Book 2. Chapter 15: Blood - Champion of Eternal Night

Book 2. Chapter 15: Blood - Champion of Eternal Night

Blood and her sister were now wrapped in chains, forced to watch the, admittedly charred, creature emerge from inside of the elfs corpse, molting it like an old skin and growing rapidly. Blood was surprised, when a somewhat familiar figure finished emerging: an arachne. She stumbled away from Bloodberri towards the back of the room, engulfed in dark energy. She had grown greatly in size from the small elf but was still not able to see eye to eye with her from her usual posture, or even where she is chained down toward the ground.

Blood felt that the connection to their Lord Jake had been disconnected, but his empowerment remained. She had only had the bond for a few hours, and already felt the loss harsher than she had imagined. Berri was nearly distraught, worrying. They had been so close to happiness, and this Champion now stood in her way. It surprised Blood when she received a notification. She was now only barely beginning to understand the Menus of the Framework, having been added along her sister hours ago.

Enemy Champion of the Goddess of Eternal Night detected. Defeat for reward.

She waved her club with her unbound right arm, testing her range of motion. Several chains wrapped around her tail and even wrapped around and threaded through each other. She thought to the final moments of when the rest of her party, her family now, was whisked away. They had shielded each other not knowing what attack was on its way, which is logical.

She is much sturdier than the rest of them, but Jake fought furiously to do his best to protect her and her sister, to give them an edge. She heard his thoughts and felt his emotions, and knew that he had proven that he cared for her and her sister.

This was the only reason why her right arm was mostly available, and even her left arm had some range of motion as well. Her left hand entered into the pouch Jake called a fanny pack, at her rear, and found that she could reach everything she needed to escape. Her dark magic was blocked, but her sisters magic was somewhat available, powered by the goddess as it was.

I cant believe I had to waste my goddesss energy healing myself instead of calling on her. Just how could you crush Alisara without hesitation like that? You entered this challenge knowing that I was an enemy?

Blood gave a vicious grin. So, this woman in front of her was barely anything more than an Arachne, her Champion, or goddess energy wasted. Bloodberri would kill frenzied arachne by the dozen in the Underworld.

Our Lord knew you were an enemy the moment you met; it was only the Framework that protected your life. I have a bone to pick with your goddess. She never returned my prayers.

And why would she? You are an abomination. Born of a Human Hero and a Dark Lamia, you shouldnt have been allowed to exist. It was only because it was foreseen that you would be an excellent tool that we allowed you to live. Now that you are not our tool, you must be destroyed.

Hmph. You cowards have no chance of defeating me or my Lord. That you would join the outsiders only proves your weakness. I will crush you, and I will rejoin him.

She snuck her left hand into the bag again, and she released the small machines, rolling them down the back of her tail. They latched onto the chains as she pretended to test her restraints to hide the sounds of them starting their work, and she grimaced. She could somewhat feel and imagine their disgustingly shaped legs, the shape of spiders as they walked on her tail. They immediately began their job of cutting through the chains, a sort of magical drill.

She had asked Jake to make the machines in a much more tasteful shape like a snake, and he laughed and said hed work on it someday, but she would just have to live with these for now. This was just one thing in the long list of tools he had provided for her to use, things to cover up her weaknesses, or otherwise protect her and her sister in case Jake couldnt.

She would normally be incensed at the idea that she needed protection, but if the outsiders used tools such as magic inhibiting chains to produce an outcome outside of expectations, how could she be against using one herself? The arachne once again spoke, Crush me? Did you forget that you were wrapped in chains? As strong as you are, that barbaric tool will not touch me.

The enemy champion began casting a spell, and magical spiders began swarming out of her in even greater quantities than before when they rushed out of Alisaras body. They went all over the place, up the walls and around the room, and even some on her own body. Many headed in Bloodberris direction on the floor and on the ceiling besides.

Berri filled their body with holy might, and she struck out with the mace at a chain holding her left arm and a good portion of her torso. It shattered and whipped away, and her left arm and torso were now mostly free. There were still nearly a dozen chains remaining, but the spider machines would eventually clear them away. She could not continuously use [Mace of Hestia] and would have to wait a bit of time to use it again, and the arachne likely knew that.

She would be content to talk up the foolish woman and buy more time, but she was in a hurry. She guessed that she was the only one who could no longer hear their Lord, her bond lacking, and she might be needed or there may be other reasons to arrive on time.

