Adam stared at the sky, watg as the four manticores circled around them. The sun caused him to gnce away slightly.
“Seriously, these guys aren’t that stupid, eh?” Adam said, not really talking to anyone in particur.
“It will be difficult to face them sihey fly,” Jurot admitted.
“We don’t have too many people who fight at this kind e…” Adam bli the creatures.
The manticores, with their wicked tails, sent down clusters of spikes, which dropped among the group. Faool narrowly dodged a spike, though it mao graze his side.
“How rude,” Adam said, raising his Wraith towards the creatures.
Mana: 21 -> 18Spell: Fireball8D6 = 31 (2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6)31 damage!
Onward Soar: 1 -> 0
Mana: 18 -> 15Spell: Fireball8D6 = 31 (1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6)31 damage!
Adam elled his magic through his veins, which emanated into two beads of fire which shot upwards and exploded against the manticores, engulfing them within the fmes twice. The siing cries pierced through the air as one of the four manticores began to fly away, causing the rest to fly after them, not wishing to e across the force of Fireballs again, with arrows chasing after them, as well as bolts of fire.
“Why do you always have to ruin our fun?” Lucy asked.
“You just fly after them if you’re upset,” Adam replied dryly, before blowing against the top of his axe and sheathing it at his side.
Victory!XP Gained: +150XP: 8600 -> 8750
‘Nice,’ Adam thought, figuring the XP was shared between them all.
The howling in the distance caused the group to remain on guard, with two more people pg themselves on guard.
“It’s not just the Iyr which is scary,” Korin said to Adam. “You’re quite scary yourself.”
“You’ve not seehings I’ve seen, otherwise you wouldn’t even think of me as scary,” Adam said.
“You speak of the Lord of Fmes, Shama?” Korin asked.
“That’s right.”
“You e yourself, si was Lord Shama after all.”
“You know him?”
“Lady Sara knows the tale. He oned the nd, before the Iyr came to be, back when Aswadasad became known as Aswadasad.”
“What was it called?” Adam muttered to himself. “Aswa…”
“Aswabayad,” Korin firmed, before pausing. “Lord Stokmar, is he truly awake?”
“He, she, they…” Adam thought about ronouns to use with Lord Stokmar. ‘Is Stokmar even a being?’ “They’re awake.”
“Lord Stokmar…”
“Do you know of them?” Adam asked.
“Lord Stokmar, the Lord of Earth. He…” Korin paused. “They’re perhaps the greatest being known across all the nds. Even pared to children of the Gods and the Divihey’re special. There are legends of old which speak of great creatures, those who long slumber. Before the time of the Iyr, and even before the time of the likes of Emperor Shama, there were many great legends within this world. Lord Stokmar appears to be the st liviige of such a time. They shape the world itself with their prese is said that half the mountains within Aswadasad were shaped by Lord Stokmar.”
Adam whistled. “Damn. I didn’t realise they could…” Adam thought back to the Iyr, recalling how the terrain had shifted so suddenly. At first he thought it had been the great might of the Iyr, but it would have required so much great magic. ‘Was it Lord Stokmar?’
“Emperor Shama may be on a simir level now, but there was a time he was not so powerful, but still quite powerful. In his youth, he spent some time travelling through Aswadasad, and has been passed down iales of old. Some believe him to be a prophet of Noor, and others believe he was an angel of Noor, or even a fragment of Noor.”
“Noor? The God of Light?” Adam asked.
“Noor is less a God and more a supreme w of the world, in the same way that death would still exist without Lord Sozain, Noor is both the God of Light and Light itself. Or, so they say.”
“You don’t believe that?”
“It’s not that I don’t believe it, but that I have already sworn myself to Lady Arya, and will pray to her and her alone,” Korin said, smiling. “Of course, there are times that I pray to ods on behalf of others, but I pray to Lady Arya in all matters personally.”
“Fair. I pray to a few gods myself. Lady Arya and Lord Sozain, mostly. Speaking of which, I o head to a temple to donate and speak with them more often.” Adam sighed. “I’m such a busy bee.”
“That is why you should rest more within town,” Korin said, smirking.
“Anyway… I’m pretty sure Shama doesn’t have anything to do with the gods,” Adam said.
“How you tell?”
“Strom hated the gods, and I’m pretty sure Shama is the same way,” Adam replied.
“Strom? You speak of the one known as Emperor Hadda?” Korin asked. “I believe he was a panion of Emperor Shama.”
“Something like that,” Adam said, frowning.
