment he performed shield bash to give the skeleton some damage, but mainly to push himself back. After that Kyle brought his war hammer down on the compound bow, making the Skeleton drop it. This was possible because all his restrictions were gone. Normally he couldn`t disarm boss monsters.
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Then just to be save he brought his hammer down on the Bow again, smashing it into pieces, so that the skeleton couldn`t get it back and use it.
* 4 Minutes 30 Seconds till you die
Never noticing how much time passed Kyle pounded the skeleton, his swings were now much heavier and faster, giving the skeleton nearly no time to dodge. And then it was over. His last swing lifted the skeleton up, and while it flew through the air it disintegrated.
* 3 Minutes till you die
*Boah, this skill is to OP, shame that I have to pay it with my live*
His thought was only natural. Although the Skeleton was only at 30%Hp, both of them used an hour to get it there, but now he reduced those 30% to Zero in 2 Minutes flat.
* You have died
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Four days in game later:
A Figure appeared inside the boss room and was flooded by System messages
* For slaying the forgotten archer +50Fame
He was a proud warrior of a millennia long past, that even now should be remembered. But History went another course. Not long after he died and this tomb was erected his homeland fell and so nobody remembered him anymore. Due to his grief he awakened as undead, although being much weaker than before.
But now he can rest in peace, because you will remember him.
New Title: Slayer of the forgotten archer
Of course he knew that Kyle managed to kill the archer, cause they also remained in contact while logged out. Kyle also was so kind to show him some footage of his fight.
“Show info on Title Slayer of the forgotten archer”
* Slayer of the forgotten archer
This is just a makeshift title.
Attention,
You have to use it
If not, the forgotten archer will climb out of his grave and hunt you down.
Each time he is slain, he will get stronger, till he is finally as strong as in his glorious days
After reading that:
Tiring!
* Quest: Restore the forgotten archer to his lost glory
The quest is tied to the title, so it doesn`t consume any Quest slots
Difficulty:
Unknown
Rewards:
Unknown
Restriction:
Must have been the first to slay the forgotten archer
(If it happened as a party, every member will receive this quest)
Quest cannot be denied
* You accepted the quest
*What’s that about, I better ask Kyle, what he thinks about it*
Now Neuron was doing his favorite activity again, but he soon subsided to spout atrocities when he remembered, that the boss should have dropped a rare item, and while offline he also realized that this could only be the compound bow. While searching for it Neuron noticed a dent inside the wall that somehow resembled the back of a skeleton. And there it laid, but in pieces, apparently someone broke it and Neuron just knew who did it.
Naturally Kyle never showed him the part where he smashed the bow, he was not that dumb to give Neuron time to think about revenge.
So an hour later Kyle logged back in and was soon greeted by an arrow that went straight through his head.
“Hello to you too Neuron” His reaction was nonexistent, cause he already expected something like that, hell, after the tailor incident he expected a lot more.
*Guess it helps being his friend*
“You broke it!”
“Yeah, I know and sorry about that, you know I had to do it, cause I feared him picking it up, those exploding arrows are a pain in the ass”
“Hmmm, but I still won`t forgive you!”
“Come on are you a kid? If you want revenge that much let’s just fight!”
* Kyle has sent you a challenge
Do you accept?
“Yeah”
You have accepted the challenge, now choose how to fight
* First hit
* 50% Hp
* 10% Hp
* To the death
*If he really is mad he will fight to the death, but I guess he isn`t such an idiot, he knows what I can do, when I’m backed into a corner*
Of course Neuron clearly remembered the video, so he only chose 50%.
* The match has been decided:
It goes over one round of 15min
If no fighter is under 50%HP till the match is over, it will be counted as a draw.
After reading this both of them readied their weapons
* 5 Seconds till start of the match
* 4
* 3
* 2
* Start!
End of Chapter 20
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