Apocalypse: Generic System Macronomicon (miss read books TXT) 📖

had to make sure he didn’t directly interact with the bosses as they came across them, instead doing crowd control from above for Jessica. The assassin flickered around them, making pinpoint turns at speeds that upset his stomach to watch, each turn accompanied by a spray of blood.

At the top of the mountain was a giant goat with phenomenal horns surrounded by hordes of smaller ones. Jessica had a little trouble when the big one’s horns unfurled and began whipping around like tentacles while firing beams of energy, but she eventually found an opening to inflict a major wound on the creature’s neck.

After that she danced around the creature a good ten minutes until it ran out of steam, then ended its life with a quick slash.

Beyond that, the rocky mountains turned…flame-y. All the scraggly brush that supported the hardy goats was burned away by the jets of fire erupting from the earth. Rock monsters reminiscent of the one he’d seen on Galaxy Quest seemed to be the creature of choice.

Some of them were tougher with an obsidian sheen and flames spurting out of their joints, and those ones were just as liable to toss a fireball as try and squish the puny humans to paste.

Jessica switched weapons to a heavy mace and used it to crack apart the monster’s stony exterior, forcing them to bleed magma.

The boss was a ten foot monstrosity with heavy obsidian armor and powerful flame magic. Jeb thought he might have to step in several times, but Jessica was able to chip the creature’s armor away by the skin of her teeth before driving Razorback into its weak core with a powerful thrust.

The Golem sank to the ground, collapsing onto its face.

When she drew the weapon back, it was missing the last third of its blade, ending in a glowing white stub.

Aw man…

Seeing the first treasure he’d ever found get destroyed sent a little pang of remorse through his heart, but he knew it couldn’t have lasted forever.

They spent most of their time scanning the mountain, searching the flamy-est bits for fire lenses.

After they found one in the largest geyser on the mountain, they decided it would be worth their time to check a lot of them.

There was only a lens in one out of every six or so geysers, but being able to fly around the mountain, they were able to spot and identify several dozen flame geysers, netting them a healthy profit of flame lenses.

All the lenses looked and felt like some variation of coal with a gentle flame rolling off of it. Jeb had to point out the pieces he suspected were lenses just so he didn’t grab an actual piece of coal.

In the end their haul was such:

5 flame lenses, ranging from large to small, looked like regular lumps of coal.

1 Large Geysering flame lens the size of a fist, with the appearance of compact bituminous coal.

1 Small Pure Flame lens, about the size of a golf-ball, but lumpy and oblong, with the jagged, glassy appearance of anthracite coal.

1 Noxious Flame Lens, sized between the first two, with the appearance of Lignite streaked with a pale impurity.

Raw Flame Lens (Vars.)

The common flame lens is used from applications from cooking in homes to fireballs created by the most powerful wizards. The utility of creating fire on demand will always be highly sought after in every sector, making these lenses somewhat valuable, despite their relatively common status among Lenses.

Raw Geysering Flame Lens (large)

Geysering Flame lenses have an element of high pressure in their nature that causes the created flames to manifest more violently, at a higher energetic state than a normal flame lens might. This increase in volatility makes this a dangerous choice for home use, although they are highly sought after for military and industrial applications.

Raw Pure Flame Lens (Small)

Coveted by craftsmen across Pharos, the Pure Flame Lens creates a beautiful blue flame that achieves the highest temperatures with the lowest amount of contaminants. Rarely found in nature, this lens is of tremendous value to those who work with metal for a living.

Raw Noxious Flame Lens (Normal)

Tinged by a metallic impurity, the Noxious Flame Lens creates flames accompanied by toxic fumes that can disable or kill those exposed to it. Unsuitable for use in home or industry, Noxious Flame Lenses occasionally see use in warfare; however, their use is a violation of the Sacarus Accord.

Hmmm…. Got some good goods, Jeb thought, eyeing the lenses. He was tempted to hide the pure flame lens from Ron when he came back, but he’d only agreed to give the man one, and Jeb didn’t think the necromancer would choose the small lens over the more explosive large one, or even the noxious lens, giving his undead creature’s presumed immunity to toxins.

If the necromancer did take the small, high quality one, that simply meant Jeb would walk away with the geyser lens, which would presumably make an excellent weapon – on the military scale – with a little sanding, shaping and polishing to focus its beam on a single target rather than exploding in his hand.

I don’t think I have time to do that…

The loot they got from clearing off the volcanic range netted them two more Potions, –  Body and Myst – along with a gold Ring of Body, a magical shield, a Feathersteel chain shirt, a Weighted Greataxe, Anklets of Retraced Steps, and a Stein of Bottomless Beer.

Jeb took the Feathersteel chain shirt and the ring, switching out his Myst Ring for it. Jessica picked out the Anklets of Retraced steps and Weighted Greataxe.

After a few hours of heated debate, they agreed to shared custody of the Stein of Bottomless Beer.

The shield was added to the Barter pile, along with a couple of Jeb’s regular fire lenses.

One of Jessica’s