Chapter 547: Skittering Death
Chapter 547: Skittering Death
Dave ducked to the side; a transparent ripple had come his way from the impact that the two hammers had made. And thanks to his judgment, the dodge he made saved him a lot of pain. The ripple had touched a nearby boulder and turned it to dust immediately.
"Careful, every attack he makes has a follow up!" Dave gave an advice to the rest of the party that they took to heart.
Hammer hand's attacks became more and more erratic, it looked like it was struggling against the parasites that were currently inhabiting his body and forcefully making it do what the Flesh Starved Beast wishes to.
Hammer's hand struck at Ralph who instantly switched to an Iaido stance, eve using a long sword, the Tengu's teaching demanded that he needs to be in this form to use the follow-up skill.
"Fu Temple Legacy, first form! God Slaying!" Ralph chanted and dashed like a lightning bolt, dodging the blow from hammer hands and at the same time slashing a deep cut into the Calamity's thigh.
Pale blue blood gushed out from the creature's leg, but almost immediately, more parasites emerged from the cut and managed to staunch the blood flow.
Dave turned his head to the other calamity, when fighting a summoner class, always aim for the summoner and ignore his summons. But with a calamity as a supporting role, the main body was bound to be hard to kill. Not just because Hammer Hands was powerful, but because the controller of this battle was a calamity in itself with more than hundreds of millions of points in HP.
Dave would find it impossible to kill it before Hammer Hands turns back, even if forcefully to assist his controller.
Yet there was nothing else he could do, fighting against Hammer Hands was bound to only drag the battle for no reason. Making the Flesh Starved Beast forced to protect itself from Dave would put him on the defensive and make the dangerous Hammer Hand in more of a restraint position.
"Hold Hammer Hand for a while!" Dave called and drew Durandal.
And once again when Dave approached the Flesh Starved beast, the latter howled in fear and retreated, while at the same time giving Hammer Hands the order to ignore the rest of the party and come protect him.
"What the fuck is going on?" Perfect shot asked as he shot several binding arrows at Hammer Hands.
"I have no idea, maybe because Skelly had killed a calamity or two before that it's scared of him?" Flanker said.
"No, that's too farfetched, I mean the same should have applied to Hammer Hand if that was the case." Human Fortress rebuked Flanker's statement.
Dave dodged Hammer Hand's attack and swung Durandal at the Flesh Starved Beast. The Slobbering mound of flesh used one of its arms to easily block Durandal, even if the sword had managed to dig halfway through the arm, and if the monster was hurt, he didn't show it.
Dave cursed, his sword was stuck I the creature's flesh and he was in no position to defend itself if the Flesh Starved Beast was to directly attack him.
Yet the attack never came, the Flesh Starved Beast swung his arm away from the sword and managed to throw Dave off of him with little to no damage.
Hammer Hand came charging at Dave, but the draugr didn't let him get what he wanted, he used Ajax to absorb the incoming blows of Hammer Hand and ejected them against him immediately.
The monster, having eaten his own blows was sent tumbling like a barrel being thrown off a cliff. Erratically shaken and sprawling all over the place until he was stopped by a bunch of unfortunate trees.
Dave huffed, he looked at the Flesh Starved Beast and pointed Durandal at him, "Ama carve you up good, boy!" Dave said and before he could even attack, he noticed that a few parasites were on his sword. Definitely from the moment that he struck the Flesh Starved Beast before.
Dave was about to swing the sword to throw off the parasites but he noticed that the little worms were shaking in their place.
With two fingers he clamped at one of them, but it immediately withered and died. Following it an eerie howled came from the Flesh Starved beast as it turned and began its useless attempt at escaping.
"Oh, guess I figured it out, why this thing is that afraid of me," Dave said.
"Please do tell," Ralph said as he was preparing to intercept the now standing up hammer hands.
"Well, parasites, they tend to invade other bodies, and since this thing is a Flesh Starved Beast, I guess by flesh it means living flesh. Mine isn't living flesh, it's undead flesh. And when this little parasite was exposed to the undeath curse in my body, it immediately withered and died. I bet the same would happen to this guy if I have gotten too close."
