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The trail that led them along wound deeper and deeper into the verdant rowth of the juill he finally found the valley again. It was still densely grown with trees, but a game path ran through the middle of it, and the ridges oher side seemed entirely impassable. The massive, grunks and broad boughs weighed down by thick moss and heavy vines clearly spoke to the thousands of years this jungle had in undisturbed.
Keeping a careful watch for danger, he ehe valley. His eyes flitted from side to side, trag the riot of movement and struggling to assess threats quickly enough. Most of what he saw were frogs, bugs, beetles, or snakes. Some of them were no doubt venomous, but nothi out to attack them on sight. Every now and then he would catch sight of wyverns wheeling high overhead, but with the dense opy betweehey were never noticed.
The effects of his Blessing of the Wanderer were remarkable – synergizing well with his gear and skills – resulting in a sense of ease of movement through the forest. He was faster, sharper, and quicker to react, and with the movement speed enhas from both the blessing and his boots buffing even his walking speed, he found he had to stop more frequently than he expected so that his friends did not fall behind.
Rounding a particurly aged oak, the trail led into a wide clearing, filled with grasses and low shrubs that Ali was already eyeing for their potential. He paused, sing the area. Out and about among the grasses, he spied three strange-looking creatures rooting and scratg in the dirt. Creatures that seemed more pnt than monster, a little bigger than house cats, but their bodies were made of gnarled and twisted wood with branches and twigs stig out haphazardly. They had fs that resembled squat branches, a vine-like tail, and a scruff ht pials along their backs and heads, f something like a crest. Giant stisects wearing flower wreaths on their heads.
Swinging slowly, sloth-like through the bra the edges of the clearing were several much rger Moss Creeper monsters. The strangely amorphous climbing mounds of moss paused periodically to engage in strangely inscrutable moss-creature activities, and when they moved on, they left behind them heavy patches of moss and fronds that hung from the tree branches.
Floral Menace – Pnt – level 15-21 x3.
[Explorer]A pnt monster of the wood persuasion.Category: Mohreat Level: NormalMoype: PntDamage: Physical, NatureMoss Creeper – Moss – level 16-25 x3.
[Explorer]An animated pile of sloth-like moss.Category: Mohreat Level: NormalMoype: MossDamage: Physical, Nature
A shrill screech pierced the calm, and the neck scruffs of pials fred ora monsters, telling him they had been seen.
“Pnt monsters, nature damage,” he announced.
“On it,” Mato said, shifting immediately as the hostile pnts rushed forward. Mato charged to intercept them as ducked sideways to get a better line for his arrows.
“They’re using magic,” Ali’s voice came from behind him as she joihe bat.
All around Mato, the groued with pnt growth. Tiny leaves sprang up through the grass f brightly colored buds. They shivered and cwed their en and suddenly the entire circle around the monsters, Mato, and Malika bloomed in a brilliant pink sea of flowers.
What the heck?
He had expected something like the Forest Guardian – grasping roots or vines reag to attack. But this was a flower patch…
The entire circle of tiny flowers shivered in unison as if propagating a shockwave from the epiter of the fight. Petals shot up and out in an astonishingly abundant explosion of pink that filled the air. In seds, the etlefield was obscured in a dense cloud of flyials.
Within the dense cloud, all he could perceive were the crashes and thumps, shrill shrieks, and excmations of blind bat. He stood there waiting, bow drawn, uo find a target for his arrows.
“Mato, that’s me!” Malika’s voice shouted from the petal storm, followed quickly by several thumps and crashes.
Suddenly, Malika somersaulted out of the dense cloud of petals, a branch-like creature writhing, biting, and scratg in her grasp.
As soon as Malika nded, more flowers began to sprout, but was already shooting, adding his arrows to the flurry of magic Ali aimed at Malika’s catch, too. Several shots were all he was allowed before the air exploded with pials, and again he had to wait for Malika t the monster out of its protective cloud.
