Mystical Necklace (solo job)

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Magna was having a rather usual day hanging around town looking for ingredients of all kinds. It was a market day in Rose Garden, not the most common occurance, but today was going to turn out anything except ordinary for him. So in a way it made sense for a market to be here when it wasn't. Some of the stalls were not selling ingredients that were legal, some were clearly narcotics and as a legal mage it was of course his duty to report it. That or do exactly what he did, which was to walk past and flicked his hand downwards dropping a rotten egg, several in fact, by each stall. Several people ran off immediately from the stalls causing him to grin. Especially, as shortly after each of the stalls collapsed as their legs were hit by knives made of energy. There was no evidence of who it was. Unless of course you were paying attention and noticed that it was shortly after he walked past the things happened. Magna was not one to allow for narcotics to enter his town, even if he was formerly part of a bandit group and was technically part of a mafia.

It was at he'd taken down the final stall that suddenly someone came running at him and he went into a defensive stance, but the person didn't stop or speak or anything. He just ran straight past leaving, much to Magna's surprise, a letter in his hand. The letter wasn't normal either and seemed to have a strange magical aura to it. Not one he could place. He shrugged and unrolled the letter and began to read it.

It detailed a new ruin that had appeared over by the other ancient ruins. A ruin that, much like many of the ruins there, housed a powerful magical artefact. What was odd though was that he'd had the letter given to him by someone running like that. Why not just give him the letter normally? Or deliver it to the guild? It was a rather strange way of doing things. What's more it seemed to be addressed to him as if he could go get the item and no-one else could, but it also seemed like there would be opponents. A contest then. He had to get it before someone 'not worthy'. Apparently, he was worthy or so the letter suggested. He wondered if others had received the same latter.

"Oh well, could be fun." he said and headed off to go to the ancient ruins. It was time to go smash some bad guys and conquer some ruins. That was what he did. Or at least, it seemed a more common occurrence. In truth he did not relish, or even mayo, returning to the ruins. It would bring back bad memories of his time with Raiza there. That time he'd been forced to kill other humans and he really didn't like doing that.

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The ancient ruins was not the best place for Magna. He had bad memories from the last time he came here. On that day he had come with a mage named Raiza, who according to news was now a coming storm, and the two had been here to find some ancient treasure of the wizard saints and stop a treasure hunting gang of dark mages getting their hands on it. Thinking back it was not surprising that Raiza had become a dark mage, nor that he become dark enough to be a coming storm. To him everything was a game and people were just pieces for him to use. In a way, Magna thought the same. Everything was an ingredient which if mixed the right way came to success, but Magna valued human and humanoid lifely. Without good reason, and there were few of those, he would not take the life of a human or humanoid. Perhaps this was a bit for selfish reasons because if he killed them then they wouldn't be able to sample his food, but also because human life was important. Humans had so much potential to change the world. Just look at some of the things they had made and yet on that day he had done exactly what he didn't want to do. He had been forced to put his own life ahead of others. No, not even that. If he'd run or turned back then people would still be alive. He'd put the success of the mission and maybe the protection of his ally for the job above the life of others. Due to that people had died. Their skin and bones turned to ash. Nobody was there to mourn them. Nobody would remember them. They were just dead. No, that wasn't true Magna would always remember them. They were on his conscience and would be till the end of his days.

Yes, this place had bad memories, but perhaps today he could make it have some positives. He would find the artefact and stop others getting it and he wouldn't kill any of them. Non-lethality was the way forward. Killing was not in his nature when it came to humans and it shouldn't be in the nature of a legal mage. Nobody really deserved to die. His life was no more valuable than anyone elses. He knew that better than most. In fact, that was a bit of a lie. He saw Shade's life as more valuable than his own. He'd sacrifice his life or take down entire armies to protect her from harm.

