A new Power is Rising (7/13)
[DAY 78]
Luma has changed significantly after becoming Undead and her Soul evolving into a Stage 1 Soul.
She doesn't know it but her body has improved to High Stage 2 Mutant Undead over the last couple of weeks and her control over her body has increased drastically too.
Luma never stopped chasing and eating as many people as possible over the days, although she was initially more reserved and only ate the guilty and criminal survivors.
But as she progressed, she didn't care if someone was guilty in the eyes of others or not, she ate and set fire to everything that was alive near her.
She has burned countless people of all kinds since that time. She felt after a while that her flames seemed to get stronger and that her control over the flames increased as she burned more.
She therefore developed some of her own techniques to make her fire more deadly or to make armor penetrate more easily.
What Luma didn't know however, is that, much like Neo's Miasma, her flames absorb a part of every Soul whose body they kill and impart another part to Luma's Soul.
Luma didn't really care why she could use her fire better or why her body improved the more she ate. To be precise, she didn't care about anything else that she considered important as a human before.
Over time her thoughts of her husband quickly faded away and although she really loved him in the past she now don't even now his face anymore.
It was similar with her two daughters, whom Luma also last saw before the Apocalypse happenend. She used to wonder often if the undead children who looked like her two daughters could really be her children. She used to ask this thought often when she was still surviving with her group of friends.
Everyday was just so difficult to surviv that Luma would often question herself why she was still living in the beginning. But the thoughts of both her children crying for help gave her enough will to keep on surviving.
If she has it already so bad, then her daughters will be worse off, how can she just die? She must find her family and help them!
But meanwhile even such deep thoughts are a thing of the past now.
I mean Luma eats and transforms children who look similar to their children often even to undead themselves or just eats them without wasting a second thought.
From any point of view it can now be said that the old Luma that existed as a human is now completely dead and buried.
The new Luma is an Undead through and through.
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Ever since escaping the gorge where the Tree and Neo fought each other, Luma has been gathering the Undead she creates around herself, up to this day where her Horde numbers more than 200,000 Undead.
She then began wiping out any human existence she encountered.
A particularly big one in this city were the surviving soldiers who barricaded themselves in the administration building.
Almost out of sheer instinct, Luma and her Horde set out to storm this building and eat all the humans there.
After a few hours and a few Undead dying, Luma's Horde finally managed to break through the last human defenses and then eat them all.
But after everything was over and Luma had already gotten into a feeding frenzy, in which her fire seemed to dance around her in ecstasy and her horns made her look like a demon from the deepest circles of hell, suddenly shots could be heard from outside .
A hail of bullets, bursts of grenades and some rockets, and even a few laser weapons were fired at the Horde outside, and little by little the undead died.
It was only after more than 20,000 undead of her Horde died that Luma changed her behavior and stopped eating the rest of the humans in the room.
Her flames suddenly shot out of her and shattered a wall next to her, creating a hole leading outside.
Her flames then gathered around their bodies, forming a flaming armor.
After the dust had cleared, she looked up at a Skyscraper which was on fire and looked all the way upwards.
Throughout the skyscraper were various people with purple eyes and dark light armor to be seen.
All of these purple soldiers had heavy weapons in their hands and were shooting at the Horde of Undead through windows.
Others shot at the horde with grenade launchers, and still others wielded rocket launchers or laser weapons, targeting the few Stage 2 Undead in the Horde.
But Luma didn't look at the soldiers for a second, instead she looked at the darkly armored figure looking down at her from above, which was arounf 210 cm tall.
The figure suddenly smiled and his razor sharp teeth could be seen behind his lips.
In the next moment, the creature's face formed into a demonic dark helmet, from whose various openings a kind of dark and purple mist came out.
The creature in dark armor then suddenly jumped off the skyscraper while still looking at Luma.
Meanwhile, Luma ordered her Horde to completely destroy the strange people in the skyscraper while she herself will face the enemy leader.
No sooner said than done, Luma suddenly knelt down very low and her flames gathered on her legs and Luma then jumped so strong and high that the entire room she was in before exploded and any undead that were still there were burned.
Luma shot into the air and was on a direct collision course with the creature in dark armor.
When she got close enough, her flames would suddenly erupt and fly in great numbers toward the dark armored being.
The creature in dark armor saw the spears of fire flying towards it and a dark cloud suddenly formed around it, enclosing it completely.
Any flame that came in contact with the dark mist suddenly disappeared in an unnatural way.
Thus, the being in dark armor fended off any attack, but before Luma could move on to the next attack, the time had come for the being in dark armor to make its attack.
Suddenly dark spears shot out of the black sphere and flew towards Luma like her spears of fire.
With the difference that these dark spears were solid and foggy at the same time.
Counterattacking with Luma's flame didn't bother them at first and only when Luma used more fire could she destroy the dark spears.
But a few others still hit the now falling Luma.
The fight of both has been in free fall until now, but suddenly before the being in dark armor could hit the ground, wide and long dark wings rose up on its back.
