Zavvox
After a bit of thinking, I realized that the experience I get isn't the most fun about this, it's the fact that I get to see other players without the whole life or death situation that's going to happen soon.
In other words, I can look at their stats and try to find the most relevant information in the fastest time so I don't get instantly deleted when I find my enemy.
...Also, I'm getting kind of self conscious being at level 19… I'm just hoping everyone else is like, in their 30s or something and I'm not falling too far behind.
Well, give me the contract.
Contract: Weapon Binding accepted.
Item given: Teleportation stone.
Huh… Well, here goes nothing. Wait, firstly, Let me give it to my old god form… Let's see, I'll have my mortal form… inside the mouth. Maybe I can get two of myself to fight at once.
There, now I'm ready.
Teleportation stone activated. Allies found.
Teleporting to the dungeon.
CUUUUUUUT
Oh, hey! It actually worked! I spit my mortal form out and I looked at the text box I saw while getting here.
Welcome to City of Fallen Empires [Made by Skryb]
Made by… Fuck. Him?
Suddenly, I heard someone say something from my left, "Skr- Ugh, him?"
Ah, there's a player right there… Some kind of red demon looking thing who looks sick. But he does look pretty cool with those black robes...
Gruol
Villain Player
Level 48
Demon
Rank: Mortal
Class: Warlock
Hp: 125
Mp: infinite
Sp: 125
Stats:
Vit: 10
Str: 10
Dex: 10
Int: 178
Wis: 10
End: 10
Cha: 20
Luk: 10
Difficulty: Normal
Starting advantage: Undetectable
Modifiers: Infinite Mana, Power Hungry, Frail, Unrelenting, Unluckiest In The World, Cult Summoning, Unending Reign.
Level 48?! Hah?! What kind of travesty is this?! I knew my species needed more experience than usual, but… Ugh, I need to focus on something else.
Those are some… interesting sounding modifiers… A rather… specialized build. Can I see the modifiers?
[Infinite mana - You have infinite mana.]
Ooh, it does work.
"Ah," Gruol calls out to me, "You're… Zavvox."
He sounded like an old sick person… That's a bit sad… I nodded in response.
"I am, yes." I replied to him, despite the fact we're probably already observing each other now.
Gruol nods and stares at me for a bit, staring at my size… And then he chuckles? Eh?
Suddenly, another portal opens…
"Hmph, I suppose you are my allies?"
That voice just sounds condescending… And out of it comes a human with short white hair and some kind of ice-armor. It's awfully generic looking.
Adalet
Villain Player
Level 45
Human
Rank: Mortal
Class: Frost Mage
Hp: 750
Mp: 2,975
Sp: 300
Stats:
Vit: 30
Str: 10
Dex: 10
Int: 85
Wis: 85
End: 10
Cha: 15
Luk: 15
Difficulty: Normal
Starting Advantage: Metaverse-teleportation.
Modifiers: I Am Justice, Extreme Arrogance, Sin of Greed, Foresight, Winterbound, Eternal Servitude, Living Ice.
Huh, cool.
Adalet was clearly not interested however, "I suppose you are both worthy of some praise. Especially you… Zavvox."
Yeah, I noticed. I was thinking that the players were going to be a bit closer in stats, but… It seems like I'm still miles ahead, despite the level gap.
Gruol scoffed, "You sound like a moron. Where's the other guy?"
And the answer is given by the sound of another portal opening. And out comes a… Small female fairy? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a fairy, with short green hair and some kind of nature things on them.
Teminya.
Villain Player.
Level 52
Fairy
Rank: Enhanced mortal
Class: Druid
Hp: 1,000
Mp: 20,000
Sp: 1,000
Stats:
Vit: 50 [100]
Str: 20 [40]
Dex: 20 [40]
Int: 100 [200]
Wis: 100 [200]
End: 10 [20]
Cha: 20 [20]
Luk: 20 [20]
Difficulty: Hard
Starting Advantage: 1st Rate Salesman
Modifiers: Submissive, Undeserving kindness, Sin of gluttony, Disney princess, Swap Classes, Life-giver, Unfortunate start.
Hey, what the fuck?
Gruol notices the injustice as well and starts to complain loudly, "What the hell?! Why are you an enhanced mortal?! I'm a literal demon and I'm mortal!"
Teminya awkwardly laughs, "Haha… I don't know?"
