Elder Blood Witcher 85 Big Problems

As they make there way through the fortress one thing becomes apparent, the architect had a fetish for elaborate traps. The place is like a temple in an overenthusiastic Indiana Jones movie, every other tile triggers some sort of dart, boulder, trap door, swinging blade or poison needle trap... And those are only the most common!

The two finally make it to the roof of the fortress and get a good look around, large amounts of knights patrol the roof while a giant keeps dropping boulders in what should be the boulder trap... How it's manages to keep the boulders stocked for thousands of years, they will never know. They loot a FlameStone plate ring from a chest after killing a couple knights, they travel up towards a tower and are attack by a hollow wielding a rapier, they wear armour similar to Oscar of Astora and immediately start lunging at them... It's difficult to avoid it's stabs due to them being lower on the stairs, Solaire blocks the stabs with his s.h.i.+eld and Reima charges up a combustion. He fires it when Solaire parries a rapier strike and the armour starts being char black, the holes in it's helmet start pouring out with smoke as the internal organs of the hollow "combust". It falls onto it's back and starts rolling down the stairs as it fades into white particles, leaving behind the rapier it was using.

Reima "I'm not really a rapier guy... You want it?"

Solaire shakes his head, "Just h.o.a.rd it with the others... I'll stick with my own weapon."

They enter the room it was protecting and loot a divine blessing potion that seems to almost instantly heal all wounds... And a Rare ring of sacrifice that glows with a variety of colours as he looks at it. Reima briefly wonders what would happen if someone who wasn't undead used it? Would it save there life? Is the reason is only preserves souls due to undead's already being dead?

He'd have to think about this later as they had more to explore.

They start heading higher and onto a walkway that leads to various lonely towers that might contain something interesting... BOOOOM!

A huge explosion comes from a wall close to them, "What was that!?!" Solaire exclaims as the look over, what they see is a giant on a nearby roof throwing large bombs at them. It rears back another one and launches it, Reima gets in-front of Solaire and uses the Heliotrope Sign to negate the explosion before they start sprinting towards its location.

They kill a number of hollow knights and archers as they breach the building that leads to the infuriating Giant and clear out the room. They look at the staircase that the giant is probably waiting for they to come through, they prepare themselves, Solaire covers his blade in lightning while Reima uses Quelaag's chaos blade enhancement to cover his. They head up and Reima uses Quen to prevent instantly getting stomped like a bug, they reach the top of the roof and see the giant standing there with a bomb in it's hand... It seems to laugh at them as it throws one point blank at them, they both leap out of the way managing to dodge the large explosion that follows and start approaching the Giant. It stands around 15ft tall with metal pieces covering it's body, mimicking armour, it swings it's arm at Reima, he dodges but watches as it trails past him and shatters the stone wall behind him... "Don't wanna get hit by that..."

He stabs at it's ankle with Arcell which makes it stumble, a lightning bolt from Solaire makes it almost lose it's balance, it leans on a nearby wall to keep itself up but is. .h.i.t by another lightning bolt and an additional fire orb that explodes in it's face.

It roars in fury as third degree burns start becoming visible on it's thick skin. It seems to go beserk and starts swinging it's arms in there direction, almost hitting Solaire with one. Reima sees a large hand about to pound his position but blinks out of the way just in time, he stabs it's fat fingers for the attempt.

It's roars get louder and more hoa.r.s.e as the battle rages on, the roof of the building they're standing on looks nothing like before, all the bombs that were stored have been knocked off the edge into the abyss below, the walls to the nearby rooms had been crushed into dust by the raging Giant and footprints are littering every surface.

The Giant finally seems to reach exhaustion from it's actions and crouches down to catch a breath... Obviously, the two undead won't miss such an opportunity. Reima uses large amount of magic into an Igni sign which is empowered by the pyromancer flame. The fire explodes from his hand and envelopes the Giant, the flame seems to match Reima's irritation at how long the Giant has lasted and stick to it's skin like napalm. It screams and thrashes around while completely covered in fire, the lightning bolts thrown by Solaire only add insult to it's injuries. Finally, the Giant seems to miss-step which causes it to fall off the tower, into the abyss below.
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A large amount of souls fly up after a minute and Reima's dark Sign greedily absorbs them.

Reima "Man, if Giant's are all like that, why didn't they just take over the planet?"

Solaire "Lord Gwyn subjugated them before that could happen my friend..."

Reima breaths a sigh, "It was a rhetorical question." he brushes the dust from his armour and starts digging the rubble to where the stairs are located.