“Argh, I ’t see anything,” he grumbled.
“Me her,” Ali said, her eyes narrowed in razor-sharp focus. “But it’s pretty.”
He g her in frustration, but he couldn’t holy argue. It was a swirling cloud of pretty pink nastiness.
It was frustratingly slow work, waiting for Malika to wade in, and grapple blindly with the monsters before dragging them out into the open for a brief few moments before they had to repeat the process. But the strategy seemed sound, so forced himself to atiently, trying to optimize the number of arrows he could fire in the short window of time when he had a clear line of sight.
“It’s a good thing they’re small,” he said whe one perished and they moved to finish off the much easier Moss Creepers.
“Appropriately named,” Ali said, looking down on the corpses of the petal monsters, before destrug them.
“Frustrating is what they are,” Malika agreed. “Being blinded sucks.”
certainly appreciated her point of view. Both he and Malika were limited to normal perceptions, and they were both easily blinded. Even though his perception skill was quite potent, it was still vision-based. Mato and Ali both had a sedary perception skill that worked differently from normal senses and thus clouds of petals or simir obsg effects probably bothered them a lot less. His Explorer’s Sense Prey was quite useful for finding monsters in the jungle, but he wasn’t accurate enough with it yet to shoot into a cloud and not hit his friends.
“Let’s get out of this clearing,” he said, looking up at the dangerous wheeling forms of the wyverns cirg above. They hadn’t been noticed yet, but it robably not smart to tempt fate.
Bader the retive safety of the thick opy of trees, he trickled mana into his Explorer skill, beginning to see the signs that something rge had passed this way. Branches and twigs were freshly snapped, deep iions in the damp mossy ground – all helpfully highlighted with his enhanced perception.
Maybe one of the forest guardians? He wasn’t certain, but of all the mohey had entered so far, the giant elementals of wood and bark fit the signs the best. It seemed to be following the same path they were – extra-cautious now, he drew his panions’ attention to the tracks and expined what he suspected.
The trail led to a rocky outcrop and a break irees, and somewhere beyond, heard the shuffling and stomping of something heavy.
“I’m going to scout up ahead quickly,” he whispered, activating Eclipse and vanishing into the shadows. Carefully using Explorer to mask the sound of his movement, he ventured out, dodging pnts and rocks with ease. As the trees opened, he found he had an unobstructed view of a small clearing near a rge jutting rocky outcropping. In the space up ahead, he saw the unmistakable hulking shape of the Forest Guardian, shuffling and stomping on fs that resembled tree trunks more than limbs. It seemed to be grazing on the grasses, surrounded by three of the stra creatures had ever seen.
Forest Guardian – Wood Elemental – level 40.
[Explorer]An enormous nature affinity elemental.Category: Mohreat Level: EliteMoype: ElementalDamage: Melee, Physical, Nature, HealingKnown Vulnerabilities: FireSpore Spreader – Fungus – level 12-19 x3.
[Explorer]A three-legged walking mushroom.Category: Mohreat Level: NormalMoype: FungusDamage: Physical, Nature.
pressed up against a rge tree trunk, barely moving while he studied the monsters. The guardian was familiar to him – enormous ptes of bark and heavy wood protected the massive elemental and, from beh heavy wooden bres in the low-slung head, its viridian eyes glowed with palpable intelligehe ground shuddered every time it moved.
Making full use of his enhanced vision, studied the curious fungus creatures. Spore Spreader… Each of the three monsters was a little taller than waist-high, with a dark leathery violet-greenish color. Shaped a bit like an oversized mushroom, they had sleems with a broad cap on top. Three small legs extended from the bottom of the stem, giving the monster a shuffling, but stable, symmetrical triangur base. The legs seemed to dig into the ground whehe moopped walking. Three rge arm-like limbs extended from beh the cap, long enough to brush the ground, and, as he observed, they were proo using the arms to help with lootioing in a shambling, shuffling gait. A thick carpet of tiny glowing violet mushrooms sprouted from the top of its heavy leathery mushroom cap giving it the distinct impression of clowing hair.
