User blog:Ronchellster/Nocturne of Ardor

My journey starts in the village near the lands of Lucretia and I arrive in the middle of a heavy invasion of monsters, with a sword I find lying on the ground I start fighting each of the monsters that appear, mostly Zombies and Skeletons, at the end of village in flames I meet one of your generals, the werewolf Tierra, I summon one of my family members: The living sword. Using two swords the two of us exchange blows until I manage to hurt her, but she backs off and says that next time it won't be so easy, then a stone monster appears to block my path, it wasn't that strong, but it bought time enough for Tierra to flee.

Lucretia's castle is not far away, but the passage was blocked by a barrier made at five separate points, and almost certainly each one has one of her generals protecting it.

I start going to the black forest that is infested with zombies and huge bats, the biggest one appears attacking a girl, the creature was fierce, but with just a few hits I can decapitate the monster. The girl in question turns out to be a vampire slayer at the behest of the church, her name was Luciana, she was camping, but was attacked by surprise, we exchanged information and with that I discover that one of the control points of the barrier is in the Coliseum of Fools where Tierra resides.

The way to the coliseum would be tortuous, one choice is to go through the swamp, another era through the ruins, decide to go through the ruins. After passing by several monsters that were guarding the ruins, I arrive at the entrance to the coliseum, but I was protected by three Hellhounds, sisters I think, they say that to pass you need an invitation, as I didn't have it I had to fight for the passage, using a combination of accelerated movements by magic and the living sword, I exchange blows with the monsters, the fight is painful, but I manage to defeat one of them, then another, and when the third one almost fell, the three channel their powers in a desperate attack that I block with a fifth-level protection spell, but it almost doesn't work.

The three died as a result of the attack, I don't waste the chance and condense the miasma of the three sisters into the armor of a fallen warrior and create an armor that I named Cerberus based on the three sisters, it is not only strong but has some very useful skills.

Inside the coliseum I met Luciana again, they let her in because she had an invitation, she saw that my equipment was worn out so she gave me a gladius sword and a bronze shield, my living sword would do, but it's always useful to have more than one weapon in hand, inside the collisse the ground collapses and i need to go through the back to the top through the sewer channels.

Inside I face some slimes and occasionally I'm bothered by a sandworm, when I get to a more open chamber I face the sandworm, because of its resistant skin I need to make an eromancy seal while I fight to use it to stop its movements. .

Finally out of the channel I reach the arena and Tierra sends five waves of enemies after me. After winning all five rounds she comes out of her throne wearing armor and equipped with a halberd, the two of us fight, exchanging several blows, the battle is fierce, I take a few hits, at the decisive moment I use the skill of the armor and use a feral form, with this extra strength I can tear off parts of Tierra's armor until she falls completely and I can wound her with the living sword. She backs up and with a hiss calls out her fighting beast, a huge wolf, I summon another familiar, the Lionet, a lion made of iron and copper, basically a golem, we go on with a mounted fight until I manage to take her down and Lionet slaughters the wolf with a bite to the throat.

Tierra did not stay to fight and fled leaving her halberd behind which I added to my arsenal, with everything resolved, I reached the point of the barrier, the throne of the arena king, a punch using the cerbero's gauntlet was enough to destroy it.

With everything over I meet Luciana who seems to have gotten lost in the channel so far, after updating her she mentions that there is a nursery where there are several Wyvern eggs, if I'm lucky I can find one and use her to move between the various places in this land.

Once in the nursery I am greeted by a hideous creature made from a mixture of several Wyvern corpses, after a fight and kill the creature it regenerates again, with that I use the feral form of cerberos and after killing it a second time I burn the remains and she finally stops.

The nursery is almost empty, the Wyverns were dead and the eggs were broken, but amidst all this I found a very young one, this one would do, with her help I will be able to move more freely through Lucretia's lands, but as she is still young and scared I can't expose her to danger, so I'll have to get in the hard way.

