Legion vs Stage 2 (3/4)

[DAY 37]

As the fight against the Undead Stag 2 Tree continues, the fight between Neos Elite Undead and the Plant Undead begins.

The plant undead are still in the majority although Neo killed some with the grenades there are still many of them active. Furthermore, some mutant undead are among them and lets not forget the two gorilla undead who have a LATE STAGE 1 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY. The fight will therefore not be easy for Neo's Elite.

The Defenders charged to the front as usual, blocking the attacks of the majority of the undead plants. Although the two Defenders lost their old weapons, Neo gave them both a simple sword he had taken from the camp.

The two Defenders sliced ​​open one undead after the other, trying to hold off the wave of enemies. They weren't alone though, the Enhancer was killing ans assisting the two on the battlefield with his two daggers, moving between enemies like an aassasine.

The Enhancer had shown a lot of resourcefulness and skill in close combat in the last battles, especially since he can no longer use his BERSERK ability because Neo Stage 0 all died early on.

The Enhancer primarily attacks the undead, which would pose a threat to the Defender. Sneaking up from behind and stabbing one undead after another, he alos has good control over his daggers and is almost adept at using them. Only with the attack patterns, there is a lack.

However, Neo can only help the Enhancer a little, especially since he doesn't know any fighting techniques with daggers himself. Most people on Earth shouldn't have such knowledge, especially since melee weapons belong to an ancient era that has long since passed.

Lastly, there are the Attackers. The two immediately pounce on some Stage 1 Undead and the two gorillas.

Although the gorillas are both LATE STAGE 1 and the Attackers are only LOW STAGE 1, the Attackers could still fight well against the gorilla undead, the reason is that the heavy gorillas need time to attack and meanwhile the Attackers dodge or attack in most cases with their weapons.

So the fight, which was supposed to be an advantage for the Tree Undeads forces, became a showdown between two equally strong forces.

...

Neo, who was dodging another attack from thousands of branches shooting at him, couldn't concentrate on the fight of his elite undead at all.

The Tree Undead is a LATE STAGE 2 UNDEAD for a reason, its attacks and defense are superior compared to Neo.

Neo attacks continuously and does some damage, but the Tree Undead is just so massive and big that it almost makes Neo's attacks look like a joke.

Neo knows if the fight goes on like this he will run out of energy eventually and then he won't be able to control his Miasma anymore. He's certain that without his Miasma he won't stand a chance against the Stage 2 Undead, so he's currently mentally trying to find a weakness of the Tree Undead that he could exploit.

'Fire? No, already tried, the tree isn't a normal tree but an undead with increased defence, besides, it's too humid here in the cave, the fire wouldn't burn well.' Neo thought to himself as he just cut off a large trunk that was moving towards him with his Miasma Triangles.

'A big explosion? No, first of all I would need a lot of explosives, which I don't have and even my telekinesis can't help me with that.' thought Neo as he jumps from one incoming branch to the other.

'Mhmm now that I think about it, doesn't the tree need a lot of bodies and energy to create its undead? Where does he get them from?' Neo wondered as he dodged a bunch of branches attacking him.

"Host, Emily suspects that the Tree Undead has some kind of core, similar to the purple crystal in Host's head, except that this core can store much more energy. Host should try to locate this core if Host destroys this core The Tree Undead's strength will diminish over time and Host should be able to defeat the Stage 2." said Emily suddenly.

"A core? Hmm maybe, but the question of where the Tree Undead gets the bodies from remains." Neo said as he cut off another trunk of the tree.

"I could also try cutting off all of his trunks, but some of them just look too thick, it would take me too long." Neo said as he finally settled on Emily's plan to find the core of the Tree Undead.

But easier said than done. Neo, while dodging the tree's attacks, attacking himself, and visualizing his techniques in his mind, must now simultaneously search for that suspect core, while having no idea where it might be.

'Mhm... If I were a giant tree and I had to protect my energy source, where would I do it? At the treetop? No not good, not enough protection. In the middle of the tree? Perhaps my enemies would take a long time to get through my great tree trunk. At the same time, one should be able to optimally cover the entire body from there, right? Well it's decided I have to go through the thick trunk of the Stage 2... But how do I do that?' While Neo is wondering and the tree keeps bombarding Neo with more attacks, unbeknownst to Neo, there is a large cave under some even larger trunks of the tree.

In this cave a crowd of people lie and sit in complete darkness. Some small trunks can also be seen here and there, they grab some of the people in the cave and then suck them dry by the branches pulling them against the big trunks. After a few hours, the unlucky people become part of the tree.

There's about 70,000 people down there, all of whom were off the surface and never dreamed of coming down to the subway ruins at all. But one day, while they were sleeping or fighting the undead, a giant plant came out from under them and grabbed hold of them, paralyzing them. Then the plant pulled the poor people downwards to this cave and the only thing left of the human's existence was a large hole in the ground that seemed to go infinitely deep.

One particular middle-aged woman was among the groups of food for the tree, she had beautiful dark hair and dark eyes that looked like the night itself. John the commander of Camp Luma would recognize her immediately since she is his wife Luma, whom he has been looking for since the beginning of the apocalypse.

