The Savage Brawl [Round 5: Battletopia]

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Konka Rar was concerned. This close, the slime was sapping his magic too fast for him to do anything. But without magic, what could he...

He shook his head. The voices were interfering with his thought processes. The lich gazed at his cybernetic left arm. Of course he could fight without the aid of his magic.

Konka Rar pointed his arm at what he presumed to be an ordinary piece of Ekelhaft, and fired. The slime dodged, moving further down the crater. Konka Rar fired again, and the cycle repeated.

Only when Self had moved far enough for the voices of insanity to recede did the lich realize his tactical blunder.

The blasts had created several holes in the walls of the crater. More worryingly, cracks were beginning to form, spreading outward from the holes. Too late, Konka Rar realized that his defense would not last.

In desperation, he leapt over an edge, landing on top of one of the higher walls of the maze. The crater collapsed; perhaps that piece of the blob had been crushed by the avalanche, but Rar somehow suspected that would not be enough. At least he still had a chance to escape, and was free of Ekelhaft's influence.

Konka Rar recast his levitation spell, and decided to cut his losses and leave the maze, hovering across slightly lower walls whenever he could. With luck, Ekelhaft would be too preoccupied with the Hand of Silver to notice the lich escaping.