Gruol points at her in an accusing way, "How many stat points do you get every level up?! Tell me!"
Teminya started to get pressured by Gruol's loud complaining and stuttered out, "...fi-five?"
Gruol starts to groan as loud as possible, "Five?! I only get four!"
Adalet looks a bit peeved, "Four? I'm lucky to have three!"
Everyone looks at me expectedly, shit.
"Uh," I made some kind of noise, "I suppose that is a shame… I have the honor of gaining ten points every level."
Everyone's eyes twitched.
Shit, maybe I said the wrong thing…
Teminya tries to get everyone back on track, "Hey! We're all villains here! We can go through a dungeon without murdering each other!"
"Shut it, fairy." Gruol despondently responds back, "I'll just observe all of your modifiers and shit…"
...I guess that's what we're doing?
System updated.
Title - name changes.
Everyone collectively stopped for a moment before everyone started tapping their own screens, which I couldn't see any of them except mine.
Aodare, the person who made most of the villain mechanics, banged his head and wanted to change the name of some things like a guy getting post nut clarity over his actions. Lmao. Also some minor changes to rogues and rangers, who would've thought. - Crowned.
General [Names, End Goal]
Classes [Rogues and Rangers]
In the back, I hear Gruol slightly muttering "Poor damn bastards."
I can't help but agree with him, those guys are not having a good time. It's been less than a week I think in the game and those poor dumbasses have been nerfed to hell and back.
Well, all I need is the general notes… Opening it and I see- oh wow, a lot of things… Uh, let me pick and choose what I need to think about… Let's see… Some abilities I've never heard of… A lot of mage shit actually… some modifiers… Oh, here's one of mine.
Modifier Dramatic has been changed to Wanna-be villain. Effects are unchanged.
...Oh… Rest in peace, dramatic, I hated you until very recently, but you didn't deserve such a death. Is there anything else… Ah, this at the very end.
Clarified the consequences of killing the enemy player with uninteresting ways such as minion spamming or killing the other player from another country.
I still think that's too vague, but maybe I can just check the quest myself later on...
"Well then," Adalet voiced out, "If we are done gawking, I suppose we should get back to what we were doing then, yes?"
God, he sounds so condescending… I can't sound like that, right?
"Well," Gruol said, "If you want to be such a bitch, I can't deny that. Everyone, 5 minute time to observe each other?"
Everyone else nodded, and so we began looking at each other and taking notes.
Firstly, Gruol, since I saw him first.
Holy shit that's some specialized shit. Literally only investing in intelligence? Sure, maybe he put 10 into charisma, but that's literally just 178 intelligence. And all of that is being outdone by some little fairy… Yeah, if I was a demon and put my entire life savings into a stat and get shown up by some dumb looking fairy, I'd be pissed too. Now, his modifiers?
[Undetectable - You are unable to be found by any special powers or technical means.]
[Power Hungry - You lust for power and will do anything to gain more of it.]
[Frail - Health and Stamina are cut in half.]
[Unrelenting - When you have a goal, there is almost nothing capable of stopping you from reaching it.]
[Unluckiest In The World - You always seem to be in unlucky situations, and are almost always on the bad end of things.]
[Cult Summoning - You are summoned into the world by a cult with a decent starter base.]
[Unending Reign - All minions who have limited life no longer have a limited life. All your underlings will never even think of betraying you.]
Huh, that's neat, really befitting a warlock… But still, that unlucky modifier and he still pays no attention to his vitality? What does he do all day?
...Wait a minute, isn't this the guy…
Yes, Gruol, we saw you summon almost 20,000 imps on the first day, but could you sincerely not? - Aodare.
Oh, this guy is just a living legend, I see. I have a feeling he's going to have a dominating victory.
Next, Adalet, the guy I dislike the most here.
He looks uninteresting. He's like a discount Gruol but way less cooler. Will his modifiers explain it? Probably.
[Metaverse-Teleportation - Using the powers of the metaverse in your world, you can teleport to almost anywhere in the world.]
[I Am Justice - You believe yourself to be the embodiment of all justice.]
[Extreme Arrogance - You are extremely arrogant to the point where you believe yourself to be a god amongst men.]
[Sin of Greed - Once you get something, you always want more.]
[Foresight - You are able to see any attacks about to hit you in the next 5 seconds every 10 seconds.]