Luma had suffered an unfortunate fate at the beginning of the apocalypse she was out with friends beforehand and therefore in the east district of the city. She not only had to fight against the undead that lurked everywhere, but also fight against criminals, perverts and looters. But at the same time she was lucky and could trust in her longtime friends who together survived on the other side of each other.

But then the worst that could happen to the group happened. They wrere about to kill a small undead horde and were about to finish the job successfully, but then suddenly it happened.

A cluster of plant-like giant tendrils emerged from the ground beneath them and carried them all off one by one. The group couldn't do anything and in the end all of them ended up in this hell.

At that time there were still about 150,000 thousand people down here, all together in the small space of the cave.

At first, most wanted to fight against the huge trunks around them. But after trying to destroy the trunks for a few hours, none of this helped, the trunks were just too thick and as time went by, hunger and thirst began to prevail and almost everyone stopped attacking the monster that abducted them.

After that, only great fear and despair followed. Fear that they will die and despair because there is nothing they can do about their fate. With the newfound emotions came anger and most decided to let their most brutal and wildest fantasies run free.

The people started killing each other, sometimes in the most brutal way possible. They smashed each other's skulls in with their weapons, others who had no weapons took stones and threw them around.

Then there were those who, out of desperation, would start eating one another or oneself alive.

Others raped wherever possible, all the weak who were there. Basically they threw themselves on the few children and women and old people there.

Some people also tried to rape the beautiful Luma, but her friends stood up to the perverts and they fought together against these monsters.

After a few days, the hell below ground ended for many. In the end, only about half the people down there were still alive.

But that was the moment when something changed, the trunks began to move and collect the countless corpses everywhere in the cave and integrate them into their bodies.

From that point on, the only thing humans did was despair, even Luma and her friends were overcome by despair.

Luma questioned what her life was good for if she just dies here and becomes part of the trunks surrounding her. Why did she survive so long in the apocalypse? Why did she endure so much suffering and struggle when she awaits such a cruel death at the end?

At the end Luma just thought of her little daughters. Are the two of them still alive? How are they? Are they alone and need help? Luma didn't find an answer to her questions until one day the trunks suddenly took hold of living people and began absorbing them.

Among them was Luma and most of her friends, who are all powerless by now.

Loud noises and explosions could be heard here and there from above, some began to feel hope for salvation again, but most despaired, since now the tree will only kill them faster.

Luma was one of the unfortunate ones to be grabbed and absorbed by the trunks, but suddenly something strange happened, instead of the tree absorbing her, Luma suddenly died while still being held tightly by the tree trunks...

... that was the end of Luma's life, followed by her undead existence.

Suddenly, the branches around Luma began to vibrate and then a hand broke from the vines around Luma.

The hand was more like a claw, with long nails on them that were razor sharp.

The claw then cut the branches right off of itself, freeing the undead Luma from her bonds and dropping Luma's new body to the ground.

Luma's new body looked very different from her normal one. All over Luma's body were red tattoos forming various random symbols.

Furthermore, Luma had two horns on her head that reached into the sky with some curves and are about 20 cm long. The horns are slightly curved at their ends. Luma's eyes now shine an alluring red, and overall Luma's body is now 195 cm (6 ft 4) tall.

Her claws are sharp and deadly on both hands and her teeth grew and looked like shark teeth.

As Luma raised her naked body, everyone who saw her was paralyzed, no one could say or do anything, everyone was mesmerized by her.

Luma didn't say anything either and just started smiling too maliciously and started to eat.

...

Meanwhile, the fight between Neo and the Undead Tree progressed to the next phase.

Neo started attacking the Undead Tree directly with his Miasma and sword aiming at the middle of the thick main truck, trying to destroy its core there. On the other hand, the Undead Tree tried to stop Neo from his plans with everything he had.

Over time, the Tree became so desperate that it began throwing Undead Stage 0 at Neo so they could distract him and the branches would then kill him.

But Neo was not an amateur and could kill any undead immediately and always had his concentration on the tree.

As Neo then proceeded to his next attack, something strange happened.

The ground beneath the tree began to tremble and the trunks reaching into the ground suddenly caught fire.

"BOOOOM!"

Made the ground suddenly as a huge explosion destroyed a huge trunk of the tree and set it on fire, out of the explosion then a new character came into the fight.

A demonic form of a woman followed by fire, setting everything around her on fire as well.

In one clawed hand she held a human brain that showed some bite marks and in the other a heart, which she then brought to her mouth and bit into.

The blood then spurted out of the partially still beating heart and the body of the demonic woman was soaked in blood.

...

"What the hell? Hey that's my prey! Get off my Tree!" screamed Neo in the direction of the woman.

"Hahaaaa" the woman made when she heard Neo and looked at him with a wide smile, then she turned to the tree with an angry look.

The fire behind her then began to dance and flared up the branches more and more from the tree until the whole tree was suddenly on fire.

"Didn't I think fire isn't an option. But who is she? I get a sense from her that she should be an undead with a MID STAGE 2 MUTANT UNDEAD BODY, but there's something odd about her. But what?" Neo asked himself when suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him.

"Her Soul... she is on STAGE 1..."

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LEGION STRENGTH:

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LEGION COUNT: 108,191 UNDEAD -> 108,842 UNDEAD

ELITE OF THE LEGION: 5 MUTANT UNDEAD

PREFECT: 1 (Aaron)