He stopped at the edge of the ruins staring at them his body frozen in memory. It was at this spot that the two mages had gone forward into the ruins. It was this point when he'd tried to convince Raiza to go the non-lethal way. To sneak past the opponents and defend the treasure rather than killing people, but that hadn't happened. No, people had died. He clenched his fist. He couldn't dwell on the past. He had to move forward and get this treasure, whatever the hell it was. He couldn't let it fall into the hand of evil.

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(rolling all dice now)

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'Monster Dice' :

As he approached the ruins he suddenly dropped down behind an outcropping of rock and glanced through. He saw two people standing there in heavy plate armor with huge swords and shields. They didn't look particularly powerful magic wise, but they had a lot of physical strength between them judging by the heavy swords and shields they were wielding. He flexed his knuckles and broke into a dash heading straight for them. The two saw him coming and moved to attack swinging their swords down, but Magna leaped straight through the middle and landed just behind them. They turned swinging their swords, but he backflipped and used his gauntlets to propel himselves backward and over the top. Their sword swings were slow and cumbersome. They had a lot of power behind them, but they did not possess the finesse needed to hit the monkey mage.

That was good. If he had an edge on speed he could wear them down without doing any real damage. This time as they swung the swords down he leaped backwards thrusting his gauntlets forward striking both of them in their sword hand forcing them to drop the weapon. In that armor they wouldn't be able to bend easily to grab their armor. Not without putting themselves at risk. He smirked slightly. Armor like this was no match for magic or martial arts both of which he had in spades.

It was time to end this and in a non lethal fashion. With a snap of his fingers a bottle of oil appeared above the awe stricken knights and poured down upon them covering them in a slippery vegetable oil. So slippery in fact that on the uneven surface of the ruin entrance they slipped and slammed into eachother head first taking them both out at once. Even if it hadn't taken them out they would not of been able to get up. He nodded and leaped over the pair heading down into the dungeons. Now all he had to do was work his way through and try not to run into anyone else or anything else.

As he got further in he stopped suddenly. Ahead of him were, from what he could tell, four identical square rooms. They looked completely inconspicuous, but it seemed there was something dangerous about them judging by the bodies on the floor. Knights similar to the ones earlier and some that looked more like your typical treasure hunters. In fact, some of them even wore the same garb as those that worked for Harper Goldshine. They obviously had a new leader. Unless Harper had survived and was up ahead somewhere.

He stepped cautiously into the room making note of where the bodies were and then his foot caused a part of the floor to depress and there was a strange clunking noise. Traps. Just what he needed.

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'Normal Dice' :

Out of nowhere suddenly arrows fired forth and he ran forward trying to dodge the blows, but five hit into him and he gasped out in pain as he slid to a halt between this room and the next. It seemed that each of the four rooms would be trapped in some way. He'd been unlucky in that one and taken a fair bit of damage. With a wince of pain he tore each of the arrows out and panted standing there. He conjured up a small bottle of whisky and poured it onto each of the wounds wincing as it stung him. It would keep the wounds clean at least. Now all he had to do was make it through the next three rooms.

Moving forward he extended the energy blades from his gauntlets and caused a frying pan to appear within his tail. Using these three tools he hoped to be able to defend himself should he fail to sneak through the rooms without provoking traps. It was gonna be hard and there were no obvious signs as to what would be a trigger and what wouldn't. There were also no obvious signs as to where the traps would respond. His only guide really was where the corpses were. Likely around them within a few steps was a trap of sorts.

He took a step into the room slowly and began to walk slowly. However, like before as he got further into the room a panel on the floor depressed and there was another clanking sound. He broke into a run ready to avoid the traps as best as he could. He made his choice then which was to run and go through the entire set of rooms at a run. If he got hit by traps in each of them he can try to heal off the damage.

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(I'm gonna use an element dice to divide the remaining dice rolls so its easy to pick out the sets of five.)

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#1 'Normal Dice' :


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#2 'Fire-Water-Earth' :


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#3 'Normal Dice' :


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#5 'Normal Dice' :

He broke into a run at high speed, but in each room he triggered a trap. It seemed it was almost impossible to go through these rooms without triggering a trap. If he'd used his gauntlets to leap over the room then the kinetic blasts would likely have triggered traps as well. What he needed was some way to swing across perhaps. If he had some sort of rope perhaps. Yes, he needed to develop some spells for more utility based effects. Perhaps a noodle rope to bind opponents or swing across dangers. That sounded good, but right now he couldn't do much. He had to get through these rooms.

