They went into the next room, it was a temple. The priest was dead, used as a sacrifice in the desperate (and ill-fated) attempt to save Tsunayoshi's life. Archers were in the corners, waiting for their time to strike. When the time came, the results were deadly; Archer and Berserker were expertly taken out with precise arrow shots. Wizard looked over, he noticed the bodies and stood vigilantly. Arrows flew from each corner; Wizard began swinging his sword at the high-speed arrows, dicing them up.
The archers ran in with swords and throwing knives. Wizard began to kill them but they seemed to spill from the walls like an endless river of rotting death. The knives began to come, the archers not seeming to care who they hit. Wizard was getting extremely fatigued; he fired a powerful incineration wave. The archers were killed instantly, bodies littered the temple. Wizard rushed desperately to the bodies of Archer and Berserker, and began to pray. As they got up, a second wave of soldiers rushed in. The arrows began to fly again; Archer began throwing kunai at the creatures. Berserker began smashing groups with the Tetsu Bo.
The creatures were multiplying with every kill. Wizard sent out the dragons, they slaughtered the creatures. The next few rooms were like the other rooms. Then they reached the armory, where armored monsters raged about. The samurai ran in vigilantly and began to fight off the heavily armored monsters. The swords sometimes couldn't cut through the creatures' armor. Berserker put away the Tetsu-Bo and picked a whip up from the ground. He flicked the whip at a monsters head; the iron spikes went right through the plated masks. He rung it around another one's head and pulled, the head came soaring off onto the ground. Archer began to throw kunai at their open necks and waists.
Wizard's dragons were summoned again after entering the room. The dragons were bigger and tougher than before, only one was lost. Scorched bodies of the demonic bodies lay scattered about the room. The samurai healed each other and reinforced themselves with weapons and armor from the lockers. The whip in Berserker's hands tattered at the head, rendering it useless. Archer grabbed a medium sack of kunai and put it on his hip. Berserker grabbed four whips and put them behind his back in a whip quill. They donned their new armor and prepared to venture further into the castle to reach the shrine, where they suspect Zanshin to be hiding. But prepared they must be, as three more floors separated them from the shrine room at the top of the castle.
The three remaining samurai walked out and into a room with a stairwell at the other end. A flood of soldiers ran down the stairs in one small wave. The samurai ran through the flock swinging and slashing their way through, Wizard broke his sword into a soldiers chest, but made it out narrowly, very narrowly. They regrouped at the top of the stairs, soldiers crawling up the stairs. Another group waited behind them in the room they just entered. Berserker volunteered to hold them off, running in, taking out four with every swing of his mighty Tetsu Bo. Archer whipped Kunai down the stairs and expertly taking out the soldiers at the bottom of the steps.
Wizard slashed the necks of the soldiers at the top of the steps. Berserker finally lost his grip on the situation and was jumped, beaten, and stabbed. Archer and Wizard turned around and began to pull the soldiers off Berserker's slaughtered body, and finished them off with stabbing thrusts that nailed them to the floor. The next room was like...something that could not be compared to anything. Pointed spikes lined the floors and walls, and even ceiling. The bag of Kunai was empty, and Wizard broke his sword in the floor. One by one, Commanders walked into the room, empty handed, and ready to fight. They began to strike and block, their hands moving as quick as lightning, bruises already forming on Wizard's arm.
Wizard ended the brief fight with the Commander by upper-cutting him into the spikes on the ceiling, blood spilling onto the floor from above. Two more walked out and attacked Wizard and Archer, Archer dodged a punch from the soldier, grabbed his arm and wrenched it at an unnatural angle. The bone ripped through the skin, Archer picked him up and through him down onto the spikes. Wizard was fighting a Commander that was very experienced, the Commander caught Wizard in the stomach, and through him over his shoulder, but Archer stopped him just in time. The Commander whipped around and hit Archer in the neck, his windpipe pinched under the severe pressure.
Gasping for air, Archer struggled to keep the Commander from pushing him into the spikes, when the Commander feels a tap on his shoulder. He turns around and sees Wizard, standing there, his forehead smeared with blood. Wizard mutters something, and does a double-handed strike to the Commanders stomach, a bright flash of blue-white light emitted from Wizards hands, the Commander was sent flying through the air and onto the wall of spikes.
Then, the biggest Commander the samurai had ever encountered walked into the room, a sword made of pure diamond with gold plated pearl encrusted handle. He swung with very slight force, but took out all the spikes above him, they came raining down on the Commanders comrades; all falling down dead. Archer finally got his windpipe half way opened back up but still couldn't speak and stood to his feet, but he was too late.
Wizard stood, unaware of what had happened, stood there. The Commander walked up behind him and swung his diamond sword at Wizards head. Wizard gave Archer a blank stare, appearing unharmed, then, as Archer looked at him, a thick red line slowly crept around Wizards neck.
Wizards head slid off the base of his neck, hitting the floor, landing on a spike. Archer ran at the Commander, the Commander swung his sword at Archer, Archer ducked out of the way and jumped to the side. The Commander drove his sword into the ground next to Archer's head. Archer got up and tried to punch him in the stomach, and broke four of his fingers.
Then the Commander looked Archer straight in the eyes, and said, "Say your prayers!" Archer took three quick deep breaths, and just as the Commander swung down, Archer got up and dove between his legs. He stood up quickly, the Commander turned around and growled. Archer jumped up and grabbed a spike from the ceiling, and on his way down, pointed it above the Commanders helmet, at a point where his skin was showing. The spike gave and Archer plummeted down and plunged the spike deep through the monsters head, and down through his crotch. He regenerated Wizard and Berserker, and retrieved thirty Kunai from the heads and torsos of the bodies.
The samurai walked through the next and last door before the shrine, and into a long stretch of hallway. Archer walked through a small, almost unnoticeable stream of light, and three spears shot out of the wall and forced their way into Archer's body. One launched through his hip, the second slipped through his rib cage like butter, and the third hammered through his skull, impaling his brain. Wizard grabbed the bag of Kunai from Archer's shoulder, Berserker and Wizard ran in terror, hitting motion sensors all the way down the hall, opening slits in the walls and releasing swinging and bloodily rusted axes. Then the floorboards on the side they entered through opened up, and revealed a most terrifying sight.
Bones of hundreds of skeletons of small children launched from an acidic pool, boiling under pressure. The next room was humongous, it was fit for a God even. Ancient paintings lined the walls, works of art painted directly on the ceiling portrayed pictures of Zanshin when he used to rule all of Japan. That mighty reaper in his hands, drenched with the blood of citizens of Yamato. Bodies of possessed civilians spread around in a circle around Zanshin, the Dark Warlord.
A banister up in the air, connected to a long winding staircase, led on a walkway around the high part of the room, allowing easy access to the paintings. Then, on the far side of the wall, was the throne. Completely lined with pure gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and Quartz. On the throne, sat the most hideous creature.
His legs were like pure metal, bone spikes sticking out of his ankles. In place of his stomach, was a bright glowing spherethe sphere of powershining brightly, refracting on his armor. On his chest, was a picture of two dragons fighting, his helmet shaped like a demonic skull. His knuckles each portrayed five inch long daggers, and his elbows and two foot long katana like blades sticking out.
