the basilisk slid in its path and looked into the trolls eyes as the back of its body coiled up. Its tail became like crystalized charcoal with a sharp point as it sprung towards the trolls face.
Pschhhh ! driving its obsidian sharp pointed tail into its huge skull the troll stopped moving as its eyes drifted into the back of its head.
Damon had just unleashed a barrage of punches and kicks knocking the orcs on the ground. He then placed his hands on the wet ground filled with puddles while generating a current of electricity. it crawled across the ground swimming within the water reaching the trolls bodies before they could get up. their bodies locked up and jolted as veins bulged throughout their bodies and suddenly burst with dark looking fluid.
On a second look the dark fluid was burnt blood that had thickened and coagulated because of the intense shock making it look like fruit paste pouring from their veins all over their bodies.
Damon had kept an eye on his soul beast movements and attacks whenever he could while fighting and witnessed her last attack.
"Javaline, that tail attack reminded me of a javaline being thrown stabbing a target." Damon says walking up to the basilisk.
"what about the name Javaline, I mean it sounds like it could be a male or female name don't you think, girl "
the basilisk slid up his legs and wrapped her lower half around his lower waist like a belt while her top half laid on his back and her head placed on his shoulder. once there the basilisk licked out her tongue and nodded her head up and down.
"yes, finally a name you agree on."
Ding! soul beast Draconic Basilisk has been named Javaline.
soul beast mental connection has been created.
five soul beast mental connection points have been awarded.
complete the mental connection with Javaline by gaining connection points.
Connection points~ 5/100
Damon immediately thought if his connection points were to reach a hundred then he could understand Javaline completely in some way or another.
Hearing more fighting taking place on the north side of the city Damon started to move again.
Jolly also was on his way to the north side of the city after contacting Damon through the system. he was riding through the streets on broncos manipulated form. swatting and running over goblins left and right twirling his vine whips in his hand.
every now and then he would leap off Bronco and engage in close combat to find a good rhythm. his hand glowed red as a thick six foot red and black thorn was created shooting into the chest of an orc pinning it against a building.
Jolly walked up to the orc slapping a club out of its grips as it roared in pain trying to get free.
"where the hell did you guys come from."
the orc just growled and stared at jolly clenching its big bottom jaws together as green blood dropped from its teeth.
"this is only the beginning." the orc said with a heavy weighted smile.
hearing those words jolly decided not to kill it but capture the orc instead by binding it's arms and legs with vines and then wrapping the orcs body up tightly.
" you were only worth one point anyway, I can get that back easily." he said out loud which made the orc stare at him with confusion just before his entire head was covered with vines.
Jolly raised his arms as he turned to bronco. more vines crawled and connected with bronco's frame as it became even more bulky which he now was the size of a small elephant.
he then picked up the orc with vines laying it over broncos back and jumped on.
"man, that thorn attack earlier took a lot out of me, I should lessen my mana usage or I'll be burnt out too soon." Jolly stated in his head.
Jolly had conjured his last attack on the fly not knowing how good it would be and to his surprise he was satisfied with the outcome besides it taking a large amount from his mana pool which was now 200/500.
he had already used 300 percent of his mana. he could feel a certain amount leave with each magic spell he performed.
Five minutes later Damon and Jolly meet up at an agreed area just shy of the north side of the city which came with a surprise as a large seven foot muscular tan colored man with a balled head and long orange beard and mustache was seen effortlessly slaughtering a large group of enemies with a flick of his great sword.
his armour didn't have a speck of blood on it which seemed very strange to both jolly and Damon. it didn't surprise them how easily he took care of the enemies as he was widely known to be a powerful individual amongst multiple kingdoms in the land.
As for why he chose to settle in a poor off the grid city like village city no one really knew.
"Mr. blade, Mr. Drixx." sir Hughes says noticing their arrival.
"come on sir Hughes call me jolly." Jolly says scratching the back of his head in an unsure manner.
sir Hughes walked up to them after finishing off the group of monsters.
He stared at them both with a serious unsettling look as if he was looking right through them.
his actions from just his stare alone made both of their cores shiver on the inside as an unfamiliar pressure was felt within the area.
Javaline on the other hand had raised its head off Damon's shoulder not taking a single eye off of sir Hughes as soon as the atmosphere had changed.
Damon or Jolly couldn't say a word for some odd reason until a slight smile appeared across his face that broke the unnerving atmosphere.
"it seems you two have grown considerably." sir Hughes says breaking the silence.
"ahhhh yes sir we have." they both said in unison not realizing it.
"well alright time is of the essence Mr. blade, clear out the remaining enemies on the north west side of the city. Mr. Drixx you do the same on the north east side."
"go now."
Damon and Jolly headed off.
"one more thing, you may run into a group of people that aren't from village city, don't be alarmed for they are on our side."
"oh and Damon that's a mighty fine soul beast you have there, congratulations on becoming an awakened soul."
sir Hughes says with a interesting face expression.
