Legends of the Terralands

Episode 13

The following morning, I did my usual morning routines. Cooked my cow meat, washed up at the lake, drank water from the river, and even repairing anything damaged with what resources I had left. Afterwards, I was relaxing on the roof until the PM rang, Frosty told me she was ready. From there, I grabbed all of the stuff from my closet and drawers, a full steel suit, my Silver Sword, a bow with 40 arrows, a third of all the cow meat I had and a bottle of water for hydration.

I couldn't help but feel like I needed another companion, and who else to think of but Cyan? So then I decided to ask Frosty through the PM if I could bring along Cyan, but she squawked and said no. I guess she wanted this trip to be a personal experience for us, I didn't really know, but once I was completely ready, I finally warped to Frosty.

Frosty was in what I like to call her "Invinci-suit". She explained that her shiny armor had level 3 resistance, level 3 toughness, and level 2 agility. She dual wielded a shiny sword with level 5 slicing power and an axe with level 5 holiness (to deal with the undead). She also had an armful of healing chemical bottles to share in case we would run into a pinch. Her expression was a worried expression, since she never entered the region before she doesn't know if she can survive. Entering this whole new area felt like a big step for her, and I simply understood. We both stepped down to the basement and opened the door to Evilania, Frosty handed me a spare Grasshopper, we both clutched our hand together as we ran through the lava seeping portal.

There we were, we entered hell. Lava, water, rocks, blood, heads, and fallen broken weapons. Everything we feared would be seen and just from the very tiny hole in the wall of the portal room. Frosty pulled out a strange object I usually don't see, I had to ask what that weird hammer-like object was in her hand. She gave me the perfectly confused expression that said: "How in the hell do you NOT know what this is?!" She responded, "It's... It's a pickaxe… you can use it to break rocks. I'm going to try and make our own way out."

From there, she went to a wall east from the portal and started chipping rocks. During that time, I thought I could pass time by trying to talk to her, she didn't mind, but she was so busy picking that she couldn't think straight. I asked about what she really liked about Kimchi, she replied "She's crazy as hell, but once you get to know her, she becomes a better friend." It almost reminded me about Tempest, despite how threatening he can be at times, he is still a good person on the inside. She was halfway done with picking and was starting to reach the surface. I then decided to ask why she became a master fighter of the Terralands. She responded: "The same reason you're here with me, to rescue our friends and take on this excruciating challenge of visiting here. ... I'm glad you came along Saph, but from here," She said as she finished up picking the rocks, leaving a larger opening to the region around us, "we need to work hard as f*** if we want to live."

Right after she said that, explosions went off, people were fighting on the red rocky ground trying to mercilessly kill each other. From using fiery arrows, tons of dynamite, powerful weapons, they kept going at it until they won. I couldn't describe the feeling of disgust I had looking at these people that once had healthy lives and have now downgraded to starving for blood. It was truly sickening to look at Evilania this way. Suddenly, the battling stopped, two out of three of the fighters were on the ground, motionless. The last standing fighter spotted us watching and started aiming their bow towards us. We prepared ourselves for battle as the first arrow was strung. We dashed out towards the fighter as they pulled out two swords and started perrying our sword attacks. Eventually the fighter managed to slash me and Frosty, leaving Frosty to throw down the first healing bottle for us, healing us instantly, but while we were healing, a fiery arrow blindsided me right into the back of my arm, it came from another random fighter that was just passing by. Despite being burned and injured, I still stuck with Frosty and started using my basic bow. Frosty handled the dual swordfighter, and I handled the archer.

While I disabled my opponent by getting some arrows into their legs, Frosty outright murdered the fighter, in what I thought was a gruesome display. She managed to use her axe to cut through the fighter's arm, stabbed the fighter through their chest, lifted them up with her sword still piercing through them, and chopping the head off with her axe. Frosty wasn't playing one bit, I was ironically scared, until I saw Frosty's emotion. She was silently sobbing, as if she regretted her actions. She tried to hide her face and decided to keep moving, while I followed, leaving concern in what just happened.

Thankfully, no one popped out of the ground to try and kill us, but along the way, we had to fight a few random demon guards, until we arrived at a weird castle, the walls were grey and dull, the moat was a pool of lava, and the entrance was impossible to enter from since there was no bridge to cross. Me and Frosty dequipped our chest plates and equipped our Lilients and used the grasshopper to soar into the fortress.

We landed on a bridge of the fortress, where we were in no time greeted by demon guards and dark swordsmen. We fought through the crowd only to get to the core of the castle, where a chest full of randomly useful goodies was inside. Stuff like power books, useful chemicals, horse armor… and a small speaker device were in the chest, me and Frosty grabbed all of it just before more guards came in, we busted through the barred window and started flying on our Lilients, soon after we used the Grasshopper to soar through the rest of Evilania till we found the hole we came from. We fought off and disable a few more random fighters, but by then, we ran out of ways to heal, leaving us to retreat.

We went through the portal and rubbed our eyes, we couldn't believe what we just saw and went through, we've been to a new region and survived! Hevara was nothing like Evilania at all, it would be a complete cakewalk compared to the chaotic region. Frosty let me keep the little speaker device since it's really useless to her, but she kept the rest of the treasure for keep stock of her loot collection.

Later that night, the little speaker device started to speak, I stayed up to listen to what it had to say. With a partially muffled tone and a warbly signal it was said by a strange grown being that sounded like he was too"~~~~ Greetings fellow scumbag! Greetings from Missilandria! I am Vergner, ~~ the ruler of this region. I noticed that you looted from a local stronghold of my land, ~~ how f***ing cute. While I won't be there to deal with your asshole attitude, this is just an assortment of goodies from ~~~ worthless fighters I happened to cross paths with. ~~~ Oh, and if you DO meet me in Missilandria, prepare for the fight of your life, because I will f***, you, up. Anyways, be glad you lived on your trip through my stronghold, you might just live next time, that is if you do make it out alive, motherf***er GUARDS, AFTER THE~~~". The speaker went silent. From what I could gather, Evilania was actually called Missilandria, the leader of the land was Vergner, and he legitimately sent me an actual threat message. I was intimidated fiercely, and I think it scarred me for a while now, even going to sleep I had nightmares about revisiting Missilandria, maybe going there was too much for me…

I… I think I need a break...