This chapter focuses on Andreu watching A Lil’ Demoness’ progress during the Dungeon Battle.
Dungeon Battle Challenge!Flesh MonstrositiesvsWicked LegionThe Mad Rat’s LabHellish DreamlandDisguised KoalaA Lil’ Demoness
“Hahaha! Here it cos, my chance to get revenge! I’m going to watch you as you suffer, despair and finally die… Fufufu! Hahaha!”
After the usual flash of light, I find myself in her dungeon. This ti I want to keep a close look at her expressions and how she loses the battle, so I’m going to keep watching her progress all the ti.
It looks like her dungeon didn’t change that much from the last battle, since I find myself inside a banquet hall, the sa from the last battle.
When she enters my dungeon, the first thing she does is look around the initial tunnel. She is using the sa champion as last ti, the succubus. Three imps follow behind her.
I didn’t say before, but you can bring any amount of units with you during dungeon battles. Though they still use the sa cp budget, so the more you bring into attack, the less you can use to defend the dungeon.
Until now, I focussed everything on defense all the ti, as most of the players I played against did. But on higher levels, it’s common to bring so mobs with you.
After looking around, she imdiately starts to move forward, at a relatively fast speed. The imps follow her from a certain distance. Around maybe five ters?
“Does she think this is going to be easy? It doesn’t look like she is looking for traps or ambushes… Hehehe… It’s getting close! Only a little bit more and…“
She walks under the first Falling corpse trap, just behind the second turn of the tunnel. The trap is activated and the corpse falls on top of her… but she disappears.
“...wait, what!?”
She appears a ter in front of her previous position, and the corpse falls to the ground. It hurt nobody.
“...huh… Is this even possible? That was the Blink skill, right? Even if she can move away on ti, she shouldn't know there was a trap, right? What’s more, activating the skill in such a short ti after triggering the trap…”
She continues walking, as if nothing happened. Soon, the imps walk over the fallen corpse, not having to worry because the trap has already been activated.
“I call this a stroke of luck! It’s the only way she could have avoided that trap! She must have noticed sothing weird and activated Blink on instinct! Yeah, I’m sure it’s like this…” By the way, no, I’m not sure. Just trying to convince myself here.
“Ok, the next one is a sleeping plus poison mushroom trap. She can’t avoid this one too, can she?”
The mushrooms are hidden behind a part of the tunnel that protrudes from the side she is coming from, so they can’t be seen. And when she reaches the spot from where she can see the mushrooms, it would be too late: they would have already triggered.
And sure enough, at the mont her foot cos forward, the mushrooms release the poison and sleeping clouds. And she… disappears again.
“Again!? How can she know when to activate the Blink skill? Does she have so kind of trap detection skill? Hmmm… no, as far as I know, they don’t exist. Then… is she hacking the ga!? Because it’s the only way I can think of! Isn’t she ashad of playing dirty, yet again!?”
She continues to move forward and blink at every trap when triggered.
Blink is one of those skills that are incredibly useful… as an escape chanism to telegraphed attacks. And for other special combos like getting close and grabbing the enemy, but otherwise… It’s usually a dead skill because of the cooldown.
It’s one of those skills that looks incredibly useful, but you need to upgrade it before it actually is. aning it’s usually taken only by high level players… So why did she take the blink skill?
Blink (Active skill)Cost: 20 MPTeleport in the direction you are looking, up to 2 ters away maximum. Can only teleport to a place you can see. This skill has a 5 second cooldown.
“Ok… I give up… With the blink skill you can literally ignore all the traps in this area, if you know when they activate…” I say in a defeated voice. “She sohow predicted that the Blink skill would be very useful. Not sure why, because usually nobody takes it because of the cooldown… I can only rely on the Fiery Flies now.”
She is close to the place where the Fiery Flies are waiting. I expect that they’ll be able to do sothing.
“At least do sothing! You have my hopes placed on you!” The fly doesn’t disappoint. It does deal so damage, but not as I had intended…
The fight goes like this (dialogue made up in my imagination).
‘Found you dirty demon! You're gonna die by my flas!’
