Zectas Book II: Heraldic City of Coatl (57 page)

Espion threw his throwing knives and targeted the holes on the chains, while Rasant caught a hold of Dasende's right hand.

 

 

Unfortunately, Espion's throwing knife missed their mark. Rasant held onto the krampus, but it was only for five seconds.

 

 

Dasist Dasende flicked its wrist and the part of the chain that was not caught by Espion's throwing knives came straight for the orange Maneator.

 

 

Rasant was forced to let go of the krampus. Dasende's sickle came at the agile Maneator and nicked his right horn as Rasant barely dodged it.

 

 

Smoke released his end of the chain with the weighted sickle and leapt over to the orange Maneator.

 

 

The DarkElf drove his Rzeka glaive into the ground with his right hand. He held on tight, and remained suspended in a handstand position.

 

 

Dasende intentionally aimed its sickle to go in a circular motion, but was stopped by the solid silver glaive stuck on the ground.

 

 

The krampus' sickle started to swirl around Smoke's glaive instead.

 

 

"Everyone, same plan!"

 

 

Espion targeted for the holes in the chains once more, while Rasant coiled his bullwhip on to Dasende's right hand.

 

 

This time was different because Weise was closer to the krampus and executed his Shield Smack attack. The krampus was stunned for three seconds.

 

 

Igniz instantly followed up on the gray Maneator's attack with two giant fireballs to the krampus' eyes.

 

 

With the krampus' right hand still caught in his bullwhip, Rasant ran towards Dasende's back and entangled the krampus' left hand.

 

 

Rasant handcuffed Dasist Dasende with his bullwhip. As the krampus was being attacked from three sides, Espion focused on one task.

 

 

With inhuman speed, the young Spy kept on slashing the krampus' right hand in order to remove the monster's deadly weapon.

 

 

Smoke smoothly switched weapons and stunned Dasende once more with his Armored Armadillo Shield, but only for one more second.

 

 

This precious second gave Espion enough time to slice off the krampus' right hand.

 

 

Dasist Dasende snapped out of its stunned state and broke free from Rasant's bullwhips. The orange Maneator was thrown seven meters away as the krampus shook him of its arm.

 

 

Weise stood in front of the krampus and taunted it with his flamdius sword. The krampus tried to pick up its weapon, but the gray Maneator kicked it out of the krampus' reach.

 

 

Espion ran up the back of the gigantic four meter behemoth and began to attack the neck of the krampus with his green dual knives.

 

 

Dasist Dasende widened its stance and was about to let out a roar, but Igniz who was attacking from above caught on quickly.

 

 

The dark ember sprite unleashed a rain of fireballs into the throat of the krampus. Dasende's eyes watered up in tears, as its internal organs were damaged from Igniz's flames.

 

 

After the krampus took Igniz's attack, its face was made to look up the ceiling. Weise grabbed the opportunity and bashed his shield against Dasende's torso.

 

 

Rasant caught Dasende's left arm with his bullwhip as Espion kept on attacking the back of the krampus' neck.

 

 

With his Rzeka glaive, Smoke leapt up and slashed the front of the krampus' neck with his most damaging weapon.

 

 

The DarkElf performed three swings with his lengthy glaive and finally the krampus' neck gushed out with blood.

 

 

Coupled with Espion's continuous blows, Smoke delivered the final blow and killed the colossal krampus.

 

 

+ Your party has dealt a fatal blow to the krampus: Dasist Dasende.

 

 

+ Your party killed the krampus: Dasist Dasende.

 

 

+ Your party gained 600,000 exp.

 

 

+ Level Up!

 

 

As the body of the krampus, Dasist Dasende. started to fade away, it left behind some precious loot.

 

 

+ Acquired Labyrinth Exit Map.

 

 

+ Acquired krampus hide.

 

 

+ Acquired krampus horns.

 

 

+ Acquired krampus hooves.

 

 

+ Acquired krampus embryo.

 

 

Smoke quickly ran to where Weise kicked the krampus' deadly weapon and picked it up.

 

 

+ Acquired rare iron chains: 'Chain and Sickle of Dasende'.

 

 

After the DarkElf safely stowed away the loot, he looked to his men and checked for any injuries.

