[[F15/SP]]The Peak of My Heart

[Zajcica 0]

Blurred vision came to Yuki as the smell of the misty morning woke her from sleep. Her eyes trained on the wooden ceiling she woke to every morning. Dull, every morning. There was a little hope still in her mind that she would wake up to a completely white ceiling under the brightest light in existence with hair down to her heels in a hospital gown or something. In any other context, waking up where she was now would be a dream. Here it would continue to be her waking nightmare. Years had passed by now and her life was passing her by in the real world. Nevertheless, life continued here - Today was grocery day.

After getting dressed, the paladin would find her way into the town and work through her list to feed herself for the coming days. Though, it was there that she would over hear some other players having an idle chat. "...-you said you were so close though! Why didn't you make it to the top?" The male would say, seeming genuinely upset with the girl he was speaking to. "The mobs were too powerful the higher you went. The climb was difficult enough, but adding in the enemies getting stronger with every milestone of elevation bled me of resources. I'll have to level more or bring a party next time."

"Take me with you next time, I'll protect you from all those enemies." The boy would say confidently, even flexing a bit with his boast. The girl would groan at that and begin to walk off. "I'm a higher level than you though, you wouldn't even make it halfway up Mt. Rabten." The boy would chase after her. "But I'm built like a tank!"

Yuki would sigh quietly, looking at her boring groceries and reminiscing on her times with NIGHT and Cro. Her feelings exploded inside her, dragging her consciousness into a bit of a daze. She'd been through this more than once in the last year or two and she died to jump back into the goal of clearing this game and returning home. Could she return so easily to the fray? Probably, but something ate at her. A groaning in her mind that she wouldn't be good enough. "Mt. Rabten... huh?" The blonde would open her information log for the landmark and before she knew it she was at the teleportation circle on floor 22 to floor 15.

Spoiler

Name: Zajcica, Paladin Reborn True Tier: 8

Level: 33

Paragon Level: 47

HP: 900/900

EN: 102/102

 

Stats:

Damage: 7

Mitigation: 209

Accuracy: 1

Battle Healing:

Loot Die: 5

Stealth Rating: -5

TAUNT FL.AURA: 16

HM: 4 BLD: 48

 

Equipped Gear:

Weapon/Armor/Trinket:

- Roaring Talon(T4/Polearm/Per) | Bleed II; ACC I

Armor/Trinket:

- Jack's Plate(T4/HA/Per) | Fl. Aura II; Taunt

Shield/Armor/Trinket:

- Rending Claw(T4/HA/Per) | Thorns II; HM I

 

Combat Mastery:

- Combat Mastery: Mitigation R3

 

Combat Shift:

-

 

Familiar Skill:

- Rending Familiar

 

Custom Skill:

-

 

Skills:

- Battle Healing R5

- Fighting Spirit

- Heavy Armor R5

- Howl

- Polearm R3

- Searching R5

 

Extra Skills:

- Concentration

- Leadership R1

- Survival

 

Inactive Extra Skills:

- Block R5

 

Addons:

- Focused Howl

- Iron Skin

- Rampart

 

Mods:

- Impetus

- Night Vision

 

Inactive Mods:

 

Battle Ready Inventory:

- Casseur de Logistille(T4/Sh./Per) | Thorns II; Fr. Thorns x

- Griffin Plate(T4/HA/Per) | Rec II; Fr. Aura x

- Mochi | LD III x

 

Housing Buffs:

- Basic Kitchen: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot. This can exceed normal Cook enhancement caps. Ex: A perfect T2 MIT food gives 35 MIT instead of 30.

- Storage Closet: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot

- Living Room: Increases out of combatHP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.

- Attic (Storage): +5% bonus col from monster kills and treasure chests

- Basement: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll

- Guest Room: Players can have one «Amenity» in a «Guest Room» and the «Amenity» cannot be recovered. Players are allowed to change which «Amenity» is in the «Guest Room». Multiple instances of the same «Amenity» do not stack. This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.

- Master Bedroom: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat

- Master Bathroom: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)

- Extended Workshop: +2 Crafting EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day

- Dining Hall: Turn 3 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Feast. A Feast contains 6 portions of the food items sacrificed. Feasts created this way cannot be used outside of the thread they are created. Limit 1 item created per thread.

