Wagyu ran through the dark night towards the center of the battlefield, carrying his comrades.
"We are almost there! Everyone, get ready!"
"Yes"
Kizuato raised his long sword and infused it with fire, while casting countless buffing spells.
The other monkeys at his side did the same, each one having a strong and powerful aura.
Celica activated her | Stealth | skill, giving her a temporal invisibility.
Celica last experience in war wasn't as good, loosing almost all her family. When she knew that there was still a big group of Trolls surviving in the forest, she was the first one to offer herself to go on their help. Bringing them to the town and instructing them about the Kingdom and its rules.
After having meet with various of her beloved brothers, Celica slowly became brighter, and with the help of her lover, Truhan, she gained a strong confidence over her own growth and strength.
"I won't lose my comrades anymore… Old Master, I will never forgive you for leading us all to death, just using me and my people as experiments"
Celica may have been enemies with me on the past, and its true that my servants killed most of his brothers. But she somehow got over it extremely quickly.
Trolls have a simple mindset.
The strong is always the one right. If you want to prove your point, prove it with strength. If you have a problem with me, prove it with strength. If you want to kill me, come, and use your strength to do as you say. Without strength, you can't prove anything in this world.
This is the mindset that moves Celica. Her brothers lost to a strong enemy. The enemy was always right then, being stronger.
Her Master led them to a stronger enemy, knowing that they would die.
This is what it was unforgivable.
Leading her family to a confirmed death. Trolls might like to prove their points and opinions with strength, but know when to run away and take care of their beloved ones. This is a basic survival instinct.
When Celica knew that some of her brothers decided to run away from a stronger enemy, she didn't hate on them. In the contrary, she was extremely proud of their decision, which led them to live another day, and met with her.
Inside a troll family, one can prove their points withs strength, yes, but the strong also has his duties.
The strong troll protects the weak troll.
The strong troll will rise the weak troll, so the weak troll becomes stronger.
After knowing that her former Troll Emperor threated his brothers like experiments, without caring about their deaths, Celica was glad that Kireina rightfully killed him.
The Troll Emperor betrayed the troll ideology, their trust and their love.
"I will protect my brothers, because I am a strong Troll! Even after evolving and becoming another race, my troll blood still floods across my veins! This is my root! My ideology!"
The monkeys and wolves around Celica heard her yells with amazement.
"Well said, Celica! We, the strong, must protect the weak!"
"Yes! We are here! Chargeee!"
"Awwwoooo!"
The monkeys that were mounting the wolves jumped over the ground and raised their weapons, immediately clashing with the immense group of undead.
CLASH!
BOOM!
CRASH!
Celica jumped off Wagyu's back and using her | STEALTH | skill, rushed through the battlefield. Infusing her knifes with a strong blue-colored flame, she needed only one slash for every undead for them to be engulfed on these blue flames, and slowly disintegrate.
Flash! Flash! Slash! Slash!
Celica ran through entire battalions, undetected by most of the undead. Her incredible speed had no rival on this battlefield.
Slash!
"Clack?!"
Celica slashed the neck of a skeleton in mere seconds, engulfing it on a strong blue flame. The skeleton couldn't do anything more than watch over as his own body slowly became ashes.
I was watching over Celica spectacle, amazed by her growth.
"Impressive, Celica. Her blue flames are extremely useful against the undead"
These blue flames are the result of Celica constant training and skill fusions.
This skill was named | DARK ELF SOUL FLAMES |, it was a very unique type of magic that uses the soul of its enemy as its fuel. Because of the undead usually having a very exposed soul, these flames would quickly feed on them, increasing their heat until they turn the undead whole body into ash.
What's more, these blue flames do not affect its environment, only burning its victim, and they would dissipate after consuming all its soul.
Of course, they aren't as strong as other types of Fire spells, as I could easily get rid of them. But they are very convenient versus enemies like undead.
After some time, Celica already set on fire 1/3 of the whole undead army. But it wouldn't be as easy. Suddenly, some undead wearing mage robes started to chant and cast different kinds of spells, dispelling the blue flames and healing some undead on the blink of death.
Celica glanced at these mages and set them as her new prey, however, another type of undead soldier casted a strange spell on the entire battlefield, seemingly doing nothing. But it was effective on Celica, dispelling her Stealth skill.
More than five armored undead attacked Celica, the flames of her knifes did not work, as they were being protected by a strange magic shield.
"Hmmph! Do you think that I would only have these tactics at my disposal?"
Suddenly, Celica activated a myriad of buffs, increasing her muscle size density, while covering her body with a thick energy shield.
Celica grabbed a long sword that she was saving on her Item Box, and engulfed it on a strong blue flame.
Flash!
As if she were a blue thunder, she disappeared in the front of the undead in an instant!
"Clack?"
Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Like a powerful electric shock, a big slash cut all the undead soldiers in half! Setting them in blue flames from their insides.
Their magic shields weren't able to protect them from their insides, slowly becoming ashes.
The mage undead were surprised by Celica change in strategy.
But before they could even plan something.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Celica rushed to their backs, using her powerful strength and speed, she slashed these mages whole bodies, turning them into ashes.
Without taking any time to breath, Celica kept rushing through the battlefield slashing every undead mage she came across.
The slow undead soldiers couldn't even touch her.
Meanwhile, Wagyu used his powerful mastery over Shadow magic to engulf a big group of undead into a Shadow Zone, quickly getting rid of a big group, making the whole Shadow Zone compress itself, crushing all the undead into dust.
"Phew… Hm? Celica is wonderfully showing her growth in strength! I can't fall behind! Shadow Travel!"
Fluosh!
Wagyu suddenly engulfed himself into pure shadows, easily traveling across the deep dark of the night, while traveling on the shadows, he left a big "Shadow Tail" that slowly sank the undead that put their foot on them. The shadow tails would engulf the undead and crush them to dust inside.
