《Arcane Universe[AU]》Ch 24: Lich Raid | Part 2
Advertisement
Lich Raid | part 2
The sky was already darkening, so the adventurers and soldiers decided to take a nap. Next morning they would go to the end of town. Elizabeth stayed awake. She made sure to strengthen the matrix to stop the Lich from breaking through the barrier.
'Tomorrow all this must end.' The negative aura near the city center was strong, maybe at the end of the city, the negative aura was even bigger, if that's true, probably the Lich's body will be there.
When the duke sent expert people to kill the Lich, he ended up running away twice. However, each time the Lich switched bodies, he grew weaker. This can happen temporarily or permanently, in most cases, they only lose power temporarily.
The loss of power is caused when the soul is transferred to another body, this process can end up damaging it.
Of course, Lich's cannot transfer their souls carelessly, they need to program the transfer in advance, at least most of them do. Elizabeth had never encountered Lich strong enough to control souls in such mastery.
Capturing Lich's is tricky. Fortunately, these creatures are not common.
Elizabeth got up and got out of her carriage. She wanted to go for a walk.
-
Elizabeth went to a nearby cliff. She wanted to get some air.
'Why is he here?' Elizabeth looked at Aizen who was sitting on the edge of the cliff. Aizen was looking at his appearance in the reflecting pool.
Elizabeth was curious about this. Even though Aizen's appearance was very beautiful, he didn't seem to be admiring his appearance but rather… Curious about her?
"You should be sleeping." Elizabeth spoke.
Aizen looked towards her, with an impassive expression.
"I am not sleepy." He replied.
Elizabeth walked over to Aizen and sat beside him. The wind blew in their faces. The breeze was chilly, but it didn't bother them.
"You have a strange aura around you. Do you come from royalty?" Elizabeth rarely talked to people, because most of them just agreed with everything she said and didn't question anything. Maybe out of fear. The nobility constantly got it into people's heads that they were superior.
Advertisement
Elizabeth could see that Aizen felt none of this. He didn't even seem to care about her existence. Elizabeth felt comfortable when she was around him, maybe it was his aura. She felt a real aura coming from him, but the aura didn't show superiority or authority, but an aura that said "a special boy".
"No." Aizen replied.
"Why did you come to this mission? Aren't you afraid to die?" She noticed that Aizen didn't seem like an adventurer.
"Well, I came for the rewards. About being afraid of death, no, I'm not." Aizen wasn't afraid of death, because he couldn't die. The most that can happen is for him to be reborn in a nearby city.
"What about you? Aren't you afraid to die?" Aizen returned the question.
"Yes, I have." Elizabeth replied.
"Heh…" Aizen was a little surprised. This was not the cliché he was expecting. Aizen thought she would say, "a soldier should have the honor to die in battle" or something like that.
"I don't want to die yet. I have goals to fulfill. Dreams to chase." Despite being afraid of death, that doesn't mean she would never face it. She cannot stop living just because she is afraid of dying.
"..."
'Goals, huh.' Aizen had no goals. For now, he wanted to enjoy the game as much as he could.
'This is my true home.' He didn't want to live in that real world.
"Elizabeth-Sama, what are you doing?" Balrus approached.
"Just talking. I'm on my way." She got up and went to the carriage.
Aizen continued to sit, watching the starry sky.
Balrus looked at Aizen with narrowed eyes.
"..." He turned his back and walked away.
-
"Let's go downtown. All together."
"Yea!"
They set off towards the city altogether.
When they arrived in the center of the city, the negative energy was already enormous.
"Be careful."
Many undead began to appear. This time the amount exceeds 500.
"That…" The soldiers and adventurers were a little scared.
"Don't be scared." Elizabeth created hundreds of ice spikes and threw them at the undead.
Advertisement
*BOOMM!* *BOOMM!*
The adventurers were impressed by Elizabeth's power.
"Fight!"
Adventurers who knew magic began to cast spells. The soldiers used energy beams from their swords.
*Slash!* *Slash!*
Aizen cut off the heads of many undead. He made sure to freeze them right away.
The undead tried to fight back with arrows.
Elizabeth made a giant magic shield around the group to protect everyone from the arrows.
"Kill the archers!" They were the most troublesome.
Adventurers began to focus their spells on undead archers.
Elizabeth charged a lot of energy in her sword and released a giant beam that killed hundreds of undead. The undead were normally easy monsters to kill if energy attacks were used. Physical attacks weren't very effective against them.
*Roar!*
A roar came from the undead horde.
A giant undead taller than 10 feet appears. He carried a large club in his hand.
───────────────⊹⊱✫⊰⊹───────────────
undead
Rating: Lord
Level: 30
───────────────⊹⊱✫⊰⊹───────────────
The sensation that this undead passed was completely different from the others.
*BOOMM!*
The Undead Lord slammed his weapon into the ground and opened a rift that split the undead horde. He walked slowly towards the soldiers and adventurers.
"I'll take care of it." Elizabeth knew it would be difficult for adventurers and soldiers to face this monster.
*BAM!*
Elizabeth darted towards the monster at a speed that soldiers and adventurers couldn't even see.
*BOOMM!*
Elizabeth kicked the undead Lord in the head. A crater over 10m was formed on the ground.
*Roar!*
The undead tried to fight back with his club, but Elizabeth dodged and counterattacked with ice swords that pierced the Lord's body.
"It ends here." Elizabeth made a giant ice spike and threw it at the undead Lord.
The thorn pierced the undead's body and then froze him completely.
The soldiers and adventurers were delighted with Elizabeth's strength.
They continued destroying the undead horde. The more they killed the more it appeared, in the end, they ended up killing over 1000 undead. Even more undead lords arrived, but Elizabeth took care of them all. Elizabeth killed most of the undead.
