Chapter 7: Undead Realm
"Boss, they don't have Guild Emblems on them"
"Attack!"
As soon as they came out of the portal, two loud voices greeted them.
"Protection Blessing" Guardian Knight was the first to react casting a blessing on the party and standing in front. Words that glowed in gold color sorrounded the party.
At least a dozen of arrows and various fireballs were sent into their position, Guardian Knight used his silver-rank shield's skill, a ghost-like version of the shield appeared protecting the party from the attacks.
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"Ahhhh Savior Savior help, help me please, it tickles!" Guardian Knight made a scream and everyone in the party burst into laughing. They looked at the ambushers, there were a group of at least 40 players in front of the Dungeon's entrance.
Seeing the ranged attacks barely doing any damage and the enemy mocking at them, the leader, a Elementalist got triggered.
"Melee, charge" she commanded while preparing another spell.
A group of at least twenty players charged at Guardian Knight, ready to kill.
"Screech" Leroy used his skills and the players in range that were in the front of the charge lost their balance, they were charging too fast and had no time to balance themselves, resulting in them falling and creating a domino effect.
"Hahahahah look at this idiots ahahaha" Swordman laughed loudly while unsheating his sword. Savior also snickered coldly watching the scene.
"Hell Fire"
After Leroy chanted the spell, green flames surged from the floor in an area of seven meters.
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At least 14 melee players were hit by the spell, they had barely any magic defense to protect them and most were instakilled.
The survivors stood up and tried to leave the area of the green flames, another wave of damages poped up, erasing what little hp they had left.
This sceen made the elementalist eyes constrict.
"You actually dared to kill my Guild players? Do you.." Before she could finish her useless threats, three flashes decaptitated her as a figure appeared on her back before dissapearing again. It was just then that the others noticed that the Assassin was no longer behind the Guardian Knight.
She moved among the enemies, killing one priest or mage after the other, all she needed was a single attack and they would drop dead on the floor.
Swordman also charged in front and killed a mage that was trying to run from the battle, after that he looked at the nearby trees in the forest were he saw a Ranger. "Wind Blade" he roared as he slashed with his sword in his enemy direction, creating a blade made of wind that hit the ranger, almost killing him.
The ranger fell from the tree into the ground, he looked up too greet a sword pointing at his forehead. "Oroboros will make you pay" was the last thing he said before the sword pierced his skull.
Seen the sceene, the rangers retreated at fast speed, as for the magic classes, they were also running in all directions,cursing that they couldn't grow another pair of legs to run faster, in the end, not a single one managed to escape Robin.
"How bothersome..." exlaimed Savior, clearly annoyed "Well, at least they dropped some bronze rank stuff"
The party checked the loot the enemy dropped, there was only some bronze rank equipment.
"These poor bastards!" Robin cursed, bronze rank equipment was not so rare now, various guild core teams even had full armors of bronze rank equipment.
"They said something about Oroboros... what is that anyway?" asked Swordman with a puzzled expression.
"I think it should be some kind of food" Guardian Knight wasn't sure neither.
A hand slapped the back of Guardian Knight's head. "You uncultured idiot, Oroboros is a snake species", it was Robin who corrected him.
"Ayyy" Guardian Knight touched the back of his head with an embarassed expression.
"Sensations, thanks for helping us in the Dungeon, it as quite some fun there" Swordman had a smile on his face.
"It was a bit interesting" Savior added.
"Have you completed your quest? What are your plans now?" Robin inquired.
"I have to enter the Dungeon again to complete the quest, but it is required that I do so alone" Leroy explained, he just entered along with the party to test the waters. Altough Hell Mode was a bit troublesome because of his lack of stats, the monsters didn't seem like anything special at all.
"Ohh I see... we are going back to Falling Moon Town to turn in some quests and restock, let's add each other and see if we go into Dungeons in the future"
Altough they would normally not play with others, Leroy proved to not only have overpowered stats but also his combat techniques were something that even experts were unable to accomplish at times, like casting one skill after the other while moving, altough the game had an assisted system to help mage classes hit their target, they could still see that Leroy aimed precisely and didn't need it to hit his targets. She felt that he was still holding back a lot.
"Alright then, when I'm finished I will notify you, if you need someone in the future you can send me a message" Leroy sent the four of them a Friend Request.
Savior, Robin, Guardian Knight and Swordman took Town Return Scrolls and teleported back to Falling Moon Town.
Leroy left the party and looked once again a the Dungeon entrance... "Well, I hope that this is somewhat harder than the previous Dungeon" he started waliking to the entrance.
System: Do you wish to enter the Dungeon?
"Yes"
System: Select Mode: Normal, Hard, Hell, Hell(Quest).
He choose Hell(Quest) and the entrance turned black while the illusory skull opened his mouth as before, he was sure that the skull snickered at him an instant before he was teleported inside.
System: You have entered the Undead Realm. Death here will result in your soul being extinguished.
Max HP reduced by 50%
Max mana reduced by 20%
All attributes reduced by 10%
Non dark element skill's effects reduced by 60%.
Dark element skill's effects increased by 60%
Condition will last until you are approved by the realm.
His sould being extinguished was a term meaning that if he were to die here, his character would be unable to resurrect, leaving his account crippled. He understood it as it was used in other hardcore games.
Leroy appeared and was greeted by a sigth similar to that of the Living Forest Dungeon, except that the trees looked dry and the sky had bright red coulds and only a few stars could be seen shining through.
