MARVEL: GAMER PATH - CHAPTER 44 (Patreon)

With Fury working on finding out where Ulysses was and how I could get in contact with the man, I focused on other things, like leveling up doing dungeons and such, and also in advancing some of my other projects, like deciphering the super soldier serum, as I was now, my level in the art genetics was high, but not high enough to decode the formula from an amputated arm, but I was getting there, I just needed time, and eventually I would crack the code, a good part of being a gamer is that no skill is ever out of my reach.

As for my plan with Ulysses, well, I would steal from him, I knew the man had vibranium, according to my MCU knowledge, he had a dealing with a prince of Wakanda two years ago, meaning the bastard had vibranium, vibranium I would repossess, then after I had the Vibranium, well, I would see from there how to forge my armor.

As for where I was right now? Well, about to do a dungeon, I had found quite a few of my level and above on my never ending hunt of Hydra.

[The Forsaken LV 115-120

Enter = Yes/No] 

I was level 116, so I was there within the level zone.

“Time to level up,” I smiled, pressing the Yes button.

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Two hours in the dungeon, I had discovered monsters of my level were relatively easy to kill, the dungeon in question was filled to the brim with undead beasts that had magic at their unholy disposal, nonetheless, even without using magic, destroying them was a relatively easy task, and one I seemed to particularly excel at, though, as Gamer, one always know the difficulty of the dungeon is not on the trash mobs, in on the dungeon boss.

[Ro’Thur LV 120 - General of The Forsaken]

I had yet to test my might against him, but from the get go, he was four levels ahead of me, and looked positively terrifying, he towered over me in size, and his mana was so big it could be felt without being close to him, and to top it all, his entire being emanated a type of miasma that looked particularly dangerous, at times like this I wished I had a dungeon guide.

“So you have finally come!” Ro’Thur’s voice boomed around the cave he was in, grinning like a mad man at the sight of bloodshed. 

Questioning how he had felt my presence, I took a step out of the shadows, “Hello,” I waved at him, not used to dungeon creatures talking back to me.

“My king has demanded your head, human, and I shall deliver!” Ro’Thur declared, “For this is the last time to get in his way!” oh, so he’s like a literal game boss, an AI perhaps, with role playing settings, neat.

“Shut up, you big bulk of EXP!” I chuckled, trying to see his response, but instead of saying anything, the undead general glared at me, and with a loud battlecry charged at me. Fortunately I had already foreseen such an event, and had been in a defensive stance, which allowed me the time I needed to parry the undead’s first blow with a magic circle. 

“Your insolence ends today, mortal!” The Undead General roared, throwing a few punches my way that I dodged by jumping back.

“Well, if we must roleplay,” I grinned, pushing him back with my telekinesis, “Bow to your master, mongrel,” ah, this was my dnd wet dream, well, without the chance of dying.

“Such hubris!” The Undead hissed, blocking two of my attacks as I used, [Savagery], before attempting to counter with a shadow bolt, which was basically a mana bolt, with extra effects, it drained your mana for the same amount of damage it dealt on you, however as the shadow bolt was about to reach me, I opened a portal in front of me to the dungeon’s entrance, effectively nullifying his attack.

Smiling at the fact he was taking my attacks head on, I rushed at him, as I saw him exhale, fists tight to his waist. Seeing as he was taking me head on instead of using other tactics, I realized something, this would be the best opportunity to test [Savagery] to the fullest extent, a skill which made each hit stronger than the last. Opening a portal behind him, I jumped out delivering a horizontal kick that Undead blocked with a mana shield that shattered under the pressure. The unexpected mana shield threw me off balance for a second, and for the looks of it, the general intended to milk this opportunity.

Blasting me with a [Great Shadow Bolt], I was thrown against the wall, quite literally, as he advanced forward trying to deliver a [Shadow Strike] two attacks I hadn't seen in this dungeon so far until now, unlike [Shadow Bolt] which was a common spell on the dungeon, taking a deep breath, I looked at him, and using my telekinesis, I pushed myself into the air, throwing a few boulders at the Undead in the process, boulders he tried to dodge, but as he did so, I took the opening he himself had so gracefully given me dodging my attacks with a smile, a smiled that was followed by a barrage of powerful fists, stacking [Savagery] with each one, making each attack more devastating than the last. 

As things were, it was clear the Undead was quickly becoming overwhelmed by the sheer raw force of my attacks, and had begun to take great damage under the relentless onslaught of incoming blows.

"I should’ve done this with Bucky,” I said, pressing the Undead more and more, [Savagery] was truly a broken skill if you had the chance to use it.

“I won’t be defeated by a mere human!” The Undead general roared, pushing me back with a strange energy that came off him. Effectively breaking my chain of attacks, making me lose my x53 stacks of [Savagery]

“This must be the critical phase each boss in every single game has,” I whistled in appreciation.

“Come forth! Forsaken! Serve your King and aid this general to eliminate this human!” The Undead General roared once again, summoning an army of undead creatures.

No stacks, and the boss had summoned an army of monsters, it’s almost like he wants me to stack my way to a One Punch Man scenario.

“Come at me!” I waved at the Undead, rushing at them, attacking them, stacking my [Savagery], eventually killing each and every single one of them with a single punch, I felt like Saitama, but without the baldness, each hit, giving me a new stack, by the point I reached the Boss again it had been a few minutes, the boss had been, quiet, charging something, but it didn’t matter, for now I had over x300 stacks.

“You gave me enough time to---” he never got to finish his sentence, for my next punch exploded his entire being into a messy work of art.

“I gave you enough time to do what?” I asked, trying to be funny. I wonder why though, I am alone in a world only I can access, is there really a need to say funny one liners?