The moment he finished his words, it was as if the beast had understood what Dave had said and it began crawling away at a faster rate. Yet, it never went beyond Dave's walking speed as he approached him with ease.
"Say now, you don't like undead ey?" Dave asked.
The creature turned its face away from Dave, but Dave didn't like that.
He got to his face, removed one of his armored gloves, revealing a skin against bone hand. He then unceremoniously, loudly, and perfectly slapped the beast in the face.
The blow was simple, not worth a hundred points of hp in damage, but when the flesh starved beast received it, it looked like his face was struck with a navy cannon.
Half of his face blew up in wretched black substance, dead tissue.
And the rest had maggots and parasites emerging out of it and then dying in the process.
-12,000,000
"Holy crap that's a lot of damage."
"I guess you never expected to see an undead when you first tired and attack my town," Dave said and slapped him again on the other side that began regenerating.
The blows continued as Dave slapped him more and more, and with every slap, the beast cried, and screamed but it couldn't retaliate. Dave was the embodiment of the ultimate predator of such a beast, and the calamity could only tremble as Dave struck it down, relentlessly.
Blow after blow, the creature cried and screeched in pain.
"I say, if someone were to come here and see this… they'd definitely think Skelly's the bad guy." Flanker said.
The rest of the party took his words and thought about them. From the looks of it, the calamity was a big fat fella that was being slapped around by a smaller undead being. Yeah, it really did look like Skelly is the bad guy.
Finally, the calamity's end came with Dave's last blow. And the moment the creature fell in front of Dave.
"That's one down," Dave said and turned to Hammer Hands, "Your time baby," Dave said.
Hammer Hands, having the Flesh Starved Beast die, the parasites inside it also died along with it and it was free. Now without the restraints that The Flesh Starved Beast had on it, it was going to go wild with rampage against the party.
"Ready up, it's gonna…" Yet Dave's words were cut short as Hammer Hand's head flew off of its body.
The corpse fell down and its head rolled until I fell right in front of Dave's face. It opened its mouth but the words won't come out…
"What the fu- AAAAAHH! ITS HERE!!!" Flanker's girlish scream caused everyone to look at where the priest was pointing.
Something was moving, it was half visible but it slowly approached Dave. The latter drew Durandal and Ajax and prepared for the third party that came to join the fray.
The head in front of Dave slowly rose until it was right in front of Dave's face. Then from behind the head, a purplish creature emerged,
"Kurukurukrurku!" Spoke the beast.
"Ah, well, I guess long time no see, KuruKuru." Dave grinned at the green name tagged predator in front of him.
Dave inspected the creature,
Kurukuru
Tier: Unique / Calamitions
Danger level: Friendly
Level: 550
Base damage : 200,000-300,000
HP: 150,000,000
DN: 1,500,000
MA: 1,550,000
Skills:
[Flesh Severing](Passive) KuruKuru's forelimb blades Have a 50% chance to cause [Dismemberment]
[Consume and Adapt] Consuming recently killed prey regenerates up to 100% of KuruKuru's HP. While the skill is active, KuruKuru enters a state of immunity, blocking all physical and magical damage for 10 seconds.
[Steel Exoskeleton] (Passive) has a 20% chance to completely nullify physical damage from melee weapons.
[Evolve and Overcome] (Passive) KuruKuru can learn and evolve from the different types of prey it consumes, gaining new abilities.
[Fast Predator] When hunting prey, KuruKuru gaines 300% base movement speed.
How KuruKuru came into this world is a mystery. At first, he was weak and small. The animals he encountered were too puny to fuel the rapid growth he craved. KuruKuru turned his guile and his predatory nature on the most dangerous creatures he could find, risking his life to satisfy his hunger. After each kill he feasted and changed, becoming stronger, faster but ultimately only hungrier.
Addendum:
Having Slain his mortal enemy Leonard The Pride Stalker, Kurukuru managed to evolve to its final form, and became a special type of calamitous beings- The ones that will only eat you if you cross them-. Yet, for having been spared, and aided by one of the world's beings, Kurukuru had vowed to come to his assistance. Evolving is the same as gaining a second chance at life. And for the Scythed Beast, it is bound to aid the one that had given him such an opportunity.
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Dave grinned, "I guess you became a Calamity yourself huh?"