The female figure had some kind of ethereal allure about her... like if an angel wore scantily clad clothing and struts at every pose.
{Hey, Handsome young man. Mind come over this way? Let me feel ya?}
Her slick mouth entrapped me with honey words. I felt my body shiver under her gaze, then went rigid and out of my control.
{"Master, be careful it's one of her charm's effects."} One of the Sirebus's voice rang inside my head.
{"Don't let her get close or she'll take your life."} Another one warned.
{"Master! Master!"} The rest chimed in.
{You little bitches! First you abandon me and now you helping against your owner?! Insolence Pets!}
"How dare you talk to them like that!" Bron shouted as he stood up. The Sirebus surrounded him, with pleading tear filled eyes.
Bron looked down at the Sirebus and gave them a warm smile. Something inside of him filled up with warmth and sincerity.
"Let me give you hope, when you gave me warmth."
Bron fleeting eyes gaze upon his sirebus before going back to the demon seductress also known as 'succubus'.
"Come! Demon. Let me give you want ya want!" Bron charged forward and launched himself at the succubus.
As he flew towards her, I silently gave Bron a boost with helping hand and he smashed into her with great grandeur. A dust cloud covered the both of them. He looked like Captain America if Captain America was winter solider. As the cloud of dust finally dispersed, the succubus was down on her back as Bron held the shield to her throat.
{I like your kind of play, too bad those filthy pest laid their grubby little hands on you first...}
Before she said anything else, Bron slammed his shield into her throat, cutting her airway. Lucilia tried to gasp for air but her windpipe was crushed and held down by the shield. Her hands flailed and her body started to shake as the life from her body slowly slipped away.
{"Watch out!"} shouted the sirebuses.
{Don't think what you just did was something clever, boy.}
Bron was hunched over as his shield was stuck into the ground, the succubus body had disappeared. Lucilia suddenly reappeared behind Bron and pressed her body to his.
{Oh. How wonderful.}
Lucilia felt his body and then slowly ran her hand downwards to his manhood. Before she could reach her goal, all the sirebus rushed her.
{"Don't you dare touch him!"}
[Sirebus used swarm.]
Skill: Swarm
Description: When near other allies, the user will gain a temporary buff of increased strength, speed and dexterity.
[Sirebus used sharped nails.]
Skill: Sharped Nails
Description: Sharpens the fingernails of the user and can now cut like a knife on cold hard butter. Can rip limbs off prey or pierce through hard objects.
The sirebus pulled Lucilia off Bron and started to rake at her with their sharp fingernails. Some of the sirebus morphed back to their original form and bit voraciously at the hands that once fed them. The sirebus were relentless on their assault against their previous owner. Lucilia screamed as her flesh started to be torn to shreds.
[Sirebus has slain Demon Seductress Lucilia Hornborn. Sirebus gains 12500 Exp.]
[You have gained 12500 Exp.]
[You have levelled up.]
[Congratulations! You have reached level 40.]
[You have gained 5 skill points.]
"Girls, stop and come back to me."
The sirebus instantly stopped at his words and all rushed back to Bron. But before they reached him, they all realized that their hands were covered in blood and hid them behind their backs. They wouldn't dare lay their filthy hands on their most treasured one.
Bron approached them with open arms and wrapped them all within them. The girls gasp at the sudden action and they all tried to squirmed away from him, their hands were limp as to not get anything on to him. Bron saw their struggle and with his hands, he grabbed two of the girl's hands. The two who had their hands grabbed, froze on the spot, tears streamed down their faces. Bron held onto their hands tightly.
"Please don't. Don't think what that women told you is what defines you. I maybe new to this but... uh... thank you for saving me."
The sirebus felt his heart flowed into them and before Bron knew what happened, the sirebuses attacked him with a shower of kisses.
"Watch out!" shouted Tavish.
I tore away from the lovey-dovey scene to where Tavish was. The three who fought the rest of the wave were getting showered on by a rain of arrows. The arrows were shot by humanoid creatures that looked like elves. They could be dark elves as their skin tone was darker then what I would typically imagine a normal elf would look like. They had a somewhat whitish grey coloured hair though it was hard to tell since it was covered in a black shadowy mist.
