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327: Worthy

Author: John_Doever Word Count: 9489 Updated: 2025-06-10 10:49:13

Worthy

The boss geist moved full speed along the red trail. Rather than floating rather slowly, it landed upon the ground and skittered forward with all the frenzy of an overloaded locomotive, its six huge legs driving up piles of dirt.

"Permission to engage the target while it is distracted?" Refraction said, having warped to Aldrich's side. They watched as the boss geist ignored them, barreling past.

"You warped her out of the forest, correct?" said Aldrich.

"Correct."

"Then let it go. [To the Death] can get broken by outside interference like damage," said Aldrich.

"Understood, control," said Refraction.

"In the meanwhile, we follow the geist until it's outside the forest. It hasn't triggered any of the other trees to hatch, and I intend on letting things stay that way," said Aldrich. He took to the air, Volantis's draconic wings unfurling.

Chiros used [Air Step], a common martial art skill to walk on air, to follow Aldrich. Refraction followed with his own version, walking on mirrors he generated beneath his boots.

"It seems we have a problem." Mollusk stared up at them. "I can't fly."

"Here." Aldrich reached behind his back, grasped his cloak of souls, and tossed it towards Mollusk. The cloak billowed forth, wrapping behind Mollusk and lifting him in the air.

"Cool. I can count on one hand the number of times I've flown before," said Mollusk.

"Don't get used to it," said Aldrich. "The cloak is personal property. Mostly."

"I'll take what I can get," said Mollusk.

Together, Aldrich and everyone followed close behind the boss geist, making sure that it kept following the [To the Death!] trail without disturbing other trees.

The boss geist was fast enough that it only took a few minutes for it to get out of the forest. A solid distance of thirty miles covered with the force of six raging, bloodlusted legs.

As the geist moved, its butterfly wings rapidly vibrated, flinging slime off to dry themselves. By the time the geist exited the forest, the wings would be fully functional.

"How will we keep the target grounded?" said Refraction.

"[To the Death!] will keep it fighting Valera," said Aldrich.

"Like a taunt. In a game," said Mollusk.

"Precisely that," said Aldrich.

"But you said the taunt wears off if we hit the thing, right? Doesn't that mean that we're just going to be bystanders? It'll come down literally to a 1 vs 1. And I'm not sure she can handle this from what I've seen. Don't get me wrong, she's tough, but variants like this - disaster variants - you need to deal with in groups.

Or atleast that's what the AA says."

"Right. Conventional wisdom dictates that to fight something like an A rank disaster variant, you need at least a group of ten A rank heroes. But that's primarily a judgement call based on the fact that disaster variants will have many strong powers where as a hero will only have one.

The numbers make up for that power deficit.

In our case, though, we have enough power flexibility to compensate."

"Be that as it may, but does she really have the firepower needed to take this thing down? Look at its face, Refraction reflected back its rot beam thing, but the wound's completely healed already."

"She doesn't need to kill it all by herself. We can support her, just not directly." To prove his point, Aldrich cast [Heart in My Hands], wrapping his right hand in crimson. He could not recast his Pursuer because of its long cooldown, but the boss geist would not pay him attention anyway.

He flew downwards and gently tapped the boss geist's back, initiating the curse.

[Heart in My Hands] showed a grey indicator on Aldrich's vision that meant that it did not work on the boss geist for it had no heart. However, it did not just rupture hearts, it was a flat out execute if the cursed target went below 30% max HP whether they had a heart or not.

Valera had ways to increase that threshold up to 50%.

All she had to do was solo the boss geist down to half health, at which point Aldrich could instantly end this fight.

He flew back up, the boss geist ignoring him as he had technically not done any damage to it. "As long as you don't damage it directly, the taunt still holds up."

"Got it," said Mollusk. "That means I'll be useless. I don't have any 'support' type abilities."

Chiros grunted, affirming that he too was a combatant, not a supporter.

"I can be of assistance," said Refraction.

"I know, but hold off for a while," said Aldrich. Lately, Valera had been feeling a little down here and there, believing she hadn't quite gotten a chance to prove her worth. "I want to give her a chance to show off."

