“Well, dam-ng, that’s handy.” Drew responded and seeing Rothschild beginning to wince he managed to say what he was going to say before offending the officer, “Ahh, sorry ma’am, I’m a little out of sorts with this whole…” He trailed off, his hand gesturing towards the metal door that denoted the entrance. He shrugged again and then continued, “Anyway, as I was saying, I left the watch floor and scavenged a few more things, made a cart that I could pull along, and a torch so I could actually see what was going on. Oh, and I killed about a dozen of the little spiders.” He snorted, “Well, little compared to the queen. They were about soccer ball sized. Anyway, I got to the stairs and I found a trail of blood leading down. I left the cart there and followed the trail, hoping I could find Rob or one of the security guards.”
He then described the fight with the spider queen and the strange furred creature, and how he ended up at their door.
“That’s amazing,” Sabin said, and Rothschild nodded her head in agreement. “We had a little food, same situation as you, just a snack bar, but we finished it off a while ago. We tried to go scavenge from the break room outside, but we got attacked by weird little green guys, goblins I guess, and the knight got destroyed. Mitch is the only one with any red xatherite, and they always came in larger numbers than he could handle.”
“I’m sorry, did you say the knight was destroyed?” Drew asked.
“Oh yeah, I’ve got mostly blue slots, so one of my intermediates was summon knight. It’s just a suit of armor that protects me, doesn’t even have weapons.” Sabin answered his question.
“Well, I think we need to wake up Windsor and Caballos and send a couple of you out to grab those supplies,” Rothschild said with a bit of a frown.
“We need to kill those spider eggs too. Don’t want to think about what would happen if they hatch. I should be able to do it quick, just need someone to watch my back while I set off the big guns,” Drew answered while standing up and wincing as more dried blood and ichor flaked off his body. “Also, it might be helpful to know what xatherite we’re working with here.” As he said that he realized that he hadn’t looked at the blue boxes that appeared after the fight with the spider queen. “How about you wake up the other two and we can talk strategy?” Both women outranked Drew, but that didn’t seem to bother them as they deferred to his experience on this.
Drew willed the waiting blue boxes to show their contents.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Minor Acid Dart has reached level 4. Damage has increased.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Minor Acid Dart has reached level 5. Damage has increased.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Major Mana Guard has reached level 1. Amount of damage absorbed has increased.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Major Refresh has reached level 1. Recharge time has been reduced.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Major Spark has reached level 1. Damage has increased.
Congratulations, citizen. Minor Dancing Blade has been attuned.
Congratulations, citizen. Fireball has been attuned.
Congratulations, citizen. Cone of Frost has been attuned.
Congratulations, citizen. Storm has been attuned.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Frostfire Ball” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Cone of Frostfire” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Firestorm” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Icestorm” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Frostfire Storm” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Minor Refreshing Rain” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Linked skilclass="underline" “Minor Bladeshield” has been obtained.
Congratulations, citizen. Your Minor Acid Dart xatherite is ready to upgrade.
Congratulations, citizen. You have found your first wild xatherite.
Rare grade Major Blink Step acquired.
“Holy shit,” Drew whispered under his breath. Before calling up the information on each of the new skills.
Linked Skill Name: Frostfire Ball
Xatherite Color(s): Red
Linked Skill Grade: Intermediate
Type: Magic
Effect: Convert mana into a high energy blast of frostfire that will travel in a straight line until exploding, causing major frostfire damage in a 1m radius around the blast.
Mana recharge time: 13.1 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Cone of Frostfire
Xatherite Color(s): Red
Linked Skill Grade: Intermediate
Type: Magic
Effect: Creates a cone of frostfire, which causes significant frostfire damage, originating from any part of your body. Has a chance to partially enclose the target in burning ice, slowing them down considerably. Cone will extend 4 meters and has an arc of pi/4.
Mana recharge time: 21 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Firestorm
Xatherite Color(s): Red
Linked Skill Grade: Intermediate
Type: Magic
Effect: Create a localized storm around a target. The storm will have a radius of 10m and will cause significant fire, wind, water, and lightning damage within its radius.
Mana recharge time: 1 minute 45 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Icestorm
Xatherite Color(s): Red
Linked Skill Grade: Intermediate
Type: Magic
Effect: Create a localized storm around a target. The storm will have a radius of 10m and will cause significant ice, wind, water, and lightning damage within its radius.
Mana recharge time: 1 minute 45 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Frostfire Storm
Xatherite Color(s): Red
Linked Skill Grade: Intermediate
Type: Magic
Effect: Create a localized storm around a target. The storm will have a radius of 10m and will cause significant frostfire, wind, water, and lightning damage within its radius.
Mana recharge time: 1 minute 45 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Minor Refreshing Rain
Xatherite Color(s): Red, Orange
Linked Skill Grade: Common
Type: Magic
Effect: Create a localized storm around a target. The storm will have a radius of 10m and will infuse mana into all creatures within its radius, reducing fatigue and lactic acid buildup.
Mana recharge time: 1 minute 45 seconds
Linked Skill Name: Minor Bladeshield
Xatherite Color(s): Red, Yellow
Linked Skill Grade: Common
Type: Magic
Effect: Creates a barrier of blades around the caster. This barrier will parry 3 melee attacks before disappearing.