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

waited, and I cursed myself for a fool, pulling up the inventory and examining the fresh loot.

There were only two Spellbooks, unfortunately. One was instantly useful, to my evil mind, ‘Control Water’, while the other was far more important. I passed ‘Control Water’ to Arrin and told him to read it and I’d explain why soon, then I opened the second book.

I read it quickly, my eyes flying across the pages as I frantically tried to take it all on, cursing myself distractedly for the time I’d lost in not reading this earlier.

Greater Examination:

This spell enables a far deeper examination of a target, at a significantly higher cost than that of the standard ‘Examine’. No Creature, Item, or Target will be able to hide its true nature from this spell.

Note: higher tier targets can obscure certain details. Increase your familiarity with this spell to lower the chance of this.

Cost: 50-150 mana, depending on targeted creature and information selected.

I gritted my teeth as the book began to shine, the words lifting from the pages and becoming glowing light that bored into my eyes. I felt the shifting, painful pressure as spell data, concepts of theory, and details I’d never known took up space in my brain, and I shook myself, trying to adjust to the new knowledge.

It was like biting into something, expecting it to be soft, and finding a damn nugget of bone, as I saw myself using my ‘Identify’ and then ‘Examine’ spells in the past.

This new information I’d gained made it clear that I’d been basically tossing the examinations off, seeing less than a third of what was there, and being satisfied with it.

I blinked away afterimages of gestures, arcane symbols, and more, seeing stars and moons before my eyes as I tried to focus.

“Jax…” Yen said warningly, and I blinked again, rubbing my eyes.

“God dammit…” I growled, frowning as I kept seeing things from the book overlaying my actual vision.

“Come on, boss, snap out of it!” I heard Grizz say, and I closed my eyes, breathing deep, then rubbed my eyes with the heel of my hand, before opening them and squinting, finally observing what they’d seen already.

A ship hovered just beyond the shattered section of the barricade, and a hulking form squatted on its deck, staring at us greedily from under tarpaulins and a heavy ‘haze’ spell that darkened the air and blocked away its hated enemy, the sun.

“Boss!” Grizz shouted, and I triggered ‘Greater Examination’, grinning as I saw so much more than ever before.

Your spells ‘Examine’ and ‘Greater Examination’ have linked, providing a greater depth of knowledge to be gained.   

Adolescent SporeMother

Any SporeMother is to be feared by sentient life, but this creature is at the cusp of adolescence, its accelerated growth fueled artificially by sacrificing sentient creatures in the dozens to it. This SporeMother is controlled by the use of both a Greater Domination spell and a slave collar, and still is only nominally under the control of its master, kept that way by a combination of pain and pleasure.

This SporeMother has reached a high enough level to begin creating the species’ greatest tool, DarkSpore.

Beware! Current DarkSpore capacity in use: 471/1000

Weaknesses: Fire, Light, and Life magics are all doubly effective against creatures of Darkness.

Resistances: Earth, Darkness, or Death magics used against this creature suffer a 75% damage penalty.

Critical Weaknesses: Sunlight

Level: 23

HP: 2785

Mana: 196/800

“Well, fuck me lovingly with a jackhammer…” I muttered, my eyes open wide in horror as I realized, perhaps fully for the first time, just how lucky I’d been in facing the decrepit SporeMother I had in the past.

This thing was far more powerful; hell, it could create and control a thousand DarkSpore. That was enough to swamp us in the damn things without ever having to get close enough to fight, and even if we managed to survive, we’d be exhausted!

I checked my mana and saw that it’d taken the full hundred and fifty to find out that much information, and I swore before telling the others what I’d seen.

I almost started casting ‘Cleansing Fire’ immediately, but I didn’t dare. I needed the damn things in close before I used that.

The ship moved backward, exposing more of itself as she watched us, and I thought quickly, remembering the fight in the Tower. It’d been too afraid of the Sun, and here, that was our greatest weapon, I realized.

“Okay, guys,” I said bluntly, glaring at the mobile darkness on the deck of the ship opposite. “Those fuckers hate the sun, and I mean hate. It’ll kill them quick, so our best chance of winning this is to expose that thing to the sun, somehow. Failing that, it’s fire and light magic, and good old-fashioned slaughter. If any of you get hit by DarkSpore, tell me. Don’t try to fight it alone; they’re parasitic little clouds that will sink into your skin and eat you from the inside out, controlling you. I’ll use a spell to surround myself with fire; if you get injured, step into the flames. I think it shouldn’t burn you, but I don’t know for sure. I do know that the flames will kill the DarkSpore, though, and then I, or Arrin, will heal you. That’s the best advice I can give you for now. Once the ship’s ready, I’ll set the explosives off and hopefully most of the barricade will be taken out, then, in the words of the wisest rabbit I know, we ‘Run Away’!” I said, grinning to myself as I thought about that damn waskerly wabbit.

“Rabbit?” Yen said slowly, then she quickly thrust a hand up. “No, don’t tell me; I don’t need more of your crazy.”

I noticed the looks the others were giving me after a second, then I shrugged and they unanimously moved on, clearly having decided ignoring me was the way forward when I talked like that.

“What have we got that could hit her from here?” I asked the group, and Yen shrugged again.

“I could hit it from here with a