Naix and Titania’s greaves clinked upon the stone pathway as they exited the guild. The party stepped through the village known as Baile’s marketplace, dozens of stalls set up selling a variety of foods and different living and adventuring supplies.

“Where are we headed to, exactly, Titania?” Kaze pestered, walking alongside the guild leader, the heels of his feet slapping against his sandals.

“I’m hungry,” Fenris added, his wet black nose sniffing the air for the different delicious foods.

“We’re heading to the beach, next to the harbour,” Titania replied, ignoring the wolfman who had begun drooling. “According to our source, who was correct last time, the God of Sand should be stationed there.”

“Sand? That’s your blessing, right Karrow?” Kaze inquired, looking back to his ally.

“What? No, I turn my aura into crushed earth, I use an earth blessing.”

“What’s the difference?” Michaelis sneered at the black-cloaked warrior, who stared daggers back.

“Sand is just crushed rock anyways, are you sure there actually is a God of sand?” Karrow questioned the guild leader, condescending her.

“At the very least, there’s a being with a powerful ability to manipulate sand at this beach, and we’re being paid to make him drop. The details aren’t important.” Titania explained as the group exited the marketplace, arriving at the harbour of the village.

“Details are still nice,” Kaze muttered to himself, kicking the ground. At the same time as this conversation, Fenris and Ilgar walked at the back of the group. The orc stared at his mechanical hand, as the beastman held the back of his head with his clasped iron gauntlets.

“Why are you so down, green man?” The wolfman asked, looking to the ocean. It was vast and a deep, clear blue, with an enormous dock of ships, with a golden sandy beach as bright as the sun.

“What?” Ilgar spat, looking to the grey godhunter to his right, “You don’t know? You fed my arm to a dog, you dog!”

“You should’ve known your limits, green man,” Fenris replied, as the guild walked down a set of dark wood stairs, their feet reaching the beach.

Titania and Naix’s boots sank into the sand, as Fenrisolace’s eyes widened, stepping harder into the grains at his feet, intrigued.

“You are an asshole,” Ilgar growled at the wolf, who would ignore him, continuing to dance along the crushed earth cove.

The beach went on for what seemed like miles, the glimmering ground contrasting against the grey cobblestone seawall multiple meters tall. “There aren’t a lot of people on this beach, are there?” Kaze commented, seeming perplexed.

“I see that too,” Titania muttered, noticing a pair of people sitting idly on the sand, leaning against the towering seawall.

Michaelis approached the man and woman, staring down at them from above. “Good morning to you both, how are you this gorgeous day?” The crimson eyed warrior greeted, affectionately with a bow.

Kaze and Karrow looked on in awe as Michaelis politely took the man's palm and kissed the back of his hand, to the couple’s confusion.

“We’re doing fine.” The woman snarled, watching as the frightening-looking man grabbed her partners own, the very man now blushing. “What do you want?”

Michaelis’s gaze switched to the woman, who had chocolate brown hair and amber skin, he smiled to her, “I apologise, I suppose I should have greeted such an attractive woman with an equal amount of awe.” He commented, taking back his hands and putting them in his pockets. “My associates and I are looking for someone in this area and were wondering if we could ask you some questions.”

Titania grimaced as she watched Michaelis at work, while Fenrisolace continued dancing in the sand, wonder and joy painting his face.

“Who do you happen to be looking for?” The woman asked, now standing to her feet as the man she was with leaned back, placing both hands on the sand at his sides.

“It may sound slightly ridiculous, but it happens to be a God. Anything or anyone come to mind?” Michaelis explained with a smile, which became unnerving as the warrior placed his hand at his hip, on his dagger.

“No idea, bud.” The woman stated, stomping forward and shoving Michaelis back slightly. “So why don’t you and your buddies get lost?”

Michaelis’s unnerving smile stayed stagnant, as he drew his knife from his hip, Titania looking aghast as she began to stomp towards her unleashed dog. “Don’t you do anything stupid!” She bellowed to him, rage painting her face.

The woman stared Michaelis down with complete rage, and little fear, the godhunter simply continuing to smile back. His knife was now in hand, as its chains clashed against one another, slinking to the sand that Mick’s feet sank into.

The crimson eyed maniac thrust his blade towards the woman, whose arms raised in front of her chest in the shape of a cross, a shard of glass double the woman's size erupting from the earth for the blade to clash against.

Titania stopped her stomp as she looked on in shock, the ash-haired warrior’s dagger barely scratching the glass wall, as the man behind the woman stood up, lifting a massive lance from the sand at his feet.

“Damn.” The man muttered, pushing his blonde hair back with his left hand, as he lifted a towering black weapon from the ground with golden trims flowing along it.

“You’re insane!” The woman yelled aghast, as she flung both of her arms behind herself, her face painted with shock and anger.

“What just happened!” Kaze shouted as the rest of the Godhunters turned their full attention onto the pair before them.

