Chapter 9

The heroes set up camp. Using earth they made small huts and walls. With water they created a small moat.

"How bad is it?" The leader asked with a large sigh, he knew that it was pretty bad, he only saw around two thirds of the original people.

"Three hundred twenty one dead, sixty two seriously injured, four hundred with minor injures. Seventy one missing."

"Fuck! Why are the casualties so high!" The leader shouted, throwing his empty bottle of wine. It hit the walls and shattered.

"First, we were ambushed by a large number of large insects. Then we were attacked by a large group of bears at the same time. Once when we thought we were in the clear. A giant serpant ate many of us.

We killed it and started to set up a camp, but the trees themselves attacked us. The roots sprouted out and each strike sent many far away. They died from the initial hit, when they hit the other trees or when they fell to the ground.

Even the leader of the tree monsters easily killed many with a single strike."

"I see." The leader said, he saw how large the trees were, they ranged from seven to twenty meters wide, have such large roots flying at them would cause large numbers of casualties. And when people tried cutting the trees, it was found that the trees were as hard as rocks.

So killing them would be hard.

"How many managed to develop the second quirk?"

"Fifteen."

"At least that is good." The leader said with a sigh.

"An attack!" One of the heroes shouted. The heroes from all over the camp rushed over. They saw a large swarm of Shroom men. They charged into the camp. Their weapons in hand.

"Long range, attack!" One of the heroes shouted. The heroes gathered together and launched their attacks. But the Shroom men at the front wield shields. The attacks were absorbed by the shields.

Then a barrage of arrows were fired from the Shroom men. They flew above the sky and then fell upon the heroes.

"Barrier, above." One of the veterans shouted. The ones with barrier quirks created a barrier. The arrows slammed into a invisible wall.

The Shroom men rushed at the heroes. The heroes used their quirks to try and stop them, but the shields stopped the attacks from doing much.

The melee combatants on both sides clashed with each other. Steel clashed with body. It was chaos as people fought with others. Blood flew as did the bodies.

The leading Shroom men just stood at the back. There were three of them, one that wore a robe and held a staff in its hands. Another was wore light armor made of mushrooms and on its waist was a sheath with a sword in it. The last one was large and its skin was purple.

They all looked quite human, at least compared to the other Shroom men. Suddenly a large ray of light crashed into the Shroom men. It burned their bodies and fell to the ground.

The Shroom men in the robes narrowed its eyes before it started to float towards the battle field. The Shroom men floated towards the person who shot out the ray of light. It was a girl with yellow hair.

With a short chant the Shroom mage casted a ball of wind. The heroine dodged the attack and shot out a ray of light towards the Shroom mage.

The Shroom mage flew to the side and sent a ball of water. The water ball shot towards the hero and it slammed into a tree. Making a large dent.

"You are quite strong." The heroine said to herself.

"You are as well." The Shroom mage said.

"You, can talk?" The heroine said in shock.

"Yes, I am not like my brothers and sisters, I am born intelligent. Now die." The Shroom mage created a barrage of water arrows.

The heroine created a large ray of light that evaporated the water arrows. The Shroom mage created a barrier that blocked the attack.

It then sent a powerful shockwave. The heroine dodged to the side and sent a large amount of rays towards the Shroom mage.

The attacks were blocked by the barrier, but cracks could be seen. Suddenly a wave of other attacks came. The barrier blocked them but it was shattered.

"Tsk, die." The Shroom mage created a wave of fire that flew towards the heroes. May of them were burnt and killed, but at this time, a large amount of rays of light crashed into the mage, it burnt it to death. But not before it created an explosion of fire that engulfed many heroes.

The monster turned into light particles that enchanted the power of the humans. The heroine got most of it, and it helped her break into the first stage of basic.

The Shroom knight found a good partner.

He ran forth into the middle of the battle field. He was soon in front of his target.

"I am the knight, Shrom, I would like to have an honorable duel with you." Shrom said while pointing his sword towards his target, a large man who transformed his fists into steel.

"I am Chen Qui, I accept your challenge." Chen said, he then charged towards Shrom. Shrom swung his sword down on Chen. Chen moved to the side and dodged, then he sent a hook towards Shrom.

Shrom ducked under the strike and swung his sword towards his ribs. But Chen moved to the side and tried to do an upper cut. But the uppercut missed as Shrom stepped back and swung his sword, the strike landed and sparks flew out.

Chen then swung his fist at Shrom, who blocked the attack and more sparks flew out. They sent attack after attack against each other. The monster and the humans both made way from them. Not wanting to be killed from their attacks.

"You are strong."

"So are you."

The hero struck Shrom in the face. He then sent a barrage of attacks. This slowly whittled away at Shrom. But then Shrom blocked an attack and using the force of the attack he struck Chen, he then went into his own barrage of attacks. Each one sending sparks into the area.

Shrom the did a large downward slash, it broke through the steel and caused the person's arm to turn back into flesh, but at this point, Chen used his quirk and struck the Shrom's in the chest. Then the face, the ribs and he did another barrage of attacks.

Chen then used his little reserves of aura and struck Ashton on the head, killing it. Shrom then turned into particles of light. Which entered Chen's body.

"Tsk, weakling." The last Shroom men said.