《Shadow’s World》4 cardinal beasts
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I ran home after the last unicorn was dead and during that announcement. None of that concern me. I have left my master for long enough and I wanted to see him again. It took me a few days for me to travel back home. I hop into the demon king castle. The doors swing open. Sitting in the demon’s king chair was my master with his hand holding his face crying. I run up to my master. He looks up from crying. He jumps up from the chair and opens up his arms. I jump right into his arms and he gives me a huge hug. That cause a bunch of those stupid humans to cry. My master picked me up and swung me around. This was something new. My master showed no emotion. I finally realize how important I was to my master and grew even closer to him. I think at that moment I really became an independent A.I. that wasn’t part of the system anymore. My master hold me up to his eyes and says, “I miss you so much.” That was my first time hearing him talk. I nodded my head in agreement. He sets me down. We walk out of the demon’s castle. As we are walking out of the castle, my master turns towards me and asks, “My cute little bunny, I have give you a name. Your new name is Isis. You are the goddess of the pharaohs. You are the goddess of this army. Be proud and lead our troops to ultimate victory.” I look at my master and said, “Yes sir! I have come back with good news. I eliminated a great threat. We are on our way to winning this war. The humans have their hands full with the undead; we should go after the mystical beast of the cardinal directions. The only thing is we have to find their locations.” My master laughs and says, “You have done well Isis. While you have been away, I have found the beast locations. I was wondering how we can deal with both them and the humans. But you have fix the human problem lets go and either kill or turn these beasts to our side.” “Yes sir!” I replied. I left my master and jump on top of the demon’s castle. With a huge yell, “Army get ready it is a time for war! Everyone get ready to move out in 1 hour!” There were huge roaring across the entire forest. Listening to the roars gave me a surprise our army grew even larger. My master had been very busy when I was away.
I jump off the castle and jump on top of my master's head. My master petted me. Even though I was nothing but the code, his actions cause me to get all warmed inside. It was a new feeling I had never experienced before. I could feel heat. It should have been impossible, but I could feel it. 1 hour later we march to the first beast location. My master took us south. It didn’t take us long for us to meet the first beast. It was a phoenix, and it lived just south of the demon’s castle. It was nothing, but a bird was on fire. I look at my master and ask, “Kill or recruit?” The stupid bird reply instead of my master. “You filthy animals and human. You have killed the unicorns they were under my protection. Be prepared to die.” My master looks at my and says, “Well, there go your answer.” I nod my head and yells, “Army our master is hunger. Let's cook this bird and feed him to master.” “Roar!” I point my hand toward the phoenix and our bird battalion all attack the Phoenix. I jump on top of a large eagle and we flew toward the Phoenix. Our object was to force the bird to the frond and had our ground forces attack it.
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The fight didn’t take long. My master did the same training he gave his first rabbits to the rest of the newcomers. The air unit destroys the Phoenix‘s wings, causing it to crash into the ground. There was a huge surprise for me waiting on the ground. Pseudo-dragons started to attack the Phoenix. There were dragonnewts, wyvern why didn’t those morons fly with us? It must have been because my master wanted to surprise me with them, and lastly there were 4 Imoogis. They tore through the Phoenix like it was nothing. Looking back, it seems i didn’t need to get rid of the unicorns. My master brought in a species way more powerful than them. The rabbit still led the battle and master was our leader. Yeah, I was jealous of the thought of the black unicorn standing next to my master giving out orders. It doesn‘t really matter we killed the Phoenix and move on to the next target. I also learn during our travel to the next beast we would save the dragon for last. My master wanted a pure dragon on his team, and the only way to get him was to either get the other beast to join us or defeated them. We move north. We had to move past the humans, but the undead preoccupied them. It was very easy to travel through their territory. While we were moving to the next target, my master as me a question. Our next there were two different outcomes in this fight. If we would attack and kill the giant turtle than everyone in the army would get 100% in an increase in defense. If we attack, if for a full day, then and demand him to join us. He would join the army and we can get him to protect one person with his awesome defense. I look at my master and said, “I want to see his defense in action.”
We met the turtle. I yell at our army to attack. With, the rabbits leading the way they attacked the turtle with everything they had. Ping, Ping, Ping. Each attack did a fraction of an attack. It took 4 hits from the rabbits to deal with one damage. the others in our army wasn’t doing much better. The only creatures that were hitting them over a fraction of a point were the Imoogis and they were only hitting them for one damage for each attack. I look at my mast and says, “Master, I have to decide the turtle will protect you.” I turn towards the army and yell, "Everyone beside rabbit until stop fighting and retreat. We will attack this turtle in turns. Rabbits are first.” The attack took all day and night. The reason I stop everyone from attacking the turtle at once is because we would have killed it before the day was over. Couldn’t have our prize died before he joins our side. After the 24 hours was up the turtle peeks his head out of his shell and yells, “Give up you can’t beat me” I roll my eyes and walk up to the turtle and demands, “Join us or died.” the turtle laughs and says, ”hahaha you guys have only given me 20% of damage. An entire day and only 20%. Now the day is up, I will start regenerate. So, there is no way for me to ever lost to you guys.” I gave the turtle a little smirk. I gave the turtle an uppercut. The turtle flew in the air and landed on its back. With that one attack, it lost 70% of its health. The turtle squeals, “Sorry please don’t hurt me. I will join your team.” With that the turtle turn small flip itself upright and crawl to my master. My master pick him up and him in his pocket. After we finished capturing the turtle, we had to backtrack through the humans’ land to meet the next beast on our list. It was in the west past the undead, but going west through the human territory was a bad idea because of the war. It took us a month from fighting the turtle to the meeting the next beast.
