After a few minutes of contemplation, Mal stared intently at his wolf and said. "What should I name her though? Got any ideas Insania?"
Insania confidently answered. "Lovely..." She then went to the front of the Carriage and apologized to Allan, the Mage and the Mercenary leader, each with varying responses to Insania's blunder.
"Happens to the best of us, but you better make sure it doesn't happen again ok?" Allan said with slight reprimand.
"You were the one to tuck in the earliest, not even contributing to the night watch and you didn't even managed to wake up early..." The mage said with clear disdain.
"We voted on whether to leave you behind, and as you can see... you weren't. " The leader said with indifference.
Insania then hurriedly returned to the back... She checked the map and realized they were 12 kilometers from their previous position again. 'This must be the work of the mage again... Maybe he can only cast it once per day... That means that the 3 weeks of travel might just get a little shorter. '
A bush rustled behind Insania and although she thought it was weird, she was too deep in thought to raise her vigilance, only when an arrow passed through her did she realize a monster has crept up behind her.
"KYIEEEEEE! "
Insania didn't think twice to roll on the ground, and once she got up... Drew her left blade and blocked the claw attack of the monster that sneaked up on her.
-320!
She groaned after receiving devastating damage numbers despite it not even being a direct hit to her body. She beheld the monster and scanned it.
*Ting
Raze Invigosloth
Rarity: Rare(X)
Level: 240
Hitpoints: 70,000
Damage: 800-1100
Physical Armor: 25% (Sharp/Edged Attacks)
Skills:
[???]5*
Insania's eyes almost googled out of her eyes, she couldn't help but wonder in that split second... 'How the hell am I still alive?'
"Insania! " Allan activated his taunt and got the attention of the monster for 2 seconds, allowing Insania to retreat from it. The leader aimed his arrows at the monsters eyes and almost managed to wound it had the monster not blinked in time.
Insania scrutinized the monster, unable to close her gawping mouth. It had the build of a sloth, but not the normal earth one. No this one has hands as long as a 5.7 feet person and if it's claws included could reach up to 6 feet in length. It's legs were 7 times more muscular than the Cyanback Ape that Wandapet fought and it's face... Oh it's hideous face is akin to an Eldritch terror. It opens right in the middle showcasing it's grotesque teeth and large beady eyes. She's not sure anymore which are the real eyes, the one inside or the ones outside. The fur of the sloth is a forest green, reminiscent to the forest floor or bushes.
"Keep it busy, I'll prepare a strong magic!" The mage shouted. While the leader commanded his team to get into positions. Leaving Vtss and Oreuq to guard the now exposed front of the carriage.
"Slow it down! " The leader shouted at Mal and Lainey and both fired their strong debuff inducing skills and spells. Allan squared off with the monster along with the help of Rez, Juli, Russ and Xerca, the latter 4 did negligible damage but just enough to annoy the monster who was focusing on Allan due to the amount of [Taunt]s it caught.
The monster screeched and slashed at Allan with unrelenting Fury but the Merchant hailing from the Mercenary kingdom was a battle hardened veteran, he knows just how to position himself to revert the impact of the blows towards the ground instead of on his shield.
Insania stood there in daze until the Leader shouted at her. "ARE YOU GONNA HELP OR NOT!?"
With a jolt, Insania pointed her index finger at the monster and just when Allan moved out of the way she fired [Zap] and the monster became still for a second before its body glowed, obviously activating a body dispell skill. Monsters these high level cannot be stun locked for long because of their natural resistances to every debuff that renders a being immobile.
"NOW! " Insania shouted as a spell shot off from the Carriage's direction and hit the monster square on the shoulder. A powerful fire spell that caused a devasting explosion and ignited the monster.
The monster staggered at the massive damage and the leader knocked multiple [Pierce-shot] imbued arrows dealing critical after critical hits.
[Pierce-shot]: Induces arrows with Physical Armor piercing magic that ignores 30% Physical Armor and deals 150% weapon damage+ (50%STR + 50%DEX)
Manacost: 50
Cooldown: 2 seconds
The Raze Invigosloth screeched in pain after losing 8k hitpoints in a single second. It hissed and screeched at everyone and used a skill.
