As the sun started rising up so did Leon

I woke up in the cave and quickly used earth surge to move the earth barrier away from the entrance of the cave and came out of the cave to hear the chirping of birds and humming of trees. I began removing the rune out of the ground and just as I was done, I could feel the earth trembling and instinctively propelled away using storm push with my hand.

While I was airborne I saw a huge crack from on the ground and the earth shatter in a line to my previous position and huge rock spikes that formed from the crack on the earth that started from the edge of the treeline to the place I had placed to rune on.

From behind a tree, a large goblin emerged wearing a staff and brown cloth around its waist.

Hobgoblin shaman

Level 35

Info: A goblin shaman lives in solitude from other goblins. Hobgoblin shamans are known to use Poison, Earth, Nature and Illusion magic but are not limited to those magic types.

The hobgoblin grinned at me before tapping his staff on the ground and mumbling something. Multiple large vines shot out from the ground at me as I landed on the ground I replied to this attack by casting chain lightning and making it destroy all the vines coming at me.

As the lightning destroyed the vines I tried forwarding the lightning at the hobgoblin but as I looked at the place it had stood at I could no longer see a Hobgoblin only a large cloud of mist.

"Fuck" I took a fighting stance and pulled out my tanto and started scanning my surroundings.

A silence had fallen and I could not see a trace of the goblin until simultaneously three goblin shamans that looked just like each other started walking towards me from different sides forming a triangular encirclement around me. Quickly I took out 3 short sharpened metal blades and shot them at the goblins using levitate the first goblin got hit in the throat by one of the blades and turned in to water the second and third goblins both blocked the blades with small earth walls so I pulled all the blades back and made them levitate around me.

The goblins responded with some sort of mumbling I couldn't make sense of before they shot out tiny balls of fire at me I took a step back and the first ball landed near me, I thought they had just missed terribly and started focusing on the other fireball when suddenly the ball of fire on the ground exploded and sent me flying backward.

I flew back and hit the ground and bounced off back into the air by hitting my hand on the ground and casting storm push. This sent me flying sideways into the air causing the 2nd small fireball to go under me as I used Air twist to land on the ground safely.

Luckily the fire did no damage to me thanks to my cloak. When the 2nd ball of fire exploded far behind me the shaman and his clone were already chanting something.

To put a stop to this I cast entangle on the both of them but just as the other shaman gets trapped by the vines and one of my blades starts flying at it the other shaman pushes itself away with wind avoiding the vines that shoot out of the ground late due to the fact that I had to cast entangle twice. The entangled Shaman turns into water as a blade hits its chest.

As the last shaman begins casting a charge at him by sending myself flying straight at him with earth surge. The goblin sends an earth wall at me which I continue to cut in half by slicing at the air sending a lightning strike in the form of a slice at it and simultaneously throw my tanto in the air and it disappears into my Inventory.

I continued flying at the shaman and boost my speed with storm push and push some of the rock fragments away as I fly through them and imbue my prosthetic arm with lightning.

As my prosthetic arm imbued in lightning gets closer and closer to the shamans face it lets out a scream before my fist hits its face and shatters it skull making blood and brain matter spill all over. I land on the ground behind the shaman's body and take a deep breath

"Phew" I sigh.

Just then the shaman's body behind Leon turns in to water.

I feel a great jolt of pain as the earth under me collapses and a pillar of earth hits me in the back. I roll on the ground and cough blood while letting out the levitation spell from the blades. From the corner of my eye, I see a green liquid stream fly towards me and roll away and jump back up.

Just as I began regaining my focus another stream partially hits my arm and I curse loudly. My vision blurs slightly as the shaman comes at me while throwing a dagger at me.

"Huh right into my trap," I say as I deflect the dagger by drawing out my tanto and cast levitate on the blades on the ground and send them flying at the goblin from the side. 2 of the blades sink into the goblins skull and one hits him dead on the chest. The goblins let out a final squeal as it falls on the ground.

