I didn’t think twice to put up an earthen wall in front of
as the creature charged. I heard a loud slam on the wall, and felt so of my mana being drained to maintain it. I had hoped the monster would crash into it face first, but when I canceled the spell, I looked right in the ape’s eyes.
I saw a fury burning behind them, and no visible damage done to its face. Instead, it seed to have slamd into the wall with a fist. I saw so blood trickle down its massive hand.
In a fraction of a second, I cast a fireball aid at its eyes, while I used my spider brain to cast the fla beam spell. I seed to successfully blind it, if only temporarily, for my fla beam spell to set the beast alight.
The sudden wave of heat had Cellestra duck onto my back.
The beast was on fire, but I didn’t see it panic as I’d hoped. It jumped a few yards backward before inhaling deeply before exhaling an icy, blue breath that covered its entire body, extinguishing the flas.
“What is that thing?” Cellestra asked, her head still low on my back and her hands had a tight hold on my hair.
“No idea, but it seems tough.”
The beast was at a distance. I used the opportunity to fire a high-velocity ice lance. It hit the beast in the chest, but didn’t leave much besides a small puncture wound. I summoned several more, to similar effect.
“Very tough,” I elaborated.
Its fur had blackened at least sowhat, but not as much as I would expect from that much fire, even if it had been put out.
The beast roared and pounded its chest again before charging at us once more. I skittered away as fast as I could and was able to outrun the creature with relative ease, all while firing off venom bolts in quick succession, using all the forms of venom I had available.
I continued running and casting spells, hoping to get so of the venom in the creature’s bloodstream through the wounds that had appeared by my previous spells. I found that earthen spikes could not be cast in this environnt, and judging from the creature’s sheer will to chase
down despite the hail of attacks, these didn’t seem to do much.
I slowed down slightly so that the creature would get close enough for
to use my lightning arc. I then started channeling the beam of lightning as I kept running, making sure to stay in range to keep the spell up.
The beam soon grew in intensity and changed from its dark blue color, to light blue, and then to white. Sparks flew from it as it continued to increase in intensity and mana cost. Cellestra was still holding on for dear life while I focused all my effort into the most powerful spell that I possessed.
The spell’s mana cost increased to the point that it was noticeably draining . I wouldn’t be able to keep this up forever. I prayed to Elysa for the creature to die before I ran out of mana. If it ca down to it, I’d make my escape back through the archway.
The spell grew stronger than anything I’d seen so far. Its white light grew so bright that it started to hurt my spider eyes. I had already closed my elven eyes monts before. The power that originated from where the spell connected to my elven arm was imnse. For a mont, I’d completely forgotten that I’d sacrificed power.
The next mont, a scream of pain and rage filled the air, just before the spell abruptly stopped and two ssages showed up.
You have killed a Furious Ice Apenoth: No experience was awarded
Achievent earned: Double Trouble
Kill 2 unique dungeon floor bosses
You have been awarded 100 EP.
I stopped moving and took a few monts to adjust to the huge loss of mana that I’d suffered in a relatively short ti. I took a look at the ssages and cursed my luck.
“A floor boss.”
“What?” Cellestra asked, finally raising herself.
“That thing was a floor boss, sothing called an Apenoth or sothing. I got a ssage stating I got an achievent for killing two unique floor bosses.”
I sighed out of relief. “Just my luck that the first thing I run into is a damn boss.”
“I do believe that ans that whatever else is down here isn’t as strong, wouldn’t you say?”
I turned my head and looked around, even though I could already see everything around
through my other eyes. There was nothing but snow for as far as I could see. “If there is anything else down here.”
I turned around and skittered over to the dead Apenoth. “For now, let’s see if I get luckier this ti. You want
to cook so for you as well?” I asked with a sly smile as I turned my head to watch Cellestra.
“No, thank you. I’ll be fine,” She reacted, almost with disgust.
I grinned as I lowered my spider head and started tearing away skin to expose the flesh underneath so I could start eating.
“I wonder how much I need to eat to trigger the effect. Like, do I need to eat a fixed amount by weight, regardless of the size of the creature, or do I need to eat so certain percentage of the creature I killed?”
“I hope for you it’s the forr,” Cellestra said with a grin. “I doubt you’ll have enough space in here otherwise,” She said while pointing at my abdon behind her.
I sighed. “That would be kind of annoying, for sure. Got any stories to share while I gobble this thing down?”
“Stories?” The elf replied with a frown. “Where am I supposed to get those stories from?”
“Oh. I’m sorry.”
“Never expected I’d have soone to share stories with anyway,” Cellestra continued softly. “How about you? Did you have anything interesting happening?”
“Well,” I started as I recalled sothing that was quite amusing in a way. “There was this ti, not so long ago, when I was still a fairly small spider. Another jumping spider started dancing…”
I raised my third set of legs and started swaying them back and forth. “Like this. I’m confident it was trying to hit on .”
Cellestra giggled. “Yes. Yes, it was. That’s a jumping spider’s mating dance. Did it have a colorful abdon and all?”
I nodded.
“And?” Cellestra asked with a sly smile.
“What? Do you think I would be seduced by a spider?” I replied with a smile of my own. “Nope. I killed it. Gave
an achievent too.”
“That poor spider!” Cellestra pouted.
“I tried to run. It just kept following . What was I supposed to do?”
“Yeah, jumping spiders don’t give up easily. That was a fun story though. Got any more?” Cellestra asked again.
I was having great difficulty eating as the at was extrely tough. It also didn’t hold much flavor, but I wasn’t sure if that was necessarily a bad thing. At least it wasn’t as bad as the at I’d had to eat very early on…
“Let
think…”
“Have I told you how I killed my spider mother?”
“If you did I don’t recall it. That’s pretty brutal, I have to admit.”
I chucked. “Gave
a bunch of experience and an achievent to boot. It was fortunate that I did, because it turned out that I needed that achievent for this evolution.”
“That’s… scary to think about,” Cellestra said softly. She was clearly thinking about what could have happened if I hadn’t done that.
I looked at the sky before I continued. “It is. As far as I am aware, this is also the only evolution that would have given
this body to begin with. It’s kind of weird to think about.”
Cellestra nodded. “I’m happy things worked out for you in the end.”
I nodded again while I thought of anything else that could be good conversation material. “As for more stories. I don’t think there is anything worthy of ntioning. I’d have to look at things that happened in my old life, and I’d rather forget that. I think what you said earlier also applies to .”
I paused for a second and sighed. “My old life be damned.”
“Well, there’s nothing binding you to it anymore,” Cellestra comforted . “And you have plenty of things to look forward to in this one.”
I looked at the elf and took in her appearance. Her long light brown hair and purple eyes never ceased to grab my attention. She had a serious expression on her face, but it didn’t take away from her beauty. In fact, the way she was able to talk about things in such an honest manner only added to my desire to get closer to her.
If only she knew how much I wanted to spend more ti with her.
“You’re right. There’s still much to look forward to.”
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