"Jesus Christ!" I say with fear in my voice.
I am soooo glad that the Kitsune samurai didn't use this weapon skill on me. That was absolutely ridiculous. That weapon skill was so overpowered. There is zero chance that I would have survived that strike. It would have been me left in a pile of body parts on the floor of the forest. A cold chill runs down my spine at the thought of it.
All I can do is stand there as the dungeon absorbs the massive blood drained body parts. The blue mist of the Ogre's life force absorbed by my armor shortly after it fell. I am still standing there long after the ogre is gone, my brain still trying to process the power that I now command. I hold up my sword, it's edge glowing red. I look at it with a newfound respect for its power. Its item is tagged as Legendary, and now I can see why. This blade if seen in ancient Japan, would certainly have spawned the legend that spanned 500+ years.
Imagine being in ancient Japan, and you watch as someone is sliced six times, then the attacker snaps their fingers and the victim bursts into a pile of body parts, his blood flowing to the sword where it is absorbed. That would terrify the whole country as that story is passed on from person to person.
I sheathe my sword thinking how it's actually convenient that I don't have to clean blood off of it like I used to have to clean my daggers. Even my armor is spot free as the sword pulls all the blood to it. Thirsty little bastard isn't it!
I walk up to the Ogre's mana crystal and marvel at its size. Even the mana stones from the large wolfs were not anywhere near this size. I guess it makes sense as a building is larger than an SUV. The stone is about 5 feet in diameter, and I watch the absurd scene of my tiny item pouch comically expand to accommodate the massive stone. The pouch returns to its original size, and I continue to walk on through the cavern.
The back of the massive cavern I fought the ogre in slightly narrows, but the cave is still massive with over 80-foot-high ceilings and a width of over 120 feet. It isn't long before I meet with large packs of Trolls similar to the ones on the first floor, just larger, and Lesser Ogres, each of which is about the size of a two-story house. Each pack contains 5-7 monsters and each sporting different types of weapons, spell casters are also present among the groups.
I am not too concerned with these groups, or even the spellcasters as the way I am now, there is not much they could do to harm me. I am sure that the small Goblin spell caster on the first floor who cooked my arms, wouldn't have done nearly as much damage had I been wearing my Beast Tracker's gear, and not the tattered clothes with zero defense on them that I was wearing at the time.
I cut down the first group of Trolls and Ogres without much effort, leaving the one caster troll still alive to test something out. I inspect the troll to see what he is all about.
Troll Shaman
Level 110
HP: 8,000/8,000
MP: 4,000/4,000
Skills:
Lesser Heal
Healing Wind
Stone Wall
Stone Bullet
Cave-In
Well, well! This guy has a few spells! I take note of the names of the spells that I don't have. This is what I wanted to see. Since I don't feel like experimenting like I did when I was much younger to find spells, I'll just use my Inspect skill on caster monsters and note the names of their spells. Then I can play with them and learn those spells later. I already saw the lightning spell from the normal 2nd floor boss, and that's what gave me this idea.
Anyway, since I got what I wanted, I dash toward the Shaman before it could even raise its staff and proceed to slice its head clean in half. The Troll drops lifeless to the ground, and I walk around picking up the mana crystals as my sword finishes absorbing blood and my armor absorbing the blue haze of life essence.
Suddenly my body glows white for a few seconds and then the glow vanishes as suddenly as it appears. I catch a glimpse of something silver and purple in my periphery and turn my head to see what it was. What I see is a fluffy silver tail with purple accent toward the tip of the tail.
"Oh, I got my first tail!" I shout with excitement!
I quickly check my stats to see how this affects the numbers.
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Wow that's so amazing! This armor set is so overpowered. I wonder if the Kitsune possibly considered the possibility that I might actually beat her, if she would have even fought me to begin with. After all, she was angry that I slaughtered so many wolves. Didn't she realize that if I got access to her gear and weapon that I would become so far and away more powerful that future mass slaughter is inevitable? Well, I guess if our paths cross again in the future, I'll ask her.
After I finish admiring my stats and new fluffy tail, I continue on my journey through the cavern. I should perhaps clarify something. My tail isn't actually physical. I can't actually touch it. It seems to be made of just energy. When I try to touch it my hand passes straight through it. It looks very real though!
I continue making my way toward the boss room, slaughtering group after group of Trolls and Lesser Ogres, until I come to another stadium size cavern with 2 Greater Cave Ogres in it. The one on the left looks very similar to the first one I faced when I arrived on this floor. It's blue with a single horn protruding from its forehead. It sports the same tree sized club. The one on the right is a more reddish color with the same growths dotting it's hide. It has one horn on the left side of its forehead and a smaller one on the right side of its forehead. He is sporting two massive hand axes. Each axe is as large as the front side of a whole house!
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My sword is glowing purple again by this point, but I don't feel like using the weapon skill at this time. It seems just too overpowered. What fun is it to just cut down a building size monster in seconds. That's not much of a fight. I want to see how these massive Ogres fight.
I walk up to the Ogres, and they begin their thunderous march toward me. I keep my sword sheathed for the time being. I want to test my speed and strength against these two. The Ogre on the left meets me first. It swings the massive tree size club at me and it's swing is fast enough that I literally can feel the air in front of it being compressed as it passed by. I easily dodged the swing. Obvious being so massive, they are not going to be fast at all. Well, at least in comparison to how fast I am now. Even with my previous gear, I'm sure I could still dodge these attacks... well, maybe.
