105(2) – Zenyo! (I)
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PART 2 – Combat!
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Lands of Neszka, North of the Greater World – Zyep.
Zyep is a colossal Greater World with 3 supercontinents that seemingly have the same size as Planet Earth, followed by almost 200 other continents of varying sizes.
In Neszka, these icy lands become increasingly deadly the further north you go, encountering colossal mountains that surpass the clouds, to the point where even Legends struggle.
It is also home to colossal creatures.
But the most peculiar aspect of Zyep is how the Dungeons manifest. Beyond the common structures, there are Dungeons that assimilate into the territory, increasing the size of the world but creating an extremely dangerous and brutal zone.
Almost 2/3 of Neszka is an Assimilated Dungeon, its name originating from the dungeon itself. And the north in the past was not a snowy land as it is today; the dungeon that arose transformed it into what it is now.
And at that instant, facing Verna and Zenyo, the hill ahead seemed to shift, the ground trembled, and rumblings came from further ahead.
“What is that?!” – Zenyo shouted, struggling to maintain his balance.
Verna remained silent, wielding only a seemingly simple axe, but which, under her grip, began to display various complex runes and sigils glowing in a deep green.
BOOM!
A resounding rumble, then a pointed paw emerged from the ground, bending and sinking into the soil; others appeared, and the same rumble echoed. A creature rose, and tons of snow fell.
The hill was a monster with eight sharp legs, a rocky-colored skin covered in transparent ice, resembling a type of beetle, but with a body entirely speckled and full of thorns, like a mountain range.
Large black eyes focused on the pair, with several others on its head looking in other directions; there were six eyes in total on each side of its head.
The small column approached, approximately 18 meters high.
“Shall we fight?” – Zenyo asked, knowing it was a Legendary Level creature.
“Don’t interfere.” – Verna said, and Zenyo, with his hands raised, retreated.
ROAR!!!
Abruptly the creature roared, intense vibratory waves resonating and snow being expelled.
From the flying snow, Verna leaped towards the creature's head, its large mouth open, vibratory sound waves hitting her, damaging her clothes and striking her body, but she was protected against internal damage.
[Attack(Axe Combat, III) – D20+27 = 32 + 25% = 40!]
BANG!
A massive rumble echoed as the blade of her axe collided with the ice and rock that made up the creature's body. A massive shockwave spread, the entire head cracking open and blood spurting.
ROAR!
Another roar, and the creature's own blood became a weapon. Freezing and piercing Verna, who grabbed one of the frozen blood spikes and kicked the creature's head to propel herself away.
But the creature, now that it had several frozen blood spikes on its head, did something that astonished Verna.
The frozen blood spikes began to grow and become covered in rocks and ice… it seemed to become a new part of its body. It was a matter of seconds; Verna didn't even know a Legendary creature was capable of such a feat.
But in those mere seconds, the creature was already advancing like a rhinoceros. Its new horn aimed to pierce Verna, who blocked with her axe; the ground was unable to withstand the impact, even if its body could.
She was pushed, her feet slipping on the snow and hard ground below. Verna growled and used one hand to grab the base of the horn, then roared fiercely and forced the creature's head upwards.
[Strength Test(Athletics, V) – D20+27 = 45 + 100% = 90!]
ROAR!!!
It was Verna who roared powerfully, and the creature's body rose along with its head, exposing its belly, which it used to attack. A magical glow manifested on the axe blade, and it struck.
[Attack(Axe Combat, III) – D20+27 = 36 + 25% = 45!]
At the same time, the great creature closed its legs and lunged backward. Verna's axe severed three of the six legs the creature had used to defend itself. The attack even pierced through and reached its stomach, but only cracked its armor, unable to damage the flesh.
Then, with a massive crash and Verna leaping back, the creature collapsed. It screamed shrilly as it turned and swept with its long, thick tail.
Verna advanced and received the blow with open arms.
[Strength Test(Athletics, V) – D20+27 = 47 + 100% = 94!] (CRITICAL SUCCESS!)
Verna embraced the tail that collided with her body, sustaining minimal damage and stopping the tail. Then veins bulged throughout her body, her eyes bloodshot as she, with all her might, lifted the creature, which screamed in terror and confusion.
Its massive body, weighing hundreds of tons, rose, spinning with Verna's rotational movement, before she slammed it against the ground, a massive rumble reverberating along with the creature's crunching and pain.
With strength in her legs, Verna leaped, axe in hand, the creature lying on its hind legs, writhing and trembling in pain. Verna descended upon its stomach, her axe sinking into the damage it had caused earlier.
Blood spurted, and the creature's cry of pain reverberated. Verna fiercely unleashed repeated attacks, tearing open the creature's stomach.