[Warning: Enemy approaching.]
[Final wave: {2/6} Dark Elven Sniper Curlin Darkrange has arrived. Defeat Dark Elven Sniper Curlin Darkrange (0/1)]
A beam of light appeared off in the distance as a sharp object flew straight towards Tavish in a blink of an eye. Luckily, Tavish sensed the in coming attack and dodged it. I was prepared to heal him but was shocked at the speed Tavish dodged the arrow. If Lucilia was level 70 then this dude was definitely the same or higher. Tavish was nearing level 50 but that's still about 20 or so levels more than him.
The dark elven sniper shot another one, this time from above and at an angle but as if Tavish had anticipated it, he dodged it with ease. On the outside, I knew Curlin must've been thinking, 'how could a human dodge his arrows twice?' But I knew that Lavira has been predicting Curlin's every shot and had been feeding the info to Tavish but I was still amazed at Tavish's reflexes and macro skills.
The dark elf suddenly said something under his breath and then a barrage of notifications popped up.
[Warning: Enemy approaching.]
[Final Wave: {3/6} Warlord General Gambert Hask has arrived. Defeat Warlord General Gambert Hask. (0/1)]
[Warning: Enemy approaching.]
[Final Wave: {4&5/6} Tanker Twins Taki and Tosh has appeared. Defeat Tanker Twins Taki and Tosh. (0/2)]
[Warning: Enemy approaching.]
[Final Wave: {6/6} Songstress Amilie Mosusa. Defeat Songstress Amilie Mosusa. (0/1)]
It was like Junkenstien's Revenge game mode in Overwatch but rather having one shows up after another one has been defeated, they all showed up one after another... at the same time.
With Curlin at the far back distance away from his other companions, the other four stood in the middle of the ongoing battlefield like badasses and like badasses, subsequently the fight that's being fought, fought around them.
Tavish, Jemina and Jask noticed them but continued fighting their fight. Harlo and Gunther however, with their x100 combo hit still being active after defeating the giants and smashed their way through the other half of the shadow legion, came flying towards the foursome. I boosted them and with a loud destructive strike, they both struck Tosh. Tosh however, wasn't fazed by the blow as if it did no damage and he swung at the two with his hammer.
Jask who was currently fighting against a group of humanoid bird looking things, seized an opportunity to shoot a lightning bolt at the songstress.
The songstress however, was quick on her detection and blocked the in coming lightning bolt with her voice. Her voice was angelic and rhythmic. She wasn't singing like an opera singer with high vibrating notes but with soft and moderate tempo notes. If steak could be cut like butter with enough TLC then her voice was the TLC.
The songstress lets another howl of her vocals but this time there was no C or L or even T. Her voice sounded razor sharp as if any sounds coming from her mouth would be like sound waves that becomes circular saws.
As true to my thoughts, that's exactly what happened. She let's out a bellow of sound that was pleasant to the ears but the sound waves that came out looked like circular saws.
Waves of spinning sounds shot from her vocals towards Jask. Jask reciprocated them by making his own out of lightning and sent his towards the circular blades of sound. When the two clashed, sparks flew as the two grounded into each other.
The songstress belted our two more vocal rings of death and Jask conjured up two more lightning circles of energy to match hers. Unfortunately for the songstress, her vocals couldn't match the output of power, Jask staff wielded. The staff absorbed the electricity from the rings and shot a beam of electrified energy towards the songstress.
The songstress tried to use her vocals to stop the attack but the power within the beam was two great and overpowered her vocal defences. As each of her vocal barriers broke, her voice became softer and quieter.
Once her last barrier broke, her vocals disappeared. She opened her mouth and shouted but nothing came out. She was voiceless. The songstress then suddenly reached up and clutched her throat. Somehow the beam had enough energy to pierce her throat before dissipating. The songstress fell forward and disappeared.
[Baihu has slain Songstress Amilie Mosusa. Baihu gains 12500 Exp.]