Xp gained 3000

Personal level now 8

Xp needed for next level 6/2100

Unlocated stat points: 4

"I had actually not gotten badly hurt from the earth pillar hitting me from behind and decided to play hurt betting on the fact that the goblin would get cocky and charge to finish me so I ceased my levitation spell on purpose to make him think that I was..." My thoughts were stopped due to a strong sense of disorientation as I fell on my knees.

I looked at the spot where the goblins weird liquid spell had hit me the spot had turned green and the veins around it were glowing in a green light. I quickly took out mana potions and drank two of them before starting to cast cure on the spot.

After a while of healing the pain and disorientation went away and just a small fading green glow was left on my arm. I chugged down another mana potion after which didn't honestly taste that good it was like drinking bad wine.

Suddenly I saw a bush shake in the forest and heard a loud "Thump" sound from said bush. I looked at the bush and slowly rose up and with levitate pulled my blades of the carcass of the goblin and had them hower above me pointing at the bush.

"For fuck's sake what now.."I mumbled before yelling "Whoever or whatever is there you should come out now or these blades are going up your ass!"

Soon after I yelled that two figures emerged from the bush.

There was a tall horned woman with long black hair, green cloth clothing and two large two-sided battle axes strapped to her waist. She had silvery forearm guards and knee guards. The woman also had long chains around both of her wrists.

The other person was a man about my size and had a large crossbow in his right hand and his left hand behind the back of his head scratching his head. The man was wearing some sort of glistening green chainmail and a torn brown coat that had leaves stuck on it. The rest of his clothing was like the woman’s green clothing.

The woman started speaking as the two of them got closer to me "Nice fighting there fella, we've been trying to find and kill that shaman for a while now."

"Yeah that goddamm shaman had managed to escape from us a few days ago with some food it stole," The man said in while sighing

I looked at the two for a while and relaxed up a bit but I still didn't drop my guard. "So...did the goblin take something else from you? as I don't really see any other real reason you need to be searching for it"

"Well, frankly that's none of your fu..." The woman was interrupted by the man who reached and put his hand over her mouth.

" (cough)...Well now that you mention it did take a particular item from us...a silver ring with a red garnet embedded to it" The man said as he tilted his head and looked at the goblins carcass.

Seeing this I quickly backed up and cut off one of the goblins fingers and took off a silver ring that was almost stuck in the finger. While holding the ring I felt uncomfortable as I gazed into the glowing red garnet

"So is this is it then," I said as I showed the ring to them from a slight distance as they had once again crept closer to me.

"Precisely...now could you maybe sell that to us for a few coins..It's really an insignificant ring but it has sentimental value to one of my friends so I would be willing to pay 20 silver for it" The man said as he took out a small bag out of his waist and jiggled it in his hand.

"Hmm, they could be trying to fool me lets take a look," I thought as I used inspect on the ring.

Crimson Dawn

Grade: ???

A relic of past times. This ring emits a strange red glow from the garnet embedded into it..???

The item could not be fully identified with the current skill level

"Damm not high enough level..There are two of them and maybe more assuming this ring actually belongs to a "friend" of his. The two in front of me seems to know how to carry themselves..I think it's better to just give the ring to them" Thinking that I looked at the man's calm yet somehow fearsome eyes and threw to ring at him.

"Here you can have it for free..." I said as the man easily caught the ring with some weird box.

"Well thank you.....I suppose you.." The man's sentence was caught short as a big dark ball appeared around 70 feet away from us on our left side.

The ball was making weird screeching sounds as it suddenly burst open releasing a large explosion of darkness which we all managed to avoid be using different abilities to get away from the blast that destroyed all the trees and vegetation in its blast radius.

"What the fuck was that!!" I yelled at the two who had drawn their weapons and were looking at the blast area.

The blast of darkness hadn't destroyed the ground but there was some sort of weird dark liquid that started forming on the ground and soon after began levitating upwards.

"How the fuck are we supposed to do!!" The woman and man yelled in unison with their voices that showed no signs of fear.

