“Shards of Light!” Kyle’s voice rose as their enemy moved slowly. Five shards of crystallised light formed at the tip of his fingers, then darted towards the large creature.
The shards easily hit the rock body of the elemental, not even causing it to flinch. It didn’t even seem to be aware of Kyle’s attack – it just creeped closer, slowly, but persistently.
Kyle bit his lips. The shards exploded not a moment after hitting the creature. This time, it paused as pieces of rock rolled off of its body.
“It will take you ages to kill this thing.” Droigheann commented. The Demon of the Nightbloom sat upon a large rock, watching Kyle’s struggle with an amused look on his face. His lips were curled up somewhat, and his eyes glimmered with the fun he was having.
“Come and do it yourself then.” Kyle snapped. “I’m a mage – I can’t just go and smash the damn thing t
Kyle ran up the steep hill, towards the Demon of the Nightbloom. Droigheann was seated on a large rock. He watched Kyle with an amused expression as the young summoner reached the rock, exhausted and out of breath.“Good job.” The Demon’s lips curled up with amusement. “Though you’re certainly exhausted.”Kyle nodded as he tried to calm his racing heart. He leaned against the rock for support as he panted.“Drink some water.” The Demon suggested. “Then rest for half an hour. After that, you’ll fight a few more rock elementals.” He pointed northwards, where two rock elementals were ever so slowly creeping closer.Kyle ignored the elementals and grabbed a bottle of water from his inventory. Drinking the icy cold water washed away some of his exhaustion. He forced himself to take deep breaths afterwards. His chest still hurt, and his lungs felt like someone had lit a fire within.
“I’m going to check the surroundings.” Droigheann declared as he stood up. “Don’t wander away.”Kyle laughed. “Like I’ve got the strength left to do that.”Droigheann left, and Kyle lay on the ground, ready to sleep. He had lost count of how many elementals he had killed today. At first, he felt a little bad for coming here to kill them, but then Droigheann had explained how elemental creature were formed.They were beings created to be servants to powerful mages. But they had no real consciousness, they couldn’t understand spoken words, nor could they be communicated with in any other way. Telepathy apparently didn’t work, nor did any type of sign language that some mages had tried.They did usually have instinctive behaviours, though the miasma that infected them had clearly destroyed whatever was left of that as well.They needed to find the source of the miasma and destroy it if
Staring at the crack in the cliff wall, Kyle couldn’t help but shudder.There was nothing that didn’t scream ‘cave with monster’ about it. First of all, the grass in front of the entrance had a yellowish hue to it, it looked sickly, and it was clearly half dead already.Then, there was the stench coming out of the crack. It was so strong and awful that even from so far away, Kyle could smell it. He covered his nose and mouth, then took a couple of steps back.“Definitely inhabited by a demon.” Droigheann spoke up. He had a distasteful expression, his lips were curled down, his eyes narrowed. “A nasty one at that.” He added as he stepped towards the crack. “Come on, let’s head inside. There is no point in wasting time.”Kyle gulped, then took off his scarf and wrapped it around his mouth and nose before following Droigheann. He wanted to breathe in as little of the miasma as possible.
“Look out!” Kyle shouted at Droigheann as the cyst moved awkwardly. It grew larger and wiggled. Seeing it move like that was disgusting, and Kyle was pretty sure he knew what was coming next. Droigheann was surrounded, he had no way to retreat in time.“Barrier!” Kyle shouted. A golden light enveloped the Demon of the Nightbloom just in time as the cyst puffed up, then spurted a disgusting, brown substance.Immediately, Kyle felt dizzy from the stench that covered the cavern. The brown substance was like pus. Thick, disgusting, and extremely unsanitary.The cyst immediately started growing again, almost as if it was able to produce more of that brown coloured pus. Kyle gritted his teeth – he didn’t even want to imagine what would happen if that pus touched him.Droigheann continued to fight, his blade cutting through his opponents one by one. But there were too many corrupted elementals, too many for him to deal with on
Back at the cathedral, Kyle enjoyed a nice, long soak in the hot springs, then slept for about twelve hours straight. The next morning, the muscle pain he had been suffering from was a lot milder and tolerable.He grabbed some food from the elf-run kitchen, then returned to his room. Droigheann had returned to what he called his ‘realm’. He was in Kyle’s shadow, as usual. Kyle was thankful for it because this way he didn’t constantly feel tired.He sat and ate, and once he was finished with his breakfast, he put aside the plate and opened his character panel.‘New Class Choice Available’The bright blue text was no surprise to him. He was now over level 100. That meant he could either pick a secondary class, or continue with his Summoner class, and take it to Summoner Tier III.He pondered a while. He was fairly strong now, he could easily pick a secondary class to try it our, but Rhealis’
Kyle sat on his bed cross legged and opened his status panel once again.‘Kyle – Lv. 103 Summoner T. IIINT 88 | WIS 30 | DEX 10 | STR 10 | CON 20Mana:880 (1760)Available Points: 4Skill Points: 43’‘Please Pick a Secondary Class or Increase Your Mastery of Your Current Class.”Kyle smirked, and picked the ‘Increase Mastery’ option.‘You are about to choose Summoner Tier III as your second class. Are you sure?This choice will give you the following benefits:The Summoner’s Summons can now evolveThe Summoner’s spell selection will increaseThe Summoner’s available skills will increaseThe Summoner’s C
“No!” Kyle pushed Vis away as soon as she was done drinking his blood. “No, this is my room, not yours. You won’t sleep here.” He hissed, unphased by the rather beautiful vampire’s hurt expression. “Aww, you’re not fun.” Vis whined. “Come on, what do you have to lose?” Kyle glared at her. “Leave!” He pointed at the door. “Or I’ll have Droigheann make you leave.” Vis pursed her lips. “I shouldn’t have lifted my mark off of you. You don’t even know how to have fun.” Kyle rolled his eyes. The last thing he needed right now was ‘having fun’ with a damned vampire! All he wanted to do was sleep! Eventually, he got her to leave, and breathed a sigh of relief. He rubbed the spot where she bit. It didn’t hurt much, it was mostly numb now. He lay on his bed again, and soon fell asleep. His dreams were riddled with images of the Celestial Realm. He woke up several times because it felt as if someone had pushed him off a cliff. Each time, his dreams only grew more confusing, until eventually
“Let me get this right.” Droigheann leaned against the Evertree. “The damn Lich of all people is feeling tired. And everyone else had nightmares.” Kyle nodded. Irena pursed her lips. “I was resting, but my rest doesn’t happen in this plane of existence, so perhaps that is why me and you,” She glanced at Droigheann, “haven’t been affected.” The Demon of the Nightbloom let out a sigh. “Perhaps.” He admitted. “What about the Vampire?” He then asked. “She is, besides me, the strongest being on this plateau. Has she been affected?” Kyle averted his gaze. “I don’t know.” He wanted to avoid her for as long as he could. “I’ll go and ask.” Irena suggested. “Thanks.” The young man smiled. As soon as the Priestess was gone, Droigheann chuckled. “You really are a lucky fool, human.” He smirked. “A lucky fool who has started acting smarter.” He then added. Kyle rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah.” He brushed his hair back. “I need to know why everyone on the plateau had bad dreams and nightmares.”