Congratulations You have been offered the Soul Skill Priestess of Arbor Would you like to accept Yes/No
Kiersty nodded and clicked yes The flimsy leaf wavered and then fell as if blow by wind and drifted towards her Reflexively she raised her hand and caught it The fire burned but she didn’t mind Instead she felt something Pulses coming from the tree
Suddenly she knew what to do
Nathan looked at her with a doubtful expression
Randidly moved quickly among the growing number of lava golems expertly smashing their cores and moving onto the next They were strong and basically invincible aside from their vulnerable cores but they weren’t that difficult to deal with
That is until they surrounded you and raised the temperature 150 degrees
So Randidly hurried around at first ripping them to pieces But that seemed to displease the large face and it began sending more at once
It was a number still within manageable limits but it made Randidly sweat literally But he controlled himself and continued to fight while seeming to struggle Only then would the face remain passive simply glaring at him
The time slowly ticked down and Randidly gradually allowed more and more lava golems onto the platform seeming to struggle
5 minutes
4 minutes
Every now and then there would spawn a larger golem still level 25 but one that clearly had better stats Still Randidly kept his mouth shut and swept through them knocking out their cores and crushing them
3 minutes
2 minutes
Randidly blinked The time Had increased
Narrowing his eyes Randidly spared the face a glance But it remained stoic and frowning Still he knew that it wasn’t a fluke Yet he said nothing continuing to kill golems
More and more began to flood upwards filling the stone slab but Randidly just upped his speed to match once more activating haste
A huge 8 meter tall golem pulled himself out of the lava bellowing its fury Randidly allowed himself a tight smile It seemed the big guy was starting to grow impatient Well fine if you wanted to be serious you should have just said so
Randidly had thus far just been using the bone spear as a weapon to deftly scoop out cores but now he lengthened his grip bringing the full 8 feet of Spine Spear to bear He began to sweep expertly back and forth smashing the golem cores with accurate blows
Hissing the large lava golem rushed forward and Randidly raised the spear directly over his head With all his strength he brought it smashing downwards splitting the lava golem in half and revealing a vulnerable golem core Lightning fast a Phantom Thrust flashed forward crushing the core to powder The golem collapsed and to his annoyance some lava splashed on his bare feet
Swearing he hopped up and down and then stamped his feet to get the melted rock off of him But as the stone cooled it simply grafted onto him and would not budge
The lava below the platform began to bubble and several more 8 meter golems heaved themselves upward More disturbingly an even larger scaled creature moved shifting the lava visibly as it swam closer
Randidly just pointed his spear at the giant face The 10 minutes is up Give me your blessing
All the golems stilled The face’s mouth moved soundless as its eyes narrowed
Ahem The time counter
Has been reset and you know it Honor the deal Again Randidly was sweating Because honestly if the giant face refused
If he survived this he was definitely warning everyone away from the apprentice path Whatever rewards he received were not worth this
But Randidly had a hunch From the way he had seen Nul behaved although he had free will with how he did things there were certain things that he couldn’t do And certain things he had to do
Ah right you are You have succeeded Now stand still and await my blessing
A golden sigil appeared in front of the face’s forehead and slowly began to drift downwards In the meantime the golems around Randidly slowly started moving again surging closer
Fuck this Randidly ran towards the edge of the slab Right as he was at the edge he activated Haste Empower Mana Strengthening and produced a Spearing Roots beneath him launching himself an extra 3 meters and then leaping forward towards the wall
The weird thing about Spearing Roots and Entangling Roots before it was that there didn’t need to be actual roots for it to work There just needed to be soil or stone So even though the roots instantly withered and caught fire they still came into being and gave Randidly a foothold not on molten rock
Burning through his mana he raced up the inside of the volcano moving so fast that the giant face couldn’t react Then he leapt up out of the volcano and dashed across the rim before throwing himself at the giant face
As he approached Randidly’s face was covered in a wild grin The face was stone too It took him 3 seconds total to climb out of the volcano dash across leap and then rush up the face leaving a trail of ash in his wake
It was only 3 seconds later as the face realized what was happening and his expression darkened with a frown that Randidly leapt again and caught hold of the golden sigil He instantly flickered out of existence teleported out of the strange volcano world
The face was still for a long time as the golem disintegrated and fell back into lava The stone slab fell deeper too
Still the face floated there its expression unreadable Then slowly the giant face smiled
Heh it chuckled and then it sank back into the volcano looking forward to the next time that individual would return to its realm
Chapter 70
Randidly reappeared back in his freshly dug hole smoking slightly at the edges He sorta thought that some of his hair was still on fire Molten rock still clung painfully to his toes Notifications popped up in front of him but he was distracted by a voice
Oh There you are Randidly Thank god I honestly feel better to find you were taking a break I thought you were a machine there for a minute
Cesar the man who was supposed to follow Randidly and connect his holes together grinned down at him He was a tall well muscled man with golden skin and blonde hair And from the alacrity with which he got to digging he knew he had a high stamina It was just nothing compared to Randidly
Honestly Cesar continued I’ve put all my points into Endurance to raise my stamina but it raises so slowly Makes me feel like it isn’t even worth it
Grunting Randidly raised himself out of the hole holding his shovel Try investing in Vitality instead It will increase your regeneration which will give you more staying power Because right now when you run out of stamina it takes a long time to regenerate right And then you can dig for longer which will increase your skill level lowering the stamina consumption further
Leaving Cesar to his thoughts Randidly moved forward to the next spot and dug And again And again And again
Within the hour he had once more left Cesar far behind and had time to view the notifications in front of him
Congratulations You have obtained the Blessing of the Patron of Ash Its energy swirls through your body slowly assimilating into you Remaining Assimilation time 10 000 minutes You have gained the skill Incinerating Bolt Lvl 1
Incinerating Bolt Shoot a highly concentrated high temperature bolt of lava Heat and size increase with Intelligence Focus and Skill level Range and Accuracy increase with Wisdom Control and Skill level
Congratulations For surviving the first test of the Patron of Ash you have gained 5 Lvl in Fire Resistance Your path leads you deeper into the flames and your Patron will not force you to proceed without protection These will be added onto any levels you already have This skill does not count against the skill total for your class You do obtain PP for these Levels as if you gained them normally
Congratulations You have completed the Apprentice Path You have come under the scrutiny of a greater power and emerged alive But the path is long and stretches every onwards +50 to Health Mana and Stamina +2 to all Stats The Path Initiate of Ash I 0/75 is available to you