[Skills/Abilities:]
[1. Shadow Blade (Active):]
Summons a sword made of shadow energy that deals 20% bonus darkness damage.
Duration: 15 seconds
Mana Cost: 40
Cooldown: 15 seconds
[2. Invisibility (Active):]
Renders the Elite Shade invisible for up to 10 seconds, increasing its critical strike chance by 30% when attacking from stealth.
Mana Cost: 60
Cooldown: 20 seconds
[3. Shadow Bind (Active):]
Sends tendrils of darkness to immobilize enemies for 5 seconds.
Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 25 seconds
[4. Dark Assimilation (Passive):]
Absorbs 10% of the damage from all darkness-based attacks directed at the Elite Shade and converts it into health.
[Weaknesses:]
Holy Resistance: Very weak to holy or light magic, suffering 40% extra damage from such attacks.
Physical Attacks: Takes normal damage from physical attacks, unlike lower-tier shades.
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[Summon Name: Greater Shade (Dungeon Guardian)]
Type: Spectral Entity (Guardian Class)
Rank: B-
Height: 8 feet
Affinity: Darkness, Fear
[Attributes:]
HP: 4000
Mana: 600
Strength: 90
Agility: 70
Endurance: 120
Dexterity: 75
Intelligence: 65
Perception: 80
Fear Resistance: 100%
Darkness Resistance: 95%
[Skills/Abilities:]
[1. Fear Aura (Passive):]
Exudes a fear-inducing aura in a 15-meter radius, reducing enemy combat effectiveness.
Effect: Enemies have a 20% reduction in accuracy and 15% slower movement speed.
[2. Dark Rebirth (Active):]
Can temporarily resurrect slain shades or wraiths as shadow constructs for 30 seconds.
Mana Cost: 200
Cooldown: 30 minutes
[3. Obsidian Strike (Active):]
The Greater Shade's attacks are empowered with dark energy, dealing +40% darkness damage and creating an explosion of dark energy upon impact.
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 20 seconds
[4. Shadow Fortress (Passive):]
Reduces all incoming physical and magic damage by 20% when the Greater Shade is within the dungeon's core room.
[5. Nightmare Grasp (Active):]
Casts an ethereal hand from the shadows to grab an enemy, stunning them for 5 seconds and dealing 50 shadow damage per second.
Mana Cost: 150
Cooldown: 30 seconds
[Weaknesses:]
Light and Holy Damage: Suffers 50% extra damage from light and holy spells.
Vulnerability Outside the Core Room: Loses Shadow Fortress defense when away from the dungeon core, making it vulnerable to concentrated attacks.
"Wow"
Seth couldn't tell if he should be happy or sad.
This was amazing and simple at the same time.
At this very least, this settled his worries a little.
So he gave them the Go signal while returning to his dungeon core.
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From The Elite Shade perspective, The forest surrounding Seth's dungeon was thick and silent, with towering trees that seemed to close in like sentinels.
His goblins moved through the underbrush, their footsteps muffled by the damp earth.
The Elite Shade drifted ahead, its presence almost undetectable as it scouted the terrain.
Outside his dungeon, the world felt different.
Unpredictable.
Seth didn't like being out of his element.
Inside the dungeon, he had control, he could manipulate the very walls, set traps, and call forth reinforcements.
But out here? It was an entirely different battlefield.
Still, the goblins moved with purpose, their dark eyes flicking toward the horizon where the faint shimmer of the rival dungeon's boundary could be seen. The variant Poison Goblin kept his connection to them tight, guiding them step by step. If they got too far, they'd be on their own.
And Seth couldn't afford to lose them to some unforeseen trap or ambush.
He was only a spectator here switching perspectives between the Poison Goblin and the Elite Shade.
As they drew closer to the rival dungeon, Seth tried turning on all the senses of the shade stalker.
How it felt, and breathed, how it moved.
He felt it all.
While experimenting with the Poison Goblin and Elite Shade Stalker, he also noticed he didn't lose the connection he had to the dungeon.
Infact he believed if he ever stepped out of the dungeon, he could still maintain connection with it.
He was in his head thinking and experimenting when he felt a shift in the air.
It was a familiar sensation, it was Mana.
The mana around the rival dungeon was denser, more concentrated. It wasn't like his.
They were already near his boundary.
This dungeon wasn't in its infancy, it had grown, just as Seth's had.
But what was the difference
He could feel the subtle pulse of power emanating from it, a sign that whoever was running it wasn't sitting idle.
"He's been waiting," Seth thought.
The rival dungeon master must have been anticipating an attack the moment Seth had shown his hand by defeating the adventurers.
A few moments later, they finally got to the edge of the rival dungeon boundary.
They immediately stopped, and the Poison Goblin clenched it's fist.
The Elite shade looked at it and immediately dove in head first not to be seen again by the other goblins.
Though it wasn't seen before since it was already in hiding but the Poison Goblin was an exception.
It stood still for about a minute before walking into its boundaries.
Seth didn't dare switch perspective to the Elite Shade immediately it went in.
As disadvantageous as it was, he wanted to analyze everything closely from the Poison Goblins perspective.
Immediately it stepped into the boundaries, it was as though it crossed a veil of water.
It promptly moves forward while releasing the poison gas in intervals of its cooldown'.
The lesser Tier 2 goblins were walking ahead of it without fear nor caution.
He couldn't tell if it was because of the Poison Goblin with it or because of the low intelligence.
After scanning the boundary easily with no hostility.
He switched to the Elite shade perspective.
The moments that followed were tense.
Seth felt his connection to the shade grow faint as it passed deeper into the rival dungeon's influence.
He clenched his jaw in his dungeon as thoughts ran through his head, his pulse quickening as he waited for any sign, anything that could tell him what he was up against.
And then it came.
Hallways lined with jagged rocks, creatures of darkness lurking in the shadows.
The rival dungeon was a mirror of his own in many ways, but there was something different, something… more advanced.
His Elite Shade flickered through room after room, carefully avoiding the traps that had been laid.