“Hold on! There’s good loot to be found!”
Her hands glow golden as she rummages through the clothes of the corpses. Out of the pockets of one orc, she pulls out a small vial containing red liquid–a Minor Healing Potion. From another orc, she loots a pouch of something. The process continues until she pulls out a dagger and starts harvesting organs.
“Be a good girl and use that strength of yours to rip out some of their frontal tusks for me, will you? They’re good alchemy ingredients.”
Seeing the results of what she does to “bad girls”–please don’t harvest my organs!–I quickly rush between orc bodies and yank out the frontal tusks like I’m told. Obviously, I avoid the heads still covered in acid. I don’t need that melting my hands.
“Alright!” Kati’s hands glow, and the blood and guts all over her vanish. “Mostly useless crap, but still enough to pay for 3 weeks of rent.”
Huh… maybe I should loot more.
In exchange for the tusks, she gives me one of the Minor Healing Potions she found, and we continue onwards. Before us is a set of rge metal doors, adorned with carvings of orcs fighting dragons. A boss door if I ever saw one!
I drink my st Minor Mana Potion, restoring me to 5 MP, along with the Minor Healing Potion Kati gave me earlier, and push open the rge set of doors in front of me. The room beyond is an ornate banquet room. The seats are empty and the tables are bare. The only sign of life in this room is the rge figure in the seat of honour at the far end of the room. An orc in a full set of heavy armour, fashioned from the scales of a dragon, judging from the massive dragonskull adorning the wall behind him.
“Vill, wait–”
I activate [Berserk] once, and unch myself across the room at the boss, the expensive visuals of the room blurring into a smudge. The great hammer strikes him square in the chest, but he doesn't so much as flinch from the impact.
[You are in the presence of
The momentum carries me further and I sm headfirst into the wall.
[HP: 16/20]
[MP: 3/5]
Ouch!
“Vill–,” Kati calls from back at the door, running towards us.
I swing the great hammer again, but to Gruk’thral it’s as effective as a fly trying to exit a home by colliding against a gss window. He zily stands up and reaches for the massive greatsword by his side, looking like it was probably fashioned from a giant dragon tooth.
[MP: 3/5]
“–dragon scales are–”
I run around the boss and smash the Lizard King’s great hammer in front of him.
[(Active) Pound the Great Hammer into the ground to create earth spikes in a 3m radius around you, dealing STR (38) damage. Cooldown: 60s]
The stone tiles erupt around us, only for the spikes to break harmlessly on impact.
“–impervious to physical damage!”
Oh, shit.
Something shatters against the back of my skull just as Gruk'thral's greatsword cleaves through me.
[HP: 0/20]