A figure emerged from the woods and stepped into the huge opening created by the blast. It was a terrifying abomination of what looked like a dryad if the dryad was half grim reaper. The other side of the creature was a wooden human like large body filled with weird black spots that looked as if they were slowly spreading and the other side of the body was made of bones and weird dark flesh that only partially covered the fore mentioned bones.

The head of the creature had a crooked red smile on the right side and the left side was mangled and was closed. The creatures right eye was green but the place where the left eye should have been only had a hole with an odd red glow coming out of it. The creature had a ripped dark cape with a large hood that covered the top of the creatures head. On the right the creature was holding a long beautiful wooden staff..that had blood dripping from the weird long bone that was growing out of the staffs top left side pointing away from the creature.

As I looked closer there was a path behind the creature that was filled with dead fauna and pieces of wood and pieces of flesh.

Shrieker Dryad

Level ???

An abomination that is born when a wood dryad is corrupted. ???

"What in....ohh fuck its a lvl 74 shrieker" The woman said as she tightened her grip on her axes

"Jesus fucking Christ" I guess il just have to believe them

The weird liquid on the ground began forming taking different shapes. Soon tens of monsters had formed on the opening they all had bodies made of the weird black liquid that had solidified into scales. Their faces had hollow eyes and no mouths and their bodies still had some of the black liquid floating around them. I tried identifying them.

Cannot identify creatures created by spells

Just I read that notification a small screen pops up

You have been Invited to a party consisting of an Archer and a Barbarian

Accept Yes/No

I took a look at the two near me and the man gave a slight nod as I accepted the party invite

Party joined Party consists of 3 people...Exp share activated

The barbarian woman starts charging at the creatures that are about half her size. While running in one fluid motion the woman draws her axes and attaches them to the chains on her hands. As she gets closer to the creatures she emits a green light for a short while before boosting up close to one of the creatures and upper cuts it with her left axe splitting the creatures head in half and sending the body flying with an incredibly strong yet quick kick.

After that two creatures were running some distance behind her back at the man. The woman spun around and threw her axes that were chained to her wrists with wide swings causing the axes to sweep the creatures heads away causing the black liquid inside them to start spilling all around their corpses.

One of the creatures was now lunging at the woman from behind, as it got closer the woman dodged and the man fired his crossbow.

"Piercing shot" He yelled as the crossbow bolt soon reached the creature and went straight through it leaving a massive hole on the creatures small body. Ceasing to stop its movement the bolt continued to pierce two more of the creatures before disintegrating in the air. '

"Huh I guess this is my cue," I said as I boosted myself with both hands using storm push at the action.

As I soared through the air I saw the hundreds of creatures all around the opening and gripped my right-hands wrist with my left hand and cast Hellfire flare shooting it at a huge concentration of the creatures on the ground sending me flying a bit back in the air. The flare hit the ground and exploded causing tens of the nasty creatures to die in the inferno created by the spell. I landed on the ground and pulled out my tanto and took a defensive stance.

"Hah fucking show off," the woman said in a cheerful tone as she charged deeper in the lines of the enemies and threw her axes at both of her sides as she began spinning.

Her axes quickly killed tens of the creatures as she spun around one last time before retracting the axes into her hands then she took another spin and threw her axes so that they came down from the ground at the Shriker in the back.

The shrieker madly swung its staff at the axes deflecting both of them after which the shrieker let out some sort of scream at the woman which made the air vibrate and pushed the woman back 10 feet. She was not bothered by this unlike me I almost fainted due to the scream which felt like it shook my whole being as I stumbled.

The man was not bothered by this scream either and seemed energetic as ever as he leaped high into the air and aimed his crossbow downwards at the creatures still unharmed who were charging at me and the woman.

"Hail of fire" As he yelled that Hundreds of arrows appeared out of thin air in the sky lit with fire and started raining piercing the creatures heads, legs, arms ect.

The creatures squealed in agony as they were set on fire, Not all of the creatures died to this tho and some continued their charge towards me and the woman. The woman was hacking and slashing happily at the creatures and the liquid inside their bodies spilled out on her face as she grinned.