- Mega Slime Farm: +10% EXP to a thread. Limit one use per month. Must be used on a player's first post in a thread. Cooldown begins counting down when used in a post.

 

Guild Hall Buffs:

- Meeting Room: If guild members held a completed Boss Meeting thread, participants receive +1 ACC for the first two turns in combat against a Floor, Event, or Field Boss. Limit one use per thread.

- Training Room: Lowest-leveled guild member receives +10% bonus EXP at the end of the thread. At least half of the thread's participants must be guild members. Limit one use per month, per character.

- Dueling Arena: +3 to initiative. Limit one use per thread.

- Trading Hall: Reduce LD needed for Salvage by 5 (10+ for Alchemist crystals, 6+ for everything else). +2 EXP per craft. Rank 9 crafters and Rank 4 merchants/performers receive +1 crafting/identification attempt per day. Rank 10 crafters and Rank 5 merchants/performers receive +2 crafting/identification attempts per day.

- Treasury: +5% bonus col from last-hit monster kills and +10% bonus col from treasure chests.

 

Scents of the Wild Totem:

- Tanos

Wedding Ring:

 

Crafting Profession:

- Cooking[exp] R1

Gathering Profession:

Zajcica | HP: 900/900 | EN: 102/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Edited August 20 by Zajcica
My stats were incorrect, had to redo them

[Zajcica 0]

The walk to mountain’s base was just as arduous as the task of climbing it, probably. The slope started very far from the safe zone and had many hurdles in between of climbing small cliffs, weaving through tunnels and crevices and sliding down slopes. The struggle a normal player might have trying to just reach the mountain was one she could understand, the battling and resource rationing was not something could empathize with. Front-liners were strong but Yuki needn’t even lift a finger to send enemies back to their coding over-realm.

Shifting metal clanked as the Paladin stepped to the slope starting the ascent of Mt. Rabten. She looked directly up to gauge the upcoming hardship she was about to face. Despite her nigh impervious build to most things in Aincrad, she still felt the weariness of climbing and walking. A real challenge for the first time in years.

With a soft sigh the golden paladin she began to start walking up the path. 

[Zajcica 0]

The path was narrow, carved into the side of the mountain with little wiggle room to avoid the mobs that inhabited the area. If the journey to the mountain didn’t put someone out of their element, the climb up it was more than a test of endurance: It was a battle of attrition. Mobs clawed down the mountain, merely walking into their doom from the blonde front-liner’s invincibility. They would freeze, melt and explode into data upon approaching her.

”So even at the edge of the zone, enemies here cannot even touch me.” She comments as she continues to walk through them. A sigh escapes her lips. “I hope the climb proves a real challenge then. Something to reignite that fire in my heart.”

Each step brought her closer to the peak and closer to fulfillment. It didn’t need to be a metaphor for her, just a real accomplishment.

[Zajcica 0]

In about 3 hours she would see the one-third mark of the mountain, or what she could assume was the one-third mark with a simple glance looking up. The afternoon was starting to roll in by this point and soon will be followed by the evening. It was clear that she would either be climbing in the night, or stop for a rest at least. Knowing this, she would go ahead and take her first break of the day.

The paladin would squat down and rest her back against the mountain’s cliffside.  She would open her menu and scroll down the friends list to jog up some memories of the friends she’d made in her journey to the frontlines. Mari, Night, Cro, Raidou, Hidden(debatable) and a list of several newbies who may or may not have quit before they even got that far… something of an analogy for climbing this mountain maybe? She really had no reason for wanting to climb the mountain other than the challenge it posed her. An objective in her mind dared to question her capabilities and here she was now…

After about 10 minutes, the blonde was back on her feet and walking again.

[Zajcica 0]

A couple more hours passed and Yuki quickly realized that the first third of the mountain was not to scale with the time it would take to make it to the top. Three more hours would pass and she hadn’t even made it halfway. The mobs were denser from the small compressed area and lack of players to remove them. Thankfully, she was one woman army when it came to trash mobs. They were getting noticeably tougher but still unable to leave the paladin with a single scratch. She would punch a few out of her way when they got especially dense but in no way did she feel threatened yet.

The temperature was beginning to drop as the paladin approached the midway point of the mountain. The evening was starting to roll in now. The sun turning orange as it hit the horizon. Yuki would stop for a moment to bask in the view before taking a screenshot and opening her messages to send to Night and Crozeph.

