"Now now, I can't have you killing my puppet king, now can I?" The old nasally voice of the Seer stated surprising me and creating an opening for the Jarl to tackle me and get me off of me. From my Position of being on my ass I saw the mauled visage of the Jarl looking up scornfully at the Seer.

  "I am no ones puppet woman" the Jarl bit back the Necrotic Fire reflareing to life around him.

  "Be careful you might fry what little of the brain cells you have left" the replied hauntingly as she floated above the ground. While they looked like they were about to have a standoff I felt a mental nudge from Anastasia.

  'dont speak I'm right behind you boss, let me patch you up' Anastasia stated me as she began to covertly bandaged and covered as many of the burn injuries as she could without giving herself away.

  "Why do you challenge me now of all times? Couldn't take me on yourself so you had to wait for the challenger to tenderize me first?" The Jarl demanded.

  "Yes good job, you managed to figure it out without me spelling out for you!" The Seer yelled at the Jarl. I had to hold back a chuckle as my enemies had a platonic lovers spat.

  "Okay well if you fight me right now I'll make sure that this ass hat over here can kill you!" The Jarl pointed his finger at the Seer his voice full of venom.

  "You're death will make a nice little offering to the Dark Princeling, he was taken an Unnatural interest in this challenger he has even resumed speaking to me" the Seer spoke with a sadistic glee.

  "But, but the Dark Princeling he supports me, he grants me his boon and power, why would he reward you?" The Jarl asked now with confusion instead of anger in his tone.

  "The Dark Princeling is not only a Demon Prince of Tyranny he is also the Prince of Rebellion and Patron of Usurpers, he will reward me for my actions here today!" The Seer cackled.

  "Well then let's See who shall have his favor! Tyranny or Rebellion!" The Jarl yelled as he began to clash against the Seer.

  This was perfect while these two fought it out I could snipe the kill of the Jarl and then finish off a weakened Seer. All while Anastasia had more time to wrap my injuries. In the backdrop of the battle the Other undead and Anastasia's puppets battled. The Puppets where massively out numbered but not outgunned as the Puppet Commander used his copy of my Skill [Knights Bulwark] to create an near unbreakable shield of force that allowed them to easily battle the undead. Once our puppets finished their they could help me in my battle against the two elites. Or at least that was my hope.

  The Jarl used a mix of ash and telekinesis as his fire was off little use against another undead. Versus the Seer who had the uncanny ability to dodge at the last moment and used blasts of red energy from the crystals. They where a little underwhelming In the damage they felt though by the looks of the trees the beams clipped it would not work well with me. By the surprise of the Jarls expression he clearly did not know of this ability, probably why she didn't use it against me.

  One was trying to kill the other without using to much of their resources and the other was trying to inflict as much damage as possible before they gave out. While I watched the battle insue I began to tinker with a basic curse construct weaving and unweaving it as fast as possible in order to use it In combat. Taking a quick look at the system notifications I saw what happened. The system or Dothrinoxtin had blocked my ability to gain more traits, something or someone had unblocked it and had chosen two traits for me. One was [Split Aspect] which let me split in two but only at 80% combined power. The other was [Strength of the Underlands] which was a huge buff to my strength.

  Checking my Mana reserves I saw that I still had half remaining thanks to most of it being blocked by the Holmgang Curse. My health was a different story I had fifty remaining, which was not good. However while I had the chance I doused my weapons in my blood finally putting my [Gorgon's Blood] to use. Like the weird cousin of deja vu I imagined what my dad would say if he saw me the right now. He'd probably freak the fuck out.

  Hehe... Moving on I began to weave a curse, it was kinda like a mix of tying your shoes with gloves on and being really really angry at someone. It took some time, and really the only reason the Seer hadn't obliterated the Jarl yet was because of a bad matchup and that she had to pace herself for her fight against me. Her red beams from the sky barely effected the Jarl, and the ash attacks where just weak to begin with only serving to buff the Necrotic Fire.

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  I had continued to refine the curse weaving as I had an abundance of anger right now both from the trickery and the fact that my whole body felt like an overcooked Lasagna.