She gave the Champion of the Eternal Night a vicious smile and said, It will, but it doesnt need to. Blood retrieved a, well, for Jake, it would be a large sphere, the size of a bowling ball, whatever that was. For her, it was somewhat light and about the size of a softball, but for a human it would be even heavier than one of those bowling balls. The outside was somewhat elastic, but it was definitely a hard object. She looked over at the enemy Champion, who now had spiders crawling all over her torso, but not over her lower spider body. She remembered how these same spiders activated a sort of magical barrier on Alisara.

She sent to her sister in her mind, Sister, will you do the honors? Hit this bitch right in that ugly spider face.

[Id love to!]

The enemy champion just looked on with confusion. What was she doing with that sphere? Blood threw it up into the air, and Berri took on the stance she had done thousands of times, like she was at the baseball plate. She was restricted and not able to bring out her full power, but with such an easy to hit ball, how could she miss her target?

Her divine reinforced monstrous strength smashed their heavy giant club into the ball, and it was sent at the spider with a large crack, a sound that she and her sister absolutely loved. It moved so fast at the enemy that her expression barely had time to change from confusion to disbelief. The spiders on her torso activated a barrier, just as Blood had predicted. Instead, their ball smashed into the spiders head on the lower body spinning at a rapid pace, flinging blood and viscera in a wide arc. Their body flew back from the force, and she slammed into the cavern wall, sending rock and dust into the air.

Many of the spiders converged on the downed arachne, and others started constructing a web. Blood reached into the bag once again and retrieved some glass vials, dumping their acidic contents on a few of the remaining chains, two having finished being cut through, with two more now being cut through by the machines. Just a little bit more, and she would be free.Visit no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the best novel reading experience

The dust had cleared, and two beams of darkness struck her. Her [Armor of Faith], and Jakes enchantments both reduced the damage, but they still stung. The enemy champion was now being dragged by more and more spiders to the web, and she couldn't help but laugh. The spiders legs of her body were dangling limp, the spider brain necessary to move their lower body, like she had destroyed a lower spine of some kind.

You bitch! Ill make sure you suffer for this, abomination!

The enemy champion once again began casting some sort of spell, and she could feel that it was empowered by the god energy, but it was a shadow of what was previously released. Berri raised her own power, filling their body with their holy energy, storing as much of it that they could.

A powerful beam of energy was sent at them, and Berri swung at it like she was striking an impossible fastball, with the [Mace of Hestia]. Blood was sure Jake would complain that this made no sense at all if he were here, but that didnt stop what was happening. The evil energy was stopped by her holy energy, as she pushed her strength against the unstoppable beam.

The evil goddess-empowered beam eventually overcame their holy energy, but the beam that struck her was only twice as strong as the previous attacks that landed. Her skin burned, and some evil energy entered her body, but it was easily burned away by her [Purifying Flames].

You should have run to help another champion face my sisters instead of facing me. The moment you spent your goddess energy on healing yourself, you had already lost. Now, your body is broken and there is no escape. You are simply too weak.

Advanced Monstrous Strength

Level 3

Advanced Purifying Flames

Level 1

Advanced Holy Dark Priestess Magic

Level 2

Advanced Dark Magic

Level 1

Advanced Hearth Core

Level 3

Summoner's Bond

Level 4

Bloodberris Level 16 Spell List

Dark Holy Priestess Spells

Advanced Dark Siphon, Advanced Mace of Hestia, Advanced Armor of Faith, Divine Intervention

Dark Magic

Weakness, Absorb Strength, Life Drain

Bloodberris Level 16 Non-Combat Skill Sheet

Looting

Level 1

Tailoring

Level 3

Advanced Armor Crafting

Level 1

Misc Skills:

Mana Siphon, Twin-souled Twin-minded

Her Technique, Holy Dark Paampu Attam, had really made her come a long way in facing skilled enemies. She was a little unhappy she hadnt found a foe worth using it on besides her family in practice, but she knew it allowed her to bring about destructive blows while making her difficult to hit, and weakening her foes around her. When she and Fhesiah danced, Berri and her found themselves having quite a bit of fun.

Her Dark Magic had finally advanced, along with her mana control, working together with Lord Jake. He had been more than willing to purchase skill books, or books on magic, to help their advancement. She had stolen many magic books out from under the Matriarchs noses, and Berri plead ignorance on her behalf. Being self-taught, she was happy to learn with Jake helping guide her mana.

She kept speeding through the caverns, trying to find where the enemy Champions were. She entered an extremely large cavern, seeing the top being over a dozen stories high.

They would do what it took to find their Lord, and they would finally mate.