My next stop is in Morgan's territory, the Medusa, as soon as I enter I am greeted by one of Morgan's medusa followers, but I am freed with Luciana help, she informs me that not far away from there is a dragon that guards a mirror ring that can protect me from Medusa's petrifying gaze, seems like a plan.

To get to this dragon I had to first pass through an abandoned village with Luciana where we were cornered by another Medusa, but this time I managed to finish her off with the halberd. Finally arriving at the dragon she mentioned that she had no attachment to the ring, she was just with it because she was held by an enchantment attached to a collar she wore, to release her we would have to go after two chains that held the collar, another option would be to kill the dragon.

We found the two chains protected each by a species of overgrown plant, as it regenerated I had to make another seal while fighting, after a while I used a large-scale fire magic and killed both plants. With the broken chains the dragon can break free, and I was able to get the ring and as a bonus I was able to use the dragon scales to form a much stronger shield, a Dragon Shield. Now it was time to face Morgan, but first I would have to get to her mansion protected by a series of monsters.

Finally in Morgan's rooms I find her playing the piano while she waits for me, our fight starts, Morgan uses several attack spells to mine the field, with acceleration I manage to avoid most of the attacks, the rest is blocked by my dragon shield, in return, I myself couldn't hit her. We continued to exchange blows until I managed to wound her with the living sword, Morgan disgustedly uses an illusion spell to create copies of herself to protect her while using a spell on a large scale, I use cerberos feral mode and defeat the copies in time to stop Morgan, but she doesn't give up and summons a giant snake, I fight back summoning Lionet and we continue the fight while our summons try to kill each other in the meantime I'm back to normal.

After seriously injuring her, Morgan uses her last resort and transforms into a huge beast destroying much of her own mansion in the process, I land several attacks seriously injuring her, but she doesn't fall. I use a fire spell on a large scale and finally destroy the monster leaving no body parts, after defeating her I use her miasma to form a medallion with the power of her petrifying gaze, but a weaker version. At some point she herself destroyed the seal of the barrier, the piano.

The next general is the Dark Mage Belladonna, her base is in a desert area, the inverted tower as they call it, the name comes because despite being a tower it doesn't grow upwards but downwards. The Wyvern refuses to go near the desert so I have to cross it riding Lionet and on the way I am attacked by a bunch of Skullbirds, a mix of Harpies and Skeletons, I can't take down many of them as I don't have any ranged weapons with me when arriving at the entrance of the tower I release Lionet and enter running avoiding the attacks of the Skullbirds.

The first floor of the tower was the theater and I already find Belladonna watching a bunch of ghosts performing a play, we chat, when the play is over she asks if I can't just surrender, I obviously refuse, then she disappears and the floor master seems to welcome me, a Bogie, a Bogie Lord to be more exact, she manages to disappear into the theater throwing knives from all directions, my Cerberos armor protects me from minor damage, the problem is when she starts putting fire in everything, I still manage to get the upper hand by hurting her. Nervous her husband appears out of nowhere, a very tall guy wearing heavy armor and a huge sword that needed to use both hands to be raised, he was quite strong, but his attack pattern was kind of predictable, using the amulet of Medusa I managed to gradually petrify him, when he turned completely to stone Bogie got mad and came at me, I used the living sword and impaled her on the ground then raised her husband's sword and decapitated her.

After the floor master was killed and her miasma released I used it and some costumes present in the theater and formed a new armor, the Red Clown, it doesn't have as much protection as the Cerberus, but it's light and has some interesting features, which they can be very useful to face what lies ahead.

The second floor was divided into two, an art hall and a cathedral, I followed the cathedral past some enemies, including some siren who tried to seduce me with music, but not for long, with Red Clown I can use a number almost unlimited knives and daggers to throw, it's not a bow yet, but it suits me well. Upon reaching the top of the cathedral I find what appears to be the master of the floor, a Valkyrie wearing a mask, the fight was quite simple until, after defeating her she turns to stone and breaks, apparently it was just an animated statue, there was no miasma on her, but her sword, Holy Brand, can be useful.