Isecant - Party based LitRPG-lite / Progression adventure

Wardi activated his shadow step ability in an instant, diving into a shadow and re-emerging at the creature's back, when suddenly a tendril flew at him as he emerged from the shadow near its main body, impaling his shoulder. All he could deliver were a few slashes in the vile thing. "Hit me once and I'm gonna get you back tenfold ass-twat!"

"Oi, keep it together!" I shouted at him whilst being rag-dolled everywhere. This was not my first rodeo, but it just never gets easier.

Rhua is certainly holding her own and more; she has done well to keep this thing focused on her and away from the dining room, but her Kaha is not infinite. While the most fearsome attacks are focused on her, this creature could still attack us from all directions.

Horace, having completed a synthesis mid-fight, shouts for us to guard up for what he's about to do, throwing a canister into the air which burst a watery vapour that began spreading out rapidly, instantly freezing most of the entrance hall and nearly all its tendrils, of which I barely managed to escape from as it froze.

"It'll take me a WHILE to make that again, so give it EVERYTHING YOU GOT!" he piped up, and we certainly lit that room up in a few seconds.

Wardi, absolutely enraged, began pransing across the room at light speed, decapitating the tendrils, speed slicing into the monster. The liquid flying out of it, which I assumed was its blood, was painting the room like we were doing kids' finger painting in a preschool. Wardi quickly retreated into the shadows to recover from expending so much energy.

I used items from my inventory to help, drinking a bone enrichment potion, because the one-time use CRIT potion that was next up would probably blow my arms to bits if I don't, and NOW, I thought to do something insane.

Taking an aerial approach targeting the creature's head region, I smashed it cleanly at the crown. The creature's head was almost fully inside its own body. The ground tremored from the impact, buckling the floor. The pain was unbelievable, not just in my arm but my head too, must have overfired that nerve, I thought.

Lucy's safety spell, 'Pickupo Collecto', rescued me as the hit slapped me into a short timeout. She then chained several smaller Arts in succession: Ignicion, Gustus, Gorthinet, Raiton Flames burned, furious winds sliced, tumultuous earth pummelled, raging lightning struck at the creature, causing a chorus of sounds to blow out, emanating throughout the room.

Horace quickly followed up with his turret and crossbow in hand, streams of projectiles flew into the creature's back, dissolving it as they broke down. Damn Horace, those acid rounds are potent I thought to myself. The creature screeched in pain. The sound wave was powerful, and we could see the waves of its shrieks through the dust, and the windows shattered as the wave hit them.

"O-o-ooo I am working up a great appetite, why don't you all just stay down so I can gobble up YOU UP YUM-YUM-YUM!"

It spoke, increasing in volume as if a siren was blaring. Rhua smashed it in the mouth with her shield before we ended up with permanent hearing issues. "Shut it!" She growled, but it just began making noises which sounded like it was trying to mock us

'Clack-clack-clack.'

"After all that, it seemed as if it was still ready to go full throttle. Did we do anything to it!?" Rhua shouted.

The pieces that had been detached from it began dissolving. However, it was quickly replacing the parts it lost, but not before several deep purple bolt arts flew at the thing from the combined efforts of the Von family.

"You vile thing, you enter our home and cause all this…begone with you!" Lady Von's words rang out from the armoury. This sudden barrage of spells seemed to anger it more than anything we had done previously.

The pearlescent white colours had now changed to a yellow, fluorescent colour, and it began shaking, releasing orbs into the air.

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"Something tells me we don't want to touch those, Wardi said prematurely as they quickly homed in on us. The turret managed to take out many of them, but Wardi was not so lucky; it appeared to debilitate him greatly.

"Ugh, it feels as if I'm trying to hold up a house with every fibre of my being here," he grunted. Wardi looked at his status window, shouting 'Enrevenanted?' What the fuck does Enrevenanted mean!?" He shouted.

"H-h-Hehe will be mine soon pranser, Y-Y-YUM CRUNCHY BONES, DELICIOUS"

It clack-clack-clacked, secreting what could only be described as drool from its body.

