Lord of the Dead: A LitRPG Saga (The Eternal Journey Book 2) by C.J. Carella

Author:C.J. Carella [Carella, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-04T22:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Seven

After the zero-level troops had been moved as far back as possible, everyone else buffed up and prepared for Hawke’s trap detonation. He and Gosto summoned two bearlike Nature’s Guardians to block the entrance, Gosto applied Bark Skin on everyone, and Egg and Crommen added their buffs to the mix. When everyone was ready, Hawke sent his animated shadow to detonate the mechanical traps. Spikes, a huge stone slab, and a flight of darts shredded the unfortunate Elemental. A second shadow didn’t trigger anything else, so Hawke had it stand by the Nature constructs and sent a Tulpa to trigger the two remaining magical traps.

He shaped the Mana puppet into a bipedal form and put enough power into it to give it average Strength and Dexterity and 20 Health. The creation looked like a translucent mannequin that walked forward, moving a little unsteadily. Hawke had to concentrate on it continually to get it to do anything; the process was a lot more involved than ordering his other summons around, which only required a basic command or two. On the other hand, the Tulpa had the same ‘signature’ as he did. It had fooled the magic triggers in the Vault of the Sidhe. Hopefully, it would do the same there.

The Tulpa reached the door, touched the handle – and disappeared with a loud ‘pop.’

Tulpa has moved beyond 100 feet. Tulpa has been dispelled.

The first trap had been a teleport after all. Before he could feel too pleased with himself, ten hellhounds materialized in the corridor and all heck broke loose.

Tartarus Kerberos (Elemental)

Level 10 Minion

Health 550 Mana 100 Endurance 550

The summoned monsters looked like three-headed dogs made of lava. They didn’t rush the Adventurers in the Seal-protected room, but instead formed three lines and began to spit Infernal Fireballs, three per dog. Thirty fiery missiles sailed forth in ballistic arcs and detonated on the front lines, each doing 10-100 points of Fire damage, which was bad enough, and 1-10 points of Infernal Damage, which ignored normal Elemental Resistances. Given that their area effect was just as large as the ordinary version, everyone who wasn’t in the back of the room got splashed multiple times by the clinging flames, which kept burning them for twenty percent of their normal damage for several seconds.

If Egg hadn’t deployed a Dome of Earth over the rear lines, which absorbed the first 900 points of damage in its area of effect, they would have taken some serious casualties. As it was, the two Nature Guardians and Hawke’s Shadowling all vanished the fiery explosion, Hawke’s Bulwark was depleted, and Rabbit and the Dwarves in the front all lost a third to half of their Health.

The Adventurers’ return volley was more effective, however.

Nadia’s Ice Shards and Hawke’s Burning Light did double damage against the critters, and in the cramped confines of the corridor, their area of effect included most of the hounds. Tava’s Imbued Killing Arrowstorm arrived a moment later, followed by Taggan’s Rain of Rocks and Gosto’s Thorn Thicket, along with multiple ranged attacks and spells from the rear lines.

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