Meanwhile, I spun around and imbued my prosthetic arm with lightning as I tore one of the creatures head of with the power from the spin I had boosted with storm push. I then lunged at the closest creature and slashed at its throat before It blocked my blade with its hand.

I tried pulling my blade out of its hand but to no result just then the woman launched one of her axes at the creature killing it instantly after which she gave me a smile before continuing on with her massacre. I then continued frantically killing the creatures with my tanto and prosthetic arm before the Shrieker started moving, it moved fast and vines with thorns on the shot out of the ground impaling almost all of the leftover creatures. The man and woman managed to dodge them but I was not so lucky, as I jumped away and one of the thorns went through my leg.

"Fuck...god dammit" I whimpered while biting my teeth on the ground.

I stood up despite the pain and launched my 3 blades with levitation at the Shrieker which swung its staff causing a huge wave of fire to start coming down on us. The wave melted my blades and as I stood there in pain and In sheer disbelief of the size of the wave of the fire which was about 40 feet tall the man quickly sprinted at me and grabbed my hand before leaping up into the sky as did the woman.

From the sky, we saw the wave sweeping through the carcasses of the creatures and into the forest setting trees on fire and disintegrating some of them upon impact. We landed in the ground that was still smoldering and filled with ashes.

"That thing...I guess il have to use this then" The man said as he walked forward leaving us behind him.

He took a wide stance and started glowing in green/yellow as he aimed his crossbow on his hip at the shrieker who was slowly approaching us with a grin on its face, well half of its face.

"JUDGEMENT" The man roared from the top of his lungs as he fired his bow sending him flying backward.

Circles appeared all around the shrieker in the air and started shooting out glowing arrows of varying sizes. The arrows impaled the shrieker and knocked him all around the place causing small holes to appear all over its body. Some of the arrows missed and hit the surrounding area causing huge craters to appear on the ground which were larger than anything I had been able to create with my magic.

I looked in awe at this display of power. Delivering the final blow one last arrow hit the shriekers head from above and it went straight through its head and seemed to get stuck inside its body.

"I...is.i-it over" The man managed to say as he collapsed on to his knees and leaned on to his crossbow which he held in front of himself.

The shrieker stood in one place motionless for a while before its cranked its head and vomited some kind of liquid on to its self, then all of the arrows stuck into it fell off and it began regenerating. The shrieker charged at an incredible speed at the man, but just before its staff was about the pierce the mans head the woman's axes blocked the now even bigger spike on the staff.

As she blocked the staff with both of her axes the ground started filling with cracks and the woman was pushed downwards. Meanwhile, I had been healing my leg and chugged a few mana potions.

"Get Durion away spellcaster!!" The woman said as she struggled to block and cut vines that were shooting out of the cracks on the ground.

I ran up to the man and put my tanto away and lifted his heavy body up before launching us away from the woman with earth surge just then the woman jumped an spun in the air while glowing in green light before striking down with both of his axes at the shrieker.

The shriekers head was smashed completely and the body fell down. But the woman didn't stop there and was tensing her muscles looking like she was about to unleash a huge flurry of blows. Just then the body of the shrieker rose up and quickly grew another head before letting out a loud scream.

While screaming fire and sonic waves visible to the naked eye came out of the shriekers mouth. The woman was hit by the fire and sonic waves and was pushed far back with her feet dragging on the ground causing huge tracks to form on the ground. The woman was burnt badly before she managed to activate some sort of illuminant green shield in front of her that guarded her against further damage. Meanwhile, I had handed a few stamina potions to the man named Durion.

The shrieker stopped screaming and a silence fell on the battlefield. The shriekers face started melting and soon enough its head had no skin whatsoever and you could clearly see its deformed skull and deep eye holes, which now seemed to go on forever as the colors in its eye sockets had disappeared. Small smoke trails started coming out of its mouth as it began marching towards the woman who stood there firmly.

The shrieker looked straight at the woman's eyes and slowly she started to tremble, as the shrieker got closer even I and Durion started to tremble slightly.