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Valera waited atop a hill-like formation of boulders, trembling as her bloodlust continually grew. Her shield was planted like a gravestone beside her, embedded into the rock.

[To the Death!] enforced [Berserker's Rage] on her, and that skill continually increased physical stats while providing increasing damage reduction at the cost of sanity. At the end of the rage, she also suffered a large portion of the negated damage all at once.

In Valera's case, her [Berserker] class abilities had started to merge with her emerging racial abilities. [Berserker's Rage] was now [Bloody Berserker's Rage].

The basic effects of thee rage were the same, but it had the bonus effect of continually increasing her Reversion until it hit her max of 80%, at which point she became less a knight and more a wild monster.

Valera's noble blood of Etal belonged to an ancient [True Vampire] called a [Goredrinker]. They roamed from battlefield to battlefield like forces of nature, destroying both sides equally without care to relish in the blood and gore to mature and grow stronger.

Among all noble bloodlines, the Etal were the most suited for physical combat, though that prowess came with a penchant for falling into hot-blooded passion and rage.

But Valera kept her calm, knowing that if she followed her bloody instincts now, she would disobey her master and stop the boss geist from leaving the forest.

As always, her master had a way to deal with everything. It was why she could rely upon him so. To entrust to him both her body and heart.

'Valera, incoming target.' Aldrich's voice permeated through Valera's head like cool ice, quelling her burning instincts for a second.

'Understood, master. I am ready.'

'You're going to have to solo this one for the most part. I have the heart exploding curse on the boss, so all you have to do is get it below the execution threshold. But doing that will be all you.

Can I trust you with this?'

Valera nodded vigorously. Finally! A great task worthy of her, one she could prove to show her greatness to her master. It was a dream come true. For so long, she had done administrative work, making sure the legion was stationed properly and listening to reports, but deep down, all of that bored her to no end.

She was most at home with the fight.

Aldrich felt her intent from the nods. 'Here we go.'

In the distance, from the treeline, the boss geist emerged, a thirty meter long mass of multi-legged, multi-ton fury. It split apart the dry earth outside of the forest with the sheer force of its aggressive stomps, rushing to Valera with eager intent to fight.

Valera smiled at this raw sign of aggression. This primal declaration of war, as if each crashing footstep was the beat of a war drum.

"Come!" Valera roared as she took her shield out. "Today we fight to the death!"

The boss geist spotted Valera and fully unfurled its wings, taking to the air. Its wingspan was mythical in its scale, reaching sixty meters, covering the sun and casting a great shadow upon the earth.

It reminded her of when she and her master had fought Kryos, Archdragon of Eternal Winter, how the dragon's great wings utterly covered the sun, drenching the world in darkness steeped in bitter cold.

No, this hardly measured up to that.

That was one of the greatest battles Valera had fought with her master, when they were at the peaks of their power at level 100. One of the moments she held close to her heart, when she knew she was making her summoned life matter after the failure of her original life.

But it still made her blood boil all the same.

What proper knight would not see a great beast, one that could shade the sun itself, and not see a creature to slay?2

Especially a knight sworn in service to a man of her master's caliber, no less?

With a howling, alien wail, the boss geist's eye-patterned rainbow wings glowed bright. Hundreds, no, thousands of streaks of iridescent light emerged from them, soaring in the air in beautiful arcs aimed in a large-scale artillery bombardment straight at Valera's position.

Valera leaped off her hill. Black wings stretched out from her back, claws tipped at their ends. She soared in the sky, her shield held up. The rainbow light bolts crashed against her shield in an unending stream.

A heavy storm of destruction, each raindrop of light unloading high temperature explosions that scorched her skin. But she grinned wildly and just pushed forward, splitting through that unceasing rain with her shield held up high and her wings beating strong.

No less was expected of her as a guardian knight, and no less would she give.

That was her motto as she soared into the fray of light.

