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Tainted Fate

When the weakest Adventure meets the strongest monster, fates are entangled creating new threads. The world engulfed with wars, and the unseen monster venturing forth leaving only death and destruction in their wake.

Emiko_Nuzealea · Fantasy
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Destruction

As asura is walking to the workplace where the two elves and Dwarf are, with a field full of flowers. Suddenly the sky goes dark and she hears her friends being cut down one at a time as blood is splattered all over her. As they are yelling for her to run and hide, terrified at the side she collapses to the ground as all she sees is golden eyes glowing and a sword cutting her in half.

Asura starts to scream and Siphanien gives her a hug patting her back "There there calm down little one, everything is alright there is nothing to be scared about."

Looking around she calms down after seeing the dwarf, Neldor, and Siphanien she starts to contemplate what she saw. She starts to plead with them "We can't go, we are not allowed to go, something is going to happen, we can't go this time!"

Neldor pats her head and puts a finger to his lips. Asura understands that the guards are nearby and do not like talking about leaving or not working. She shakes her head up and down in understanding and gets up ready to move.

The dwarf walks up to the front and yells so everyone can hear him "It's time for work let's get to it and get the job done!" He opens up the tent exit and the guards stand there surprised to see the slaves ready to work and on their way into the mines without them being forced.

A guard shift change and the usual chipping of the rocks and minerals can be heard, carts filled to the brim with ore, The dwarf starts to look around the cavern with concern. At the beginning of a shaft, they were creating.

Asura walks up to the dwarf and tugs at his rags with one hand full of ore "What's wrong?"

The dwarf looks down at her showing his concerned face "I smell blood in the air, and it's more than normal. I have an eerie feeling about this."

The cavern began to shake for a moment and stopped having guards and other slaves lose their balance. A sound can be heard down the shaft Asura and the dwarf was standing in front of.

A guard walks up to the dwarf and begins to yell "What in bloody hell was that dwarf? Are you trying to sabotage us?" he grabs his sword and points it at the dwarf.

He chuckles to himself "You're duller than a sandstone Warhammer and twice as fragile. If you think I could have done something like that!"

The sound of someone screaming echoed in the cavern, as complete silence fills the area, the guard looks down the cavern yells "If you are going to die, die quietly will you?"

As the guard is waiting for a response he hears footsteps of boots on the ground. One after another comes closer, as he waits for the figure and shadow to appear, the eerie silence quieter than any cave should be as the figure enters the torchlight. The bone hand grabs the guard by the neck keeping his mouth shut as he cocks him to death.

As they all watch the guard's body slums to the ground. The skeleton without uttering a single sound raises his hand and points, as many ghouls, skeletons, and skeleton knights charge forward. The dwarf now understanding what is happening grabs his pickaxe screaming at asura "RUN LITTLE ONE!"

The dwarf turns to the army to buy her time, his only weapon his trusty pickaxe, taking this as a challenge the golden eye skeleton runs forward to accept it. Without losing a single movement the blade cuts throw the dwarf straight down cutting him in two.

As the blood flows down his blade his teeth chatters and the skeletons chatter with him and the ghouls' roar.

The guards run to the Elves releasing their magic restricting chains. As the elves by time for the guards to release the chains for the beastmen to allow them to go berserk.

As the golden-eyed skeleton attacks the barrier created by the elves. Cracks begin to form due to the weakened state of the elves. The sword in the skeleton's hand shattering at the same time as the shield shattering, letting it grab Neldor.

The hand sinking into his skin crushing his skull as blood splatters everywhere, throwing the lifeless body to the ghouls.

Siphanien seeing the brutality of the skeleton commander picks up Asura using her wind magic spells to blast towards the exit of the cavern.

The chains fall as the roar of a Baserking polar bear is heard, The skeleton goldeneye commander seeing the three beastmen lose and Baserking, commands the lesser skeletons to attack the guards outnumbering them 10-1. Commanding the skeletons knights with tower shields that are badly damaged but still alive to guard against the polar bear to spot its attacks from reaching it. The ghouls are commanded to surround the lizard man as a distraction to buy time for the commander to defeat the wolf.

Unsheathing its last sword, The skeleton runs towards the wolfman stabbing for the eyes as the wolf's instinct kicks in, he jumps to the side avoiding the strike not wanting to gain its ground back. The skeleton rushes forward slashing at its side. As the wolf takes damage his teeth grab the free arm of the skeleton crushing it into dust. As the skeleton refuses for it to survive the next attack, it pierces the back of its neck going all the way through.

As the skeletons are being destroyed one by one by the bear, my attention is on the ghouls that have far more casualties. The acid spit denigrating everything it touches as I watch the green-scaled lizard dives into the acid pit as it jumps out running towards the ghouls, with the acid from the pit touching them burning throw everything decimating the forces

The skeleton commander looks at the dead wolfman and tears its arm off, placing it where its arm used to be. The flesh on the arm immediately rotted away, and the bones being covered in a golden light reconstruction itself to the original arm size.

The skeleton sits down for a moment and watches the lizardman, for a few seconds. As he watches the fight it notices the lizardman returning to the pit every 10 seconds realizing the acid covering its body does not stick for too long giving it an opening to finish it off. However, it needs to be done in a single hit for the acid spit can dissolve me into nothing.

The skeleton commander runs into the shadows, waiting for the beast to run to the acid pool again. As it's halfway to the pool of acid, it jumps out aiming for the back of its head. As the lizard feels the killer intent, it enhances its speed further and jumps into the acid pool. As it crawls out it aims for the skeleton commander, spitting acid out of its stomach at a rapid pace. The skeleton commander going to defend himself even tho it's futile feels a warm feeling in his bones.

As the acid collides with its arm, instead of dissolving flames start to spew out of its arm. Unsure why flames are spewing out of its arm, it decides to retreat backward and common its ghouls to the front.

The skeleton stares at its boney arm (I know for a fact I didn't activate magic, so why did fire appear.) it looks up at the acid pit and the lizard man noticing a few scorch marks. (Guess this is my only chance)

The skeleton channels the mana within its body and enshrouds itself in flames not sure if this will work. Rushes forward towards the lizard with everything it has, heading up its entire body, and swings its sword at the lizard's body.

The acid on the lizard's body is engulfed with flames, screeching and panicking as its body is covered in flames. It tries to crawl back to the acid pit, but the skeleton commander grabs its tail with its Fiery hand pulling it back.

The commander watches it burn to a crisp as it screams and cries until only silence covers the cavern. Turning its attention back to the final enemy the polar bear. The skeleton commander commands his 15 skeleton knights who were holding it off to push it towards the acid pit.

As it uses its flames to guide the bear, making it impossible to escape. The bear falls into the pit leaving nothing remaining.

The skeleton commander looks around at what remaining forces it has left. 15 skeleton knights, originally 30, 120 ghouls, originally 250, 350 skeletons, originally 500. It decides to march forward with the remaining forces thinking there should not be many strong Opponents left.

As they march to the entrance they see a bloody scene of an older elf woman lying on the ground, two people who look to be guards torn to pieces, and a cocoon of what seems to be blood. As a ghoul walks up to the cocoon it is immediately ripped apart into nothing.

Not wishing to take too many more casualties of its army it commands its army to go around the cocoon. As they walked onto the camp with almost no warning within a single night there was nothing left.