Okay. Who the fuck called Tentacles! I internally cry as I dodge yet another barbed tentacle swiping at me. All of us have our clothes slashed while Cardin is backing away on his ass, with his armor shredding like tin foil from the nightmare from the pits of Cthulhu's realm.
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Flashback:
"There is no way that's not Cardin." I thought as Team SNRV and RWBY ran through the forest, deftly dodging the various Ursa. I mentally reviewed the weak spots and attack patterns of the Grimm.
Ding!
Pyrrha took a quick glance at the quest and blanched. I wonder how bad it can be…. Oh no.
Quest: You Poor Unfortunate Soul
Description: You're not fighting an Ursa, buddy! Therefore, you get to fight a Raid Boss. Good luck fighting against an apostle of an old god! Try not to lose your mind!
Objective:
Defeat Nyartoperes (Apostle of Nyarlathotep)
Don't lose any ally!
Hidden:
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Rewards:
20000 EXP
500 Gold
1 line of you Reality Marble Aria / Living Armor (EPIC)
Hidden Rewards:
A new title
A new skill
1 extra line of your Reality Marble / New Skill
Failure:
Death
Permanent Insanity
Enslavement to an Old God
Destruction of Vale and all of the Remnant
Well damn. WHY IS A FUCKIN' CTHULU WANNABEE OUR ENEMY!? I started to hyperventilate as we ran right into a scene that'll be burnt into my mind. A mostly naked Cardin crawling away from a void of tentacles and blades.
Name: Nyartoperes (B)
Title: Overactive Apostle of Nyarlathotep
Level: 250
HP: 10000000000000000/10000000000000000
MP: 524246/524246
VIT: 550
DEX: 0
Description: This apostle wants to convert every person to follow his God, whether through rape or madness affliction. He found this "quaint" world and decided that it'll be nice to ~~~ wajrigohu8ov3940tu084htpinm,varogmvJ,V;HWUAGRIYEBLNKSBU;
Oh, fuck my head. What the fuck was that? I glanced at Pyrrha, who was also gripping her head in agony as she tried to read the boss. Why?
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I once again use Flash Strike (-803!) in order to slice off another tentacle of the boss, causing it to roar in annoyance. That attack didn't even dent him, why did you nerf my skills, game!
"Εγώ θα fuckin σας καταστρέψει imbecile χωρίς γνώση της πραγματικής δύναμης!", It yells as a fucking laser beam shot out of its numerous eyeballs, barely grazing my chest as I duck under it. Was that greek? Well, screw you too.
"Don't look at its eyes!" I yell at Ruby, who was starting to get a bit to transfixed on the eyes, "They'll inflict madness, which I'm sure that Aura doesn't heal!"
"But, Ezra." Ruby said, "There are eyes EVERYWHERE!"
Team RWBY and SNRV are all looking wildly around, trying to find a spot on the boss's body that doesn't have one of those damn unblinking eyeballs. When I look into them, I can see some sort of void, almost like a kaleidoscope of rain- Something whacks the side of my head, as I blink away the spots. I look away sheepishly, realizing that the eyes are somehow bypassing Gamer's Mind.
So, great. How do you fight a tanky boi which you can't really see and its tentacles move at ridiculously fast speed? My keys can't hit his shadow if he even has one, and his tentacles are too fast for me to be able to hit its shadow with my key. None of my weapons can truly hit it, Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū requires me to be way to close too fully utilize, and I don't have any explosive, ohhhhh right. I got one from the wheel. The wheel has been treating me alright. I believe in the Wheel as it gifts me with items that save my fuckin' bacon.
"Hey, Nora!" I yell at the orange-haired girl as she looks at me. "Catch!" I throw a special grenade towards her, which she catches.
"Oh my Oum!" she cries, "You gave me a grenade!? And it has my color on it!" It looks like a spiky drone with orange highlights. Yes, the gate gave me a Splinter Grenade.
"Hit the center of mass with it!" I shout as I am forced to grab Yang by her scarf in order to help her not get impaled by a tentacle spike. I heard a cry as Yang groans from the abrupt choking from her scarf. I notice a tentacle slithering up Weiss as she is busy freezing up other tentacles. The dust dress is slowly getting ripped as she was roughly grabbed by the legs. Oh for the love of the stupid Tree.
I used Pull in order to force the center of the tentacle to be pulled to me before it met the naked edge of my blade. I held Weiss in a princess carry and set her aside, as she was sputtering in annoyance.
As I set her down, I heard a loud explosion rang through the clearing. "Mwa hahahaha! I got to break your legs!"
"Nora *huff huff*, it doesn't have legs!" I think that is Ren.
I look behind me and see half of the boss with half of its body gone, slowly decaying into orange particles. Well damn, keep a note to buy some of those grenades in case we meet Salem. I wonder if her immortal body can survive disintegration by whatever Forerunner technology runs on.
I observe and notice that it has only a quarter of its life left. Oh, thank god. I then notice everyone else, who are pretty much dropping from overexertion. Only Pyrrha and I are really standing because of Gamer's Body. And Nora, who is Nora.
