As I continued to try to swat out the [Elder Plague Elemental], but it continued to heal the Spewers, distracting me. I opened up my eye holes back up to get a look at the creature. A tall skeletal figure draped in a moth-eaten toga that had an off white, yellowish color, around it was a cloud of greenish miasma.
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[Elder Plague Elemental] Level: ???
Rank two Undead Elemental
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Closing the eye holes, well fuck another rank two, luckily for me it was not divinely blessed. Ignoring it for now I returned to battering down the gargantuan plague and rapidly more cancerous rats. I grabbed a plague spewer and lifted it over my head and ripped it two, throwing both in opposite directions.
A spewer tackled me center mass, lifting me and my golem into the air for a moment before landing on my golem's back. The shock traveled through the rock causing cracks to appear throughout the golem and jarring me.
Using the cracked bricks of the channel I repaired the cracks and rushed up to my feet. Resummoning my [Daemonic Club], I clocked the spewer in the hand, sending its head flying.
I heard an ethereal and unnatural scream, and through my [Flow of Combat] skill I could feel 10 more enemies enter the fray.
'Hey Anastasia what am I looking at?' I asked trying to get clarification without risking getting infected by opening eye holes.
'Yeah, Boss one sec. Uhhhhh. Oh, okay, boss, the elder skeleton thingy just summoned a bunch of [Dammed Skeletons of Pestilence]. All of them are level 10.' Really dramatic name for some level 10 skeletons. Picking up a discarded plague bearer corpse, I threw it into the line of undead, toppling them like bowling pins.
Yet I felt them reform, apparently they where gonna be annoying as fuck just like there Papa the elemental.
Rushing forward I raised my club and brought it down on the center of the skeletons. I heard a sick crunching sound as I obliterated four of them. Just for the rest to turn to start clawing at my golem trying to get to me.
One of the remaining spewers came in to assist, forcing me to rapidly fix my golem while also fighting off the giant tumor rat. Anastasia entered my zone of [Flow of Combat] as she managed to land an acid strike against the elder elemental distracting it long enough for me to obliterate a few more of its skeletons.
I began to beat down on the rat until finally it hit a threshold where it could no longer be healed and collapsed. Reaching down I grasped one of the dammed skeletons and crushed its bones into a fine dust. Its compatriots continued their escapades, and I began to stomp them down.
The Elder Elemental raised its right hand and all of the rank and file rats rose up and diverted their attention to me as they closed in like a tidal wave crashing into me. Summoning a [Force Field] they began continuing to try to get to me, eating through the shield's Mana.
Reaching up with my Mana, I collapsed a section of the ceiling, crushing the rats. At the same time, I made sure not to collapse the whole tower.
Elder Elemental had turned its attention onto my spider companion trying to smite the spiderling with sickly green bolts of miasma. Sneaking up behind it I used most of my remaining mana to levitate myself and my golem right behind the elemental and grabbed onto it.
*SKREEEECCCCH!!!!* it bellowed in surprise, squirming, blasting me with its magic, leaving nothing but pocket marks in the golem's body.
It gave another ethereal scream as I began to punch its surprisingly resilient head. A practical swarm of [Dammed Skeletons of Pestilence] began clawing at me and the elementals' glow began to taper off after summoning the skeletons. The Spiders dropped down and began to drag off groups of the skeletons.
In the back of my mind, [Flow of Combat] screamed as the remaining Skeletons began to compile themselves, looking over my shoulder and opening a single eye slot, I saw a tall skeletal figure, its head scraping the ceiling.
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[Skeletal Puesdo Giant] Lvl: 14
Half-step Rank Two Undead Monstrosity]
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The elemental wriggled under my grip, as the giant skeleton began battering me from behind it long bony fingers slashing through the rock of the golem. When it smacked me, sending me flying into my wall, cracking the stone wall, forcing me to release the [Elder Plague Elemental]. Now free from my grasp, it flew into the giant skeleton, and a green flash originated from where the two creatures met.
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[Undead Elemental Colossus] Level: ???
Rank Two Colossal semi elemental Undead
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Getting to my feet, I blasted it with spears of rock, leaving it more agitated than damaged. The spiders began trying to restrict the creature's movements. Its skeletal frame easily breaks through the webs.
Rushing forward I tackled its ankles, pushing it backwards. The Spiders took the opportunity and reinforced their webbing while Anastasia blasted its head with venom causing it to screech. I used up almost entirely what was left of my Mana reserves to cover its feet in hardened and dense rock and brick.
It blasted outwards with a wave of green miasma, trying to release itself. I reached up and began to climb up the creature. As it struggled, unable to free itself, a flash of green and the creature's flagging weakened as I felt the [Elder Plague Elemental] flee its trapped skeletal vessel.
Jumping off the giant I tackled the creature as it tried to flee. Unable to support my weight, I fell downwards, crashing into the ground.
With it under me I bashed its head once again while the Spiders dealt with the [Skeletal Pseudo Giant]. Finally, I felt the creature's skull give way and I received a system notification.
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[Tutorial Achievement Earned]
You have completed a hidden Objective in the tutorial.