The blood froze and tried to pierce her; she grabbed it and simply ripped out the frozen blood, taking with it pieces of the creature's armor and flesh.
Exposing its internal organs, then with enormous power as the creature struggled to spin, Verna manages to hurl the axe with all her might into the creature's entrails.
ROAR!!!
The creature's thunderous roar reverberates. Verna has already jumped, her feet sinking into the creature's head, forcing it against the ground. She crouched down, her fists digging into its eyes, reaching for the bone and putting immense force into the pull.
[Strength Test (Athletics, V) – D20+27 = 38 + 100% = 76!]
Verna hears a crack, and the creature thrashes frantically, the blood freezing on Verna's arms as one of its front paws strikes her back.
Verna is hit in the back; she growls and, putting even more force into it, hears the sound of tearing flesh and cracking bone.
[Strength Test (Athletics, V) – D20+27 = 30 + 100% = 60!]
The creature began to desperately shake its head, trying to push Verna away, but it wouldn't let go, no matter what she did. It didn't help that its arms were covered in tough, frozen ice.
[Strength Test(Athletics, V) – D20+27 = 47 + 100% = 94!] (CRITICAL SUCCESS!)
ROAR!!!
Verna roars fiercely, the creature, on the other hand, roars in despair as Verna pulls, the flesh tears and the bones finish breaking. A strong tug and Verna falls backward.
The creature's skull is shattered, part of the brain exposed and damaged.
The creature screams and thrashes shrilly, blood spurts and freezes, quickly trying to defend its brain.
Verna, standing, still clinging to its cracked skull, her arms still frozen, smiles and advances.
The creature, on the other hand, has already turned to flee. Verna is too terrifying; its instincts, which awakened it from the danger, tell it to flee from the danger it caused.
Verna climbs onto its back. Without difficulty, she runs across its body. Others would have difficulty, even more so holding part of the skull, but not Verna.
She advances and finds the skull covered in bloody ice. She roars and the creature nods, but ignoring her despair, Verna falls and uses her own skull to pierce its new armor of bloody ice, striking its brain.
ROAR!
Verna roars and fiercely destroys its brain with a piece of its own skull.
The creature struggles and Verna is thrown far away; she doesn't resist and sinks into the snow.
The creature doesn't stop, until it throws itself back and ceases its activity, only the spasms of the afterlife.
Verna sits up, smiling. – “That was fun.” – She laughs; it's been many years since she fought and had so much fun.
If she used Internal Energy, 1 or 2 attacks would be all she needed, but then it wouldn't be fun.
“Skar- Verna!” – Zenyo appears beside her, worried.
“What is it?” – Verna asks, and with a movement of her arm, she breaks the frozen blood and notices wounds on her skin. – “Okay… I didn't expect that.” – Then she laughed.
“Did you get hurt?” – Zenyo was surprised.
“Nothing serious. I just learned that my protection isn’t so absolute. I’ll need to study more and understand what this creature is.” – Verna says as she gets up.
Snow falls from her body and Zenyo raises an eyebrow, then makes a silly face, blinking repeatedly.
“What’s wrong?” – Verna asks, burying her skull in the ground as if it were a kind of shield. Then she looks at where Zenyo is staring, her breasts and penis, partially exposed.
“Seriously?” – Verna teases. – “From what I know, you spend weeks fucking and having orgies since your little friend down there gained a few centimeters, but you look like a teenager going through puberty when you see breasts?”
“Sorry… I wasn’t expecting that.” – Zenyo looks away and blushes.
Verna rolls her eyes. – ‘That brat still hasn’t gotten over that crap?!’
It’s almost comical for Verna to think that way, considering Zenyo is older than all three of her lifetimes combined.
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PART 3 – Froos City!
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Froos City. One of the largest cities in Neszka.
Everything seems normal, just another snowstorm, rumors of frozen zombies causing trouble in smaller villages, a Coliquer almost 20 meters tall approaching the city…
Alarms began to blare in Froos City. Guards climbed the walls, defensive weapons were prepared. The city lord appeared, a huge figure 3 meters tall, a white man with a thick beard, exposed torso, and quite hairy.
He shouted orders, until he picked up binoculars to get a better look and… - “WHAT?!”
The scene he had just witnessed left him speechless. But now, noticing the Coliquer's approach more closely, it didn't seem to be walking towards them… it was being dragged.
And paying closer attention, there were two figures ahead of the open-skull creature. A tall, beautiful woman, followed by a small man with pointed ears.
“Cease preparations, it's not an attack!” – The city lord roared, everyone around him confused.
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The locked city gate opened, then wolf howls resounded and a squadron of mounted cavalry on giant gray wolves advanced, the one in the lead had black fur and was almost three times larger than the others.
Verna and Zenyo's walk ceased as the wolf cavalry squadron approached.
