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- Tower Climber
- Jakob Tanner
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“I guess...I don’t have to kill you straight away...it is nice to have company...I suppose...”
The monster flickered all around the cave.
Max couldn’t keep up with the monster’s movements. It was moving too fast. It was teleporting through the darkness.
The creature was purposely putting Max on edge. Toying with him, raising his level of panic and sense of alertness, but not in a good way. The panic, the rapid beating of his heart—those were all things putting pressure on his ability to think rationally in a stressful moment. The monster was trying to force Max into a mistake.
He took a deep breath.
He needed to be ready to dodge an attack, but otherwise he wasn’t going to let the monster’s manic movements get to him.
He pulled out a grenade from his pouch.
A quote from his research emerged in his head: “…There are legends of a shadowy monster that lurks in the fringes of this low-level floor, but no confirmed sighting exists outside of rumor and hearsay…”
“You know,” said Max, speaking directly to the monster. “You’re pretty smug for a guy who is fighting an unknown opponent. Unlike you though, I came prepared.”
He whipped one of the light infused grenades at the shadow demon.
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The grenade exploded in the cave.
A huge blast of light shot out.
“You...damn...human!” hissed the shadow monster.
Max had expected the force of the grenade to shoot him back, but the explosion was all light-infused magic.
From what he’d read up on the subject in the library, light-infused magic was one of the weakest elemental forces to utilize, unless fighting against shadow-based opponents.
The shadow monster blinked to a different corner of the cave, hiding behind a rock, dodging the luminescent burst of light magic.
“You damn human,” hissed the monster again. “How dare you come here with such awful light magic!”
Max had clearly hit the monster’s weakness. He had five more grenades left. He had to make them count as they were his only way of defeating this creature.
The shadow creature suddenly started cackling with laughter.
Max wasted no time and threw another light magic-infused grenade at the spot where the monster was hiding.
BOOM!
Max raised his arm in front of his face to block out the bright light.
The light dissipated and the cave became shrouded in shadow and darkness once more.
Ha ha ha ha.
The shadow monster cackled with laughter.
The monster’s face appeared in the darkness. Its face then slithered along the shadows of the room. It wasn’t teleporting, but it could move almost at lightning speed so long as there was connecting shadowy tissue.
Max tried to keep track of the monster but he couldn’t.
“Try and track me now, foolish boy!”
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A blade of shadow shot forth from the pools of darkness.
Max jumped away.
“Agh!”