The numerous eyes of the creature began to tear away as a large gaping mouth with thousands of small, sharp looking teeth burst outwards, it soon began trying to suck Wardi towards itself with a strong wind like ability, to which Rhua quickly changed her weapon to a flail. She poured paralysing gel from her inventory over it and smashed her weapon clean into the side of what visible head it had left. Causing all its tendrils to drop to the floor with a thud, it slumped over noiselessly as the effects took hold.

"This is just a moment's reprieve. Recover and use every potion you have or we're dead and you lot too," she shouted at the Von family, "If you have any higher tier potions, get them NOW!" she followed up with.

Broekslang ran upstairs to look whilst Frigibits and Rella stuck around the armoury, channelling more arts ready to strike.

"Only delaying my d-d-dinner time s-slurp,"

The creature hissed.

"Almost no time at all, just how tough is this thing!?" I shouted. I looked over to Wardi and saw he had fallen unconscious between the abilities used by the big pain in the rumpe in front of us.

"We are down a Wardi!" I shouted. "Oh no! Wardi! Lucy cried out.

Looking at my party members, Rhua was sweating profusely, Horace and Lucy were shaken to their core. Myself? Well, despite the barely functioning arm, I was all right, maybe a little sore, but the fear and panic seemed to have melted away.

I threw Excella-salves for health recovery and pulled out the six-pack of CRUNK energy cans to give us a performance enhancement, throwing them out, each to Lucy, Horace and Rhua and having two for myself.

It's so helpful that things from the old world are so useful in the new one, having been one of the few things I've memorised without the book:

*Increases agility stat 200%, Art and Ability costs reduced by 30% + Kaha and Lùth rate of recovery +50% per can*

Don't mind if I do! Not like I may not make it out of here after all, I thought to myself. Lucy threw out a durability potion to Rhua and gave me a Rejuver Juice to mend my arm. Broekslang returned with an exceptionally high tier spell damage potion and three high tier Art and Ability damage boosting potions and insisted we use them.

"Our Arts are nothing compared to your lot, drink them all." He said.

The effects of the potions I had already drunk were now kicking in, I launched the third potion to Rhua, who quickly drank it and was brimming with energy again. Lucy having taken such an array of potions was shaking mad and wasted no time in unleashing five spells in one swift action, having noted that the creature appeared to be holy elemental, she put all of her focus to this particular type, unleashing vicious dark arts, the blackened blades of wind and blood spikes that ravaged the creature caused it speak with fear for the first time.

Blech

It appeared to vomit whilst still paralysed.

"Filthy Dark arts, that h-h-hurt!"

She used her rescue Art on the Von family and had them help her channel into her next move. Horace now tanked up to the ceiling on potions, seemed to be on a different level and began trying to synthesise multiple things at super speed.

I of course had already joined Rhua in the fight and was punching and kicking the damn thing. I may not get any benefits for the Art and Ability enhancements, but this thing is getting smashed. I'm probably hitting this thing as often as Wardi does at full speed! I thought.

The creature seemed to be getting weaker after a small bombardment of attacks. It moaned more as the hits landed. Horace having cooked up a particularly foul-smelling concoction implored us to get the hell out of there as a shell almost half the size of my entire body suddenly smacked straight into the creature and quickly began dissolving and spraying out highly concentrated acid, causing the creature to scream at such intensity you almost want to take it out to pasture.

Its body was melting away. The creature seemed to be trying to maintain its integrity by separating itself from the main body. The head detached itself, and a tendril wrapped itself around the opposite staircase, and it appeared to be heading towards the cellar. Rhua took no chances and used a binding ability - 'Chained Up', attempting to stop it. The more we hurt it, the more desperate it was to fight back, and it was overpowering and pulling her along despite its minuscule size.

"I think it used an ability; I can barely contain it, unlike before," Rhua said, straining her voice, trying to maintain her focus. It surprised all of us when it separated yet again, only this time heading to the ceiling and quickly slamming back down to the floor, causing a collapse where it broke through.