Eventually the pelt of the spectral bear gave way and it dispersed. Leaving me, the Mushroom and it's body guard the only ones standing.
The Ophiocord brandished it's Staff the golden threads glowing with cursed energy. He had dominion over curses, me of the earth, and we were contesting the contesting control of the Flora around us.
With a burst of motion he summoned a barrage of cursed arrows from the tip of his staff, and his cursed spectral bodyguard burst into motion. Rasing my shield I turned the rocky floor of the courtyard into a roving sea of rocks. I felt a whisper of something but it disappeared as I blocked the attack of Lionel. I responded with a tidal wave of rocks crashing into the spectral bodyguard.
Launching forward I tried to attack the Ophiocord however he began to spin his staff and as I crashed into it I was rebuffed forced backwards. Pivoting myself so I could land on my feet, I saw that my attack had managed to push back the Ophiocord.
I watched as the mushroom stopped spinning his staff and stopped its momentum. Rasing the staff above his head he slammed it downwards.
"[Pseudo-Domain: Cursed Tempo]" a blast of red energy blossomed outwards with the staff as a focal point, it felt like I had somersaulted into a pool of honey. As I tried to move about I watched as the body guard began to move even faster. Even my Mana had slowed down turning from a rough sea into a slightly choppy beach waves.
*Bam* the mushroom slammed his staff again. I tried to break the cursed formation but I only had a small piece of the cursed construct in my body. The body guard practically teleported as he slashed at me with his bastard sword. Slowed down by the curse I had to basically sit there as several skills and abilities told me about the incoming attack yet I was unable to stop it. Being unceremoniously slapped across as Lionel's blade was unable to fully bite through my layers of protection.
Like a rock skipping across a lake I slammed into the ground three times before being stopped by a barrier right in front of one of the courtyard pillars. Slowly pulling myself up, as the skill of the Ophiocord continued to halt my ability to move with any semblance of speed.
Blizting towards me I sluggishly raised my shield to defend as I picked at the cursed formation trying to break apart the skill. Bashing his blade into my shield I rebounded back into the barrier. Focusing on my Mana instead I erected a dome barrier around myself using [Force Field].
The [Force Field] managed to halt the attacks of the body guard. Taking a quick breather I focused on the strands of vibrant red energy that permeated my body flowing out of me and into the courtyard. Closing my eyes and focusing on the flow, I saw it like lines of sketch. Sharpening my will into a point I began picking at the individual strands. The picking sent a vibration throughout the whole construct, it flowed from that string all the way out through the courtyard and into another string in my body. It was all connected the question was how?.
Then I felt something as a tingle at the edge of my mind. The [Fungal Spores] of course! Throughout the courtyard were my fungal spores. Through them I felt the whole construct of the Red energy each one was tangled and created an image. The image was foreign to me but I sensed a certain logic, it reminded me of coding a skill I had only really tapped on, a few random classes in highschool and a few online late night curiosity binge watching. Tracing the lines I noticed something each time he struck downwards with his staff the lines inside of me glowed flowing into the cursed construct of Lionel.
Using my fungal spores I began to pick at the individual strands of the cursed formation. Slowly it began to unravel until eventually I felt that I was fully capable of moving at full speed again. Opening my eyes I saw heavy cracks forming throughout the [Force Field] I had thrown up.
Dismissing the [Force Field] I blasted off at full speed, tackling the body guard. With my Mana no longer slowed my sea of rocks returned to being in a heavy storm. Distracting the Ophiocord with errant waves of rocks as I beat up his summon. Each swing and hit with my club sent a stumble throughout the summon. As its integrity slowly unraveled and became undone.
With a final meeting mighty swing it finally dispersed like it brethren. Leaving only me and the Ophiocord; however, a violent tussle began through Mana tendrils and willpower as the full might of the Ophiocord slammed into the Flora around us ending the stalemate.
Great tendrils of roots sprung from the ground each one twenty feet tall and six feet wide. Like a great plant based kraken roving above my earthen sea. Rasing my shield I blocked a bitch slap from one of them. Pushing it back I clobbered it with my club, just for one of its compatriots to attempt to slam me from behind.
Jumping upwards I dodged the attack before I landed on it, drawing my dagger I stabbed into it. It tried to fight me off, and ai fleet the Mana of the Ophiocord try and rebuke the cursed energy that was flowing from my dagger. However I had learned a thing or two, and while I couldn't create curses I could Untie them. Flowing Mana into my dagger it vibrated for a moment as the power of me and the Ophiocord clashed inside the mushroom tentacle.