[Winterbound - In winter, you gain a 500% buff to all your abilities]
[Eternal Servitude - When someone pledges their allegiance to you, they will never be able to turn back.]
[Living Ice - Your ice is able to change itself to better fit the role it needs to fill.]
Wow, a real piece of work. I wouldn't want to be this guy, I even feel bad for him, getting that arrogance modifier.
Well, shame. Maybe if he wins, the developers will be nice enough to remove that for him.
And lastly, Teminya, someone who looks like they walked into the wrong party.
Everything about her screams out that she's a hero so… Well, I guess the roles we got were chosen by random. Maybe her type is common.
And then the modifiers…
[1st Rate Salesman - You are capable of convincing almost anyone to get on board about anything you talk about]
[Submissive - you tend to submit to everyone else's will.]
[Undeserving Kindness - You are kind to almost anyone, even if they don't deserve it.]
[Sin of Gluttony - you eat a lot more than you look like you can.]
[Disney Princess - Nature loves you.]
[Swap Classes - You can switch around your stats to become another class temporarily.]
[Life Giver - all life around you is passively healed 1% every 5 seconds. Can heal enemies.]
[Unfortunate Start - Your starting location is in a very terrible situation.]
So, we have… Someone who looks like and acts like someone who should be on the hero's side… Huh, well, I guess it's unique?
Also, I can't help but notice that the 1st rate salesman modifier or advantage or whatever you want to call it has a really… Ahem, similar… How do I say it… Concept, to my own 5th rate manipulator. Only just the opposite of it.
I'm kind of jealous…
"Are you all done now?" Adalet's voice rang out unexpectedly, "I believe we have a dungeon to go through, yes? We should not dally."
Gruol was obviously starting to get pissed off at him, "Oh, fuck off. This is the first and probably only time we'll see another player that isn't trying to kill us for a long time."
You know, Gruol's old sick man voice really wasn't doing him any favors here…
Teminya tried to calm things down, "Hey-"
Only to be shut down by Adalet and Gruol beginning to prepare spells at each other.
Alright, maybe as the strongest person here, I need to step in…
"Hmph," I called out, "If you are about to kill each other here, are you truly worthy of being a player? If you intend to fight against each other now, I might as well kill you myself."
...Shit, I do kind of sound like Adalet…
Fortunately, they saw that they really couldn't fight against my 40,000 health true form and 5,000 health mortal form, so they ended up backing off. Crisis averted…
I can really tell that I have a lot of… What was the word again… Influence over this party, so I should probably-
"Dibs on the leader spot!" Shouted out Gruol suddenly, only for Adalet to start to get pissed again.
Oh for fucks sake. I couldn't have gotten with more incompetent people.
As the argument grows louder and louder, I can see Teminya starting to back off out of fear. You know, I wish I could do that, but I can't really sneak away with this huge ant form… Fine, I guess I'll have to step in.
"If you cannot handle this meagre temporary position of power, then you might as well hand the title to me." I said.
Once again, they weighed their thoughts on fighting the big strong scary ant and decided to concede.
"Fine," Adalet said, "Lead this group of bandits."
Gruol scoffs, "Better than him, at least."
God, these are my damage dealers? I should just solo this place…
"Um," Teminya started to say, "I sent some of my wisps out while you were, um, arguing…"
Oh?
"And, um, there are… A lot of enemies here. Like, an army..."
Fuck.
"As expected by the one to be hated by his own team." I said. This Skryb guy sure was rising quickly on his most hated people list.
...Where were we anyways? I haven't actually bothered checking my surroundings… Let's see here… Some big city with Japanese, Roman, and Aztec buildings, all in a mainly purple color scheme in the underground it looks like, with a huge Japanese castle in one direction, A big Aztec temple in one direction, and a Roman coliseum in another direction.
...Why do I feel an odd sense of deja vu? Well, regardless, I'll lead the group over to… The coliseum first, sense it looks the closest.
...Maybe we should formally introduce each other first? Gruol was kind of right about this being probably the only time we'll see another friendly player...
"We shall formally introduce ourselves first, as a sign of respect." I said, "I shall start first. I am Zavvox, the old god that once ruled the world before petty little humans ever came into existence. I work towards my goal of corrupting all worlds."
...Hey, drama-no, wanna-be villain, what the fuck? I'm getting some deja vu here, you aren't going to fuck with me when I need it the least, right?
