Chapter 82: Siege P. 2 – Going Nuclear
<span style="font-weight:400">Another blink of the eye passed for Drake, he was then abruptly woken again. The itch of being hit by Jacqueline’s cudgel forced him to rub the side of his arm. But what irritated him more was the sound of banging against wood, and the feeling of many monsters around the wall.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Did I oversleep or something? Why are they so close already?” Drake asked, looking upward at the dark sky, ncing at his status as he did so.
<span style="font-weight:400">His mana was still low but not overly so, sitting at about half, but it was still not enough for a spell to wipe out the remaining Goblin Horde at their gate. At least not normally.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It was bloody hard to wake you up! Sleep less like a thick rock won’t ya?” Jacquelineined, as she ran to the other side towards Hudson, Theodore and Tom.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake looked for a moment, noticing the build up of the sentry guns on the wall, bringing a grin to his face.
<em><span style="font-weight:400">Kinda cool how sci-fi fantasy that is.. We definitely need more of those, like a lot more.</em><span style="font-weight:400"> Drake thought.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">You have quite bigger problems to deal with currently than you gushing over your nerdy passions,”</em><span style="font-weight:400"> Natto interjected.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake coughed, but turned to the gate. The loud banging continued as the Goblins rammed the gate withrge pieces of timber. The Lieutenants covering the ones holding the ram with theirrge tower shields.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, that does seem to be a problem…”
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake looked over to the guard tower, d to see that Harley and Chelsea were doing fine, and still bombarding the Goblins below where they could.
<span style="font-weight:400">Unfortunately it did not seem that the peppering of gunfire or their imbued arrows could prate the Lieutenants’ Shields right now.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh is it time to be the hero? I like where this is going…” Drake smiled behind his mask.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">Oh lord, please no…</em><span style="font-weight:400">” Natto sighed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You know, I’d like to tell you about a story,” Drake started, his brows shimmying up and down.
<em><span style="font-weight:400">“Please do not.”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">“This man trained all his life to be strong.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">Please I do not care! Make it stop!”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake smiled widely behind his mask.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But this man could not ovee a nuclear bomb! So there was only one option!” Drake shouted, spreading his arms.
<span style="font-weight:400">“ire! Are you ready for your first taste of vengeance!” Drake yelled his head turning to look over his shoulder, the woman scampering up next to him.
<span style="font-weight:400">For all her fury and ire she seemed fragile and timid when the time came.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I-i, I’m ready!” she finally shouted back, her hands pressed against her chest.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then let us make it rain pain upon them,” Drake said, doing his best to stay firm against his giddiness for the spell he was about to unleash.
<span style="font-weight:400">She nodded and began chanting her own spell.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">The heavens shine brightly down upon thend, but the world will not be protected from the rumbling of my heart! I call down the rain, I call down the thunder! Be blessed in your fury my people!”</em><span style="font-weight:400"> she chanted, arge yellow magic circle forming below her that shifted to blue, then back, “<em><span style="font-weight:400">We are the wind of change! We are the storm that crashes upon the world! Storm Caller’s Rising!”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">A thunderous crash sounded as ir finished the spell. Her body enveloped in a blinding white lightning as it struck her from above. She stood unharmed as she gasped from the power of the spell. Then began to fall from her exhaustion, only to have Drake catch her in a princess carry.
<span style="font-weight:400">Bringing her to Amir and resting her down gently on the floor.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You did well, I will make sure to kill everyst one of them,” Drake said softly, but ir had passed out from the exhaustion of the spell, “Make sure she’s safe till she wakes up Amir. Counting on you,” Drake said, winking.
<em><span style="font-weight:400">Do you know what thatst option was, Natto?</em><span style="font-weight:400"> Drake asked internally.
<span style="font-weight:400">She stayed silent, but Drake knew she had the answer.
<em><span style="font-weight:400">It was to be nuclear himself.</em><span style="font-weight:400"> Drake smiled widely underneath his mask.
<strong>[You have been affected by beneficial magic from a party member.]</strong>
<strong>Storm Caller’s Rising is in effect for 30 seconds.</strong>
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<li><strong>All lightning affiliated magic has reduced cost of 50%</strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>All lighting affiliated magic is increased in damage by 150%</strong></li>
</ul>
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<li><strong>All lighting affiliated magic takedowns replenish resources by 1%</strong></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake leapt to the edge of the Outpost’s wall, and began his swift chanting of his defensive skills.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">I am the shield, I am the rampart! Bulwark! I am the wall on which my enemies billow, Unbreakable! On blessed wings! Guardians Reprieve!”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">In quick session three shes of green covered Drake. A fourth sh of green snapped to life at his fingertips as he crushed it to gain speed with his Wind Endowment, his hair and tattoo cascading to green as they red to life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake shot forward into the crowd of Goblins like a missile, crushing the piece of wood he had leapt from beneath his feet and speeding to the center of the horde.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake threw his feet forward crushing the skull of a Goblin as hended, forming a crater around him. Every Goblin surrounding him turned and threw whatever they had at him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“ytime is over!” Drake shouted, the timer on the buff ticking down slowly, each second stretching out as his Adrenaline Acuity extended them to as long as possible in his mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">The weapons and magic of the Goblins shed against Drake’s defensive shields, shattering them quickly.