-[Patient Zero]
Requirements:
Be a Race Capable of Contracting Diseases: ✓
You aren't Rank Two or above:✓
Battle Against the [Skeletal Pseudo Giant]: ✓
Kill the [Elder Plague Elemental]: ✓
Don't Contract the Plague: ✓
Rewards: +10 Achievement Points
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[XP Converted]
The XP earned from the Rank Two Undead Elemental [Elder Plague Elemental] had been converted into a Special Class Stone, Special Class stones are classes that are only possible to earn through very specific conditions.
+ 1 [Plague Elementalist] Rank Two Special Class Stone
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Well that sucks, the rewards were super stingy, 10 Achievement Points and a Class stone for a class there was no way in hell I was going to pick! In the chest cavity of the Elder Elemental was a purplish crystal with a greenish cloud swirling in the center of it with a symbol of a plague doctor mask emblazoned on the surface. Reaching into the now-dead undead creature, I retrieved the stone, figuring it would have some value in the city state thingy.
I stumbled over to the wall getting dangerously close to bottoming out my Mana reserves. Climbing over the wall I waited patiently.
Anastasia soon came washing off both the class stone and my golem. After it was safe I exited my Golem and promptly fell asleep on my wizard's tower after embedding the little Mana I had left into the [Force Field].
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I woke up feeling well-rested and ready to go, and this time there was no army battering down the [Force Field]. Deciding to risk it, I started a small fire cooking up some vegetables and the last of the normal ant meat; the divine imbued ant meat had a long shelf life. As I ate my soup I inspected the [Plague Elementalist] Class stone.
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[Plague Elementalist Special Class Stone]
Rank Two semi-Unique Class Stone(Special)
This item can grant the [Plague Elementalist] one of the hidden tutorial reward classes.
*WARNING* You are not Rank Two, you cannot use this Class Stone yet.
-[Plague Elementalist]
Rank Two Rare Class
You are a Weaver of Disease and Pestilence, it is at your beck and call. Disease has been the fall of many a mighty warrior and grand empires. Pestilence is feared by all but the powerful and the foolhardy.
Inherent Skills: [Virokinesis], [Elemental Summon: Plague], and [Pestilence's Call]
Inherent Trait: [Disease Immunity]
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That was a whole lot of nope on a rope, sure it was stupidly powerful but it was probably make me into an intergalactic war criminal and Bio Weapon. Also, I couldn't even use this class stone as I wasn't Rank Two.
As I stored the class stone away I finished my meal and sat up. Looking over the tower Ramparts I saw my [Blessed Slate Golem] which looked fricken awful. You could see where I had repaired it with rock and several cracks and the like. Jumping down from the tower I pulled the brick out and exchanged it for hyper condensed rock. Once I was satisfied that my Golem was ready I entered it.
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"Oh, great Patriarch!, The invaders come, your court wizard has been slain." A rat riddled with disease spoke, bowing before a towering rat skeleton, a circlet of fingers on its brow as it sat on a throne of sorts. Bright purple ran like veins along the rat's skeleton, and yellowish, putrid green miasma wafted from it.
"How many of our Brethren live?" The [Festering Patriarch] asked.
"Only a thousand, Milord, and most of our Spewers and Bearers fell at the last assault air," the rat responded.
"Hmm, this cursed system won't allow me to leave my chamber, and we don't have the means to make more of ourselves, so let them come I will crush the Upstarts!" The Patriarch said, slamming his skeletal fist into the armrests of his throne.
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I had the spiders form up ready, up ahead I had a distinct feeling that the leader of rats lay in wait. Anastasia was under orders to retreat if things went sideways. The [Skeletal Pseudo Giant] had unfortunately disappeared after the Elder Elemental was killed as it probably had some nice loot.
As I marched through the tunnel, now eerily quiet except for the echo of my footsteps, I neared the end of the tunnel.
As I met the threshold of the end of the tunnel there was inky black substance preventing me from seeing into the room beyond.
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[Alert!]
You are about to enter the lair of [The Festering Patriarch] a Rank Two Semi-Elemental Undead. The Patriarch has been barred from leaving his layer to maintain balance in the Tutorial area. He has declared a [Champions Only] battle, allowing only you, your Divine Companion, and [The Festering Patriarch] to battle.
At the completion of this task the [Plague] will be wiped out killing all hosts in this instance of the Tutorial. In his Layer the Patriarch is heavily empowered.
Quest Reward Bonus: +25 Achievement Points
Accept: [Y/N]
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Ugh, fine Anastasia had read the message and hopped on my Golem's shoulder. As I pressed the Y and accepted the prompt. I saw the Inky black substance cover me and pull me and Anastasia into the lair.
Almost immediately I had to dodge as [The Festering Patriarch] sent a beam of miasma at me. Anastasia hopped off my golems shoulder and jumped on to the walls. Looking at the giant rat I saw it had completely turned into a Skeleton surrounded by a miasmic aura and a circlet of finger bones on its head. However what I did see was that his throne was made completely out of stone.
Reaching out with my Mana I was surprised when it was batted away from his throne. Well it was worth a try. I began to harass the Patriarch with stone spears and dodging his blasts and beams of Miasma.
As I neared closer to the undead rat, with a wave of its hand it summoned a tidal wave of misamic energy. Luckily it only scratched the inorganic material of my golem