Chapter 244: Right back at you
In Earth Online, the pure build beast masters could be considered as one of the weakest classes. This was because a beast could not be resurrected after dying without the aid of a healer or another specific item or potion. If a beast died during combat, it was typically just dead, unlike a player who can automatically respawn.
This was the main difference between a beast master and a summoner class. The summoner class was considered superior as the summons returned to their plane to resurrect and recuperate after a lethal injury.
However, the beast master class was balanced in certain other ways to make up for this drawback. The growth potential and evolution potential of tamed beasts were much higher than those of the summons.
And this was precisely why Damon knew he had to act now if he wanted to deal a huge blow to whoever orchestrated this whole damn thing. Bringing a wyrm to a dog fight was ballsy, admirable and fear inducing but one needed to be able to face the consequences for doing so.
If the right cards were played, a threat could sometimes turn into a liability.
The wyrm wasn’t a summon, it was a tamed beast. Which meant, under the right conditions, if it died... it would stay dead. Permanently. Its loss would be catastrophic. The effort, the resources, the prestige behind capturing and training such a beast, it would all go up in smoke.
The guild that brought it, the player who tamed it, they had gambled everything on the wyrm’s overwhelming power. But that gamble cut both ways. Because in doing so, they had also given Damon the opportunity to kill it.
And Damon was going to kill it. No matter what.
His figure disappeared from the blood hall, and he once again appeared near the wyrm, which was now wreaking havoc on the battlefield.
Mark was several injured just from exchanging a couple of blows with the huge beast. Kate was only barely holding on, and that was because she was running most of the time in between throwing a couple of long-range attacks. She wasn’t doing all that much, so the wyrm wasn’t paying attention to her.