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"WOW!" Noku was first to jump up and run over to check out the now twitching and creaking stone dummy.

"A golem? No no no, this better, it should be a blood soldier in stone armor right?" Foren though also clearly excited took a moment to analyze the stone dummy, a habit learned from having to infer a lot of things from the bone dry information in the beginners book.

"Close, but no, during the last week that you two have been off doing your own things I picked up a new skill, I call it Possession, I can use a strand of malice from the formation to make things like this come to life, they are stronger than the blood soldiers, more durable and faster."

"Then why use the blood soldiers to begin with and not just mass produce these stone soldiers?" Noku said raising his head to look back at Aima expectantly.

"Its the consumption of power right?" Before Aima could respond Foren cut her off, at some point he had arrived next to the stone soldier examining it from head to toe.

With a slight nod Aima spoke, "That's right, although a single strand can keep it like this for a minute, ultimately they weren't made for that purpose, and although the consumption is bigger than the blood soldiers the real problem is not that but rather this." Saying so she pointed her finger and the strand of malice came back into her finger and at the same time the stone soldier suddenly had a spider web like crack run along its body.

"Boom!" In the next second stone shards and dust flew everywhere, the stone soldier being completely shattered, not leaving any trace of it ever existing except for a few small shards.

"As you can see there still a work in progress but soon i'll perfect them and make a super army!" Aima said her eyes set ablaze at them mention of improving herself and her creations.

"I believe in you Aima, one day you'll be the strongest!" Noku said giving her two licks for good luck.

"We will help you no matter what!" This time Foren said putting one hand on her shoulder and looking into her eyes.

With this the basement was completely explored and explained, now finished.

The way back seemed to be faster than the way down the whole climb going much faster than before.

Right as they reached near the top Aima stopped, her face draining of colour spitting out blood in the next moment.

"AIMA!" The two ran to her Foren picking her into his arms and jumping onto Noku's back.

"Speed Burst!" In the next second Noku shot forward like an loosed arrow, running straight and true.

Not a breath later they arrived at the top of the stairs, Foren jumped off Noku and placed Aima on the ground.

"Enemies... Outside... un...dead." Between coughs of blood Aima managed to let out a few words her consciousness weakening.

"What a weak formation!" From afar this voice came, slamming in their ears like thunder, both Noku and Forens eyes burning with rage, the two disappearing from the mansion leaving nothing but thin air.

Reappearing outside they bore witness to the battle, what looked to be at least a thousand skeletons were attacking the formation, the blood soldiers were killing them in swathes, but at the same time the skeletons were swarming them, for ever twenty skeletons one blood soldier would die or be wounded.

The blood soldiers would then respawn but it was clear that they were weakening along with the formation.

"Noku, whoever gets the most kills will be the winner for second place, hows about it?" Saying so his eyes burned with rage and blood lust.

"Deal." He responded, letting our a howl the wolves on the other side of the formation got up and looked to their leader.

"Kill the invading skeletons!" Just like this Noku's pack charged into the midst of the skeletal horde, battering their flank and firing off abilities of their own.

"Golem." Foren seeing Noku had made his move pulled out his fragile almost broken looking clay golem placing it on the ground.

Not a breathe later the golem began releasing sinister waves of energy, it's body absorbing the malice in the air, it's body growing to five meters tall in an instant.

"Destroy." Not a moment later the golem charged, uprooting a tree on its way it struck out with terrible force against the skeletal horde, the tables seemingly turning.

"You dare to fight back?!?!" This was when the voice came once again, and along with it came the miserable cries of the wolves as well as a deep sound like thunder coming from the golem.

At this moment the entire battlefield was stunned, the golem and wolves injured heavily all in a single moment, the tables turning once more.

Though no one could have seen what caused it Aima did, she is the formation, and because of that nothing can hide from her senses within the formation, it was also because of this that her face paled even more.

"He is in the center of the skeletal horde! He has a weapon that fires of shots of soul power!" Her voice echoed all throughout the formation, her bone form appearing in the sky spinning at an inconceivable rate, all the malice converging on her, weakening the skeletons and strengthening herself.

"Suppression formation!" Aima yelled, and in the next second the disorderly fighting blood soldiers disappeared and reappeared in the form of an organized ground.

The efficiency by which the soldiers destroyed the skeletons greatly increased.

"Hmph! So you have a few tricks but it matters not you'll still lose!" The moment the voice dropped Aima darted out of the sky as though escaping something and in the moment they understood why.

"AAAHH!"

"AIMA!" Running at a speed much faster than when they raced the two reached Aima in but a moment, looking at her burnt bone form the two were completely enraged.

"Stay here and recover we'll be back in a minute." Foren said, his muscles tightening and his expression becoming stiff, this would be his first big battle.

"Keep safe and don't expose yourself." Noku said, his fur burning at the tips, a storm of fire balls coming to life above him.

"Spirits of the dead I beseech you to rise in my name, Rise." All around the area inside the formation skeletons rose out from the ground, both the skeletons of the previous residents and those of long dead beasts.