The best part of these skills is that they were sensitive towards allies and companions, not affecting them. This showed Wagyu's deep and masterful control over his own techniques.
While rushing across the battlefield, Wagyu also collected countless shadows, increasing his speed and power, and making his own Shadow related skills even stronger.
"Impressive, Wagyu has refined his Combat System even more, couldn't expect less from my most trusted companion"
The undead were even more helpless against Wagyu way of fighting, some undead mages casted Light and Holy spells over Wagyu's Shadow Tails, even after being completely dispelled, Wagyu kept making more, obtaining energy from the undead own shadows, he could keep going like this for a while.
Although Kizuato haven't figured his own Combat System yet, I could already see some insights.
Kizuato raised his fire-infused long sword, and slashed three undead in one slash. Even after carrying such a huge long sword, Kizuato was able to still run and maneuver just fine around the battlefield, showing a speed that no one would predict from his build, which was muscular and big.
As he kept slashing undead spinning his own body like a flaming tornado, each time he slashed an undead into ashes, some "sparks" would come from his weapon. These sparks would accumulate over Kizuato head until it became a bright and red sphere made of pure energy.
Kizuato stopped in the middle of the battlefield and yelled, attracting the attention of the countless undead.
"Come you bastards!"
After having more than 20 undead close to him, Kizuato activated a skill named | BLADE ENERGY RECOLECTION | and made the big red colored sphere to fuse with his blade, increasing its size exponentially, giving off a powerful aura.
Fluosh!
"Now! Blade Energy Tornado!"
FLUOSH!
Kizuato used this new and powerful blade to spin at a ridiculous speed, creating a chaotic tornado, engulfing every undead that came rushing towards him. Inside this tornado, the undead would be greeted by hundreds of slashes all over their bodies, crushing them to pure dust!
The best thing was that even inside this tornado, Kizuaot kept collecting even more sparks, creating a new Blade Energy Sphere.
After this tornado slowly dissipated, Kizuato did not lost any second and jumped over a big group, slashing even more undead with his powerful blade. Repeating the same tornado attack each time he obtained enough Blade Energy.
I watched Kizuato with fascination.
"Blade Energy… I still haven't investigated on this type of power, but Kizuato has done incredible leaps on its development. He is a formidable warrior"
On the battlefield there was also Goruden and Jinsoku, the fastest monkeys, it seems that the usually quiet Jinsoku is very good friend with Goruden, leading to a strong team cooperation.
Jinsoku and Goruden rushed through the battlefield, raising their katana-like swords. Unlike the rest of the warriors, their swords were infused on countless shadows, each time they slashed through an undead, these shadows would grab the whole undead, dragging them around the whole battlefield.
In a few minutes, both of them were dragging more than 40 undead, 20+ each. They complexion may be swift and without much muscle, but they were actually very strong, probably using the power of countless Strength-boosting skills at their disposal.
When both of them decided that the amount of undead was enough, they stopped on place and used their shadow bindings to raise the undead to the sky.
Jinsoku jumped over Goruden shoulders and activated a skill.
"Shadow Space!"
FLUOSH!
Suddenly, a big shadow space engulfed all the undead they were dragging, quickly closing itself again.
This strange skill, according to what Jinsoku as told me, is able to store an infinite number of items and even living beings, however, it cannot retrieve them. This is why they are using them in such an unconventional way, to not accidentally trap a comrade inside.
I analyzed this powerful skill.
"Even though is dangerous, this skill is incredibly broken, one could finish anyone by just casting this over them, trapping them for eternity… But it has a big cost on Stamina and MP, and also possess a cooldown of 30 minutes. Jinsoku is probably sharing MP with Goruden with | MP SHARE |"
After taking more than 40 undead out of the blue without much effort. Jinsoku and Goruden started again slashing and dragging even more undead. Goruden was special as he possessed a very advanced | STEAL | skill, being able to "steal" a whole undead, pretty much moving any enemy towards them in mere seconds, making their work easier.
Jinsoku and Goruden had very unconventional ways of fighting, but they were impressive nonetheless, and very effective.
"Well, who I am to speak? I also fight very unconventionally"
There was also the graceful Yukionna, the Ice Wolf Empress. Her latest evolution granted her with a stronger and swifter body, making her rush through the battlefield at an incredibly speed, almost the same as Celica.
Yuki rushed through the battlefield stabbing countless undead with her ice horn, each time they got stabbed, a powerful freezing aura would engulf their entire bodies, instantly turning them into statues.
CLASH!
Yuki easily finished them by giving a strong kick, shattering the big undead ice statues into big chunks.
Yuki glanced over the battlefield, as she multi tasked on freezing more undead and shooting Ice Bullets.
"Hmmph, there is still a big amount. We still have some time until we lose our momentum and the enemy adapt to our attacks… Master should be calling Abellona team in five minutes from now… Eh?"
Suddenly, a big amount of undead started to gather in one place, and a powerful undead mage casted a strange spell, which unified the big group and slowly fused them all into a giant undead soldier.
Fluosh!
The giant undead looked like a grotesque monster made of bones and rotten flesh. Raising its gigantic arm, it clashed over the ground creating big shockwaves.
Boom! Clash! Crash!
The giant undead mindlessly crushed the ground around itself, without minding turning its own comrades into dust.
But suddenly!
CLASH!
A big flaming axe clashed over the giant neck, throwing its face to the ground.
Boom!
It was Nesiphae who quickly noticed this new undead soldier and instantly felt the need to try her strength against it.
"Fufufu! Its way bigger than me! But it doesn't matter! Snakes!"
Fluosh!
From Nesiphae hands, countless snakes were generated, which trapped the big undead, making it trip over.
"Now! Vertical Slash!"
CLASH!
Nesiphae thought that she got the undead this time, but it was the contrary, as the undead protected itself with a strong magic shield.
"Eh? Magic? This big dummy can cast magic?"
"Clack!"
