Almost right away in the dungeon, Nyx wanted to show off her intrinsic skill to me.
“You already cleared the dungeon once today, I need to get some levels” she said, pouting.
“FIne, you can take the lead right away. I can handle everything here pretty easily as is. All I care about really is the sp from the boss” I tell her.
“Well, then” and she rose her hand. And right in front of her, several suites of armor form from a blackish purple substance. It is the same as how I once saw the slimes form, but now they are human adjacent.
“Oh, you got cooler summons now, awesome” I say, checking them out. Each of the knights have some sort of weapons, like a knight should.
“Yep, all of them are pretty strong, in terms of E ranks. But I think a single one would be weaker then any monsters in this dungeon” she tells me.
“Do they have levels? The monsters here are all 50, until the boss”
“All of them are around 40, but I don’t really know how that compares”
“What do you mean?” I ask her. Monsters all grow in predictable ways. Comparing one of each type of monster, like a level 10 goblin compared to the level 50 would be linear growth. This even takes into account evolutions of the monsters.
“I think that my summons grow differently” she say, almost like she knows what I am thinking. “More like how hunters stats changes can increase over time”
“Huh, well, maybe this could be interesting” I say, looking forward to seeing them in action.
And with this, we start moving in the dungeon, ready for our raid.
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Well, I think that Nyx may have a very broken ability.
“I think they are having an easier time than I did by myself” I say, watching the 15 knights completely destroy the skeletons.
“Yep, they move in completely unison, with whatever I want them to do. So if it's to protect me they all just move on their own to do that” she tells me.
“That's pretty cool” but I noticed a problem right away. She wouldn’t grow stronger herself. But I don’t bring it up right now, since that would be kinda rude. Hunters shouldn’t give unsolicited advice, it's pretty rude since you don’t know what they want to do with their growth.
“I know its so cool, and it makes hunting super easy, at least for now. BUt I do what to see what there limit is, just to test them out.” she tells me.
And thanks to the summons, the two of us get to the boss room very quickly. We didn’t move super quickly through the dungeon, but thanks to the summons, Nyx did get a few levels for her summons.
Moving into the boss room, we prepared for the fight. Nyx and I agreed we both wanted to get the rewards for clearing the dungeon boss, so we needed to fight together for this one. THis meant I wasn’t going to one shot the boss with magic like last time.
“You ready” I said to her before the fight started.
“Yes” she said back to me.
And so we started the boss fight.
I knew a little of how the boss acts during the fight, but not much. I knew it could summon skeletons to help, but not much else.
As the fight starts, the skeleton mage starts to chuckle and raises its staff. Then bringing it down, the ground beneath it starts to crack. And from it comes a bunch of skeletons.
From what I read, as long as you dealt with one skeleton, it counts as being good enough for the boss rewards, so I let the knight summons deal with them.
And I made my way to the boss.
I rushed towards the boss right away, but it saw me coming. Raising its staff again, it fires a few blasts of magic at me.
This didn’t have any element to it, so it was just pure energy. Using visual awareness I was able to follow the attack, and cutting them down with my sword dealt with them. And when I got close to the mage, it moved back and dodged my first attack.
It then swung down with its staff, creating a magic attack against me. Using my better movement, I was able to sidestep the attack and swing again, hitting the skeleton and cutting off one of its arms.
This also knocks the skeleton out of my reach. When it gets back up, and before I could attack again, it starts to crackle again. Its a weird hollow laugh, and not very pleasant to hear.
But with the rise of a single finger, it points at me.
And more blasts of magic fire from it. There are many more than the last volley, showing that the boss is much more desperate now. I am able to block most of them, but a few do make it though and hit me.
But I barely feel any pain from it. I am a higher level and have endurance which helps with pain, so I could deal with a lot of damage from this boss.
BUt I do hear a gasp from Nyx behind me.
Knowing it wouldn’t be great to drag this out anymore, since I am taking a little damage, I use quick step to instantly close the distance between me and the boss and cut off the other arm.
And then, with a cool flourish, I cut the armless skelton in half, and kill it.
Skeleton Mage Lv.65 Has Died!
750 Exp Gained!
200 Sp Gained!
“Whew” I sigh looking back at the dead skeleton.
And from behind me, Nyx rushes over to me.
“Zenith, are you ok? I say you got hit. You're fine, right?” she said, worry entering her voice.
“Yeah, im fine. ONly a little damage” I tell her.
“Thats good. If you got hurt here, I don't know what I would do” she said. “I think I need to start preparing for raids more. I don’t even have any potions”
“Oh, I can handle all of that. My skill can make potions for me. I have a bunch made already” I tell her. Showing off I pull out a weak potion from my item box.
“Hmm, it seems like I still have a bunch to learn about being a hunter” she said.
“Don’t worry. You will learn in time. Just take it one day at a time” I tell her, trying to reassure her. “Oh, its about time for lunch, do you want to go eat something?”
“Oh yeah, thats a good idea. And there are a few things I want to discuss with you about hunting” she said.
ANd with that the two of us left the dungeon.
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@NamelessAlter damn... you're right. My bad... for a second I thought maybe 53 was between 52 and 54... I forgot they changed it to 52, 54 and then 53.
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