[You have gained 37500 Exp.]
[Your multiplier is now at (x4)]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
"Ryan, move your head back an inch in 10 seconds!"
As the last level up notification appeared before me, I heard Lavira's voice and did as I was told. I moved an inch back and as I did, an arrow flew an inch passed my face.
The sniper had took an opportunity to aim for me when I was distracted with the last fight. Tavish who was fighting against the sniper, saw this and took his opportunity for his strike as he unsheathed his sword and in a burst of wind, cuts down a volley of arrows that had been launched by some archers, before dispatching the sniper head cleanly right off his neck. Tavish then went on and took down the archers who had fired at him.
[Baihu has slain Dark Elven Sniper Curlin Darkrange. Baihu gains 13000 Exp.]
[You have gained 52000 Exp.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
[Baihu has slain a Dark Elven Archer, Baihu gains 500 Exp.]
[You have gained 2000 Exp.]
[Baihu has slain a Dark Elven Archer, Baihu gains 500 Exp.]
[You have gained 2000 Exp.]
[Baihu has slain a Dark Elven Archer, Baihu gains 500 Exp.]
[You have gained 2000 Exp.]
[Baihu has slain a Dark Elven Archer, Baihu gains 500 Exp.]
[You have gained 2000 Exp.]
[Fourth wave: Defeat the shadow legion. (54/64)]
I then heard a smash of gauntlets before shifting my eyes to Gunther who had unleashed an attack on one of the tanker twins. Gunther had steamrolled right into one of the twins and executed a combo hit of x540. Wait... since when did it reach 540? It was only above x100 not long ago unless... then that would've meant that Gunther had been hitting him since Jask's fight. The hit Gunther unleashed exploded the twin.
[Baihu has slain Tanker Twin Taki. Baihu gains 6500 Exp.]
[You have gained 26000 Exp.]
[Your multiplier is now at (Max)]
[(Max) Booster has now been activated. All Exp gained will now be turned into power and defence stats. (Max) Booster will time-out once no more Exp has been gained within ten minutes and return back to (x4)]
[Timer: 10:00]
[Timer: 09:59]
Gunther had moved on to the other twin but he was not needed as Harlo had already stuck the twin with his x600 combo hit and all along the other twins body were cuts. The twin who I now know is Tosh, bursted into a sea of blood.
[Baihu has slain Tanker Twin Tosh. Baihu gains 6500 power and defense.]
[You have gained 6500 power and defense.]
[Timer: 10:00]
Jemina who was left to fight off the remaining shadow legion soldiers, unleashed a powerful blinding white light.
[You have defeated the shadow legion.]
[Fourth wave: Defeat the shadow legion. Completed.]
[You have gained 50000 Exp.]
[You have levelled up.]
[You have levelled up.]
The last person left on the battlefield and stood on his lonesome was Warlord General Gambert. He had a stoic expression and a glint in his eye.
I and the members of Baihu plus the sirebus gathered together in front of the warlord general.
"Watch out everyone!" Lavira screamed as Gambert had already made his move and disappeared.
Gambert had reappeared in the middle of our group and spun his body a full 360 degrees with his long sword which had sent off slices of wind at us. Thankfully with the Max booster stats and my boost, we were able to tank his shots.
It was then when I saw his name and level above his head and gasped.
{Gambert Hask Lvl 110}
He was leagues above the other five who were all level 70.
His spinning continued as more volley of wind slashes came from him. Even though we were tanking the hits, I knew we wouldn't last long as the hits were getting stronger by every rotation. The warlord general looked like a tornado spitting out blades of wind in all directions.
I used 'a helping skill' in hopes that there was one skill that would appear to help us in this situation.
[You have activated your ultimate: A Helping Skill.]
[A Helping Skill: Undying Last Will (Rex) has been activated.]
Bong!
A loud bell sound rung.
[All parties will now be invulnerable from death for 1 minute. All base stats have been temporary increased by x10.]
[Timer: 1:00]
It was then we all glowed red like when Rex did back at the palace dungeon's cell.
