#047 – Locked and loaded!
I triple checked to make sure no zombie snuck up on and pushed over the edge before squatting down near one of the death water pools.
“So, how is this going to work…?” I murmured as I fished out the towel from my backpack and carefully lowered it into the pool.
The mont it touched the surface, it absorbed the moisture around it, creating so ripples in the water. The spot where the water disappeared also released so dark blue smoke.
“Huh. What is – Ack!” I flinched, nearly dropping the towel altogether the mont the smoke touched my arm and burned my skin.
“What the heck?!” I skittered back away from the pool, gripping the towel in my hand as I watched the smoke dissipate into the air. “What was that? It stung!”
I rubbed my forearm where it had burnt still feeling the sting. Then I looked at it and saw that it had left eerie dark blue marks on .
“Uh…”
I nervously stared at it, hoping to god that I wasn’t poisoned or sothing.
KaiEbikoOfficial: nana stop playing with sothing literally called DEATH WATER!
Jeofffff: appraise it?
JamieWasTaken3: oh fuck no dont die because of my idea again
I shot Appraisal at one of the splotches, hoping to figure out what had just happened.
Na: Nana Aoto
Title: Fire Blessed
Race: Human
Skill Points: 10
Racial skill:
Strear
Innate skills:
Bullet ti (Bubble glove Ti-freezing popsicle (fused)) [LIMITED]
Other skills(3/3):
Phoenix Blessing [CURSED] [FREE] [TEMPORARY]
Fire Breath
Flaguard
Appraisal
I blinked.
“Wait, what? It just opened my status screen…? Is it because the system thinks I’m trying to appraise myself? Co on!”
My rant was interrupted by a splash in front of . My head whipped up just in ti to see the zombie erging from the spot where I’d dipped my towel into.
There was barely any hesitation as I summoned the key sword into my hand, lunged forward, and split the zombie’s skull, then watched it slide back into the pool with a splash.
“...Ow.”
The sudden movent had irritated the blue burn wound.
Jeofffff: drink ether to heal
“Oh yeah. It did say that the death water drains Ether, didn’t it? It’s probably so kind of Anti-Ether mixed with water. Like so kind of reverse life ooze.”
I stopped and frowned.
“Wait. I think it literally is! It’s called death water, and this–” I pulled the bucket out of my backpack and grabbed so green sludge out of it. “–is called life ooze. They are opposites!”
Instead of eating it, I decided to sar a bit of ooze directly on the wound. I felt the mont it heated up, but this ti, in a much more pleasant way. The stinging pain gradually went away as I applied more of it and lo and behold, the splotches all disappeared after a few minutes.
KaiEbikoOfficial: that’s unsanitary Nana
I rolled my eyes. “And eating the goo isn’t? I’m sure it’s fine. Rember when the potion burnt my blood? It was fine then.”
Just to make sure none of the nastiness seeped into my bloodstream or sothing, I also ate a mouthful of the life ooze as well. Video ga logic dictated that that should cure of any poison-esque ailnt.
Jeofffff: what happens if you throw the goo into the death water?
“Hmm… They probably cancel each other out? I dunno, I guess I can try it… Maybe I can even fully delete the pools?”
I grabbed a bit of the life ooze out of the bucket, drew my hand back and threw it into the pool.
GonguuH: wait what if it explodes or sothing?
The mont the blob of goo touched the water, there was a bright burst of light and a bang, followed by both the death water and the ooze spraying all over the place.
I squeaked and jumped back as droplets landed on and burnt again.
“Why?! And how did you know, Gong?!” I yelled while eying the puddles of death water now littering the ground around like caltrops. I carefully backed away and then began grabbing more life ooze to sar on all the burns.
GonguuH: well, that’s what matter and anti-matter does
Jeofffff: oh shit
GonguuH: this wasn’t nearly as violent though
Jeofffff: you can make bombs out of that
KaiEbikoOfficial: Nana please stop playing with fire…
JamieWasTaken3: more like playing with water lol
I grunted as I read the chat.
“It’s fine, Ebi! Just a few burns. Nothing I can heal. If I could make bombs out of this like Jeoff says, though… Hmm…”
KaiEbikoOfficial: don’t you already have your bubble glove?
“I an, yes. But this stuff can also burn my enemies!”
Jeofffff: wait hold on
Jeofffff: if the water burns you and goo heals, is the opposite true for dungeon monsters?
I blinked.
“Huh. Never thought about that. Maybe I should–” Another splash from the spot where I’d thrown the goo. “Oh, perfect! A test subject!”
I grabbed another handful of goo and tossed it at the zombie erging from the water.
“Eat this!”
The goo hit the zombie square on its empty face and it stumbled for a mont before the goo seed to get absorbed inside it. When it did, the zombie stopped slowly stumbling and got out of the pool with a burst of speed before lunging at .
“Wha–”
I dropped the bucket, summoned my key sword and slashed in front of while backing up.
But the damn zombie was fast now. It side-stepped my slash and clawed at , and I only barely backed away enough to avoid having my face rearranged. A mont later, I quickly breathed in and then engulfed the jerk in fire.
The zombie stumbled back, but didn’t seem to be done just yet as it lunged at again, still covered in fire. I coated my key sword with fire and slashed horizontally at it, and actually hit this ti. The blade cut into its torso and it crumbled to the ground before vanishing into the mist a few monts later.
I let out a sigh.
“Well, apparently, Ether just powers them up,” I grumbled. “That’s just cheating! Isn’t healing magic supposed to damage the undead? Ugh…”
It would have been so nice if it actually burnt them like death water burned . That way, I could load so life ooze into my gun and then have the ultimate trump card against dungeon monsters.
But alas.
