Tower Climber (A LitRPG Adventure, Book 1) by Jakob Tanner (free children's online books TXT) 📕
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He would have to make his move soon.
Too bad the shadow monster didn’t waste any time.
Black shadowy projectiles shot through the darkness towards Max.
He leapt out of the way.
He was pretty sure this monster was at D-rank strength with a silver monster core at its heart. It had the power to kill Max if he wasn’t careful. In fact, it had the power to kill him even if he was careful.
The shadow projectiles smashed into the side of the cave.
Max quickly got back up to his feet.
He looked around frantically and saw that the shadow monster had disappeared.
Its face reappeared in the darkness at the other end of the cave.
Max tensed.
“I guess...I don’t have to kill you straight away...it is nice to have company...I suppose...”
The monster flickered all around the cave.
Max couldn’t keep up with the monster’s movements. It was moving too fast. It was teleporting through the darkness.
The creature was purposely putting Max on edge. Toying with him, raising his level of panic and sense of alertness, but not in a good way. The panic, the rapid beating of his heart—those were all things putting pressure on his ability to think rationally in a stressful moment. The monster was trying to force Max into a mistake.
He took a deep breath.
He needed to be ready to dodge an attack, but otherwise he wasn’t going to let the monster’s manic movements get to him.
He pulled out a grenade from his pouch.
A quote from his research emerged in his head: “…There are legends of a shadowy monster that lurks in the fringes of this low-level floor, but no confirmed sighting exists outside of rumor and hearsay…”
“You know,” said Max, speaking directly to the monster. “You’re pretty smug for a guy who is fighting an unknown opponent. Unlike you though, I came prepared.”
He whipped one of the light infused grenades at the shadow demon.
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The grenade exploded in the cave.
A huge blast of light shot out.
“You...damn...human!” hissed the shadow monster.
Max had expected the force of the grenade to shoot him back, but the explosion was all light-infused magic.
From what he’d read up on the subject in the library, light-infused magic was one of the weakest elemental forces to utilize, unless fighting against shadow-based opponents.
The shadow monster blinked to a different corner of the cave, hiding behind a rock, dodging the luminescent burst of light magic.
“You damn human,” hissed the monster again. “How dare you come here with such awful light magic!”
Max had clearly hit the monster’s weakness. He had five more grenades left. He had to make them count as they were his only way of defeating this creature.
The shadow creature suddenly started cackling with laughter.
Max wasted no time and threw another light magic-infused grenade at the spot where the monster was hiding.
BOOM!
Max raised his arm in front of his face to block out the bright light.
The light dissipated and the cave became shrouded in shadow and darkness once more.
Ha ha ha ha.
The shadow monster cackled with laughter.
The monster’s face appeared in the darkness. Its face then slithered along the shadows of the room. It wasn’t teleporting, but it could move almost at lightning speed so long as there was connecting shadowy tissue.
Max tried to keep track of the monster but he couldn’t.
“Try and track me now, foolish boy!”
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A blade of shadow shot forth from the pools of darkness.
Max jumped away.
“Agh!”
The attack had cut his leg. Sayonara to his earthquake spell. Not that that was a huge deal. Sure, he could maybe destroy the whole cave, but this monster lived in shadow and darkness. It wasn’t slain the same way you’d slay a troll or an ogre.
The shadowy face flickered all across the cave, laughing.
“You won’t beat me foolish human,” said the shadow monster.
The demonic creature had returned to its torture dance, keeping a cautious distance as it slowly whittled away at Max’s sanity.
Max quickly got back up to his feet.
“Screw you,” he said, gritting his teeth.
Max readied another light grenade in his hand.
“You won’t beat me with your foolish trinkets boy,” hissed the monster.
He only had four more shots to beat this thing. He thought back to his research at the library. He must be forgetting something.
Shadow creature...
It never leaves its cave...
Max paused. It never leaves its cave. That’s it.
There must be a way to use the cave against it somehow. A cave was a limited space, so why was he being so cautious?
Screw it, he thought. I got nothing to lose now.
BURST!
The shadow monster had flickered and reappeared all around Max, engulfing his entire body.
Max flailed his arms around, not sure what to do.
How the heck did you remove a shadow covering you?
“Give up boy! It’s time I devoured you and your soul,” hissed the monster.
The monster’s words echoed all around him.
Stick to the plan, Max thought.
He let go of the grenade in his hand and let it explode right in front of him.
“Escape this, jerk!”
Max started firing off the remaining grenades, throwing them in all directions.
He just wanted the whole cave to be filled with light magic.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
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The grenades shot off and filled the cave with light.
The shadow monster appeared in the bright light. Smoke emanated off it as if its shadowy body was burning.
“Damn you human!” hissed the monster.
Max had effectively used the cave against the monster, lighting the whole place up. There was nowhere it could escape to once he had done that.
“Arghghghg,” groaned the monster as the light magic surrounding it burned it to death.
“That’s right,” said Max, triumphantly. “I thought this place could use better lighting!”
“Ughhhhh....” groaned the shadow monster.
The light from the grenades dissipated but the shadow monster was already dead. Its body turned silver and it morphed into a glowing silver monster core at the bottom.
There it is, thought Max.
He rushed
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