I had appeared behind enemy lines. My howl had succeeded in disrupting the phalanx of tanks as our melee force clashed with the line of defense.
The battle was chaotic and loud.
The enemy formation was pretty simple to understand. The first row was defensive tank classes. The second row was made up of spearman and other melee damage dealing classes. The third row was made up of the ranged damaged dealers like mages and archers. The fourth row was made up of the healer classes.
I was somewhere in the second row. I had created a large circle that had made me the target of the spearmen and other damage dealing classes. Multiple archers fired arrows at me. These were all pro players, so dodging from such a close range was next to impossible without some skill or spell to aid me.
You have taken 12 damage!
You have taken 30 damage!
You have taken 10 damage!
You have taken 1 damage!
You have taken 60 damage!
You have taken 32 damage!
You have taken 75 damage!
You have taken 50 damage! (180/450HP)
I couldn't dodge the attacks, forcing me to take the damage from eight arrows.
Ding!
Phantasmal would like to form a shadow contract with you. Do you accept?
I couldn't remember seeing that ability when I checked out his character. Are some skills hidden? I hadn't gotten a chance to meet the guy, but Legend vouched for him so that was good enough for me.
Accept!
Ding!
Phantasmal has formed a shadow bond with you. You are now the shadow priest's health transfer target. All life-stealing abilities used by the priest will no longer restore his own health. Life stealing abilities will restore the health of transfer target instead, until bond is broken.
The shadow priest Phantasmal, Legend and Bloom stepped out of a six foot shadow sphere that had suddenly materialized behind me. The priest threw a black blob of darkness at a spearmen that was aiming for me.
-500🕷️
The dark ball of energy destroyed the player, turning him to digital nothingness.
You have gained 100 HP! (280/450HP)
The dark miasma floated in the air where the player disappeared. The shadow ball moved and contorted like it was alive. I could feel the invisible tether as the damage Phantasmal dealt healed me.
"Group Teleport for the win!" Legend yelled as he threw a flame spear at a mage who was preparing a spell.
-300🔥
The spear burned a hole in his chest, instantly killing him.
Bloom had her motion sense activated, so she had been actively watching the battle as a whole. We were the only ones to break through the line of defenders so far. Everyone else was being held at bay by the tanks at the first row. Bloom cast quick-sand. Her elemental power changed the ground beneath the feet of the enemy tanks, turning it to deadly shifting sand. The weight of the heavy armor they wore quickly dragged them down. This created an opening for our sides range attackers to take down their unprotected DPS. Arrows and magic flew at the command of the Moon Elf 'Tower', who was watching the battle intently from near the portal.
"Boom" Phantasmal said as he activated his life scourge ability.
-900🕷️-900🕷️-900🕷️-900🕷️
His Black Miasma exploded, instantly killing the ten players nearby.
Phantasmal did so much damage that my health was fully restored with the AOE attack.
My plan was to get to the healers. They wouldn't be able to freely attack us like they can now.
I cast entangle on the third and forth row as I shifted to draconic snake-form. The roots shot up and stunned the players as they grabbed them.
These roots provided me with cover, allowing me to use stealth and slither right past them towards the helpless healers. I could hear them talking as I moved past them. "He's gone!" "One of them disappeared!" "What is this! I can't move!" "This poison is gonna kill me!" "Overpowered BS!"
-75☠️-75☠️-75☠️
The stun on entangle was almost over, and most were down to 50% health with three ticks of poison.
They were done for so I ignored them and used sneak attack on a helpless healer.
-3000🗡️(0/150HP)
You have slain a player! Gained 1 contribution point!
I received many more notifications as those affected by the poison began to drop, one after the other.
I shifted back to draconic wolf form and bit another one with a basic attack.
-900🗡️(0/200HP)
You have slain a player! Gained 1 contribution point!
The healing classes swung at me with their maces, but they did little to no damage.
The rest of my group continued to fight with wild ferocity. Bloom threw flame after flame at the enemies as they tried to target her. She took down a player with every few spells.
Legend did a front flip into a barrel roll. He rolled up and stabbed his sword into the chest of the spearman as he activated frost nova.
-300🗡️(0/200HP)
A wave of blue energy erupts from legend, freezing everyone around him in place. Wasting no time he attacks his helpless foes as he lets his mana recharge a little. As a mage-blade, every successful attack restores mana, and reduces cool-down time.
Ding!
You have been silenced! You cannot cast spells for the next five seconds.
I had been silenced, but I wasn't worried. I was level 12, and in this form I had a very high defensive stat thanks to the new dragon scales. The healers surrounded me and all of them attacked me. They couldn't even take down 2% of my health. One by one, I bit them and turned them to blue dust.
One second left on silence...
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a man marked as the commander moving towards me, wearing the black cloak of an assassin. He suddenly disappeared.
Ding!
You have been hit by a sneak attack!
Critical Hit!
You have taken 700 damage! (0/450HP)
You have been slain by player Nax!
You have lost a life. Nine remaining.