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1: Prologue: A Dark World 2: To Be A Hero 3: To Blackwater 4: Blackwater and Bullies 5: Combat Evaluation 6: Frame Perfect 7: Ghost 8: Friends 9: The End...and the Beginning 10: Necromancer 11: First Fight, First Undead 12: The Nexus 13: Hunting 14: A Crucial Hint 15: Catching a Ghost 16: [BONUS] Catching a Ghost II 17: Vengeance 18: Chosen Undead 19: Valera 20: [BONUS] Getting Ready 21: Phantasmal Mask 22: [BONUS] A Pack Problem 23: Raising the Alpha 24: [BONUS] The Geist 25: [BONUS] Geist Hunt 26: The Settlements 27: The Odinsons 28: [BONUS] Gang Wipeout 29: [BONUS] Gang Wipeout (2) 30: Loot 31: [BONUS] Investigation 32: Investigation (2) 33: Ghastly Preparation 34: [Bonus] Trial Quest 1 35: Clearing the Trial Quest 36: [Bonus] Clearing the Trial Quest 2 37: Clearing the Trial Quest 3 38: [Bonus] Secret Boss 39: Secret Boss II 40: Secret Boss III 41: Fler'Gan the Zealot 42: [Bonus] Becoming a Lich 43: The Death Lord 44: [BONUS] Ritual of Eternity 45: Planning 46: [Bonus] Planning 2 47: [Bonus chapter] Variant Nest 48: Clearing the Nest 49: [Bonus chapter] The Bloodspitter 50: Sudden Attack 151: Tag Out 152: [Bonus chapter] Game Over 153: Aftermath 154: Sponsor 155: A Deal 156: Sentinel 157: Hat Trick 158: Corruption 159: Exposing Hat Trick 160: Time's Up 161: [Bonus chapter] One Last Trick 162: Last Stage Planning 163: Superior Halo 164: Standing By Haven 165: Rebuilding 166: S Rank Encounter 167: A Deal 168: Hear Me Out 169: Imprisoned 170: Another Round of Questioning 171: The Colonel 172: Second Deal 173: Company Politics 174: The Unending Thread 175: A Crypt 176: Until Next Time 177: Pale White 178: Volantis 179: Volantis (2) 180: Into the Crypt 181: 22 182: Into the Nexus 183: [Bonus chapter] Into the Nexus 2 184: Complete Overhaul 185: Bors the Giant Blacksmith 186: Fixing Volantis 187: Second and Fourth Deathguard 188: Volantis Restored 189: [Bonus chapter] Worthy 190: Orcish Might 191: [Bonus chapter] A Hard Headed Counter 192: Burning Agony 193: [Bonus chapter] A Worthy Rage 194: Boundary 195: Top of the Necropolis 1 196: [Bonus chapter] Top of the Necropolis 2 197: Diving into the Chrysalis 198: The Depths 199: Warmth 200: Love and Fear 251: Road Trip 252: 'Cops' 253: Diamondback 254: Interrogation 255: Settling Down in Redrock 256: V Correspondence 257: V Correspondence 2 258: Ready to Go 259: Randall's Repairs 260: Resolution 261: Last Dream 262: An Unseen Cold 263: An Unseen Cold 2 264: An Unseen Cold 3 265: Unanswered Questions 266: Emergency 267: Airbird 268: [Bonus chapter] Clint's Job 269: Seraph 270: Cure 271: Expectations and Rewards 272: More Loot 273: Immortal Advice 274: Resolve to Fight 275: Simmering 276: Trial Quest 277: Demons 278: The Grinner 279: [Bonus chapter] Greater Demon 280: Greater Demon 2 281: Greater Demon 3 282: Insight 283: Defense 284: Defense 2 285: Deimos, the Dark Eye 286: Deimos, the Dark Eye 2 287: Power of the Sun 288: Power of the Sun 2 289: Third Trial Quest Rewards 290: [Bonus chapter] Final Round Preparation 291: Final Prep: Necropolis 292: To Take a Tome 293: Night Parade 294: Stranger 295: Familiar Faces 296: Judicata 297: A Stranger's Offer 298: The