The big undead opened its gaping mouth and countless magic circles surrounded its tongue.
FLASH!
Without even having the need to chant any spell, a powerful red beam blasted Nesiphae several meters away.
"Gyaaaaahhh!"
Booom!
Nesiphae big body clashed on the ground, creating a big crater.
Thankfully, her strong armor diminished most of the damage dealt.
"Fufufu… Maybe its time to go serious!"
Nesiphae quickly stood up and activated countless buffs over her body, increasing her Strength, Defense and Speed.
Fluosh!
Suddenly, Nesiphae size had tripled and her body exuded a deadly and burning aura.
"Ancient Medusa Herculean Body!"
FLUOSH!
Nesiphae casted another buffing skill, this time, increasing her size even more! She was already taller than the giant undead!
Flash!
In just an instant, Nesiphae massive body already disappeared from the crater, appearing at the front of the undead giant.
"Clack!"
The undead greeted Nesiphae with countless red beams, devastating the battlefield!
BOOM! BOOM!
Nesiphae swiftly dodged them, using a speed that shouldn't belong on such a big body!
However, the beams blasted away undead and my soldiers equally, I quickly analyzed any casualties and my soldiers were barely hanging on, Kekensha protected most of the rookies with his Light Shield.
I quickly used my Benevolent Reinforcement and Healing skill and healed most of the serious wounds on my soldiers, while giving them a boost in stats and Stamina.
"Phew… This is all I can do without using too much MP, I'm leaving the rest to my Nesiphae"
After seeing her own friends and comrades in such weak state, Nesiphae became furious and raised her axe, infusing it with powerful flames and slashing the giant undead countless times.
"Ooooh!"
The undead giant blocked most attacks with his automatic magic shields, however, the pressure that each blow gives to his body made its big body trip to the ground.
Clash!
As if falling to the ground didn't matter at all, the giant undead opened its mouth and shot a big red beam towards Nesiphae chest.
BOOOOM!
Nesiphae used her own Axe as a shield, blocking the powerful beam, and diverting it to the skies.
For a moment, the deep black night was illuminated by a bright red light.
"Now! Petrifying Glance!"
Nesiphae didn't wasted this opening and used a powerful skill. Each of the dormant snake heads on her hair quickly woke up and glanced over the giant undead, shooting powerful beams!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
These beams were able to penetrate the giant powerful magic shields, hitting it right into its body.
Any area of the giant's body that was touched by these beams would instantly become a hard rock, slowing down the undead movements.
"Clack?!"
While Nesiphae shot petrifying beams, she used her snakes to engulf her axe, increasing its size multiple times.
"Oooraaah!"
CLASH!
Nesiphae used her massive axe to clash over the undead, without giving it any time to breath.
CLASH!
The undead magic shields couldn't resist the pressure and shattered at the second blow!
"CLACK?!"
Predicting its impending doom, the giant desperately shot even more beams from his mouth, which Nesiphae tanked with her own body without worrying about personal safety.
CLASH!
A third blow from Nesiphae axe crushed the giant ribcage and split it in half, however, the bastard was still shooting beams desperately.
"CLACK! CLACK!"
Boom! Boom!
Nesiphae tanked every beam that came to her and raised her massive axe for a fourth time!
"Oooooh!"
CLASH!
The fourth swing of her powerful axe crushed the entire head of the giant, shattering it into dust.
It seems that the core of the giant was on its head, as the rest of its boy stopped struggling, dying on the spot.
Nesiphae seemed extremely exhausted, panting with great effort.
Most of her chest armor was destroyed and there were serious wounds on her chest, filled with bloody holes.
"Phew… I-I did it…"
I immediately realized that if I didn't heal Nesiphae while she is on her titan form, when going back to her original size, the wounds would become even more massive, possibly killing her.
I quickly flew towards Nesiphae and used Group Heal alongside Benevolent Reinforcement and Healing.
Her wounds slowly closed and she regained some of her Stamina.
"My dear, thanks"
"Nesiphae, please don't over do it, rest on the backlines for now"
"Y-Yes… I'm very tired"
I used my threads and quickly moved Nesiphae to a safe place, where she would be taken care by the Nursing Team.
The undead mages looked with amazement as their giant became a pile of dust and bones.
They quickly regrouped a big number of undead soldiers, summoning more giants.
Suddenly, more than 4 of the same type of undead giants appeared.
Seeing this unexpected change from part of the undead army, I quickly called Abellona team to proceed with the pincer attack, while also telling the mage teams to rush immediately, as everyone needed their assistance.
If each undead giant were as strong as the previous one, my servants would be in incredible danger, which made me worried.
"If this is their last resort, should I step in?"
When I was about to step in and stop these giants, Wagyu yelled at me.
"Master! There is no need to worry about us, please save your energy for now! We are more than qualified to deal with these giants!"
Kizuato also said the same, alongside Kekensha, Jinsoku, Goruden, Yuki, Celica etc.
They wanted to prove their strength no matter what, to show their usefulness.
"You guys… Alright, I'm counting on you, I will support you from the back"
Kekensha nodded.
"Hmmm! That is how it should be! We must protect our Empress! Light Shield!"
Kekensha casted countless Light Shields around his allies, protecting everyone on his sight.
"I will be the golden wall that protect my friends!"
After seeing Kekensha display, everyone was filled with determination!
"With Sir Kekensha help, we don't have to worry!"
I noticed that Kekensha seemed the most tired of everyone, after all, he was the one who led the first team and has been fighting nonstop, using all his MP protecting his allies.
I swiftly created around 5 Blood Fruits using my own blood, and gave them to Kekensha using my threads.
"M-Master! I'm fine, you don't have to worry"
"Drink them all, its an order from your Master"
Kekensha laughed a bit.
"Hahaha… I guess I can't negate my Master orders…"
Kekensha seemed rather hungry as he gulped the five Blood Fruits easily.