Jeofffff: awww
Jeofffff: that sucks
KaiEbikoOfficial: this testing is getting out of hand Nana
“Oh well… Maybe it will work on so other monsters.” I shrugged. “It’s fine, Ebi! You worry too much! And anyway, it’s important to test stuff like this! What if I discover so totally broken interaction?”
KaiEbikoOfficial: dammit nana
Jeofffff: hell yeah this is why we watch nana
JamieWasTaken3: I watch for the mimic paranoia lol
I snorted.
“Anywho. I think I’m still gonna try to fill my gun with both the death water and the life ooze. Just in case, you know? I have no idea what the final boss is gonna be, but it can’t hurt to have more ammo options.”
I humd as I approached a different pool – not one surrounded by puddles of death water – and squatted down with my bucket. I slowly lowered it into the pool and let it absorb so of the liquid before pulling it out again. Since I knew that the liquids inside its little storage didn’t mix, I didn’t need to worry about the bucket suddenly exploding on , thankfully.
Then I sat down, brought out my gun, detached the barrel and sat it upright, before positioning the bucket above it and carefully let a bit of the death water trickle inside the barrel. I had to do it very slowly to make sure I didn’t spill any on .
“So, any ideas on what else I could put into the gun?”
JamieWasTaken3: lava
JamieWasTaken3: your blood
I glared at chat.
“I an things that I can reasonably get without killing myself via blood loss.”
JamieWasTaken3: your spit
GonguuH: depends on what counts as a liquid
JamieWasTaken3: your pee
GonguuH: if you could lt sothing down or grind sothing into a mush, would it work?
“Jamie, I’m gonna kick you from the chat,” I said, deadpan. “And, I dunno, Gong. I like the idea, though… Maybe I could shoot molten tal or sothing at my enemies? Although it’s not like I have any tal for that…”
GeorgeDoshington: yoooo im back
GeorgeDoshington: i hear jamie is getting banned?
JamieWasTaken3: im just trying to help!
I groaned.
“Hey, George. Jamie is just being gross.” I shook my head. “You know the water gun I got? I was asking if anyone has any ideas for alternative ammo. Anything liquid.”
GeorgeDoshington: what like your pee and stuff?
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and then slowly breathed out.
“Are you and Jamie married yet? You’re perfect for each other.”
JamieWasTaken3: hell no
JamieWasTaken3: who would marry GE ogre
GeorgeDoshington: what the fuck how dare you
GonguuH: you could lt rocks outside with your fire breath and use that as ammo
GeorgeDoshington: fight 1v1 jas
GonguuH: if it doesn’t cool inside the pocket space
I rolled my eyes.
“Look, chat. They are having their first lover’s quarrel,” I drawled. “Hmm… That would be neat, Gong. But I’m not sure if my Fire Breath is hot enough for that…”
There was that Extre Temperature upgrade though, wasn’t there…? Ugh, but I didn’t want to use any more points on the phoenix skills…
Not like I actually needed stronger ammo for the water gun, did I? The gun was already strong enough with just basic water as its ammo.
I shrugged.
“Eh, maybe later. If I feel like I really need my gun to be even stronger, I can get the Extre Temperature upgrade and get so molten rocks.”
The last bits of the death water dripped into the barrel, and after making sure I hadn’t spilled any of it, I brought out the life ooze out of the bucket and loaded so of it into the gun as well.
Once done, I got up, briefly looked around just to make sure I wasn’t being snuck up on again, and then finally brought out the map.
“Okay. Map ti. Where the heck do I even start, chat?”
I frowned.
“Hold on… Did the map change? Chat, am I crazy? Is the map different now?”
GonguuH: it is
JamieWasTaken3: looks the sa to
GeorgeDoshington: the map is a mimiiicccc
KaiEbikoOfficial: hah I’m still the best mapmaker
I grunted and fully unfolded the map to take a better look.
If the map changed and warped just like the dungeon, then what was it based on? What caused it to change? If I were to guess, either ti or position. So much in this dungeon was about spaceti, after all.
GonguuH: try moving around and see if it changes?
I humd and did as Gong said. I walked around a pool while staring at the map, still wary of my surroundings when I noticed it.
GonguuH: it moved!
GonguuH: the red dot
“Yeah, I see it! I guess that’s then, huh?” I glanced up at my surroundings and at the map back and forth a few tis, trying to figure out what corresponded to what on the map.
GonguuH: I think the arrows are spawn points actually
GonguuH: and the shapes are the buildings
I nodded as I ca to the sa conclusion.
“Mmm, you’re right. That’s really dumb, though. You would think the map would depict the pools as a whole rather than just the points where zombies can spawn…” I narrowed my eyes. “What is my goal, though? Shouldn’t it lead sowhere?”
GonguuH: I think I see it
GonguuH: one of those arrows seems to be pointing into the lake
GonguuH: the green one
“Huh…? Oh yeah, it is. That’s… I don’t like that,” I grumbled. “Is it telling to walk into a pool of death water…?”
Now that I looked at it, it seed very obvious since every other arrow was red. But still… this didn’t bode well.
I pursed my lips but made my way to that spot on the map anyway. Interestingly enough, the map also accounted for all the space warping, which was incredibly useful. If the map worked on every floor, I wouldn’t get lost ever again!
“Okay… Here’s the spot on the map,” I said as I looked up at the pool in front of . “It looks exactly the sa as any other spot… Ugh, I don’t wanna just dunk myself in! That sounds like a horrible idea, chat!”
Jeofffff: send out a scout
Jeofffff: john or gargles
My eyes widened.
“Oh, that’s an idea! You’re right Jeoff. I don’t need to go by myself. Let’s see then…”
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