As soon as the last elder left, everything went to hell.
Abram fixated on a corner of the sect and immediately grew fierce as the warded barrier cracked. He looked at Senju and she simply stared at him.
“Hold your position, we need you ready to prepare to reinforce whichever elder may need it.” he bid her, and she clenched her fists, but she stayed where she was, by the gate that exited the hidden sect.
The barrier cracked, a multiple tendrils frayed the barrier, causing the rupture to widen and expand. The first thing to pierce the warding and appear was a creature. A big beast that was covered in thick scales and once it made it completely through, it roared a challenge.
“Great, a Gardigol.” Jazmel said and literally as he said it, more appeared.
DING!
THE DOMAIN HAS CHANGED AND WITH IT TERRITORIES TOO!
A BROOD OF GARDIGOL HAVE FOUND THE SECT!!
STOP THEM FROM CLAIMING IT AS A HOME!
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Jazmel couldn’t believe what he was reading, but he didn’t hesitate and leapt into action.
“Black wing faction, go to work.” He commanded as he leapt from the balcony and rushed forward. Katie flung her chains out and swinging herself off the balcony. Bannerman leapt from the balcony and loped towards the group of Gardigol. Myn was the last to move but she wasn’t too far behind Bannerman.
After Jazmel had become master tier, he had unlocked a fifth skill slot. But he had sundered and merged Sunder and Raven’s cleaving descent. So now he only had three skills, three immensely powerful skills. But he wasn’t going to waste the chance at five skills.
Sundering Raven!
He yelled as he carved through a lumbering Gardigol. It didn’t even have time to cry out, the grave numbing blade of Yoru No Tsubasa killed it and seared the wound as it fell in half.
DING!
TIER III GARDIGOL KILLED!
EXP ACCRUED!
+1 STR, +1 END, +1 VIT
Jazmel felt his stats rise and he remembered due to the title he had gained from Solis. He gained two extra points for endurance and vitality.
The Gardigol roared at the first of their brood to die, but Jazmel wasn’t hindered, he simply strode forward with his sword and waited for the next Gardigol to rush him.
Chained hydra!
Nine different chains flared from Katie as she sprung through the air. She crashed into a Gardigol and using her chains she battered the Gardigol that was rushing towards her. Myn rushed forward, swinging her sword, and carving through the mighty scaled lizards as she earned her stats as she tried to grow with the party.
Poison edge!
Dark pink and almost purple slashes of Mana carved through the sky before they struck the Gardigols and Jazmel watched them cry out. Yelp in pain, they had been poisoned and it was quite aggressive, scaled skin sizzled and scales dropped off to those who were struck most deeply.
Hail
Another voice uttered and Jazmel watched as water rose from the ground and rose high till it looked like a lake in the sky, before splitting and dropping atop the Gardigol’s in a rain of Mana formed raindrop of force and power.
Howl
Bannerman roared, the Gardigols shuddered and slowly turned about to try and get a look at him. But Jazmel and Abram did not let them.
Flaming Evisceration!
Pale moon mode!
Wood Golem, dragon!
Great rumbling dragon!
Jazmel carved his blue flame swathes through the air and Gardigol after Gardigol fell. The pigment burned into Abram’s face as he cast his skill. His Mana jumped up and Jazmel watched as he clasped both hands and a golem sprouted from the ground in the form of a dragon. Just as Jazmel’s own Mana dragon formed around a maw roaring a challenge and crashed through the charging Gardigols.
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DING!
X5 TIER III GARDIGOL KILLED!
+2 STR, +2 END, +2 VIT
+3 INT, +6 WIL
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BOOM
BOOM
BOOM
“That sounds friendly.” Abram grumbled as the sounds of oncoming threats appeared.
DING!
TIER IV GREATER GARDIGOL BROOD QUEEN APPROACHES!
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“Still having fun?” he heard Abram shout as he leapt onto the back of his dragon golem and rushed towards the rupture into the barrier one large, scaled hand reached through, then another pushed through and literally tore the barrier asunder.
Jazmel watched in horror as the biggest Gardigol he had ever seen. She was huge, the muddy coloured scales of the others had been replaced by thick black scales that covered every inch of her body. She walked on her hind legs, unlike the other Gardigols and Jazmel could see the clutch of eggs she was holding in a sack beneath her tail.
“Bannerman and Myn, make sure those eggs don’t hatch on us.” He yelled and watched as his friends split off to do his bidding.
“Hari, Kuro you need to hold the barrier.” Abram commanded and his two left to stand guard.
