Chapter Twenty-Six
After Nicci and Kara's reunion kiss, which lasted for quite a while, they headed back out. With the time in the store, they were all back up to full mana, hit points, and stamina.
They ran into another patrol almost immediately, and he noticed there weren't really any dark alleys in the nicer side of town, which made the angel patrols harder to bypass using the reaction distance. They wound up fighting two groups of them on the way to museum row, both of them were quick nasty fights, and as with the first he and the imps concentrated on the spell caster, while the melee demons and Nicci took down the other three.
His mana was pretty high still, after the two fights, but his hit points were just over four hundred, which was about half of his life. Those mage types were hitting pretty hard, so it was lucky they died fast. He used the Sacrifice spell for the first time, on one of his warriors. It was ugly as a smoky black line connected them and sucked the life out of his demon, and refilled his own. Then he casted another warrior.
It was dumb, but he actually felt a little guilty about it. However, his life was back to full hit points as they walked by the museums in the street that was now cleared of angels. One was aerospace, they skipped it, one was a sports museum, and he considered that for a moment. He could imagine armor and weapons being in there, maybe. But then they saw a museum of antiquities, and exchanged glances with the ladies.
Kara said helpfully, "I've seen guys walking around in sports stuff, and old fashioned armor from Rome or Egypt."
"Let's try antiquities?" he asked.
Kara looked him up and down, "I can see that, let's go."
Nicci snickered, and they all headed for the museum entrance, which wasn't guarded at all.
That made him a little nervous for some reason as they slipped inside. The lighting was a bit dim as they walked inside. There were several exhibits, two of them were Rome and Egypt. The others were dynastic China, feudal Japan, and the crusades. He doubted he wanted a suit of full metal armor, so that last one was out completely.
Kara asked with a raised eyebrow, "How about Egypt?"
He chuckled, "Sure, let's check it out."
They headed down the main hallway, which was eerily quiet, until they came across two very large rooms across from each other, which were labeled Feudal Japan, and Dynastic China. They continued on to the next set of arches which were labeled Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. He shrugged, if she wanted to dress him he'd at least take a look at it.
Hopefully she didn't have plans to put him in a peasant loincloth and spear, but he wouldn't be surprised. Some of the gold armor from that period was pretty wicked looking however, so he was happy to take a look. Nicci took the lead along with his warriors, and Kara and his greater succubus stood on either side of him surrounded by the imps as they walked through the arch.
Still no guards, which screamed trap, but what the hell right?
They looked at the armor. There were some nice gold colored breastplates with blue designs on them, shields, a great number of different weapons including a long staff with an ankh on top. He was curious, so he picked it up to identify it, and several things happened at once.
First, he got a popup that it was a Golden Staff of Life, and granted twenty to constitution and did one eighty to two hundred twelve points of damage.
The second thing that happened, as he dropped his red staff, was an alarm went off, and golden gates dropped down at all the entrances. The room was an octagon, so there wasn't really a good defensive position as he saw five angels all level thirty-two to thirty-five start to gather behind the gates, pretty much surrounding them. Twenty-five of them, just perfect.
He cleared his throat, "Okay, let's overwhelm one group with magic, and then take that hallway to defend against the other twenty, Nicci and my melee fighters can follow in after us, and then we'll be in a defensible position when we turn around and kick their asses."
Kara nodded, "It's a plan."
Nicci giggled and drew her sword, "This should be fun."
Then the gates started to rise.
He, Kara, and the four imps all did area or chain effect spells, which unfortunately the enemy lived through as five sets of warriors charged.
They charged as well, as a second set of spells finally took down those five. The plan didn't work all that great, they were hit from almost all sides anyway. It was a large room, but the over forty combatants made it feel very small. Eventually they made it into the hall, and turned around. The first thing he did was summon more warriors, and then he cursed his own stupidity and casted Demonic Aura, it had run out since the fights in the street and he hadn't noticed.
It was still a bit crazy, but the hallway offered a limited path, and there were three levels of warriors and succubae, not to mention Nicci, before the angels could reach his position with Kara and the imps. The really good news was there appeared to be no casters, or if there had been, they were already dead.
Every time one of his front line guys fell, another one from the second or third row stepped forward to fill the breach, which meant he could almost leisurely replace the summoned fighters in the back row without leaving a gap in their defense.
He also casted Balefire, which was a much better choice than the more powerful singular spell in this situation. It also cost half the mana. There was a part of the fight that was really intense, but there was also a part of his brain that was highly amused when a sword stroke toward Nicci's stomach was turned away by the micro-bikini.
Honestly, it was kind of hot watching her fight, her tits bounced mesmerizingly as she swung her two handed sword and cut enemies down left and right. He knew Nicci was having the same effect on her wife as well. He could see the lust in Kara's eyes as she cast spells at the enemy. In the end, when the last angel fell, they all got popups.
You have leveled! You are now level 31!
You have leveled! You are now level 32!
Obviously it was getting harder to level now, even with twenty-five angels above their level they'd really only just gotten one level out of it and a little more. He'd been very close to level thirty-one before this fight, mostly from the twelve guards they'd killed in the street, not to mention the three in the leather shop.
It was time to loot, assign stat points, and finish upgrading his armor...
Kara and Nicci looked at him critically for a moment, and then smiled liked cats that just got at the cream.
He was in golden chest plate that covered his chest down to the top of his waist which gave the two ladies a view of his six pack. His muscular arms were exposed as well, since the breastplate covered only about half his shoulders. He also wore golden gauntlets, held the golden staff, and had leather boots on his feet. As he'd half feared, under his six pack he was wearing a leather loincloth that did nothing for his modesty at all.
They both eyed him teasingly, bit their lips sexily as they tilted their heads, and kept checking out his package. It was about as subtle as a speedo, and with his size it more than stood out. They'd really enjoyed watching him change as well.
He'd also found a second ring, golden with a moon disk, the symbol for wisdom and intelligence, with a triangle within.
He checked his stats and EQ.
Endless war Stats: - -