They stopped in front, and from the large black wolf, a man almost 3 meters tall leaped, his feet sinking into the snow and a powerful, oppressive energy emanating from him, but to Verna, this was nothing.
“Hello!” – Verna said loudly and excitedly. – “I'm Verna, sorry if I caused confusion with this little thing here!” – She laughed as she gave the carcass strong slaps, which trembled vigorously with each slap, showing strength.
“I'm Zord, lord of the city Froos. Where are you from?” – He narrowed his eyes, never having seen Verna's face before, nor heard her name.
Not that it was an uncommon name, just that he didn't know any woman named Verna who possessed those characteristics or a feat of power close to that.
“Oh, I'm from one of the smallest continents, I came here looking for some good prey to kill and a fun place to settle down. Then I stumbled upon this little thing and killed it. It screamed a lot… what's it called? I've never seen or heard of this thing before.” – Verna laughed, pointing to the colossus called Coliquer.
Zord narrowed his eyes, but something in Verna's wide smile made him falter.
[Charism(Deception, II / Seduction, III) – D20+27 = 45 + 17.5% = 52.8!]
(Author's note: I think you noticed, but I stopped including the number that symbolizes the requirement for success. Honestly, it doesn't really matter. Skarla/Verna has absurdly high attributes without using skills; if she uses them... she practically doesn't need them, so it makes no difference. So, the numbers from the result are used for comparison according to a difficulty level I set in my mind. Therefore, such high scores result in more intense effects. Let's say the success requirement above is around 20 points; she achieved 52.8 points, almost three times higher. Naturally, the results will be massive.)
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In moments, Verna and Zenyo were in Froos, with Zord cheerfully welcoming them and sending dozens of men and women to take care of the enormous corpse, dismantle it, and reuse everything.
Zord even decided to buy the corpse; Verna didn't care much about the price. Zenyo wanted to negotiate, but one look from Verna and he stopped.
Quickly, Verna became the center of attention in the city. She seemingly single-handedly defeated a Coliquer. Zenyo certainly didn't seem special, just a pretty face, perhaps Verna's slave.
Then, through Zord, Verna discovered the creature's name and what it was.
Coliquer is a Mini-BOSS of the Assimilated Dungeon, found around Level 30-40. They are known as Colossi or Walking Hills. They are extremely resistant and difficult to kill due to their high regeneration, armor, and the fact that their own blood is a weapon.
One of their main attack methods, besides their charges, is using their bodies to restrain and mold their bodies to suppress the target. Through internal temperature control, they can thaw the ice in their armor and manipulate it to cover the target.
They even kill their targets and attach them to their bodies to feed on them over time.
They are mini-bosses, but the difficulty of killing even one is absurdly high. Zord would need hundreds of warriors, dozens of masters, and four legends to succeed. But the sacrifices would be high.
Because in addition to taking advantage of their enormous defense and blood to attack, they also use sound waves, which are the most irritating. Anyone with less than a +4 Constitution modifier and the correct level of Athletics and Resistance in their proficiencies ends up dying almost instantly. If they don't die, they will suffer permanent damage.
So Coliquer's are terrifying monsters that can devastate cities. They can literally kill hundreds to thousands of people while attacking the city walls.
Verna killing this creature that lives near the city drastically helped the people.
Zord was extremely happy, as this creature had always been a huge headache.
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Zord spared no effort. He quickly prepared a huge banquet to congratulate Verna on the hunt and thank her for her enormous service.
Her name began to spread among the people, who were quite excited and relieved.
Verna was happy with the banquet; plenty of food was quickly presented, and she didn't hesitate to feast. Eating abundantly, like a warrior, and when the dozens of male warriors saw this, they couldn't help but fall in love.
Verna is simply perfect in their eyes. A large, muscular body, large breasts and buttocks, with plenty of flesh to grab, followed by a beautiful savagery when eating, or expressing herself through laughter, even insulting people she has just met.
She didn't need to try hard to steal dozens of hearts.
Zenyo was literally pushed away from Verna at some point, left eating in a corner, receiving no attention. He grumbled, because even though his Charisma was high, it didn't make sense.
(Author's note: This happens when you roll a natural 1 in Charisma.)
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The city was extremely excited. A new heroine had emerged, and her name was Verna.
Verna became the target of hundreds of people, men and women who coveted her, especially Zord, who was enchanted by her.
And Verna naturally took advantage of these people's weakness to extract the information she needed. Using her story of coming from one of the smaller continents helped her a lot.
Interestingly, it's not uncommon for powerful and unknown people to come from continents; the strongest of the supercontinents don't care about these ants, especially since most end up coming to the supercontinent, perishing or achieving great feats.
Verna is naturally among those of great achievement.