“Katie, harass her, see what you can do to take her mind off of destruction.” Katie smiled and using a chain, she propelled herself back up into the air.
“Abram just me and you.” Jazmel said.
“The heavy hitters.” Abram smiled and it was true, the others were dealing with the remnants of the other Gardigol and couldn’t focus on the new threat. and as always, Baek simply watched. Only interceding if they really could no longer handle what was in front of them.
Wood golem!
His dragon made of mud and rushed towards the Gardigol brood mother. She met him stride for stride roaring her wallow of pain as she crashed into him. great arms of Mana formed, and Abram began striking at her repeatedly as the golem dragon tried to restrict her movements and constrict about her.
She broke free, Abram was knocked off the dragon and surprised just by how strong she was. But Jazmel was there to support and Paldane had crawled up onto his shoulder once he heard all the ruckuses.
Flaming Evisceration!
Aeonic blast!
Both flame attuned skills hit her, blasting her with black and blue flame and then carving her flesh with the grave numbing blade made from death and cold iron.
She stumbled backwards, stunned, and shocked by just how powerful those skills were.
“Aim for her top.” He bid Paldane who soared into the sky and roared his introduction.
“A dragon?” Abram said as he stumbled back into the fray, bruised and a little bloodied.
“A companion.” Jazmel explained, Abram conjured another golem, and had it rushed forward in a loping gallop. Paldane soared through the air, pestering the brood mother with torrents of flames. Katie had swung herself up to sit on the back of Paldane and now she was using him to lash her chains against the Gardigol.
DING!
CONGRATULATIONS!
THE EGGS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
…
TIER IV GARDIGOL BROOD MOTHER HAS SUCCUMBED TO RAGE!
As this was being said, the Gardigol threw her head back and roared. It was a wail of anguish, her eggs had been cracked, broken and the unformed bodies within the yoke were disfigured and ingested. But she was crying at the loss and the continued attacks.
TIER IV GARDIGOL BROOD MOTHER HAS SUCCUMBED TO ANGUISH!
She was growing, or she was about to. Her monster core was fluctuating with energy and her Mana was embroiled in drastic changes.
“Watch out!” he yelled just as a beam formed from her open maw and tore through the skies. Luckily Paldane veered out of the way and the beam that the brood mother had evoked. Literally tore the skies, another large whole in the barrier.
She had changed, the brood mother seemed to be evolving in such a way that Jazmel wondered if she was going up a tier.
“We have to defeat her now!” Jazmel yelled.
Aeonic blast!
Paldane scorched her from above, her scales took the brunt of it, and she yelped in pain, but she couldn’t reach him.
Great rumbling dragon!
He sent another dragon made up of Mana into her, but she simply stood sturdy against his attack. Abram crashed a golem into her, it slithered up her legs and locked them in the ground with its own body. Abram conjured another wood golem, and this one restricted the other limbs.
“I can only hold her for a moment! Get your skills in!”
Poison edge!
Water piston!
Savage!
Purgatory!
Poison slashes riddled her body, seeping beneath her scales and bubbling beneath the skin. She wailed and cried out, but the brood mother was stuck where she was.
Water jets hit her, striking her so fast it was as if steam propelled them. Jazmel watched as the pistons continued to hit her and one even cracked a segment of scales high up on her shoulder.
Myn leapt forward and bring her sword in a focused strike, it was as if she was tapping the brood mother, the strike formed from the movement though. It looked like a large grim reapers sickle, blood orange and black as night Mana, it hit her in the gut and stuck, find a chink in her natural born armour.
Purple flames formed into three pillars, and they spiralled as they closed in one another. But when they reached the Gardigol brood mother it actually, burned its body and then the pillars rushed in and joined together forming one big pillar literally consuming the brood mother. She screamed in pain, cried, and wailed but the flames of purgatory simply burned even brighter.
When she whimpered and the flames had begun to dwindle before extinguishing. Jazmel knew she was not long for life.
“Jazmel take it!” Abram yelled, sweat dripping from his brow as he used his Mana and will to hold the tier IV Gardigol in place.
Sundering Raven!
He leapt up, bounding as high as he could and as he soared past her. He decapitated her, taking her head off and landing a ways behind her as the head dropped with a thud and the body soon fell behind it.
DING!
YOU HAVE STOPPED THE TIER IV GARDIGOL BROOD MOTHER!
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YOUR SECT HAS PERSERVERED AND WILL REMAIN!!
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THE REPAIRS WILL COST HALF THEIR USUAL ESSENCE!!
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DING!
+3 STR
+2 END
+2 AGL
+2 DEX
1+ PER
