HBWnovel #024 – I might have been traumatized a little
#024 – I might have been traumatized a little
#024 – I might have been traumatized a little
I stared at the blade in front of me in deep concentration, my expression set into a heavy frown.
Less fire, more lightning. Come on...
The blade burst into flames again as small sparks of electricity fizzled out of it.
I groaned.
“This is really hard, chat... Why is it so hard? It used to be so easy...”
GeorgeDoshington: thats what she said
JamieWasTaken3: gotta do a training montage
“Yeah, probably...” I said with a sigh.
It was actually quite disconcerting that something I had been able to easily do just an hour ago felt so difficult, if not impossible, now. It had been the same with Heat vision, but I felt it even more now, since I’d been relying on the lightning so much in fights.
Obviously, I’d always known that the system had to be messing with reality and my body somehow, but this felt uncomfortably close to the system screwing with my mind.
It brought up a whole slew of questions. Who made the system? Why? What was its purpose? Was the system merely a help tool and everything I did was possible without it, or was the system what enabled all this crazy nonsense?
Obviously, my guess for the first question was that the Fate Weaver had made it. But as for the rest of the questions... I had no idea.
Better not think about it too hard right now. It already felt like I was skirting too close to having an existential crisis. It was already hard enough to keep up my mood.
“Oh well... ” I pouted. “I guess I pivoted from my fire lightning build to a purely fire-based build. That’s probably not great with all the water based enemies around here...”
I still felt like it was possible for me to activate the damn sword, I just needed to learn how to do it.
Later.
I still needed to find more food.
I continued walking through the locker maze for about an hour as Ebi continued mapping it out. A few more of my regulars popped into the group chat in that time, so I didn’t feel as pressured by the troll duo.
I also encountered a couple more sentient puddles on my way and confirmed that yes, they were really annoying to deal with without lightning. Physical attacks didn’t really do anything and while fire did decent damage and made them smaller, the steam made for an unfortunate smoke screen for them.
Luckily, the small sparks from the sword I could still manage were sometimes enough to beat them.
I still had to chomp on a ton of life ooze with how much Ether I was using though.
Finally, after a whole hour of wandering, I found something.
“Chat... I don’t like this one bit,” I said as I eyed the small screen on the side of the lockers.
I was pretty sure that this wasn’t the same one I’d activated yesterday. I didn’t see any opened lockers around and while my memory for this kind of thing wasn’t the best, the layout around it seemed different.
But then again, I’d seen the layout change in front of my eyes and I wouldn’t put it past this stupid dungeon to want to try and confuse me.
KaiEbikoOfficial: yeah I don’t know about this
JamieWasTaken3: you have flameguard now tho
GeorgeDoshington: round two babyyyyy
bloopbooper: blooop! ヾ(。>