Gruol laughed a bit, "Oh? We're talking like that? Alright, I am Gruol, a demon from the innermost circles of hell. I was summoned into my world by a group of cultists and I'm currently working to take over the pathetic little world and become its one and only emperor!"
Well, it's nice to have ambition…
Adalet scoffed, "I am Adalet, justice incarnate. The people of my world hold the power to judge all souls, even mine, and they see no flaws within me. So praise my divine magnificence."
Wow, he sounds so much like an anime villain, it's almost impressive. If I wasn't about to deal with him for the next 30 minutes or so, I'd have labeled him cool.
"Um," Teminya started last, "I'm Teminya, and I… want to kill the other player? I just want to live a nice and comfortable life where everyone lives happily…"
Yeah, definitely a hero-villain. Maybe an anti-villain? I honestly can't see her winning her match though, worst case scenario, she accidentally befriends the other player and gets her planet smashed…
Well, that was everyone, I guess I should say something.
"Well," I started, "If nobody has anything else to say, let us head towards the coliseum in the distance and work from there."
Everyone was alright, so we headed off into the direction of the coliseum.
...Only to find our first enemies. A group of 5 roman looking soldiers.
Fallen Roman Soldier
Hp: 7,000
Notable stats:
Str: 82
End: 80
Gruol grunted, "These guys look pretty tough. Almost stronger than anything else I've encountered…"
Adalet agreed, "Yes, this is no doubt a strong opponent."
...Should I tell them that I fight people stronger than these guys because of my difficulty?
...Probably not.
Gruol then slapped himself out of nowhere, "God fucking damn it, I forgot to summon my minions…"
Seriously? Like I said, incompetent… But I just want to kill those weaklings, so I ignored him and went leeroy.
"Then stay behind! I will deal with these on my own!"
And my true form is still as devastating as ever, dealing almost 2,000 damage every hit against the trash mobs, and with my mortal form using a hit and run tactic dealing similar amounts of damage, they don't even stand a chance.
When did I even get the experience to use my two bodies at once fluently? Maybe it was packaged with the whole being able to move my body proficiently at the start patch and I never found a reason to use it.
Soon enough, the small group was dead, and my own group stood behind me with their mouths a bit open.
"Well then," I said, "Let us go, yes?"
I take these small opportunities to sound cool, just as practice, you know.
Many more push-over fights later, the group reaches the coliseum to find… some big weird demon goat thing.
Alrit [Boss]
Opposer
Hp: 150,000
Notable stats:
Int: 200
Wis: 200
Cha: 150
...Huh.
Gruol tilts his head a bit, "Huh, I have some deja vu…"
You know, I sometimes feel that too when walking around this place…
"Well then," I started, "We go in, and kill him, yes?"
Everyone nods as they prepared their various powers (Where the fuck did 28,000 demons come from?)
Soon, our small little army rushed the poor unsuspecting boss. Unfortunately, he was not as poor and unsuspecting as we thought.
"You pathetic fools have betrayed my expectations!" Alrit yells out as some bright light appears in his hands, "You are all weak in the face of my true master!"
And suddenly, two-thirds of Gruol's army is gone, A tenth of my health is gone, and Gruol and Teminya are feeling very lucky that they were out of the blast radius, with Adalet on the ground over there hovering at around 100 health.
So, mostly, Fuck. I have a feeling this wasn't playtested very well. As expected of Skryb, yay.
Continuing forwards, I use the ten tentacles on my back and throw Grasscutter at the mocking form of Alrit dealing… Some damage.
10,000 damage dealt.
Alrit [140,000/150,000]
That's great! I just need to do that you know… about 14 times. Unfortunately, fate has other plans as he throws his arms out and deals a good chunk of my old god form's health.
900 damage taken.
Zavvox [35,100/40,000]
...I think a good chunk was a bit too generous. So he's good at area damage, but shit at single target, good to know.
Suddenly, a heal out of nowhere.
1500 health healed.
Zavvox [36,600/40,000]
Oh, right, Teminya… Well, I don't think we could lose this fight. All he is is just one big damage sponge or something.
Unfortunately, fate has an odd thing of proving me wrong.
"Your pathetic demons betray you!" Alrit shouts out, and suddenly, those very confused 10,000ish demons that were still alive from the first blast suddenly started blasting their spells everywhere, much to the dismay of the 150 health Gruol, who was currently using Teminya as a shield.
