The Dungeon Fairy: Three Lives: A Dungeon Core Escapade (The Hapless Dungeon Fairy Book 3) by Jonathan Brooks (android pdf ebook reader TXT) 📗

had been so busy over the last few days, though, that she needed her Assistant nearby to help; as a result, it had been nearly a week since he had checked in.

“Recently, the Raiders finally decided to strike back at these mysterious people, sending a force to stop the destruction from happening as well as to take revenge for their own fallen, which they had been informed of by their own methods.  Today, from all the sources I can gather, will be the confrontation – and I fear it will not bode well for them.  I have about a dozen free Assistants watching the inevitable clash, and I thought it would be prudent for someone who has seen these things and lived to tell the tale to watch.  I’m told you can perceive what Shale is seeing and experiencing, even from a distance?”

Tacca was a bit perturbed that Shale had been sharing information about their Bond to the Head Instructor, but she let that pass as the import of what the stuffy old Fairy was saying finally hit her.  Yes, that’s true.  You say it’s happening right now?

“We believe so, or it will within a few minutes.  Shale, if you’ll come with me?”

Go.  I’ll watch from our Link – if it works, that is.

“I’ll do what I can.  Let’s go, Head Instructor.”

The next moment, both of them disappeared, and Tacca felt the Perception Link enabled moments later.  It took her a moment to fully comprehend where Shale was, but when she did she listened in and watched what was happening.

“…about as close as we can get before whatever effect these murderous people are employing will affect us.  Not being able to Translocate out or keep our Invisibility up is dangerous, and we don’t want to be caught by them,” she heard Lapis explain.

Shale looked around, sensing that there were about a dozen other Fairies nearby, though they were using their Invisibility to hide themselves.  When he turned back to what was going on about 500 feet below them, Tacca was awestruck at what she was witnessing.

Thousands of Raiders were charging towards a line of approximately 50 blue-skinned, 6-armed figures, all holding various weapons like she’d seen before.  Tacca figuratively shivered as she remembered those same weapons slaughtering the Raiders outside of her dungeon with ease, and how the monstrous people had managed to ignore almost everything she had thrown at them in her dungeon, from creatures to traps.  They had shrugged off any type of damage because of a white glow surrounding each of them, some sort of shield that was invisible until it was forced to block that damage.

This time, though, for some reason Tacca could see the hazy white glow of their shields even before they were attacked.  That’s strange.  Shale, why can I see their glow already?

“What are you talking about?  What glow?”

The shield that protects them, Shale.  You know, that’s why they’re glowing? 

“I don’t see anything, Tacca.”

It was extremely obvious to Tacca that they were there, and it was like Shale was being deliberately obtuse.  Regardless, she didn’t argue with him, because the leading edge of the Raiders was already within range of the blue-skinned line.  Spells flew through the air from behind those in front of the charge, slamming into the six-armed people in a maelstrom of multicolored death, knocking them back and causing their shields to flare up and then fade a little.  A second wave of casted spells impacted them with even more force, sending one of them flying, its shield collapsing as it was forced to block too much damage.  It didn’t seem to be hurt, though, as it tumbled to a stop 40 feet back from the rest of the group, though it did appear to be startled and disoriented when it quickly got back to its feet.

Yes!  That’s exactly what they need to do!

In her message to the two Hill Dwarves, she had mentioned a way that the invaders could be defeated, with overwhelming attacks that could bring down their defenses, and it seemed as though they had passed on the word to those that could take advantage of that knowledge.

She saw a second and third blue-skinned invader lose their shields as they grunted in pain and fell back a few steps, but they quickly got back into formation moments later.  A few seconds after that, Tacca saw the hazy glow start up again around their bodies, as if the shield was being automatically replaced after it had been used up.

Almost like one of Tacca’s traps that had been triggered; it took a little while for them to “recharge” with Dungeon Force taken from her Core, where it would become active.  This was similar, but instead of taking minutes or hours, these shields were doing it in seconds.  Not only that, but they didn’t wait until they were fully “recharged” to be of use, but would be functional at a limited capacity in a very short amount of time.

What that essentially meant was that when the first ranks of Raiders finally approached them, most of their glowing protection fields had at least partially recovered from the first two waves of spells thrown at them; a third wave was held off as their fellows got too close, where the risk of hurting them as well increased.  That proved to be a costly mistake, though they didn’t know it at the time.

Dozens of different Classes of Melee fighters clashed with the blue-skinned people, using abilities that allowed them to do more damage, to approach their opponents with speed, or bash them with their shields.  Powerful flashes of different-colored light streamed out from the Melee Class’ weapons, as special techniques were used to inflict various effects or for attacking faster than the eye could see.  Some wielded two weapons, slashing and hacking with abandon, dancing around their opponents and looking for an