Mana: 12 -> 9Spell: Fireball8D6 = 28 (1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6)28 damage!

  A third Fireball rocked the kurabaras, flooding them with fmes which licked at their skins. The r fire had caused the kurabaras to stumble for a moment, but they tio charge at the group of adventurers, not realising that the adventurers were the source of the magics.

  Well, one of them was.

  Adam had wounded almost half of the kurabaras, aiming for the kurabaras which were on their way towards the middle of the line where the weaker members of the group were. It had cost him half his Mana, but it had whittled down their defences.

  ‘It’s all up to you now,’ Adam thought, gripping Wizard’s Axe tight in hand.

  Arrows and javelins fell from the sky to strike the kurabaras, but none had yet to fall, before they crashed against the line of adventurers.

  Battle Order D20 + 1 = 6 (5)

  Health: 65 -> 31

  The kurabaras swarmed the group, who stood side by side, shields up, ons out. They crashed against the front line, causing them to stumble backwards, and the creature’s teeth and cws came upon them like a storm.

  Adam grunted as he was forced back, taking a particurly harsh blow from one, only to find ariking at his thigh, and a third biting at his bicep. These kurabaras were mostly fresh, unwounded by his Fireballs, and they were the fiercest.

  Lud Jurot had both fallen into their rage as they were assaulted by their ow of kurabaras, their blood trig from their wounds as teeth and cw found purchase within their skin, which was more like iron than flesh.

  Kitool mao fall to the floor before a kurabara’s jaed the air noisily. They had braced for the blows, proteg the group behind them with their bodies.

  However, now the kurabaras were in their range.

  There was the crackle of lightning as Jaygak sliced a tail off, and though an arrow harmlessly cttered off the stone like back, a bde cut through the kurabara, fshing white hot as the creature’s neck was cut, and one fell before them dead, Jonn’s sword havi the decisive blow.

  Nobby fell into his e, allowing it to e him as he swung wildly with his axe, though it scraped off a kurabara’s stone shell.

  “Lady Arya, please protect us with yht,” Dunes ted, calling forth his divine magic, which filled the air. Bdes appeared, and a gentle glow and warmth covered most of the group. The bdes struck all the kurabaras within its range, pierg through with their divine light.

  Lucy swung wildly in her rage, almost cutting a kurabara in half. It cried out in paiting that it dared to bite the one who cimed to be the Demon Lord.

  Fighting Spirit: 3 -> 2Health: 31 -> 36

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, FnkingD20 + 8 = 15 (7)D20 + 8 = 20 (12)Hit!Mana: 12 -> 11Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 5 = 18 (2, 3)(4, 4)18 damage!

  Attack - Wizard’s Axe, FnkingD20 + 8 = 24 (16)D20 + 8 = 26 (18)Hit!Mana: 11 -> 10Ability: Divine Smite2D6 + 2D6 + 5 = 17 (1, 4)(2, 5)17 damage!

  Adam, ahat so many kurabaras had decided to attack him, gripped his axe tighter. ‘Do I smell good because I’m a Half Elf?’ he thought, before all thoughts dropped away from his mind.

  He focused under his Fighting Spirit, allowing it to guide his o through a kurabara, slig it like butter, his axe fshing white with the strength of his smite. As he dropped the kurabara which had almost bitten his neck, he turned his attention to ahough it shifted its body so that his axe bounced off of the shell of stone which covered most of its body from above.

  ‘I ’t die to these little shits! How embarrassing would that be?’ Adam inhaled deeply as the kurabaras made to try and strike him.

  Though the kurabaras had made to attace more, they had found that quite a rge number of them had fallen to their prey, which was not what they had wished for.

  Jurot snarled, pulling his axe out of a kurabara’s neck, before leaping towards another. Vonda had smmed her mace against one of her foes, and Fred assisted her in trying to keep it away from Nobby and Brittany.

  The creatures backed away, before they turo flee.

  Attack - Fme BoltD20 + 5 = 21 (16)Hit!2D6 = 8 (3, 5)8 damage!

