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Now this is my first story. So don't go apeshit on me if its not upto the mark.
Chapter 3: Percy's acid bath.
"In the last episode we found our protagonist facing a horde of unidentified monsters, shaking like a leaf, crying for help as they cornered him and proceeded to … "
Percy's pov :-
They say when you're close to death your whole life flashes before your eyes. I call it bullshit …. Coz the only thing that were flashing before were three pairs of malicious eyes and jagged teeth calling for my death ….. not good …. Nope.
As I looked into their soulless eyes …. I mean do they even have souls ….. such pretty eyes … sigh.
"No Percy , this was not the time to think about pretty eyes ", I thought ,"you can jerk off to them at night , IF you get out of here alive". Okay lets try some diplomacy to try to distract/reason with them and then run away AFAS. Yup that was a good idea . RUN, RUN, RUN.
I used OBSERVE on them. Apparently these creeps were called dracaena , followers of Hecate or something and were kinda like vampires without the blood drinking part ,oh and they were immune to sunlight and garlic and stakes ,you know all those things that I don't have with me.
Ping.
Observe leveled up. You can now get more data on everything.
Well that's convenient. So lets try again.
Observe
Dracaena: level 6:
Followers of the titaness Hecate, these monsters were cursed to drink the life force of demigods to live and to have a single leg of a donkey . They are fast and very capable with bows and arrows.
Weak to elemental attacks.
Hp : 400 , Mp: 100
"Weak to elemental attacks ….. hmmmm … I can work with that ….. I mean what the Hades ….. at the best I kill them ; at worst they have their way with me and then kill me … at least I don't die a virgin"
With that in mind I activated the Dehydrating ball spell. A red glow covered my palm as an orb of dry heat slowly formed, not at all like a fireball rather like a miniature desert sun trying to suck out all surrounding moisture. The vampire ladies looked stunned for a second …. eyes intently watching the fiery orb. Suddenly they burst into action just soon I threw it toward one. With the grace of a professional dancer they evaded it ….. well mostly evaded it, as one still got singed … badly. Her entire right hand became black like that of a desiccated corpse .
"Oh yeah. Oh Yeah ,burn baby burn. Mess with Percy and you'll burn…. BURNED ….phhhhssssssss ….. aha aha aha ",I said as I did my dirty dance.
However no sooner it had started, my victory dance ended as well with me sprawled on the ground holding my nuts and choking on my own saliva. Those demons had kicked me in the balls… my precious balls …. Well had probably damaged my larynx as well but that's not as humiliating as being kicked there … growl ….. I'm going to skin them alive for this.
So I concentrated calling forth all my power willing it to surround in an impenetrable cloak of dry, suffocating and blistering heat … willing to rend my enemies into charred corpses . Morbid right, but hey whatever works. Surprisingly my power responded exactly as I wanted. It spread out from my centre concentrating around my skin surrounding me in a concentrated layer of flame … hmmmmmmm … no not flames , but rather heat , right heat . A cloak of scorching, dehydrating heat. My very own hell cloak. I looked awesome ….. well I think so and that's all metters.
I could feel them hesitating, afraid, indecisive of their course of action, for never had their prey attacked back like that. Taking advantage of the confusion I attacked. With the speed of a bullet I crossed the distance between us and grabbed on to the middle monster, kicking away the right one while the left one jumped to safety. A moment later the captive draca…..co ….ena … or whatever started screaming, getting burned by my cloak. I could literally see the flesh around her neck drying and dehydrating from my touch …. her face melting like wax . I could smell the flesh boiling, charring. It was disgusting. But I held on ….why, cause I could see her HP dropping rapidly ….-20HP.-20HP, -20HP …. in just twenty seconds it reached zero …. and her body burst into bright yellow flames disappearing into nothingness.
I looked towards the remaining dracaena and grinned. I could see the right one was injured from a burn mark on her let breast.
OBSERVE
Dracaena: level 6:
Followers of the titaness Hecate, these monsters were cursed to drink the life force of demigods to live and to have a single leg of a donkey . They are fast and very capable with bows and arrows.
Weak to elemental attacks.