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@NIGHT @Crozeph

>halfway up the tallest mountain in Aincrad. Going for the top. See you guys when I’m done.

If they didn’t respond, she didn’t mind. This was all for her after all. She just didn’t want her friends to worry about her disappearing again. If she didn’t come back for one reason or another, at least they would know what she was doing before the end.

[Zajcica 0]

That didn’t mean that she was ready to end it or anything but anything could happen. A boss with plenty of damage over time or phase could put her down for good. Or even one good slip could send her tumbling to her death. Little did she know she was going to get a little to close that reality than she could have realized.

The mountain began to rumble as the dark of night crawled over the sky. Yuki stuck close to the wall of the cliff. “An earthquake?!” She panicked a little as she dug in but an earthquake it was not. The trembling got worse with each passing second and Yuki began to realize that it was not an earthquake she was dealing with, it was a monster of size she had never seen. Did it live at the summit of the mountain?

She was sent to her ass as it flew past her turning around having noticed her from the clanging of her metal armor. With a screech, it breathed a ball of fire and destroyed the cliff she was on. The paladin was now falling off the side of the mountain!

[Zajcica 0]

Wind blasted through her hair as the monster took wing to the peak. The paladin summoned her spear and jammed it into the mountain. It scrapped and screamed with each foot it carved into the earth. Yuki hung there suspended as she caught her breath. For a moment, she glimpsed down at the impending doom before her. It was only then that she’d noticed the chunk that monster had put in her health bar. It didn’t stay down very long but her heart was pounding!

Pulling herself up to perch on her lance, Yuki would grab hold of a carving in the mountain face and climb back up to her original footing. She opened her menu and retreated her spear and took a deep breath. “Bastard.” She’ll scoff and rise to her feet. “A monster at the peak of the mountain? Guess I should have expected that.” She pondered whether she could actually take it on herself as she shimmied her way over the rubble and continued her journey.

[Zajcica 0]

Soon, the night would become sheer darkness. Yuki’s skill in Searching and Night Vision made it easier to see but she didn’t want to risk stepping off the cliff so this is where she would stop for the rest of the night. The mobs had started to thin out the closer she got to the top of the mountain, probably because of the angry bird that just tried to murder her. That meant she wouldn’t have to worry about any ambushes.

Soon she would drift to sleep with no incident and the morning would come. It was freezing in the morning, as she had expected. The closer to the peak she climbed colder it was going to get so she made sure to bring a nice big coat along. The weather wasn’t going to stop her nor a giant boss monster at the summit. She summoned the coat, pulled it over her golden form and continued her climb.

[Zajcica 0]

She would spend the morning just reaching the three-fourths mark of the mountain. It had been rather calm since her first meeting with the beast and the view was distracting her. The clouds were below her at this point and the only things she could see was the sky and the mountain peaks tearing the clouds asunder. At this point she was above all the other mountain peaks as well.

Her attention would be drawn to her inbox. NIGHT had responded to her message.

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> NIGHT: yuki?!
> NIGHT: where are u
> NIGHT: where is this
> NIGHT: r u okay
> NIGHT: im coming to find u
 

Zajcica: No worries, I’m fine. 
Zajcica: I’m climbing Mt. Rabten on floor 15.
Zajcica: I’ll make you some killer steak when I get back.

> NIGHT: do u need help
> NIGHT: r u safe
> - 1min? delay -
> NIGHT: have u told cro?

Zajcica: I didn’t tell anyone.
Zajcica: did it on a whim
Zajcica: …
Zajcica: the mobs here are weak, I almost fell off a cliff from a boss monster but I’m fine.
Zajcica: I’m gonna reach the peak and take it down

> NIGHT: u have a teleport crystal right?
> NIGHT: please come back safe
> NIGHT: if u dont tho im coming to find u u cant stop me

Zajcica: I’ll be at the top before you make it to me, not an easy climb.
Zajcica: yes i can teleport away if things get hectic and I will.
Zajcica: i need that spark again, something of thrill to bring me back. No ones made it to the top yet. I’ll be the first

> NIGHT: WHAT
> [ more delay ]
> NIGHT: okay
> NIGHT: i trust you. stay safe
> NIGHT: i'm holding u to that steak when u get back <3

( @NIGHT for messages)

It felt good to know that people were worrying about her. She was still wanted no matter how long she left them without an update. Especially since she’d become much more reclusively lately. A well of energy overflowed in her and she took off in a sprint to the finish.

