The mouth within the ceiling roared as it came to life, the eyes darted up and down trying to find what minuscule creature dared raise a hand against him. The giant face soon id its gaze on the brightly shining Fairy lit tord the hand ected to it.
"Who dares!" the fa the ceiling roared as the viendrils began to shift and move f dense masses of greenery.
[You have entered Jonathan Addison, The Heart of the Outpost]
"Watch out!" Sprite yelled, the enemy swung the mass like a mace, intending to ftten Yvlena like a bug. She jumped out of the way, rolling and nearly dropping the torch.
The mass nded with a solid thump, rattling the building as it did.
"I hought I'd be fighting in the dark!" Yvlena said, trying to back away. She couldn't see behind her and tripped over a branch stig out from the floor, now gazing up she could see ander Addison's anguished face.
From its pce affixed to the ceiling, the head wriggled and thrashed as if trying to wrest its way out of its prison. Yvlena stared up at teary eyes, the eyes of a man who wao be free but could not.
Addison stopped thrashing long enough to notice her staring from the ground. He growled, snarling at her as drawing in a huge gasp of breath. He spat in her dire, The drop shaped projectile fleidly in Yvlena's dire.
[Jonathan Addison, The Heart of the Outpost Cast Acid Drop]
Already knowing she didn't want to get hit by the acidic spittle she moved fast, rolling unto the floor and watg the liquid hit the ground. The liquid spttered dissolving the branch she had fallen on only moments ago.
The girl scrambled up, gripping her sword in one hand and the Fairy lit tor the other.
[Yvlena Cast Carrot Strike (10MP)]
[Skill Upgrade: Carrot Strike Leveled up to Carrot Shot]
"Carrot shot?' she bsted her new skill, allowing a bullet of carroty energy to impact the creature's face. Addison snarled as he absorbed the hit.
"Alright!" Yvlena cheered, her victory was short lived as the fa the ceilialiated, sending a vine shaped hand to grab Yvlena.
The girl left the area swiftly diving uhe hand that tried to grab her, in a bit to locate her summons.
Sprite and Rabbit Knight had stayed busy fighting the tangled mass of leaves the enemy had dropped. The mass split open to reveal a still beati ed by vines.
"His weakness!" Yvlena said. Deg to leave the battle to her summons, She crafted another Fairy lit torch, using the light of her previous one she lit it and flung both at the face to distract it.
The ander bellowed again and turs attention to Yvlena. The mass of tangled leaves ulled up into the abyss leaving Sprite and Rabbit Knight to focus on proteg their summoner.
"We o distract it so it lets down its weakness again!" Yvlena said, she crafted another pair of fairy lit torches and threw them again.
They collided with the fa the ceiling but fell soon after. With the four torches scattered all around the area, the room slowly became more lit allowing Yvlena to see the true extent of the room.
Yvlena and her summons were surrounded by living vines creeping around waiting for a ce to do some passive damage. She gasped, quickly crafting two more torches to throw.
Fairy magic did damage to the undead, it would be wise to try to level Sprite up somehow but a on couldn't evolve the way rare and higher ranked summon stones could.
With better lighting, she swung her sword and fired her new skill.
[Yvlena Cast Carrot Shot (10MP)]
[Yvlena Cast Carrot Shot (10MP)]
[Yvlena Cast Carrot Shot (10MP)]
She bsted and bsted, surprised that her new skill could allow her to fire in rapid succession. Yvlena persisted until a wave of dizziness hit her.
"My mana!" she said as the game gave her a warning notification. "It must be from all the magic, this skill is totally a mana drain I'll have to be careful from now on."
ander Addison's head roared and once again the mass of leaves was dropped, barely knog Yvlena away in the process.
Sprite and Rabbit Knight leap into a, stinging and stabbing until the p was revealed once more.
[Yvlena Cast Carrot Beam (20MP)]
Directly impaling the heart with the e beam of light, ander Addison cried out in anguish as his heart was attacked by might and magic. With a huff he retracted it.
[Jonathan Addison, The Heart of the Outpost Cast Acid Drop]
The party scattered, avoiding the heavy acidic spittle flung at them.
"We just o keep going and soon we'll have him," Yvlena said. She tio craft a few more Fairy lit torches to pelt them at the enemy when suddenly she had an idea.
"Keep him busy I have an idea!" Yvlena said. Rabbit Knight nodded in aowledgment while Sprite saluted to her and flew off to tiing the creature.
