New Level Acquired!
New Level Acquired!
New Level Acquired!
New Level Acquired!
I'm thankful when the dungeon begins absorbing the ruined Ogres. It couldn't happen fast enough in my opinion. The smell from the Ogre I split in half was absolutely revolting. Even after it's completely absorbed, the stench lingers on. There is no breeze in this cave to blow out the smell.
I start collecting the massive mana stones when I notice a suit of armor behind one of them. It's a shiny silver scale mail chest piece. I pick it up and place it in my gear pouch. That will probably fetch a pretty penny somewhere. I have no clue how high people's levels are in the cities and around the country. I'm sure there are higher level adventurers, but if a dungeon like this one is ignored, perhaps the levels of the monsters are far higher than the levels of you average adventurers. As such, I doubt even the most powerful of them would have access to gear dripped by a level 120 monster. People may drop their entire life savings trying to obtain something like this.
After gathering all the dropped stuff, I continue on toward the boss room. I don't feel like spending too much time on this floor. I don't have much to gain from staying here.
I eventually come across more groups of Trolls and Lesser Ogres. These are dispatched easily enough. While I'm making my way, I begin thinking about the magic skills I saw that Troll Shaman had a way back. Perhaps I can try out some of those magic skills on the next group of mobs.
When I get to the next group, I decide to try the Stone Wall spell I saw it had. As the monsters begin to run toward me, I raise my hand and cast it.
"Stone Wall!"
The ground begins to shake a bit as rocks begin erupting from the ground in front of me, stacking themselves into a crude wall.
Magic Skill Acquired:
Earth Magic: Stone Wall
Sweet! It worked! At that moment the mobs burst through my wall like it was tissue paper. That's not exactly unexpected as my Intelligence and Mind stats are lacking. They are FAR lower than any other stat I have as the only piece of gear that offers boosts to these stats is my necklace, and that's not even that much in comparison to the new gear I obtained. It's time to use the other one the Troll Shaman had, Cave-in.
I'm not sure this is going to be a wise idea to use this in a cave, but with my speed, I should be able to outrun the effects should things look like they are going bad, as in me possibly being buried. I leap backward a few dozen feet to give myself more space. I raise my hand in preparation for the spell. Ok, let's do this.
"Cave-In!"
Another rumble of the whole cave starts and a yellow circle appears above the group of monsters. A rain of sones and boulders comes flying out of the yellow magic circle and begins pelting the advancing Trolls and Ogres. The beasts just swat at the rocks and boulders knocking them away, their advance slowed a bit while they have to deal with the falling rocks.
As with the Stone Wall, this spell didn't have much effect. It would make a decent distraction to slow down an enemy though!
Magic Skill Acquired:
Earth Magic: Cave-In
With another spell learned, I get to work quickly dispatching the advancing horde. I collect their mana stones and move on to the next group up ahead. There is another caster and I check this one out to see if it has anything new I can learn.
Troll Shaman
Level 111
HP: 8,200/8,200
MP: 4,100/4,100
Skills:
Lesser Heal
Healing Wind
Stone Wall
Stone Bullet
Cave-In
Meh, nothing new. It's the same skills as the last one I encountered. Well, no reason to keep these guys around any longer. I proceed to massacre them, every single one dies before they even realize what happened to them. I walk around gathering mana stones and spot a cane with decorations hanging off the end of it. I use inspect on it to see if it works on items.
Shaman's Totem (Sta. +60, Int. +60, Mnd. +60, Det. +60)
Nice, not a bad little item. If I ever need to heal after a battle, I'll equip this guy and see if it makes a discernible difference in the effectiveness of the spell. I place the staff in a pouch and continue on.
I reach another massive cavern and like on the other floors, it's filled with a few dozen groups of Trolls, Lesser Ogress, and a few Greater Ogres, two of which are standing at the far far end of the room, probably guarding the boss room. I take note that there are significantly more monsters on this floor than in the first two.
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I want to move on quickly, so I explode into the middle of the room straight for a lone Greater Ogre.
"Iaijutsu- Mugyourikuren!"
My body takes over on its own and launches at the towering Ogre and proceeds to slash it six times.
SHING!!
SHING!!
SHING!!
SHING!!
SHING!!
SHING!!
My body rockets back and lands silently, a hand quickly coming up for the finish.
SNAP!!!
The loud snap echoes across the chamber alerting everything to my presence in the room. Dozens of monsters begin headed straight for me as the massive ogre bursts into a pile of body parts, a tsunami of blood headed straight for me.
I begin slicing down one enemy after another, the torrent of blood from the Greater Ogre and the mobs I cut down, swirling around me as I dance an intricate ballet of death. Heads, limbs, and torsos, fly in all direction. The slaughter is swift and lacking any mercy for the monsters that have no idea what's about to come down on them. The whole cavern turns into a maelstrom of blood, swirling around the room, desperately trying to keep up with me to reach my sword, it's ultimate goal.