"Very well, now go"
"Yes!"
Flash!
Kekensha ran through the battlefield, shooting arrows towards the nearby undead giant.
I decided to assist my servants giving them my Blood Fruits with my threads, as this costed less MP than constantly casting healing magic.
Giving Blood Fruits to everyone was certainly harder than just casting a big group heal, but with the help of my split minds, it was an affordable task.
In the middle of the battlefield, an undead giant punched the ground, trying to catch a very fast shadow.
Boom!
"Clack?"
However, this shadow was able to easily dodge any of the giant slow attacks, infuriating him.
"Clack!!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As it tried to catch the shadow, it started to shot countless red beams everywhere, devastating the forest surrounding him.
But suddenly!
FLASH!
The shadow appeared on the back of the giant, showing its true form.
It was Celica, who was wearing a shadow robe giving to her by Wagyu. This skill is like an "Armor" type skill that Wagyu can give to anyone, it grants an increase in speed and the ability to hide your appearance.
Celica raised her long sword and engulfed it on a powerful blue flame, clashing it on the undead giant head.
CLASH!
The powerful magic shield protecting the giant blocked the blow, alerting the giant.
However, Celica was faster, infusing Stamina and MP on the attack, increasing the power of the blue flames.
Crack!
The magic shield suddenly started to shatter, showing countless cracks.
"Hhhhhnnngggg!"
CRACK!
Using a big quantity of Stamina and MP, Celica managed to break through the magic shield, stabbing the giant with her flaming sword, which quickly engulfed the whole undead!
FLUOSH!
Such a giant being, made by countless undead, possessed a big and tasty soul, easily exposed on a skeleton body. The blue flames happily ate their easy meal, growing stronger by the second.
Flash!
Just before the giant could use his massive hands to squish Celica like an insect, she managed to jump over to the ground, and glanced back at the giant.
The giant yelled in pain as his soul was slowly consumed. It didn't possess any type of skill that could dispel this fire, making it go berserk, attacking its own allies and crushing other undead.
"Grrruooooh!"
A group of undead mages came to the giant rescue, trying to cast a dispelling magic.
However, Celica was already waiting for them, and swiftly attacked from their backs, setting all the mages on fire!
Slash! Slash!
"Clack?!"
Fluosh!
The blue flame quickly consumed these weak undead bodies, turning them into ashes.
The undead army was massive, and more mages tried to come to the giant's rescue.
"You guys never give up!"
Flash!
Celica rushed through the battlefield and used her long sword to slash each undead mage.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
"Clack…?!"
Countless groups of undead mages instantly became ashes as Celica rushed through.
When she glanced back at the giant, it was already on the ground, with half its body completely turned into ashes. Hopelessly growling.
However, there was no time to rest, as Celica noticed a group of wolves having a hard time doing any damage to a giant, getting heavily injured.
"Wait for me!"
Flash!
Kekensha Light Shields were able to sustain just an amount of damage before completely shattering, most being able to take on one giant beam before being completely destroyed.
Kekensha rushed through the battlefield, running around its allies casting countless Light Shields.
As he did this, he multi-tasked, using | MP SHARE | with his allies, who distracted the giants while he gathered MP on a small Mana Zone over his head.
"These giants are extremely hard to kill, if it wasn't for Celica blue flames, we would be in a way worse position… I need to cast a strong Golden Sun… Everyone, please resist!"
Booom!
A giant massive hand clashed ahead of Kekensha, who barely dodged the attack.
The Mana Zone over Kekensha head slowly expanded in size, growing stronger and stronger.
"Haahh… Almost there"
Clash!
However, a sudden shockwave closed the MP connection between Kekensha allies!
"Eh?"
When Kekensha glanced at his back, he noticed a big group of undead mages which casted a strong anti-magic seal over his whole body!
"Ugh! No! The Mana Zone was broken! I can't cast anymore Light Shields either?!"
Suddenly, Kekensha allies noticed as they were no longer protected by his Light Shields.
"Oh no! Quick! Dodge!"
Seeing this opportunity, a giant raised his hand and with extreme might, it clashed over the ground, crushing five soldiers!
Boom!
Blood and meat sprouted from the giant hand, as a big crater full of blood and dirt was the only thing left.
Kekensha cried in agony, as he saw his friends die a painful death.
"Graaaaaaaahhh!!! Nooo! You damned undead!!!"
I couldn't save them as I was busy giving Blood Fruits to everyone.
A big grieving feeling filled my heart, in the previous wars, there were always casualties, but I never experienced them in first person.
"I could had saved them… If I noticed in time… I… Ugh… Tch! Dispelling Shock!"
Fluosh!
I quickly dispelled Kekensha anti-magic seal, without a second to rest, Kekensha used almost all his MP to cast even more Light Shields, protecting its allies from the giants blows.
"Blood Fruit! Blood Fruit!"
I created countless Blood Fruits without thinking on my blood lost, and sent them to everyone who was seriously injured.
My minds multi-tasked with me, helping me open my Item Box and taking some MP potions alongside fresh Blood Monster meat, which I quickly assimilated, restoring body mass and blood.
While doing all of this, I activated my shape shifting skill and generated four new limbs, which took the job to create more Blood Fruits and send them to my servants with my threads.
"This is the most efficient way of saving my MP and Stamina, I still got plenty of MP potions and food stored, we must await the rest of the troops… Ah! They are here!"
While Wagyu dodged the blows of a giant, a powerful red breath covered the giant head, penetrating its magic shield!
FLUOSH!
"That breath! Abellona!"
A beautiful and majestic red wyvern flew around the giant, burning its head with its powerful breath, while doing this, its casted countless fire projectiles around the undead big body, making it trip over the ground.
Booom!
Abellona smiled and called its brother.
"Now, Titus!"
FLASH!
Suddenly, a powerful black colored meteorite crashed over the giant head, completely destroying it!
BOOM!
