Cry is level 27!
A quick, piercing call forced several Revenants to freeze in place, easy targets for Pit's Frost Spears and Wingblades. Though the chimera's wings were hidden, the Skill still worked the same as he flexed them, launching spinning discs of compressed air Mana. The near-invisible blades scythed into the ranks, strong but still only strong enough to cut the scaled flesh of those closest.
As the Revenant's dropped and the world told him of their deaths, Pit saw something hit Felix in the back. His Companion was taken down, hurled headlong into the horde.
No!
Panic burst along their bond, along with pain and rage, all of it finding its sympathetic echo in Pit. Letting out an agonized howl, Pit ran to one of his Companion's friends. She was fighting with that long, sharp-toothed tail of hers, spinning it with deadly precision; she did not notice him.
Frost Spear!
The single large spear Pit conjured blasted through the enemy the Pretty Killer was attacking.
Frost Spear is level 25!
Congratulations! You Have Reached Apprentice Tier in Frost Spear!
You Gain:
+3 INT
+3 WIL
+3 PER
The tenku shrugged off the surge of power and screeched at the Pretty Killer. Startled, she looked up and finally noticed Pit's gaze, for the first time seeing where Felix had gone. "Man down! Felix got pulled into the horde!"
"Hold together!" the Metal Man grunted, each swing of his axe reaping a life. "Either Felix gets free, or he doesn't. We can't go after him."
"That's a damn fool thing to say," the Pretty Killer hissed, and after looking at the Dangerous One with the metal spears, they both took off.
"What're you doing? Where're you going!" The slender man-child wailed. "You can't leave us!"
"Hold together!" The Metal Man repeated. "Stay--Twin's teeth! Hold!"
Pit didn't listen. He didn't care. His Companion was in danger.
They dove into the horde, spells and claws swinging.
"RARGH!"
Felix felt the blow before he saw it, the force of it bending him double before a second strike sent him up into the air. He arced up like a sack of potatoes launched from a catapult. Wind whipped at his hair and clothes as he tried to pivot in mid-air. The ground rushed up fast, along with the grasping claws of a field of Revenants.
Reign of Vellus!
Unfettered Volition!
Flaring his Skill, Felix transferred his motion down into the crowd below, smashing several of the Revenants directly into the ground. Others were shoved back, stumbling from him as lightning surged in a ten foot area. Felix still landed hard but on his feet, and a simple knee flex let him absorb what remained of his fall.
Stone Shaping!
Spikes of reshaped flagstone ripped upward, skewering the Revenants that surged around him. The hulking form of the Okar-Revenant ran toward him, plowing through the other monsters with a bull-like single-mindedness. Head and shoulders taller than the others of its kind, the Okar-Revenant sheared through them with each swing of its thick arms.
Stone Shaping!
A thick block of stone jerked upward from the ground, directly in the Okar-Revenant's way. The beast didn't stop its charge and simply smashed through it with a bloody lurch. But that was enough to distract it.
Influence of the Wisp!
Wrack and Ruin!
A Manawarped Revenant (x4) are Enthralled for 5 seconds.
Blue flames erupted around Okar and a few of those closest to him. Their Willpower was a weakeness Felix could exploit, freezing them in place as he hurled a dark orb of concentrated acid at him. The first hit and splashed almost harmlessly against its chest, but the second started eating a hole in Okar's scaley abdomen.
Felix's Mana dwindled again, dropping faster and faster with each orb of acid. By the time Influence of the Wisp ran out, he barely had more than 5% of his Mana pool left. It'd regenerate, but he needed at least a minute to be useful.
The Okar-Revenant didn't give him that.
Screaming incoherently, the former Guilder bolted forward, eating up the distance between them as if it had never existed. Felix dodged back and to the left, but the damn thing was on top of him, he couldn't evade it. He had too little Mana to use Unfetted Volition, instead relying on his Agility and Endurance. But Okar was relentless; each dodge was met with a charge and a clawed slash, pushing Felix back further away from his friends and the exit.
"It..want!" Okar drooled through his ruined, malformed face. It's overlapping fangs destroyed most of what it tried to say, but the words repeated, over and over. Strike after strike. "It want!"
"Who wants?!" Felix shouted back, his hands moving fast to block the beast's attacks. Its claws tore his forearms repeatedly, blasting past his Armored Skin and ripping into his muscles.
Instead of answering, the Okar-Revenant lunged at Felix. The Nym leaped aside, but nearly tripped as his feet hit massive, torn up blocks. Sparing a glance for his surroundings, he realized they had moved so far into the keep that there were barely any Revenants here at all.
BEWARE!
Senses screaming, Felix surged to the side, narrowly avoiding a tree-trunk sized tentacle slamming into the ground. With rising horror, Felix saw that they were within reach of the Larval Revenant itself. Okar grunted and hissed through his wet face-hole, something sort of like laughter.
"It want you," it said.
Above him, a massive, watery eye ballooned into place on the Ravager's slick flesh. Blue-green swirls tightened around a dark pupil, fixated upon Felix. At the same time, he suddenly heard it. Like a trumpet in the dead of night. A call.
A challenge.
It cannot be allowed to live, Felix Nevarre, the Maw whispered. You know it. Destroy it, my Vessel.
Shut up, Felix snapped. He wished it was a lie, but the damn Primordial had a point. This thing was part of the Maw, somehow. To let it live would be a threat to everyone in the city when the Domain burst. The challenge repeated, and more sickening eyes grew atop the Larval Ravager's wormlike body, watching him.
Status Condition: Taunted
Felix was moving. Unfettered Volition turned mere thought to action, and the Nym put on a burst of speed that cared nothing for what was before him. Like a greased eel, Felix slipped between those few Revenants around him, leaping atop their heads and making a b-line for the worm-like body of this...this creature that dared defy him.
Reign of Vellus!
Shooting himself forward with a burst of kinetic energy, Felix cocked back an arm. The Larval Ravager was huge, it's tube-like body as wide as a four story tower and just as tall. As it loomed closer, Felix gathered his Mana into a ball of acid he gripped tight in his fist.