Darkness

Magic within Oddtown is a whimsical phenomenon, giving life to inanimate objects and the natural world to make them sing wonderful songs, increasing the sturdiness of the average citizen simply by being there. There isn't anywhere else that is like this in the world.

Magic is a synonym for weapon. The magic tower's main existence was to research destructive magic to aid in the war, the most prominent form that magic is manifested by those with inverted flow is through blade and body, many who awaken with a magic affinity that isn't either useful in healing or fighting are treated like failures of mages, swordsmen, or even alchemists and enchanters - professions that don't depend on specific magic natures, call their professionals duds if their magila affinity isn't capable of harm, an invisible dogma that has prevailed through the years.

Outside Oddtown, magic is grim, a tool only seen for its capability to cause harm, to display superiority, and to give a motive for someone to call themselves more valuable just like the amount of gold, political power, and popularity. The four failings of society.

In front of them, an aberration was created by the mix of despair with fear, a fusion of the four failings longing for something only the Fangs partially have. Perfectly preserved skin but blue and white rot gaping holes throughout their body, an amalgamation of gnolls, humans, elves, cats siths, and goblins tightly held together and preserved by a mucus blue slime ridden with black mushrooms and spore-holders constantly spewing black waste and off-spring to the walls, ground, and air. An unholy monstrosity born by the efforts of various races under a dying king.

It was The Union.

The mass of death stopped at the light, each of the corpses inside it turned its head towards the party and set its gaze at the elf. Bushy was terrified, her legs stood still but her heart pumped blood faster and faster in clutching horror, her hands were sweating and the grip on her staff was easing as the pale, eyeless expression of each corpse was blank like they didn't know what had killed them.

Tenpao grabbed Bushy and pulled her towards him In a second and at the very next second the blob of corpses leaped and the air cracked like a whip strike, passing just where Bushy had been at faster than a jaguar at full speed. In a fellow motion, Tenpao slapped Bushy, a crack resounded through the halls as the Elf woke up from her stupor, blood running from the corner of her mouth. "Keep position! Pampkin drop the baggage and get ready to engage!" Tenpao said, a bad feeling came from said creature and something he learned on the battlefield was to always trust that feeling. "Dwelm, prob the creature."

At a moment's notice, the dwarf fired as his crossbow was ready the moment the light revealed The Union, a fully silver bolt glowing with enhanced mana aura fired piercing straight through the neck of one of the many corpses, fully piercing the small slimy layer and decapitating it, yet the slime showed little reaction as both the head and the body reached to each other reattaching its members back. In quick succession all the bodies began to glow, Divine Runes began to be drawn in the air stopping after 2 Divine Runes appeared, Tenpao's heart fell but at that moment roots pierced through the olden stone walls and floor, wrapping around the blob and tightening it, immediately the Divine Runes broke.

Tenpao looked at Lulu and sighed in relief, "Dwelm, you come with me at the front. Pampkin and Bushy, this is very important now," Tenpao looked at both of them, Dwelm holstered his crossbow and grabbed his morning star, and Lulu had both arms extended continuously imbuing magila into her spell to strengthen the vines while Bushy gave the leader full attention, "Only the two of you can harm that thing." A deduction was made after the creature showed little care to Dwelms empowered bolt. 

"Okay!" Bushy tightened her grip on her staff, the ring in her hand reflected the light coming from behind them. Lulu immediately stopped maintaining her spell and reached for a lantern.

Lulu arched it back and with a strong throw, "Fire in da hole!" Lulu shouted as the lantern shattered right above the vines, oil, and fire illuminating the corridor greater than before as the flames rose. The roots began cracking under strain until they tore apart, The Union rising with flames covering its whole body, unbothered, however, easily visible due to the flames. 

Before it had a chance to leap towards any party member Dwelm struck down with his morning star shattering the chest of one of the bodies before retreating to a safe distance, the slime stuck on the weapon jumped from it towards the main body, at the same time The Union fully reconstructed the corpse's chest nearly instantaneously, but this process brought some hints into the eyes of the leader, "It can't attack while patching itself!" Tenpao shouted, mana moving into one of his blades just like the fire on the slime, and with a subsonic movement, he sliced the torso in half promptly also cutting The Union in half. Both halves reattached faster than before and counterattacked reaching one of the many hands inside its body to hold Tenpao, but it was near fast enough to even come to touch him. "Bigger wounds regrow faster!"

"Got it!" From the far, Bushy shouted. Her wand raised as she put the maximum amount of mana the spell could handle, Dwelm and Tenpao moved out of the way, "KINETIC IMPACT!" An invisible wave of sheer force struck the slime with the force of a hundred punches. The Union was launched back, its whole body shook before stabilizing. It turned around.

The gnoll was the first to notice the creature's actions, "Not so fast!" Lulu shouted as more roots began to pierce through the ground and walls, yet in the very next second fire, ice, an invisible force suddenly appeared blasting all the roots away, Tenpao ran at subsonic speed slashing the blob with both swords but this time his swords could barely make a shallow cut, The Union promptly ran away.

Tenpao looked at his hands, then at the swords that had a small dent, he felt like he was trying to cut the Magic Tower reinforced walls. Everyone looked at each other, Bushy was pale, Dwelm heaved a sigh of relief, and Lulu looked surprised.

This fetch quest is going to be a bit more difficult than anticipated.