The team quickly realized that Apophis was right. They were in a labyrinth! Lotus started making a map while everyone else debated the best strategy to adopt.
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Suddenly, they were attacked by a group of ten monsters!
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[Naga] [Elite] [Level: 20] [Rank: D+] [Hostile]
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The team sprang into formation! Hulk moved to the front, preparing to tank, while the others arranged themselves for attacking. Unfortunately, unlike when Apophis had entered the Gravedigger's Tower, his current party lacked balance.
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Hulk was their only melee fighter, while everyone else specialized in ranged combat! White and Lotus both had combat pets to help in melee, but it just wasn't the same as having more melee players!
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Their fight was brutal. The nagas were extremely aggressive creatures and didn't give up easily, but the party took them down one by one under Apophis's direction.
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*Level 14 achieved*
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In the end, it was no surprise that a team full of elite players and equipped with epic items was victorious against even IronMan nagas!
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After their victory, the group continued walking, having eventually decided on a path. Soon, however, they encountered more monsters!
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And then more, and even more!
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The party fought hard over the next hour, and everyone grew gradually exhausted. Nagas were coming at them from all sides! Some even leaped down from above, like meteors from the misty sky!
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The situation became unbearable. Apophis realized the team had no time to rest with how often the enemies were attacking. This seemed like a good time to use his ~Cosmic Materialization~ skill!
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This skill allowed him to materialize any object he wanted, so long as he had enough energy. He quickly materialized huge rocks, which appeared between the players and some of the monsters.
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The party took deep, relieved breaths. The rocks hadn't blocked out all the monsters, but at least allowed the party to fight forward without being attacked on all sides for a few minutes!
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Though this was an enormous help, they had another problem. The players were sustaining constant damage from the vicious nagas, and, though she was very skilled, Chocolate simply didn't have enough energy to keep up. She constantly had to drink energy potions to refill her reserves, and every moment she was drinking a potion was a moment she wasn't healing her allies!
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However, despite the insane difficulty of the battle, Apophis's party finally eliminated the waves of monsters that had seemed endless only moments before.
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The most intense part of the fight, when the nagas had come without cease, had lasted well over twenty minutes and had resulted in over a hundred dead nagas!
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The monster corpses piled on top of one another as the reinforcements crawled over the corpses of their fellow nagas in order to attack, and they had ultimately made a hill five meters high!
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Fortunately, the fight was worthwhile. The team had gained so much experience that almost everyone had hit lvl 15!
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Lotus was the only exception, and even she had reached lvl 14.
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They took a quick break, allowing everyone a chance to breathe a little. Apophis sat down and used the break to spend his 25 Skill Points that he'd accumulated since lvl 10. Before he did so, Apophis opened his character menu and inspected his stats.
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Name: "Apophis"
Soul: "Enclabossa"
Guild: Eclipse (leader)
Race: Zetark-Human Hybrid ( evolution lvl: 2 ) (Next Evolution: lvl 20 )
Gender: Male
Class: Esper
LvL: 15
Rank: C
Alignment: -100 ( Very Dark )
--------------Stats-------------
STR(Strength): 200 (+10%) x2 = 440
INT(Intelligence): 200 (+10%) x2 = 440
AGI(Agility): 200 (+10%) x2= 440
DEX(Dexterity): 200 (+10%) x2 = 440
Energy: 1500 (+50%) x2 = 4500
Luck: 1 x2 = 2
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----------------Global Skill----------------
Book Skills: ~Berserk~, ~Cosmic Materialization~, ~ Dark Cosmic Meditation (lvl 2)~, ~Demon God Flame (lvl 2)~, ~Lord of Flames~, ~Susanoo~, ~Zooanthropy~
Talent Tree Skills: ~Energy Regeneration: 15 pts~, ~Firebending: 50 pts~, ~Telekinesis: 10 pts~
Passive Skills: [ Archaeologist ][Esper-Warrior][Genocidal]
-----------------Inventory------------------------
Equipment: Zetark Nobility Uniform (Epic), God Tzeentch's Rings of Power (Legendary), Complete Zetark Battle Armor (Rare), Ring of the God-Emperor Apophis (Common)
Money: 13,000 Galactic Coins
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Most players at this level would be around Rank D or D+, and would only achieve Rank C once they achieved the third stage of character evolution.
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Of course, Apophis wasn't like most players. The power rank was a descriptor of a character's overall effectiveness, regardless of level. It was no surprise that Apophis was so ahead of the curve, considering all his skill books and equipment!
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Apophis looked through his Talent Tree for a while and finally made his decision. He spent 25 Skill Points in a new branch of the tree: Hydrokinesis, the mastery of water! He put those points into ~Waterbending,~ a skill to match ~Firebending.~
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Notification: Congratulations, your ~Firebending~ and ~Waterbending~ skills have unlocked a skill synthesis. You can now combine both elements without receiving any damage penalty.
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Apophis has just created liquid fire!
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