an oppressive wave of power washed over them, so immense it nearly brought them to their knees.
The stone chamber around them dissolved like a mirage,
the walls and ceiling melting away to reveal a dense, humid jungle.
High above, sitting on a branch,
was the small goblin creature they had seen before.
He watched them with sad, knowing eyes, as if he knew they were walking to their deaths.
Everyone was on high alert. Kaelen, Zarya, Nyx, and Luna formed the front line,
their weapons drawn. They knew a powerful being was here.
Suddenly, Liam's System blazed again
> ENEMY DETECTED
> * Name: Light General (6th)
> * Level: 180
> * Strength: 900
> * Agility: 900
> * Endurance: 900
> * Magic: 950
> * Type: Light
> * Health: 60000/60000
>
"BE CAREFUL!" Liam screamed, but it was too late.
A figure appeared before them,
moving with a speed so blinding that no one but Liam could see it.
In a flash of white color,
the Light General stood there,
his hands already wrapped around the necks of Luna and Nyx, lifting them effortlessly off the ground.
"ATTACK!" Kaelen roared, charging forward.
The General didn't even look at him. While still holding the two girls,
he lashed out with his wings , so impossibly fast and powerful that it cut Kaelen's neck, clean off his shoulders.
His body crumpled to the ground, his head flew to the ground. He was dead in an instant.
Liam's mind went numb. He couldn't heal a body without a head.
Seraphina and Zarya let out piercing screams of terror.
Garrus collapsed to his knees, tears streaming down his face.
"I want to live!"
"I want to go back to my sister!"
The General looked at the two struggling girls in his grasp.
"They told me not to kill these two,"
"but both of you are demons. I will have fun with both of you later."
His hands began to glow with a light, and both Luna and Nyx went limp, unconscious.
He tossed them to the floor.
"Take them," he commanded the goblin in the tree. The creature leaped down,
placed its hands on the girls, and all three vanished.
The General's cold, radiant eyes finally settled on Liam. "You are Liam, am I right?
You brought these people to their death.
When I kill every one of them.
it will be your fault."
He moved, a blur of lightning speed, straight for Garrus.
"I don't want to go down easy!" Garrus screamed, desperately activating his shield.
A second before the General's hand could shatter the shield and end Garrus's life,
Liam intervened. He slammed into the General with the full force of his power,
sending the General flying backward into a tree.
The General stood up,
brushing a piece of bark from his shoulder.
"Wow," What a hit.
You cracked part of my armor." He vanished again.
The fight began. To the terrified survivors, it was incomprehensible.
They could only see two lines of light
one dark, the other a blinding, white
colliding and dancing through the air and across the jungle floor.
Every time the lights touched the ground,
trees were sheared in half, the earth torn apart.
The General appeared before Liam and landed a devastating blow to his chest,
throwing him to the ground.
Liam's vision swam, his entire body screaming.
He checked his status,
> Liam – Level 186/∞
> * Title: The General
> * Strength: 920
> * Agility: 920
> * Endurance: 920
> * Magic: 920
> * Dark Force: 420
> * Green Attributes: 95
> * Light Attributes: 70
> * Health: 27000/54000
Seeing this, he didn't hesitate.
He stood, forcing his power to the surface.
A brilliant green light circled his body,
stitching wounds closed and mending bruised flesh.
The healing was complete, but the cost was staggering,
The status confirmed it
> HEALING COMPLETE
> Liam – Level 186/∞
> * Title: The General
> * Strength: 920
> * Agility: 920
> * Endurance: 920
> * Magic: 120 / 920
> * Dark Force: 420
> * Green Attributes: 95
> * Light Attributes: 70
> * Health: 54000/54000
> * Status: Stable
>
His Health was full,
but his Magic had been decimated, dropping from 920 to 120.
He knew he had to end this fight soon,
with the magic he had left,
or they would all die.
Meanwhile, in a stone building hidden within the jungle illusion,
Luna and Nyx awoke. They saw the goblin sitting in a corner.
"Please, I am tired of this slaughter.
Go help your friends
I only did what the General commanded.
" Luna looked at the creature,
then to Nyx, who gave a nod.
Without another thought for it, the two raced back towards the battle.
On the battlefield, the General landed, creating two, glowing swords from pure light.
He moved to attack.
The swords were so fast Liam could only react to one.
parrying it with his own dark energy.
The other blade closed in on his neck,
the air itself seeming to scream as it was cut.
Suddenly, a clang of steel echoed behind Liam
Nyx was there, her sword clashing with the General's light-blade,
knocking it aside.
The opening was all Liam needed.
He grabbed the General's freed wrist.
His other hand, now glowing with Dark Force,
Fist after fist slammed into the General's chest, again and again,
each blow a detonation of shadow.
The General struggled,
freeing his hand to strike back,
but Luna arrived, her attack slapping his arm away.
"Master, take this!" she screamed, throwing the poison dagger.
Liam caught it. He grabbed the General with one hand, his other a blur, stabbing the poison dagger into the holy warrior over and over.
Liam saw a massive tree nearby. He fled the struggling General towards it and, with a final, desperate roar,
slammed him against the tree,
driving the poisoned dagger through his chest and pinning him to the tree
The General hung there,
The light in his eyes faded. He was dead.
A series of notifications flooded Liam's System.
> Enemy ELIMINATED
> * Enemy: Light General (6th)
> * Experience Gained: 20,000
> LEVEL UP! (x20)
> Liam – Level 206/∞
> * Title: The General
> * Strength: 1020
> * Agility: 1020
> * Endurance: 1020
> * Magic: 10
> * Dark Force: 460
> * Green Attributes: 115
> * Light Attributes: 90
> * Health: 60000/60000