After dodging trees and house size axes for a little bit, I decided it's time to test out the next thing I want to see. Since I got this sword, I have wondered if I have to use the weapons skill according to the color it displays. What would happen if I used one of the others when the sword is glowing violet? Well, that's what I'm going to test right now.
I dash to my left so I can isolate the blue ogre from the red one. As soon as I have the Blue Ogre between me and the red one, I use it.
"Iaijutsu- Shifu!"
The first weaponskill that is available when the blade glows green. As before, I lose control of my body as it starts to move on its own. I launch off the ground with a powerful jump, the ground cracking from the pressure of the jump. I head straight for the chest of the Blue Ogre, who rears his tree to try and swat me out of the air. Unfortunately, there is no way he will get his strike off in time to stop my attack.
As I reach the Ogres chest, I fear the sword up high and slash straight down creating a gash in the dead center of the Ogre's chest. As with before, my body impacts the Ogre's chest and springs off it in a backflip. I once again land silently on the cave floor, the Ogre's swing at that point passes far overhead at the point where I was initially headed toward the Ogre.
I stand back and watch the wound I created. It's not large, only about 3 feet, but that's not what matters. The cut could have been 3 inches and that's all that I would need for the skill to work. I watch as that 3 foot cut starts expanding. It's expanding at a much faster rate than when I was hit with it. Perhaps it's due to the size of the target as I'm much smaller. The slice is expanding at about a foot per second in each direction on the 40 meter (131 foot) tall ogre.
The important thing is this Ogre has no way of stopping the growth of the cut. I look down at my sword and it's glowing white, the entire bank of consumed blood utilized for the attack. Perhaps that's why the growth of the cut is so much faster than it was when I was hit with it. The effectiveness of the skill was increased with the additional stored blood.
The blood pouring into my sword from the Ogre is increasing as the cut increases in size. It's already about 20 feet long now. The Ogre seems to notice the growing cut on its chest and the blood flowing from it. It starts swatting at the blood leaving its body toward me.
The Red Ogre by this time has made its way around its mountainous partner and is reading his axes to attack me. I let it strike, the massive blade's edge as long as a regulation soccer goal falling toward me. A weapon this size it wouldn't matter how sharp it is, as anything would be flat out crushed by it.
I slash at the axe's edge right before it strikes me, a loud resonating dong sounds out from the massive axe as my blade makes impact. My blade slices a foot into the axe's edge and then the force of my counter strike pushes back the axe and the massive arm holding it. The force of the pushback enough to make the giant tumble backward.
My blade returns to a green glow from the blood flow coming from the blue ogre, it's wound now 40 feet long and a foot deep. I immediately use my weaponskill on the recoiling Red Ogre.
"Iaijutsu- Shifu!"
I again rocket on auto-pilot toward the massive Ogre, my trajectory taking me to its neck. Once there a swift slash is performed creating a 3 foot long slice across the Ogre's neck. I again kick off the towering beast and land silently on the cave floor.
I stand back and watch as the wounds expand, their victims grasping at the wounds trying to stop the bleeding. The wound on the blue Ogre is now almost the entire length of its body, and still continuing its advance. I watch as the wound starts opening up its neck as it heads higher and higher.
The Red Ogre's wound has encircled halfway around its neck, blood pouring out of its wound, but the best has still yet to come. Neither Ogre seems to have any interest in me anymore, only in trying to stop their own demise, which ironically would only happen if they were to kill me. Ignoring me seals their fate.
I watch as the Red Ogre's wound completely encircles its neck, the only way the cut has left to expand is deeper. The Blue Ogre now has a wound that has split its face directly in half. Running around the towering monster, I can see blood flowing from the back of its head as the wound had traveled over the Ogre's head and is heading down the back of its head. I hear a crack as the horn on its forehead cracks clean open, split down the middle by the same wound.
*BOOOM*
A loud boom echoes through the cavern as the Red Ogre falls to its knees. Smaller booms echo through the cavern as its axes fall to the stone floor, abandoned by their wielder who is now grasping at its neck as the proverbial noose tightens around its neck. Suddenly a massive eruption of blood erupts from the Ogres' neck as the wound carved deep enough to slice through its major arteries.
*BOOM*
Another boom rocks the cavern as the Blue Ogre lets his tree sized club fall as it starts grasping at its wounds. Blood now pouring out from its pants as the wound carves its way around down there and back up the other side. Soon the two edges of the wound meet and the wound completely encircles the Ogre's body.
The Red Ogre's arms fall to its side, its eyes rolling back into its head as the wound in its neck completes. The Ogre's head falls from its body and impacts the ground with a tremendous thud.
The blue ogre lets out a roar as the same process is happening to him. The roar is cut short and the Ogre falls to its knees as the wound begins slicing through its brain. Guttural sounds are all it can produce, and muscles twitch as nerve connections are severed. It's abdomen bursts open and massive intestines fall to the floor. No such thing as a satisfying plop sound when the intestines are that size. The smell is absolutely horrific as the wound slices even the intestines, spilling their contents all over the cavern.
The scene is something out of a horror movie as the wound completes and the whole Ogre is split in two, each half falling away from each other. Guts and blood fly everywhere from the ogres exposed body cavity. I had to retreat back a few dozen feet to avoid getting splashed with god knows what that's coming out of that monstrosity.
The flow of blood finally ends and the souls of the Ogres are added to my growing collection. This attack, while presumably the weakest of the three weapon skills, is no less lethal. Left unchecked, the wound will completely sever whatever it hits. Like the blue ogre, a direct vertical slash will eventually slice you in two. Like the red ogre, even a small cut on one's neck will result in decapitation. There is no question about it, it's a certainty.