The battle field on which the legions and the Hunter's faction fought could only be described with one word, disaster. This part of the forest where they had fought had been completely torn apart. Trees and plants laying in waste all thanks to none other than master Damien. Speaking of master Damien the one who was somehow still alive even after Yang's onslaught.
He laid in his own pull of blood with his eyes blood red. His ears, nostrils were all acting as channels for the red liquid that escaped his body. But even through all this suffer, he still somehow had the strength to speak and the words that left his mouth weren't that of remorse as he was approaching his final time, no they were worse than what he had uttered while he could still move freely.
"Y...Yang...you are...not b..be..better than me. I'll ...k..kill you for this" Damien said while laying flat on the ground. But he wasn't just laying on the ground doing nothing. No, he was actively trying to control the last of the vines around him that had somehow not disintegrated from Yang's CHI energy.
But the more he tried to control the vine, he bled out the more. At this point he knew he was done for but still no sign of remorse. The place had gone quite silent and this was just enough conformation that he had lost the fight. As he couldn't raise even his head to see what was around him, he relied solely on his hearing which at this point wasn't the best but was just well enough to pick up sounds of which there was an absence of.
Then suddenly a loud bang was heard and the ground shook violently. Damien had felt this but ultimately felt this was him passing onto the next life and how badly he hated that he couldn't do anything about it. But he was far from the truth. As it wasn't because he was transcending to the next life that had caused the loud bang. No, as a matter of fact, the loud bang was only a notice to every living thing within that area to clear the area.
What caused the loud bang was actually lightning in itself. But not just any lightning, this lightning was red in colour and fiercer than other lightnings would be. But the lightning had brought along with it two figure. The first one dressed in a red armor with a helmet fitted on his head and a glowing red scar on his face and what looked like a gauntlet on one hand. This was the Game Lord.
But as earlier stated, he wasn't alone. Along came with him an all black dressed figure with a hoody covering the face. But what stood about this figure was its head. Out from its head was a single red flame lit and sitting down on his hoody. Which brought the question, how hadn't the hoody burnt?. Well that was pretty simple, the hoody wasn't just any hoody in the first place and the figure in itself was even far from being ordinary.
"Search the area and bring any survivor to me" The game lord said to the figure standing by his side. And immediately, the figure had combusted into wild flames with its entire body covered in red flames. But that was just the start as the next minute the figure had practically transformed into pure red flames. And then slowly the flame began to descend to the ground and soon enough it began to spread round.
As the red flames travelled, it burnt everything in its path to complete inexistence. There was nothing that stood in its way that survived or was later seen. It went through the horde of men that Yang and the legions fought and ate them all. Most of these men had passed out from the pain they felt from the damages dealt to them to even know what had happened to their bodies.
There was nothing that stood in the way of the fire that survived up until it got to where Damien laid and went round him. But this didn't mean the flame hadn't affected him in anyway. He had felt the harsh unimaginable heat that came from the flames and was beyond convinced that he was truly dead and was being punished for his sins. But he was far from the truth yet again and the one person watching at that moment had an answers that could explain the situation.
"Go Ragous, your master orders his sin, wrath. With your unquenchable dead soul devouring flame, seek them all out!" The game lord said out loud. And so his sin obeyed as it ransacked the entire forest devouring all dead things in its path. But once again, the flames had come across yet another body that it wouldn't devour. And this time, the person in question was Orin who was still alive and had come to just at the nick of time.
Though the game Lord had mentioned how the flames only ate those that had died, this wasn't actually the case as there was no discrimination from Ragous on who was dead or alive. To the demon Ragous sleep and death are closely connected. So if it was to catch anyone asleep, then that person would be treated just as dead. And for that reason, the entire forest field had been cleared of all bodies leaving only two behind. And these two were Damien and Orin's.
The sin once again restored back to its original form that was seen in an all black attire with a hoody and a flame on top of his head. He had appeared just beside the game lord. And then Ragous lifted his hands and as his eyes lit up red.
A circle appeared right where Damien laid. And this circle was made of red flames as well and covered the entire area Damien occupied.
Then as the flame burned brighter, it engulfed Damien whole and went it died down, Damien had moved from the spot he laid and appeared just where Ragous and the game lord stood. But this wasn't the end as the same thing was repeated and Orin's body had appeared right where Damien's laid.
"What the?" Said Orin who was still struggling to find his bearing after just waking up from being knocked out by Rodney from their earlier fight only to suddenly find himself and Damien on the ground and two figures standing above them with one being a new face, and the other which he knew very well as they were taught to fear this person.
"You will all be faced with my judgment but first, you must witness the destruction of what you call home" The game Lord said and immediately vanished from the spot. And soon after, the one referred to as Ragous did what he had done from earlier on as he raised his hand up and a flame circle appeared. But this time, it had covered all three of them. And Orin who was still able to move relatively better than Damien had flinched a bit but that was all that came from him as the flame had engulfed them and subsequently, they had disappeared.
