Mapulon looks at his current partner, to see a shocked face and he looks at the direction in which she was facing and ran off to the direction. Leaving his partner behind dumbfounded at the sudden destruction. He runs towards the village, where the smoke was coming from.
He coughs and covered his mouth with one hand and began walking cautiously towards the source, he sees different people carrying buckets of water and wet paper towels towards the area, and someone familiar.
He went to approach the woman, but she sped up to somewhere before he could ask the situation, and the people were too busy putting out fires to be answering questions that needed to answered, before he could an explosion erupted nearby with howls of dog monsters he recognized and an explosion that he really hoped that wasn't the disruption of the wards,
As a hole in the magical defense in the wards might put the village in risk, as considering how the current horde was they had encountered, it might put risk towards the villagers inside and make it harder for the guardsmen currently stationed here, and so with an objective in mind
He rushed towards the area, as traces of his hair turned red and faint of smell of burning incense and the faint traces of wind, he felt his arms heat up, he fishes out the remaining talisman he was carrying and prepared his other hand with a glorified stick with a small dagger at the end for poking things a far, which at least is better alternative rather than trying to fight them bear handed when the eventuality the talismans he as carrying was reduced to zero and from earlier bouts he had earlier,
They had an innate magic resistance which was quite difficult to pierce through in brute force though with clever application of his magic he could hit weak points instead, and flood this insides with an magic either through with fire or electricity
Either way, it doesn't really matter as the results speak for as the bear would be already dead then, but though as of right now, it seems that he as faced seemed intent to maul his face with the utmost fury of swatting an annoying fly,
He jumps to the right as the bear shaped monster swipes to his side nicking his left cheek and throwing him away as the sheer wind from the strike threw him to a building. His backed crashed to a wooden pillar, breaking it but the enchanted clothes he wore blocked most of the damage but the bruise that was formed by the back would be certainly unpleasant.
He slowly rise and the cuts forming in his body were starting to take the toll in his body
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An inhumane screech vibrated his ears, he looks to see the rampaging bear let out the roar and with quick application, he threw an fire talisman and an light explosion towards the bear. He barely dodges to the right as a shadow he barely misses to see nearly lobs his head off from the side,
Despite the training he did with his mentor and the occasional run-in between stray monsters, did not prepare him against this after all, those stray monsters could be bribed or bargained with it however with the bear-like structure of the monster, it seems unlikely that bargain would be struck,
Though compared to it's real counter part, it seemed that it was more of similar to an actual bear, the ones he saw in the internet and what appears to be more of the realistic side of things, it was more of the specie of-
He forced his body to dodge to the right as the claw appears in the fog out of nowhere as seen from the barely clipping his shoulder. The enchanted cloth he wore got torn through like hot knife through butter.
He threw a single talisman in the area, the talisman merely making it stumble and getting it's hairs singed but it did something noticeable. It was something small but he did notice for a few moments and if he compared it to the dog beasts, it was breathing as if it was an living animal.
A clue that he took advantage of but would be completely pointless if he get unconscious before the bear did too. He might not have the power to truly overpower the bear's hide that had magic resistance, but he had other plans if it did not work,
Ritual magic obviously not part of them, as it would take too much time and time that the bear monster will not wait for him to start. One would be to attempt to cut parts of it's hide and bind it on a doll.
Though at the moment, it seems more on progress though as he once again placed another wind talisman below him to throw himself out as bear proceeds to lunge towards him. It seemed to be more irritated and he could feel the force increasing on every lunge and scratch the bear threw at him.
He looked at his bag to find that there was a few the talismans he brought with him which was staggering considering he also thought that he was carrying way too many and he felt his body heating up with magic he was throwing around, something he has been ignoring up till now.
It seems that his reserves were on the low, and he had one last shot at attempting beat this one and if he can't he would be mauled to death. A shiver passed by as soon as he completed that thought.
He smiled grimly for the moment and it seems that the bear noticed the changed and prepared it's own attack
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A witch slowly walks towards a village, "It seems more sinister when in thought though" she laughs at that but it barely came out a cough as the rod she carried was quite warm to the touch. Though she'd prefer it on her hand as she looks at the corpses of the dog monsters that were expiring away.
She limped slowly towards the burning parts of the village, that was the part she last lost Mapulon. He was certainly a unique mage at that, well if you consider someone who use talisman which is not that really unique with her own choice of foci.