Status condition: Burned: This causes a steady loss of health at the rate of 1HP per second. Increases damage from subsequent fire attacks. Reduces dex by 5.
Hp : 376 , Mp: 100
Very nice she has been inflicted by a status condition. Move advantage for me.
I lunged at her intending to suck her dry …. Well my heat cloak would do it not me ….. stop imagining things perverts …. Or would have had I not been intercepted by the healthy one in mid lunge by a kick to the pelvis ….. hurts like a bitch especially if you crash onto a wall . -30HP I was informed. The burned monster took advantage of my disoriented state and tried to disembowel me. On some weird instinct …. Like that one which makes you weary of an danger hidden at the corner or an ambush … I jumped up narrowly evading her razor like claws and quickly embraced her like she was by long lost best friend and squeezed hard. She screamed in agony but unlike the previous monster stated flailing and actually managed to throw me of.
However I did not give her any chance to recover and attacked her with a flurry of punches chipping out her health quickly before basing her head on the ground and choking her neck ….. my trusty cloak did the rest.
…Ping …
MP and HP are critical. Need immediate attention. Use healing items, potions, elixirs, medicines etc to rejuvenate.
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Well fuck. I quickly stopped my fire-cloak thingy with a mental command and looked at the remaining dracaena. She seemed cautious and was looking my body with such an intensity that it made me want to cover myself up in layers of clothing and lock myself up in a secure box with plenty of padlocks.
Then as if making up her mind she lunged attacking me with a flurry of claws and donkey kicks. I tried to parry them quickly realizing the was out of my leagues in physical combat so I decided to switch to magical.
Mud bullet . I spat out a ball of sticky mud nailing her face . After another couple of those bullets….. each causing -10HP damage…. She snarled out something but was unable to move from her spot covered in all that mud. It seems that the mud bullets were sticky as glue. As it tried to get free I quickly eat a few of the food items that I always carry in my inventory and healed my self a bit. Meanwhile she had already freed herself. As I got ready for the next round of attack she jumped back and bleached out a gas cloud of bluish gas. It smelled like overpowered chlorine and looked nasty.
OBSERVE
Morning glory poison: A very dangerous toxin created in Tartarus. Born of akhylis's tears it causes immense pain and dissolves the victim from inside and out.
( -50 dex,-50str-,-50int)%
Drains 50% HP per second
Note: only certain monsters can use it.
-50% HP per second …. Yeah I am not getting hit by that … suddenly the dracaena appeared before me and engaged me in hand to hand once again. Once again could barely defend myself. Before I had realized her plan she kicked me viciously into the poison cloud. Just one touch and I was poisoned …it seemed to seep in through the pores of my skin ….. disregarding any form of resistance … the poison resistance was useless … my vision was fading, my strength failing , my vitality was being sapped fast & all I could hear was the tittering laugh of that bitch. I knew I was dying and there was nothing I could do. Faintly I could hear someone screaming nearby, only to realize a moment later it was coming from my own throat along with coagulated blood. My skin felt like having been slow roaster over a blazing inferno, my blood felt like boiling lava and every breath felt like inhaling concentrated fluorine. It HURT like hell.
"THIS CANNOT BE MY END. NO, I WILL NOT DIE. NOT HERE, NOT NOW, NOT LIKE THIS …. I WILL survive AND I WILL CRUSH THAT BITCH NO MATTER WHAT ….. MONSTER OR NOT ", I screamed in my head. Her smug face filled my heart with so much rage and malice that I have never felt before." I wanted to kill her … no killing would be mercy", I thought, "first I wanted to torture her to an inch of her life ….mutilate her face, break her teeth, cave in her skull and then drown her in a slow dissolving acid".
Suddenly energy filled my whole body, where I could barely a finger move a second before, I was leaping out of the cloud towards the dracaena a moment later. Then there was a blinding flash and an explosion of energy and just before I lost consciousness I thought I heard the agonized scream of a woman. Served her right was all I could think of as blissful darkness claimed me.
Guys I need ideas about what loot Percy could probably get from the monsters. Would be very helpful. Also this is my first fight scene …. Give reviews about what can be improve and how.