'Damn, I'm hurting a lot, 300 enemies is no joke. Taking out a small inefficient group is easy, but when it comes to 300 military trained professionals, they can cause some damage.' I think as I feel many wounds on my body. 'If it wasn't for the shadow armor, I would either be dead, or look dead.' I look down to where an energy dagger is sticking out of my side, causing much bleeding and burning pain envelope the area.
'Why can't I be one of those lucky guys who get a pain reduction skill?' I think as I look over at the duo of enemies staring at me. I suddenly hear the odd colored bat speak, "Don't leave us out of this. You think we are the same as that cannon fodder you are wrong." And he begins to walk towards me, the scaled wolf trailing behind him. They look confident, as if they won the battle, and they practically have.
And then the bat opens his mouth again, "And we could take him down easily. After all, it's only three people."
'Crap, I'm screwed.' I think and as if on cue, a window pops up.
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"Shadow recreation is possible!"
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And then it hits me, I have a new army in front of me. 'The beginning of my army, and now I can begin filling up these slots.' I think as I giggle slightly before being forced to stop from the pain.
"So you think it's only us three?" I say while grinning, even if they can't see it, it imbues me with confidence. I stare at them and watch the grin the bat was wearing disappear as it begins looking around, it's ears raised high. I look over at Winter and am shocked to see her mother is an aberration between a wolf and a bat as she also has her ears up in the air.
"Arise!" I yell as my demonic voice echoes throughout the room, causing everyone to quickly look back at me. And suddenly, hundreds of messages pop up in my view.
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"Resurrection of level 1 false werewolf shadow soldier successful!"
"You have gained the skill Spear Proficiency!"
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"Resurrection of level 1 false werewolf shadow soldier successful!"
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"Resurrection of level 1 false vampire shadow soldier successful!"
"You have gained the skill Shield Proficiency!"
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After getting hundreds of messages, a one more pops up which catches my eye.
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"Due to gaining many weapon proficiencies, a new skill has been created, Weapon Proficient."
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I swipe the skill away, planning to look at it later as I witness a scene from a horror movie.
Everyone watches in horror as hundreds of black hands grip the edge of corpses and slowly, dozens of heads emerge, the once white suit the soldiers wore are now pitch black with a purple glow from within their helmets, seemingly representing their visors.
I watch as the two cocky managers are now standing still, their eyes filled with horror and fear as they see their 'cannon fodder' become their enemies. But it isn't cannon fodder anymore, these soldiers are ready to kill now they know true power.
As the final wave of soldiers are done pulling themselves up, I see the shadows pull out various weapons of all kinds, spears, shields, axes, maces, lances, and even weapons I can't name.
There is a sudden wave of killing intent which flows from the soldiers like water, hitting the two managers direct on. They tremble as they feel the overwhelming amount on their shoulders and minds and struggle to try and not collapse.
I slowly limp forward as they feel the killing intent, the shadows turning their heads to watch me pass by before turning back around to face their enemies. I limp forward as I wince inwardly in pain till I am at the inner edge of my army that is surrounding them, "I told you it wasn't just the three of us." I say as I decide to show them what hopelessness feels like.
My maw opens and suddenly, black flames come flying out and hit the bat and wolf, or so I thought. One target was hit and as the fire makes contact with the werewolf's scales, he is entirely consumed by the flames, becoming nothing but ash. The fire continues to burn his ashes, they flicker against the light as if they have a soul of their own.
The bat was able to snap out of it and react quick enough, dodging the fire by pure luck. I see him now flying in the sky and I say two words which show this bat no mercy. "Kill him."
Dreag wipes the cold sweat off of his brow and stutters slightly, unable to comprehend what he is witnessing. "He-he was able to kill an en-entire army?!" 'This can't get any crazier, it just can't be. He was able to kill an entire army, and that was even before he became a divine beast!' Dreag is shocked at what he had just seen.
Even as a kid, he could at most, take out ten people. This kid was able to take out 30 times that amount, it is unbelievable to say the least.
All of a sudden, he sees a new scene happen. Suddenly, it's as if the dead have come back for their revenge, hundreds of hands come from the bodies, as if they had enough of their shells and have been birthed anew. One by one, they pull themselves up, tearing themselves from their old shell, revealing a new soldier, a soldier made of shadow. "H-he can summon an army?!" And as his grip weakens slightly, Winter is finally free and jumps into the room. "Winter no!" He panics as the slime jumps into the blood filled room.
The slime jumps over and under bodies till he reaches the edge of the army, a shadow soldier sees him and raises a mace, and swings down. Winter sees this and dodges by a hairs breath.
He dodges and weaves through the army of shadows as they attack him till he reaches a certain shadow, one with purple eyes, horns, and a long maw. Winter meows as he jumps onto the dragon shadow, startling it a bit as it sees a purple mass jump at it's chest before glueing itself onto it.
Kurayami looks at the purple slime in shock, "Winter! How did you get here?" Winter meows in happiness as he slowly crawls up my chest until he is resting on my head. 'Seems he has claimed this spot as his.' I think as I feel the gelatinous mass jiggling on my head.
I look at the now dead bat corpse which is lying on the ground, dozens of holes and spears in its body. I glance over at the ashes of the used to be scaled werewolf and see black wisps floating off of the two entities with boxes floating in my vision.
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"Shadow recreation is possible!"
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"Well, let's not hesitate, shall we?" I say as I look up at the lazy slime that is now resting on my head. "Arise." Ping!
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"Resurrection of level 3 false mercreature-werewolf hybrid shadow soldier successful!"
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"Resurrection of level 3 false mercreature-vampire hybrid shadow soldier successful!"
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I hear screams of peril and death, the air seemingly dropping by several degrees. I watch as a large, scaled, bipedal werewolf emerges from the ashes, completely black, purple wisps flowing where the fur was located before his recreation. I look up to see it's massive frame of about 7 feet tall. It stares down at me before getting on its fore arms and bowing down, at least the best he can with his massive frame.
I suddenly hear screeches and look over to see a massive spectral bat, it's ears flat on its head as it bows to me as well. As I look, I notice that in between the webbing on his wings, it's all purple, but see through, as if it's glass. And purple wisps flow from its neck creating a large mane like gas covering it's neck.
"Ok, everyone except you two, enter my shadow." I say as I point at the bat and scaled werewolf. Suddenly, I see as the shadows seem to melt and flow into my shadow insanely fast, as if it was their lifeline.
Suddenly, the room is filled with nothing but the three of us, and hundreds of dead bodies.
'Now it's time to remove this damn dagger.' I think as I look down at the still piercing pain. 'The reason I didn't do it originally is because I wanted to minimize blood loss, but this is going to be troubling. I think as I wrap my hand around the dagger.
I start self motivating myself, taking a dagger out of your body is definitely a new experience. "Okay, just don't think about it and pull, just quick amount of pain, you can handle it." I close my eyes and pull, I grunt in pain as I realize something from the massive waves of pain in my body. It's stuck.
I pull a bit more and waves of pain flood my body, making my eyes flood with tears and me grit my teeth. "It melted with my bones, son of a bitch." I say between gritted teeth as I suddenly have an idea, "Deactivate."
Suddenly, the blade disappears and I am now holding the handle, I let it drop from my hand and onto the ground as I focus on my suit and begin to channel mana into it, causing it to fill the hole in my body temporarily, slowing the bleeding, hopefully.