>>5747021From that darkness you hear a heavy-sounding footstep, followed by what sounds like a staff tapping the ground once. Then, from the darkness emerges a monstrous beast. Bones protrude from its head and back like antlers, the glowing red eyes all having grown from there. In its right hand the creature wields some sort of wooden staff, it as twisted and warped as the being's left arm. An elongated, pitch-black fur covered appendage with that monstrous hand at the end. The beast focuses on you, mouth opening wide as it roars in a deep, bassy tone.
“GRRRRROOOOOOOOOOORRRR!!”
“Guess you're the one I have to take down.” you mutter to yourself, but before you move the creature attacks. It pulls the staff in towards itself before thrusting it forward, unleashing a barrage of thousands of Abyssal energy projectiles. “SHI-!”
You don't have time to react, to move, the swarm slamming into you. You take hundreds of hits a second, each one of the dark orbs burning through chunks of your Energy Body before dissipating, then once they get through start slamming bodily into you as well. Smashing your armor to pieces, the Wolf Knight sword falling to the ground. But the stream pushes you back and away from where the sword falls, sending you flying back into what feels like a stone pillar before the stream finally relents.
“GRRRROOOOOAAAAAAARR!!” the monster roars, not immediately pursuing as you fall back down to the ground, landing on a knee.
“Dammit. This thing's tough.” you think to yourself, reaching out with telekinesis and grabbing your sword, pulling it out to your open right hand with a thought. The moment your hand touches the hilt the blade lights up with a faint azure light. “Alright, my turn!”
You explode up off the ground towards the beast, sword and hammer both ready, but the monster isn't interested in trading blows. Instead it simply repeats the same attack again, as you'd feared it would. And try your defense.
“BARRIER!” you cry, creating the shield that stops most energy-based attacks cold. However, for some reason these Dark projectiles cut straight through, passing through your Barrier as if it wasn't even there. “SHIT!”
In the split-second before the attacks hit you cross your weapons, using them to try and shield as much of your body as you can from the stream. But hundreds of the blasts still strike true, again sending you flying back and away. Slamming back-first into the same pillar, this time destroying the already weakened structure as you're sent tumbling across the ground. Rolling over and over until you get your feet underneath you, sliding to a stop standing upright once more.
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