It was almost comical if the situation wasn't getting dire. Feeling extremely thankful for my tentacles not being totally useless, I start to use 5 of the tentacles along with my mortal form to clear up the demons and the other 5 devoted to attacking Alrit.
...It's just that, once again, Skryb proves himself an asshole in designing bosses as Alrit starts to duck and weave all my fucking attacks despite being a pretty fucking massive target.
"Too weak, too weak!" Alrit shouts out mockingly, "None of you are- Urgh!"
I finally hit him in the face!
Critical hit.
40,000 damage dealt.
Alrit [100,000/150,000]
Alright… What else can I do... I dunno, intimidation?
"You dare…" I begin to say, "Go against me? This coliseum shall be your grave!"
Alrit gets pissed off at this, "My grave shall be decided by my master!"
Dumbass, your master probably created you in 5 seconds, shut up.
I started to go all out on the offensive, forcing Alrit to dodge most of my attacks, but getting hit by a good majority of them in the process. In the background of my vision using my various different viewpoints, I can see my allies starting to finally clean up the rest of the demons that Gruol summoned in the first place.
Ah, the sweet scent of incoming victory.
Alrit was getting low on health, when suddenly, like the wind suddenly changing directions just because it could, it gains a buff.
[Plot Shield - Only Gruol may hit the target]
What the fuck.
"My master… Has planned for everything!" Alrit said with heavy breath, likely believing he's about to win.
I hate Skryb.
Fortunately, Gruol saw what happened and sent out some kind of weird green bolt at him which…
10,000 damage dealt.
Alrit [1,000/150,000]
...Hah?
Alrit was clearly surprised by this too, and with his dying breath, had to ask, "Only… My master… Could… You… Be…?"
And then he fucking dies.
Boss 1 out of 4 has been killed. Please continue.
...What?
Everyone in the party was also sporting similar expressions, all one of confusion.
"Well," Adalet said, "That was a gigantic waste of my time."
Gruol glared at Adalet, "Right, sure, we'll ignore the part where you were hovering on 100 health before Teminya healed you."
"Guys!"
I can't believe how hard I'm carrying this team right now.
Gruol suddenly stops and looks at Alrit for a moment before moving up to his corpse.
...Eh?
And then he grabs his body… and pulls out a crystal? Wait a moment.
[Forgotten feelings of the past - A long history has been put to rest, forever memorized in this crystal, sealed away forever.]
Gruol shrugged, "Well, lore, that's neat. Didn't think Skryb had it in him."
That… seems to be underselling it.
Another 10 minutes later, we're at the Aztec looking place.
And with it comes another boss in the form of a big… butterfly, with a ton of other little butterflies surrounding it.
Mother [Boss]
Eternal Sleeper
Hp: 100,000
Notable stats:
End: 5000
...Eh?
Well, if we kill it, it's probably fine. Quickly taking a look behind me, watching Gruol feebly summoning just a small amount of demons rather than a huge army, Adalet wiping the dust off of his armor, and Teminya just hovering around, I realized something deeply important.
They're all waiting on me, shit.
Jumping towards Mother, I start to beat the shit out of her…
Only to deal miniscule amounts of damage.
100 damage dealt.
Mother [99,900/100,000]
So, fuck. Suddenly, the butterflies around her started to… run away?
Wait, so what are we- ARE THOSE FUCKING BOMBS?!
WHY ARE THE BUTTERFLIES CARRYING BOMBS?!
With only a few seconds to react, I started to swat away all the bomberflies around my allies and myself, Gruol starts to summon more flying demons to counteract the butterflies, and Adalet just starts a mass freezing campaign against them.
Really, despite their shit survivability, they're not all that bad at damage dealing.
I hit the boss again just to make sure We're not missing anything.
100 damage dealt.
Mother [99,800/100,000]
...Ah, for god's sake…
Suddenly, Theminya decides to do the most small brained move I've ever even thought of and… heals the boss?!
1000 damage dealt.
Mother [98,800/100,000]
Wait a minute.
Holy shit.
"Change of plans, protect Theminya!" I told my fellow players, both nodding that they understood these basic instructions.
And so it was like that for the next 5 minutes. Theminya threw healing at the boss and we fought off tiny little butterflies until it got to 10,000 health when it said something.
"Ah… This feeling… Are you here… My queen?"
And then she fucking dies.
Boss 2 out of 4 killed. Please continue.