Korin recalled how Lucy had been killed by the Emperor. “Still, I believe you are quite scary too.”
Adam smiled. “Man, you should see half the monsters in the Iyr.”
“Perhaps I will, one day.”
“Perhaps you will, one day.”
Korin wasn’t sure how to take Adam’s response.
As the hours passed by, they tio hear the howling in the distance, growing louder and closer. Eventually the group was ready to fight, noting the howling was but a few hueps away. A dozen direwolves darted between bushes and trees, trying to hide themselves as they eyed up the fort.
“That’s a lot of wolves,” Adam said, whistling.
“We should fight them,” Jurot said, strapping his shield to his arm.
“Alright.” Adam nodded, eyeing up both Faool and Laygak, who stood beside their older cousins, while Nirot stuck with Jurot, and the rouped together with Nobby and Dunes. Lud Mara stayed he rge group of teens.
They stepped out of the fort, ready to fight, while Charley and Greg remained behind with Korin, proteg Ivy and Lady Sara, just in case.
Battle OrderD20 + 1 = 7 (6)
Health: 78 -> 65Strength SaveD20 + 7 = 18 (11)
Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2Health: 65 -> 70
Attack - Wraith (Fnking)D20 + 10 = 11 (1)D20 + 10 = 15 (5)Hit!Mana: 15 -> 14Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 7= 25 (3, 6)(4, 5)25 damage!
Attack - Wraith (Fnking)D20 + 10 = 12 (2)D20 + 10 = 20 (10)Hit!Mana: 14 -> 13Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 7 = 20 (1, 6)(1, 5)20 damage!
Onward Soar: 1 -> 0
Mana: 13 -> 12Spell: Thunderous SmiteAttack - Wraith (Fnking)D20 + 10 = 12 (3)D20 + 10 = 20 (12)Hit!Omen: 6, 20 -> 620 + 10 = 30Critical hit!Mana: 12 -> 11Ability: Divine Smite4D6 + 4D6 + 4D6 + 7 = 57 (1, 2, 6, 6)(1, 4, 6, 6)(1, 5, 6, 6)57 damage!
Attack - Wraith (Fnking)D20 + 10 = 19 (9)D20 + 10 = 30 (20)Critical hit!Mana: 11 -> 10Ability: Divine Smite4D6 + 4D6 + 7 = 28 (1, 2, 2, 3)(2, 2, 4, 5)28 damage!
“Kill those that I attack,” Adam said to the teen Iyrmen, before he stepped forward, yet found himself ing uhe assault of a rge wolf, which smmed its cws across his breastpte as it leapt atop him. Adam mao stand tall against its heavy cws, while other wolves darted around him towards the other, less armoured prey.
Unfortunately for the wolves, the unarmoured prey they came across were Lucy, Mara, Jurot, and Kitool.
Luearly bisected one of the direwolves that came upon her, while two halves of a whole wolf dropped oher side of Mara, who mao do so. Jurot split the skull of a direwolf, and Kitool smashed the direwolf she faced, while freezing another in pce which had knocked Faool down. The moment allowed Du Faool up with a spell, only for the Iyrman to flip away from the creature to take a defeance. Jaygak mao wound a wolf, but remained ahead of it, trying to block it from passing her.
Adam struck the wolf which had attacked him, allowing Naqokan and Uwajin to cim it with their greatswords, before he stepped forward and came across another wolf, striking it along the side, allowing Bavin and Nobby to kill it. Another wolf tried to leap up against Adam, and sihe teen Iyrmen had found themselves against too many direwolves, Adam decided against holding back.
Standing atop the fort walls, the figure watched as Adam plucked a Thread of Fate, causing her scales to shift, before they bahemselves. The Thread of Fate shot towards the scale, sucked into the great artefact. It ed itself around the scales, causing the Goddess of the Scales to gowards it, having never seen this occur before, but the Thread of Fate finally disappeared.
“…”
Adam cut a wolf in half, before he stepped forward to cut another wolf against their neck, causing it to whinny in pain, before it met its end under a bolt of fire, a fming arrow, and a javelin. The wolves turo leave, and while Adam gnced around to check his panions, he shuddered. He could not see the golden bead frozen just millimetres from his head, threatening to pierce his skull.
Uveil recalled the bead, sighing. She rested her head against the scales, which bahemselves once more, having shifted from her involvement. ‘Bance,’ she thought. ‘I ot kill him personally.’
Victory!XP Gained: +150XP: 8750 -> 8900
Adam: casually adventures
The gods: and I took that personally