"Go now! Attack him!" I yelled.
This was our chance, since we only had 1 minute of invulnerability... we needed to defeat him in that time.
We all moved as a team as we charged into the deathly tornado. I boosted everyone and Lavira gave us insight.
Within 30 seconds and our combined power we had defeated the final boss.
[Baihu has slain Warlord General Gambert Hask. Baihu gains 17500 power and defense.]
[You have gained 17500 power and defense.]
[Timer: 10:00]
As soon as Gambert disappeared in a black cloud of smoke, the final barrage of pop up notifications that showed me that we're finally done, felt exhilarating.
[Final wave: Defeat Dark Elven Sniper, Warlord General, Tanker Twins and Songstress. Completed.]
[Congratulations! You have completed Lofis Sha's Dungeon.]
[Time remaining: 00:30:34]
[Time cleared first dungeon: 23:30:26]
[Members of Baihu will now be recalled.]
{"No!"} All the sirebus shouted as they saw Bron starting to disappear. Tears rolled down their eyes. Bron patted each one on the head.
"I will be with you all real soon. Isn't that right big boss." Bron nodded to me and I returned his query to the girls with a simple, "yes."
{"Master! We will see him again... right?"} The girls huddled together with pouting faces.
I walked over to them and wrapped my arms around them.
"Of course we will. His one of the members of Baihu, a company of mine. You six will see him a lot, if always but... uh... his a busy man so please keep that in mind."
I looked into their eyes with a smile.
{"We will, Master!"} They all said in Unison.
I stood back up with the sirebus around me when a massive black cloud formed before us. Nine strings of black smoke shot forward and stopped in front of us.
Nine figures emerged from the black smoke. It was the same ones we had fought in all the waves. Knightmare's Queen, Anyce. Were-beast's King Rasuk. Guardian Posika. Demon Seductress Lucilia. Dark Elven Sniper Curlin. Warlord General Gambert. Tanker Twins Taki and Tosh and Songstress Amilie. All nine knelt in front of me, their heads bowed low.
{We, the shadow legion, pledge our fealty. We hope our new Master accepts us.} Warlord General Gambert spoke with absolute sincerity.
[Shadow Legion has pledge their fealty to you and is wants to be apart of your companies. [Accept] or [Decline]]
"Accept."
[Shadow Legion is now a company of Ryan Huang. Do you wish to rename the new company? Y/N]
"No."
Shadow legion just has a nice ring to it for my new company.
[Shadow Legion will remain as Shadow Legion.]
{We are at your service, Master!} Gambert declared.
Each one of the others repeated what Gambert had said but Anyce who knelt in mid air, floated up to me and pressed her helmeted head onto mine and wrapped her arms around me in a cold hug.
{Master, if I may, she's mute. It's her way of declaring herself and her Knightmares.} Rasuk said earnestly.
Anyce was very slim even with the suit of armour on, I could wrap my arms around her with room to spare. Anyce was the same height as me when she's floating, so if she wasn't, she would've been an inch shorter then me.
Anyce floated backwards a little after the hug and bowed her head before going back to where the others stood.
We were in a echoey cave and I could hear the chant of all my members in the shadow legion vibrate around me.
{We are the shadow legion!}
{We are the shadow legion!}
{Long live the shadow king!}
[Would you like to continue the trials or return? {Continue} or {Return}]
"I would like to 'return' please."
["You may enter the trials anytime for completion. But complete them or you will never leave. The journey may be long but the rewards are worth it." - Lofis Sha]
[You have obtained the 'Benevolent Shadow Armour Set.']
[You have obtained the 'Orb of Shadows.']
[You have obtained the title: Army from within the shadows.]
Before I could even digest the notification of the rewards before me, a portal that led back to reality opened up. I stood in front of the massive portal and looked behind me.
My newest company, the shadow legion all waited with bated breath as I took my first steps into the portal. I could still hear their chants once I fully walked in. The voices weren't coming from behind me but around me and in my head or in my shadow?
{We are the shadow legion!}
{We are the shadow legion!}
{Long Live our Shadow King!}