"I drink syrup to live!" she cries while taking a long swig of a bottle of the saccharine substance.
I breathe. Sigh, I really need to have more high-damage weapons. I wonder what Cardin is doing, I look to where he last was and he is just sitting there catatonic. Oops, I think I forgot to tell him about the eyes.
I grab Pulsar from my Inventory and turn it into its Pistol Form. Gripping it in one hand and Nagareboshi in my other hand, I did one of the most incredibly stupid things in my admittedly short lifetime in this world.
I activate Perfect Counter on the swarm of tentacles, causing the tentacled monster to take some self-damage as I constantly shot at it with Pulsar. As I near it, I realized that I am almost there, huh. I then came face to face… with an eye. One larger than the rest. Oh shiiiiiiii~~~~~
The rainbow void is back. As I looked into it, I can feel a wriggling feeling in the back of my mind yelling at me that whatever I am looking at it is WRONG.
"Ναι, έντομο! καταλάβετε την μεγαλοπρέπεια του Nyarlathotep και ενωθείτε μαζί μας στη σύγκρουση μας ενάντια στη ζωή. Πρέπει να κερδίσουμε! Και εσείς, το όπλο του δέντρου, θα χρησιμοποιηθούν από τους Θεούς!" and I snapped out of it. The creatures nasally voice is somehow so annoying that it actually snapped me out of the madness-inducing hypnosis. I can swear I was looking at the center of the multiverse when I looked into the eye, but whatever.
I shoot the eye with my gun as I propelled myself back by using Push on my clothes. That hurts a lot, seeing as I crash into the forest floor from explosively forcing myself off of Nyartoperes's bulbous body. It roared in pain as tentacles start to once again flail around, trees taking the slices as they topple all around. I donned Aegis Cloak in order to protect my teammates from the tentacles, taking heavy damage from it. Ouch. Luckily, the Gamer's Body will be able to easily heal the injuries along with my frankly insane Aura reserves. It still hurts like a bitch. I wince as all of its eyes transfixes on me with a hateful glare….
Before a sniper round blew straight through the same eye that I shot. The monster starts to screech as the body dissolves in a way similar to that of Grimm. "Θα πληρώσετε για αυτό!" the monster roars as it slowly fades from existence.
Ding!
[You actually survived a servant of the Old Gods, and at such a low level too!]
[Actually, to be honest, this is one of the weaker ones. And I'm surprised your friends weren't driven insane by him, I guess that the silver-eyed warriors are that strong.]
I look at Ruby, whose silver eyes were glowing during the fight and are now starting to dim.
"What?" she asks as she ejects a cartridge from her Crescent Rose. So I guess that she made the final shot.
You have earned 20000 EXP!
You have earned 500 Gold!
You have learned 1 line of your Reality Marble Aria!
[Bzzzt~~ "Escalating without an end in sight"]
You have gained the title "Chastity Man!"
You have gained the Skill, "Grasp of the Infinite"
You have learned another line of your Aria!
[Crrrrch~~ "Chained by fate yet unbounded"]
Erggh. What are those lines? Do they really describe my life? Actually, they sort of do. I guess infinite potential is the entire gist of the Gamer, and I am a puppet for Gaia? Meh. And Chastity Man? Oh yeah, this is a tentacle boss, where Ecchi shit should've happened. And the skill? Hmmm. Observe
Chastity Man!:
You have protected the virginity of Weiss Schnee from Tentacle Domination. Therefore, if any virgin within a 15 feet radius is in danger of being violated, you will know and save them!
+5 STR
+5 VIT
+5 LUC
+ Radar for rape-innings
So I'm a superhero for virgins? Neat?
Grasp of the Infinite (Level Max):
Description: Nietzsche once stated that "if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you". Well, you did it… and survived it. Now, you can now understand insanity, mostly. In addition, we wouldn't get pissed off at you if you ever come knocking around for the Root!
The player can now access the Root when they find a route to it
Immune to madness-inducing status effects
Can avoid detection from lesser Old Gods
There's nothing bad that can come out of it, and I can also easily learn it!
[Oh yeah, quest skills can be gained by the partner and you. So she has a copy of Your "Grasp of the Infinite". Sadly, she wasn't able to complete one of the hidden objectives, so there's no additional skill to learn.]
"So, game." Pyrrha's eye twitched as she held up Living Armor. "What is this?"
What's wrong with, did a tentacle come from inside that armor? "Stuff that into your inventory," I say as I whacked a searching tentacle from Pyrrha's body.
She throws it into her Inventory.
Ding!
[Aww, don't forget about your level-ups!]
You are now at Level 45!
You have gained 5 skill points!
Physical Counter is now Level 3!
Gravity Semblance is now Level 12!
Push is now Level 8!
Gun Maintenance is now Level 10!
Bladed Proficiency is now Level 15!
Pistol Proficiency is now Level 8!
Oh good. Now then, I notice that all of the jars of syrup are broken. Well then.
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So. I may have to not post next week because the musical is going to start up next week for me. Anyway, have a nice day!
Tata!