The Conduit: Book One: Epic Online by Erik Anderson

Author:Erik Anderson [Anderson, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: addtokindle
Published: 2017-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Spider Queen’s Lair

Grith’s eyes opened wide and he inhaled sharply. I looked to Emera, asking. “What ability is that? I thought he was dead.”

She replied, smiling as she helped Grith to his feet. “It’s called Revive. Healers gain access to it at level ten.”

Nareth cut in immediately. “How long can someone have been dead for that ability to work?” His eyes showed a mixture of hope and anger as he remembered his fallen friend.

Emera stared distantly for a moment, her eyes flicking through something unseen. “It doesn’t look like there’s a limit, only a cooldown of one hour before I can use it again.”

Nareth turned to me with a look of determination and excitement. “Let’s clear out this dungeon and find Frank. That bastard will tell me what he did with Silas, one way or another.”

We began walking around the spider’s trap, and Alicia’s excited voice called out from beneath us. “Loot! Wait a minute guys there’s loot down here!” I looked into the pit and saw that Alicia was cutting into the cocooned remains of the spider’s previous victims.

“How exactly are you going to get up out of there?” I asked sardonically.

Her muttered reply barely reached our ears. “Doesn’t matter. Loot.” In the end we were lucky that she had a length of rope with her, which she tossed up to us and we used to pull her out. She had bits of animal bone and webbing stuck in her hair, but she was smiling as she handed each of us two gold pieces. Everyone except Jimmy, that is, who grudgingly accepted that not having a permanent body or a real inventory made it a bad idea to give him things. “Oh, there’s this too.” She held up a ring woven of bone, chitin, and silk, revealing its stats.

Trapdoor Spider’s Ring: Creates a hidden trap that, when triggered, will summon a CLVL (10) trapdoor spider allied with the caster. Usable 1x/day, costs CLVL x10 (100) mana.

That was an amazing find! The only potential problem is that anyone who wore it would need to completely drain their mana to set the trap. Also, the cost scaled with level, so in order for it to be useful to someone they’d need to put an extra point into intelligence. I still wasn’t sure how much, if at all, attributes increased each level, so I checked the info for my class.

Battle Mage: Gains 1 point of Str and Int per level, with 3 extra points to distribute. Gains 3% mastery with all known words and 0.5 points of proficiency with all combat related skills, plus 7% mastery and 1.5 points of proficiency to distribute.

Alicia already had familiarity with traps and didn’t use mana during combat, so we had her wear the ring for now. The trapdoor spider had given me enough experience to get me nearly halfway to level 11, and I was looking forward to reaching it and gaining mastery in the force word, as well as hitting 5 points of proficiency with swordcasting, which should unlock a new ability.

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