Mors and Zhihui were charging down the barren hill with their large monster army following behind them. The sound of their footsteps echoes through the barren forest. The corrupt army was not moving, hiding behind their flesh and bone walls.
On top of these large walls, the spike monsters started raining down spikes on the army. Piercing the skin and muscles of monsters, killing some of them if the spike landed a lucky shot. As the army gets closer to the flesh wall, Zhihui rushes ahead, punching the hard barren ground with a closed fist. Channeling her QI through her fist and into the ground. Creating in seconds, large spikes that pierce the flesh walls. Blood comes out of these living walls.
These spikes shook a bit of the wall infrastructure, the hive mind confuse as to why the human did that. But the next second, Mors started to run across these spike walls, as they made a nice way to climb the tower and attack the annoying archers on top of it.
Zhihui continues to make these spikes of earth, making more entryways to climb the walls and deal with the wall troops. Soon the monsters started to run up the spikes, pouring into the walls as they meet the spike monsters in fierce glorious melee combat.
Mors, being one of the first on top of the wall, was already surrounded by dead bodies. His red sword dripped with blood. The hive mind, seeing its walls, that it pours precious biomass into being overtaken and ignore in the first opening move of the battle, drove it insane.
If it does not awaken now, these two humans will destroy its perfect plan work. It needs to affect and change the battlefield on a personal level. As the transparent flesh that covers the hole in the tree starts to break, blood gushes out of it, as an overwhelming force gets applied to the monsters and humans.
Their minds felt like they were assaulted by an invisible force, erroring away their free will and minds. Zhihui looks up at Mors, as she runs up a close spike wall, trying to get as close to him as possible. As the flesh of the tree breaks apart and deafening roar pierces their ears and makes them bleed.
From the tree comes out a humanoid figure, and from its head, countless biological-looking tubes sprout from it. Six spider-like legs grow from its back, its end pointed like blades. Insect-like armor covers its body, proving protection. It has two pairs of human arms, its hands, growing sharp as steel claws. With an insect-like head, like that of a spider mixed with an ant. With four large mandibles, 8 eyes, and two large antennas.
With the pressure alone, both Mors and Zhihui knew that this monster was at least Warrior rank 5. Past the meta and 2 times stronger than Mors and Zhihui. But Zhihui cares little about such things, as she reaches Mors and extends out her hand. Mors turns back as he grabs her hand, their minds in perfect synch.
[Synchronization 10%]
As their power combine, Mors throws Zhihui high into the air. With enough force that the flesh walls beneath his feet break and sink into the ground. As Zhihui flies in the air, all the attention was on her, as she engulfs herself in a blue fire. Channeling all the fire around her into her very body. Increasing her body temperature to abnormal degrees. But the reason they did was for Zhihui to fly across the corruption horde, so she can easily reach the boss and kill it. Killing it will end this corruption.
As she flies above the army, she started to control the wind around her to guide herself toward the boss. Like a meteor, consume by blue flames, she lands in front of the boss. A large explosion originates from her, as the blue fires consume all around it. The hive mind protects itself by hitting the fire away with its spider legs. As a cloud of dust consumes the area around it. From this cloud of dust, rises Zhihui, fire entering the gem in her back.
Her skin turns red, as it expels large amounts of heat into the air. Zhihui looks at the boss, though this is her first time meeting it, she knew how much pain this thing will bring to her clan and family. Today she will stop it, kill it with her own two hands, and bring back the glory of this battle. This should be her turning point. She would come out of this a champion.
"From here on you won't take a step. I will be your challenger! Upon the celestial dragon, I will cleanse the land of your corruption. Burn!"
She screams at the top of her lungs, as she started her attack on the hive mind. The hive mind was about to turn its army around to help deal with Zhihui, only to see pieces of its army flying across the sky. Their head splits open and their blood painted the ground.
Mors landed in the middle of the horde army, his skin turning a shade of gray, his muscles larger but also more compressed. His skin looked like steel. In his hand is his red sword, with every movement it does, 50 or so yellow copies of it are left behind. Mors has made himself the center of attention for the army. The hive mind in a split second commanded the army to attack Mors. As it blocks a fire punch by Zhihui with its spider legs. Kicking Zhihui in the stomach and pushing her away.
As Mors cut the countless monsters that surround it, his army finally got out of the wall and join the battle. But it would be a lie to say they all join. The moment both Mors and Zhihui stopped looking, some of the monsters started to run away. Two existing and dying armies were fighting for their survival. While their leaders, fought for their own goals, not caring for them. The very chains of fate become visible, as the sound of the mechanical system rings in Mors and Zhihui's ears.
[The Cleansing
Defeat the Old-World Corruption "Mind" and break the chains of fate to a greater extent.
Reward: 10,000 fate points.
Reward: A fragment of an achievement
Failure: Death
Failure: The strength of fate will increase ]