The very instant I depressed my machine guns' triggers, I heard an audible click before two nearly equivalent flashes were produced at the end of their barrels. The super heated gasses propelling my rounds lit the rocky tunnel for a split second, giving a full view of the many alien crustaceans making a beeline for . Following right behind those flashes of light were booming gunshots that had their loud factor boosted by magnitudes due to the enclosed space I found myself.
It's a good thing this heavy Dahl mining suit has solid hearing protection, otherwise my ears would surely be ringing in pain right about now.
Unconcerned with the ringing gunshots because of my mining suit's hearing protection, I held the triggers firmly and laid into the approaching swarm of larva crab worms doing my best to keep my streams of bullets on target, all while taking steps back to maintain the quote unquote safe distance I had between and them.
As I continued laying down relatively accurate fire with my dual machine guns, the rounds I was sending forth kept impacting their deep purple armored exoskeletons. However, I would occasionally connect a shot with their sole weak point and take one out of the fight for good.
Watching them drop slowly but surely, I acknowledged I was making a dent in their plentiful numbers, so I continued my efforts and kept my comfortable distance away from the purple creatures to avoid putting myself in range of their vile acid attacks and in case I needed to make a tactical retreat.
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The longer my battle with them raged on, the more comfortable I beca with dual wielding these two hefty weapons of mine as a whole and especially firing them in automatically, and before long, my storm of fire began to take its toll on their frontline with literal dozens of them filled with holes and laying dead in pools of blood that were rapidly increasing in size.
With the bugs becoming impeded further and further with each new death, I took advantage of the window I had made for myself and took even more distance and started swapping out my nearly depleted box magazines for fully loaded ones.
It took well over a dozen seconds because of my inexperience, but I nevertheless powered through it and got the job done. Turning my attention to the crab worms, I found eight of them had managed to crawl over their compatriots' corpses and were rushing towards , intent on ripping apart and devouring my corpse should they win the battle.
Obviously wanting to avoid that from happening, I ran back so and put a bit of space between them and I. As soon as I had returned the gap to what it once was; I perford a 180 and resud the slaughter and began dropping them like flies one after the next.
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I was relentless with my bursts of fully automatic fire and after expending several hundred rounds and fighting it out with them for the last however many minutes; I put the last survivor down with a brutal and visceral stab to its singular eye. Still weary of the possibility of more of these buggers jumping out of nowhere, I ripped my hardened tal combat knife from its head, deposited it into its sheath, and quickly began scanning the tunnels' walls and depths searching for any possible threats with my helm's dual lights.
Looks like the coast is clear... for now.
Relieved to catch a breather and give my weapons a chance to cool, I was about to check the gains I earned from that bout of combat when I suddenly felt as if I was being watched. Clearly feeling disturbed by the predatory sensation, I raised my Atlas pearl havoc machine gun and scanned the area once more with the increased lighting provided by my primary weapon. However, before I could really begin scanning, sothing ramd into my side and sunk its teeth into my suit.
Not possessing a single second to even think about what was trying to kill , I perford the fastest action I could and started ruthlessly pumling the creature that was biting onto my side and madly shaking its head and trying damndest to rip a piece out of with my armor clad fists. A few strikes with my overbearing strength was all it took for whatever sneak attacked to relinquish its hold. The instant I got the still unknown entity off of , I kicked where I presud the creature to be and sent it cascading into the rock wall.
Hearing the creature cry out in what I thought to be pain, I hoisted my weapon up and aid it in the direction of my attacker. What I found lying against the wall was a unique nearly 100% black adult skag with a partially caved in skull. Getting a solid look at the beast, I confird my attacker was indeed Pandora's native alien canine species.
So it was one of you fuckers, aye.
Having identified who was gnawing on , I approached the injured three jawed canine covered in strong bony armor plates who was still withering in pain from my heavy-handed strikes and whipped out my S&S Munitions explosive machine pistol and fired a well placed controlled burst into its head, literally obliterating its skull and a larger portion of its neck. With my attacker ruthlessly dispatched, I restarted my scanning of the tunnel in search of pitch dark skags that were as black as night, but found nothing in the way of hostiles after searching for a few dozen seconds.