Careful to keep fueling his Eclipse stealth skill and his silent movement, he backed away from the clearing, grateful for his patron’s blessing enhang his dexterity and making him mile as he reached the rown trail.
“The path is blocked up ahead by a rocky outcrop,” he said, as he rejoined his friends still a fair way ba the trail and expined iail what he had seen. “Normally my Explorer would give me some idea of their capabilities, but it’s all twisted and fused here. It just warns of nature damage.” The Spore Spreaders worried him, clearly unnatural and ed by the bizarre magic of this area, he could hardly even imagine what dahey may present. Especially after having experiehe totally bizarre, but surprisingly effective petal storm from the Floral Menaces.
“We talk forever, but we won’t know until we attack,” Mato said. “We know the Guardian; I tank that, and you guys figure out the fungus creatures first?”
“That’s probably the best we do,” Malika agreed. “What levels are they?”
“The guardian is forty. The mushrooms are lower, twelve, fifteen, and een,” said, pursing his lips in thought. “Based o fight, we should be ready to be blinded by spores or something. Or maybe poison?”
“I handle a little poison with healing from Malika and Ali’s Acolytes,” Mato said.
“That seems doable,” Malika said. “Being blind is annoying, but we made it work.”
was used to Mato and his fight-seeking behavior, but if Malika was on board, then it probably wasn’t just his friend being overly enthusiastid… He gnced over at Ali for a moment. If he wasn’t mistaken, this would be Ali’s third guardian, and there was a good ce she would be able to summon them after the fight. The potential to substantially increase their team’s power seemed worth the risk of the unknown fungus monsters.
I’m probably w too much. He carefully set himself up on a rise with a good view of the rocky outcropping and the monsters below as the others prepared and Mato transformed.
The impossibly low-pitched and loud roar characteristic of the Forest Guardia Mato’s charge, shaking leaves and branches, and sending tremors of vibration pulsing through his body carried by the very air. He held his bow ready, alert for anything strange as Mato collided with the muassive wood elemental, r a challenge of his own. As expected, the entire area around Mato and the guardiaed in a chaotic explosion of roots and vihe result of the monster’s potent melee trol magic. It was certainly a good thing that Ali had repced all her melee monsters with slimes.
Judging that Mato had taken trol of that front, unleashed his arrows, aiming at one of the Spore Spreaders. Their goal would be to elimihem as soon as possible while remaining alert for ued danger. His arrows puhrough the monster’s mushroom cap, leaving clearly visible holes that immediately began shrinking and closing.
Regeion? No, that must be the Forest Guardian.
As the arrow struck, the strange fungus monster froze, quivering violently, and smmed all three powerful-looking arms into the ground, making a bizarre tripod among the writhing roots. All through the roots, grasses, and viiny violet mushrooms began t up, visible clearly in his enhanced vision and by the subtle glow of magic.
Is that an attack? In the back of his mind, he reized how simir it looked to the petal attack, but with mushrooms instead of little flowers. He quickly used Explorer to Identify the new growing mushrooms, leveraging the extended range of his Eyes of the Ar to pensate for the distance.
Violet Dreamcloud – Mushroom – level 11.
“It’s growing mushrooms,” he called out, irely sure what they might be able to do about it, but somehow certain it was important.
The pnted Spore Spreader began to hum, and the mushrooms on its cap – and those spread across the battlefield – began to glow intensely, greatly swelling in size. With a dramatic popping sound like a huge sheet of cloth being torn in two, the entire field of mushrooms exploded, releasing a dense violet cloud of spores.
I see through it! For a brief moment, he was relieved that the cloud attack wasn’t nearly as opaque as the petal storm.
