Baba Yaga, the Boogeyman, an entity that haunts the dark forest, and devours children offered by its worshipers in exchange for riches and other earthly pleasures. It was a false Deity, an evil God.
But unlike most Gods, Baba Yaga cannot exist in th...
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" Blyat. " As he had planned, he went to improve his armour and after devouring twenty-five of them, they could no longer be improved. He was a bit disappointed but the improvements it received, he hoped were satisfactory.
He summoned his armour and had a look at how much it had improved. Looking at the long mirror he gave a few poses. The improvements were very satisfactory and it looks more sturdy than before. The chainmail shirt was thicker and had more weight, but it did not feel that heavy. There were the shoulder guards that he got from the giant undead he defeated a week ago. He first doubted that it was too big for him, but the mist shrunk it down perfectly to match his size. The gauntlet, luckily was considered armour by the mist, it protected his forearms and fingers but left the palm open.
Then came his helmet, " Hehe, I look cool. " It had a skull-like design, that was bolted with two strips of metal, one round it above the eye holes and another one running vertically. It also came with chainmail that covered his neck, throat and the top part of the shoulders and it had two curved horns coming from the sides of the helmet.
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Overall, it gave him a very creepy look, despite how cool it looked to him, with a colour scheme of black and grey, it gave a creepy and threatening vibe to anyone who sees it. But he did not give a flying fuck what others felt anyways. It was not like anyone was gonna come and visit him anyways. The only visitors he got were those undead, and they serve no other purpose than to give him free gifts every night.
Curse magic was another magic that piqued his fascination. The curse magic he had learned, has a very direct approach and is simple in application. To do curse magic, two parties need to be involved:
1. The Caster, and 2. The Victim
The caster is the one casting the curse and the victim is the receiver of the curse. The effects are almost instantaneous, but it requires the caster to have physical contact with the victim. Curses are powered by two things, magic power and the intention of the caster.
Certain curses rely more on the intention of the caster than the magic power, as the magic power act as a power source to keep the curse active.
The intensity of the curse is directly proportional to the intent of the caster. Take, for example, his two curses: GRIP and MAGIC DRAIN. The intensity of the GRIP curse is dependent on the emotions like rage and wrath, while MAGIC DRAIN is dependent on greed and gluttony.
From the above, one can see that emotions play a vital factor in the working of a curse. It was for this reason, Nikolai's curses were not as strong as he want them to be, it was due to the over-reliance on his spell UNDEAD WILL. As it suppresses all emotions, it made the curses weak. He tried to remedy it by abstaining from using UNDEAD WILL during combat.
There was nothing much interesting going on for the next few weeks. Sure, there was that giant undead that came occasionally, but since he had previous experience with dealing with them and with an upgraded arsenal of weapons, armour and two new curses, they stood no chance against him.