Using its wings, the dark figure suddenly rocketed back into the air while dodging some of Luma's attacks, which she once again shot at him.
However, as Luma got closer and closer to hitting the ground, her flames once again gathered at her feet and through much effort she gained airflow to fly as well.
However, their mobility in the air is not even half that of the creature with the dark armor, which has two real wings on its back and seems to be in its natural element.
But Luma wasn't interested in any of this and she again shot a volley of fireballs in the direction of the figure while flying towards the creature, which meanwhile has moved away from the skyscraper on which its soldiers are located.
...
The purple soldiers in the skyscraper, who attack and kill one Undead after the next with heavy weapons and grenades, made the Horde some effort to overpower them.
The purple soldiers barricaded the lower floors, destroyed stairwells and blocked any passages to other buildings.
Furthermore, the purple soldiers fought with a zeal unmatched by the Undead.
Every once in a while, some of the purple soldiers would just willingly sacrifice themselves to blow up a passageway full of Undead with a grenade.
Or they would let themselves be bitten voluntarily to gain time for their comrades to regroup and counterattack.
The narrow corridors with limited space, the sacrifices of the purple soldiers and heavy weapons, coupled with the fact that the Undead possessed no higher intelligence, allowed the purple soldiers, to stop the advance of the Undead Horde which vastly outnumbered the 2,000 or so enemy purple soldiers.
The battle has only just begun for the Horde and they have already suffered more than 40,000 casualties, including some Stage 1s and even a Stage 2.
The Stage 2 was able to extend his arms and tried to pull down one of the purple soldiers at the window of the skyscraper, but in the end the Stage 2 got a hole through his head from a laser gun and died.
Probably the strongest Stage 2 of the Horde however, was an Undead who was more than 3 meters tall and had swords instead of arms and is currently climbing up the outer wall of the skyscraper.
Machine gun bullets slammed into him one by one, but so far his natural armor has been able to block the damage well.
The 2,000 other soldiers have bad cards to win the fight against the Horde and will probably fail at it.
However, it doesn't seem like their goal is necessarily to annihilate the Horde, but rather to keep them busy.
...
The battle of Luma and the being in dark armor has been going on for an hour now and both sides have used all their abilities.
The creature in dark armor nearly decapitated Luma as they fought on the ground, but Luma managed to dodge it in time.
The creature in armor, meanwhile, wields a type of Broadsword shrouded in a dark purple mist.
The sword was precise and when Luma is melee fighting the creature and the sword gets too close, it feels like the sword itself is screaming into Luma's Soul.
If Luma didn't know her various fire techniques, the Broadsword would have already passed through her skin and she would be dead.
Luma's power is dwindling more and more over time.
She is sure that the fight will be over in the next few actions. She has already tried to call back some of her Undead to help her, but so far none have come and when she tried to get back to her Horde, she was already stopped by the creature in dark armor.
It was clear that the fight will end now. Either Luma will defeat the creature in dark armor or she will die and be eaten by the thing.
Luma determinedly gathered all last of her strength and her fire danced around her as usual, gathering for an last all out attack.
The next moment, Luma shot into melee combat again, while her demonic claws engulfed in fire.
She attacked the creature in dark armor and tried to limit its mobility, especially with fast and targeted attacks.
With an attack she got through at the end and part of the dark armor burned and the being jumped back a few meters.
Luma quickly followed and was about to attack again when suddenly the dark armored creature's dark Broadsword transformed into a long demonic Mace that surrounded red mist.
The creature in dark armor suddenly accelerated many times over and preceded Luma and hit her with his Mace on the shoulder, which was then half open.
Luma fell to the ground from the attack and before she could react another blow came to her knees and Luma couldn't get up.
The creature then grabbed Luma's head with its clawed hand and held it in a tight grip.
"YOU WILL SERVE ME!" the creature suddenly screamed in a demonic voice and Luma's vision went completely black.
Luma then felt an incomprehensible pain from within her being.
Her flames shot into the air toward the dark armored being, only to be met by similar flame-like dark mists.
Luma's fire swept all over the battlefield, completely destroying the surrounding area.
...
Luma endured this excruciating pain for 2 hours, but after the time was up, all the pain suddenly completely faded away.
Luma opened her eyes after a while and saw the demonic smile of the being in dark armor in front of her... the smile of Neo in front of her.
Afterwards, she quickly passed out again in his arms.
"Sigh, and again the Legion has grown." Neo said in a calm voice as he looked at his new 100,000 Undead in front of him and at Luma in his arms...
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UNDEAD LEGION & SOULLESS MYRIAD STRENGTH:
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LEGIONNAIRES: 1,437,853 -> 1,541,123
UNDEAD LEGION COUNT: 191,522 -> 296,824
SOULLESS COUNT: 1,246,331 -> 1,244,299
COHORTS: 402
CENTURIONS : 124
LEGATES: 21
PREFECT: 1 (Aaron)