The peak was within reach and thankfully it was much easier than the middle section of the mountain. Metal clanked together as she took her final steps to the very tip of Mt. Rabten at the end of the clearing before her. A smile painted her face as she bolted for the tippity-top. The rumbling stopped her in her tracks, though…

Edited August 20 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Without much incident, but with an exhausting climb, Yuki had reached what was basically the peak save a few meters. At this point, it was a matter of pride. Pride that the denizen of the summit would not allow her to share with it. It’s massive form wizzed from the side of the mountain and slammed its claws into the stone and dirt. Yuki and the peak were now separated from each other by one single boss.

”I did not spend days climbing this mountain to be stopped by the likes of you!” The paladin would scream. She remembers when they met at the lower edge of the mountain, the chunk of health it had taken from her. She quickly equipped her strongest armor and prepared for a fight as lightning, fire and ice rained from the sky with the cries of the phoenix before her. “Come and meet your end!”

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-Yuki sends NIGHT the attached photo-

zajcica: im gonna kill it

> NIGHT: yuki
> NIGHT: what the **fuck** is that
> NIGHT: are u sure u dont need my help??????????
 

zajcica: nope im not sure

> NIGHT: ????????
> NIGHT: where r u
> NIGHT: i can come over
> [ delay ]
> NIGHT: yuki
> [ delay ]
> NIGHT: yuki?????

Aethon 1000/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 

Spoiler

 

Elemental Phases: Aethon makes use of three different magical elements, it’s attacks change depending on what element it hits with.

CD: 1-4 (Pyro-Ruination) Aethon attacks with breath of fire that leave its target’s scorched. Attacks leave the target burned(50 damage) for three turns.

CD: 5-8 (Cryo-pocolypse) Ice spears the target for normal damage and coats the ground reducing the target’s EVA by 2 until it chooses a different element.

CD: 9-12 (Levin Hurricane) Lightning tears from Aethon’s body and destroy’s anything dumb enough to oppose the sheer destruction. Attacks gain (+25%) phase for each consecutive Levin Hurricane that hits the target. (Resets to 0 if the attack misses or a different phase activates)

 

 

Edited August 20 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

With a roar loud enough to shatter glass and make ears bleed, the massive bird-like monster swooped in to Yuki. The tank, ever the chip on her shoulder, didn’t even try to dodge its freezing beak. It felt like an icicle being jammed through her core but the fire in her heart made that pain melt away. She hadn’t felt a thrill like this in a while.

Upon attempting her rebuttal, Yuki was flung to the ground, sliding against the now-sleet-covered ground she once stood on. When she rose to her feet, she watched Aethon circle her as if she was prey to be consumed. Yuki chuckled with a grin as she compared the small dent in her HP and the small dent in it’s.

It was the same as usual, but different in a way. The sheer sight of the monster had riled her spirits in a way she hadn’t felt in what seemed like years. “As long as I stand on the battle field, victory is assured! Come on, I know you’ve got some phase or damage over time abilities in there somewhere! Make me work for it!”

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Zajcica | HP: 899/900 | EN: 102/102 | DMG: 7 +4 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 912/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 

Spoiler

227191 | BD: 2 = Miss!

227192 | MD: 8 = Hit! (Cryo-pocolypse activated!) -2 EVA

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Yuki ushering her challenge made Aethon erupt in another roar. Ice rained from the sky, pelting the paladin like hail from a storm but the fiery aura of brilliance melted most oof anything that tried to find its way through. She let out a hearty laugh in response. “Ice is no different than my spear: It’s is not your strong point. Why don’t you keep your day job if that’s all you’re capable of.”

To prove her point, she leaped from her spot and slipped on the ice as she went to make her attack. Metal clanked against the ice on the ground and scrapped it up as she slid over it comically. “As I said, which of us is losing health? You’d better think of something quick with that stupid bird brain of yours!”

The bird would rear back momentarily in response and reach it’s claws out to pick up the paladin, suffering from her thorny riposte. Yuki struggled in the thing’s grasp as it took her on a journey.

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Zajcica | HP: 899/900 | EN: 102/102 | DMG: 7  +8| MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 824/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 

Spoiler

228696 - BD 4 | Miss! +8 HM

228697 - MD 9 | Hit!