Titus quickly flew outside the crater and greeted Wagyu.
"Sir Wagyu, the reinforcements are here! Let's complete this pincer attack!"
"Yes!"
Wagyu joined forces with Abellona and Titus, rushing through the battlefield.
As I glanced to the battlefield right side, I saw the rest of Abellona team, this included his brothers, and Meiji spirits, alongside my beloved Brontes.
Brontes noticed me and waved her hand, giving me a confident smile.
"Finally! The third team! Oh!"
From my back, I noticed that the three magic teams were quickly approaching, being led by Zehe, Meiji and Rimuru.
When the undead saw this number of new soldiers, they were surprised, and some clever undead mages started to run towards the forest.
"This is it!"
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I watched as Brontes ran through the battlefield. She had her entire body sparking with powerful volts, illuminating the whole night. She infused her big club with a strong red-colored thunder and jumped over a big group of undead.
"Red Thunder Blow!"
BOOOM!
The powerful blow shattered the earth itself and created a big crater, every undead that was catch on the attack was turned into dust the moment they were hit.
Brontes stood up and quickly continued devastating the enemy ranks, blowing away countless undead with her blows alone.
It seems that after becoming my wife, Brontes received a substantial power boost, already surpassing her fellow spirits.
As she ran with her thunderous body around the battlefield, she glanced at the first undead giant she encountered, and without a second of doubt, she jumped over it, raising her club.
BAAM!
"Clack?!"
Brontes clashed her red thunder club right into the giant face, instantly shattering the magic shield and blowing it away several meters, as if it were nothing!
The rest of my servants watched over Brontes impressive might with amusement.
Brontes did not wasted a second and quickly casted a powerful storm that covered half of the battlefield.
Boom! Boom!
The dark colored clouds started to convulse and suddenly, countless dragon shaped thunders started to rain over the giant, coiling over its body and exploding, doing massive thunder damage.
The powerful detonation made the giant bones turn into ashes, slowly dying.
On its last moments, the giant tried to blast Brontes away with a powerful red beam.
"Clack!!!"
Brontes decided to take the whole hit, casting a powerful Thunder Barrier around her body.
BOOOM!
While the giant was being slowly destroyed by the coiling thunder dragons, it desperately shot countless beams towards Brontes.
Booom! Booom! Boom!
But Brontes didn't even flinch!
Her powerful Thunder Spirit Protection Shield was in another level completely.
I was impressed over Brontes might, and analyzed her strength.
"This shield, according to Meiji, is a gift that each spirit is born with. It can easily deflect most magic attacks of lower level than the user and it uses natural Magic from the environment to sustain itself"
Spirits seem to have an edge over other living beings as they can draw Magic from their environment, and they also don't possess a Stamina stat, they possess a Spirit stat, this stat fill itself quickly over time, and it also works as HP, MP and Stamina.
This is the "cheat" that most spirits have, and this is why I think they were sealed in the first place, as their potential and power alone could rival Humans.
When the giant stopped throwing beams towards Brontes, its head was already half turned into dust, dying on the spot.
Brontes looked over the giant with a little bit of disappointment.
"Hmph! Weak!"
Flash!
Brontes quickly flew through the battlefield towards the next giant.
Seeing their impending doom, some of the undead mages decided to stick together and summon more giants, using the undead warriors as ingredients.
Fluosh!
Suddenly, more than 5 undead giants showed up, raising their arms and destroying everything.
After seeing this, I noticed that the undead army had already diminished to half its numbers, having around 350 soldiers left, including the giants.
Some of the undead mages started to cast status ailments and anti-magic seals on my servants, slowing down their strength. However, my Blood Fruits were faster, swiftly recovering anyone on a serious state.
I calculated that there were around 100 undead mages left, and after taking care of these, the rest of the undead would be easy pickings.
"Things have suddenly started to look brighter, but the four generals still have not acted yet, I must remain cautious"
While distributing Blood Fruits, I glanced over the battlefield.
I noticed my three Blood Servants, it seems that all of them have been training without any time to rest, because of being made completely out of blood, they are able to train without stopping. And barely needing to eat. The Rin sisters told me about their incredible growth and will power, already having evolved twice since I summoned all of them.
I remember that all three of them had almost the same appearance as me, but after evolving twice, they obtained their own features and even gained more solid bodies, resembling slimes made of blood.
*Quick reminder: Kireina summoned three Blood Clones which she named Clumsy (Archer), Weird (Knight) and Serious (Mage).
Clumsy became a small version of me with short hair and a small chest, having long wings and a cute face. She flew through the battlefield devastating the undead troops with a powerful rain of arrows, attacking multiple undead giants at the same time.
Weird became a taller and more muscular version of me, having a long hair and a big chest. She was wearing an amazing looking armor, probably made by Kajiya, which was able to sustain the undead soldier attack with ease. She raised her sword as she slashed through the enemy ranks on the blink of an eye, abusing her flying capabilities to dodge the giant blows.
Serious was the only one who still looked like me for the most part, but she had bigger breast and hips. Although she was a mage, she didn't join the mage teams as she works better with her sisters. Using tandem attacks and supporting them with her magic.
The three Blood Sisters decided to gang over an undead giant, quickly diminishing its body with powerful blows. When the giant tried to blast them away with its beams, they easily dodged with their flying maneuvers.
They worked very fast, the giant was already falling to the ground, with most of its limbs completely destroyed. Unable to regenerate on time, its back was exposed to countless explosive arrows and magic projectiles, finishing it off.
The sisters swiftly moved towards their next target, without a second to rest.
"Being born with half my base stats, it wouldn't be crazy to assume that they already surpassed me stat wise… Clumsy seems to have become more confident too, I'm glad. Perhaps she is no more a clumsy, I should give them a proper name..."
As the battle continued, more powerful soldiers demonstrated their new strength and growth.
I glanced over Truhan, the love partner of Celica.
