“Hey, uhh, druid guy! Err, what’s your name again?! Caden?! Casey?! Queso?!” Miri shouted, almost as if taunting him.
“It’s Caleb! Caleb Ashgrove,” Caleb said, feeling slightly annoyed. He suspected that this was perhaps the redhead’s way of emotionally undermining him since she couldn’t secure a real victory in a situation like this.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever! You said that you sealed all the exits, right?!”
“That’s right, I did indeed. There is absolutely no escape.”
“You made sure all those seals are watertight?”
Caleb raised an eyebrow out of curiosity. “I don’t see how that is in any way relevant to your predicament at the moment.”
“Oh, it’s gonna be relevant real soon, Queso Asshat!” Miri said with a smirk before turning to Anne. “Hey, Anne. I’ve got a plan, but it’s probably gonna sting a little. Do you trust me on this?”
“Why, of course, I trust you. What’s the plan?” Anne asked.
“Well, it’ll be easier if I just show you. But first, I’ll need you to place a ‘Shock Resist’ boon on both of us.”
“Alright then.”
With a swirling glow of yellow light, Anne applied a “Shock Resist” boon on both her and Miri. In the world of Runehunter Chronicles, boons and banes were basically just another word for buffs and debuffs. The “Shock Resist” boon was pretty much self-explanatory—it offered a 50% resistance in shock damage to anyone who’d received it for a set duration, usually for a few minutes or so. Anne didn’t quite know what Miri had planned, but she trusted her partner enough to simply do as she asked without question.
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Once the boon was applied, Miri quickly gulped down a mana potion to replenish her mana fully once more. What she's about to do was probably going to take every ounce of mana she had in her body. Focusing on a particular spot on the ground in front of her, she began casting her spell.
“Meteor Impact!” Miri yelled, summoning a meteor that crashed into the ground at that specific spot, seemingly hitting nothing in particular. Following that last cast, she proceeded to cast another, and then another, and then yet another—all targeting that exact same spot. “Meteor Impact! Meteor Impact! METEOR IMPACT!!!”
The explosive forces delivered by that series of Meteor Impacts were so tremendous that it pretty much shook the entire cavern with a trembling quake. Even the slimes from around were temporarily halting their advances due to being startled by the tremors.
“What do you think you’re doing?! Have you already gone mad?!” Caleb yelled from behind the barrier. “Are you trying to collapse the cave itself with everyone in it?! It’s not going to work! The cave is much too stable for even your meteors to collapse it! There’s no way your spells can have any effect on—”
Suddenly, a crack formed and expanded from the spot where Miri’s meteors had landed, followed by a huge geyser sprouting upward, spraying water all over the place. In a matter of seconds, the area around the geyser was pretty much flooded with a wide yet shallow pool of water, one that managed to extend itself to some of the slimes nearby.
“Quickly, Anne! Get to high ground!” Miri urged, prompting her and Anne to climb up to one of the long, tall stalagmites nearby so that their feet did not touch the water on the ground. Then, extending her staff outward towards the group of slimes that were standing in that pool of water, she fired another spell. “Shock Orb!”
An orb of yellow lightning was fired out of Miri’s staff and onto the group of slimes, the shock damage amplified by the conductive pool of water underneath them. In an instant, nearly half of all the slimes present were electrocuted from that one single Shock Orb, their bodies zapped and fried as yellow sparks of electricity surged through their gelatinous, blob-like bodies.