"Charge." And they obeyed, the skeletons forming in a horde charged the left flank of the skeletal horde.

The scene of battle was now as such, Foren's skeletons were ravaging their left side and his golem while injured is breaking swathes of skeletons with the fifty undying blood soldiers in them middle, with the right side being taken care of by Noku's pack, each wolf firing off their own abilities into the horde crushing everything underneath themselves.

"Impudent!" The voice came again and with it a feeling of intense danger assaulted both Noku and Foren, the two of them dodging to either side increasing their speed to the very maximum.

"Boom!" Not a split second later an invisible strike of energy shot between the two, a crater three meters across forming where they once stood.

"There he is!" Noku roared, looking into the skeletal horde, finally confirming the voices position.

"Let's go!" Jumping onto Noku's back the two of them charged straight into their middle, the skeletons around them completely unable to so much as slow them down.

"You want to fight me? You are a hundred years to early to fight me!" The voice came once more but this time a strike of invisible energy didn't come but rather the voice sounded like it was trying to get farther away.

"Rock wall!" Within a moment Foren had cast his magic closing off the voices path of escape and giving them enough time to catch up.

"It's you!?!?!" The two yelled at practically the same time, killing intent seeping out of their bodies.

"Hehehe, I told you I'd make you pay for what you did to me!" Now in front of them stood a strong looking male, about five foot six, blonde hair and ice blue eyes, the mark of a skull on his forehead engraved in purple.

It was precisely the man who had tried to eat Noku before and who had left the two battered and beaten in the past.

"I am Jack, or as my master has taken to calling me, Jarxus, and I have come to subjugate this area in his name!" in the next breathe he raised up his sword pointing it as the two of them.

"Rock Wall!" Without a seconds delay Foren cast another wall in front of them.

"Boom!" Then came down the wall from the force of the impact, though by then both Noku and Foren had left their.

With Jarxus in the middle of two rock walls Noku jumped left while Foren moved right, invoking his soul blades.

"Kill!" The two charged, at the same time Jarxus swung his blade towards Foren, cutting him down, his corpse now fallen and decrepit on the ground completely drained of life, dying instantly.

"NO!!!" Noku arrived then, chomping down onto his sword arm and with a mightly whip of his head took his arm.

"ARRRGHH!" Roaring to the sky Jarxus slapped out with his left arm sending Noku flying backwards into the sea of skeletons.

Before Noku could stand the skeletons buried him underneath stabbing him all over and shredding him in but a moment.

"I fucking won! I'm the strongest!" Jarxus shouted, his voice filled with pride.

Looking forward through the hole in the rock wall he saw the soon to fall blood soldiers as well as his own skeletons pressing them down.

"The golem and skeletons are still around? Don't they die with their mas...!" With a fierce flick of his head Jarxus looked toward Foren's dead body the feeling of intense danger assaulting his body, moving closer to the body he tapped it with his foot to which the body disappeared with a poof.

"Too late, Snare!" The sinister voice of Foren then broke through the silence, the ground ripping open tens of vines and hundred of small hooks grabbed hold of Jarxus.

"Wha...!?!?"

"Sun Fall!" Then the voice of Noku came from underneath the 'sea of skeletons' all of them disappearing into thin air, showing a completely unhurt Noku.

"Sun fall...!" By the time he realized what was meant by this it was already to late, looking at the sun all he could see was a massive fire ball right in front of him with the sun as camouflage.

"NO!!!" Watching the fire ball fall Jarxus tried moving to escape but the vines held him tight ripping his legs with even the slightest movement on his part, looking at the fire ball come closer was like watching death's unstoppable scythe fall.

The moment the fire ball touched him it spread to the rest of his body and like wild fire burnt him to a crisp only leaving his burnt black bones where he once stood.

At the same time the skeletons left on the battle field all stopped and looked towards the spot where Jarxus fell and then they all dropped dead as well, truly dead.

It was also now that Jarxus soul fire after having regained all of its orbiting souls from the skeletons appeared into Noku and Foren's consciousness.

Appearing like a small sun with an innumerable amount of orbiting asteroids Jarxus fire started struggling intensely against the pull of their fires, though ultimately in vain.

Beginning with the outer asteroids the two started absorbing him and grating away at his defenses becoming stronger with every second.

Soon the Aima's fire too began helping to shred Jarxus defenses, with each passing second the three of them gained more and more power, their souls going through quantitative changes, getting bigger and bigger.

After an unknown amount of time the surrounding souls were fully absorbed leaving a small sun like Jarxus alone and defending against the other three who's souls were now much more powerful, being just as powerful as his own.

It did not take long for the three of them to rip his soul into three equal pieces, the soul of Jarxus screaming into the void as they tore it apart and absorbed it into themselves.

"Boom!" Not a second after fully absorbing his soul a small blue pulse was released from the three, flying out into the endless void.

The three's souls each going through a different change.