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"Hmm..."
As Astalos looked around him, he realized he was completely lost. Trees after trees, patches after patches of grass... He was checking his direction by reading stars and it had never failed him until now. Something was odd about this place. Something was preventing him from reaching the fortress.
Maybe the fortress was once a dungeon of an ancient spell caster? Something must be affecting his sense of direction. In order to go forward, he has to stop this phenomena from affecting his mind. He casted
Shielded Mind.
Once the spell stopped the unknown influence, he could see an entrance to the fortress... and something right under the arch of the entrance. It was an empty suit of armour made from some kind of black materials.
Astalos slowly walked toward it. As he got closer to the standing armour, he felt his hairs standing. When he was about five meters away from the armour, he realized the helm of the armour moved a little bit as if it was watching him.
He unsheathed his sword just in case the armour attacks him. It sounded like a non-sense but he wanted to make sure.
And he was right.
As he was walking past the armour, it moved its arms and swung the giant sword it was carrying. He tried to block the sword by tilting his sword but he realized it was a mistake. As the giant sword hit his sword, he quickly casted
Air Shield, The giant sword broke his sword like a twig and hit his magic shield. The shield deflected the sword and caused the armour to lose balance. But as the armour was about to hit the ground, runic symbols appeared on the surface of the armour and the armour quickly regained its balance.
Astalos watched this with shock. This armour was a guardian. And it was a powerful one. Powerful enough to use magic. It was nothing like what spellcasters use. The magic the armour just used was not refined or structured like those of spellcasters'. It was more primitive yet powerful and dangerous.
Astalos quickly took a few steps back to keep some distance from the armour. He realized this was not going to be an easy fight. Maybe even tougher than the battle with the templars. At least the templars were beatable.
The armour stared at him for about ten seconds then charged at him. As the armour charged toward him, he quickly used
Wall of Flame and
Ignite.
