The Doom was just killing some creatures in the woods unhurriedly when the man in red ran past him. "Come, I want to gank at the bottom road."
Lucifer delivered the last hit to the beast in front of him then slowly followed the man. He watched him, but he seemed to have gotten normal. He didn't want to follow some retard into a team fight. That seldom ended well. But the man had stopped jumping and he seemed rather confident.
He had some fireballs burning in his upturned palms, clearly ready for battle. The Doom would just stay a few steps behind him to see how it went before joining. No need in getting into the middle of a lost fight.
They neared the road and he could hear sounds of fighting. The fire mage approached from the side of the enemy, to get the hero from the back. As soon as he stepped on the road, the Doom saw that there was only one enemy hero. And they were four. That should be easy enough and so he charged.
The fight was a blur of colours and abilities, pale blue, white, red, orange, yellow, stun, run, stomp, bash, tiny beetles scuttling around. But against four, the enemy hero, a centaur, had no chance.
Suddenly there was a sound behind Lucifer. He turned but it was already too late. Some demon had appeared, probably the enemy hero, who had been on the middle road against the fire man. He was strong and he had the element of surprise on his side as he attacked the man dressed in red. The Doom was way to slow as he moved forward, trying to save one of his allies. Hellfire erupted, engulfing the mage in its flames. Nothing was left as the fire died down, the demon glancing at the Doom before he turned around and vanished under the trees of the woods.
Well, the fight was over and he couldn't do anything more. So Lucifer resumed his farming in the forest like before.
The next time he was disturbed was when he saw the demon, the enemy hero from earlier, on his way to the bottom road. Knowing that he was out to get another hero kill, Lucifer followed at a good distance. The demon seemed not to have seen him, which could be the case since he had been in the shadows of the trees when he had passed by. The demon stopped and so did the Doom, waiting for the perfect opportunity to attack.
Suddenly another hero appeared next to him. Lucky for him, it was an ally, the man in red. The Doom only glanced at him briefly but then he stopped, turning his head around to be able to look at the man fully. Only, it wasn't a male, it was a female. She was wearing the same clothes as the man had been wearing, had almost the same hairstyle, the hair was just a bit longer, and she had the same markings on her face. And just like the male she had fire balls flickering over her palms.
What the hell was going on here? Did he have two identical heroes in his team while one was male and one female?
The woman turned towards him, her face expressionless. "It has to be some error in the resurrection process. It switched me back to female after I died."
The Doom blinked at her, processing what she had just said. Now that was strange. She was the same fire mage from before, who had been male? Would he become female now when he died? Hell, he hoped not, because that thought was kind of scary. He was still staring at the fire mage, when she charged forward, the fight obviously already taking place.
He joined but kept looking at the woman. Her movements were definitely more fluent now, everything looked more natural. No wonder she had behaved strangely at the beginning of the war, she had probably just been transformed into a male body.