The fly gets close to the succubus, and she gets so damage from the In Flas skill. Then, she swings the whip and strikes the fly, crushing it into small bits.
‘You killed , but I’m taking you with ! Hahaha!’
And as it dies, *Booom!* a huge fire explosion occurs. But when the explosion reaches her, a semi-transparent red barrier appears in front of her and she takes no damage.
“...” I have no words, so I can’t say anything. “...Again!?”
What’s even worse than her not taking damage, a second fly was caught by the first’s explosion and died too. Making it two flies that were killed by the ager amount of damage she received… Is it 30 HP damage? In total.
The skill she used is the Fire Protection skill, another skill one would normally not take. Unless you already knew you were going to use it for sure…
Fire Protection (Active skill)Cost: ? MPThe next ti you take fire damage, negate it. Your MP is reduced by the amount of fire damage negated this way.
“This is getting more and more suspicious as it goes! How could she know that she needed the Fire Protection skill!? This is an even more niche skill than Blink because it requires the enemy to use strong fire damaging skills for it to be worth the skill point…”
“Wait a mont…! The Lab assistant also uses fire skills to deal damage! Isn’t it going to be useless too!? The Fireball skill! Shiiiiit! Let’s hope she gets crushed in the second room, and doesn’t reach the Lab Assistant!”
I start to pray to a god, any god, who might hear and ask for her death. ‘Please, whatever god you might be, let my minions kill her in this dungeon battle. And prevent from being humiliated… again.’
“At least both Blink and Fire Protection are going to be useless in the next room.” Then I continue praying. “Please, let her die… Please, let her die… Please, let her die…”
She walks inside the second room and sees it’s empty, and that there’s a closed door at the end.
I can’t believe what she does at that mont. She starts running through all the room and triggering all the hidden enemy traps at the sa ti.
“Heh! Not so smart now, huh? You are begging for a swift death by doing so!” It looks like my prayers have been heard.
But what happens next, makes my mouth hang so low, I could swear it touches the ground.
“...w-wha-wha…. wh-whhaaaaaaat… w-w-wha-wha-whaaaaaat!?” Andreu.exe has broken.
One of the imps goes to the center of the room and uses a skill I’ve never seen before: I’m The Bait. I might have missed it when looking at the skill list, there are so many of them…
I’m The Bait - Lv 2 (Active skill)Cost: 30 EP, 30 MPYou turn yourself into The Bait. For the next 10 seconds, all non-Champion and non-Boss enemies are going to target you if possible. Only one The Bait can be active at a ti. This skill has a 5 minute cooldown.UpgradesThe Last Bait: You are unkillable for this skill’s duration and extend its duration for 5 seconds. When the skill ends, you die.
I think you can understand what I feel right now, right? I feel so useless, so empty, so devoid of life… What has my life been for? Why is everything I do useless…?
Let explain what happens in detail, just in case you didn’t figure it out yet… The imp activates the skill, and all stitched start spitting poison towards it. ALL of them. Not a single attack goes towards the succubus or the other two imps.
And this lasts for a while, until all the stitched kill themselves with the Blood Power skill. And then the imp also dies by the skill’s effect.
For making even more fun of , A Lil’ Succubus actually takes this ti to relax, sitting on the ground. With an expression on her face that says ‘This has nothing to do with , so quickly die so I can move to the next room!’ She actually didn’t do anything in this room other than running through it to awaken all the hidden enemies.
The door of the room opens and she stands up. MP fully recovered, and ready for the final fight.
“...just what did I see? …I want to cry…”
As she enters the third and last room, I look around myself. I’m not making any progress here… Maybe it’s because I watched the enemy player too much, but I’m stuck.
“Everything looks the sa! I don’t even know where I went and where I didn’t!”
I’m currently in a maze-like repetition of rooms. The dungeon battle started the sa as the last battle: the waiter-hellspawns and the imps hiding behind the portraits.
But then, I crossed one of the room’s doors and soon found myself in a series of interconnected tunnels. And those tunnels lead to rooms identical to the first one, up to the smallest and insignificant details.
And since everything looks the sa, I quickly lost my way. To make matters worse, there are still so imps appearing from behind portraits… I don’t even know where I am anymore!