And then Mato and Malika colpsed, Mato’s body twisting and ing as his limp body reverted to his normal Beastkin form. Instantly, the Forest Guardian unleashed its fury on Mato and Malika’s bodies, stomping and biting, while the roots twisted and crushed, making their bloodied and limp bodies flop grotesquely, while their blood sprayed across the verdant pnts.
The rushing burn of his mana igniting filled him with pain as activated Righteous Fury without even thinking. The etlefield slowed, as his mana enhanced all his skills and perceptions. He could see the individual droplets of Mato’s blood spraying into the air, and the ugly twisting ch as Malika’s arm snapped uhe weight of the elemental’s stomp – all in excruciating crity. His arrows flew in an intensely shining hail as he squandered his mana in reckless desperation, barely even sidering aim, relyiirely on his supercharged mana to lend him power and speed.
The giant elemental let out ahshaking roar, wheeling and suddenly accelerating to high speed as it used a rush skill to charge him, closing thirty feet in an instant, and leaving fag the suddenly much closer monster.
Oh shit!
He could feel the high-speed thump of his heart over the sound of the monster’s roar and the shaking of the earth as he stared down several thousand pounds of fury which would most certainly turn him into paste if it ected.
He had been intending to draw the ire of the moo lure it away from Mato and Malika. The problem was that he had succeeded, and in his urgency, he hadn’t thought through the rest of his pn. He didn’t have the resilience, durability, or defense skills they did, so he didn’t stand a ce.
He turned and ran for his life.
He mao reach the edge of the rocky outcropping when he felt his mana calm down, and the world around him sped up to normal.
Righteous Fury is down, I’m slower. It was obvious, but explicitly thinking the words to himself had the effect of letting him catch up to the enormity of the runaway disaster he articipating in. If he was to survive, not only would he have to outrun the monster, and figure out a way to escape or kill it, but he would also have to outrun the aura of pnt growth. Leaving aside the unimaginable possibility of actually killing it by himself, he simply o survive.
I don’t even have enough mao fly.
Well, that’s a problem I solve, he thought, barely slowing as he retrieved a mana potion and dow in a single gulp, his mind slowly calming down to a high state of panic. It would take a bit for the potion to restore enough mana, and he just o survive till then.
It’s really close. What sick joke were those mushrooms?
He could feel the ground shaking with the insa of the monster behind him, and the sharp reports of branches snapping and splinters flying did nothing to ease his mind. The only thing that was keeping him out of reach of his pursuer was the Blessing of the Wanderer and the increase in his movement speed.
But that’s not enough, he realized as his mental warning told him that the guardian’s Rush skill robably close to recharged.
Almost precisely thirty seds after the guardian had used it, heard the thunderous roar of the Rush and the sudden burst of branches ripping and tearing not far behind him – not far at all. Risking a gnce back over his shoulder, he found the roots and vines reag for him, missing by a st foot or two.
What I do? His mind raced frantically, desperately searg for any ideas that had even the slightest ce of w. He veered in a long slow arc around the rocky outcrop while the monster tio pursue him. When the recharge is up… he knew he had less than thirty seds before he would be crushed uhe trampli of the giant elemental.
His frantic, frenzied over thinking mind threw progressively more and more ridiculous and improbable ideas at him until suddenly something clicked. Without waiting to think it through, he took a step onto a boulder, leaped into the air with a spin, and as his body faced backward toward the now terrifyingly onster, he loosed an arrow, choosing the Grappling Shot skill. He had been using this magic to ground wyverns and bats, and he was under no illusions that he could actually trap something of such powerful brute strength a, but he didn’t need much – gaining a few yards would be something.
His of light shot out, striking the Forest Guardian in the shoulder between the heavy ptes of bark and wood, while the gnarled roots and vines reached toward him from the ground as his body arced through the air. With a flurry of activity, the wound itself around the huge elemental, and was treated to the sight of it being yao a sudden stop as his body barely cleared the pnt growth magid his foot touched down on the ground. He rinting away even before he had pletely nded, and within seds there was a great otion as the Forest Guardian freed itself by ripping his magic out of the ground through sheer brute strength, tearing up huge ks of earth and ro the process.
