The 1st Light of Dawn Tournament | Labyrinth of Champions | Phase 1 | Entrant #1 - Audurna Yan

The demon screeched horribly and writhed as Audurna stabbed it in the throat.  It ran towards the wall, slammed into it and fell down dead.  It wasn't long before the demon crumbled away into a pile of ash and dust.  It fizzled away and died.  It was gone.  It was over.  The Molten Core Hound was dead.  Now that leaves you with only one choice Champion.  One choice with two options.  What you choose, however, can affect you forever.

You see the doors slide open.  The way you came is open too.  You can go back, but why would you?  What good would it do?  Only so you could fight some other monstrosity?  I mean, sure you'll probably fight more ahead, but at least you wont be losing progress.  Right?  So it's forward or back.  What do you choose?  Do you press on and brave the Labyrinth?  Or do you turn back and pick a different path?

As the Core Hound died away, Audurna felt the holy light purify her. As was the agreement at the start of the tournament. Half of the damage she took that battle was undone. Only half though. Audurna just hoped she could hit the centre before that half became death. Audurna sighed as she saw the doors open. Suddenly the labyrinth felt less confining.

Now she had a choice to make. Back or forward? Well, going backwards would get her nowhere, obviously. But it was nice to know if she found herself stuck she had the option to go backwards. No, but now, the only way to go was onwards. So, Audurna chose forward.

She went through the doorway that led to the next...well, whatever she found ahead. As she entered the new stone hallway, the door behind her closed. No turning back now. Probably not until she defeated the next boss. Whatever, or whoever, that was supposed to be. With a sigh, Audurna continued down the corridor in the near dark.

You walk down the dark corridor. There's the sound of howling wind and a cackle echoing down the labyrinth, bouncing off the walls. You don't know where it's coming from but you know it's unnerving. You keep doing. The walls are unnaturally dry and there's a slight breeze coming down the hallway, and it gets heavier as you walk farther down the path you're on. Maybe there's a storm outside the labyrinth? Well, you're not very sure. But you're just hoping there's no tornado for an opponent next.

You keep going, the corridor is long. It feels like a year as you keep walking, one foot in front of the other. Then you come to a crook in the road. It veers hard right, heading north towards the centre of the labyrinth. Not a bad choice you made. You're getting closer, or so you think. You're not sure, you don't have a map. But you press onwards because, well, what else are you going to do really?

You see a light down the long tunnel. It's another courtyard, and the heavy breeze coming from that direction seems to indicate that it's the source of the wind. Good luck Champion. Let's hope you have the strength to face what's there.

One of the first things Audurna noticed in the corridor was that all the torched were blown up after a certain point. Which kind of made sense as the deeper she went down the rabbit hole the stronger the wind became. A light tousle became a gentle breeze, which became wind, which became near torrential with brief respites in between. The wind only grew stronger as Audurna came to a corner, turning right towards the next courtyard.

The wind seemed to be coming from there, but it was hard to tell By now the wind was blowing so hard that Audurna's hair and robes were being blown about like she was standing in a tyhpoon. She had to raise her hands and arms to shield her face and eyes and kept going. Dust and small stones pelted her as she kept walking down the corridor. Audurna guided herself down the corridor by walking forward, eyes closed, with her hand on the wall.

It seemed like forever, probably because her eyes were closed, but after a while, Audurna felt the wall disappear. She had entered the courtyard and the wind had stopped. Audurna took a minute to rub the dust from her eyes and make sure she could see clearly. While she did, she heard the door slam behind her. Great.

The mighty Wind Guardian glares at you.  It's breathing, and it's body alone, have been the cause of the wind you've been feeling.  The great beast roars.  It sees you as an intruder.  Sure.  You wear foreign clothes, it doesn't recognize your face, and to be fair it's been 5000 years since it's seen another human being so sure it's going to have issues trusting you.

You can see somewhere deep in the torrential chest of the demon an elemental core.  The heart and stability of the demon lies in that core.  If you can get to it you can kill it in one shot.  But getting to it is not so easy.  You'll have to figure out how, but in the meantime, Champion, dodge!

The demon bringing it heavy, armoured fist down upon you, with such weight and and strength that you can feel the windy army cutting wind.  It's like getting hit by a tornado at point blank range.

Attack Accuracy

Random number (1,10) :

9

Attack Strength

Random number (1,7500) :

3974

Audurna felt the wind demon smash her into the ground with its heavy armoured and windy fist. The dust and sand that was in her eyes prevented her from being able to see all too clearly, and for that she suffered, feeling the attack collide with her body. With a groan of pain, Audurna lay there for a moment, unable to move, in quite a fair bit of pain.

It took much yelling within her head to get her to get up and fight back. As she stood she roared; a short sharp sound that was meant more to prove she was still alive than it was to intimidate and scare. It was funny though; before this Audurna had battled a great beast of molten flame. First fire, now wind. What was next? Water?

Oh well. Time to retaliate. Gathering all the fire she could, Audurna blasted it all towards the great beast. She was sure to aim to right of the best. The wind that made up its body seemed to be spinning in the left-wards direction, meaning if she aimed to the right it would suck the fire into its body. Audurna was doing her best to open up the demon and hit its core, or at least kill off some of the wind flow.

Fire fed on oxygen. It was common knowledge. It was part of the table of the elements. Wind erodes Earth, Earth soaks up Water, Water douses Fire, and Fire eats Air. Light and Dark were in the middle; never truly defeating one another. As the old saying goes: From the light comes darkness, and from darkness comes light. Neither could exist without the other; they lived in a permanent state of equilibrium and stalemate.

Audurna's hope was that the flames would burn off the excess oxygen and grow, thus allowing her to do more damage to the demon faster. Only time would tell though, and Audurna hoped that time was kind.

Attack Accuracy

Random number (1,10) :

6

Attack Strength

Random number (1,10000) :

5152

The demon roars, angrily, in pain. Your attack was successful. The spinning of the elemental's torrential body draws in the flame and the flames multiplies when it hits the air. It sucks up most of the oxygen, shrinking the demon. Through the body of the windy elemental being you can see its elemental core. Its heart. It's very existent, its soul and being. If you aim a shot correctly for the weak and now poorly protected heart, you can kill the demon in one shot.

Then again, if it misses at least you'll hit the demon. It's angry though, roaring. You better make your decision quickly. But first dodge! The demon comes at you, it swings its leg, it's aiming to kick you with a Spiritum Steel foot, hoping to slam you against the wall like a child's hide ball. Better move fast Champion.

Core Hit Threshold

Attack Accuracy

Random number (1,10) :

6

Attack Strength

Random number (1,7500) :

833