Truhan had always been a hard worker, wanting to catch up with Celica incredible growth, he never gave up on training every day, increasing his strength and obtaining new skills while eating powerful monsters that he liked to hunt on night, sharing them with Celica.
Tump tump!
Truhan powerful steps created big sounds on the ground, running at an increasing speed, he raised his two axes and slashed countless undead.
Slash! Slash!
Activating a powerful buff, his entire body became engulfed on bright red flames, which attracted the attention of the undead, who went right for his head.
"I got you were I want you! Hnnnggh!"
CLASH!
Without the need of using any skills, using its pure brute force, Truhan slashed through 10 undead in one go, setting their entire bodies on fire.
This fire was similar to Celica's one, being able to feed on the enemy soul and growing stronger.
Truhan slashed countless undead on his way through the battlefield, using almost no armor, receiving most of their attacks, even when his body was covered in blood, one could barely notice it when his own skin was of a crimson color.
The more hits Truhan took head on, the stronger his speed and power would become, this was thanks to the effects of his new skill [Berserker Blood Sacrifice], which he obtained after evolving and obtaining a new class.
Throwing away his old heavy armor and shield, Truhan had to train himself again, learning how to use dual axes and getting used to the constant pain that his body would suffer. Going through a hellish train, if it wasn't for Celica and his troll brothers help, he would had never been able to go this far.
"This is the strength that my brothers and Celica helped me to cultivate! I will protect my brothers! I will protect my home! Ooorrraaaahhh! Flaming Berserk Counter!"
Intercepting more than five undead soldiers, Truhan used a powerful counter, throwing them all several meters way with an impressive blow.
Clash!
The undead couldn't resist the flames, and without the help of the busy undead mages, they slowly turned into ashes.
After killing enough undead, another of Truhan skills became active, it was named [Unleashed Red Oni Berserker].
Fluosh!
Truhan suddenly increased its size by three times, becoming a mighty titan, with powerful bulging muscles. It raised his two tiny axes and engulfed them in his own blood and fire, increasing their size, adjusting to Truhan new strength.
Flash!
Using a speed that shouldn't belong on such a massive body, Truhan ran through the battlefield like a flaming meteor, clashing over countless undead as if they were nothing, until it ultimately came across an undead giant.
The undead giant noticed Truhan powerful aura and desperately shoot beams after beams.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Truhan received each beam like nothing, they barely scratched his strong and sturdy skin, leaving small wounds that easily healed with his own flames.
This regeneration skill was named [Red Oni Sacred Flames], the more blood the user loss, the more sacred flames will be generated, closing the wounds. It was a weird skill that needed a strange condition, but it worked well on berserkers, which would quickly heal any damage they received, even if it was lethal.
Of course, the blood lost would not come back, and after some time, if the blood lost is too much, they would need to retreat and regenerate blood.
However, Truhan was different to any conventional berserker, as he was able to obtain the skills of the monsters he devoured, easily obtaining a skill that let him recover blood.
This was [Assimilation]!
Truhan easily grabbed some meat from his Item Box, while slashing the undead giant, and in a matter of seconds, he regained new body mass and blood.
"A berserker that does not fear the loss in blood and can regenerate quickly, a perfect warrior"
Truhan ran around the undead giant and jumped over, walking over its body and swinging his axes like a mad demon.
"Oooorrraaah!"
Slash! Slash!
The undead giant magic shields couldn't take the powerful flaming axes and were easily shattered.
CRACK!
Truhan raised his muscular arms and hit the undead giant head with all his might, creating a powerful explosion.
BOOM!
The undead giant head exploded like a watermelon, completely destroying its Soul Core.
The giant massive body slowly fell to the ground, creating a small earthquake.
Baam!
I noticed as Truhan entire body was exuding a dense steam, and his whole body was covered on sweat and blood.
Flash!
Without wasting any time, Truhan quickly rushed towards another big group of undead soldiers.
Due to the new army soldiers being too strong, the undead soldier became desperate, seeing their giant fellows being easily slayed.
Celica dedicated herself on hunting down the undead mage, quickly diminishing their number.
The frail undead mage could only keep using the undead soldier as sacrifice on the ritual, summoning more giants, but even the soldier became very few.
"If this keep going like this, we wont even need the mage teams help at all…"
Baam!
Another giant already fell to the ground, completely shattered in frozen pieces.
Meiji spirits teamed up together and quickly took care of an undead giant without much effort. The strength of these spirits was formidable.
Artio, the Ice Bird, flew across the battlefield, assisting everyone with his [Ice Spear] and [Inspiring Song], which was able to boost the stats of anyone who heard them temporarily, this obviously did not affect the undead as they lacked emotions.
Vulcanus, the Giant Flame Salamander teamed up with Pygmy, the young Earth Dragon, doing powerful tandem skills. Vulcanus was able to create strong flows of fire and lava, which Pygmy made stronger with his masterful control over Earth. Creating strong blasts of Hot Lava, easily penetrating the undead giant magic shields and finishing them off with a rain of sharp rocks.
Aether, the Light Spirit, had fun punishing every undead with his strong [Light Judgement], a powerful area-of-effect Light spell that only affected the undead, without damaging its allies.
On the other side, Hypnos, the mysterious Dark Spirit changed its form completely, absorbing the darkness of the night, its body mass multiplied several times, becoming an eldritch abomination, using its dark tentacles to demolish any undead on its way. And blasting powerful shadow beams from its central eye towards any undead giant.
"Spirits are sure something else, such incredible growth in power…"
However, the Wyvern family didn't slack off, each member having its own distinct fighting style.
Abellona was the strongest, flying across the skies with its powerful wings, spitting a powerful flaming breath and shooting fire projectiles. If it ever got caught in any attack, it would easily protect itself with its [Golden Dragon Armor]. Each time his armor absorbed any hit, it would activate countless markings that resembled coiling dragons, these markings would become alive and would wrap around its enemy, giving various debuffs.
