Listen, dear children, listen well, for even the doomed are not without compassion… You bring about thy death, a slow death, perhaps, but death nonetheless. For a hundred years and two our kind hath lived beside the Catacomb, for a hundred years, we hath buried our dead within its walls. Our world is yet young, the war of the Many has not fadedth from our memories, and now you wish to make the same mistake that caused their exile?
-Excerpt from the final speech of King Lester the Terrible
Catacomb felt his connection to the surface reestablish and he instantly began to draw as much ((MANA)) as he could toward his ((CORE)). Sanctuary must’ve had that Bog Lurker of hers break a hole in the stairwell. Clever girl.
Oh well, he melted what remained of his manufactured cave-in. The sell-back cost enough for him to manifest his ((GAZE)) again. He did a few practice movements, then appeared in Sanctuary’s ((SANCTUM)).
“Father!” Sanctuary squealed, her ((GAZE)) doing excited laps around his own.
The very dried out bog lurker pushed the door open and limped over to its pond, before practically collapsing into it.
“Daughter.” Catacomb said,
“Father, why wast the tunnel blocked?” Sanctuary asked,
“Twas… a strategic risk that twasn’t fruitful.” Catacomb said, slightly embarrassed that he had been saved by his barely-out-of-bud child.
“The mortal left.” Sanctuary said,
“It left?” Catacomb asked
“Yes, she woke up, then walked out. She got to the eighth floor, saw that Runt and Lurker were trying to break open the door. Then she broke it using magic and ran away.” Sanctuary said,
“I see.” Catacomb said, suspecting there was more to that story.
Sanctuary nodded. “Why dideth the goblin stop being yours, father?”
“Since I was cut off from the floor that the spawner wast located, my influence fadedth.” Catacomb said,
“Oh.” Sanctuary said, then added guiltily “Well the Runt wast screaming and screaming, so I took him.”
“That is fine, daughter, tis only a goblin.” Catacomb said, and Sanctuary perked up.
“It let me makest him a ((RETAINER)).” Sanctuary said,
“Good choice. Mayhaps that twill make up for his lack of strength.” Catacomb said, he was glad that Sanctuary was finally taking some kind of initiative. “Did thy sort through thou level as well?”
“Yes, five magic, five constitution.”
“Good. I wouldst suggest raising Defense next.” Catacomb said,
Sanctuary nodded several times.
“Hast thou thought about where you shall put your ((RETAINER))?” Catacomb asked,
Sanctuary paused her movement. “N-o-o…” She said,
“Thou needst another room, then?” Catacomb pushed gently.
His daughter seemed to have a personal attachment to her monsters, and though he didn’t understand why, that didn’t mean he couldn’t use it.
“I doest.” Sanctuary said, sounding contemplative.
“Would you like me to showst thou how to create one?” Catacomb asked,
“…I doest.” Sanctuary said,
Catacomb celebrated internally, he had been trying to get Sanctuary to try making another room since she was three days old.
“First, thou must move the ((SANCTUM)) backward.” Catacomb said,
“Why?” Sanctuary asked,
“So thou havest a place to put the new room.” Catacomb said,
“Okay.” Sanctuary said,
He sensed her tap into her ((MANA_POOL)) and tug the ((SANCTUM)) back by several yards. A hallway automatically formed between the Entrance and the ((SANCTUM)). The ((SANCTUM)) was significantly easier to move than any other rooms, and was by far the one that Catacomb moved the most.
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“What doest I now?” Sanctuary asked,
“Do thy knowst where thy want the new room?” Catacomb said,
“Yes.”
“Then absorbth the stone in that place until it is large enough.” Catacomb said, “The walls here are weak, so thy must line the room with something strong.”
Sanctuary began to tunnel, and Catacomb was momentarily caught off guard. Instead of building the room directly in front of the ((SANCTUM)), she instead dug a room off to the side of the hallway. As she went, she plated it with some white metal that his father had sent along when she was born. It matched her ((CORE)) nicely.
Catacomb split his ((GAZE)), with a twinge of soreness, and began to reclaim the first seven floors. As his domain reached his Entrance, he saw the door slam shut, and a furless tail slip out.
Harrumph. Well, he told Sanctuary that he’d put it outside anyway. The Onyx King would probably kill it once he found out that it inadvertently saved his life, anyway.
“The mortal just made it out.” Catacomb said, using his ((GAZE)) inside Sanctuary’s domain.
Her ((GAZE)) brightened, and Catacomb felt his own grow a little brighter as well. Strange girl… she was going to get herself killed. But part of Catacomb was immensely proud that she lived in a world where she was able to be strange.
STATUS:
Name: Catacomb
Mantra: Death comes to those who enter here
LV: 273
EXP 88,329/980,000,000
Gender: Male
Affinities: Bone, Ice, Mana… EXPAND?
Class: Scourge (Uncommon), Commander (Uncommon)
Race: Undefined
Nodes: Creeping Lilly LV 49, Basic Necromantic LV 90, Tusnaj Mushroom LV 21… EXPAND?
Spawners: Feral Goblin LV 60, Basic Necromantic LV 84, Crypt Bat LV 152…EXPAND?
Retainers: Necrodragon 1 (LV 100)
Bosses: Necrodragon 2 (LV 87) Necrodragon 3 (LV 87) Necrodragon 4 (LV 87) … EXPAND?
Tethers: N/A
Traits: Desecrator, Ouroboros, Violent… EXPAND?
Blessings: Blessing of Bastion, Fruitful and Multiply
Curses: Murderer, Odysseus, Vampire
Titles: Son of Bastion, Line Ender (LEX), Terror of Ridoum (XII)
Notoriety: 800,932,033
Fame: 33
Infamy: 800,932,000
Kills: 30,983,231
INT: 117
SOUL: 117
WILL: 117
MAG: 117
STR: 117
DEF: 117
CONS: 117
STATUS:
Name: Sanctuary
Mantra: N/A
LV: 2
EXP 50,000/150,00
Gender: Female
Affinities:
Class: none
Race: Undefined
Nodes: N/A
Spawners: N/A
Retainers: Runt
Tethers: Xliminavera
Traits: Reserved
Blessings: Blessing of Bastion
Curses: N/A
Titles: Daughter of Catacomb
Notoriety: 2
Fame: 2
Infamy: 0
Kills: 0
INT: 6
SOUL: 10
WILL: 5
MAG: 5
STR: 0
DEF: 0
CONS: 5