The first room had been arrows. This second room was spikes which shot up from the ground digging into him. He managed to avoid most of the blows, but two manage to slice into his leg. It was those sliced that caused him to stumble and trigger the next set of traps in the third room. These were spinning saw blades that cut into his body. Two of them hit him damaging his arms, but fortunately his clothing took most of the damage. He gasped out and ran through the fourth and final room. It was as he triggered the trap in this that he propelled himself forward with the gauntlets. THis was because the arrows that came out this time seemed to be topped with some sort of liquid. However, despite his swift movements still one arrow hit him. The liquid wasn't poison like he expected. No, instead it burned heavily. An acid of some kind. He rolled into an empty chamber. There was no sign of dead bodies in here. He nodded and tore out the final arrow using some water he conjured up to wash the acid off.

"Eau de victoria." he whispered forming a golden mist which swirled around him and began to heal his body. The mist wouldn't heal him entirely, but it would certainly help and it was a good thing to because as the mist did its work a huge 7ft tall demonic creature formed in front of an altar.

"YOU ARE TOO LATE MORTAL. THE TREASURE HERE HAS BEEN STOLEN." it bellowed taking a step forward extending razor sharp claws from its hand. "YOUR GREED WILL STILL HAVE ITS CONSEQUENCES. FROM HERE YOU WILL NOT LEAVE ALIVE."

"I did not come here to steal the treasure out of greed." Magna said standing there unwrapped the headband from his waist and binding it about his brow. "I received a letter saying dark mages were coming for it...and wanted to stop. I came to protect it from falling into the wrong hands."

The demon leaned down staring Magna right in the eyes. "YOU LIE TO ME OUT OF FEAR." the demon said lifting Magna up. "YOU SHALL DIE FOR YOUR FALSEHOODS." Magna shook his head in denial. "YOU SAY YOU SPEAK TRUE? WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE?" It was at that point that suddenly a glowing figure appeared behind him.

"I cannot form myself into a body yet, but I can still show my spirit. You should trust Magna. He has greater honour than many knights. I should know." The demon dropped Magna and twirled around to face the humanoid yet somehow wolf like glowing image.

"YOUR SOUL IS STRONG SPIRIT WARRIOR. I WILL TRUST YOUR WORDS FOR NOW, BUT ON A SINGLE CONDITION. MAGNA MUST PROVE HIS WORTH." the demon said turning back to Magna. "STRIKE ME WITH YOUR STRONGEST POWER. I WILL KNOW YOU THEN CHEF. DO NOT WORRY I CANNOT DIE"

"I have two spells that when used in conjunction are my strongest. Is that fair?" The demon nodded and Magna focused preparing his strongest fire spell. A ball of fire formed at the tip of his finger slowly condensing itself into a large sphere which launched at the demon hitting in squarely in the chest engulfing its body in fire. The demon raised a finger indicating that the first spell had been launched. "That was my Searing Blow Torch. Now i'll show you my Frozen Blender." With that he ran at the demon and leaped into the air swirling rapidly into a humanoid drill surrounded in a strange liquid that radiated cold. As he got closer it split into three and then converted into one at it hit the demon and from the other side formed Magna in a crouch. The demon let out a roar of agony and laughter.

"YOU POSSESS THE POWER OF THE CERBERUS. NO NORMAL MORTAL CAN WIELD SUCH POWER AND COMBINE IT WITH OTHERS. YOU ARE A MIGHTY WARRIOR. YOU HAVE PROVEN YOUR WORTH. GO FREE." With that Magna vanished appearing outside the temple.

"FIND THE MYSTICAL NECKLACE AND RETURN IT IF YOU CAN, BUT I DO NOT HOLD YOU UNDER OATH."

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