"Iaijutsu- Sazan!"
My body takes over as it does three consecutive strikes on the different enemies.
SHING!!
SHING!!
SHING!!
In an instant three heads are rolling on the ground, the attack divided among the three unfortunate monsters that just happened to have the poor fortune to be the three closest in front of me. I learned another amazing thing about my weapon skills. the multiple attack skills don't have to hit just one enemy. They can split the attacks amongst multiple enemies that are nearby.
With the sheer volume of blood swirling around the room, I'm able to use Sazan three more times, rendering 9 more monsters either headless or sliced apart in some way. It didn't matter what way they were struck as death was immediate regardless of where they were hit. The weapon skill always chose a vital spot to strike.
My slaughter doesn't even stop as I reach the two Greater Ogres guarding the boss door. A quick Iaijutsu- Mugyourikuren rendered the one on the right into a pile of parts, it's blood adding to the hurricane of blood in the cavern.
The second ogre I reach before it has the chance to realize what happened to its partner. A simple slice from my sword severing its massive leg clean off. How my sword which is about 3 feet long total including the handle, managed to slice completely through a leg that's easily 8 feet thick, is beyond me. I have learned not to question shit anymore. If it benefits me, I'll take it.
The massive Ogre falls to the floor, the whole cavern thundering and shaking with the impact of the Ogre with the floor. I swiftly dash to its head and in one smooth motion, separate the massive cranium from its massive body.
It takes me quite a while to collect all the mana stones littering the cavern. A few pieces of gear scattered among the stones. The massive cloud of blood is finally finishing up being absorbed as well. It's about time! There was so much blood that the whole cavern was shrouded in a thick swirling fog of blood. It was quite the sight to behold. Something like that would strike fear in even the most battle-hardened person. If I wasn't the one that caused this massacre, then I sure as shit wouldn't charge into that bullshit! The whole massacre nets me a good 7 levels though.
After walking around the massive cavern collecting everything I can, I head back to the boss door to collect the two massive mana stones that lay there. I turn my attention to the massive door that stands in front of me.
The massive stone door is easily 100 feet tall and at least 30 feet wide. I walk up to the door and give it a good shove. The massive double doors slowly creak open, dust and debris falling from somewhere up above. It's apparent this door hasn't been opened in quite a long time. Time to enter the boss chamber.
I walk through the doors large enough to contain King Kong, and enter a massive circular room, that's not as large as I think it should be considering the thing standing in the center of it. I crank my neck way back just to see the head of the massive thing standing here.
"What in the ever-loving fuck is this?!" I say in absolute shock at what I'm staring at.
This "thing" standing in a room small enough to be is fucking coffin, is about 70-80 feet tall, and it has two heads, one red, the other a light tan color. Each head probably the size of a medium sized 2 story house, contains only one single eye. One massive eye. The red head's eye is bloodshot with pulsing blood vessels running throughout it, an iris rimmed with a glowing red circle is in the center. The tan left head sports a crystal-clear eye with a striking blue iris that seems to be rimmed with a gold glowing ring. I hope it doesn't have vision issues, because I don't think 1-800-CONTACTS is going to be able to do fuck all for this guy!
The two heads are attached to one single massive body wearing a dark red and black studded leather armor. What animal was used to create this armor; I don't even want to know. That's one big fucking animal though! Its pants are the same red and black leather, with steel studs sitting all over it. It's sporting similar wrist guards and boots. In the right hand, that's as red as the right head, it holds a wicked looking axe that's midnight black with glowing red accents. The left arm, also as tan as the left head, is holding a cane with a glowing green crystal embedded in the crook of it.
I walk up to the skyscraper beast and consider how I am going to go about taking this thing down. I'm literally fighting a standard 8-10 story office building here, one that's going to do everything to try and kill me. Well, let's see what we are dealing with before it notices the ant standing before it. Inspect.
[Floor Boss] Brontes and Steropes
Level 150
HP: 35,000/35,000
MP: 23,000/23,000
Skills (Brontes)
Laser blast
Laser Sweep
Cyclone
Skills (Steropes):
Greater Heal
Healing Wind
Resurrection
Oh boy, it looks like each head has its own unique skills and spells. Not to mention the megaton of HP it has. This is basically two bosses in one. Well, let's get it on! I strife up to the towering mister and stop about 20 feet from its feet. Any closer and I wouldn't be able to look at its head. I mean heads... but, where have I heard those names before? The fact that I recognize them from somewhere begins to worry me. This generally means something bad is coming.
"Hey! Big guy!! Down here!"
The massive colossus peers it's monstrous eye down at me, the other head does the same. That's just so odd.
"Yo! How's the weather up there?!"
The red Cyclops's eye glows bright red, a blast shoots straight at me. It's on!