Clash!
With the help of his strong brother Titus herculean strength, Abellona got rid of another undead giant with ease
Being born with a unique blessing, Titus uses his gifted strength with great talent, evolving his own skills towards explosive power. Being able to quickly shatter any undead giant magic shield and shattering their head in mere seconds.
"It was a good call to leave the strongest warriors towards the end, as they would had exhausted themselves at the start having to kill so many weaklings. They can use their full strength now, taking care of the strongest undead giants, quickly ending this fight"
When there were around 200 undead left, and barely any undead mage, the three Mage Teams finally reached the battlefield.
Meiji was the first to join, with his big group of monkey mages, they stabilized the battlefield healing everyone that was wounded and granting powerful buffs. With them here I was finally able to take a breath.
Zehe came afterwards, commanding a big group of Undead Goblin Mages, they used their powerful Shadow Magic to trap the undead on big sink holes. Slowing the whole undead army movements, making the other Physical Teams jobs easier.
Most of the undead giant tried to ger rid of the mages with their powerful beams, but Kekensha protected everyone with his Light Shields. If any undead mage tried to seal his magic. I used a Dispelling Shock on him.
Thanks to everyone support, Kekensha was able to generate two powerful [Golden Sun], a potent Light Magic similar to my [Overpowering Sun], which needed big quantities of MP to fully generate. It took one [Golden Sun] to completely evaporate an undead giant, creating a big crater on the ground. This magic was extremely effective, but very tiring, after the second shot, Kekensha had to rest and concentrate on casting Light Shields.
When Rimuru's team finally reached the battlefield, we pretty much sealed our victory. Rimuru team was made of the most powerful offensive mages on my Kingdom. Using [MP Share], they connected their MP and casted powerful ritual magic. Previously telling all the other groups to retreat, they blasted what remained of the undead giants and mages with thousands of weapon-shaped projectiles.
While glancing at the dying undead, I looked over where the four undead generals were and detected their auras increasing in power.
"They're coming…"
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Battlefield backlines, 30 minutes ago.
The dignified King looked over its troops with indifference.
"An expected outcome, with an unexpected ending"
His loyal knight, ad his right side, analyzed the battlefield.
"My King, we have underestimated the demon troops. They were way stronger than what we have expected"
"Hmm. She has trained her people well"
For a moment, the undead King looked over the dark sky, lost in thoughts.
"My King?"
"More than half of the demon troops are intact. And they will be able to assist her when we strike. This, I did not expect"
The undead archer at the back of the King spoke on a slow voice.
"What are your plans, my King?"
The King looked over the battlefield.
"There is no plan. Our Master only ordered us to kill the demon. We shall use all our strength to strike her down together"
The Loyal Knight and the Archer kneeled down.
"Yes, my King"
"It is done as you wish, my King"
The King noticed that the Lich didn't kneeled down, and was still looking at the battlefield. Although his face was of a skeleton, unable to show emotions. The Lich aura seemed weaker and there were hints of doubt on his soul.
"Lich, what are you thinking?"
As if drowned on his own thoughts, the Lich was surprised by the sudden calling of his King.
"Hng"
"Hmm? Lich, your aura, is being very irregular now"
"Its nothing. I am fine, my King"
The King looked at the Lich with doubt.
"Hmmph. You better be telling the truth, Lich"
"Yes, my King"
"…"
"M-My King?"
The undead King walked around with its horse, immersed on its own thoughts.
"I have designed a plan"
The other undead were surprised. However, the Lich mage heart became filled with uneasiness.
"What is it, my King?"
The undead King looked over the Lich with an indifferent glance.
"Lich, you will sacrifice yourself for us. Do the most damage that you can to the demon and its army, and then detonate your Soul Core, this will seriously damage the demon and his ally's souls. With your sacrifice, we will be able to easily kill her"
The Archer and the Loyal Knight praised their King, and looked over the Lich.
"You must feel honored, Lich"
"Indeed, you will be able to finally met up with that child you loved to teach"
"A pity she is dead, with the rest of the Trolls, right?"
The Lich heart was surrounded by a growing rage and impotence, but it was unable to negate its King commands. Containing its rage, it could only obey.
"Yes, my King. I shall attack and distract the enemy, afterwards, I will detonate my Soul Core, inflicting heavy damage to anyone on the demon side"
The King nodded.
"Hmm. Your Soul Core is powerful and rich. Its detonation will surely kill almost every of the demon underlings, only leaving her half dying body left"
The Lich felt as his heart was filled with despise and hate.
"Hnng"
A memory from the past went through the Lich mind, making him remember other times, times when he was happier.
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A small blue colored girl with long silver hair and golden eyes looked over her teacher, pointing something on her book.
"Teacher… What is a Soul?"
The Lich, who once was the teacher of this girl, glanced at the book.
"Hmm. You're studying something too advanced; you don't need to learn about Soul magic until next year, Zehe"
The small girl looked at the Lich with puppy eyes.
"B-But I want to learn…"
The Lich sighed, using its skeleton hand, it gently patted the girl head.
"Sigh… Very well"
The girl eyes shined on a bright gold.
"R-Really, teacher?"
"Yes, now sit down. Open your book on page 765"
The girl quickly obeyed her teacher command and browsed through the book pages, until reaching the desired page.
"Here…"
"Now, read it for me"
"Y-Yes… Ahem… A soul is the spiritual form of any living being of a Life Rank of 1 or higher… Sometimes referred as the "True Form" of any living being. A soul contains the mind and the deepest memories of any intelligent being… It contains their emotions, their desires and their sins…"
The girl suddenly stopped reading.
The Lich glanced at the girl with confusion.
"Zehe? Keep reading"
"Ah… Its just… I was wondering… Master, do I have a soul?"
The girl gently patted her flat chest, trying to look for her soul, as if it would show up if she tried hard enough.
The Lich looked at the girl with care.