That was close. There were several moments when he was certain the vines would reach his flyi, but he had made it, and he had bought himself a little more than ten yards. He was not out of the woods, so to speak, but at least he had a little breathing room.
He turhe er again and saw Ali up ahead on the rise, crouched beside the prone forms of Mato and Malika, her Kobold Acolytes actively healing. Somehow, iensity, he had lost track of the fact that he was running around the rocky outcropping, and he had e full circle, leading the elemental straight at his friend. Genius.
“Watch out!” he yelled as he tinued sprinting by.
His mental warning alerted him just as the roar of the guardian’s Rush skill ripped through the clearing. dodged to the side reflexively and darted away.
Shit, I should have gooward the rock. His dodge had pced him out in the open and now he was vulnerable to being cut off, especially as he couldn’t cut through the aura of pnt growth without being trapped and trampled.
Quickly he checked his mana, which was still being slowly regeed by his mana potion. Maybe enough. He waited for another sed before he activated his Azrael’s Wings skill. Mana poured into the skill, and his glowing white wings of ephemeral light erupted out from his back, lifting him into the air. Desperate to take advantage of the few moments of mana he had, he cut across the path of the guardian, aiming for the rugged rocky wall he had been running alongside before. The guardian roared a challenge and gave chase, but he was high enough to avoid the aura, nding as soon as he was clear, serving just enough mana that he would be able to use his Grappling Shot again.
would never have imagined he would find himself running for his life, while simultaneously putiive trajectories, trag a thirty-sed recharge, and calg optimal mana usage. His brai like it was on fire. But the monster was still behind him, and he was – somehow – still alive.
He sprinted around the rocky outcropping – a rge hill-like colle of boulders and rown trees – settling into something of a pattern. He leaped again, spinning in the air and using Grappling Shot to gain a few seds before sprinting away.
This ’t st. While he was able to keep ahead of the monster with his movement speed, dexterity, and the occasional use of his other skills, he was slowly running out of stamina. He had made absolutely nress on figuring out how to escape or, even more improbably, killing the mohe biggest issue was if he escaped, it would likely return and kill Ali, who could fly away, and Mato and Malika, who could not.
I need help. Something to get out of the situation, or to overe the charging monster’s regeion. His mental warning told him the Rush skill was almost ready, so he angled away from the safety of the rocks. So far, every time the monster used Rush, it traveled insanely fast, but in a straight line. He was banking on it not being able to turo the physiomentum, but wary of any ical trickery that might e into py. The thunderous roar shook the ground, splintering trees as the monster used its skill right on time.
dodged back towards the rock wall. He felt a rush of raw satisfa as the giant elemental charged away from the rocky outcrop while he ducked the other way and the gap between them widened dramatically. It wheeled and turned, sending clods of dirt and grass flying as it redirected its siderable momentum in an unbelievably short distance.
That went a lot better. He had mao gain a moment of breathing room by faking the monster out, causing it to charge away from him with its Rush skill, and saved his mana, which he might need for his Grappling Shot or wings. He downed another mana potiht as the first one expired, sprinting around the er and firing his Grappling Shot backward as the monster cleared the turn.
“I killed the mushrooms! you keep that thing busy for a bit longer?” Ali shouted, catg him by surprise as he rouhe rocks and found himself back at the starting point once again. His gnce caught sight of Mato and Malika lying on the ground beside Ali and some of her Kobold healers. They were not stirring, but to his great relief, even at this distance he could tell they were both breathing and most of their injuries seemed to have been healed already.
“Sure, no problem!” he yelled back as he dodged out away from the rock, preempting the guardian’s Rush skill and drawing it out so that he could dodge the other way at the perfeent and still be on his circuit.