“I don’t think I can find the exit any ti soon… Let’s hope she dies first!” I continue with my prayers. “Please, let her die… Please, let her die… Please, let her die…”
A Lil’ Demoness enters the third and last room, and what she does imdiately after entering is… throwing the two remaining imps at the two lightning rods.
“Isn’t this… the Throw an Ally skill? It’s the first ti I've seen it in battle!”
Throw an Ally (Active skill)Cost: 100 EPThrow one ally unit into a space within 15 ters. All units within 2 ters of the impact zone, including the thrown unit, take (20 1,5 * STR 0,2 * Max HP of the thrown unit) physical damage. Whether you can throw or not another unit depends on that unit’s size and your Strength stat.
This is one of those skills that are rarely used on mobs, because they don’t really know when or where to throw their allies. But in the hands of a Champion, controlled by a player instead of an AI… you can achieve so interesting things.
“Ok, so you threw the imps, but now they are going to die because of the impact, and you won’t manage to destroy the lightning traps… Uh, ok, nevermind…”
It looks like the imps have the skill God's Intervention, which prevents them from dying the first ti they would, and makes them invulnerable for a few seconds.
Then, the Lab Assistant throws a fireball and, as I already imagined, is negated by the Fire Protection skill. Oh, and of course the imps take no damage because they are currently invulnerable.
“Yeah, why not? I don’t even care anymore…” I say in a sullen voice. “With so many tricks and prepared skills, it’s clear you are playing dirty. The question is how? Because I could understand if you hack the ga to know the location of traps and mushrooms, and maybe you prepared the Fire Protection skill in foresight, for both the Fiery Flies and the Lab Assistant’s fireball… But this doesn’t explain in any way how she knew about the second room and how to ‘easily’ clear it!”
She casts Hellfire, targeting one of the lighting rods and the lab assistant at the sa ti. This ti, she maintains the Hellfire activated for a while, until the lightning rod is destroyed.
Hellfire has an initial burst damage and a Damage over Ti effect that can be kept active for as long as the user wants. So the ten ‘hits of life’ of the Lightning Rod are quickly depleted.
anwhile, the lab assistant has decided that killing an invulnerable imp is a better option than attacking the vulnerable champion, so he’s doing nothing helpful. Well, true, she is taking so damage from the Fire Aura, but it’s a negligible amount compared to the damage the assistant is taking from her.
It would have been better for the assistant to just stand still than attacking an invulnerable enemy. For its own dignity.
“Then, it ans that she got the whole info of the dungeon before the dungeon battle even started… Does this an she hacked the ga even earlier?”
The battle continues, and she casts another Hellfire, this ti targeting the other lightning rod and the lab assistant. She doesn't forget to attack the lab assistant with the whip between casts.
“Nah, this wouldn’t make sense… Because the only thing she could know was the dungeon layout. The traps, mushrooms and units are selected during the battle preparation phase, so it’s not possible…”
Finally, the invulnerability of the two imps disappears and they imdiately die to the Fire Aura. But by this ti, the lab assistant is almost at half HP, and the succubus has almost full HP.
At that ti, she casts another Hellfire, which triggers the lab assistant’s Frosty Retribution skill. They are quite far apart, but the ice nova still reaches where she is. And as the ice wave cos towards her, she disappears again with Blink and completely avoids the skill. And the following Fireball is negated by the Fire Protection skill, yet again.
“Yeah, why not! What else can go wrong?! I think the only thing that could happen to worsen the situation is that I die before she destroys the dungeon core...”
From then on, the battle develops into a lee battle, since both have no MP remaining to cast spells. But the whip’s attacks have more range, and also sotis make the lab assistant stop moving for a second. This, added to the fact that she has more HP, makes this a matter of ti before she wins.
“Haaaaah…. Please, sobody explain to what's happening! I don’t understand anything anymore!” I shout while pulling my head’s fur. Because I don’t have hair, you already know. “How can this be? She knew everything! EVERYTHING!”
So ti later, she manages to kill the Lab Assistant. Then she goes towards the dungeon core, and destroys it.
