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- Tower Climber
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The attack had cut his leg. Sayonara to his earthquake spell. Not that that was a huge deal. Sure, he could maybe destroy the whole cave, but this monster lived in shadow and darkness. It wasn’t slain the same way you’d slay a troll or an ogre.
The shadowy face flickered all across the cave, laughing.
“You won’t beat me foolish human,” said the shadow monster.
The demonic creature had returned to its torture dance, keeping a cautious distance as it slowly whittled away at Max’s sanity.
Max quickly got back up to his feet.
“Screw you,” he said, gritting his teeth.
Max readied another light grenade in his hand.
“You won’t beat me with your foolish trinkets boy,” hissed the monster.
He only had four more shots to beat this thing. He thought back to his research at the library. He must be forgetting something.
Shadow creature...
It never leaves its cave...
Max paused. It never leaves its cave. That’s it.
There must be a way to use the cave against it somehow. A cave was a limited space, so why was he being so cautious?
Screw it, he thought. I got nothing to lose now.
BURST!
The shadow monster had flickered and reappeared all around Max, engulfing his entire body.
Max flailed his arms around, not sure what to do.
How the heck did you remove a shadow covering you?
“Give up boy! It’s time I devoured you and your soul,” hissed the monster.
The monster’s words echoed all around him.
Stick to the plan, Max thought.
He let go of the grenade in his hand and let it explode right in front of him.
“Escape this, jerk!”
Max started firing off the remaining grenades, throwing them in all directions.
He just wanted the whole cave to be filled with light magic.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
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The grenades shot off and filled the cave with light.
The shadow monster appeared in the bright light. Smoke emanated off it as if its shadowy body was burning.
“Damn you human!” hissed the monster.
Max had effectively used the cave against the monster, lighting the whole place up. There was nowhere it could escape to once he had done that.
“Arghghghg,” groaned the monster as the light magic surrounding it burned it to death.
“That’s right,” said Max, triumphantly. “I thought this place could use better lighting!”
“Ughhhhh....” groaned the shadow monster.
The light from the grenades dissipated but the shadow monster was already dead. Its body turned silver and it morphed into a glowing silver monster core at the bottom.
There it is, thought Max.
He rushed towards the monster core and picked it up.
This orb. It was the reason he’d gone through all this trouble.