'WOOHOOHOHOOOOO!'
Grabbing a floating tentacle and using it as an anchor point to swing away, I just barely dodged the Eye of Cthulhu's charge.
Double jumping out of the way, I swung the rapier creating another thin mark on the eye of Cthulhu's big and round body.
And joining that small thin red scar was pale white flesh that swallowed it up.
In essence, the eye of Cthulhu was regenerating.
Not that it was anything different.
In fact, I guess this could be my first actual battle with the gigantic beast since I basically cheesed their battle last time.
It really helped that the goblins were helping at the time.
I wonder how the little green munchkins are doing now that I think about it?
I'm pretty sure that there was also a veery big guy commanding them?
Or am I mistaking him for someone else.
Tilting my head mid air as I searched through my foggy memories for an answer, a fat figure made it sway into my mind.
I just couldn't figure out if they had green skin or-
"Woah!"
Feeling a red bloody tendril touch the back of my neck, I felt a chill crawl down my spine as I realized I should stop reminiscing about the past that was now in the present.
"Woops"
Grabbing the black tentacle stabbing at my face, I quickly used the flying tentacle as a fulcrum.
If anything, I felt like that one guy from the jungle.
Just in this case the vines were actual living beings that were working with a gigantic floating heterochromia effected eyeball that had a vengeance against me for burning it alive last time.
Good times.
Flipping over the second charge, I mirrored the eye of Cthulhu's charge with a shield made out of its own body and quickly dodged the third, leaving behind a thin scar.
'...I need to be faster with this.'
Watching the thin red scar instantaneously heal up, although I intuitively knew that the damage had been done, even if I could build up enough damage, there was another problem.
I was basically running on fumes right now.
Battling underneath the sea after escaping some binds and fighting against Trumpet, having to forcefully adapt to underwater combat while dodging gunshot like punches.
Freeing the Ancient guardian in said fight while seeing a new enemy called the Chorus Singer and having to dodge the tentacles for the strange poison that they had.
Fatally wounding Trumpet by causing a chain reactions of explosions within his body right before he was taken by that divine beast that unleashed a menacing headache onto my cranium
Chasing after the Chorus Singer and grabbing at its limbs with a good majority of my leaf blades durability all the while several G forces of water pressed down on my body.
Transferring myself onto the Chorus Singers rather large body all the while it tried slamming its white body onto me with the full force of a truck, I briefly recalled the car that did a hit and run on me before death.
Now that I think about it, I think the car was white in colo-
'Shut the hell up Slade and focus on the battle.'
Stabbing the rapier into the shell, I hurriedly vaulted towards the set of stone blocks that I had left covering the side of the chorus singer like barnacles.
Kicking off the stone platforms, the stone blocks were soon found by the tentacles and crushed into dust all the while a gigantic white sclera came barreling down my way.
Pushing myself and rolling past the top of the Chorus Singer, away from the Eye of Cthulhu's vision, it didn't stop it in the slightest.
Wind whipping around its body, the chorus singer let out a soundless scream as the eye of Cthulhu briefly went through its body and materialized at my back.
Crashing into my body, I let out a soundless scream as all of the air escaped my lungs.
Lifting up in the air, my consciousness waned for a moment right before it came back and I realized that the eye of Cthulhu was right in front of me again.
'Damn it.'
Twisting my body to lower the amount of surface area that the eye would collide with, instead of physically attacking my body.
The eye of Cthulhu went through my body.
And when it did, I now understood why the Chorus Singer briefly paused the movements of the tentacles.
Because it fucking hurt.
Feeling my entire body briefly spazz in and out of reality as the eye of Cthulhu went through my body in its impermeable state, it was as if thousands of ants were crawling around my body.
And the fuckers had a nasty little substance called formic acid in their stingers.
"AGH!"
Screaming in pain, I fell to the shells top and began rolling down and if I didn't hurriedly turned around and stabbed the rapier onto the shell of the Chorus Singer I would've probably fell.
Into the water where a very angry monster that was seeminly allied to the Eye of Cthulhu who already hated my guts.
