mich and lumin were sleeping soundly.
mich was having a dream where he was a human again working at his old restaurant job in the kitchen wearing a chef's uniform it was a busy day orders were in the thousands but mich noticed that the kitchen was slowly turning pitch blacking the corners and he was getting a wired feeling in his gut suddenly a system message appeared
[-2hp]
[-1hp]
[-3hp]
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Mich woke up from his dream with a cold sweat opening his eyes he saw a creature standing over him with it's eyes glowing a deep
Orange and sucking out an energy from mich clawing at it his hands just phased through it the monster jumped back it was tall and pich black only it's eyes and mouth were clearly visible mich slashed again but still it phased through it, suddenly it slashed mich on the arm
[Debuff:Withering essence 9:59:59 hours
Effect;20 over an hour
-20 sanity an hour
!notice this effect stacks ]
After a second a terrible shock went through mich's head
"OBSERVE"
[Race:Nightmare spirit
Lvl 10
Skills:Withering slash, essence consume, immunity to most magic, immunity to most physical damage
Weaknesses:iron, purification magic
Description a being that feasts on life force of sleeping creatures made of pure necrotic energy ]
Mich seeing this lunged towards his needle and grabbing it but being delt another blow to the back mich swung the needle at the creature when It made contact it burned the monster and left a scorch mark the nightmare screeched in pain it's face once smiling was now of rage it tried to go for the eyes but mich
narrowly doges it's mantis like hands but the second arm was headed right towards his head but it froze and the faint blue light had grown much stronger mich looking at the body of the nightmare he saw lumin attached to it and slowly damaging it "it kinda makes sense lumin eats necrotic energy this guy's made out of it Mich thought as he delt the killing blow to the nightmare
[+50xp]
the nightmare it fell to the floor its body concentrated into a single spot a dark blob appeared on the floor after a minute the blob turned into a core it was purple and visibly emitting a ominous energy but another thing that appeared strangely it was a bottle containing black liquid using curious mich tried using observe on the items
[Bottled shadow
Item class:event item
Use:drench a torch with this item, set it ablaze and it will summon a small hoard of shadow/nightmare monsters for 10 minutes after 10 minutes you kill every monster you will be rewardedif used in a necrotic energy dence area more challenging foes might appear ]
[Nightmare Core]
"....pretty straightforward on the second one"
Mich applied some bandages and went to sleep
[Sleeping healing speed x3]
After waking up he ate the core of the night.are
[+5str
+6vit
+1def
Skill essence absorb [after killing an enemy absorb their life force for a small stat boost and extra XP]
"sweet" mich thought he as noticed something creeping up behind him turning around and flailing his tail to kill the thing but when he turned around he saw nothing weirded out by this he went outside to relax and hunt when going outside he noticed a mouse running around the corner chasing it around the corner....still nothing
"Grwllll" a growl could be heard behind him turning around he saw a hulking 3 headed dog he began to run terrified suddenly the dog catched up biting him tearing his legs off and swallowing him whole but he was back in front of his door he looked down and took his needle out
"it must be a monster it's messing with me"
mich pulled the needle out of it's sheath but the needle became floppy and then into an iron snake that hissed and bit into mich's head and killing him once again waking up on the floor he was a... snail being chased by ants then in a boardroom meeting where all the board members were the monsters he killed and they were berating him
[your debuff is being lifted by your pet]
[debuff has ended]
suddenly a clear sense of sanity came back to mich like fog being parted still sitting in front of his room with lumin in his head
[creature {lumin} has leveled up]