Kumawakamaru, Ancient of Shadows

"A darkness radiates from the monument, causing many things to become difficult to see. You catch a brief glimpse of movement nearby... Was that Abaddon? Upgrading this ancient will allow you to sneak past monsters when exploring."

Effect

Kumawakamaru reduces monsters required to kill per non-boss zone. The integer part of its effect shows the reduced monster per normal zone, while the decimal part is the chance to get one monster fewer.

For example, the effect of -2.33 means number of monsters per normal zone is 8 at most, with a 33% chance to have only 7 monsters per zone. The minimum number of monsters required to kill to complete a zone is 2.

Leveling Kumawakamaru

Kumawakamaru's summon cost is the player's current summon cost.

Kumawakamaru's cost per level is 2ⁿ, with n being equal to the next level.

All costs except the summon cost can be reduced by Chor'gorloth.

The monster reduction follows the formula:

number of monster reduction = -8×(1-e-.025n)×Effect of  Borb

Lvl	Cost	Effect	Lvl	Cost	Effect	Lvl	Cost	Effect
1	Summon cost	-0.19752	10	210	-1.76959	100	2100	-7.34332
2	4	-0.39016	20	220	-3.14775	200	2200	-7.94610
3	8	-0.57805	30	230	-4.22107	300	2300	-7.99558
4	16	-0.76130	40	240	-5.05696	400	2400	-7.99964
5	32	-0.94002	50	250	-5.70796	500	2500	-7.99999
6	64	-1.11434	60	260	-6.21496	600	2600	-7.99999
7	128	-1.28434	70	270	-6.60981	700	2700	-7.99999
8	256	-1.45015	80	280	-6.91732	800	2800	-7.99999
9	512	-1.61187	90	290	-7.15681	900	2900	-7.99999

Trivia

• Kumawakamaru is likely a reference to Hino Kumawaka, née Kumawaka-maru, who was most known for avenging his father by killing a lay monk while the monk was sleeping.
• Kumawakamaru effectively maxes out at level 1498.
• Kumawakamaru and Hecatoncheir both have 12 letters, the longest of any Ancient.

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