Chapter 36: 36. BOSS BATTLE FINALE
Heiti adventurer party stands before Nytri ready to fight,
Eshur readies himself, "THIS IS A HORRIBLE PLAN!" he charges towards Nytri aiming to slam her with his shield. Nytri steps on the shield and jumps making distance between them, Ifa fires enchanted arrows at Nytri. Nytri dodges them mid-air and grabs one observing it in her hands. It explodes but Nytri activates ARMORED SHELL instinctively which dealt 0 damage to her, she learned about ENCHANTMENTS.
Isolde starts casting spells, "Hear my voice and move the earth to trap my enemies, EARTH PRISON!" 4 walls arise from around Nytri as if to trap her. Ifa fires arrows over the top into the enclosed prison walls, Terry waits hoping for Nytri to jump out and then attack her.
Nytri makes no movements, she places her hand on the wall as she feels the energy in it connecting to the ground. She feels the energy beyond the 4 walls and sees Terry waiting, she sends EP through her feet into the ground as and earth spear appears from below Ifa aiming to pierce her through.
Ifa is terrifies jumping backwards dodging as everyone focuses on her. Nytri smashes the wall before her as she charges towards Terry who is distracted, Harry moves to help him. Nytri jumps and takes Terry by the hair as she stands on his shoulders with Terry as her hostage.
Terry's hair is pulled, "ARRGGHH" he grits his teeth.
Harry is enraged, "LET MY BROTHER GO THIS INSTANT!" he yells at Nytri, Nytri looks at Harry and tilts her head. Terry takes a knife to stab Nytri as he readies his teleportation scroll.
Terry grins, "You made a big mistake.*CLANG* Huh?" his knife stabs Nytri but 0 damage. It was like stabbing metal, and his teleportation scroll didn't activate shocking him. His eyes become teary as Nytri pulls his head off his shoulders.
Nytri throws the head at Harry as his mind goes blank from watching his brother die before him, Terry's head hits his chest. Harry looks down trying to hold the head but then Nytri uses Terry's sword to pierce Harry's heart as she moves it up and splits him in 2 and he teleports with his brother's head to the guild building.
Sorrow grips Isolde, "HARRY!!!" she screams as tears stream on her face.
Ifa is still terrified, "We have to leave now!" She runs to Isolde and grabs her shoulder as she activates her teleportation scroll and the 2 leave. They appear in front of the guild building as Isolde breaks down in tears.
Ifa's body shakes, "ESHUR! WHERE'S ESHUR!", Ifa is looking for the dwarf.
The dwarf is on the ground with his back against a crystal bleeding as his teleportation scroll isn't working. His armor is broken revealing his clothes under the armor as he coughs blood. He used his trump card to defend himself as he tried to activate his teleportation scroll.
Nytri is staring at the scroll that prevents it from activating, what she did was sense the energy in the scroll and halt the runes on it to stop it from activating. He looks at Nytri as fear grabs hold of him as if hands that made sure he looks at Nytri as she stared back at him, his final words. Blood drips from his mouth, "M….M…MONSTER!"
Nytri punches him in the face and destroys the crystal which the adventurers believed to be indestructible, Eshur dies.
The current number of people in the room has reduced to less than half of the original amount as those who couldn't afford the teleportation scroll are left to die, some tries to leave the floor as automata blocks the path, the people have despair on their faces. The people watch as they could do nothing and die with explosions and bodies being destroyed, some gave up as they started to pray to whatever gods they worshiped.
Nytri is sitting on a golem, "This is boring." She looks at the corridor the raid party entered from." If I go there, there'll be more of them waiting. The right direction to move is." She turns back to the corridor on the cliff she came from, "There, I'll head back from where I came from so I don't fight people again. This feeling of not valuing life…..is bad." She turns to leave, "But all these guys are dying. They attacked me so it's right for me to fight back. It's self-defense, nothing wrong with that." She makes her way up the cliff as she waits for her underlings to finish dealing with them.
The dragon works extra hard as he fights them seriously, then Nytri speaks to him, "Dragon, you can leave now." The dragon is surprised but didn't refuse as a summoning circle appears below him in the air.
Dragon bows to Nytri, "Thank you Master." And he vanishes, he appears in his cave as he slumps down on the ground. All the tension is gone and he could finally relax. In the dungeon, Nytri watches as her golems and automata clears the remaining people, it is faster since they had lost the will to fight.
A golem with 8 legs is moving trampling people like bugs, the legs were really long. The golem moves across the place and stomps down, an automaton is slashing around with an adventurer's sword which seemed to be special, in about 2 hours everyone else is dead.
Nytri gets on her feet, "That's that, I should probably start moving." An automaton appears before Nytri with loot, Nytri looks through them. "They are unique but, I'm not comfortable wearing dead people clothes, especially one they died in, you should burn everything and let's get ready to move. On second thought, I think we should stay here a bit and rest, I smell food." Nytri moves leaving afterimages running towards a cart at the other end of the corridor, she moves so quickly she arrives in a few seconds.
Nytri sniffs, "Could it be? No, it has to be….." She opens a box on the cart, "FOOOOOD!!!!!" she deactivates ARMORED SHELL and dives into the box, the sound of chewing could be heard as she ate to her heart's content.
Nytri pops her head out looking at another cart, "Ohhh, that cart has clothes on it, this is better than dead people clothes." The automaton that brought clothes from the corpses looks at the clothes as another automaton smacks its head, it drops the clothes and burn it.