CD - 8 Cryo-pocolypse perpetuates!

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Yuki in its claw, Aethon flew haphazardly over the edge of the mountain. The paladin struggled to get her weapon into the body of the creature before it plucked her down to the depths of the ocean level ground kilometers below her. Unfortunately she could not get it in time. She soared, wind whistling through her ears as she plummeted.

She would quickly free-fall to the side of the mountain and jam her spear into the mountain side. A deep breath escaped her lips, a sigh of relief in a short moment of reprieve. Aethon, wising up to her tricks would follow her up, launching a fireball from its beak-like maw. Just as she put her feet on the spear to stand, the fire was closing in. So she did the craziest thing possible: She jumped. Launching herself at the beast, she resummoned her spear and jammed it into Aethon’s eye. It roared in suffering as it flew back to the top of the mountain with the tank in tow, violently winding its head to throw her off.

She would crash against the ground as lightning struck from the sky, lighting her up and making her actually take some substantial damage. The paladin wheezed and begged for her breath to return. Her adrenaline rush was at maximum, she felt invincible.

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Zajcica | HP: 857/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 658/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | BLEEDING 48(2/2)

Spoiler

228698 - BD 8 | Hit! Bleed applied! Minor crit! (1+88)x2 = 188 Damage!

228699 - MD 9 | Hit!

Levin Hurricane applied! +25% phase

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

The lull of the battle was beginning to set in. The paladin would struggle to her feet, watching her health bar slowly return to full and seeing the mob’s sitting at just a bit over half. Historically this is probably the best her damage per second has ever been without Night and Cro backing her up.

Aethon was not pleased with this outcome. It struggled itself to see thanks to the rather large toothpick stuck into its eyeball. When the thing’s vision refocused and set on the paladin, it roared in defiance once again unleashing a giant icicle at her. Yuki raised her spear at the ice. Upon making contact, it split in half at the point. Shards of ice splintered into the paladin’s face. The wounds closed almost immediately. “Your tricks are getting stale!”

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Zajcica | HP: 857/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 610/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | BLEEDING 48(1/2)

Spoiler

228700 - BD 1 | Critical Miss!

228701 - MD 10 | Critical Hit!

Aethon unleashes Cryo-pocolypse and takes 48 Bleed damage.

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

The beast followed its ice attack up rather quickly, once again charging her down and clawing her form with talons as big as her. The vice grip that claimed her last time was not so successful the second time, however. The paladin dodged the clutch of the razors, only taking a scrape, and jammed her spear into the wing of the bird. Holding on for dear life, she climbed up to the top side and began traversing its back.

A couple more spears at its tough skin ran through, leaving a sizable mark in Aethon’s health bar thanks to the combination of her attack landing and the thorns that burned at its very being. The beast then began to flail wildly in an attempt to send her flying but no avail. Yuki had learned from her previous two mistakes and wasn’t going to be so easy to shake off this time.

The paladin grinned. “Act quickly now! Phase 2? Some sort of heal? Anything!”

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Zajcica | HP: 899/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 408/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | BLEEDING 48(0/2)

Spoiler

228702 - BD 6 | Hit! 88x2 damage!

228703 - Hit! 
Cryo-Pocolypse perpetuates!

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Taking a ride on the creature’s back made the paladin feel like a dragon slaying heroine. A lancer stood atop the world of man, soaring higher than anyone could ever dream whilst sending beasts to their doom upon re-entry to the surface. She held tightly with her spear dug into the creatures back as it effortlessly attempted to send her to her own doom.

The view from the back of Aethon was one to be envied. So the paladin took this moment of quiet in the battle to take a screenshot for her collection. It wasn’t like she had really felt that threatened by the boss she struggled with up to this point, what was the harm in taking a moment to herself?

That was about when Aethon had decided it had had enough with the golden blazing sun on its back. The wind grew faster as it sped up and Yuki held on as tightly as possibly in an effort to not be flung off.

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Zajcica | HP: 899/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 408/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1

Spoiler

228704 - BD 1 | Miss!

228705 - MD 1 | Miss!

CD - 7 | Cryo-pocolyse perpetuates!

