In a battlefield…
"Wha… why…" Shen weakly asked. His eyes widened as far as possible, looking at the duo up the hill of this scorched and barren field. A sword impaled right through Shen's chest, which leaked of blood.
Around Shen were thousands of bodies, but he only stared at the duo with confusion and anger.
"Iris… Li… WHY!" Shen once again shouted with his remaining strength as he fell on his knees from pain.
The woman and man began laughing at Shen, finding his question ridiculous "What did you expect? I just can't risk the truth being out Longwei" The man looked at Shen with disgust as he spoke.
"I've done it baby, now let's get married after this~" the woman said, embracing the man's body seductively, giving him a kiss on the cheek.
The man smiled as he held his hand around her waist, embracing her closer to him, turning his head towards her lovingly.
The duo made out in front of Shen, who was dying.
*cough*
Shen coughed up blood as he looked at the duo, his anger turning into pure hatred.
"ILL KILL YOU BOTH!" Shen shouted as he grasped the handle of the sword that impaled him and began to pull it out.
"URGHHH!" Shen grunted as he pulled the sword from his chest, as the duo stopped making out, watching Shen's action.
"Just die!" The woman said with displeasure, as a green magic circle formed on her hand and a thin energy beam shot out, hitting Shen's shoulders and knees.
Each attack from her, made Shen drop back on the floor. His grip released the sword handle as he groaned in pain.
However, he wouldn't give up and gripped the handle again. With his remaining strength he pulled the sword out in one go, "URGHH!" He shouted as wobbled around the field, trying to regain his balance but couldn't.
The beams from the woman seemed to have a poisoning effect on Shen's body, making him unable to stabilise his balance as he coughed out more blood.
"Trash, die." The man spat out as five swords levitated from the battlefield and shot out at Shen, each sword impaling his body.
*cough*
More blood was spat out as his vision was going dark "Li...Iris...you're dead."
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"Shen bro!" a voice called out at Shen, making his eyes open.
Seeing Shen open his eyes, Dane looked over "Are you okay!? You were sweating and moving around a lot." Dane explained to Shen his worry.
Shen slowly stood up, subconsciously checking his body for wounds as anger built up inside him 'I'm okay… calm down…' Shen took in some deep breaths as he looked over at the worried Dane.
"Are you okay Shen bro?" Shen didn't answer him so Dane asked again with a worried look.
Shen gave a meek smile "Yes, I'm fine. I'm rested, let's continue" He signaled Dane to lead the way, just in case for the rest of the floor, Dane had to lead for them to get anywhere.
Dane nodded and headed down the steps, with Shen behind.
As they walked down, Dane couldn't help but ask, "Um, Shen bro, what was your dreaming about? Seemed pretty intense."
Shen smirked, "The future." He replied.
Dane wanted to roll his eyes. "If you didn't want to tell me, you could have said that Shen bro, why would you joke like that?"
"Your choice to believe me or not." Shen simply answered with a grin that Dane couldn't see.
Dane started to doubt himself 'Could he actually be telling the truth?
Before he could ask another question, they arrived at a door, but this one was a small double door.
The door had a sign on top, though, saying
'Fight or convince. Die or live. Liquid or solid.'
'Liquid or solid? What?' Dane was confused by the last word from the door.
"What's the holdup? Open the door." Shen said, unaware of the words from the door.
Dane opened the door "Oh right! Sorry, Shen bro."
The room was brightly lit, completely opposite from the previous floor, but as Dane walked in, a claw was about to tear his entire face.
Dane couldn't even react, in fact, he didn't even realise a claw was right at his face.
But, before the claw could tear his face, Shen grabbed Dane's collar, pulling him out of the room.
*Bang!*
The creature inside was too big for the double door, with the height being just a few inches taller than a regular human, so its claw hit the dungeon walls.
"I said open the door, not walk inside Dane." Shen calmly said, but deep inside he wanted to sigh in relief for being fast enough to save him. 'Idiot, if you die, I can't get through the rest of the trials.'
Dane's face was full of fear as he was gasping for air from shock "Thank you Shen bro, I'm sorry that you have to keep saving me." Dane said apologetically as he looked up at Shen from the floor.
"Don't worry about it, we're friends." He replied as a black magic circle formed where he stood.
Seeing this, Dane's eyes widened "Shen bro! You can use magic!? So earlier at the dark place, that was magic too!?"
Shen looked at Dane "Yes. I can use magic."
Dane's image of Shen grew much more "So you're a cultivator and mage!!!" He couldn't help but squeal from the excitement of seeing Shen perform magic as a cultivator.
"I'm still learning. I'm only a tier 1 mage." Shen said as his black magic circle started to envelope his feet to his face
"Thats still impressive! What's this spell for?"
Shen, covered in darkness, smirked "You'll see.
He walked into the room, ready to fight the creature but like before a claw neared at Shen's face but unlike Dane, Shen noticed it but wasn't fast enough to react.
However, as the claw touched Shen's face, it dispersed in darkness, making the creature feel like it missed its attack.
Shen immediately punched the creature, pushing him back as Shen's face restored from the darkness forming.
"That took all my mana…" Shen breathed heavily as he talked but he quickly stabilised himself.
"Lets see who's my opponent now" With a smirk, Shen looked at the creature but his eyes widened from feeling its strength.
'Fuck.'