Then suddenly the flames reappeared but this time at a different location al together. And out came Orin, Damien and the one who had made all of this happen, Ragous the one referred to as the wrath sin .
They had appeared at a place that was well known to Orin the moment he had set his eyes on it.
Although he couldn't quite make out what was and what wasn't of this place anymore. This was the hunters faction or to be more exact, this used to be the hunters faction and right now it was all a wreck. The great faction had fallen and was burning down in flames. And this was by no means an accidental occurrence. No, matter of fact, this was a deliberate effort by none other than Game lord and his ninja dressed goons that were being the sole cause of the havoc.
These ninja looking goons that he addressed as bots had simply torn down the faction to pieces. There were rubbles of buildings every where and the sad thing of it all was the fact that there didn't seem to be much people moving about as they all laid on the floor unmoving. But the few that were actually moving were having the toughest battles of their lives.
Master Tofu together with the last of his men who were by far outnumbered by the bots had done all they could to protect the shelter but there was very little they could do against such a never ending influx of enemies. By now already, they were all fighting off what could be described as a horde.
What was left on his side wasn't much as there were only four A unit men standing with him that didn't even look to be in the best of shapes as they had been badly injured already. But these were the A unit and they were as tough as a nail which was the reason they were still standing.
But just being able to stand wasn't going to cut it as they enemy still greatly outnumbered them. And Tofu leading this little squad with a katana in his hand wasn't so sure how long they could hang on again. But he knew for sure that his faith had been sealed the way the figure in red armor was staring down at him.
"You won't have my soul for free!" Tofu yelled as he charged into the gang of bots coming his way. But the expected result which was an all out fight hadn't occurred. Just at the last minute, the bots had all stopped in their tracks and the five A unit men weren't shocked as they all had heard a particularly loud voice.
"Stop!!!" The game lord ordered and all his bots came to a halt.
"Ragous, put an end to this and bring me the one who leads them" The game lord said to Ragous who had appeared with two other people beside game lord. And just like before, immediately the orders had left the game lord's mouth, Ragous the one who had tagged along all the while with the game lord.
Ragous had once again bursted into flames but this time, only his legs and hands had lit up flames along with the one on the top of his head burning more violently. Then he shot out like a rocket and as he ran on the floor moving at speeds that normal people watching would find it hard to keep up, he left a trail of flames behind him.
The A unit had one minute seen a figure lit up in flame approaching them and the next minute this same flame figure had made it through the horde of bots and stopped, standing right in front of all six of them. But Ragous didn't need to show off any more skills as just the little show of speed was all it took to make them worried.
And so the A unit responded by throwing out attacks of their own. A good chunk of them knew CHI as the A unit were the only ones thought CHI by Yang. This was done when they reach the point of moving from B unit to the A unit. But sadly, no amount of skills was going to save them from an enraged Ragous who had become pure flames.
Then not wasting time, it had all happened in a flash as Ragous rushed at all five and with his flame lit hands, he punched through all their attacks that was considered to be the strongest just after the generals. And as Ragous caught hold of one of the men, he grabbed him by the neck and immediately that his hand had exploded in flames and when it calmed down, there was a neck with no body.
The others looked at what had just happened in total horror. But what was more horrific was the pair of red flaming eyes that now stared at all four of them through a black hoody. And just then a ring of fire appeared around Ragous and immediately it rose and covered him. The next minute, Ragous had disappeared right in front of them.
"Careful, its a demon. Fall ba.." Mr Tofu was about to say before a circle appeared where all four men stood and one by one they had all disappeared. And after a few seconds of watching what had just happened, Tofu tightened the grip on his sword as he paid very close attention to the surroundings.
And just then Ragous had risen right in front of him and immediately Tofu had slashed away at Ragous. And just like before,the flames burnt brighter and he released a powerful fire blast that shut down Tofu's CHI slash. Then moving in, Ragous threw a punch at Tofu who had seen it coming somehow and raised his hand to block the attack. But that didn't work as he was blasted off his feet and sent crashing on the near by wall.
And without hesitation, the flame circle had lit where Tofu had been deposited and soon after the flame had engulfed him whole and as it died down, Tofu had disappeared but then appeared at game lords end along with Ragous who had come slightly later than Tofu using the same flame circle.
But looking at Tofu's forearm right now, it had been completely mangled. Tofu kneeled facing the ground as game lord spoke to him.
""You dare defy me and house the cursed soul....Your penalty for disobedience is death" the game lord said and his hands began to emit a red glow and it looked like it was steaming. Then with one punch he had pushed through Tofu's chest which gave off a sizzling sound.His hand came out from the other end and he held Tofu's still beating heart from the back. And after squeezing tightly on it, the heart had been squashed to nothingness as it had simply melted away. He pulled the hand out of Tofu's body and then turned around and his gaze was now fixed on two people, Orin and Damien.
" Your judgment " the game lord said as he approached them.
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