Camden laughed at Mana like she was insane. "Mytho-tiered weapon?" He howled in excitement, "every person with that weapon is known by name. You? Your name is meaningless." Mana had admitted to him that she was one of the beholders.
"My name is not meaningless; you just don't know the weight it now holds..." Mana responded, though his only response was laughter once more.
Camden then spit onto each of his weapons, before instantly using his magik to spread it over his claws and freezing it to create extensions on them. Mana gulped at the sight.
Fluffynutts sensed her fear, "it'll be alright," he tried to reassure her. But before she could respond, Camden was already racing towards them.
Luckily for her, she was faster. She quickly dodged his attack, grabbing one of his arms before swinging him around and tossing him like nothing. Camden flew, hitting a tree and sending it toppling down on top of him.
Mana heard him grunt loudly as he quickly moved it off his body, standing up immediately, though with a slight limp. He had lost 200 hp from hitting the tree twice. 1400 left. She knew at her level, despite having mytho weapons, it would still be a few hits. Non-crits? At least 4 to leave him barely hanging on.
"Guess you weren't lying." Camden tilted his head to each side, cracking his neck. He grabbed a small red vial out of his waistband, as well as a one she recognized. A max up potion.
"Fluffy..."
Camden drank both of them and she immediately saw his level shoot up to 100 and his HP heal and go to 5100 which meant, due to his original tiered level, he was most likely going to do no less than 260 damage. That was the only lucky part; Level 100s aren't meant to carry the tiers you get at that level.
Suddenly, Viktor quickly emerged with panic; swinging his flail and having his shield at the ready. She smiled as he gave her a quick glance. "I told you I wasn't going to let you die. But I was going to let you get somewhat of a beating; just not like this."
Camden, realizing the threat, immediately went for Mana first, the quickest of the two. He began to shove one of his claws at her, and as Viktor went to grab him, the Mire Thug quickly switched arms, causing the chain to miss its target.
At the last minute, Mana dodged, though the blade of his icy claw grazed her cheek, creating a long gash across it as he passed by.
Mana and Camden turned to look at each other as they regained their footing, Viktor joined up with his comrades, quickly putting himself between them and his foe. Fluffy meowed, and Mana's superficial cut immediately healed.
Camden twitched at the thought of a healing backpack-cat.
Without a single word, his claws grew even longer, nearly becoming swords, but to him, it was like holding a feather. "Goodbye," he said with a cynical laugh, before charging them once more.
Viktor put his shield up but it was no use, whatever Camden's ice was, immediately penetrated it without effort. The shield burst into hundreds of pieces as the claws broke through, impaling Viktor as they did so; first the ice, then the blades themselves. "What the fuck!?" he yelled, before a sudden splash of blood came spurting out of his mouth before going unresponsive.
As the force of the impact began to push Viktor back, Mana knew she had to dodge quick. She jumped backwards as fast as she could, barely avoiding a fatal hit as well, though not unscathed. One of his claws had gone two inches into her stomach, creating a small, but gaping hole.
While Fluffy began to almost chant his aura of healing, he knew he needed to get to Viktor fast and send the healing directly into his body. Without a word, he jumped down, dashing towards Viktor.
When Camden saw the feline coming towards them, he removed his claws from Viktor's limp body, dropping him like a rag doll before turning his focus to Fluffynutts the Aura Cat.
"Don't touch my cat!" Mana yelled at him, before charging with burst of speed, hitting him in the stomach exactly where he stabbed her. As if time froze upon impact, Camden seemed to stick to her fist for a moment before he went flying back once more.
Fluffy jumped onto Viktor's chest, and wasting no magika on being painless, he shoved his claws from each foot into the battered body before beginning to pump every bit of healing he had into Viktor.
His pulse was faint, but there.
Mana's eyes began to water, "This is an absolute nightmare," she thought to herself, readying to attack once more. "I wish I could just wake up.....Gairma I miss you."
Then she heard a faint whisper, "Hello." But it was from a voice she knew. "I was wondering when you were going to notice me..."
Mana ran at Camden again as he was getting up, catching up in no time before slamming a fist into his stomach once more, sending him flying even further back. She did 654 damage so far, barely making a dent, but her force was powerful.
"Hello?" the voice repeated softly.
Mana yelled at Camden, "Why are you doing this to me?!" She rushed him once more, but this time grabbing each of his wrists and quickly snapping them effortlessly in a fit of rage. He let out a devastating wail, "did you poison me!?" she yelled in his face, grabbing his collar to lift him towards her.
She was different.
"I use water magic! That's it!" He replied, realizing his defeat. "I don't poison people!" He was completely helpless, unable to use his weapons at all.
Then Mana saw his level drop back down to 25, giving her an opportunity to be able to finish him in one more blow.
"Then who is this voice in my head!?"
He smirked at her, "you crazy bitch."
Then Mana sent a fist flying into his chest, before ripping his heart out and destroying it.
Camden looked on in horror as he saw it all happen, before he finally fell over, dead.
Mana was now level 23. Valowre counted the kill as a level 100.
A few moments later the heart dissolved, giving her a mystic tiered potion called a Round and 10 Potion. She read it with her stat mode, user levels up 10 levels, then their level is instantly rounded to the nearest whole number. She instantly consumed it, gaining 17 levels. She was now level 40.
"Good job, Mana," she heard the voice chime in. It wasn't Camden, it was her.
"Gairma?" Mana asked aloud.