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Vd’s party slowly desded in front of the Dark Forest, which, besides the dark red, purple, and bck-colored pnts and trees, resembled a lush rai.
The thing is, because of the dark colors, most people could never really appreciate its beauty, except those with Dark Vision io them, giving them the power to see through darkness.
“I barely see anything here; the moonlight doesn’t evehrough the opy…” muttered Emerlinda, looking around while squinting her eyes. “Aah! I-I’m going to get lost like this…”
“’t you use your Spirits to lighten the pce for you?” Chris wondered.
“I could, but that would waste my Spirit Energy…” said Emerlinda. “Ah! Right, I’ve got a torch here; maybe a mp could do? I bought some when I was expl a Cave Dungeon…”
“Hah, fet it,” Chris sighed, waving his hand and geing a sphere of light that illuminated quite a lot of their surroundings. “It’ll move with us, so don’t worry.”
“B-But won’t that cost a lot of Ara?!” asked Emerlinda.
“What? Nah, this barely cost a thousand, and it remains for like a whole day,” shrugged Chris.
“Huh? Magi’t that… easy usually,” Emerlinda muttered. “Well, thanks a lot anyways, Chris.”
“Don’t mind it,” the incubus shrugged.
“This is where Dark Spirits Monsters spawn,” said Vd, admiring the rai, which was awfully quiet. “I guess we should just get inside and look around. Worst-case sario, we get lost and just fly to the skies tain orientation.”
“Sure, I suppose that’s the go-to pn,” nodded Chris. “Emerlinda, let’s go.”
“A-Ah, yes!” Emerlinda nodded, rushing by their side.
The group instantly ehe Dark Forest; Camil remained in the middle as the ohey had to protect the most, while Vd was at the front, Emerlinda behind, and Chris above.
With Emerlinda behind, they make sure she doesn’t get lost because she’s always seeing the whole group—a simple strategy.
Ding!
[Your Party has ehe Open Field Area: {Silent Rai}]
[Difficulty Level: Tier 2 ~ 5]
[Special Effect: Today is Red Moon; {Frenzied Dark Spirits: Tier 5} will spawn more, while {Silent Dark Spirits: Tier 4} will remain stagnant and easier to spot.]
“Oh, so there’s even some sort of Special Effect because the Red Moon’s up?” wondered Chris. “That’s ! Okay, let’s begin searg!”
The group was very loud, and as they moved through the dark rai, eventually, creatures emerged, attracted to the light Chris created like moths to a fire.
The bushes moved, the trees trembled, and dark red cws began emerging from the shadows, slowly scratg the wood of the trees, as a furious and loud scream reverberated.
“GRYYAAAAAH!”
As the monster approached, Emerlinda jumped off the ground in surprise. The darkness, the atmosphere, and the creepy horror movie monsters really made this a terrifying pce!
“Something’s ing from the right!” said Vd, using his expanded Sehrough his Soul Aura to quickly detect a rge figure approag amidst the darkness.
It was so dark that it easily camoufged with the darkness of the Silent Rai, but o screamed, it immediately gave itself away.
RUMBLE!
The creature made the ground tremble as it leaped towards them, desding; it resembled a mass of fuzzy dark red clouds, or perhaps shadows, with rge arms and long legs, long cws resembling bdes stantly covered with blood, and the head of a bck wolf with several red eyes aacles.
[You have been discovered by a [Frenzied Dark Spirit (Tier 5)]!]
“These things are Tier 5?!”
As Chris pined, Vd moved forward, swinging his sword at the same time as he i with a Holy Spell.
Using Geomancy, he merged the Spell directly into the sword, temporarily turning the sword into a holy on.
“{Geomancy}: {Holy Light Bde}”
SLAAASH!
The sshing attack sliced right through the Dark Spirit, as it groaned in agony, falling to the ground while squirming in pain. The wound was deep, and there were patches of holy light ing its body as well.
And there was also blood—bck, gooey blood—but blood, heless.
“Good, they bleed,” nodded Vd. “Looks like we’ll be feasting tonight.”
“Hey wait! Don’t kill it yet! I want to turn him into my Spirit!” said Chris.
“Yeah, but I don’t think it’s weakened enough; stand behind,” said Vd.
“GRUOOOHHH!”
The Frenzied Dark Spirit roared furiously, quickly standing up again, its sharp cws overflowing with dark red energies.
FLASH!
And then it rushed forward, resembling a blur of bd dark red colors; its giant cws moved down, attag not Vd but Chris behind him.
“Uwaah!”
Chris barely noticed in time, quickly flying into the skies and pointing his trident at the creature, infusing it with lightning, and firing it towards the monster from above.
CRAAASH!
“GRYAACK?!”
The creature reacted loudly, vomiting more blood as the electrified on pierced its body; the darkness and bck clouds that made its body were rapidly disappearing the more it bled.
“S-So that’s a Dark Spirit…” said Emerlinda. “Beings like these are not even a thing in Fantasia, but to think they’re a onster in here! It’s really unique…”
“I’ll tain it, brother!” While Emerlinda was doing nothing, Camil quickly waved her hand down, and an invisible energy pushed the Frenzied Dark Spirit down.
“GRRHHHH…!”
However, as a respos red eyes shone brightly, and dark energies surging from its body, g against Camil’s psychic powers and blowing them away.
BOOOM!
“Agh!”
Camil ushed several meters away, and Vd grew furious, quickly summoning his Soul Aura and fusing it with his Sword.
“{Geomancy}: {Holy Sword Soul Aura}!”
His Aura flickered as his sword temporarily disappeared, fusing with his soul to unleash a barrage of dozens of swords made of holy light and his soul, pierg through the Dark Spirit and tearing its body to shreds.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
“UUGGRYAAAAAAAGGHH!”
As it agonized, it quickly dropped to the floor, bleeding more; it was barely alive, but in a few seds it would die.
“Chris! Now! Use whatever power you have to make a tract with this thing before it dies! It seems strong!” said Vd.
“G-Gotcha!” Chris nodded, rushing towards the Frenzied Dark Spirit and toug it.
FLUOSH!
“Ugh?! Uaaagh!”
However, Chris panicked as the momeouched the thing, darkness engulfed his hand and began to quickly spread through his body.
“Is it parasitic?!”
Vd panicked, about to kill the monster with his Aura.
However, Chris eyes began glowing red out of nowhere as the entire Frenzied Dark Spirit disappeared, ing his entire body.
“CHRIS?!”
“Heh… HAHAHAHAA!”
Chris ughed maniacally, maing gigantic dark red cws from his hands as his entire body was ed in the darkness, fusing with his clothes to create a sexy bck leotard with fishogs and bck heels.
“KILL! KILL! KILL!”
Chris began r wildly, being crazier by the sed, his eyes spiraling and glowing brightly.
“Are you kidding me?! Chris!”
Paul quickly learned in that moment that this wasn’t as good of an idea as he thought.
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