"Let's go to the end of town." Elizabeth drank a mana potion and continued. The soldiers and adventurers followed.
After walking for a while, they arrived at the end of town.
The end of town had several houses.
"Check the houses. The negative energy of this place is very high-"
"!!!"
'W-What is this?!' Elizabeth felt a frightening presence approaching.
...
"Elizabeth-Sama, I feel an evil presence nearby." Balrus warned. He took his knives from his belt and prepared for combat.
"That…" Elizabeth realized that this was serious.
"E-Elizabeth-Sama…" The soldiers were startled, their legs shaking and sweat running down their faces.
The presence the creature was giving off was… too frightening. The adventurers were already almost running. They didn't want to end up dying here.
Elizabeth drew her sword and braced herself.
...
*BOOOMM!*
───────────────⊹⊱✫⊰⊹───────────────
Tyrant | undead
Classification: Emperor
Level: 35
Info: Tyrant is a mutation of two different species. After being killed, he was resurrected by necromantic magic. Due to being a mutated creature, his body withstood a vast amount of necromantic magic, which made him evolve.
───────────────⊹⊱✫⊰⊹───────────────

The adventurers and soldiers were horrified by the monster. His appearance had characteristics of a spider and a… scorpion?
*Roar!*
The Tyrant walked towards the adventurers and soldiers calmly.
"E-Elizabeth-Sama…" The soldiers took their swords. Even with fear, they would still fight if they had to. The adventurers were more discouraged. They came here to kill a lich that was weakened and not such a monster.
Elizabeth created ice stakes and hurled them at the monster. Surprisingly, the monster dodged the attack.
*BAM!*
The Tyrant began its charge by striking Elizabeth's left side with its paw.
*BOOMM!*
Elizabeth blocked the blow with her sword, however, the force of the blow was enough to cause a crater over 50 meters in diameter. She had to use her magic to protect soldiers and adventurers.
Balrus sent a beam of energy towards the monster's neck, but his attack was dodged.
"Elizabeth-Sama, let's cooperate."
"I understood."
"Back off! We'll take care of it." Elizabeth yelled at the soldiers and adventurers.
Advertisement
- In Serial7 Chapters
The Marauders
It has been thirty years since the end of the brutal Andromeda War. The Andromeda Republic was barely able to defeat the Zeta Empire, and its remnants retreated into uncharted space. At first, peace has been settled across the galaxy, but over the decades, the Andromeda Republic became more and more paranoid of the Zeta Empire returning. As a result, they slowly became tyrannical and started to use terrorist tactics to maintain control across the Andromeda Galaxy. But little did they know, the Zeta Empire has secretly been preparing and growing stronger to invade the Andromeda Republic ever since their defeat. With the republic going into turmoil, it is now the perfect opportunity for the Zeta Empire to strike. After the Zeta Empire returned from uncharted space on a full-scale assault against the galaxy, the Great Zeta War has started. Two years later, both factions were at a bitter stalemate. But the Andromeda Republic decided to hire a pair of former bounty hunters; a skilled sniper and pilot Bryce Kiness, and Agnar Reise, a heavy weapons specialist, to sneak behind enemy lines to find a way to end the war. Meanwhile, one of Zeta Empire’s flamethrower specialists, Kyle Savo, goes rogue and befriends a teenage prisoner of the empire named Arrua Veronis. After making a daring escape from the Zeta Empire, they come across the two mercenaries and decide to join forces, becoming the galaxy’s most daring group of mercenaries, the Marauders!
8 143 - In Serial9 Chapters
FREE
FREE (Free Reality Engagement Engine) is a new virtual reality game engine that completely gets rid of the limitations that all previous VR games had to deal with. The company that made the engine announced the launch of the first game created on it simultaneously, called FREE World. Sandra Kiell is a computer science major at UCLA and was working as an intern for Breeze Entertainment (the creators of FREE) during the announcement and was able to pre-order the game before it went public as a result. Not a hardcore player shes more interested in the having fun in FW and just wants to enjoy the game how she want's, but will the game and the people in it let her?This will be the first story I've written so I appreciate any feedback you wish to give me (how to improve my writing, character development, ect.). Also if you have suggestions for where you think the story might go I promise to consider them if you wish to share, if i use the idea I will give credit where credit is do.Warning:The mature tag is not a joke read at your own discretion. There will be bad language, descriptions of gore/bloody content, possible drug/alcohol references and possible sexual content depending on where I decide to take the story.
8 103 - In Serial24 Chapters
A Tribe of Kassia
An irreligious desert elf develops crippling panic attacks when his village is destroyed and betrothed kidnapped. Teaming up with a zealous minotaur monk -- himself a reformed mercenary -- is the only chance to save her.
8 84 - In Serial10 Chapters
Verlorene Seele(dropped)
The everyday life of a 13 year old school boy. Or not.The everyday life of a 13 year old school boy who is a king of another world, a natural born genius and a very eccentric immortal. Slow progression, random updates, OP mc.NOTE: This is just me writing out perfect scenarios in my head of my very normal everyday life and my fantasies. Also my first project
8 359 - In Serial6 Chapters
Precisive hunter
David goes to bed after a depressing day grieving over a lost friend, however he wakes up to a new world with magic, a system, and more! Note:The Title is a placeholder. The Picture is a placeholder. I am not a professional writer, please critique the series as you see fit. This is probably going to be a cliche dumpster fire. Thanks for any support. Word count per chapter: 1000 - 3500.
8 170 - In Serial25 Chapters
Haurutsuki: Beautiful Snow
Heir to a Hidden Mist Clan, Miyuki finds herself in the middle of a war. When meeting a young Kakashi Hatake, both of them change forever. But is it for the better?
8 118

