The twelve Plague soldiers were a hassle to deal with, anything that touched them decayed at a slow rate but they decayed nonetheless. One of the adventurers screamed out when the plague soldier cut their body . When this happened the plague soldier became a cloud of smoke and entered the body, The unlucky person screamed out as their skin shriveled up and decayed.

I felt helpless when the adventurers fought so I donned my sword and ran forward, impaling one of the Plague Soldiers

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The Plague soldiers growled and the part that I stabbed turned to smoke and reformed itself. It quickly parried a blow with the person it was fighting before turning around to face me.

I trembled at the sight of the faceless helmet, suddenly the face part of the helmet lit up like there was a spark and a blast of fiery smog billowed forward and tried to consume me. Chance shouted out and a wind blew the smog back at the soldier which consumed it.

"They are not resistant to their own smog" I announced this observation and charged toward another Plague soldiers.

The plague soldiers , out of the 12 about 7 were left, threw their swords to the side and out came spears and shields. Two of the seven stepped forward while the other Plague Solders gathered in a pentagon, thrusting their spears toward the center of them, one of the soldier's faces lit up ad a fiery gas piled into the center of the pentagon. Shortly after a second one started to secrete a smoke from it's body, the smoke swirling toward the center where the fiery gas was.

"I got a bad feeling about this" Yoshiro muttered and he dashed forward, hoping to stop the formation. The two Plague Soldiers not part of the formation dashed forward to meet Yoshiro head on,

A few of us also went into assist him, due to our numbers we easily suppressed and defeated the two guards.

We all turned to face the formation when the last soldier of the pentagon pulsed lightning and threw it into the center. The fiery gas, smoke, icy winds, acid rain, and finally lightning merged together, the recoil of merging flew back and subtly destroyed the Plague Soldiers, their smoking husks falling over and a smoking pillar in the center of the pentagon.

Everyone kept their guard up, "Kazar, Neeko, check out the pillar" the leader said and two people nodded their heads and advanced forward.

"The feeling of unease is still here... GET AWAY" Yoshiro exclaimed and he threw his weapon toward the pillar.

The weapon was deflected and a creature dragged itself out of the pillar of smoke. With a mighty roar it revealed itself

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The creature's chest burst open and tendrils of gas forced themselves into Neeko and Kazar, the plague destroying their insides, and their body decaying into yellow husks.

" Plague Stalker" Someone cried out and the cleric sent a purification spell on the beast which made it yell out in pain.

The Plague Stalker ran rampant and went for the nearest person which turned out to be Yoshiro.

Having thrown his weapon, Yoshiro was now defenseless and he didn't run because he had no time to run.

Upon seconds the Plague Stalker reached Yoshiro and swiped it's claws at him, Yoshiro jumped up, kicking himself off the hand of the beast and lunged forward.

The Plague Stalker accepted Yoshiro's attack head on and then embraced him in it's sickly arms. the head of the beast looms closer, it's mouth extending, rows of sharp teeth ready to bite.

I immediately ran forward to help Yoshiro out, I felt a wind pushing my forward and I knew that Chance was helping me out as well.

With a yell I took my sword and impaled it in the side of the stalker, effectively making it let go of Yoshiro.. Wailing in pain, the Stalker slumped forward and billowing from it's back, a cloud of decaying smog blew forward. I dodged back, running for my life, dragging Yoshiro, Chance and the other wind disciple attempting to repel the smog.

As I was running for my life I realized that it has been to quiet, where did the crazy Wind Beast of Calamity go? Why isn't she asking us questions like she wanted to hear from us?

I suddenly felt myself sent flying, Yoshiro escaping my arms and we both landed and rolled, stpping at someone's feet.

Looking up I see that the area around us was covered by a yellowish smog, the only thing keeping them at bay was a wind forcefield that prevented them from converging on us.

" Quick to act my dearies, now that your trapped in that bubble shield, act fast and tell me what you know about the other calamities" Kylia cackled.

"Anyone want to tell me, or should I start taking people, you tell me" Kylia smiled, At this comment a tendril of smoke extended into the air forcefield and grabbed a person, dragging them into the smog, Their screams echoed and shattered our courage.

Many of us started to tremble, certain death has bared it's fangs at us and we the hunted had no more energy to run away, cornered and trapped. We could only wait for death to claim us.

"What do you want to know ole great one" one of the adventurers cried out, He had his hands together in prayer, tears streaming from his eyes and snot dribbled down his face.

"One who wants to cooperate finally, tell me TELL ME, where..... where have my friends gone, they do not answer my calls, they do not calm my presence like they should."

"They have been slaughtered, Dracio the Fire Tyrant has fallen, consumed by his own flames, Poison Leviathan has fallen, dead in the depths of the sea. King Glutton is sealed, forever trapped under his mountain. I have told you what you need to know, spare me please, I beg of you, I got family" the guy quickly spit out. begging for mercy as he explained.

