There were 10 Monster Spawners in ten buildings around Cecil.
He had managed to animate 5 and contain 5 of them inside Cyrus, and was waiting for his MP to recover before he animated the rest.
Well, he had animated 2 more when he levelled up during the consequent battles and recovered his MP and HP
No Phone, No watch, and now that all the enemies are dead, No fighting. Cecil has literally nothing to do.
Cyrus eats the active spawners, and as soon as they spawn, he electrocutes them with his tail.
Cecil looked at his own status window.
[
Name- Cecil Velhana
Age- 16
Role- Promising Puppeteer
Race- human(100%)
Morality- +20
Class- Mastermind
Exp: {•••••·····}
Lv:35
Hp:370/370
Mp:194/420
Atk-37
Def-37
Spd-37
Mag-37
Persuasion(Public)-10.15
Persuasion(Anonymous)-10.25
Skills-Deus Ex Machina(G)(5 subskills), Dagger Release(F)
]
[List of Animated Objects]
[
327x Belid(Nightmare Watcher)- Lv50
146x Silk Serpent(Snake shaped golem)-Lv50
Red Rager(Dagger)- Lv60
Blue Blitz(Dagger)- Lv60
Green Guardian(Dagger)- Lv60
Cyrus(Chimera)- Lv87
First sized Rose Gold Chunk(Metal)- Lv150
8 Breach Monster Spawners
]
Come to think of it, didn't he have a limit of 10 types of unique summons back then?
[
Deus Ex Machina-Rank F
Capacity 8/25
Animate any inanimate object to do your bidding.
Subskills--
1 Animate-Variable Mp cost- Animate an inanimate object.
2 Unanimate-0 Mp cost- Turn an animated object inanimate again.
3 Scan-0 Mp cost- Scan all inanimate objects in a straight line of sight
4 Store-0 Mp cost- Store any animated object in a space pocket
5 Retrieve-0 Mp cost- Take out and animated object from your space pocket
Note-unanimating an object without retrieving it outside will cause it to be lost.
]
His class skill had ranked up. Not a lot changed, more unique slots, and his scan had changed it's description.
Did the system modify it because he looked like an absolute buffoon while trying to snipe that one monster spawner from the staircase/obstacle course?
Who knows?
Cyrus is sleeping near the water fountain, or rather, inside it.
The Bellids are flying around like spinning spikey discs.
The snakes are roaming around the eight buildings arranged in a circle, and also the two buildings near the hole in the wall Cecil entered through.
"I should check the wall out."
He really had nothing to do.
There were two walls, as Cecil noticed right now. The wall with the hole that he entered, and a wall with two gates, which is probably where he has to head in next.
The gate was again, a large ancient door, with a small gap at the top.
He had so far pulled two levers. One outside the first gate, and one inside the fountain.
The first lever looked broken anyways, and the only thing Cecil could make out was that it was an emergency measure or a backdoor.
Security of a cave city was the reason why these walls were built like that.
The walls were thick, and breaking through them would require atleast three people above level 200 to do a hole. They additionally covered the entire cave, so that the only way of entering would be the gate, creating a chokepoint.
The gate's opening and closing mechanisms were lever based, and naturally, the levers would be on the inside of the walls, so these were essentially unbreakable.
The small gaps above the gates could be for watching or ventilation. It was hard to tell.
Cecil saw some circular indents at one corner on the wall, similar to the staircases, and decided to climb the obstacle course like intended, instead of flying on Green Guardian.
He grabbed one indent with one hand, a higher one with another, and tried to put his left feet in one of the indents closer to the ground, and his right feet in one slightly above.
He slid down immediately.
Cecil called a few Silk Serpents, and they coiled around each other, and formed a ladder, which Cecil used to climb the stairs, and found another Lever.
He tried to pull it again. It moved only a bit, but Cecil could hold it in that position.
"Time to PUT. SOME. HNNGHH—"
He got it halfway across, but the resistance of the lever suddenly spiked. The Silk Serpents coiled around the Lever too, and began pulling the Lever with Cecil.
It felt like nothing was happening, the forces were equally balanced, neither the lever could retract nor could Cecil and the Serpents push it forward.
"What. The. Fuck. Is. This!?"
Cecil Grunted periodically, still pulling with all his strength, and then suddenly.
*CRACK*
Cecil fell backwards as the lever suddenly snapped to the other end, and the gate that led deeper shot upwards, crashed into the pulley mechanism that let it move up and down, and crushed itself into small wooden bits.
"Uh..."
(Maybe the Lever was just rusted?)
"Good job."
He said to the twelve silk serpents who pulled the lever along with him.
"Hissss" x 12
"I don't know what I was expecting."
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A trio indistinct humanoids stood in a triangle.
The red and blue one stood opposite to each other, the Red one holding a red sickle looking sword that was five times it's size, while the blue one held a rapier like thin blue sword in it's hand, about 7 times its size.
The green one held a monstrous greenish white meat cleaver, big enough to act as a wall between the two.
The green one removed the curtain sized cleaver, and Red and Blue immediately attacked each other.
Red swung a wide arc, and blue thrust into the curved part of the blade, and twisted, throwing the sickle off mark, before continuing forward at the red figure.
The red figure jumped back, and managed to pull the blue figure and the rapier back with them, but the blue figure disengaged before they could be dragged too close.
The Blue figure began rapidly circling around the Red figure, aiming to suddenly lunge while running in circle an
*Growwwwll*
*Thump*
A Giant Snake tail slammed on all three of them.
Cyrus' neck was itching.