“I got close enough to realise that her aura is massive,” Michaelis remarked, bringing his blade back to his side. “Also, the complete lack of fear kind of threw me off.”

“So she's the God?” Ilgar yelled, reeling his left arm back, yellow static flowing around his palm.

Mick’s eye twitched, looking to the ground, around himself and stepping back slowly. “No…” He muttered, turning towards the coast of the beach.

Karrow and Naix stood near the water, as Michaelis’s eyes widened. “Run!” He screamed, the pair looking on in confusion.

A wave formed behind the pair from the ocean, but not one of the water. A mountain of rock and dust towered behind the pair from the liquid just behind their feet, beginning to crash down on the pair from above.

Karrow turned on his heels towards the wave, leaving imprints in the sand as the area around the pair began to turn dark. His eyes widened with fright as he slammed his arms into the air, crushed earth flowing from his sleeves, forming into a massive hand. The palm of the sandstone hand slammed against the tsunami of debris, Naix dashing away towards the rest of the group, his armour rattling as he attempted to run.

“Shit!” Karrow exclaimed, as the tomb began to close in on the warrior, Ilgar launching a yellow beam of light towards the glass that opposed Michaelis.

The dark-eyed warrior hopped backwards as his sights were turned from Karrow’s struggle to Ilgar’s conquest. The blast slammed into the pane, detonating and sending dust flying around the impact area. However, the glass only appeared blackened, as the man and woman continued to stand behind it, ready to be attacked.

Ilgar looked to his flesh hand with despair as he looked back to his failed strike, with Fenrisolace slamming his iron fists together with horrific glee, despite how poorly things were appearing.

“Karrow!” Titania bellowed, turning on her heels only to receive a sharp stab to her left bicep. Her armour crunched as the shadow coloured lance had completely stabbed into her arm.

“You piece of-” Titania began, drawing her sword from her hip as she began to wince, the area around her wound beginning to freeze up as ice formed across her arm. She swung in the direction of her attacker, a powerful gust of wind erupting from the swing, sending him back behind the glass pane cover, which no one had ever seen him move past in the first place. He took his lance with him, pulling it from the guild leaders arm, who was unable to even bleed, her gaping stab wound completely frozen over.

The man fighting the tsunami of stone ended up overtaken by the tidal wave of coast, his sand fist being turned completely to dust, completely burying him. “Karrow!” Kaze yelled, rushing to the settling beach, only for Michaelis to yell after him.

“Stop!” He shouted, biting the knuckle of his thumb, as the red kimono wearing warrior pulled to a halt. From the ocean, a being emerged, with a cyan cloak draping over his head and torso. His skin was blue, his arms and legs thin as if there was little more than bone, with shorts made with the same material as the rest of his cloak, golden bands wrapping around his thighs.

“Good morning on this gorgeous day, God Hunters!” He remarked, face completely covered by darkness, as he landed on the ground where Karrow had been submerged. “I see you’ve met my daughter.”

Michaelis, Kaze and Naix faced the horrific monster that had buried their ally, while Fenrisolace and Titania stood opposing his daughter and the man who had run the guild leader through.

“Ilgar!” Titania yelled, in pain, “Get a hold of yourself!”

The orc’s face snapped upwards, as he had realised what he was missing while staring at his contrasted palms, the faces of the entire guild in fear, aside from one man.

Fenrisolace dashed towards the glass pane, his gauntlets turning red as he slammed his fists through the clear wall, smashing it to pieces as the pair beyond the wall stepped back slightly, preparing to attack back.

The man’s body tensed up as he thrust his lance towards Fenrisolace, only to be unable to hit as the fuller of Titania’s blade stopped the strike. “Don’t lose your place. You’re fighting me.” She growled, the man reeling his weapon back.

“Oh, I can help with that!” The turquoise attacker remarked with glee, as he lifted his right arm into the air. Kaze, Naix and Mick flinched immediately, Michaelis’s onyx black eyes twitching, as he turned to the rest of the guild.

“Dodge!” Michaelis bellowed, Titania’s eyes widening as she leapt many meters into the air. At the same time, Fenrisolace and Ilgar received a blow to the side, as the pair launched through the air with a yell. A triad of massive sandstone fists had erupted from the earth, hitting the now flying pair, and missing the guild leader herself.

“Thank you, father!” The woman bellowed, the sand around her feet rising, as she rode a mound of beach like a wave, following after the two Godhunters who were launched through the sky.

Titania would bend her knees as she prepared to make chase, only to be forced to clash her blade once more with the grand spear she had been stabbed through with before.

“You’re really going to leave me hanging after what you said?” The man remarked, the blades shaking within both parties' hands.

The remaining Godhunters looked on with fear at the being who had swallowed their ally whole, aside from Kaze. The snow-haired swordsman’s face was painted only with rage.

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