Chapter 72: Dungeon Part 12: A Dragons Visage!

Tyr stammers the back of his knees itch he can feel his hands shake as he tries to says, "A Kluge!" Nineth Immortal, Rena, Amalya and Lucinda can see that his black skin is visibly grey bloodshot and sweaty. Nineth Immortal has never seen him like this it's like he is facing his death or something. 

Nineth Immortal say, "Hey what's wrong?" Tyr turns to her slowly, they obviously have no idea what is in front of them. How does he explain the destroyer of nations, the Mind flayer and lord of tortured souls. How are they supposed to fight claws that phase through armour? A dragons breath that paralyses and dodge a mental attack that traps you in your own mind. 

Amalya rushes forward the tiny yellow-green scaled common basilisk slithers its claws phasing into being. It slashes at Amalya she screams out in pain ninety per cent of health vapourising in an instant. She falls to knees three separate debilitating status effects. Lucky for her none of those drains her life further. This forces Lucinda forward in order to defend her sister, Rena pops off her spirit shot. The lion clashes stumbling through the dragon. It retracts opening its tiny mouth thirty small needle-like gaseous death darts are shot at her. 

Lucinda collapses in an instant dead! The death darts don't stop they move to the next closest player-killing Amalya. 

"Noooo!!!" yells the cracking windpipe of Tatiana. They have been ambushed by a powerful group of players each is strong and formidable. The death its self is not a problem it's how they did it. Or rather how none of them noticed. A massive wave of magic spells explodes from a single, around him is a small dancing imp-like monster with skin as pale as the moon. As the magic power builds up Omnicornlyre slams into Tatiana pushing her out of the magic trap. 

All of her team from her shadow in half Tano form is a hard-hitting close-up melee combatant. Frozen stiff her health being siphoned away by another player she recognises the low-class sorcery as an advanced class meant to kill by siphoning. "A Hexer!" She scoffs while still on the ground such a rare class is supported by an unknown magic summoner and the rest of the team seems to be geared that way too. One at the back with a staff shaped like a human head must be an advanced sorcerer depending on his element will determine how deadly he is.

To  Boa-bob the half green, half red blood covered Mtimkhulu their most heavily armoured player is having his life force directly drained. Lelo can't do anything even with her physical psionic ability to phase through objects as a force blade. Koraa is next to fade as the whole structure explodes after ten seconds. Dealing a crippling blow to the remained of team Azula the Warlock casts a Twin Destiny as a last-ditch attempt to at least kill one player as she dies. Omnicornlyre uses her Abyss magic to kill another player by sacrificing one level! Tatiana can only flee towards the respawn spot. 

This gives Tatiana a chance, Tyr takes his chance screaming as he runs forward, "Long-range attacks only don't let it target you." The ability to guide the death darts requires at least three seconds to lock which is why it usually strikes first. Its [Stiffling strike] casts several staus ailments whenever its hits. At least given its small size its dragons' breath is has a limited area of effect. 

Streaks of [Shots of Fire] are loosed by Tyr, Nineth Immortal follows with a steady stream of Bolts now that Tyr is back in action...She has a chance to ask, "What the hell happened to you?" Tyr brow is hard he is clearly fighting something his hands are shakey. 

Tyr throws another shot saying, "Faster Rena! Fire on the move don't stop moving!" They are already at a disadvantage even with Nineth Immortals' tattoo doing its thing. A kludge is any dragon with the spiritual element ingrained into them. The first sign is the psionic abilities second is the phase ability. This means that this dragon cannot be beaten by directed physical combat. The only reason the bolts are even having an effect is that they are forged by a legend that has imbued his crossbow with heavenly energy. Also given the nature of her transformation Rena is also of some help. Tyr is frightened beyond belief in his memories he had been chased by a level 150 common basilisk kludge. similar to the Basilisk in front of them now they are exceptionally deadly and worst of all during a war and he has been assassinated by it at least fifteen times. The experience left him very bitter indeed. 

Rena finds this new style of fighting most daring. "A most daring fight indeed, Don't let up amigos!" says Styx the players have finally come in earnest. His whole team is a well-coordinated veteran group of gamers. Styx and Shadow are particularly deadly. The players that are targeting them are travelling in teams of tens. The problem in the jungle is that leaves them vulnerable to the hunters in Styxs' team. Heck, even Frey their most squishy player is even more deadly than those geared to fight no the jungle. Her spirit form lets her abuse her movement by moving through a tree. Most of the players only she firey shurikens before they are sent to respawn zone. 

Styx says, "This would be more effective if that player didn't trick The God of Death we would do more than just loss two levels." To most players, the level setback is enough to have them farming for hours but Sunken Reef uses only five and three-man teams. 

Shadow says, "How is doing it even I can only track so many players." Shadow is talking about Frey she has at least fifteen kills. They are surrounded by players who are set on killing them. Styx and Frey have also chosen to ignore them as they are too small fry to take seriously. Styx has already explained they will have to kill all their enemies every time. Shadow and the others are following the example of their leaders using the Jungle to pick off players one by one.

"It's trying to pick us off one by one!" Says Nineth Immortal of all the dragons' they have faced so far this is the most deadly. If you slip up you lose more than half your health as Tyr just did. He had accidentally bumped into Rena. Her tattoo has been violently glowing for a while she has no idea what It means. 

The tattoo starts to do this a while after the girls died. The tingle is growing ever stronger if only she had a rather she could read whats going on. However, this damned miniature death god has a deadly appetite for anyone who stands still. This space is under its complete control meaning that even if you only slow down a little you get attacked. 

Tyr scorch ability is a double edge sword its work by him receiving damage however this damage comes with a whole host of problems. He downs his health position after poison heal to rage power. The status he can't cure he lives with. Internally he cursing his luck a real Kludge in the wild is unheard of in his old time. 

Nineth Immortal focuses on feeling a connection to the dragon she still detects a strong sense of danger. Not of them though it's as if this dragon is afraid. The more they hurt it the more erratic it is becoming at first she thought it was just her imagination but she is now sure this guy is a coward. It would explain why they are still alive. She has been cast monster analyses every chance she has.  The skills don't end this dragon is a true demon. Fifteen separate skills she counted each geared towards killing or debilitating an enemy. She wonders how Tyr knew about this deadly dragon. ITs only day two and they still have lots to learn yet Tyr speaks like he has fought this monster before. Plus she is sure he was never part of the beta otherwise Tatiana would have roped him into her skin. That's the main weakness of her team none of them are even casually gamers. 

Rena can't use her butter skill which [Shield bash] as being any closer to death is lethal. She thinks of this little guy as death. The manner in which his appearance has affected the whole ever since they started fighting this dragon. The guild window has suffered six hundred deaths of low-level new players and some high ranked players too like Some of SKY Ocean Hunters' team. 

The new players who have died are of little consequence however expect for Medium Bunz all the other leaders are fighting for their lives. A guild slaughter is going on and while most of the leaders are surviving this will need a response that might affect their plans. 

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