 

 

Aside from Rasant's scratched horn, and Weise's damaged shield, his party looked to be in one piece.

 

 

"Alright! Let's rest up, eat some medicinal soup and after we've recovered, head back to the laboratory and create one more Maneator brother."

 

 

                

 

 

 

 

Smoke expertly prepared the ingredients of his third Maneator. It took him less than five minutes to prepare everything.

 

 

For his third Maneator he thought that he should have one more tank. Weise had a dependable defense, but he lacked Strength.

 

 

The DarkElf used Dasist Dasende's embryo, a Maneator DNA - Strenght Class, and a Dominus Custos Attribute Disc.

 

 

A bright light filled the entire laboratory as Smoke poured 90,000 of his Mana into the wide casting circle. The embryo at the center slowly started to form into a Maneator.

 

 

Two minutes later, the tallest of Smoke's Maneators stepped out. The DarkElf's latest creation stood at a height of 3.3 meters. The Maneator was slightly taller than Konig Mitleid himself.

 

 

Smoke thought that it must have been Dasende's embryo that caused such a big difference in height.

 

 

The bulky red Maneator looked around and bowed down to his knees once he saw Smoke.

 

 

"Ma...aster, I... obey you."

 

 

The DarkElf instantly noticed the lack of Intelligence as the red Maneator had trouble speaking.

 

 

"We are all your family here. My name is Smoke, and your name shall be Stark Rind. Your brothers Weise, and Rasant shall guide you. I'll also tell you about the greatest Maneator King, Konig Mitleid, and how he escaped these walls. You will be serving under him. All three of you will."

 

 

The red Maneator was pleased with his name, and was eager to hear about this great Maneator King. Weise and Rasant was also excited to hear about Konig Mitleid.

 

 

"But before anything else, do you want to join my personal army?"

 

 

"Uh... Yes! I follow master. Yes! I join you."

 

 

"It is an honor to have you join us."

 

 

 

 

Smoke noticed that even though he used the Dominus Custos Attribute Disc most of Stark's abilities were offensive.

 

 

With the DarkElf's third Maneator in tow, he ordered his men to head back to the exit.

 

 

This time Stark was placed beside Espion in front. Smoke wanted him to gain some battle experience as they headed back to the surface.

 

 

         

 

 

 

 

Smoke followed the Labyrinth Exit Map's direction and walked into the right tunnel. He had Igniz with him at the front to light their path.

 

 

Piles of bones were scattered in their way, as they traveled the inclined tunnel upward. A stifling air passed Smoke and his Cunning of the Dire Fox ability warned him that they were surrounded.

 

 

The skeletons started to move and joined together. Igniz immediately blasted away the enemies with his fireballs.

 

 

The skeletons turned out to be level 60 skeleton warriors with a maximum life of 40,000 HP.

 

 

Smoke and his party laughed at the monsters that blocked their escape. These Undead creatures were well below their levels and were even weak against Fire.

 

 

The DarkElf had Igniz, Rasant, and Stark deal with the monsters as he held on to two books from the Tenebris laboratory.

 

 

Espion and Weise stayed close to Smoke and protected him from the stray skeleton warriors that went past the three battle mongers.

 

 

The lengthy tunnel took them almost a day to reach the exit. When they were out of the tunnel they found that it was blocked by a wall of rootstock.

 

 

Smoke and his men had to hack through thick roots which Igniz had burnt. Once they stepped outside, the DarkElf understood why Sierra could never find the mausoleum.

 

 

The white mausoleum was now covered with trees. Even now, the mausoleums exit appeared to lead into a cave hidden inside the forest.

 

 

Smoke quickly called Sierra to tell her that they were finally out.

 

 

The DarkElf expected to hear a happy Sierra, but only heard her distressed voice. Sierra and the rest of his private army were being attacked from the north by Macher and his Knights, while a Brandal horde was coming from the south.

 

 

Smoke looked to his fellow survivors of the labyrinth. He thought that they would be tired from their ordeal inside the labyrinth, but their eyes were blazing with fire.

 

 

All of Smoke's men wanted to run straight towards the rest of their family members and rescue them.