What am I saying? One wrong step and I’ll die! But he khat whatever scheme Ali was cooking up was his only ce of getting out of this with his friends all alive. He just hoped it would be ready before he ran out of stamina or made an unrecoverable error. e on, . Focus, give her time.
As he began the circuit, he reflected on his strategy. Timing the Rush skill with a fake out gained him the most distance for the least cost – only the little stamina o run full speed. Grappling Shot was his most effective tool, costing almost as much mana as he was regeing from his potions. Flight was his least effective – requiring him to el mana in quantities he couldn’t afford, but it was also likely his most powerful escape tool, provided he could recover enough mana before he ran out of stamina, and Ali could do something to save Mato and Malika.
Maybe I give her my recall potions to send them bad I escape with flight? He finally rouhe rock again, and saw Ali up on the ridge, surveying the battlefield with focused attention.
“Drag it uhe outcrop!” she yelled down at him, pointing.
Following the dire of her small hand, he found a rock that was jutting out over the path he would be taking. He likely wouldn’t have passed directly u without Ali requesting it, but it didn’t seem that far out of his way. As he approached, his eyes picked out the oozes stuck to the ro various positions, softly wobbling and writhing as they hung there, most of them on the underside of the rock.
Oh, clever. Ali wasn’t thinking of a way to escape, she meant to kill the monster. Her choice of the Scalding Slimes looked like a perfect strategy. sprinted closer to the rock wall, passing directly uhe , and, judging the timing precisely, he executed his leap-and-spin tactic, firing Grappling Shot at the Forest Guardian, pinning it directly below Ali’s trap. Hope this helps.
Ali didn’t hesitate to take advantage of the window of opportunity, and he heard several squelg spts as the slimes fell from the , nding directly on the Forest Guardian, followed by the hissing of high-pressure steam jetting out of the slimes and roars of fury.
He gnced worriedly at his stamina as he began his fourth circuit. A bit more than o, he decided. At that point he would be at the mercy of fate, if Ali’s slimes could do enough damage during the circuit to kill the monster, overing its regeion, he would be safe. If not…
By the time he was halfway around, he knew Ali could not have picked a better monster for this job. As he spun in the air, firing his Grappling Shot, he could see the Scalding Slimes had treat holes in the wood-and-bark armor and the Forest Guardian looked decidedly worse for wear.
By the time he reached the final stretch, he k wasn’t enough. He just hoped Ali would be able to survive it when his stamina finally ran out. He had used every sirick he had learo eke out the st of his resources, but he was running oy. He rouhe final er with zero mana, and only five points of stamina remaining.
But the sight that greeted him almost made him falter. Up on the ridge, Ali stood with an expression of absolute tration, s from her face as she discarded ay potion vial on the ground. She was shooting her Are Bolts into the air, but instead of a normal stream of three, there was a brilliant cloud with hundreds of magical bolts zipping across from the ridge where she was standing toward the , where a lone slime still g to the rock.
Just before the bolts hit the slime, they all flipped around in midair and shot back the way they had e, straight for Ali.
The enormity of what she had do a jolt of hope through him as he burhe st remnants of his stamina to kite the wounded Forest Guardian to the , and the trap Ali had id for it.
Right before he reached the spot, all the bolts flipped again, tearing across the battlefield toward the slime hanging high above, like a demented horde of angry golden hors, but this time, instead of turning around, they suddenly all took a rapid curving dive, and thousands of bolts smmed into the Forest Guardian in a glorious golden tornado of destru.
Amid the roar, sizzle, and shuddering of the ground, ’s notification sounded. With a final heave, the ground bucked as the huge Elemental colpsed, and ’s knees buckled as he sagged into a heap of his own, his breathing ragged, pletely spent.
***
“How are they doing?” he asked, looking down at Mato and Malika as they y there unmoving. There seemed to be a lot blood, but they looked otherwise unharmed.