The shrieker continued its march, slowly but surely it closed the distance between it and the woman. Whatever small amount of fauna there was left on the ground died as the shrieker moved towards its target.

The shrieker was now standing in front of the woman looking down on her, she had dropped her axes and was looking into the shriekers deep eye sockets as it grabbed the woman's throat with one hand and lifted her up.

The woman's eyes had gone fully white and a tear was rolling down her cheek, while the shrieker opened its deformed mouth showing the dark abyss inside it. Its mouth was coming closer and closer to the woman's head...

(CRACKING NOICES)

The shriekers arm got severed by a lightning strike. The woman fell on the ground and quickly came back to her senses and grabbed the axes and swung at the shrieker, it dodged the blows and baked up a bit. I was still trembling, I still had my arm forwarded at the shrieker.

"W-What the....nice one man.." Durion managed to say to me.

Suddenly for a moment, everything went black I felt a cold bony hand on my throat. "What had happened" I questioned myself as I looked into the shriekers eye sockets as it held me up. I could not take my eyes of its sockets but I'm sure I saw Durion and the woman in the corner of my eye on the ground breathing heavily and trembling, covered in blood they reminded me of those I fought with and those who died.

My eyes were fixated on the shrieker everything was going hazy. It was as if somewhere in that void there was something glowing I felt my stomach twist and turn and my blood pressure rise.

Its head got closer to mine and everything went black I had finally lost all senses.

...

Once again I was in a dark space...

I heard voices YOU ARE WEAK, WHY ARE YOU ALIVE, WHY DID YOU SURVIVE, YOU DONT DESERVE LIFE

The voices were overwhelming me I laid there on the cold black ground, tears were flowing from my eyes. I felt something pull me up but I couldn't turn my head to look at it as it held my head and forced me to look. In front of me, there were my comrades...dying over and over and over and over again..

The face of the kid I killed for some reason I could see it so clearly now.

Suddenly I fell and now in front of me I saw a man with pointy ears.. and elf it had to be.

"What's going on!!! who the fuck are you!"

The elf looked at me without showing any emotion "You are not ready, do not come for us until you are ready"

"What the fuck does that mean!!"

"It seems we may have overestimated you, maybe you are not fit for this. You are not ready and truly one must wonder if such a man can be"

"Hey what the fuck do you mean I want some answ.." Suddenly a huge pressure fell on my entire being and I was forced to bow.

I managed to lift my head up and looked at the druid, but he was nowhere to be seen and in front of me there was that damm locket. An eery atmosphere fell upon the dark space and the locket started opening. Suddenly I could see Ara and Ivy near a mountainside, I tried yelling to them but to no avail. I saw them walking forward towards a cave.

For a second instead of Ivy I thought I saw some kind of black creature in her place. I ignored it, but what I couldn't ignore were the fresh wound on their bodies. Suddenly a light beam came from behind them, which they managed to avoid by jumping out of the way. The beam hit the mountainside and formed cracks all along the mountainside.

Some distance away from Ivy and are there where three people all wearing white clothing and two of them had silvery armor. A person who looked like a paladin charged at Ivy. I tried yelling and casting magic but nothing happened, and as Ivy avoided the paladins blade the other man in armor appeared behind her and sliced her in half.

Ivy's eyes opened wide as the blade cleanly sliced her body, Ara charged at the two men with a completely changed demeanor. I could feel an aura from her, it was as if she was a monster that was about to slaughter its prey.

Her charge ended quickly as one of the men bolted forwards and grabbed her by the throat. The man continued to apply pressure to her throat until a popping sound ensued. Blood splatter all over the man's face and armor, as he continued to smash Ara's body against a large rock which caused the rock to be completely destroyed...

......

......

"AAAAAAH!!!" I yelled as I came to my senses.

I was in a small hut. There were bones and potions in the tent, next to me there were bloody bandages. I felt being watched and I turned my face to the left to see a man dressed in black leather, behind the man there were countless books and a staff made out of bones.

Two of your familiars have died.