Dungeon Battle Lost!Winner:Wicked Legion - Hellish Dreamland - A Lil’ DemonessRewards Obtained…
“Ok, I’ve lost. Again. But this isn’t important. The important thing is ‘How did she know about everything I was going to use!’”
I’ve discarded the possibility of hacking, so this only leaves the option that she sohow knew everything from the start. Even from before the dungeon battle started.
I’m sure it must have been Ricard. He is clearly the most suspicious person. But he has another player nickna, so he can’t be the one I’m fighting against… Then maybe he told everything to another person?
While being paranoid about how this situation could co to be, I receive a ssage from her.
[A Lil’ Demoness]
‘Fufufu! This ti it was even easier than the last! You know, the next ti you want to face sobody in a dungeon battle, you should make sure that your opponent doesn’t know about your plans beforehand.
I’m your shadow, I feed on your dreams. Did you really think I wouldn’t know that you asked for help to plan this dungeon battle? You shouldn’t have, because thanks to this, I could know everything! Fufufu!’
“....” I have no words.
How far do you go into roleplay to send this kind of ssage? I know succubus are supposed to attack you while dreaming, so the shadow and dreams part makes sense in a way…
But of course, the part I can’t ignore is the last one. She knew everything because I asked for help?
“... Doesn’t this an she’s a spy? And she’s always following ? Maybe a stalker? Since when…?”
“No, wait. Don’t be stupid, Andreu! There was another person other than Ricard when you were planning the dungeon. And she’s a woman!”
As if to confirm my suspicions, I get another ssage from A Lil’ Demoness.
[A Lil’ Demoness]
‘By now I suppose you already suspect it. Yes! It was all along! I’m Laura! I was just playing a little with you. Did you like my dungeon? I did like yours. It was… easy! Hehehe!
I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier, but when I tried to tell you today, you asked for help to design your dungeon and couldn’t hold myself back from thinking you were being unfair. So I chose to be unfair too. Hehe!’
“Y-y-you… You DEMON! How could you do this to ? You knew I was looking for help and instead of helping , you used this chance to utterly destroy !! Aaaaaagh!”
“Fuck! Shit! Why didn’t I suspect it before! Now that I’ve heard her confession, it was clear that she was behaving weirdly today! How could I be so blind!”
[Disguised Koala]
‘You traitor! I thought you were my friend! Why did you do this!? Do you know how bad I felt when everything was set against !? The injustice! The feeling of everything I planned going wrong!
I demand a rematch! And this ti it’s going to be a fair match! No extra info and no banning and crippling the other. I’ll show you that you won only because you cheated! This ti, it’s going to be you who feels worthless!’
What I’m most angry about is the fact that she was the one who proposed most of the ideas for this second battle. So, obviously, everything she told was so that she could better crush later.
[A Lil’ Demoness]
‘Ok, ok. Don’t be like that! It was a prank. I’m sorry that you took it so bad.
If you want a rematch, it’s fine by . But you must know that the reason why I resorted to such tricks was because I’m lower leveled than you. So it would have been almost impossible to beat you in a straight fight… Anyway, let’s talk about it tomorrow, ok? See you!’
This conversation happens before the dungeon battle, at a mont when Andreu is not present.
“So… when are you going to tell him that it’s you who’s playing as A Lil’ Succubus? I know it’s fun to taunt Andreu, but if you continue for too long… he might get really angry.”
“Awww… Just this one ti. I don’t want to make him too angry, I just want to have a laugh before he realizes the truth. Also… he was planning to take advantage by asking us for help, so I’m going to punish him for playing dirty! I’m going to tell him after the match.”
“Then I’ll wait until you finish the second match. If you don’t tell him by then, I’ll be the one to tell him...”
After the initial anger faded away, I was tornted by sha. Sha from losing the battles against a lower level player, and even more sha for being deceived like a fool. But it quickly faded away when I started to plan the revenge match.
‘Fufufu! Hahaha! You’re going to regret making the Mad Rat mad! Well, madder! I’ll make you despair! I’ll make you suffer the sa as I did, or even worse! Just you wait! Hahahaha!’
These were my internal thoughts while planning the nastiest experience I could imagine.
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