"This is the normal adventurer experience." I said aloud.
My body was shaken as I traversed into a completely magical space. If I was already in an expanded space in the skyscraper, was this diving deeper into a magical world?
Given it was a stronger dungeon the space took on a completely different look. I was standing in the sky. The chlivs that were seen were flying around the endless sky, a common sight in higher level dungeons. Sometimes it's actually endless, most times it's not.
My feet walked upon a decently solid surface for a sky. I had the segmented sea out. While I was in here I was going to train my use of water magic.
Since the clouds were made of water magic I could attempt to control it. Right now it didn't seem like I'd get a chance given a chliv saw me and was dicing down at me.
the speed of the colic grew faster as it fell. I barely deflected the swooping attack from its beak with the blade. One of the waterfall limbs scratched my arm on its way out.
The chliv hit the tough cloud, its speed sending it through. The cloud I was walking out shook violently with the collision.
"Damn."
I spoke the sword's chant aloud and started running on the clouds. The chliv was turning around and flying higher for another attack.
It swooped down this time large wings of magic formed around it. When it came down I deflected the blow again. But the wings extended out, hitting me away and off the clouds.
I twisted in the air and stabbed into a cloud I was falling into. I slid across the cloud, water sticking to the blade.
Now two more were sweeping down to attack me. I reacted quick enough to swing up, cutting one's head and sending him into another. The blood of the chliv sprayed across me. I jumped back creating distance, accidentally dodging a lighting strike.
"Holy!"
I shot myself in a random direction with an excessive amount of fire magic. I spiraled away, piercing and falling deep into a cloud. My fingers shook as I heard a few more strikes of lighting outside.
"Maybe I should have thought a little more before going into this dungeon."
I shook my head and popped my head outside the dungeon. The two remaining chlivs flew around like vultures.
"Well this is my time to practice water magic."
While I held the segmented sea I touched the blade and chanted. I felt the magic move within the blade. I had associated fire magic with orange and gravity with purple in mind, letting me visualize their sensations easier. I was going to try the same thing by identifying water with blue.
Moving the water magic forcefully with gravity, and holding onto its unique feeling, I practiced spinning the magic. Becoming a water dragon was out of my mind. I was only practicing the control of this. The magic, once I was able to feel and move it without the use of gravity magic, had a distinctive feeling. Once I latched onto that feeling I conducted a plan to deal with the lighting.
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A chliv was pecking at its dead kin. Unsuspecting and unhearing the segmented sea chant. The spiraling water cut across the distance from the cloud I hid in to the one of the chliv. Its body was ripped apart.
Knowing my location now the other chliv came for me. Not only that, more had shown up. I scrambled and recollected the spiralling water from the clouds. I was focused on enhancing my strength and lowering my weight rather than increasing my speed, simply because I couldn't reach that speed. Not for a long time I couldn't.
I hopped to where the two chlivs died. Quicker than normal due to my strength, I cut the cloud in half and thrusted my sword into the edge. I swung my body up off the sword. I tied a string of both gravity and water magic together, pulling the sword after me.
Manipulating my gravity I shot myself to the left near where I came in. The blade returned to my hand and I used the weight added on to spin. I directed the water from the cloud around my body.
A thunderous strike of lighting hit the water. Steam and sparks flew but only after I made a bit more distance. I collected more water and wrapped it defensively around me at a safe distance. Blocking the chlivs view of me, but also mine.
I activated Universal Destruction, bolstering the strength of the far water. I chanted and was able to turn my spiralling river around myself into the water that collected at the end of the segmented sea. I quickly threw myself sideways again using gravity magic and goblin sling. I shot myself up and in a curving motion towards a chliv.
One didn't expect it. I cut its magical wing and got above it. Increasing my weight and throwing myself down I cut another chliv down. I beamed brightly spinning the water defensively.
I threw myself through another cloud. Running and shooting up and down, me and the chliv traded attacking and dodging. They quickly realized my ability to deflect their water through the segmented sea's large spiral. The chlivs kept their distance, throwing beams of magic or heated up magical water to throw off the preparedness for the lighting. They also used their superior speeds against my attacks.
"Damn."
I continued my mindless running. Shooting both up and down between clouds. My attempts to counter were dodged easily, the chlivs playing on the defensive.
"No matter."
I ducked into the first cloud, grabbing onto a string of water I left. It was thin and held tightly by gravity magic. All I needed was an opening to release this. I jumped back out, without the spiraling water protecting me.
I jumped to the cloud I cut in half. Standing straight, the mindless monsters shot lightning at me. The range of this string was spread all throughout this dungeon. The lighting found interference with multiple different strings, some they were tangled in without knowledge.
The lighting was multiplied through my enhancement, water, and Universal Destruction rune. The sky was as bright as the sun for a second. After the light, shockwave and ear destroying ring was done the lighting traveled along the strings attached to them. Their attacks were turned on themselves and multiplied past their resistances.