I was slowly winning the fight as the cursed energy withered away the mushroom tentacle. However with the help of one of its homies it had unseated me. Flying through the air once again I crashed into the barrier this time I used it as a launch board. Flying to the air stopped myself right in front of the Ophiocord and smacked him as he raised a shield to defend. Again I attacked with my club, his fungal tendrils tried to halt me but I used the choppy waves to distract and harm them. With just me and the Ophiocord fighting he was forced onto the defensive. The crushing strength of my attacks pushing him back. He struggled for a moment as I had gained an upper hand.
As he tried to activate another of his cursed skills I blocked him with a single attack from my club. Seething hatred bubbled under the surface of his eyes, for a moment then something changed like a light switch.
"Hahaha, oh boy I don't know about you but I'm enjoying this fight!" He said as My club once again crashed against his barrier. Before he activated a spell of some kind and cared wave forced me back a few paces.
With a swish of wrist he changed his staff out for his short swords again. Seizing the opportunity I crushed through the mushroom tendrils by their roots. Their massive bulk faded as the they died showing there true size which were some small potato sized mushrooms. Focusing back on the Ophiocord I raised my shield just in time for him to slam recklessly into my shield. The rock formed shield cracked a small amount and almost gave way but it held long enough for me to mend it.
I tried to retaliate with a club swing but the Mushroom was agile. Trapezing out of the way of my attack. I chased after him with great waves of rock rumbling outwards of the ground, something about the visualization made it easier to manage.
Anytime my attacks got to close he would turn to a cloud temporarily to dodge the attack. He turned towards me launching off a pillar he blurred as he crashed towards me.
Ready for it however, I readied my shield and as his blade crashed into the rock, I made it a viscous liquid trapping his blades into my shield. Rasing my club I bashed the host of the Ophiocord.
Again and again until he finally let go of trying to keep his shirt swords. Depositing them deep underground and away from Flora. I blazed after him, aiming to finish the kill. He pulled his staff out with haste trying to barricade himself from me.
Stopping I stood still locking eyes with the Ophiocord. Around us the tidal waves of rock receeded. A glimmer of hope in the mushroom hosts eyes was quickly and ruthlessly crushed. Behind me a tsunami of rocks rose upwards bellowing. An opening in the wave allowed me to be unscathed as it crashed into the barrier of the mushroom and the sheer mass and weight of the Earthen Tsunami cracked it and fell onto the Ophiocord Mushroom.
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[Level Up x2!]
You have leveled up twice from killing the level 29 [Cave Gatherer of the Cave Folk[The Ophiocord Mushroom] a Rank Two Animated Undead and Fungal Lich. You now have 20 stat points to allocate! You are now level 20
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[Bonus Quest Completed]
You have completed the bonus Quest by slaying the Ophiocord Mushroom and it's Trinary, Secondary and now it's Primary host.
After being distilled into Liquor the [Ophiocord Mushroom] took over the whole village and declared war against the Cave Folk. The strongest faction to ever exist in these caves. At first the Aristocrats of the Cave Folk all belonging to the rare subspecies of Dark Elf called cave elf's dismissed the danger until it was to late.
Bonus Quest Reward: +25 Achievement Points.
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[Skill Quest Generated (x3)]
You have touched upon several sub skills of some of your pre-existing skills and one new skill completely. Skill quests are a way for the System to guide and encourage sapient to grow new skills.
-[Skill Quest: Geomancy]
You have scraped the surface of a sub skill of your Geomancy skill. This sub skill is a domain skill that takes complete control of one aspect of your nearby environment. Current Domain Fascination: Roving Tides
-[Skill Quest: Fungal Spores]
You have interacted with your fungal spores in a somewhat unique way. You have used it to sense opponents and cursed energy. You can develop a sub skill using this as a base.
-[Skill Quest: Curse Weaver]
You have learned how to unravel rudimentary curses that have affected you. At your paths current direction you can unlock the Uncommon skill: [Curse Weaver]
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[Achievement Earned]
You have earned an achievement for killing a unique species that existed only in one part of the mortal plains.
-[Unique Species Slayer]
You have slain a unique species bringing it to extinction before it could fully blossom. This achievement enhances your pre-existing bloodline records and adds a new bloodline trait. Effects: gain trait [Slayer's Lineage]
-[Slayers Lineage]
Bloodline Trait
You gain the ability to mark a whole faction or even a species as your Mark. This increases your damage against the targets however it marks you as enemy that allows anyone of that faction including gods, and high rank morts to attack you.
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[Bloodline Trait Enhanced]
Your Bloodline Trait [Poisonous Blood] had upgraded into [Gorgon's Blood].
-[Gorgon's Blood]
Bloodline Trait
Your blood becomes acidic or poisonous depending on what you want. Your blood also attacks posions and venoms of the second rank or lower making you immune to them. This does not effect your direct relatives you posses this Trait.
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