Titan: A LitRPG Adventure (UnderVerse Book 4) Jez Cajiao (top ten books of all time TXT) 📖

Empire. This weapon is inscribed with the motto of the assassins ‘Carpe noctem, die causa vivendi’ and can be used to inflict the following wounds:

Fester: Inflict a gradually building fever, the original attack has a 50% chance to numb and seal the wound, leaving the victim unaware of the injury. Cost 250 mana

Necrotic Feasting: This wound will spread, dissolving the flesh of the victim, this wound cannot be stopped so long as there is flesh to convert, only slowed. Cost 150hp

Infected: Gives the victim a 50% chance of the wound becoming infected and requiring special healing. Cost 50hp

Poisoned: 25% chance to cause additional 5-15hp damage to the victim per strike. Cost 75mana

Special attack: Cursed! For 100HP and mana, the wielder can inflict wounds that cannot be sealed, bleeding the victim to death, or until this curse is removed by use of CurseBreaker. Wielder receives 10% of the bleed effect as additional health until this effect is dispelled.

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Legendary

Yes

67/120

30/500

I read and reread the details, wondering what the hell ‘CurseBreaker’ was. I called to Grizz, seeing that Tang was already gone, and Stephanos had moved over to stand guard over the prisoners in his place.

“Grizz, we need something called ‘CurseBreaker’; no idea what it is beyond that…” I said, and he nodded, moving back to the corpse and starting to search it quickly.

I saw the look of pain on Hannimish’s face as Grizz so casually and roughly tore through the pockets, bags, and other belongings. I scowled, understanding the feeling of horror somewhat, but dismissing it, as Joshua was a fucking prick.

Grizz started tearing things free, passing them over to pile up next to me, and I went to work.

Boots of Bloody Stepping

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

Gain +3 to speed when these boots have recently been splashed with fresh sentient blood.

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Rare

Yes

57/100

N/A

Midnight’s Vision ring

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

Gain +200ft to DarkVision

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Rare

Yes

95/100

N/A

Ring of Healing

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

+250HP in instantaneous healing, single use per charge

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Highly Rare

Yes

92/100

2/5

Barbed Dagger

Further Description Yes/No

Damage

10-25

Details:

This dagger has been enhanced with serrated teeth along the rear of the spine to do additional damage

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Uncommon

No

77/100

N/A

Coif of the Night’s Warden

Further Description Yes/No

Details:

Gain +5 to defense when equipped. Collect two further pieces of the Night’s Warden Set to receive further set bonuses

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Rare

Yes

52/100

N/A

CurseBreaker

Further Description Yes/No

Damage

1-4

Details:

A specially created companion to the ‘Death’s Kiss’ blade. When ‘CurseBreaker’ is returned to its place in the hilt, any wounds that have been inflicted by ‘Death’s Kiss’ will cease to have magical aspects.

Rarity

Magical

Durability

Charge:

Legendary

Yes

67/100

N/A

“Well, thank fuck for that,” I breathed, turning the dagger over and over as I examined it. ‘CurseBreaker’ was a thin metal rod, about half as thick and long as my little finger, and after a few seconds of careful searching, I found the slot. At the base of the weapon, a thin metal plate had been hidden, and when I touched the rod to it, it slid aside, revealing a narrow hollow, clearly meant to house it.

I slid it in and let out a sigh as another prompt popped up.

Congratulations!

You have broken 17 continuous infliction wounds spread across the following victims:

Al’an Triniar

Rennical Tosa

Proma Ris’aun

Wellin Jeffer

Bane Ter’Jax

CurseBreaker will no longer funnel health to the following bearer: Cletus Thane. Do you wish to break the bonds between Cletus and this weapon, allowing another to wield it fully?

Yes/No

I selected yes, and I felt the dagger shudder strangely, seeming to become lighter in my hand.

“Who the hell were they?” I muttered to myself, having recognized only Bane’s name amongst them. Then I shook my head and took the sheath that Grizz offered me for the dagger. I swept the rest of the gear he’d stripped off Joshua up, dumping it in the bag, and forced myself to my feet, grimacing at the phantom feeling of still having the rest of my left arm. Again.

I forced it out of my mind and walked to the Vault, inspecting the walls where they glowed gently. Oracle would have cracked this in a second, I just damn well knew, but I didn’t have her, so I was going to have to figure it out.

I walked slowly around it, Grizz walking with me, watchfully staring out at the darkness. Idly, I played with the Midnight Vision ring as I went, slipping it on and off my little finger in my pocket, as Grizz carried my naginata for me.

After two complete circuits of the small domed area, I was still none the wiser, and I finally stopped at a cleared section, noting the marks on the floor nearby showed that something had stood here for a long, long time to wear grooves in the metal like that.

There were four patches, two further apart at the front, and two closer together at the back, with rough patches where they’d been shifted again and again over the years…

They almost looked like...

“A chair…” I muttered, straightening up from where I’d been crouched to examine them. I looked around and spotted a chair where it sat against a stack of old bones and general detritus.

The room gave the impression that it’d become a mixture of a throne room, a bedroom, and a marshalling hall for the Lich, with piles of random shit everywhere; collapsed small walls, and weird items, including a wheel of bones joined together with a seat in the middle that made me think of a waltzer at a fairground. I shrugged dismissing the details, as I strode over and grabbed the chair, before having Grizz gently but firmly take it from me and carry it over.

I looked at it as he turned it over, then put it down in what must have been its accustomed position. It grated into place, crumbs of bone filling the grooves, but once it was there, there was nothing else, and I frowned, thinking I was missing a latch or…

“God dammit, I’m an idiot!”  I cursed myself and I closed my eyes, concentrating. I shifted my consciousness sideways somehow and focused, activating an Ability.

As soon as I felt ‘Seek That Which is Hidden’ activate, I reopened my eyes and froze. The entire room