He was also greeted by a thin shadow that attemped to pierce him, he sidestepped but the shadow still make a scratch on his left cheek.
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It was a skeleton holding a spear right in front of him while two others holding swords were closing in.
Skeleton Warrior (Common)
Level 7
HP: 550/550
Skeleton Warrior (Common)
Level 7
HP: 520/520
There was barely any difference between them except for the weapon they used. Taking a step back, Leroy started chanting.
"Dark Arrow", the pitch black arrow was bigger than usual, it was faster too.
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Almost all of the skeleton's hp was gone after a single arrow, but the others had quickly arrived.
"Hell Fire"
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He finished the spear holding skeleton and injured the other, but as non dark elemental attacks were supressed in this place, it dealt minimal damage. The two skeletons did something that surprised Leroy a bit, one was hit by the skill and inmediatly stepped outside the skill's range, while the other circled around the green fire.
This level of intelligence was something that even in the previous Hell Mode didn't appear.
Both skeletons circled the fire, trying to attack Leroy from left and right. Leroy run into the left skeleton which suffered 25 of damage from the previous skill.
The skeleton slashed his sword at him but Leroy evaded without losing speed, altough he had almost no Strength stat, with his momentum he managed to push the skeleton once again into the green fire. The skeleton hadn't touched the ground when dark colored vines sorrounded its arms and legs.
"Dark Vines", the vines immobilized the skeleton inside the fire that dealt two more hits before dissapearing.
"Dark Arrow" an arrow was sent flying from Leroy's staff at the other skeleton
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It was killed in a single shot. Leroy's incredible damage output plus this place effect on dark element skills made it even more ridiculous.
Leroy looked at the skeleton struggling with the vines while waiting for Dark Arrow cooldown to end.
The vines duration was gone, and the skeleton started getting up, when a Dark Arrow crushed his skull, killing him.
Acquired: Bone Dust x3
The skeletons only drop was an item that could be used in alchemy, forgings and probably quests, Leroy guessed.
Looking around he saw nothing which called his attention so he kepts walking into a road similar to the one in the Hell Mode before.
There was no attacks from seeds, one could hear and even see some skeletons at the sides of the road, some stepped on the road and tried to attack him. A he continued on the road, the Level of the skeletons began to rise from Level 7 to Level 8 and then to Level 9.
He must have been walking for like 3 hours now, when he arrived at a burification, he could continue the path towards the center or turn right.
The time before, they only followed a straight path, so this time he choose to turn right. Skeletons continued jump in from time to time until...
"Schreeeek" A huge skeleton with metal shoulder plates and a huge axe appeared in front of him, more and more skeletons started to come from everywhere. This made Leroy frown but he still didn't attack.
The skeleton warriors didn't attack neither but started circling him. It was then that the two and half meters tall skeleton stepped forth, and pointed his axe at Leroy while making strange sounds. Leroy inmediatly understood its meaning, it was a challenge.
Commander Skeleton Warrior(Lord-Rank)
Level: 10
HP: 1600/1600
A Lord-Rank monster was much stronger than the other skeletons around, and the 7 Level difference would make the damage he could deal decrease substantially. It was clear that his only choice was to accept the challenge.
He pointed the staff at the Commander Skeleton, accepting his challenge.
Swosh!
The skeleton moved fast! and was almost instantly at Leroy's side, his axe shining with a pale red as he made a horizontal slash aiming for his head.
Leroy lowered his head and casted a Dark Arrow that hit his enemy chest.
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The Commander showed no reaction at this attack and chopped down with the axe, Leroy evaded to his right and stepped back just in time to evade an horizontal slash.
Both of them took a second to analyse his oponnent, while the sorrounding skeletons were hiting the floor with the bottom of their spears and making noise, as if cheering up the fight.
'The combat standars of this monster is actually much higher than the other skeletons, not only his level or stats. These monsters acts more like a human would, than what you would expect from a simple skeleton' Leroy analysed his situation
Leroy put a hand behind his back and summoned a scroll, he started activate him, it was a Speed Scroll, his enemy was just much faster than him and he didn't want to take any unnecesary risks. The sorrounding skeletons the scroll from his back started to make a different type of noise that didn't escape Leroy's ears.
"Crap" Leroy moved left just as his oponnent charged trying to prevent the scroll activation. The other skeletons were clearly warning their boss.
The scroll activated and his Movement Speed increased by 25%, the skeleton still catched up to him and attacked from behind. Leroy lowered his body and turned back, running in the opossite direction while using "Shreek". It didn't affect the Boss in the slightless.
The skeleton was in the process of turning into Leroy when a black arrow striked him in the head.
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From the skeleton's eyes started brewing red light. Leroy who was less than 10 meters from him, suddenly misstepped and fell to the ground, the skeleton saw his chance and charged at him with his axe now shining in strong red light.
Leroy smiled at him, as vines made of dark mana rose from the ground and wrapped themself in the skeleton's feets, this made it fall hard into the ground.
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The strong crash even made him lose some health.
The moment he fell, a ball of black fire-like mana crushed into him.
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The commander skeleton immediatly burst into pieces.
Including the bonuses from his Set Equipment, his Dark Fireball spell damage was around 1500-2000 damage, adding the 60% extra damage for dark spells that the realm provided made his attack skyrocket. Altough the realm restrictions were strong, it also provided him with benefits.
The skeletons stopped cheering the moment that the commander fell. And one by one they casted their weapons aside and half-kneeled in front of Leroy, as if acknowledging him as a superior.
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