  Adam called forth his magic, which coalesced around his hand, turning into fire. “Where do you think yoing?” Once he formed a fist made of fme, he puhrough the air, which shot the fming fist forward, striking a kurabara against is back. He could have cast Fireball, but he may need his Mana ter in the day, in case they were attacked again.

  Jurot chased a kurabara, and as a Fme Bolt struck it’s back, he tore through its hind leg, before his bde pierced through the creature’s side, causing it to drop. Even dead, the arrow aiming for its side cttered off of its stone.

  Attack - Fme BoltD20 + 5 = 13 (8)Miss!

  Adam cast another Fme Bolt, which was aimed towards a nearby kurabara which was attag the farmers, but it missed. The kurabaras soon broke, with many of them dead.

  Brittany sighed. Every arrow she had loosened had been harmless. Nobby frowoo, having been uo strike true with his axe.

  ‘I should make them magical ons too,’ Adam thought. Even just a basic on would have assisted them in some way. ‘Ah, there’s those magical ons we found iemple though…’

  Victory!KurabrasXP Gained: +500XP: 8295 -> 8795

  Adam, and the other Experts, had mao deal with the kurabaras with minimal issues. The Iron Rank parties had been heavily wounded, but after killing a few kurabaras betweehe creatures had fled.

  The Priests of the rge group began to heal their allies quickly, trying to get some of the weaker fallen members ba their feet.

  “We should make camp here,” Oliver said. “We’ll march harder tomorrow to make up for lost time, but lets butcher the kurabaras aheir meat tonight.”

  The others were all in accordance, as the stone shells which protected the kurabaras could be made into shields and armour, though the armour may be quite heavy. Jurot and Kitool assisted the butchering while the rest of the group began to make a camp, shovelling the earth aside and chopping wood to make a small outpost.

  “Hah,” the punk said, grinning wide towards the Half Elves. “You only mao kill five of them between yourself? Even we mao kill three.”

  “Well done,” Adam said. “I’m so gd that you mao kill three of them, but I’m fairly certain I weakened far more for you to kill.”

  The punk’s smile shifted as his brows furrowed into fusion. “What?”

  “I cast three Fireballs for the lot of you so I hope you killed at least a few of them, otherwise why did I waste my spells?” Adam asked.

  “You cast those Fireballs?” Oliver asked. “How?”

  “With magic.”

  “Yes. Aren’t you an Expert with a on?”

  “Yes.”

  “You’re an Expert with magic too?” Oliver asked. ‘No, if he cast three Fireballs, isn’t he slightly more powerful than an Expert? So is he a Guardian? Does that mean he’s a Master?’

  “Yes,” Adam replied. “I see you’re thinking deeply about it, but you probably shouldn’t. I have a special retionship with magid the Gods, and that’s it.”

  Oliver stared at Adam. He was a Half Elf, which had been a point against him, but hearing that Adam owerful Wizard, or a Priest, or perhaps a Guardian, had certainly garnered some respect for him.

  “Sorry I didn’t cast Fireball to assist yroup, but I assumed it would have beeo help the Iron Rank parties so they wouldn’t get killed right away from some kurabaras.” Adam chuckled.

  “Who would die to some kurabaras?” The punk growled.

  “Kurabaras are difficult foes,” Oliver stated, firmly. “Had he not cast his spells, you may not be able to pin to him about his assistance.”

  The punk shut his mouth and quickly stormed off.

  “Thank you,” Oliver said, nodding his head.

  “Any time.”

  “Though… are you sure you should be wasting your spells like this?” Oliver’s eyes passed over the rge tower which Adam had summoned.

  Adam shook his head. “From where I’m from, they would think this was more than perfectly acceptable. If you don’t wao cast this spell, you should speak to the rest of my party ahem know that you decided to take away from them their greatest joy.”

  Oliver stared at the tower. “May I take a bath ter?”

  “Yes,” Adam said, smiling. “Of course.”

  Oliver remaiaring at the tower. ‘Did he… did he cast four Third Gate spells? Is he secretly a Grandmaster?’

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