After recovering from the poison that slowly fades away from the surroundings and Ace's body, Ace loots the place the wasp's dead body lays. Finding 4 enhancement blessing shards and 2 element blessing shards.
Ace gets back up and looks around for any other strong auras in the area, finding a strong wind and earth element aura coming from the west.
Racing towards this strong aura Ace finds himself traveling quite a distance before feeling any less distance put between Ace and the aura, thinking that its far away Ace decides to keep going north and see if there is anything further than the Wasp that he couldn't sense as easily.
As he continues traveling, he finds nothing but emptiness, as if the forest around him is enveloped in an eerie, dead silence. The stillness is unsettling, almost suffocating. After a few hours of relentless walking, he suddenly realizes that he is now encircled by a menacing horde of nearly a hundred skeleton soldiers, their shear numbers sending shivers down his spine.
Reactively Ace draws his spear and launches a full attack on the skeletons only to realise and then remember that they don't take damage from physical attacks.
In a state of panic, Ace frantically attempts a variety of attacks, only to discover that none of them have any effect on the relentless horde closing in on him. The futility of his efforts becomes apparent as the skeletal figures draw nearer, their movements synchronized and ominous. Despite his agility and quick reflexes, Ace finds himself constantly dodging and weaving between the relentless attacks of the skeletons, their bone-chilling rattles echoing through the air.
His speed allows him to evade their strikes with ease, but it is not enough to break free from the encroaching swarm of clattering bones that hem him in from all sides.
With limited time before he runs out of stamina, Ace activates his warp stone in a scramble of panic. As he activates it a bright blue light forms around him as his body disappears and appears at the dungeon entrance.
heading home Ace rests for the day and pulls out the various books that he received from the ancient library.
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Finding him drawn to a book on Rare materials found in this dungeon.
Ace reads through the book looking at various items he has never heard about till he stumbles upon Soul shards. The use for this item are more than he expected.
Soul shards where used in golemancy to grant a golem an actual Soul which allowed the golem to harness more powerful blessings and stats.
Digging even further into the book Ace discovers an item called Fairy dust. Fairy dust is used for many things but what interests Ace the most was it is used to enhance a persons max blessing number. This interests Ace into looking into more depth about where to find this item.
Finding out that Fairy dust is an item that can be found on floors 3 and lower and form around Fairy trees once every 100 years. And Fairy trees contain heaps of earth and wind elements. Fairy Trees are often defended by various Fairies and bird-like monsters.
After reading this Ace put the book down and decides to find a Fairy tree to see if he can get some Fairy dust.
Ace heads to the Death forest, upon entering he locates the earth and wind element aura. After finding it he heads there as fast as he can without using his skills.
After walking northwest for a while, Ace unexpectedly comes across a small group of skeletons lurking in the shadows. With deft agility, he skilfully evades their grasping hands and clacking bones, slipping past them unnoticed. Pressing onward after an hour of walking, a sense of unease grips him as a swarm of skeleton soldiers suddenly materialize around him, their hollow eye sockets fixed on their target. Amidst the horde, two imposing hill troll skeletons stand tall, their towering figures casting menacing shadows over the battlefield. The air is thick with the sound of rattling bones and the eerie silence that precedes a confrontation.
Hill Troll Skeletons
Blessings:
Inanimate body
Power level 20
Class: Support
Description: The user can repair/heal all physical damage delt to them.
Undead
Power level 20
Class: Support and Enhancement
Description: The user has resistance to all non element damage. The user never runs out of stamina.
strength boost
Power level 10
Class: Enhancement
Description: The user's Strength stat is increased by 500 points.
Stats:
Level: 56
HP: 200 (+25) = 225
Defence: 225 (+50) = 275
Strength: 1175 (+500) (+100) = 1775
Soul: 25
Speed: 25
Stamina: 50
Combat rating: 132
Equipment:
Hill Giant Club (C-Rank)
Stat Bonuses:
+100 Strength
+50 Defence
+25 HP
Ace quickly with steady composure this time, remembering how flustered and anxious he got last time. Ace summons Winfred and draws his spear fighting defensively to conserve Stamina and HP while Winfred focuses on the two hill troll skeletons.
Winfred's attacks seam to be effective but the hill trolls seam to be deflecting many of the attacks being sent their way. Winfred Decides to launch multiple thorns at the trolls as possible while also doubling the number of vines being sent towards the trolls and surrounding areas. After a few minutes of intense attacks the trolls fall crushing the skeletons under them as they crumble to the ground.
Ace swiftly dodges and weaves to avoid the attacks using his spear to deflect and block attacks incoming. He sees Winfred finish of the last of the trolls as he starts to attack the skeletons in the area.
large vines revenge the area leaving deep grooves and gashes in the ground and the surrounding trees. In large groups the skeletons fall and crumble to dust.
As the last skeleton falls Ace and Winfred take a break together to recover their stamina and loot the skeletons.
After a short break Ace puts Winfred away and goes through the skeleton pile, finding 10 Support blessing shards and 7 enhancement blessing shards, putting them away for later.
Ace continues off heading towards the powerful aura.