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Level 9 Sectonia (holding 3 level up) - (62/90)
[b]Location:[/b] Necropolis
[b]Word Count:[/b] 672[/center]

Exiting the item room sounds of combat could be heard outside the door to the north, so Sectonia figured another group had entered the room that door lead to and were dealing with the monsters inside. Still, this room had its own monsters for her to deal with in a wide open room that [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/546056383007817739/1053521005601095710/image.png]looked like some dark alchemist crypt.[/url] 

Inside the room were 6 masks and heart pairs. While the masks ran at Sectonia in lateral directions, the hearts seemed to flee from her in the same manner. She tried throwing some of her dark globules at the masks advancing towards her position, but soon found they just bounced off. So much for 'pierces all defense', but then the hearts themselves were trying to stay away and out of conflict entirely, so perhaps they were the monster's true form and this was merely a shield?

Considering her ability to blink, reaching the hearts and staying out of range of the masks wasn't that difficult. Summoning her Chaos shield, she began to blink about the room. While there were quite a few things flying about the room and her large size forced her to blink more often than she'd like, the hearts took damage normally from her strikes. Sticking to her swords only, as they allowed her to utilize her blink in a much more timely manner and still strike afterwords. Sectonia had a bit of enjoyment fighting these things as the hearts just tried to flee from her feebily shooting out blood globules in random directions around it, unable to fight back that well as she slashed at them with a mighty overhead swing before blinking to the next heart. While it took a couple rotations of this blinking maeuvor, her striking heart after heart, when she managed to destroy the first heart the corresponding mask also blew up. With fewer and fewer masks, the battle got easier and easier. And thanks to her shield, the odd blood globule that hit her had its damage greatly reduced, but considering the hearts couldn't even aim their globules of panic, she was able to avoid them for the most part.

While the others were clearing the room to the north, Sectonia managed to clear this room herself, having a skillset that let her dominate the creatures inside it. Upon clearing the room, [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/546056383007817739/1053523269879341126/Ares_reward.webp]a strange symbol in red[/url] appeared in the center of the room. Sectonia, ever weary of new things in this dungeon, looked at it with her magical ability, and found that it might've been something she'd be interested in if it didn't have strings attached. She sensed whoever grabbed this item would gain power, but power granted to them by another instead of by the item itself. A dangerous prospect in general, but even more so in this horror filled dungeon full of disgusting monsters of filth, decay, and death. Making a pact would give her pause normally, but making a pact with whatever might've ran this dungeon? A fools decision; She'd much rather take the power at its source.

When the team clearing the rooms to the north finished clearing their rooms and entered what would be their 4th room, they'd see Sectonia, the queen saying. [color=92278f]"This place is quite strange and has secrets left behind. I am not interested in 'that', but if any of you are, feel free to take it. Beware, it seems to be connected to something. Or feel free to take the weird rotten fruit in the 'golden room'"[/color] Sectonia said, pointing at the Boon of Ares, then the item room itself. She then joined up with the rest of the party, commanding her antillion to come back to her through the cleared rooms and crushing the spirits she had gotten from the rooms she cleared. 

Hm... she didn't see the shop on this floor, perhaps it was behind her? Those seemed to have more... manageable items than whatever that red symbol or rotten fruit behind her was.