"Take that you baldy", Zeus shouted out as he mashed his staff on top of the smooth white head of the skeleton which went by the name of Psulxu, putting a crack on it. Their method of a.s.sault was simply immobilize and then beat him as fast as possible, they did not want the repeat of the last boss they faced to happen again.A precious few seconds that was all they needed as they reduced Psulxu"s Hp from 20000 to a little over 12,000, when the Vine broke freeing him as he stood up and threw a barrage of pitch black b.a.l.l.s at them as he shouted out his eyes glowing red, "Die you filth humans, Die"
The trio dodged the b.a.l.l.s which when hit the ground exploded in contact causing craters on them, the trio once again neared with intent to attacking him as Psulxu raised his hands and spoke, "Come forth my glorious Immortal servants protect me."
The ground cracked in front of him as more than ten heavily armored troops with shields and swords appeared in front of them, each one of them wearing identical armor except one who had a tattered cape and his helmet has a red plume on it.
A quick use of observe bared their stats for Zeus to see.
[Name: Skeleton Royal Guard
Level: 11
Cla.s.s: N/A
HP: 3000/3000
MP: 3000/3000
Element: N/A
Attack: 1200
Defense: 500]
[Name: Skeleton Royal Guard Captain
Level: 11
Cla.s.s: Lord
HP: 10000/10000
MP: 8000/8000
Element: Lightning
Attack: 1500
Defense: 600
Description: Once a Loyal knight, but after his death during the siege of the capital of the empire was resurrected by Psulxu and forced to fight against his own comrades and loved ones and now forced serve him as his bodyguard for eternity.]
Zeus: "Everyone we are facing a 9 a little but strong Rank 11 and a single Lord cla.s.s, we have to finish them fast that lich wannabe is preparing something."
Tarasque: "I will hold the Lord where as you two finish the mob before helping me defeat him."
Azi and Zeus made their way to the others as Tarasque made her way to the captain, with Zeus successfully drawing the aggression of 4 of them and Azi drawing the aggression of the remaining 5.
To Zeus it was like dodging and attacking and dodging again, Zeus wanted to finish the fight fast but his attacks were stopped by shields he gritted his teeth as he used [Chain lightning] on them, the skeletons were hit by the attack taking with it a little over half their health as well as stopping them enough for him to use his normal attacks there by taking three of them down as [-2000], [-2089], [-2060] appeared above their heads as they dropped dead he charged to the remaining soldier destroying it with a couple of staff strikes [-2000] and [-1890] was the numbers which had appeared on top of his enemies heads before they fell dead.
Zeus then glanced at his teammates as he watched Azi was fighting against the last skeleton and Tarasque ahd whittled down the HP of her opponent to near half, he turned to the Psulxu who was performing some weird movements Zeus eyes widen as a blackish energy started gathering on his hands, he did not waste any time, "I knew it Tarasque planned poorly, one of us had to move and intercept PsulXu after or caster types like him whenever they summon armies means they are buying time for something else", with that in mind he dashed towards Psulxu as he lunged towards him as he used [Chain Lightning] and [Stab] in quick succession as it effectively stopped Psulxu from casting, as [-1800] and [-1500] appeared on him effectively preventing him from using whatever skill or technique he was trying to use.
Psulxu shouted out in anger, "You insolent, buffoon lying cur, I will kill you [Negative Burst], a large spherical black color attack originating from him made its way as it hit Zeus, throwing off his feet [-500] appeared above his head, as Psulxu fired a barrage of black small spheres which hit him causing a damage of above 4000, Zeus gritted his teeth as he send a fireball towards Psulxu as which hit him as it exploded on his face causing him about 1000 damage as he rolled to the right before he dashed towards him as he send a flurry of blows reducing the HP of Psulxu to around 7000 as he suddenly shouted out in anger, "ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!! I will not be mocked by the likes of you."
But before he could do anything thorn vines suddenly sprouted around him trapping him, as the other two joined him and before long Psulxu laid dead.
Zeus huffed in relief as he spoke, "We won but I propose to rest before we move again."
Azi sighed as she spoke, "I so wish to but I do not think we can after all this place is not a sanctuary."
Zeus sighed as he spoke, "So true, I hope we find one soon or else we will be overwhelmed."
"Thank You, Young ones.", a ghostly wail came from their back scaring they to the point that they jumped on their feet as they turned around they found ghostly apparitions of the Royal Guards floating in front of them, as they spoke in unison, "Thank you young ones for free us, but your battle is not over until and unless Dragol is dead no one is free, in order to free all of us please I beg of you to defeat his other 2 disciples and get the keys to Dragol"s mausoleum.", with that they vanished.
Zeus"s eyes opened wide at that as he spoke, "Really so we have to defeat 2 more bosses then the big boss will appear. Oh well but first let me loot the corpse."
As Zeus looted the corpse a pile of items appeared in front of him, more than a dozen silver coins and a gold coin, along with few tomes and among various miscellaneous items they got all the items together as Zeus used observe on them.
[Name: Negative Burst
Tier: 3
Cla.s.s Requirement: Necromancer
The caster sends a burst of negative energy causing 1000 damage within 10 meters as well as having knock back effect on targets
Cost: 500MP/use]
[Name: Negative Strike
Tier: 2
Cla.s.s Requirement: Necromancer
The caster hurls a ball of negative energy at the target causing them about 500damage
Cost: 350MP/use]
Zeus sighed as he spoke, "Well this two are the best spell tomes I got others spell tomes and items are not worth mentioning."
They sighed at that as Azi spoke, "Well what about the stone pillar there it got to be something right it has all those runes on it and they look inactive."
Zeus used observe on the pillar.
[Sanctuary Control Pillar
Durability: 1000000/1000000
Description: Activates sanctuary on specific places which prevents the entrance of any monsters in its nearby vicinity.
Status: Off]
Zeus shrugged as he spoke, "Well let us switch it on then."
As he touched the Pillar, the runes glowed as with a hum the pillar shook before a bright light was shot out from it, the light went up to the sky as multiple flickers of lights appeared at the horizon even the sky cleared as the moon itself looked a lot less menacing, as a system generated message displayed in their hud,
[WELCOME TO THE SANCTUARY]
Before anyone could speak the mausoleum near them shook as it fell apart revealing a chest inside it Zeus approached it and opened it revealing a piece of a broken plate along with 3 gold coins and 50 silver coins, and a skill tome.
[Name: Broken stone Key
Description: "It is a part of a key that is used to open Dragol"s Mausoleum."
]
[Name: Archer"s Blessing
Tier: 3
Weapon Requirement: Bow
The skill blesses the bow of a user enabling for the arrows fired using it to imbued with holy fire that causes +100 Damage to normal beings and +10% attack damage on Undead beings.
Cost: 500MP/use]
Zeus threw the tome towards Azi as he spoke, "Here it is for you, and I believe it will provide us with extra advantage to us here."