"Of course, you have a soul, Zehe. You were born with one, because your Life Rank is of 1. When a living being is born with a lower Life Rank than 1, they aren't born with a soul, and must develop one by leveling and evolving multiple times"
The little girl seemed to be relieved of her having a soul.
"Phew… And how do those beings make a soul for themselves, Teacher?"
"By leveling. They need to accumulate Experience, a powerful energy force that flows through our Realm. By gaining Experience, one will break across different Life Walls, named Levels"
The girl nodded.
"Crossing through each Life Wall will grant an increase in power and statistics, resumed as Stats. By constantly accumulating Experience and breaking through Life Walls, you will slowly generate your own soul, created by your own Experience"
The girl nodded again.
"After reaching a certain Experience accumulation, evolution is granted and after evolving, you can finally obtain a soul. Sometimes, the accumulation of Experience is enough to evolve but not yet to obtain a soul, so more evolutions are needed"
The little girl was a little bit confused by the overly complicated explanation.
"S-So… Uuhhh… If I resume it, by leveling up and getting stronger?"
The Lich nodded.
"Hmm. You could resume it like that. But its not as clear. My explanation is better"
The girl laughed a bit.
"Hehehe…"
The Lich glanced at the girl warm smile.
"Why are you laughing? I haven't said any joke"
"Hehehe… Its just… Teacher is always so strict… But you really seem like a child trying to prove your intelligence… Hehehe"
The Lich was surprised by the girl rudeness.
"Zehe! Don't be disrespectful with your Teacher!"
"A-Ah! S-Sorry…"
The Lich looked at the girl puppy eyes and was commoved by her, quickly forgiving her disrespectful behavior.
"Sigh… Anyways, continue reading"
The girl looked over the book for a moment but didn't read yet.
"Teacher…?"
"Hmm? What is it now?"
"Do you have a soul?"
For a moment, the Lich stopped moving, and looked over the room windows.
"I do… I still have a soul…"
"Teacher?"
"My soul… According to the books, if I have a soul, it means that I have memories of my past, but why I can't remember anything? I… Sometimes, I think that I don't have one"
"But Teacher, you have memories with me!"
The Lich was surprised by such a dull but at the same time clever response.
"Zehe…"
The little girl gave the Lich a cute smile.
"You are right… I do have memories with you, Zehe"
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Immersed on his memories, the Lich was interrupted by the undead King.
"Hmm? Do you have something to say, Lich?"
Since becoming a Lich, its Soul Core has been enslaved by the superior undead King Soul Core. Doing a powerful Death and Soul pact. The Lich cannot say anything that would deny his King orders.
"N-No, my King. Everything will go according to your expectations"
"Very well, you shall strike the moment our troops are finished"
"I shall do as my King wishes"
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Present.
I glanced over the battlefield as Rimuru finished off the last undead giants, using her powerful multi-elemental spells, resembling my Gate of Bjarmia.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless weapon shaped, solidified magic projectiles rained over the last three undead giants.
The giants resisted with all their might, shooting beams everywhere.
Rimuru was able to quickly dodge most hits, and her powerful [9 Elements Spiritual Rainbow Armor] was able to easily tank the most powerful of beams.
While shooting magic projectiles, Rimuru flew across the undead giants with her beautiful Gale Bird Emperor wings, which made her look like an angel.
Baaam!
"Clack!"
The last undead giant fell down the ground, with its Soul Core completely destroyed by a giant magic axe made of Wind and Rock.
After seeing her last target being shot down, Rimuru came close to me.
"Mastaaa! I did it! Hug!"
I gave Rimuru a warm hug, I could smell the heartwarming flower fragrance of her hair.
"Hehehe… Mastaaa… What do we do now?"
"We wait…"
Zehe, Nesiphae and Brontes were at my side, waiting for the undead generals to show up at any moment.
Brontes was the first to detect the strong magic presence coming our way.
"Big sis!"
FLASH!
Suddenly, a powerful black thunder came rushing towards us, and stopped right ahead of me.
Nesiphae was surprised by this skeleton strong magic aura.
"W-What is this being?"
"A skeleton! Obviously, guuuu!"
"Skeleton or not, if it wants to hurt big sis, I'm going to smash it!"
After looking at this skeleton appearance, Zehe seemed frozen in time.
Without wasting a second, I quickly appraised the powerful Lich.
"Only one? Appraisal!"
[NAME: HERBELL SKARDEC
[CLASS: HIGH SPACE AND SHADOW WIZARD
[RACE: IMPURE LICH (HUMAN)
[LEVEL 113/999 EXP 089402/130000 STATUS: UNDEAD (GOOD)
[ITEM BOX 008/100
[HP: 425/425 MP: 734/734 STAMINA: 160/160
[STRENGTH: 146 (+50)
[DEFENCE: 167 (+40)
[MAGIC: 581 (+200)
[RESISTANCE: 493 (+100)
[SPEED: 182 (+30)
[CHARISMA: 30
[LUCK: -10
[EQUIPMENT]
[Basic Wizard Tattered Robes Set]
[Cursed Lich Staff: Craneo]
[SKILLS]
[Commoner Bloodline] [Gift of Training] [Magic Affinity]
[Basic Null Magic: 5] [Basic Fire Magic: 10] [Basic Thunder Magic: 10]
[Basic Ice Magic: 10] [Magic Resonance] [Undead Curse]
[Soul Curse] [Forbidden Shadow Magic: 10]
[Forbidden Space Magic: 10] [Masterful Shadow and Space Affinity]
"T-Those stats are too much…"
The Lich looked at me with indifference, however, I felt as if something odd was going on inside his aura.
I quickly noticed Zehe face.
"Zehe?"
Zehe looked over the Lich as her eyes cried tears of grievance.
"T-Teacher?"
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Here it is! Zehe and Lich-kun finally are meeting, what will be the outcome of this? Thanks for reading!
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