  I watched in rapt attention as the Seer weaved around an axe blow her long flowing clothes wrapped around the weapon and with a twist the axe was ripped from its owners grasp. With a blast of red energy from the cavern ceiling the jarl was brought to his knees once more this time in worse shape. The Seer raised her hand and in its grasp a sliver dagger long and slender.

  Alright this was when I intervened. A long spear of rock rose and speared through the torso of the Jarl. A system notification popped up confirming the kill. Pulling away the Jarls corpse my eye locked on the veil over the Seer's face.

  "How dare you steal a kill from me!" The Seer spat out.

  "Technically I did all the work so it was you who tried to steal my kill" I responded as in the background I weaved a rudimentary curse construct meant to increase somethings weight or at least I think so. Her floating figure sagged under the quite literal weight of my curse.

  "Oh, so you want to play with curses?" The Seer stated as once again rose up from the ground, although my curse was still there weighing her down.

  Almost Immediately I had to dodge to the left as a beam of red energy seared the ground where I was. Sending a spear of earth flying towards the Seer as I had to consistently dodge the beams which where not going to be good for my continued health and my remaining fifty points of health. With a quick look I nodded at Anastasia who sneaked attacked the Seer.

  "Ugh! what is this, spider silk?" The Seer stated shocked as she tried to pull away from the webbed constraints. As she was distracted the beams stopped long enough for me to launch myself into the air Tackling the Seer

  "Argh! How dare you unruly child!" The Seer struggled until finally we struck the earth the ground shook as we hit the ground. Standing up I picked up and threw the Seer into the air where she was blasted by Anastasia's Venom.

  A strangled scream tore from the Seer's throat as she burst into a ball of Necrotic Fire melting away her cloth and revealing an old lady with skin pulled taunt over bones and a pale complexion. Her face was full of anger as she floated like a flaming banshee before she screamed in rage before long tongues of fire blew from her out stretched hands and beams of red light came from behind. The trees became the primary victims of the assault and their flaming corpses crashes Into the undead hiding under their cover. I had to weave back and forth away from the attacks of from both sides. Anastasia had to pull back and away from the immediate fighting area.

  As the long tongues of fire began to attack at me I sent up a large chunk of Mana to form [Force Field] while at the same time I began to shape a heavy reinforced chuck of earth high above the Seer. Under heavy fire the black flames didn't make the world warm no it made it cold. Frost spread across the husks of the dead trees and around my shield as the absorbed light and heat. The Anti thesis to fire, man's red flower.

  Then with a final push a large boulder fell from above its departure left no sound as it simply fell from above. It's shadow though blotted out the sunstones which would send blasts periodically at my shields. As the Seer tried to fly away I strengthen the Curse slowly her down just enough for Anastasia to wrangle her with webs.

  The boulder fell the Seer caught under its weight. A strangled scream as it was crushed by the boulder and it one last tune was struck. I slumber forward onto my knees.

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  [Level Up x3]*

  You have leveled up there times after slaying the [The Jarl of the Bloodlaurels] and the [Seer of the Dark Princeling]. You Now have twenty stat points to allocate.

  *Due to an unauthorized lifting of a system penalty one level has been confiscated from you.

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  [Tutorial Quest Completed]

  You have completed the Primary Quest Objectives for the second layer of the Tutorial.

  Kill the Draugur Raider: ?

  Kill the Draugur Jarl: ?

  Kill the Draugur Seer: ?

  *You can now move on to the next layer of the Tutorial at any time*

  Rewards: System Upgrade Token(Uncommon), and the Title:[Slayer of the Undead Cult]

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  [Bonus Tutorial Objective]

  Kill all Undead: [36,785/85,671]

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  [Title Gained]

  You have gained the title [Slayer of the Undead Cult]

  -[Slayer of the Undead Cult]

  Effects: Hostility with undead aligned with the Dark Princeling, all attacks against undead are Imbued with Radiance.

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  [Achievement Earned]

  -[Carry the Burdens of Battle]

  You're body is riddled with scars with more then 30% of your body's surface area covered with them.

  Effects: You gain the ability to hide scars, you gain trait [Tales of a Warrior] when all scars are present.

  -[Tales of a Warrior]

  You can boost your physical stats by five percent for thirty minutes, or you can boost your physical stats by ten percent for five minutes and suffer a debuff afterwards. You can only use one effect at a time and it only effects your base stat total.

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