I obliterated at least ten totally including the ones I took down. With the now open sky to myself I laughed hard. My sharp teeth glaring against the white clouds.
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A few more single battles happened on my way to the dungeon keeper. I opted for taking the chlivs out by surprise rather than wasting a large amount of magic to build that net again.
I collected a handful of the less destroyed chlivs. There was just something telling me I didn't want to not have a part of a monster. I think Herika would describe that as wanting every item in a game.
I came upon where the dungeon keeper was hiding. They normally take some form of container, yet I don't know how that would count. Dark water hid its contents from my eyes.
I strung together strings of water expecting the dungeon keeper to use lighting. In fact I was prepping as I ventured further into the dungeon. I tossed the string around, activated Universal Destruction again, and chanted segmented sea.
The dungeon was only one floor so I shouldn't expect much from this guy. After I provoked it, the water rippled and formed into a dungeon keeper. Inky black skin stood around nine feet in the air. A robe of clouds wrapped itself around the multi-armed dungeon keeper. Its round head bursted into a cloud at the top. Two downcasted eyes stared at me, the only feature on the keeper.
But something else was there. The two half circles that floated around chlivs floated at the sides of the keepers heads. Clouds were sucked into the half circles then shot out like a breath.
I was not nearly as prepared for this fight as I thought. Using the segmented sea as a pencil I threw up walls of clouds between us. I was either going to need to kill it quickly or build way more nets.
With my limited knowledge of water magic and ability to manipulate it I was going to need to use the former over the later.
Thunder struck out at me, not one single strike but one for every hand the keeper had. Seven different hands shot seven different bolts. I enhanced my magic of goblin sling and quickly threw the clouds between us as I spun around the keeper.
The first net had shocked the keeper, but it shrugged it off. The net wasn't as wide as the first one given the way I tossed it. But I was going to have to make due. I shot a burst of fire out of one of the many clouds I brought up. The fire, unlike how it normally did, came out less. It also took more of my magic.
The fire still did its job, whether I messed up the casting or not. I shot out at the other side of the keeper while it was distracted from behind. I twisted mid air and tossed the spiral of water down. I cut off an arm and nicked another. I disappeared behind more clouds after the attack.
The keeper switched tactics against me. Instead of lighting it switched to countering my control over water. It succeeded. The cloud I hid behind and ran through was opened and was thrown towards it.
This control was also because of its control of the dungeon. I rolled under an arm which was pulsed with lighting. The shock went through the clouds and sprouted out. I goblin-slung backwards and pulled out Paukena's sword. I stabbed it blindly into the keeper and left a string of water on it to myself.
The keeper's body gurgled loudly. The blade was pulled out by a hand and coated with pure magic. I tugged on the sword, pulling it out of the keeper's hand, but the string's control turned on me and the blade came for my neck.
I dismissed the magic sword right before, but caught the magic around it to my retreating chest. Getting blasted back into clouds, the keeper continued firing spells. I had to roll and goblin-sling forward to avoid high pressured water from skewering me.
Water's control was easily taken from me. Instead of thinking of a way to kill the keeper I had gotten a terrible idea to boost my control with it. Refining how I thought of fire and gravity was how I increased my control over them. If I could figure out how to pull this from the keeper, I'd have refined my control.
I summoned Paukena's sword back and pulled out the sword I'd gotten from Elli's group. They were pretty close in size. Holding both of them I shot fire from my legs to propel myself, again costing more of my magic and putting the beginning of a headache upon me.
I envisioned a lake of magic filled with a blue hue. I attacked the keeper up close, being nearly half its height. Then I distinguished between our magic. Dodging and cutting with hot water around my blade, my control over the magic was spayed back on me.
I saw my skin turn red, the skin on my hands blistered. Steam rolled around both of us as I had cut off another arm. My left hand was less used to wielding a sword. So I opened with the less controlled left arm attacks and followed with my dominant hand.
The keeper wasn't made for this close of range. Spells it shot out weren't aimed well at me. Most missing with the few water spells hitting me because I tried to take the control over.
Its weak punches gave me an opening. One the keeper trapped with a spell. I took a black of pure magic as I severed another arm. That was three out of the seven, and it was adapting instead of keeping the same style.
I instantly blasted more fire out, compensating for the increased amount to reach the keeper. The keeper's remaining four arms fused into two. A lot thicker and stronger as a ten fingered hand punched my attacking blade away. It stepped back, its other hand flicking quietly.
The small gesture summoned a steaming body of water that crashed into me from the side. Unfortunately for the keeper it wasn't hot enough, but I was still caught in its grasp.
The water spiraled up. The distance between me and the keeper was growing. An Arm drew back aimed like a bow. Lighting danced between its hands, outlining the shape of the bow. The lighting was charged up to stop my heart.