Chapter 3: Realm of Volcanoes, Burn all
Eiyorei
I was the first to arrive at the volcanic barren land. A tall door appeared in front of me and no later, Kamaite and the others were by my side. A light chat allowed me to know Seido and Sonshi better… Seido was an orphan hunter from payon mastered in the arts of heki-tsuku while Sonshi is a legendary Crusader from the buzzing city of Rune Mingard which had created Seirei-kousou and needed no introduction.
We took a step into the enormous door and saw a far barren place with only had volcanic cones and mountains… The entire place was filled with graves, names engraved in stones, one which horridly read 'RIP: Here lies the dragon knight which scarified his life for his comrades facing millions of 'Blood Skeletons'- 1974-2004'
Reading the gravestone, all of us shivered in fear, and took several steps back.
"Umm… Who's… first?" Sonshi trembled and stuttered, clearly showing the other side of his legendary face.
As the only other swordsman in the group, I took a step forward and led the group to a volcano castle. It was surrounded in a burning sulphuric lake with bubbles and lava coming out every now and then. There was a huge knocker on the door in the shape of a gargoyle. The volcano was unlike anything we had ever seen. It had little volcanoes growing from the sides of it forming rooms and towers.
Hesitating, I took long to open the door. The ceiling was a bit dome shaped, rather, cone shaped. A path rose from the lava and joined all the rooms together.
"So… which room first? I'm sure you guys wouldn't want to spilt up right?" The others nodded with no hesitation and decided to go check out the smallest door.
I opened the door and it seemed of what was like an automated weaponry smithing room. Weapons were made by dipping into the surrounding lava and then knocked against the volcanic wall to form amazingly sharp fire weapons. A goblin was behind the machine sleeping, he was woken up by us and now his eyes were glaring a fiery red.
He spoke a weird language and wielded a burning mace. With hardly any delay, Seido had shot 3 ice arrows using his triple shot bow. The arrows melted before even touching the goblin. Seido was left in shock while Kamaite started to buff all of us in his state of panic.
The Goblin immediately opened his palm and lava from the surroundings rushed to his now clenched fist forming a huge ball of flame.
"Storm Gust!" I summoned a streak of blue light upon me. Within seconds, the place was having a heavy blizzard and the goblin held tight to the machines with its unsightly teeth.
"Piercing Light! Summon Eagle!" Sonshi and Airashii shouted and from the window, a gorgeous gold eagle with a sharp white beak flew in and aimed for the goblin's lower torso. The eagle managed to deal damage to the goblin though it wasn't much. But, while hitting the goblin, the eagle burned to ashes and these fell to the ground.
"Resurrection!" Kamaite had revived the eagle and allowed it to soar in the air above us once again.
The Goblin now had charged its fire ball and threw it towards Kamaite at high speeds. Lucky for us, Kamaite was quick and dodged the attack before it even came 2 metres close to him.
"Angelus!" "Alamak!" Kamaite had wanted to cast the bell spell on the bird but casted it wrongly on the goblin, giving it higher defense.
"Great work Kamaite…. Guys, it seems stunned by the sound of the bell! Let's go! Everyone! Aim for its neck!" With that, I had used my knight skills to do a bowling bash skill on its neck… The goblin's neck seemed like it was cut, but soon lava simply flowed out of its wound and harden up, forming a solid skin at the wound.
"Gaia Slash!" Sonshi somersaulted to the creature and sliced its neck off. Weirdly, the goblin's limbs started to attack randomly.
His right hand nearly melted Seido's neck, countering, Seido did a back flip and fired a typhoon arrow in front of the goblin. The arrow swirled amazingly in circles causing a tornado of some sort lifting the goblin in the air.
"Water Arrow!" Seido had again fired arrows at the goblin. This time, it changed the tornado a bluish colour and slowly, as the water typhoon disappeared, only the goblin's ashes were left behind.
We examined the ashes but found nothing of interest and proceeded to the next room.
"Hey, let's go quietly this time, maybe the next guard is sleeping as well." Airashii sent us the message in whispers, taking stealth in her movements.
We entered the room filled with a huge sleeping phoenix. It was a beautiful fire bird, legend has it that a phoenix appears once very 500 years and comes from an Arabian country. Taking care not to wake it up, we walked around it to get to the mysterious green door behind it.
When we entered through the green door, everything in the room was unusual… It was GREEN!
"It's jade…" mumbled Sonshi as he touched the walls. Little did we notice that a green translucent giant sat in the seat in the center of the room. Everything in this room camouflaged each another.
"Who dares to challenge me?" A voice boomed and got louder by every second.
A jade giant began to walk towards Airashii close enough to squish her fragile looking body. Airashii, fascinated by the beautiful jade, did not take notice and I had no choice but to Napalm Beat her to push her back.
Startled, she saw the giant and quickly summoned an elephant to take the hit for her. Sonshi and Seido were busy double strafing and shield boomerang the huge monster. Feeling a sting at its butt, the creature turned around and sent its two attackers flying to the wall.
"Heaven drive!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, calling forth a land of spikes under the giant's feet. The spikes simply broke under it feet, dealing no damage to him at all.
"Light Of Pierce!" Kamaite was already flying up on to monster, moving swiftly taking every chance to smite his mace at the translucent foe. A few cracks appeared at the surface of the enemy and its first layer of jade fell off…. I watched in awe, wondering how many hides does that jade giant have.
The jade creature then jumped up and tried to body slam Sonshi, but Sonshi had reflexes too good to be true, in that spilt second, Sonshi had used his Reflect Shield and sent the monster hitting the ceiling, causing the whole volcano to tremble.
Everyone stood still then, not wanting the volcano to erupt. When it finally settled after a mere 15 seconds, I glowed with a huge surge of yellow energy and sent fire up the monster's feet.
Unable to take the heat, its second layer collapsed on the floor beside me. Now, we were able to see that it had left a layer of hide left.
"Allow me to blast your hide to Hades!" Seido drew a couple of explosive arrows, "Arrow Charge!" all of us jumped out the way in time, each blaming Seido for not warning us in time.
"Ccrrrrr…" The monster cracked it last layer of skin and all its pieces fell to the ground as ashes, in the heat of the explosion.
Walking out of the room, there was only 1 room left that we haven't taken. The room of the Orb… The five of us, now with light feet, approached the last door.
Wah… So short and mostly made up of action scenes, I kinda find it boring leh… And horx, reminder... Gimme de reviews its my 1st story…