Hearing Begins 299: [Bonus chapter] The First Vote 300: Second Vote, First Offer 301: [Bonus chapter] Second Vote, Second Offer 302: Sentinel 303: Sentinel Vote...? 304: Attack on the Judicata 305: Rescue 306: Rescue 2 307: [Bonus chapter] Aftermath of the Judicata 308: The End of the Attack 309: Settling Down 310: Vexa's Merits 311: [Bonus chapter] Project Arachnophobia 312: New Laboratory 313: Learning Room 314: [Bonus chapter] Spider Bait 315: Back to the Nexus 316: A Deal with a Demon 317: A Reasonable Understanding 318: The Forest 319: A Trapped Spider 320: Capturing the Spider 321: Mollusk Hunt 322: Mollusk Hunt 2 323: Winding Down? 324: [Bonus chapter] A New Challenger 325: Boss Geist 326: To the Death! 327: Worthy 328: Etal Reversion 329: Execution 330: Boundary 331: The Entity 332: The Entity 2 333: Arcadia 334: Ceasefire 335: [Bonus chapter] Support 336: Lightspeed and Valkyrie 337: The President 338: [Bonus chapter] The President 2 339: The President 3 340: The President 4 341: Spider Mining 342: An Inheritance Issue 343: [Bonus chapter] An Inheritance Issue 2 344: An Inheritance Issue 3 345: Hammerhead Meeting 346: Hammerhead Meeting 2 347: Despair, Ye Mighty 348: A New Party 349: A New Party 2 350: Relationship Progress 101: Art of Battle 102: Incident of a Certain Flight 103: Incident of a Certain Flight 2 104: Incident of a Certain Flight 3 105: Theory of a Soul 106: [Bonus chapter] Meeting Minuteman 107: Twin Wills 108: Into the Bunker 109: Portal Girl 110: The Final Plan 111: Leaving Minuteman 112: To Battle 113: {Holding the Wall} 114: [Bonus chapter] {Culling the Weak} 115: Undead Assemble 116: Camaraderie 117: [Bonus chapter] Formations 118: The Humans Strike Back 119: The Perfect Moment 120: King of the Oceans 121: [Bonus chapter] From Despair, Hope 122: The Legion 123: The Battle Rages 124: A Storm is Coming 125: Spirit Boundaries Activated 126: Bring Down the Thunder 127: [Bonus chapter] Bring Down the Thunder 2 128: Raising Merman 129: Valera's Merits 130: Valera's Merits 2 131: [Bonus chapter] Valera's Merits 3 132: Restoring Seismic 133: The Connector 134: [Bonus chapter]Danger 135: Sudden Attack 136: [Bonus] The Counter 137: The Final Fight 138: Attack, Attack, Attack 139: Beatdown 140: Quest? 141: Contingency 142: All Out 143: Bear Witness 144: [Bonus chapter] {Observation} 145: In the Zone 146: Draconic Might 147: A Bloody End 148: The Voice 149: Survival 150: Seismic 51: [Bonus chapter] The Chrysalis 52: Chrysalis 2 53: Raising the Chrysalis 54: Alchemy 55: {A Meeting to Be} 56: Meeting in the Red Circle 57: [Bonus chapter] Meeting in the Red Circle 2 58: An Experiment 59: An Experiment 2 60: The Final Phase 61: Disaster 62: {Seth Solar} 63: {Seth Solar 2} 64: Calm Before the Emerald Storm 65: [Bonus] {A Certain Report} 66: The Party Begins 67: A Night of Dying 68: Acquiring the Editor Sample 69: [Bonus] {Unending Misery} 70: {One By One} 71: [Bonus] {Volantis, the Tyrant of Bone} 72: {Volantis, the Tyrant of Bone 2} 73: Loot and Summons and More 74: {Red Circle Defense 1} 75: [Bonus] {Red Circle Defense 2} 76: {The Final Act} 77: Dying Sun 78: {The Ocean's Call} 79: {The Ocean's Call 2} 80: The Finale of Vengeance 81: The Finale