Pulling her iory up Yvlena scrolled through her recipes until she came across a reward from one of Risel's tasks she had done prior.
[Explosive Potion recipe (on)
***
Type: Recipe
A fiery potion made for battle, bottle it and throw it at your oppo for a ce to cause burn status
Time: 30s
***
Fox Tail (Herb) x2
on Spice Herb (Herb) x2
***
Vial or bottle
Cauldron]
Yvleo the furthest er of the room just out of sight of the monster a out her cauldron.
She ighe crawling virying to attack her and got the herbs to pce them in the now bubbling pot.
She sshed a vihat got a bit too close arieved the bottle she had gotten from William's stateroom. In an instant she had the mixture bottled up.
[Yvlena Acquired
***
Explosive Potion x1]
Yvlena in a panic, ran towards her summons who were just about holding their own in battle.
She skidded to a halt then, drew her hand back to unch her creation. But as she was about to throw the potion, it was smacked out of her hand by a rogue vihe bottle nded on the ground, luckily it didn't explode and another vine kicked it, making it roll further and further away.
"Ah! The potion!"
She ran towards, it using her sword to tear and ssh away at the obstacles keeping her away from the potion rolling away.
Yvlena dove into the leaves, grabbing the potion before it could be dragged into a deep crevice.
"Oh no you don't!"
Yvlena ripped her bottle from the vines, breaking it off in the process. She took steady aim and uhe bottle at ander Addison's face.
The fiery co burst to life, with fmes rapidly eating at the leaves and wood that made up the area as well as the creature's face, but just as the recipe described the fmes withered away after 30 seds but not before causing an untold amount of damage to the boss.
[Jonathan Addison, The Heart of the Outpost Cast Bind]
The face within the ceiling made a sound that caused the floor beh them to rumble, from below vines burst out and aimed to grab members of the party.
Yvlena jumped over it and began running so she could find a pce to check her iory a some of her mana potions, the dizziness was starting to affect her, it wouldn't be long before she had to drink a mana potion by force.
Rabbit Knight swiftly cut through the vines as Sprite dodged the vihat tried to grab her mid air.
Yvlena dowhe potion feeling an icy sensation run dowhroat.
"Wow, that is not what I expected this to taste like,"
Energy returo her in a sed, she gripped her sword, now that her mana was restored she was able to use magical attacks again.
ander Addison released the mass holding its heart once miving Yvlena and her party ample time to attack it.
The girl fired off a Carrot beam, watg as it went straight through the heart of the former man.
"My heart!" ander Addison cried out, his eyes rolled into the back of his head, Yvlena could only see the color of his sclera as she looked up.
"What's he doing now," she asked. If only she had another bottle, the explosive potion would be able to help her right now.
ander Addison watched them move with hesitation, the fa the ceiling began to chuckle.
"You who dares enter my domain, prepare to meet your end," he said.
[Jonathan Addison, The Heart of the Outpost Cast Poisonous Bind]
Once again the vines burst out from underh them but these vines didn't io trap them, no, these vines were different.
Yvlena could see from the exterior they were thorny vines dripping and oozing venom meant tle them and put ao the battle
With the carrot sword, she cut and sshed at the vines ing for her.
The objective was clear, it was to keep her and her party away from the heart. Yvlena ran and jumped over any thorny vihat tried to encircle her leg.
She picked up one of the Fairy lit torches and began using it to thwack the vines ing for her. At the touch of the light, the vines shrunk away from her.
"Sprite's magic," she said, if she could get high enough to use it directly on the monster's face they would no doubt win.
Yvlena sheathed her sword and began searg around for the tangled mass of pnts proteg ander Addison's heart. She found it amidst a swirling mass of vines posed to attaything that came close.
Yvlena ran towards it, using her Fairy lit torake her way toward the object of her goal.
With a yelp, she grabbed unto the pntful mass as it ulled into the sky by ander Addison, Sprite followed.
"Yvlena!" she called, Rabbit Knight leaped into the air just managing to catch the bottom of the p vessel.
"Good job," she said, they asded toward the monster's fad it was time for Yvlena to enact her pn.
She ched the tor her hand and with a frightened shout, jammed it into the monster's face. ander Addison screamed, vines around them began to swarm as Yvlena tio stab the monster with the tord Sprite tio cast sting.
The ceiling began to shake, as the face tio scream and thrash.
"It burns! It burns!"
Slowly, the giant face began breaking apart in flecks of light. Just like that Yvlena khe battle was over.