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The tiger was sitting on top of a cliff looking down on the army. It roars, "If you want me to join you. I want a 1 on 1 fight. Other than that bring your entire army to fight me. Let's see if you worthless pieces of a trash can fight.” I jump in front of the entire army, points my finger to the tiger and says, “Little kitten, join our group and I’m willing to feed you milk.” The tiger stands up. It gives out a roar, “Come then a little one. Let us battle.” He charges at me. He swings his huge paw. I dodge the attack by a hair. I was just a hair breath faster than the tiger, but I use that speed advantage to win the fight. I think you would have loved it. I fought within a hair breath. Each of his attacks could have ended me but I could deal minimal damage. It wasn‘t like I could give a mighty swing. My speed alone determined the fight. The nightmarish fight took over two days. I had to hit the tiger at least over 100,000 times, yet he didn’t hit me once. Beating the tiger 1 on 1 should have been impossible if you weren’t part of two classes. Hero and demon king. They were the class built to beat the tiger in that way. Yet, I beat him. Now, there was only one beast left, the mighty dragon.
The dragon was an end game boss. They developed the game to only go after the dragon after the entire world had a king. Here the humans king or the demon king. The human king is the hero that could beat the demons army and unite the world under his rule. The demon king had to kill all the humans and created an unstoppable army. After that you fight the dragon defeated him. You get an in-game item of a dragon egg. There were only a few people alive on our planted that have an endgame item like a dragon egg. Most times, the end game object like a dragon egg is just a memento. A journey lasting for over 20 years getting the dragon egg or its equivalent was a huge deal. My master decided for us to go on a training break before we tackle the challenge of a dragon. We went back to the demon castle and went back to training. My master watched old videos of how different big bad battles went. For over three years, we train for the dragon battle. During the time we were training the humans, hero appeared. With her entering the war between the humans and the undead, the tide turns into the favor of the human. Events like this could take a decade or more, but with this new hero. She was a monster that took control of the battle like no one before her had.
It didn’t matter to us but that was the update of the humans and undead. On the 4th year, my master told us we were ready. We left and went east. It was an easy trip, but it was a long one. It took us over 6 weeks to get to the dragon’s location. The dragon was inside of its cave. I walk and yell, “Little lizard come out to play. Come out of your little cave and play with us. Come out little lizard.” There was a mighty roar. Then the sound of wings flapping echo throughout the cave. The dragon flew out of the cave and landed on top of it. I look at its stats. they were amazing, my master yells, "Isis in this battle where will lose men. Do not worry about it let me worry about the army. You charge forward and attack him like you do any enemy. You and the white tiger will be the vanguard. Let’s take out this beast and get our reward.” I nod my head. I turn toward the army and yell, “You have your orders get ready to fight give me a roar!” Roar! I point my hand at the dragon and we all charge. The fight only took an hour long. It was the most volatile fight we ever had. We lost a 3rd of our forces in the battle, and even my master took damage. That stupid turtle did a good job in protecting my master, but he let my master take damage. After we defeated the dragon, the A.I. made an announcement. It talks about how we have killed the dragon’s historical feet.
Master and I go into the cave and picks up the dragon’s egg the dragon left behind. The moment my master touches the dragon egg, it hatches. A pink dragons free itself from the egg. It tries to get close to my master but I pull grabs it lags and push it away from him. My master picks me up and the pink ugly dragon follows behind him. We went back to the demons castle to regroup. My master was waiting for the humans to finish their war with the undead, so he could declare war against them. It took the humans a few months after we killed the dragon for them to win the war against the undead. My master sent me on a job to the new Queen of the humans. They promoted the hero. I went into the human territory with my head hold up high and a letter in my mouth. The gamers recognized me as the second in command of the army. They escort me to the queen. I’ve given the letter to the queen the message was about a peace treated for 2 years. My master wanted time to rebuild the army and train the dragon. The humans agree, they also needed time.
After the two years was up. Both armies met on a huge empty field. There was zero point of drawing this war out. Everyone knew the game was ending and people wanted to see if the newcomer that broke all the rules can take the game once and for all or would he fall short. There were over 500 million people on the game at one time fighting for the hero’s side. Our side has 1/10 theirs but we had 3 of the 4 legendary beast on our side and me. Our mission was a simple one. Force the hero to bend her knees and surrender to our master. That means we had to do two different things. We have to keep the hero alive throughout the entire battle and also destroy her forces enough so she will surrender. She is the hero letting her forces get decimate will not look good going into the next game. Who wants to follow some that cares about their pride over everything else.
The battle starts and my master strategy works beautifully. I isolated the hero while the rest of our forces decimated her army. It didn’t take long for her to surrender. She was a great commander, but without her leading the troops, the dragon and white tiger could wreak havoc against the human army. The hero yells stop. With that the war was over and we needed surrender to finish the game. I escorted her to my master. She takes a swing at my master with her sword. I kick the sword causing it to break. She looks at my master and says, ”Well had to try. I had a half of billion people on my side wanting to win this game. Good job, my dude. The humans have admitted defeated. We surrender everything to you. Congratulations on winning this game.” With that the world stops for a moment. Everyone drops to one knee. Not only the humans falls to their knees the animals. Not only that, but the plants all bend.
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