<strong>[Reprieval Charge Gained]</strong>
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake grinned, snapping his fingers changing to his water endowment for the regeneration. Wanting to inch out every bit of regeneration for the spell.
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking upwards he teleported before the weapons and spells of the Goblins could harm his flesh.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now above the monster horde he looked down in glee.
<span style="font-weight:400">Snapping his fingers, an enormous yellow magic circle formed above him, his left arm raised as the lighting sparked to life in his hand, growing and condensing rapidly in the fractions of seconds.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake’s ability to manipte mana folds greater than before since losing his arm.
<span style="font-weight:400">Snapping his finger again two smaller light green circles formed in front of his face and at the bottom of his boots.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake looked down and spoke, his voice changed to an ethereal pitch from the wind magic.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">Let the true meaning of Almighty be carved into your Souls!”</em><span style="font-weight:400"> Drake roared, almostughing the words, the lightning in his hand pulsing with every word as it condensed and expanded, sparks flicking outward looking for somewhere to escape, but Drake could pour more and more thanks to the Storm Caller’s Rising.
<span style="font-weight:400"> “<em><span style="font-weight:400">I!”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake softly uttered the word, the wind magic at his feet whispering to life underneath him, it orienting him downwards to the ground, right at the horde of Goblins.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">Am.”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">The wind magic at his feet exploded shooting him downward like a falling star from the sky.
<span style="font-weight:400">Throwing his hand forward, he lit up the sky with the condensed ball of Lightning mana. Drake screeching towards the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">“<em><span style="font-weight:400">Atomic.”</em>
<span style="font-weight:400">Thest word reverberated even though he had whispered it. The sound of the word cascading out over the horde just a breath before Drake’s impact with the ground, his fist embedding itself into the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">On the impact of Drake mming his fist into the ground below, his magic exploded underneath the open ins floor that the Goblins stood on. In a beautiful cacophony of explosions and rubble being thrown upwards below the Goblins, the ground cracked and scattered, lightning bursting through the floor in every crack, every splitting of rock.
<span style="font-weight:400">The explosion shot up and then outward. Growing exponentiallyrger with every beat of the explosion, thest of them forming a cascading effect as the world was illuminated by the spell.
<span style="font-weight:400">The party on the wall looked on in amazement and awe as they lost count of the number of monster kill notifications, andpleted quests they received as a result of being in the party.
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Lieutenant: Zvic’ Fuv Jeric Level 20] [Experience Earned and 150,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Lieutenant: Nomivic’ Fuv Jeric Level 20] [Experience Earned and 150,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Lieutenant: Senuvic’ Fuv Jeric Level 20] [Experience Earned and 150,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Lieutenant: Ocuvic’ Fuv Jeric Level 20] [Experience Earned and 150,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Lieutenant: Enoic’ Fuv Jeric Level 20] [Experience Earned and 150,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
<strong>[Shot has defeated Goblin Footman Level 15] [Experience Earned and 1,000 TP inpensation as a party member]</strong>
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<span style="font-weight:400">And the kill notifications continued to roll in, as each person in the party found themselves level up from the well of experience they had received.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, looks like I bet on the right horse after all..” Hudson said, looking up at the pir of white lightning as it slowly began to wane.
<span style="font-weight:400">Each person looked at the center of the impact, to see Drake standing there inside a massive crater that he had created.
<span style="font-weight:400">Drake only stood still for a moment after the spell had dissipated. His hands then curling at his side as he gave a guttural roar of triumph, his head turning to the gate where many of the remaining Goblin’s and their Lieutenants stood bbergasted at the spectacle they had just witnessed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Surging forward Drake quickly dispatched them, adding to everyone’s experience and TP gain before he turned seeing thest remnants of the Goblin army that had assailed his outpost running desperately for the forest beyond the carnage.
<span style="font-weight:400">Moving swiftly Drake sped after them, catching them in handfuls as he moved from group to group slowly making his way into the forest.
<span style="font-weight:400"> Only one person speaking up in the momentary silence in the lull of Drake’s rampage and spell.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey, isn''t that from an anime?” Tom asked, scratching the back of his head in confusion.