“This is dull,” Nathalia groaned as she watched John and the rest of the group fight so oversized sli monsters. The dragoness had told them that she actually had gotten tired of just fucking around. Apparently, the devil lived in the fridge and gravity aid at the sky nowadays.
Anyhow, she was now in the backline of the group, told to not do anything unless it was to save soone. She and Thana had been given those orders. Their primary charge was Undine, who stood back and waited for her duty as a healer to beco necessary.
John could have her just hang around in incorporeal form as well, but A: Undine didn’t want to and B: that would an that she had to be relatively close to him, as they couldn’t distance themselves very far while incorporeal. Having her materialize within a group of enemies wasn’t exactly how to protect one’s healer. John therefore had her hang around the back, so that people could co to her when they were hurt.
Not that they needed to worry about anything while Thana and Nathalia were guarding her. Case in point, one of the local monsters, called Sewage Slis (a muddy green, oversized blob of acidic, well, sli with a black core), jumped at the trio in the form of a wave springing from a nearby gutter.
Nathalia simply waved her hand, didn’t even look towards the sli, and a scorching wave of fire reduced the sli to nothing but ash. “How do you not die of boredom?” the dragoness asked her other two companions.
“I just think about shit, like what I am going to eat later or if rmaids think that lakes are islands,” Thana said. “You know, stoner thoughts.”
Undine just shifted around, her eyes stubbornly set at nothing, and kept flowing after the group.
“I see… and you?” Nathalia asked the nding elental, who inched away from her.
“I… manage,” she hesitatingly spoke.
“Yes, I desire to know how,” Nathalia growled. “Don’t test my patience and answer .”
“Not to interrupt your conversation or anything…,” John said, slicing through one sli with a fire infused Mana Blade while punching another one with the burning fist of Purgatory. Both were moves to set up what followed. A white firefly dispersed on her skin before she reached deep into the cauterized wound Mana Blade had cut into the sli, thus greatly reducing its regeneration, and ripped out the core.
Without the fist-sized, smooth, stone-like core, the mass beca a puddle on the floor. Rave dropped it and crushed it under her foot, after which the puddle beca naught but dust. For the other sli John had weakened, a bolt of tal penetrated the point where the sli’s outer layer was damaged by fire. At high speed, the projectile flew, digging deep into the core. That didn’t outright kill the sli, but Lydia fixed that by parting the bolt into two halves, ripping the core apart.
Rave and Lydia then went over to help Aclysia, who was busy tanking another one, giving John a mont to finish his sentence, “…but I would be happy if you wouldn’t bother Undine.”
“John Newman, you will need to realize that you sotis need to drag words out of people,” Nathalia told him. “Otherwise, they just stay silent for their entire life. Silent and boring.”
“I am pretty certain that, if Undine wanted to tell sothing, she would,” he retorted. A feeling of hesitant approval, very hesitant approval, but still approval of his intervention.
“John, Mana Ray, please!” Rave shouted over.
“Can’t you just blast them with sunlight or sothing?” John asked but raised his hand.
“Nah, there is a slight proble- whoops,” Rave made room for the attack to hit the sli, and then she plunged her fist, engulfed by short bursts of light, through the brittle place the Mana Ray had impacted. The lights shone brighter, each new burst trumping the last one in intensity, like small stars inside the green mud. Rave pulled her hands upwards, cutting the sli open with a sickle of tracing illumination. Then she pointed her index finger directly at the core as the sli scurried to nd itself back together. A laser shot forth and burnt the last few centitres of protection away. A few more of these later and the sli collapsed.
Aclysia, anwhile, whirled Vol’Jin’Zul around. With the buff of the red firefly, her attack cleaved through the gelatine mass, splattering it over the floor. A direct follow-up attack at the core and now that sli was done as well, which spelled the end for the group that they had been occupied with.
They gathered up what the slis had dropped as Rave told John what the problem was. “My attacks ain’t strong enough to penetrate that outer layer they have,” she said. “All they do is create a small wound. That just heals right up.”
“What about that broad area stuff you do?”
“Even more shallow over a greater area,” she furthered her explanation. “Not gonna help. Not that I am great against slis in the first place. My powers work by either blasting my target with heat or just physical impact. Either way the light does damage as it gets ‘swallowed up’, so the damage is just spread throughout the partly translucent body of these disgusting things.”
In Rave’s defence, they were currently fighting enemies in the level 91-95 bracket. The difference between their levels and the fact that they were buffed for group content, ant that Rave wasn’t supposed to be able to take them down on her own. Even the one John had fired a Mana Ray at had been engaged by the elental girls.
It was good that Rave fought stuff above her pay grade. John had seen her use so stuff she usually didn’t need or hadn’t been able to do in the past. Like that finger laser, or the flash bangs around her hand. ‘Part of that could just be because of the training she is doing on her own recently,’ John pondered.
John dumped a glass of muddy sli in his inventory, a crafting material to be sold later, and they went deeper into the dungeon. This ti around it was a canal system. The air was stagnant and dank, muddy water flowed through trenches and underneath tal walkways. It really wasn’t a pretty dungeon, and the sooner they were out of here, the better.
“I suggest we go rest after this one,” Lydia said. “It is already close to midnight.”
“Well, I got a level today, so I am happy with that,” John agreed.
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