It didn't help that I just saw the eye of Cthulhu swim through the sea with ease even though eye's and salt water aren't supposed to mix.
'Scratch that, I think it got some salt in it's eye.'
Feeling incredibly gratified that it had no eye lids to blink away the salt, mana flowed into my organs as I briefly stopped the flow of blood flowing out of them as I pulled myself up.
Stabilizing myself atop the shell, the black tentacles that had briefly paused when the eye of Cthulhu went through its body soon continued their movement.
Thankfully the ancient Guardian was doing their job in taking care of a good majority of the tentacles.
But still, unless I did a fatal blow to the Eye of Cthulhu, I think I'll get unilaterally beat up.
There really wasn't that much room to fight on this shelled goliath and the amount of options that I had to dodge the eye of Cthulhu were rapidly dwindling.
Glancing at my inventory that was still chock full of stone, I slowly put it on my off hand as I deflected another tentacle heading towards my abdominal area.
'Well... Maybe I'm not out of options'
Recalling something that I had learnt long in the past, I rolled the cobble stone block in my hand and felt its rough yet refined structure that was incredibly cubic in nature.
Stone rolling around in my hands, I straightened my back as the Eye of Cthulhu finally shook off all of the salt water attached to itself as a plan slowly formed in my mind.
Gigantic eye glaring at me mockingly as if to say 'what else can you do'
I only had this to say.
'Everything to spite you you floating eye ball.'
Tensing my legs as the eye of Cthulhu charged at me, I jumped and began putting my makeshift shoddy plan in motion.
Orange light burst out from my legs like rocket fuel, intertwining with all of my muscles and giving them a peculiar sheen.
Blasting upwards I slammed my foot into the air once again as it were a platform and launched myself upwards.
And it wasn't just once that I did it.
I did it consecutively.
Kicking against the air as if it were the ground, I scaled the mountain made of sky quickly escaping the Eye of Cthulhu.
Glancing backwards, I felt slightly gratified to see that the Eye of Cthulhu was following me.
Thankfully this thought on the fly plan hadn't failed at the first step and I was getting somewhere with all of this.
Glancing at the numerous stone blocks in my hand I threw away all of the thoughts in my mind as I stared at the black cloudy sky that swirled around like the eye of the storm.
And I climbed.
Stomping on the air with one foot and lifting the other, it was as if I was climbing a mountain.
A mountain so tall that it pierced the skies, in other words, it was like the spear of heaven.
Feeling slightly nostalgic when recalling that particular set of terminology that meant a mountain that could reach the skies, I quickly dived into the black clouds.
And almost immediately I felt resistance.
A little known fact amongst many was that clouds actually weighed up to a thousand plus tons on average.
This was mostly due to the fact that rain clouds were basically large clumps of floating water light enough to hand in the sky, but nevertheless.
And even though the water was mostly spread across the entirety of the cloud leading to a low density.
But since I was basically running through nothing until now.
It was as if I had hit a wall.
But... if I didn't go through with it, I don't think I would be able to do this.
So I pierced the black veil of the sky.
Feeling the clouds broil around me as constant collisions with water impacted my skin like gunshots, I felt bruises appear around my body.
Kicking against the air that was slightly more solid now, I left behind an orange blue trail so that the eye of Cthulhu could follow me for my plan to work.
Flying higher and higher then ever before, my legs screamed in terror as malaise continued to transform my flesh into its liking.
But I couldn't stop.
Not now.
Heart pounding against my chest as my mind pounded against my skull, I felt an unconscious grin spread across my face as my blood started to thin.
It seemed that I had burst a vessel somewhere.
But I definitely couldn't stop.
Pushing past the thick brush of darkness, I slammed my body against the black clouds and jumped upwards slamming against the black veil.
Piercing through the black veil, I took a deep breath as a sense of weightlessness overcame me.
I felt my breath start to slow.
It seemed... I have finally reached it.
I have finally reached the stratosphere.
And from then on...
I fell.
Grin on my face never leaving, I felt the stone block in my hand.
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Tree that feels like I've dragged this a bit to long and decided to use a plot point I forgot about until now