Nytri keeps observing things, "Waaoow, though why are they bringing fancy clothes to a dungeon? Mmmmm, these won't fit me!" Her eyes get teary, then an idea hits her, "WEB CONTROL, I just make some adjustments aaannd." She made the clothes her size, she wears them and moves around. It is a black jacket and pants she had adjusted to her size, she could have chosen a skirt but with the life she's living, a skirt will only be a hindrance.
Nytri looks at herself, "This looks beautiful, black matches perfectly with the theme. Hmmmm hey automata, golems, take some of the crystals, I can use it as a lantern of some kind. Oh there's a storage ring so you can store them inside." The storage ring which has potions of all kinds and artefacts are treated as trash as she has no need for a high-quality potion capable of recovering 100% HP when she has auto HP regeneration.
The golems and automata get to mining as they harvest the crystals which would require expensive tools to dig up, they dig the crystals out and keep it in storage rings. Nytri is still checking herself out, she see a mirror and looks inside. She is silent as she stared into it.
Nytri holds her face, "It's been so long since I saw my own face, I think I'm growing. I'm still as dirty as I was in the orphanage, I wonder what auntie would say if she saw me. *Sighs* I can't even remember their faces." She drops the mirror *CRASH* it crushes on the ground, her underlings gather as many crystals as possible which causes the large room of crystals to dim.
Nytri goes through all the carts and the loot as she sees magic books, she takes them and opens them going through multiple books
Nytri looks through, "It's a good thing I learned to read at those jerks' house. This is storage magic. Magic that allows you to store stuff. Fire magic, water magic, blah blah blah blah. Oh Necromancy! I don't know what it is but it seems to be cool, but the book looks too scary. She starts to read them as she first picks up on storage magic then focuses on the Necromancy. Since she learns storage magic the automata also acquire storage magic since it falls under RUNE MASTERY.
A 6-legged golem gathers crystals and brings it to an automaton as it makes runes on the ground and a bluish square portal opens as the golem drops the crystals inside, this caused them to mine so much that the room dimmed.
Nytri spends her time reading the book until the lights in the room dimed, she is slow at reading since she is still young and is only thought the letters and simple sentences, INFORMATION MAGIC is her teacher now.
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY LEVEL 5
NOTICE: NECROMANCY Acquired. Necromancy (Level: 1)
Nytri: Alright! Time to run simulations, there are corpses around me so I can use them to practice in the simulation.
NOTICE: Simulation (Active), Extreme High Specs (Active), Intuition (Active), Rune Mastery (Active).
END]
Simulations run in Nytri's mind as EP leaves her and reanimates the corpses turning them into undead, she spends more time doing this and experimenting new ways to use Necromancy until her Necromancy level reaches level 5.
Nytri smiles broadly, "Level 5 is good enough, APPRAISAL." She appraises herself and focuses on Necrmancy.
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY
NOTICE: Necromancy - Level 5
- Raise Dead - Nytri can use this skill to raise the dead, turning them into loyal undead minions under her command.
Subskills:
- Corpse Explosion - This skill allows Nytri to make corpses explode, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
- Death Coil - With this skill, Nytri can launch a deadly coil of dark energy at her enemies, dealing damage and siphoning their life force.
- Life Drain - This skill allows Nytri to drain the life force of her enemies, restoring her own health in the process.
- Undead Fusion – Fuses undead into stronger, tougher and higher leveled undead capable of inheriting previous skills.
- Undead Reading – Reading the memories of the undead is possible, only valuable memories will be shown as the rest will be kept in the trash by INFORMATION MAGIC and restored when needed.
- Reanimation – This is a unique subskill that allows the soul of the corpse to be in control of the body but only under the command of Nytri, this skill can be used in 2 hours of the immediate death of the person.
END]
Nytri seems satisfied, "This is pretty nifty, there're a lot of corpses here, I bet I can make an army and go back. RAISE UNDEAD *SILENCE* Ummm, why's nothing happening?"
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY
NOTICE: The skill wasn't tapped or Runes weren't made to activate skill.
END]
Nytri flicks her head, "Oh, right. Gotta draw the runes, alright …. A catchy phrase, something to make it dramatic....hmmmm rise, arisen, rising, animate, come to life? There're dead so no...hmmmm, ah, this should do nicely. I don't want to ruin my clothes with my wings so….." She sees an 8-legged golem and gestures for it to come closer, she climbs it. "Now, Arise my minions!" she spreads out her hands as EP leaves her and draws runes all over the corpses as they're reanimated and become undead. Nytri hears a bone cracking and flinches, she laughs, "Hehehehehehe." The corpses rise up, an army of 1,500 or more zombies appear before Nytri.
Nytri tilts her head looking at them, "Since my Necromancy level is high they retained all their skills and abilities, but these guys suck. According to their memories they wanted to use these guys to conquer the dungeon? This is the 7th floor, I think I've moved a lot, but since I know where I am I can find out where this Abyssal Sanctum ends. That's my new objective, but before that, UNDEAD FUSION." 1,000 of the zombies fused, high level undead are made, SSS rank to Mythical rank undead are made as the remaining who couldn't be fused because Nytri collapsed from EP exhaustion are left to roam this floor as some did wonder out of the dungeon and some became boss monsters.