Chapter 10 - High risk, High rewards

As my mind finally clears of the exhaustion and fatigue, I open my eyes and check to see a dim light way up in the sky. I gaze in front of me to see a hideous gaseous ghoul staring at me through my ward crap. Their magic perception is too high. What creatures did these things spawn from to sense a barrier just by walking by. Good thing it can't see me too, or I would have been ghoul chow. I have to get rid of this thing before it can alert anymore. I spring into action, executing shadow strikes as I pass by and insert my blade in its head so it doesn't make noise or drop to the ground. As I lay the corpse down I hear a ghastly howl feel my ears, "fuck me, why didn't I read the books like my master told me?" I sprint and enter shadow stalk and slip into the shadows ' I should have remembered that ghouls in packs of 50 to 100 to safeguard the land for monsters. I feel roughly 60 little eyes staring in my general direction. I feel a cold sharp pain in the back of my calf. They stabbed a dark solid piece of bone into my thigh with it carrying an icy chill that slowed me down and brought me out of shadow stalk." Armageddon I need cover protect me" as I fall down and rip the 6-inch piece of bone from my leg I look back and activate soul severance followed by nightmare as I change into a ghastly figure that all ghouls fear as a reaper I turn and run using despairs dance noble surfing between ghouls slicing and hacking my way to an open side I feel Armageddon protect me from the poisoned bone needles. Suddenly something grabs my neck and slams me into the ground at full force and I look up to see something that shouldn't be here a corpse general a lower rank C creature that needs a blood bath to be born and little did I know my little stunt was just the amount of blood needed to bring upon such a monstrosity I activate shadow strike on the nearest ghouls using it to escape the corpse generals grip and I run for it use Armageddon's armor to poet myself while in shadow stalk and I run until I hit a small cavern and I immediately run in and throw down my shadow ward and abyssal defense stakes in the door as I watch the ghouls get slaughtered by the general, and he making undead soldiers which are higher combatants than mere ghouls the join in of the fret and the 60 ghouls are now a corpse general and 4 undead soldiers, and they start to aggro the other ghoul patrols I can only watch in horror as the number of undead soldiers pile up and the exterminate the ghouls making sure they are the only undead thing there as hours tick by and the grave realm is a river of blood and corpses. The general now has 1000 undead soldiers, and he calls 300 0f them to this array made of corpses, and then they begin to kill themselves. I watch in confusion and intrigued as the array grows bigger and brighter with each death as the last one kills itself on the array a huge figure that filled the land with death energy so potent that it broke 3 of the abyssal defense stakes in a short period. I hear a mighty voice yell over the mountain of corpses " weakling I know you're there come forth or I'll have my soldiers rip you apart and bring you here." I feel my liberty jewel shake as his voice hurts my very soul. He is obviously a god level being. I slowly pull myself together and pull the stakes out of the rock and step before the giant cloaked figure. I kneel as the pressure pushes me to the ground " you have called oh mighty being. May I know your name and your reason for coming to the human plane?" I ask as loud as I can over the cries of the undead and the general. " My name is Kora, and I am an undead god that needs you to retrieve a jewel from this accursed woman that tricked me into giving it to her a time ago. You are the first being to get this far and I'll reward you greatly for it. Will you do it?"