of Vengeance 2 82: {Dance of Duels} 83: [Bonus chapter] {Dance of Duels 2} 84: Final Duels and Ascension 85: Ascension 2 86: A Farewell 87: The Rise of a Lich 88: Forging a Body 89: Learning Spells 90: [BONUS] Exterminating Pests 91: New Mount 92: Return of the Lich 93: Connection 94: Sky Fight 95: [Bonus chapter] Corpse Nova 96: Ruler of the Storm 97: Holding Out 98: [Bonus chapter] Minuteman 99: Resolve 100: Knightly Intervention 201: Boundary Overcome 202: Boundary Details 203: Resting 204: Love, Past and Present 205: [Bonus chapter] Love, Past and Present 2 206: Love, Past and Present 3 207: Love, Past and Present 4 208: Ambition and Training 209: Learning 210: Mana Flow 211: The Chrysalis's Talents 212: Shaping 213: Competition 214: Returning to the Crypt 215: Nomads 216: The Nomad Chiefs 217: Negotiating with the Chiefs 218: Negotiating with the Chiefs 2 219: Negotiating with the Chiefs 3 220: Agreement 221: Blackwater Students 222: Stick and Carrot 223: Technos 224: Okeanos's Quest 225: Maze 226: Invincible Formation 227: First Trial Quest Revisited 228: Flower Fight 229: Training Payoff and Meeting with Z 230: Meeting with Z (2) 231: Blackwater Allegiance 232: [Bonus chapter] Eileen's Conversation 233: Stay and Fight 234: Megaloptera 235: Megaloptera 2 236: Megaloptera 3 237: [Bonus chapter] Clint, the Unbreakable 238: Infiltration 239: Desmond 240: V-Parasite 241: Feast 242: Feast 2 243: Feast 3 244: Feast 4 245: Feast 5 246: In Sync 247: Explore Time 248: [Bonus chapter] Samples 249: Instinct 250: Name 351: The Soulmonger 352: A Sudden Intrusion 353: Mel Morales 354: Omega 355: Three Minds, Three Directives 356: Machines and Demons 357: Mysteries of Birth 358: Scrapheart 359: In the Future 360: In the Future (2) 361: Plans 362: [Bonus chapter] Plans (2) 363: Balar, the Eyed 364: Feather's Meeting 365: Raid Plans 366: Clint's Decision 367: Assassination 368: Healing Procedure 369: Preparing for the AA 370: The Journal 371: The Journal 2 372: Heist Planning 1 373: Heist Planning 2 374: Journal Entries 1 375: Journal Entries 2 376: Journal Entries 3 377: Panopticon Cure 378: Panopticon Cure 2 379: [Bonus chapter] Panopticon Cure 3 380: Panopticon Cure 4 381: Appraisal 1 382: [Bonus chapter] Appraisal 2 383: Appraisal 3 384: Appraisal 4 385: Dragon Strategy 1 386: Dragon Strategy 2 387: Dragon Strategy 3 388: Heist Intrusion 389: Heist Intrusion 2 390: Heist Intrusion 3 391: The Dinner Incident 1 392: The Dinner Incident 2 393: [Bonus chapter] The Dinner Incident 3 394: The Dinner Incident 4 395: The Dinner Incident 5 396: Breaking In 397: [Bonus chapter] {Shuten Doji} 398: Happiness 399: {The Search} 400: {Usurper} 401: {Aftermath} 402: {Oni } 403: Happiness 2 404: {To the Vaults} 405: {Subject 6A } 406: {Break In} 407: {Twin} 408: A Dream 409: A Dream 2 410: A Dream 3 411: A Dream 4 412: Dream's End 1 413: Dream's End 2 414: Raid's End 1 415: Raid's End 2 416: Raid's End 3 417: Raid's End 4 418: Meteor Labs Demolition 419: The Return 420: Down to Earth 421: Lab's End 422: Unsealed 423: Cycle of Life and Death 424: Restored 425: Swords 426: The Monk 427: Split 428: Sheathed 429: Blackwater Plans
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