Savage Awakening 2: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure by Adastra339

Author:Adastra339 [Adastra339]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

148. The Catacombs (II)

This dungeon was a weird one. It only opened at dusk. The sky was an expanse of deepening purples swarming over a trail of faint orange.

Zane and Reina made their way down the broad streets of the L.A. Faction which led to the leaking dungeon. Soon a purplish aura began drifting about, staining the air; it thickened the closer they got. White fingers of fog crawled along the ground, grasping at their ankles.

From the distance came a chorus of soft high moans, shrill shrieks, disembodied sounds—like thousands of little voices crying out in terror. Zane felt a cloud of anxiousness and fear up ahead—they started hearing shouts.

“We’re getting close,” said Reina softly. She set her mouth in a firm line.

The dungeon’s borders loomed up ahead—steep, gothic pitch-black gates pulsing with Elemental Darkness. They hemmed in a graveyard shrouded in stark white mists. The graveyard ran up a massive hill stretching into the foggy distance. It was studded with gravestones—some simple and small and unmarked; others looked lavish and huge, made for kings. The dirt kept shifting uneasily underneath them…

***

A soft blue wall stood just outside the gates—the border between the Safe Zone and the dungeon.

And there was a clear jagged crack running through it. And beyond, those black gates yawned wide open…

Hordes of Monsters staggered out.

Ten-foot-tall skeletons with pure-white bones. Each bone was thick as a tree trunk. The Monsters’ eyes burned with a pitch-black light; they made a click-click-clicking as they staggered. A chilly, deathly aura clung to them, frosting the ground as they stepped.

Living Skeleton (Monster)

Essence Level 99

Brave teams of Luminous Faction’s elites clung on—trying to hold them back. There were a few dozen in all; burly Warriors up in front, mostly in the Level 80s and 90s, making a shield wall. Rogues darted in and out, lashing at the Monsters, striking up sparks, chipping off bits of bone; Archers and Mages fired off fire and lightning.

Skeletons crashed up against the line, one after another. It bent, swayed, but held. When one Warrior went down with a cry the Healers were on him in an instant, pouring in streams of gold light; he staggered back up, grimacing. They all looked pretty battered, sweaty and pale and hobbled.

Then a shadow loomed out of the fog.

So big it had to duck to make it out of the gate. It must’ve been thirty feet tall—and the aura pouring off it… pure Elemental Darkness. You could hear the ground crackling to ice under each thundering, earth-shaking step—

Giant Skeleton

Essence Level 102

“Foundation Monster!” croaked a burly mustached middle-aged Warrior up at the front. He was Vance Matheson, the Captain of the defense and the highest-Leveled of them—Level 99. His eyes bulged at the sight; he was drenched in sweat.

“How much longer?!” cried an Archer.

“The Savage Sage should be here any minute,” said Vance through gritted teeth. “We just have to hold ‘till then!”

The name gave them all a surge of hope—especially the Warriors up front. They let out battle cries—“For the Faction!”

“For the Mistress! For the Sage!”

They threw up their shields Skills.

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