Insania and everyone who were near the vicinity excluding the Mage heard a notification that indicates they've been afflicted with a debuff.
*Ting
You have been inflicted with [Sleep(II)]*
The monster lunged at Allan its claws glowing with deadly purple hue aiming directly for his abdomen but Allan was faster and negated the debuff that afflicted him with a strong Body dispell. He groaned under the weight of the monsters blows, being unable to position himself properly. The Mage stopped his chanting and threw a small rock at the Leader, which allowed him to wake up and everyone else by shooting and grazing them with an arrow.
'That's three skills now.' Insania made sure that she wasn't a hindrance to the on-going fight, positioning herself at the monsters blind spots and making sure the monster was being stalled and circled properly. Seeing an opening she stabbed at the monsters side and dealt measly damage. The monster jerked its head and roared, opening it's mouth face, showing it's grotesque insides and spat out a bile of green oozing liquid towards Lainey, Hetir and the Leader, it's not uncommon for monsters to attack the backline with a range skill during a heated confrontation, and the mercenaries reacted accordingly when they saw the monster not attack and glare at them.
Lainey used a Magical barrier, the Leader dodged to the left but Hetir stood there in shock mid incantation when she felt her robe being pulled by something large. "Don't worry I got you" said Mal riding at the back of Lovely, the wolf didn't protest to Mals commands as much as usual in this fight, the two reached a certain understanding after the wolf accepted the name that Mal gave it feeling comforted that it will no longer be an expendable monster.
Throughout the fight Insania felt like she kept forgetting something... Something that could help her increase her damage... She hurriedly looked at her stats, glanced at her mana and finally realized what it was.
"Dam! How could I forget about this skill!"
[Imbue Weapon]: Coats users currently equipped weapon with their own mana that will dissipate after 5 seconds and grants 20 Magical Damage+(100% Magic Power) to the weapon.
(Cannot be used on non-weapon type items)
Manacost: 5 per second
If she was correct her attacks could deal 228 damage and 60 points of that comes from the skill. She stabbed her blade and this time used [Imbue Weapon], her sword pierced the monsters tough fur and dealt 105 damage. Which isn't much due to the level difference but considering the others could only deal 30-50 damage including Allan made Insania grin.
Classes have different damage modifiers, and since Insania is currently classless(tier0) her damage with the sword isn't the same as a Fencer which is (Weapon Damage+50%STR + 25%AGI and DEX)
No being classless makes her damage rely all on the STR attribute like a Rager. Insania focused again on the fight and used [Zap] every time it was on cool-down and everytime she [Shock] the monster the Mage hits it with a powerful fire spell that shaves 8000 Hitpoints and everytime that happens the monsters attention goes to Insania and Allan has to strain himself to [Taunt] it again. Although Juli helped but everytime he received the monsters claw attack, his Hitpoints drop precipitously and he has to rely on Hetir to keep him in the fight.
Insania moved out of the fight and chugged down 10 lesser Manapots that instantly refilled her mana by 200, if the concoction wasn't so atrociously bitter she'd have gulped all of them down. "Dam it! WHY did I buy the LESSER ones!" Insania screamed in frustration... She didn't really think that her Mana would reach the thousands so she thought that 30 lesser Manapots could sustain her journey. She threw the small plastic like vial that contained her drink and stabbed the monster again in the same place she's been stabbing. The attack landed a -200! CRITICAL, she felt overjoyed at the damage but at that moment the monster went below 50% and went berserk.
It screeched to the heavens and attacked Insania with a speed it hasn't shown throughout the fight. It's long hands being coated by wisps of air current that propelled it's arms to reach out for Insania's abdomen.
"Shit" Insania was about to accept her fate when a spell landed and changed the monsters attack trajectory. Grazing Insania's side with the wind coating of it's claws yet still dealing horrific damage.
-180! (56.5/556.5)
If there's one thing that Insania realized throughout this fight, it is that the Polymorph skill of the Choker, removed the beastkin Racial passives.
The monster roared again and used two of it's skills at the same time. The one that induces sleep and the Acid Belch, before Insania was hit by the sleep she hurriedly bought a skill using her skill points.