“I think they’re going to be ok,” Ali answered. “The Dreamcloud spores seemed to act like poison with the side effect of knog you out. I had to keep healing them the eime, pretty nasty stuff.”
“I think we should camp here for a bit, at least till they wake up. I don’t think I handle anht like that.” While his mana and stamina were regeing, it would certainly be a while before he was ba fighting shape.
“Shouldn’t we recall back?” Ali asked.
“I ’t get the potions out of Malika or Mats, and I don’t think we have enough betweewo of us,” said.
“It was lucky you got that movement speed on your blessing,” Ali said, looking at him thoughtfully.
It truly was good fortune, and while he was certain that could not be how the Luck trait worked, if he didn’t know aer, he would have been one hundred pert vinced all the stories and legends about the patroy of luck were true after today.
sat beside his unscious friends, feeling like all the juice had been wrung out of him, but he could not be happier that they, and he, had survived the harrowing battle. It was ohing when he could easily pinpoint strategic or tactical mistakes so that he could learn to be better – but in this fight, he couldn’t imagine a way he should have acted differently. There was no doubt that the Forest Guardian would have trampled Mato and Malika to death in seds, and so his attag the moo gain its attention had been a necessary move. Everything from there on had flowed from the simple o stay alive. Still, he had o rely on Ali’s crazy pn w.
“You know, we ’t keep doing this,” said after his breath began to steady.
“Doing what?” Ali asked.
“So many close calls.”
“But we won, does it matter?” Ali asked, pausing her efforts to up the battlefield to look his way.
“Even with fair dice, if you throw them often enough you will get snake eyes,” said. “The odds were definitely not in our favor for that st battle. Sure, we might be getting strong faster, but we ’t be so reckless.”
“I see what you mean,” Ali answered, sitting down again. “What we do? It’s not like we trol the circumstances, and we do need risk to grow.”
“I think we be smarter at anticipating problems and having a pn to deal with things that e up,” said, but Ali was right – pnning for the ued was fraught with difficulty. “At least we should each carry enough recall potions to save the whole team,” he said, gesturing at the still-unsato and Malika. “We ’t be forced into fights because someos knocked out and we ’t access their rings.”
“That seems smart,” Ali nodded. “And I’m sure Malika will have thoughts when she wakes up.”
“Good idea,” said, and then turned his attention to his notifications.
Yroup has defeated Spore Spreader – Fungus – level 12-19 x3.Yroup has defeated Forest Guardian – Wood Elemental – level 40.
“Did you get them?” asked, watg Ali destruct the corpses they had defeated.
“The Spore Spreaders and the Violet Dreamcloud, but not the Guardia.” She seemed saddened by the st one, but khe Forest Guardian held a lot of significe for her, and he also k would just be a matter of time.
Her css is terrifying. Knowing that she was a dungeon was ohing, but seeing her walking around, systematically adding every challenging mohey fought to her repertoire had a much deeper and more visceral impact. The guardian and the spreaders together had beeremely dangerous, and Ali could already make half of the bination.
I’m really gd she’s on our side. He turned his attention to the rest of his notifications.
Archer of Light has reached level 34.+10 attribute points.
Radiant Archery has reached level 23 (+2).Arrows of Brilliance has reached level 25.Explorer has reached level 21.Blessing of the Dawn has reached level 18 (+2).Eclipse has reached level 17.Eyes of the Ar has reached level 20 (+2).Righteous Fury has reached level 10.Azrael's Wings has reached level 4.
It was a substantial number of skill levels gained for one fight, but it seemed appropriate. He had run himself out of both mana and stamina desperately using everything to gain advantage. He divided his points; four into dexterity, three to perception, two into intelligence, and the st poi into sh up his lowest attribute: strength. Immediately, a further notifiade him sit up straighter.
Oh, what’s this?
Requirements met for skill adva.
Patroy: The Wanderer.Eyes of the Ar has reached level 20.Perception has surpassed 150.Intelligence has surpassed 100.Identify a target in bat further than 500 yards.
