547. Questing VIII

547. Questing VIII

Adam stared at the sky, watching as the four manticores circled around them. The sun caused him to glance away slightly.

“Seriously, these guys aren’t that stupid, eh?” Adam said, not really talking to anyone in particular.

“It will be difficult to face them since they fly,” Jurot admitted.

“We don’t have too many people who can fight at this kind of range...” Adam blinked at the creatures.

The manticores, with their wicked tails, sent down clusters of spikes, which dropped among the group. Faool narrowly dodged a spike, though it managed to graze his side.

“How rude,” Adam said, raising his Wraith towards the creatures.

Mana: 21 -> 18

Spell: Fireball

8D6 = 31 (2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6)

31 damage!

Onward Soar: 1 -> 0

Mana: 18 -> 15

Spell: Fireball

8D6 = 31 (1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6)

31 damage!

Adam channelled his magic through his veins, which emanated into two beads of fire which shot upwards and exploded against the manticores, engulfing them within the flames twice. The sickening cries pierced through the air as one of the four manticores began to fly away, causing the rest to fly after them, not wishing to come across the force of Fireballs again, with arrows chasing after them, as well as bolts of fire.

“Why do you always have to ruin our fun?” Lucy asked.

“You can just fly after them if you’re upset,” Adam replied dryly, before blowing against the top of his axe and sheathing it at his side.

Victory!

XP Gained: +150

XP: 7900 -> 8050

‘Nice,’ Adam thought, figuring the XP was shared between them all.

The howling in the distance caused the group to remain on guard, with two more people placing themselves on guard.

“It’s not just the Iyr which is scary,” Korin said to Adam. “You’re quite scary yourself.”

“You’ve not seen the things I’ve seen, otherwise you wouldn’t even think of me as scary,” Adam said.

“You speak of the Lord of Flames, Shama?” Korin asked.

“That’s right.”

“You cannot blame yourself, since it was Lord Shama after all.”

“You know him?”

“Lady Sara knows the tale. He once roamed the land, before the Iyr came to be, back when Aswadasad became known as Aswadasad.”Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

“What was it called?” Adam muttered to himself. “Aswa...”

“That’s a lot of wolves,” Adam said, whistling.

“We should fight them,” Jurot said, strapping his shield to his arm.

“Alright.” Adam nodded, eyeing up both Faool and Laygak, who stood beside their older cousins, while Nirot stuck with Jurot, and the others grouped together with Nobby and Dunes. Lucy and Mara stayed near the large group of teens.

They stepped out of the fort, ready to fight, while Charley and Greg remained behind with Korin, protecting Ivy and Lady Sara, just in case.

Battle Order

D20 + 1 = 7 (6)

Health: 78 -> 65

Strength Save

D20 + 7 = 18 (11)

Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2

Health: 65 -> 70

Attack - Wraith (Flanking)

D20 + 10 = 11 (1)

D20 + 10 = 15 (5)

Hit!

Mana: 15 -> 14

Ability: Divine Smite

2D6 + 2D6 + 7= 25 (3, 6)(4, 5)

25 damage!

Attack - Wraith (Flanking)

D20 + 10 = 12 (2)

D20 + 10 = 20 (10)

Hit!

Mana: 14 -> 13

Ability: Divine Smite

2D6 + 2D6 + 7 = 20 (1, 6)(1, 5)

20 damage!

Onward Soar: 1 -> 0

Mana: 13 -> 12

Spell: Thunderous Smite

Attack - Wraith (Flanking)

D20 + 10 = 12 (3)

D20 + 10 = 20 (12)

Hit!

Omen: 6, 20 -> 6

20 + 10 = 30

Critical hit!

Mana: 12 -> 11

Ability: Divine Smite

4D6 + 4D6 + 4D6 + 7 = 57 (1, 2, 6, 6)(1, 4, 6, 6)(1, 5, 6, 6)

57 damage!

Attack - Wraith (Flanking)

D20 + 10 = 19 (9)

D20 + 10 = 30 (20)

Critical hit!

Mana: 11 -> 10

Ability: Divine Smite

4D6 + 4D6 + 7 = 28 (1, 2, 2, 3)(2, 2, 4, 5)

28 damage!

“Kill those that I attack,” Adam said to the teen Iyrmen, before he stepped forward, yet found himself coming under the assault of a large wolf, which slammed its claws across his breastplate as it leapt atop him. Adam managed to stand tall against its heavy claws, while other wolves darted around him towards the other, less armoured prey.

Unfortunately for the wolves, the unarmoured prey they came across were Lucy, Mara, Jurot, and Kitool.

Lucy nearly bisected one of the direwolves that came upon her, while two halves of a whole wolf dropped on either side of Mara, who managed to do so. Jurot split the skull of a direwolf, and Kitool smashed the direwolf she faced, while freezing another in place which had knocked Faool down. The moment allowed Dunes to bring Faool up with a spell, only for the Iyrman to flip away from the creature to take a defensive stance. Jaygak managed to wound a wolf, but remained ahead of it, trying to block it from passing her.

Adam struck the wolf which had attacked him, allowing Naqokan and Uwajin to claim it with their greatswords, before he stepped forward and came across another wolf, striking it along the side, allowing Bavin and Nobby to kill it. Another wolf tried to leap up against Adam, and since the teen Iyrmen had found themselves against too many direwolves, Adam decided against holding back.

Standing atop the fort walls, the figure watched as Adam plucked a Thread of Fate, causing her scales to shift, before they balanced themselves. The Thread of Fate shot towards the scale, sucked into the great artefact. It wrapped itself around the scales, causing the Goddess of the Scales to glance towards it, having never seen this occur before, but the Thread of Fate finally disappeared.

“...”

Adam cut a wolf in half, before he stepped forward to cut another wolf against their neck, causing it to whinny in pain, before it met its end under a bolt of fire, a flaming arrow, and a javelin. The wolves turned to leave, and while Adam glanced around to check his companions, he shuddered. He could not see the golden bead frozen just millimetres from his head, threatening to pierce his skull.

Ulaveil recalled the bead, sighing. She rested her head against the scales, which balanced themselves once more, having shifted from her involvement. ‘Balance,’ she thought. ‘I cannot kill him personally.’

Victory!

XP Gained: +150

XP: 8050 -> 8300

Adam: casually adventures

The gods: and I took that personally