With a cry filled with grief and anger tendrils of smoke came and dragged the guy into the smog, "WHYYYY" the guy cried out and his scream filled the air before being snuffed out in a matter of seconds.

With him gone, the group has been reduced to Chance, Yoshiro, Party Leader, Indra and two others and I.

"I should smite you all for you have angered me.... but I am merciful, I shall spare you for now, try to get out, I am sure you can't handle the strain of keeping the shield up for long, not after I had broken it a few times." Kylia cackled and with a whoosh, she disappeared into the horizon, in the distance another pillar of smog billowed up, eradicating yet another village.

"What are we going to do, how thick do you think this fog is" one of the two other people

"Calm down Roeic we can get out of here" the leader exclaimed but this message wasn't received so the leader kicked Roeic to the ground.

"I said calm down man, we got this, we can get out of here"

"It's hopeless we can't get out of here, one step outside and we die"

"And we can get out, don't give up hope yet, Chance, Airis how are you doing with the air" the leader shouted.

"The gas is heavy, it will take a while, maybe 10 days to clear everything, but if we make a passage then we can shorten that time to maybe 2 or 3 days" Airis replied.

"Good, make it happen" the leader ordered.

"On it boss" Airis said

We all just sat around,

"What's your group called" I asked the leader and he smiles.

"We call ourselves Winds of Petal Tea, or Wopt for short. sadly our squad was decimated from about 13 to 5, What about you youngsters, any plans now that this place is in ruins?"

"With these circumstances, I should say that finding a way to end the Wind Calamity before anything else, maybe find a nice meadow somewhere and live there, I can tell this battle will be enough for a life time" I replied.

"Hmm, that is a good retirement plan, mind if I joined you" the leader joked on the last part.

"It's my dream, I'm not willing to share" I replied and the leader laughs.

With nothing better to do the group of us talked as a path was cleared for us.

I learned many things about the group and some information that could be useful.

The leader was called George but he prefers to be called leader, boss, or captain.

I learned various grips for the sword, as well as methods to train with each of the grip.

Inda wanted to be a chef, but food preparations are spoiled when she gets her hands on them since she is a water spirit.

Roeic dreams of being a war hero, a chance that can now be granted but his cowardly nature is his greatest obstacle.

Airis is interested in astronomy, hints of other beings in space has sparked her interest greatly.

I learned many more about their group and with a great cry of joy both Chance and Airis hugged each other.

"We did it" Chance exclaimed, and then she passed out from exhaustion.

Everyone smiled and everyone was weary, the stress of being stuck in an enclosed death trap was slowly dissipating.

"Before I pass out......" Airis said groggily, "The size of the tunnel is small, crawling only....... head down, don...... don't" Airis was swaying and then she finally said "Don't move if you hear noise, the plague stalker is still out there" and then Airis fell to the ground snoring.

"Take a good rest the two of you, you did good" George said and then he motioned for people to go through the tunnel.

"Tell them send more wind disciples over, I'm staying here to care for them, anyone who wants to go can go, I expect you all to be out there fighting Kylia. George said to everyone and then points to Yoshiro and I. "The two of you youngers, not much to say since you helped out in fighting, but yer methods are reckless, wait a bit before you start to help, its for yer own good."

We both nodded and started to move through the wind tunnel, Yoshiro went first, next went a sleeping Chance, who was dragged by Yoshiro, and then there was me, who pushed Chance.

We made our way through the tunnel, about 100 meters long, following the advice of Airis as we went. Occasionally we would hear the noise of a beast moving about, sometimes the sound of chewing. but everytime we heard something we paused and waited for it to go away.

Finally we breached the smog cloud and stretched our bodies.

"Ahhhh, freedom finally" Yoshiro exhaled and I patted him on the back, "We got this, we may not be able to contribute now, but let us get stronger." I smiled and he returned a grin.

Warning! Warning! a God-Class Quest has been activated:

Quest: Fate is kind to those who fight to live, the gods have created four legendary swords that are known to be able to purge the world, One was found but is currently missing, the other three are of unknown origins.

A deep sea sailor has found traces of poison running rampart in the ocean, and hints of a Sword owned by the Water Calamity has been revealed.

Quest: Find the Water Sword: Abyss in the ocean

Reward: Water Sword: Abyss, Power of the Gods,

[Hidden reward/ if Humans (Lesser) finds it] (only viewable by you) Species: Humans (lesser) will evolve into Deep Trench Humans.

I gasped as the quest popped up in front of me

"Did you get the quest too?" Yoshiro asked me and I nod my head.

"Then I guess we know our course of action" he grins and I nod my head.

"As soon as Chance wakes up we are leaving for the coast immediately" I said.

"Why wait, lets drag her" Yoshiro replied and then he picked her up in a piggy back and started to run.

"Hey wait for me" I exclaimed and ran after them,