The dungeon entrance looked exactly like a portal. Purplish-black smoke was being emitted from the dark purple vortex.
'Fuckin' Cool!', was what I thought as soon as I saw the portal.
I opened my backpack, and changed into the purple robes. I called them 'Weight Robes', since they were gravity-oriented equipment.
I took a deep breath, shut my eyes and walked into the portal.
*WHOOOOSSHHH*
A cold wind assaulted me and sent shivers down my spine. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the horrifying sight in front of me.
I was standing in a cemetery. It was in the middle of the night, and the sky had 2 blue-colored moons, one bigger than the other.
There was no end to the graves and the dead trees. The place wasn't plain either. There were many mounds and imperfections on the ground.
And speaking of ground, it was littered with dry leaves, withered fruits and lastly bones. Bones of both animals and humans.
I could even see some skulls lying around.
But most importantly, I could see enemies in the distance.
'Skeletons...', I thought as I slowly approached them.
The skeletons instantly became aware of me and charged at me. They were wearing some kind of rusty and broken armor, and holding rusty swords in their bony hands.
*KHAAAAAA* *KHOOOOO*
*CLATTER* *CLATTER*
They made hollow noises from their jaws and the clatter of their bones were so loud!
I immediately pointed my right arm at them and casted, 'Force Smash'. A purple magic circle appeared on my right palm, and released a powerful invisible force that hit the skeletons like a truck, disbalancing them and breaking some of their bones in the process.
{*NOTE: Gravity magic also includes Antigravity magic, as they are both two sides of the same coin.}
I didn't let this chance go to waste and casted 'Stone Barrage'. another purple magic circle appeared, but this time, it was on the ground half a meter behind me. The magic circle glowed and lifted up soil and rocks from the ground, crushed them together into four rocks, making the rocks much more durable and heavier in the process. Before the condensed rocks could be launched, I cast 'Reinforcement' on the condensed rocks, which made them even harder and stronger.
Then, the 4 rocks that I had created were flung towards the skeletons who had just broken out of their staggered state.
*CRACKK* *BREAK* *CLATTER*
The rocks absolutely destroyed the skeletons. Their bones shattered like glass.
As I watched the bones and armor of the skeletons fall lifelessly to the ground, I sighed in relief.
'Phew... that went smoothly...', I thought.
This combo of 'Force Smash', 'Stone Barrage' and 'Reinforcement' worked very well, but it was also quite mana inefficient. I had a few ideas on how I could improve it, but for that, I would either need more knowledge about spell formations and magic circles, or I could ask for help from someone who IS good at that stuff.
Anyways, that combo was for when there were more than one enemy and they were too close to me for comfort.
A close-combat strategy, you could say.
For long range, I had a different strategy, which was much more mana efficient, as it consisted of only one spell.
As I was thinking for ways to improve my combos, I heard some more clattering noises from the distance.
I turned my attention towards the sound and continued the hunt.
It was more skeletons wearing rusty armor.
I casted 'Gravity Bullet' after raising my left arm to aim at the skeletons. A purple magic circle appeared on my left palm and it gathered some kind of dark purplish smoke into a ball, and shot it towards one of the skeletons.
The ball travelled at a speed not visible to the naked eye, but not as fast as a real bullet, which wasn't really 'Extremely Fast', but fast enough to damage the skeletons.
The little ball landed on the ground between the 3 skeletons and suddenly, the skeletons got violently pulled towards the ball, making them collide into each other and shattering their bones in the process.
'Its still not as strong as a spell like 'Implosion', but it will get there eventually...', I thought as a slight smirk of satisfaction crept on face.
Implosion is a high level Gravity spell. It was the spell which almost killed the protagonist.
And so, I continued to hunt down skeletons and taking small breaks in between to replenish my mana.
I knew that after I had killed around 100 of them, the main boss would spawn, a Skeleton Revenant, which was basically an inferior version of the Death Knight. That boss will have the Meteor Ring on him.
By the way, I realized that many of the gravity spells are like the earth spells, but better.
I continued hunting more skeletons.
While I was doing so, I found out that there were different types of skeletons. Soldiers, who wielded swords and wore armor, Archers, who wore light leather armor and used bows or crossbows, and Stalkers, who were faster than normal skeletons and used knives.
I hadn't seen a single Skeleton Mage, though, which was actually a very good thing. A skeleton mage is much stronger than any other type of low level undead. And if given enough time, a skeleton mage can evolve into an Undead Sorcerer, which can then again evolve into either a Lich or a Skeleton Archmage. Liches and Skeleton Archmages are disaster-level monsters, which can overwhelm even the strongest hunters of humanity.
By the way, the difference between Liches and Skeleton Archmages is that Liches have a phylactery, which makes them semi-immortal. As long as their phylactery is intact, they can respawn no matter what. Also, a Lich specializes in Necromancy. It can perform other spells, but it mostly only uses Necromancy. A Skeleton Archmage on the other hand, doesn't have a phylactery, and specializes in Destruction Magic. Both are equally as powerful.
As I was thinking about the undead, I realized something. 'Aren't the Undead, like, super overpowered?'
I mean, yeah, they have their weaknesses, like Holy Magic, and Fire, and Blunt Weapons. But their strengths actually outweigh their weaknesses. Infinite Stamina, Total immunity to Mental attacks, emotions, pain, poison, fatigue, and most importantly, they don't age!
While thinking, I had already killed 100 skeletons, and The boss had started spawning, which kicked me back into focused mode.