Suddenly, all the butterflies that were harassing us just dropped out of the air dead too.
...Seriously, what the fuck?
And then Theminya walks up to the corpse and grabs another crystal out of her too! It even had the same description!
We all collectively sighed, maybe this was just something Skryb added in for shits and giggles.
And now the Japanese castle! And guess what's in it? You'll never guess it.
Adaletsizlik
Injustice Incarnate
Hp: 150,000
Notable stats:
Str: 1,000
Dex: 700
A melee boss, yay. This one looked like a long lost twin of Adalet, even! They even shared similar names!
This Adaletsizlik looked exactly like our Adalet, but he had some ice-looking Japanese clothing instead of just a suit of armor… Wait, why is our Adalet wearing something that looks like a melee class and he looks like a mage?
"In this multiverse of cruel gods, why should you contain yourself to such lofty standards? Would it not be better to be free?" Ada… Evil Adalet said.
Adalet scoffed, "My magnificence does not need such a thing as standards, for I am the standard. You may only bow at my feet only to realize the insignificance of yourself."
...Do any of them even know what the fuck they're saying? They kept saying shit, but I couldn't be bothered to listen to any of it… I think they said the word justice a few times, maybe a few freedoms here and there…
...Wait a minute, why the fuck is Evil Adalet glowing?
Why the fuck is he fading away?!
Boss 3 out of 4 has been defeated. Please continue.
HAH?!
I looked back at the other 2 players and both of them were equally as confused as I am. We all looked back at Adalet.
"It was a simple battle of words," He said as if it explained everything, holding the little crystal in his hand, "He was, of course, no match against my radiant holiness."
?
Skryb, what the fuck is this dungeon? There's only been one actual boss fight so far, maybe two if you count the immense amount of butterfly massacre that happened in the Aztec section…
God, Skryb, read a book on dungeon design or something.
Soon, we made it out to the central area or something, back where we began…
"So," Gruol began, "Anyone know what the actual fuck happened?"
Theminya shook her head, "Not the slightest clue…"
I sighed, I really, really, REALLY am starting to get homesick…
Suddenly, the ground began to shake.
Oh, fuck.
Suddenly, the ground began to crack open and out of it seeps out something familiar… Some kind of corruption? Huge ass tentacles also decide it was a good time to come out of the ground too. And then the main set appeared.
THE FUCKING CEILING STARTED TO CRACK AND BREAK.
All of the rocks from the broken ceiling miraculously disappeared before it hit us, but in its disappearance, we get to see the sky above.
A huge fucking corrupted sky, and coming out of the ceiling with tons of corruption was a huge monstrosity.
Molyps
The First
Hp: 200,000
Notable stats:
Int: 5000
Wis: 5000
The worst thing I've ever seen. It had the body of a wasp, the head of a mosquito, and the wings and legs of a fly. Only god knows who would create that thing, and why it chooses to exist instead of ending its own life.
"My own existence…" Molyps began, "Is secondary to my god's will. In his final breath, he decreed for me to challenge the next who would take his name… Oh, my lord, your endless compassion for your minions knows no bounds."
...What?
Molyps landed on the ground in front of us all slowly and dramatically, "So come, those who would defy Skrvian with your unworthy blood. Come, prove to me your worth!"
Wait, alright, I understand all of that, but he makes it sound like that god is Skryb. As you may have noticed, none of us are Skryb.
Skryb, what the actual hell is up with both the fighting experience and the lore of this dungeon?
Adalet gave me an impatient nudge. Oh, right, shit, I'm the tank.
With both my forms, I charged in without any care in the world, I just really want this guy dead.
"Die in the name of our god!" Molyps shouted enthusiastically before summoning a fuck ton of weird alien guys.
So, this is a shit moment, because while Gruol was quite good at summoning minions, those minions were quite shit.
Within 30 seconds, most of those minions were gone.
In 30 seconds, we did around 20,000 damage to the 200,000 health pool of Molyps.
So, you know, vitally critical things to know.
Also, these alien-creature things hurt like hell. They deal like 50 damage every hit, and there's a shit ton of them.
As you may be able to tell, my health is crying out in pain right now. The party is starting to fall back, Molyps isn't even at half health, and generally, we're not having a good time.
Until like the rain coming back after years of drought, some randomly critical piece of the boss fight happens.
