Chapter 505: S - The inconveniences of being a cannonball
[You have re-entered the dungeon : Abyss of the damned]
Shaily followed the magisterium into the dungeon.
Name : Sofia (Shaily Ormoncleth)
Age : 19
Class : [Saintomancer] ♢
Level : 48
Health : 240 / 240
Stamina : 238 / 240
Mana : 28344 / 28500
Active Skills (5 / 5)
[Holy Skeleton] - Level 30, Summon Lv. 21
[Heal Undead] - Level 1
[Dispel mist] - Level 8
[Maiden bolt] - Level 4
[Lead the dead] - Level 12
Passive Skills (1 / 5)
♢ [Hand of Ordinance] ♢
Classless Skills (6 / 6)
[Sprint] - Level 6
[Shenanigans II] - Level 4
[Acrobatics] - Level 5
[Jittery] - Level 12
[Decisive] - Level 19
[Evasion] - Level 5
Summoned heroes (1 / 4)
Lv.21 Pareth (Holy Human Skeleton)
This is as good as it gets... It would have been nice to get the classless up higher but this is the deadline... The trial gave me fifteen months but I basically only had a month to get away from the church. So fucked. I’m guessing Sofia escaped around the same time, unless she had a way to slow her leveling. Anyway... The Oracle should be out of the picture for now.
I only have one shot at this.
For hours, the descent down the dungeon happened as usual, the first levels were already clear of undead, so they had to go deeper, where the Magisterium was starting to struggle against the larger packs of zombies.
The intense light pierced the darkness. Knowing exactly where to look thanks to her shadow Sprites, Shaily located the magisterium, hanging by a single hand onto his sword which he had planted into the side of the bottomless pit.
The magisterium turned to look at the light, and the light rushed in his direction, like the gates of heaven opening for the devout paladin, the light became brighter until it became his entire world.
‘You have murdered [Armand Anzan Ovohen - Magisterium lv. 163]’
‘You gained a level!’ * 13
[Congratulations, your Saintomancer class reached level 50, +1 Active Skill Slot!]
[New Active Skills are available!]
[New Passive Skills are available!]
The headless corpse of the magisterium fell into the depths of the abyss.
Thirteen levels just like that. And he never attacked so I didn’t even have to use the mist.
Thanks everyone, now go back, I need to regenerate some mana.
I almost got my guaranteed pass to level 100!
After the Sprites unsummoned themselves, just as Shaily opened her status page to quickly check the new keywords, the stairs she was standing on collapsed under her feet.
Her senses in overdrive, she tried everything she could to save the situation, but there was nothing she could do to quickly stop the fall. With the whole section of stairs collapsing, and the walls of the abyss being strangely smooth, there wasn’t a single thing she could grab onto. [Summon self] was still on cooldown, and, because of the sudden collapse, she was messily tumbling down, with no control on her momentum at all.
Trying her best to time it right as she spun in the air, Shaily used 1000 of her remaining 3000 and some mana left to [Maiden bolt] herself into the walls of the abyss once more. From there, she used the Zombie-slaying dagger by slamming it into the wall, doing the exact same thing the magisterium did before her.
The fall brutally came to a stop, while Shaily held onto the dagger like the lifeline it was.
I didn’t even notice that the stairs were crumbling... Crap... I think I tore a muscle... My shoulder hurts.
Shaily resummoned the light sprite. “Quickly heal me up, I don’t think I can hold on for long.”
The spire started healing Shaily’s shoulder, which was a bit slow but definitely helped steady her grip on the dagger, after that, the Sprite also healed her burned left arm before it unsummoned itself again without her even asking.
Thank you...
What now?
I’m at least a few hundred meters down, am I not?
Going back up should be easy once I get enough mana for a few consecutive maiden bolt casts... But that will be a while. I need at least four of five casts and then the mana for [Summon Self] to redirect myself toward the stairs. I can wait, we’re supposed to still be in the dungeon for ho-
Shaily’s thoughts were interrupted by a strange noise, which she interpreted as rocks cracking.
I screwed up.
Weakened by the recent high-speed impact of a [Maiden bolt], the section of wall Shaily was holding onto with the dagger cracked into two separate chunks before collapsing.
Shaily urgently summoned the light sprite back, and that was the end of what she recalled.
She then woke up, perhaps only moments later, battered and bruised, inside of a sea of bones, while the light sprite was hard at work trying to keep her alive, spending her last bits of mana on all the healing it could muster.