Hopefully now I can take a breather.
I thought as I stared into the darkness that led into the depths of this mine for a few seconds longer before I began inspecting my suit to see if that skag had done any damage to it when it had its mouth full of sharp teeth latched onto .
Phew, there doesn't appear to be any real damage… But now that I'm thinking of it, I guess that's not a surprise seeing how it wasn't able to breach my shields.
Assured that my full suit of armor hadn't been compromised, I checked the rest of my gear whilst I cald my breathing that had been quickened from the adrenaline I had coursing through on top of the small amount of running around I'd been doing. Completing that equipnt check in no ti at all, I rapidly reloaded my magazines whilst keeping an eye on my surroundings. The minute I had everything filled back up, I began thinking about my next move.
Alright, I got all my weapons and magazines topped up. Now do I want to keep going as I am or keep accumulating levels and badass tokens... I haven't had much difficulty with the wildlife I've encountered up to this point, so I could just stock up. However, I got no clue what I'll encounter the further I explore this place, thus it would be in my best interest to increase my power levels so I can more easily handle the surprises that may or may not co my way in these tunnels.
[ Level Up! ]
[ 3 Skill Points ]
[ 2,060 EXP ]
[ 206 Badass Tokens ]
Holy, I went up three whole levels from that one battle.
Over the moon about the rapid progress I was making, I went right to spending my skill points and maxed out | Hard to Kill | increasing the benefits it provides to 20% maximum health and health regeneration to 0.5% of max health per second. The mont I maxed out that skill, I gained access to the tier 2 skills in the brawn skill tree.
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[ Brawn Skill Tree ]
| Hard to Kill | (5/5)
4% Maximum Health and regenerate 0.1% of your Maximum Health per second per level.
| Incite | (0/5)
Taking damage gives 6% Movent Speed and 5% Reload Speed for a few seconds.
| Asbestos | (0/5)
-8% Negative Status Effect Duration per level.
| I'm the Juggernaut | (0/5)
Kill Skill. Killing an enemy gives you a 4% Damage Reduction for a short ti.
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The Asbestos skill is one I never take in the ga, so I'll skip over that one since it's not all that useful other than when I am facing opponents that deal a shit load of elental damage. I'm the Juggernaut on the other hand would increase my tankiness by a decent bit anyti I'm in combat.
But as great as that sounds, I'm not really in need of increased toughness given I have this armored full bodied suit of mine. Hence, I would be better off throwing my last skill point into Incite, which could get out of a pickle if I need to quickly reload, or move out of the way, or both.
Hmm, that's got thinking. I wonder if I can abuse it by applying a small amount of damage to myself at all tis. Having a constant movent and reload speed boost active at all tis would be pretty sweet not gonna lie. I'll have to see if I can't co up with so sort of thod that can be easily as well as safely implented once I leave this shithole for a safer, more permanent shithole on Pandora.
[ Status Changes ]
Level: 3 → 6
Experience Points: 2,060
Total Experience Points Earned: 630 → 2,690
Health: 2,080 → 2,760
Health Regeneration: 4.08 HP/s → 16.1 HP/s
Stamina: 2,000 → 2,300
Stamina Regeneration: 5.4 SP/s → 5.7 SP/s
Skill Points: 5 → 0
Pistol Proficiency: lvl 1 | Reload Speed 6% - Stability 6% |
Machine Gun Proficiency: lvl 1 | Reload Speed 6% - Stability 6% | → lvl 4 | Accuracy 6% - Cooling Rate 6% - Damage 6% - Reload Speed 6% - Stability 6% |
Badass Tokens: 40 → 246
[ New Skills ]
| Incite | (1/5)
[ Skill Changes ]
Tier 1: | Hard to Kill | (1/5) → | Hard to Kill | (5/5)
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