The Divine Dungeon Complete Series (The Divine Dungeon #1-5)

by Dakota Krout

infernal Essence to smash the offending adventurer in the chest. The rapidly dying man fell to the ground, writhing in agony. His flesh seemed to melt away as a combination of deep rot, fluid, and pus drained on to the floor. Bob looked at his staff in wonder. “What an excellent weapon! Thank you, Great Spirit!” <…Might be too good. We’ll reevaluate later.> While muttering at Bob, I was looking at the actual effects that the bolt had had on the corpse. For every magical effect I had ever seen, there was a discernable reason for the following reaction. For instance, a sharpening Rune didn’t just ‘sharpen’ a blade. Instead, Essence flowed into the blade and increased the bonds along the edge of it. This had the effect of making the blade thinner and harder to chip, resulting in a ‘sharpened’ or ‘honed’ blade. <So that is what infernal Essence does…> I had suspicions before, but this new data would certainly help my research. <No need to reevaluate, you can keep it. We need to know more. Use it as much as possible.> It seemed that infernal Essence would enter the body and attach itself to impurities in the flesh. After latching on, it would force the Essence of the tissue to deteriorate quickly, generating more infernal Essence from the death of the cells around it. To the casual observer, it looked like the body rotted away at high speeds.