Add to the fact that he just simple went off to help fend off the dog monster without talking to her speaks of his character but that doesn't help the fact that rushing without knowing primarily what caused the problem in the first place was reckless.
And she wasn't sure of the capacity of the Mapulon boy she was sure at least 16 - 17ish in terms of age. He did decently for someone at his age during the earlier bouts and he was obviously tired coming out from the tunnel.
It was at the moment, she could just simple go towards the residents were and claim for as a mage and help in healing injuries. But it seems that there was part of her that claimed responsibility even though she has been researcher and has quite experience, it seems that at the moment she would ignore those warning bells at the moment.
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He woke up to the sounds of rotting flesh and smoke. He doubled down to the side to puke at the intensity but it seems nothing came out as he gagged on air instead, after a few minutes of adjusting to stench around him. He noticed a few things.
Well especially that his right side of his vision seemed to have stopped working and that he feels light on the head. Which was most likely probably the fault of an attempt of a last gambit, when that though passes by him, he just sits there and saw a corpse but not a corpse.
It was the bear but it seemed dead as he could see droll on it's mouth and it's eyes rolled around only showing the white. "I really do hope that you stay dead…" Mapulon mutters to himself as soon as adrenaline wears out of him he starts being aware of the pains he was ignoring.
He slowly stands up but his body protests as it and barely held on to a wooden poll that somehow managed to not get burned by the fire, though that was most likely due to most of the oxygen getting sucked out by his spell though.
As he starts walking, he grabs a stick from the floor as the dizziness made him want to get a good rest at the floor and it seems that it looks nice to sleep for the moment. "Not yet," he mutters to himself as he limped towards somewhere the fire was not.
He walks slowly but small steps are small steps. "If I could just pommel the idiot who think it was a good idea to summon those constructs on a underground village…" he mutters himself so that he wouldn't just fall asleep in the middle of nowhere.
"I just hope that at least someone out there trying to find the culprit in this mess" he says quietly as he nears the cave, he used too much in his spells and threw thew a lot and his body is quite hot and he didn't think his body would be able to throw more of those heavy magic use spells.
The least he could do was create a simple veil that he didn't get much use as what's the point of being invisible or camouflaged when they can simple bombard the area with spells or just simply do an counter spell to simple veils or spells.
And he didn't get much practice of it and instead of trying to become invisible or camouflaged which was hard as focusing on the surroundings is not ideal with his conditions and he simply made himself less interesting to look at.
He just hoped that it would not fail him. He looked at himself and made the motions for the spell and just like that a warm sensation appeared in his body along with the strain in his mind increasing slightly, he tried not whimper at the the added strain but forced it inside.
As he finally reached to the parts were the village was mostly in tact. He swiftly ran to cover or rather he limped his way to cover instead, it was very painful and it hit a spot in his right leg making him wince and grit his teeth.
His efforts were somehow rewarded as what appears to be a lone dog monster, or rather blackie instead as the earlier term was a bit mouthful and he hasn't read a book ever since to try to read about what type of monster it was actually is.
And he was too busy healing those cursed with the bites and attempting to examine the corpses tend to make them broke apart to pieces just like a sand castle, and even if it that were the case he was pretty sure that it that those type of monster he was dealing with did not have horns.
Or specifically did not walk as if it was trying to find something in the scent in the air. Whatever it was trying to do, he hopes that it was not an enemy, he ducked under cover but peaking on the side as it suddenly looked at the direction where he was at.
He nearly attacks as a voice in the right startles him which leads back to his overuse of magic making him drop the talisman he was carrying clutching his head instead as ringing overcomes his head.
"-look like shit, Mapulon" she says, though she was too blurry for him to guess who it was though.
"If I had a penny, for every time someone speaks to me without announcing themselves" he retorted but immediately regretted it as his throat gave out of him.
Trix looked at him as if exasperated at the things he did currently, which was a fair assessment but at least he was currently alive.
She looks at him and notices that he was slightly swaying and had stick for stability, though parts of the is digging in the shoulder, though lack of grimaced face might be the loss of blood.
Whatever the case right now, she would drop him at the nearest medic center.
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Author notes: Things has been quite hectic with Covid-19 situation but things has been getting better and add to the fact that I've finished all of my classwork, expect sooner updates from now on.