The scorpion is banging on the barrier like a madman. This is not a good thing.
When it was scuttling around, I could use a mont when it was further away to jump in and cast so magic. But this scenario doesn’t give any breathing room.
I need to make it give so space.
I wonder how it will react to an illusion. I know from my early life that scorpions have really bad eyesight but have the best light sensitivity in the entire animal kingdom.
And I’ve been told that the so-called ’giant’ scorpions from the Barrens share this trait.
I say ’so-called’ because those ’giant’ scorpions are the size of dogs. The creature in front of is on a whole other level.
Hm, ti for so illusion, then.
I use fire magic to create a strong light and air to refract it like a really bright flashlight, focused on the scorpion’s face.
It reels back, screeching in agony.
This is my cue. The creature is still very close to the barrier, only montarily blinded and confused.
So I quickly cast the taser aria, which is shorter and usually takes a third of the ti of the bolt to cast, and jump in.
As soon as I’m at the other side, I touch one of its claws, sending an enormous jolt of electricity through its body, and then jump back before it has ti to react.
It worked.
For the first ti, the scorpion is not facing the barrier as it thrashes and screeches around.
I decide to strike while the iron is hot, so I jump in again even before the lightning bolt aria is completed.
I cast the bolt on the scorpion, which seems very fazed by all the pain.
Instead of jumping back again, I smile and prepare another bolt without giving it ti to recover.
And then another.
The injuries keep closing, but it seems that I’m making more before the last ones can fully close, so I am chipping its health bar, even if little by little.
My smile would seem probably very sinister to any onlooker right now, as I release lightning over lightning at the poor scorpion.
I can’t rember the last ti I felt so thrilled. It was probably at so session at those nightclubs I used to frequent in my last life.
I feel like the daughter of thunder itself, fully embodying my title.
This power is pure ecstasy.
I further empower my arias, putting more mana and adding more empowering words to them.
I’m so drunk with my power that I don’t notice when the creature stopped screeching.
Suddenly, I feel sothing hitting my side.
It’s a powerful blow that sends flying across the chamber.
Oooof.
I hit the wall at full force, then fall limp to the floor. In the monts it takes to understand the situation, the scorpion is already closing in on .
I jump to the side, barely escaping its pincer. But the pain in my left side is overwhelming.
Fuck. I might have broken so ribs.
And now the scorpion is between and the barrier.
I got too cocky there, and now I pay the price.
The scorpion is very badly hurt, but its injuries are already closing. Its eyes have a red brightness on them as it asures , as if daring to cast a lightning bolt again.
I’m sorry, babe, but I have a different idea.
I cast an illusion instead. Two copies of run, one to the left and another to the right.
I run straight in front, then I jump, sliding under the monster.
I had no ti to see what bait the scorpion took, if any, because of the speed at which I ran and jumped.
I only know that, being right below its body, I can use an empowered version of the taser directly on its vulnerable side, hitting its most essential organs.
The resulting screech told that I was right on the money with this decision. I rolled to the side as the scorpion turned around, looking for .
It finds before I can get up on my feet again, launching a vicious attack with its claw.
Instead of trying to get up, I just try to keep rolling instead, and the claw misses by milliters.
I don’t have ti to appreciate it, because the claw was just a diversion. The real attack was already in position to hit squarely.
I have only the ti to put one arm up, so its tail hit there instead of on my head.
I feel the poison enter my body with an excruciating pain, and I scream.
The arm feels like it’s burning inside. I use the other arm to grab the tail and cast another taser on it.
We are both faltering with pain right now, looking at each other.
I know that there is the safety of the barrier behind , but the scorpion is closer to than I am to the barrier. And the pain is preventing from getting up right now.
Apparently my health regeneration doesn’t remove the poison from my body. So it just keeps reconstructing the injured tissues, which the poison injures back. Over and over again.
The amulet pendant is still intact, which ans this wasn’t a killing blow yet.
I wonder if the amulet has any effectiveness at all against Damage over Ti types of attacks.
After all, if it only negates the tick of the poison that would kill , then the next tick would kill anyway.
So I hope it negates the poison completely if it happens.
The scorpion cos on the offensive, and I cast another lightning bolt, using my not-poisoned hand.
The bolt hits it again, but this ti it doesn’t recede like the other tis. Instead, it keeps its montum, hurling both claws towards .
I roll backwards in an effort to evade.
Then I feel a sharp pain on my left ankle.
When I manage to understand what’s happening, I’ve fallen on the floor, and the creature is coming again.
I try to get up, but sothing is amiss.
I look down.
It had torn my left foot off with a clean cut from its pincer.
I can see my left boot a few ters away, on a pool of blood. Probably my foot is inside it.
Fuck.
Okay, now I’m cooked.
The scorpion picks up with its claws, but it isn’t doing a cutting movent.
Instead, it’s just taking to its mouth.
In complete despair, I cast a new lightning bolt, aiming at its eyes.
The creature screeches and drops to the floor.
Then everything fades to black.
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