Eyes of the Ar gains Sniper Sight.Eyes of the Ar – level 20Greatly enhanced visual acuity, able to see iremely low light.Mana: Your vision is enhanced for long-distance viewing or aimier a state of focused awareness whihahe range and acuity of all Perception skills. Movement cels the effect.Light, Perceptiohis adva?
The Wanderer agaiudied the advance offered to him, notig that, for the sed time, his skill growth was being strongly influenced by his chosen patroy. He could dee it and wait for a different dire, but he now uood why patronages – deities, mentorships, or even aithes – were so important, and why many schors reended not accepting anything that wasly in lih yoals. Choosing ohat oorly aligned with desired css growth and dire could be a disaster.
He accepted the advance. While he hadn’t really thought through the patibility, and simply had goh his feelings when he accepted it, the traits and focus of the Wanderer’s patronage seemed to be an exceptional fit for what he wanted. Sniper Sight was already exg, and he immediately tried it out.
His vision immediately telescoped out into the jungle, creating a dizzying, disorientiion that he had suddenly moved a lot closer. While his vision scoped in, he could sehe stillness and calm of his focus being enhao an almost frightening iy. His breathing slowed, and he could even hear his owbeat through the tiny blood vessels in his ears. On the branch of the distant oak, led among the fronds of damp moss, he ied a tiny tree frog, moisture-beaded green skin blending perfectly with its surroundings, and only the red of its feet standing out as they clutched at the moss and bark. It twitched, and followed the rapid unfurling of its tongue shing out to snag a bug bato its mouth. The sudden twitch through its body caused a few droplets of water to fly off its head in a glistening, ephemeral spray.
Red-toed Treefrog – Frog – level 2
[Explorer]A frog, well adapted to this chaotia-riviro.Category: CreatureThreat Level: Noure Type: FrogDamage: Negligible
He released his focus, vision snapping back to normal in a dizzying rush. Even his Explorer skill had been enhanced by the new advance – while he was scoped in with the elescopic sight advance, he was able to use it to Identify the frog as if he were standing right beside it.
On its surface, the advance seemed ideal for a syle stealth archer with ambush skills, and while he still hoped to unlo ambush skill to use with his Eclipse, he knew he would be using this new perception skill advanany things. Scouting or trag from a distance, or even the air would be simple. Making le shots like the ones he needed against the Corust Rays became a lot easier if he could see further.
Practical, and useful in several important sarios, he thought, happy with his choice – both the skill adva and the dire his patroy’s influence was showing him.
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Name: AveryRace: Half-Elf
Active Buffs: Blessing of the Dawn, Blessing of the Wanderer
Css: Archer of Light – level 34- Radiant Archery – level 23- Arrows of Brilliance – level 25- Motes of Light – level 12- Explorer – level 21- Blessing of the Dawn – level 18- Eclipse – level 17- Eyes of the Ar – level 2hteous Fury – level 10- Azrael's Wings – level 4- [Locked]
General Skills- Bowcraft – level 7- Wood Carving – level 3- Cartography – level 9
Aptitudes- Languages: ana (Affinity): Light- Perceptive (Racial): +11 to Perception- Quick (Racial): +5 to Dexterity- Timing (Css): You have an innate sense of timingPatrons & Tithes- Deity: The Waributes- Vitality: 39- Strength: 10- Endurance: 25- Dexterity: 243 (+117) - Perception: 156 (+62) - Intelligence: 146 (+58) - Wisdom: 44
Equipment- on: Hunter's Bow – level 10- Body: Leather Armor – level 20- Hands: Bracers of Accuracy – level 10- Feet: Simple Boots of Swiftness – level 15- Ring: Silver Guild Ring – level 30
Evasion: 240Dodge: 20.13%+5% to Accuracy rating.+13% to Movement speed.
Health: 390/390Stamina: 250/250Mana: 352/440 (88 Reserved)
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