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

The two struggled for control once again. Yuki was doing everything that she could to get closer to the thing’s head to take out its other eye but the wind was too fast and it was moving way to sporadic for her to find the proper leverage. The last ditch maneuver that Aethon had was to fly upside down momentarily to get her to fall from the wind. It did not expect her to wrestle her spear deep into its wing, pinning the feathered flapper to the bird’s core. Unable to keep its trajectory straight, the both of them plummeted to the mountain top where Yuki would not only suffer the falling damage from that height, but also be crushed by the weight of the massive avian.

After crawling out of the mound of feathers, she would yank her spear free. “Won’t… be flying much now… will ya’?!” The Paladin taunted Aethon despite barely being able to stand. The fight was starting to come to a close now and Yuki did not intend on losing. In fact, she had no doubt in her mind that victory would be hers. It was her mind set.

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Zajcica | HP: 557/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 332/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1

Spoiler

228706 - BD 6 | Hit! 88x2 damage

228707 - MD 10 | Critical Hit!

CD - 12 Levin Hurricane activated! +25% phase

Bonus falling damage to Zajcica +300

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Lightning was beginning to swirl heavily around the battlefield, a fitting finale of destruction as the two neared the end of their bout. Yuki would see the last foot of this mountain no matter what it took, so she readied her spear for the upcoming attack. Aethon, pissed off enough as it was resorted to the rage induced reckless attacks with the razor sharp talons that once scraped her. Only this time it was much less of a scrape. The beat had managed to get a good hit in on her thanks to that lightning ability that it was using.

She attempted a follow-up attack to finish it off but it was quicker than she’d imagined for how injured it was. Her spear hit nothing but air. With her health getting dangerously close to 50% she weighed her options. She promised NIGHT that if it got hectic, she would teleport out. The way it was going now though, she was sure it would die to her thorns before it could kill her. So she took her time, waiting for a good opening to get a hit in.

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Zajcica | HP: 507/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5

Aethon 248/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1

Spoiler

228708 - BD 5 | Miss! (Was supposed to be Raw-A vs Aethon. Small typo.

228709 - MD 3 | Hit!

CD - 11 | Levin Hurricane perpetuates! +50% Phase

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

[Zajcica 0]

Just as she was about to feint and riposte and attack to finish out this fight, Aethon decided to bring out its final trump card: Fire. Its maw lit ablaze and soaked the paladin with pyro glaze. She’d thankfully gotten close enough for her thorns to have proced and dealt it’s damage but she would quickly notice the burn debuff she was now suffering. If it got good hits in from here on, she could be a goner.

Stress collided with adrenaline in that moment. The two of them were mere turns from dying should the odds favor one more than the other. She kept the teleportation crystal in mind from her on out because there was a good chance that she would actually need it.

If she could land just one more good clean hit, their battle would be decided. She needed to get in and finish it!

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Zajcica | HP: 556/900 | EN: 92/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5 | Burn 50(3/3)

Aethon 160/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1

Spoiler

228710 BD - 5 | Miss!

228711 MD - 3 | Hit!

CD - 3 Pyro-Ruination applied!

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica

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Yuki weaved through its attacks one more time, almost too gracefully making herself difficult to target. In retrospect, just letting herself get hit was the safest option to apply her thorns. However, when she launched off the ground and rammed her spear into Aethon’s remaining eye she was ecstatic to see that bleed proc that she was hopping for. Aethon’s death was now determined.

The Paladin ground her weapon through its eye and landed back on her feet. Aethon squealed in pain with vision in black and began thrashing around maniacally, hoping to at least finish off Yuki. The blonde returned her spear to hammer space and simply walked through the feathers towards the remaining few meters of the climb. If the boss smashed her, it would simply die from her thorns anyway. If not, the bleed would finish it off completely soon.

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Zajcica | HP: 556/900 | EN: 82/102 | DMG: 7 | MIT:209 | ACC:1 | TAUNT | F-SPIRIT | FL.AURA: 16 | THORNS:72 | BH:50 | HM: 4 | BLD: 48 | LD:5 | Burn 50(3/3)

Aethon 94/1000 HP | 200 DMG | 100 MIT | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | Bleeding 48(2/2)

Spoiler

228712 BD - 8 | Hit! 88x2 damage + Bleed Applied!

228713 MD - 3 | Miss!

CD - 1 Pyro-Ruination missed!

 

Edited August 28 by Zajcica