[One true king - Zavvox will deal triple damage to Molyps]
Now this, my friends, is not good game design. However, when we're getting ass-blasted across the continent by a shit ton of evil aliens, we take what we get.
I rapidly started back up my offensive, and the damage on Molyps was getting extremely significant, we even got him to half health, his minions were finally being dealt with, and victory felt near.
Until, Molyps, Skryb, or whatever kind of evil deity was watching over us decided to fuck us in the ass.
Molyps then shouted out, "I shall not disrespect his memory! None of you are worthy to stand in his place!"
And like a flood devastating the area, he comes up with this ass-pull.
He summoned a shit ton of flies. Not just any flies, mind you.
Plague flies
Hp: 10
Notable stats:
Dex: 15
Now, at first, this may seem fine, but consider this.
That's a high quality plague in a fly. Suddenly, at the final 50,000 stretch of the fight, this becomes a desperate battle not to be bit by a fucking mosquito. While Gruol and Adalet could use area of effect spells, I hate to say it, but they just don't cover enough area, but it was nice to look at, I suppose.
So, many flies, big bugs, 50,000 health, how do we beat this?
Well that's the neat part. Everyone just starts to get near me to get my protection and I just go all in on the boss.
Soon enough, 20,000 health, I'm basically starting to strangle him alive and he's kicking and screaming and it's actually really weird now that I say it in my thoughts…
Well, regardless, despite the slide-show feel of the fight, we finally get Molyps down to 1 hit before he says something important.
"Well… Done…" Molyps gasped out, "You will all… Become… Conquerors…"
And, you'll never believe what happens next.
Molyps fucking dies.
All bosses have been killed. Use the teleportation stone inside your inventory to exit and obtain rewards.
Ah… Can you feel the dopamine going through my mind right now? It's wonderful.
The others also let out a small celebration, Gruol starts clapping, Adalet sighs, and Theminya… dances.
Well, good for her.
Gruol then grabs his teleportation stone from his inventory, "Great! I'm glad I never get to see you ever again!"
Adalet scoffed, "Always until the end, you dare doubt the face of justice? I should have you executed for this."
Theminya just awkwardly smiled and backed off while getting her teleportation stone ready and waved a small goodbye to me.
God, I really hope to never have to deal with this shit ever again. 35,000 experience was not enough for this.
Suddenly, as everyone else leaves, I catch the glimpse of a certain little crystal from the corpse of Molyps. Ah, that must be mine.
[Fragment of Unending Void - Stare into the abyss, and the abyss stares back.]
...Hah? Wait a minute, that's a lot different from the other crystals…
God, I really just want to forget all of this and go home.
Grabbing the teleportation stone from my inventory, I say a goodbye to this godless little cavern.
Omake
Yunion
With an extravagant flair, I speak out, "And with the slightest slash of my great magical power, I destroyed the mighty ruin guard that terrorized the land!"
All the children started clapping at my performance. Yay.
I waved back at the children before taking my leave after telling my story.
After all, despite that… small interruption, I am a villain at heart, I revel in the small chaos of the world.
"Oh, I'll just do this all in one chapter, it'll be fine."
Famous last words.
You can physically see for yourself where my soul started to die from writing this at 1 AM in the morning. By the way, it's after the first boss. I probably should've avoided doing this chapter in 1 day. How some madmen do 10k chapters even on a bi-weekly basis scares me.
Was this a good decision? No. No doubt I'm going to wake up with post-sleep-clarity and realize all the stupid shit I did this chapter, but I said 1 chapter so I did 1 chapter.
Also, I added in a whole bunch of random things that may or may not be fully fleshed out in the future, like the whole dungeon being from the previous fic with Skryb somehow knowing how it looked like, or just that void crystal thing in general, and maybe just literally anything of this chapter becoming relevant anytime soon in the story.
Don't worry though, I ran out of shit to put in the fic before I can hold off the fateful meeting between Zavvox and Akiya, so expect that maybe next chapter unless I do some serious Sun Tzu shit of keeping them away from each other, which feels unlikely.
I was also going to use some reviewer names as player names, but then I got all self conscious about it, so I ended up throwing out that plan. Anyways I made up Gruol and Theminya out of nowhere and I just translated Justice into random languages until I saw Adalet in turkish which sounded pretty cool, so I just took that.
Now anyways, I'm going to bed and probably wake up regretting this chapter, but you know, oh well. Definitely going to avoid writing 5k words next time.