Fanfic (Azarinth Healer)

Chapter 2 - Boss Fight

Whatever place that was spawning my prey was having trouble keeping up with me. I had to press further downwards to find more. I tried keeping track of the days with wall markings but I gave up after like 2 weeks. I started having conversations with the lings and the walkers to pass the time. A totally normal way to preserve my sanity.

It was only after what was probably three months of power leveling that I found something new. The labyrinth gave way to a massive chasm that cut through five levels of the dungeon. And at the bottom was a massive creature. It almost looked like a potato on elephant legs, a dozen slitted eyes, massive tentacles.

[Child of Ymloklosh - lvl ???]

Three question marks. That probably meant it was over level one hundred right? With the size of those tentacles, I don't think I could kite it. They probably stretched super far. I could maybe pull a trick and find a way to get it stuck in some terrain it can't fit past and snipe it from safety. That sounded plausible I'd just have to be careful.

Speaking of careful the hallways opened to bridges that crossed over the boss room. One wrong move and it might try and grab me if it can reach up here. It's important to mention the dripping from the stalactites or stalagmites whichever the ceiling ones were added some scary ambience. And one of those drops hit me and I shrieked.

The monster was alerted and as It reached up to murder me I lost focus on my orbiting void orbs which hit the bridge causing it to collapse. Fuck me and my incredibly destructive magic. I was falling, and teleported upwards. I was still falling I just had more time. Time that I spent watching as each bridge collided with the bridge beneath it bringing more and more stone down.

The last bridge broke and a metric fuck ton of stone fell onto the monster. It screeched and I got a notification

'You have heard the Child of Ymloklosh's Scream. You are paralyzed for ten seconds.'

Was that status message taunting me? What the hell. Ten seconds was more than long enough for me to hit the ground and die. Unfortunately while the monster was very not okay after being crushed it wasn't dead. It was also pissed and grabbed my limp body with a tendril. I guess it wanted to kill me personally rather than die from falling.

It's body was laced with the same void magic as the other creatures but this one hurt a whole lot more. The only reason I didn't die instantly was probably from the fact I had a moderately leveled resistance against that specific damage type.

I spammed my teleport until the paralysis wore off. With the hope that I might survive. The monster must have been weakened and distracted because it didn't finish me off before I teleported away. I went straight for the 5th story hallway entrance in three displacements.

I began meditating as I was down to twelve hit points and I had exposed muscle. I stopped to expend some mana to keep my healing up, and the thought occurred to me. Those stone ceiling spikes could probably finish off that hunk of monster if I aim right. So I shaped my void magic into a blade and lopped off a large spike and used displacement to aim it. The displacement cost me a shit ton of mana, but lowering my mana was half the point.

One giant stone spike slammed into the monster and it screamed again.

'You have heard the Child of Ymloklosh's Scream. You are paralyzed for six seconds.'

At least I wasn't falling to my death this time. Also the time was much shorter. After it ended I meditated then sent another stone spike down the hole.

'You have heard the Child of Ymloklosh's Scream. You are paralyzed for five seconds.'

I kept adding stone to the pile of rubble it was pinned down by. Other than the almost dying part, this might be the best leveling opportunity I'd get. The thing was very sturdy even mostly crushed and barely flailing around it was still alive. That much stone would probably kill any creature on earth from sheer weight, let alone the impacts.

I ran out of big point rocks and switched to spear shaped void projectiles disintegrating tiny holes in it's stoney prison to pierce its unnatural flesh. I was fully healed before it finally kicked the bucket.

I had ignored the occasional dings all fight and it seemed like I had a ton of notifications.

I sat down on the cold ground a wave of relief and awe passing over me. Classes could evolve? Holy crap those sounded cool. The stalker sounded like more of the slow grind and as cool as that was it was I did not want that to become my defining thing. The Priestess sounded hella cool except for the madness bit, that was a deal breaker. I was going crazy enough as it is. That left the sorceress. Like the priestess it was gendered which gave it brownie points over the 'stalker' also it talked about killing things way out of my weight class which sounded dope as fuck.

I accepted the Void Sorceress.

Holy shit class evolutions are awesome! My singularity is now a genuine black hole, teleportation got upgraded to portals, I got harder to kill and lighter. The lighter thing is kind of weird, like if I keep advancing will I become weightless? That sounds both fun and terrifying. All together my stats now look like

Wow compared to how I was before I'm now super strong. To think only a... time ago (I miss clocks) I had 50 hit points and now I have 600! Big numbers make my monkey brain happy.

I shifted focus downwards to examine the wreckage of a job well done. Instead two certain somethings caught my attention. My bosom, which now existed. Um did picking sorceress make me an actual sorceress in body too? So if class name's and descriptions can affect my body then like with the priestess option they could probably affect my mind too.

I checked the rest of me. My facial hair was gone, I had been using void magic to shave but like the stubble was gone. I checked between my legs and... well it wasn't gone but it wasn't quite the same either. I also had nice shapely hips. The weirdest thing about these absolutely euphoria inducing things is that it didn't feel too much different than how I was a few minutes ago. Had I been changing subtly this whole time and the evolution was just an acceleration of that? I needed to find a mirror.

Speaking of finding things, where ever there is a boss monster, loot is never too far away. Wanting to experiment I jumped back down the hole to test the weight thing. As expected I fell noticeably slower and with less force. It was too the point I didn't feel the need to teleport to safety I just hit the ground with a light thump. I guess falling is of little danger with how light and durable I was getting.

I had my void sight peeled for loot. With it I could actually see my body as well as I could with a mirror. I face palmed while I realized how thoughtless I'd been. As expected the changes affected my face shape as well, No one would look at me and think I'm anything other than a young woman. I did a little happy dance having forgotten about loot at the moment. I wasn't perfect but my body was amazing and only getting better. I just needed to choose all the feminine options from now on.

What was I doing again. A rock shifted revealing the eldritch things corpse. Oh right I was searching for loot. Teleportation combined with a way to see through walls was a little hax to be honest. The loot was behind a sealed doorway that had cracked open when the walkways fell.

Inside was a pile of gold with potato squids printed on the coins. I tried shoving it all in my dimensional storage and got 2 levels from shoving the wealth in there. Turns out its easier to fit in if I think of it as a pile rather than a bunch of sperate coins. Magical cognitive semantics is weird but effective.

I identified a few items. One was a ritual sacrifice dagger. Another was a fancy black robes that identified as:

[Void Priestess Robes - Divine Quality]

Divine quality meant really good right? I put them on and they were comfortable snazzy and probably had cool properties. The dagger went in my storage as I didn't use daggers like a filthy peasant. I did a little haughty laugh and my voice sounded beautiful.

Alright I could go further down and potentially run into things like the potato that could kill me if I got within touching distance. Or I can go see the sun by using my teleportation/portals and my see through walls hax.

I decided with all my loot secured to try and portal to the surface. I had a one mile range with my portal so let's see what is one mile up. Open sky apparently, oh and a lot lower air pressure. I got sucked through like an airplane that had a hole in it. I teleported downward as I had trouble breathing the thin air, and I fell slow enough I might pass out before I fell far enough to breath normally. A few rift hops and I was breathing normally as I slowly fell to the ground.

I was practically gliding on the winds with how light I was. If only I could move myself with void magic. Or better if I had wings.

In the distance I spotted a town, and so I opened a portal in the forest near it.