Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 54 - Slaying the Creeper (Patreon)

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Alexia

I quickly find myself surprised when a bunch of the poison splashes on me and doesn’t do squat. Not a single effect. Nothing. At all.

Huh?

It takes me teleporting out of the way of some of the vines to realize why this is happening.

Right. Status effect immunity.

It includes poison.

So I’m completely immune to poison.

How I managed to forget that despite remembering earlier on in the dungeon I don’t know. Probably a heat of the battle thing.

The Cataclysm Class boss looks confused when I splash in the poison-filled water without so much as flinching. And I once again take advantage of its confusion to teleport straight to it before slicing through the damned beast’s head, cutting the human head off. Stopping the lightning once and for all.

There goes one head. And another isn’t a problem with my immunity.

Then with the ant head already dealt with, that leaves only the plant head left.

I teleport backwards when a bunch of vines try to skewer me. Only for more and more vines to break all out of the walls, ceiling, and floor, passing through the water towards me. Which leads to a dance of vines and teleportation, with me avoiding one vine after another after another. All while I send Quantum Bolts flying at the boss. Attacks that it blocks with more vines.

And when I switch to using Quantum Singularity Implosion, it actually begins to move. Jumping from one web to another.

But now that it’s water magic is gone, the thing slips on its own fleshy webbing. Webbing that is covered and soaked in water. Then it splashes in the water down below, giving me the chance to teleport up to it and slice at its plant head. Only for the head to open up in two segments, making my blade pass straight through its open mouth and out the other side before it closes its mouth again.

I teleport out of the way when a bunch of vines shoot out of its mouth at me, leading to me appearing on the other side of its plant head at which point I swipe my blade once more. But instead of just attacking the thing with my blade, I fire out two Quantum Bolts at the base of its head alongside the blade. And this time, the thing can’t open its mouth to avoid it, so it reaches out vines to block.

It doesn’t manage to block all three attacks though, leading to it only deflecting my blade with the vine being cut through in the process and deflecting one bolt. With the remaining Quantum Bolt glitching apart and destroying the connection point between its plant head and the body, sending the head flying off of the body.

Then all of the vines that were heading towards us just kinda flop down towards the ground, inert.

The spider’s last remaining undamaged head lets out a loud hiss while poison begins to fill the entire cavern in both gaseous and liquid form. But I ignore it all as I teleport right up to the spider’s head, completely ignoring the limbs the monster is trying to cut through and stomp on me with.

A faint smile stretches across my face at the pointless attacks being done by Cal.

It just keeps on struggling without doing anything, clearly not having any magic anymore other than its poison.

After a few seconds, I flip my polearm around before grabbing it with both hands and impaling the spider’s poisonous spider head straight down the middle. And just like that, the thing collapses to the ground, splashing the poison and water there in the process.

But… the poison and water filling the cavern to the point that it reaches all the way up to my waist doesn’t go away. Nor does the poisonous gas filling the air.

Which makes this place rather… unpleasant to be in.

The clacking sound of something hard falling and hitting a surface sounds through the fog, making me turn around to find a loot box in the boss’s cocoon.

[Level 850 Vicious Creep of Cataclysm Defeated – User’s earned EXP has been increased by a significant portion due to killing a being whose level is fifty or more levels above their own.]

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 750! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 751! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

I can’t help but wonder what sort of item a Cataclysm Class monster will give as a reward. Since I’ve never fought a Cataclysm Class monster in a dungeon before. So I’ve never gotten an item reward for killing one.

It better be worth the trouble.

Then again, at the very least I got quite a lot of EXP for it. Even if I don’t get a good item.

That was the highest level monster I’ve killed thus far after all.

I quickly teleport out of the poisonous water and into the cocoon. Both the go to the loot box and to simply get out of the disgusting poisonous water.

Because it’s not exactly pleasant to stand in.

But despite arriving at the cocoon, I glance down at the corpse to find it still lying in the poison. And after a brief pause, I go ahead and teleport back down there before placing the corpse into my storage ring. Since the thing isn’t disappearing.

Then I teleport back to the cocoon again.

Might as well see if there’s a use for this thing’s corpse. It’s probably the smallest Cataclysm Class monster I’ve fought so far, but also the most powerful despite that.

Anyways, time to see what this loot box has in store.