"thank you sir." with that said Damon was off.
"hmmmmm an Awakened soul and perhaps something more." sir Hughes mumbles to himself watching them disappear into the distance.
sir Hughes kneeled and touched the ground as blue light stretched across.
"only a handful of enemies left Within the city and they're all on the north side, they should be able to handle it, if not than perhaps I was wrong about them both." sir Hughes thinks to himself as he walked in the opposite direction.
"as a matter of fact." he said inwardly.
sir Hughes contacted spade and bison and commanded them to pull out their forces and meet at the bunker on the south side and that reinforcement was on its way to take their place. he also told them to take the same way they got there knowing if they did they wouldn't cross paths with Damon or Jolly.
"good lessons are always engraved in people's heads on a battlefield." was the last thing sir Hughes thought about as he continued to walk.
"it's been a great amount of time since I've witnessed an awakened soul as powerful as that one." shield says speaking about sir Hughes.
This caught Damon off guard as he moved forward.
"yea he is said to be pretty powerful."
"he certainly is, but nothing me or my kind couldn't handle with a few seconds." shield says boastfully.
"I don't know about that, I mean I'm not sure what you are but sir Hughes accomplishments back in the day are known by most of the lands, or so I heard."
"hmph and what accomplishments are these."
"well he's one of the reasons the Kingdom of Ashwafala hasn't been erased. we are the weakest of all kingdoms and the poorest. there was a time when other kingdoms believed it was best if the kingdom of Ashwafala didn't exist which caused a war between kingdoms." Damon explained.
Sir Hughes along with many other powerful awakened souls stopped that from happening.
"I am fully aware of this war of kingdoms you speak of, but the people that participated in them weren't of my concern back then." responded shield.
"So you were...just before Damon could continue with his question a big explosion was seen and heard nearby.
Rushing to the scene Damon could see a seven foot wolf beast approaching in the distance with his skill oculus. it's fur was icy blue with icy white patches and crystal blue eyes, the wolfs teeth were sharp ice sickles and it's tail was five foot with ice shards all over it. riding this beast was a pale, but slightly pink skin girl with rose petal red eyes and silver and red hair.
"Alice." Damon called out trying to get her attention to come his way when a few goblins came from his left side swinging short swords and stabbing daggers at him.
Javaline moved swiftly shooting a fire ball at the incoming enemies. Damon had deactivated his cloud control and downpour moments before meeting up with jolly earlier so the sky was clear at the moment.
Like the troll earlier the black flames consumed two of the goblins in a heartbeat as Javaline pushed them back into a building in which she followed them.
"she can handle them easily." He thought seeing Javaline in pursuit.
minutes later Alice arrived next to Damon.
"Damon are you ok."
"yea I'm good, what was that huge explosion a while ago." I don't know but we saw it too, miss grey gave me the task to check it out. she's further ahead."
just then they both heard crashing sounds and loud noise as if someone was fighting in the building next to them.
"oh don't worry that's....before Damon could tell Alice what was going on a goblin came crashing down out the top window of the building with a black five foot big headed snake beast wrapped around it hitting the ground a few feet away from them.
the wolf beast Alice was on jumped back preparing an attack on Alice's command as it watched the snake stab through the goblins head with it's tail.
"wait Damon yells running between them, this is Javaline my soul beast he says holding both of his arms out at the wolf and Alice gesturing them not to attack.
Alice looked at him in confusion for a few seconds before she finally sensed his soul core.
"huh,wait that's impossible right she says jumping off the ice wolf in disbelief. your time to awaken passed already, how is that possible." she said walking up to him.
"I'll explain everything later, but for now we must finish wiping these bastards out."
"you're right, it doesn't matter at the moment, come on I'll take you to miss grey she's fighting the last of them now"
Damon called for Javaline as he was just about to hop on Alice's soul beast when a shadow appeared over them. making them look up.
Boom !
out of nowhere a huge axe could be seen crashing into the ground missing them by a hair as they moved out the way.
"mmmmmmmmmmm, I missed." said a deep rusty voice. standing before them was a red orc twice the size of a regular one. it stood eight to nine feet with long canine's protruding out its bottom jaw. it's huge muscular frame was covered in a rustic color armor with bright orange trimings while his eyes were completely black void of any color.
Damon and Alice moved out the way in time but barely.
"He's fast and way different from the others." said Damon to Alice.
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Ding! quest received
Defeat red orc without the use of your soul beast.
rewards: 10 stat points to all stats
failure: 10 stat points deduction from all stats
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"shit, this is not a good time for restrictions such as this, I can tell this red orc is dangerous." Damon said to shield.
"circumstances can change instantly in a battle or war,you need to learn how to adapt with the situations." shield responded.
seconds later another four regular orcs eight goblins and five lower banes came into view.
"Damn it." Damon said internally as the all gathered behind the red orc.
Alice conjured seven ice arrows sending them flying at the red orc.
The orc smiled showing all of it's jagged teeth, they were oddly spaced out and crooked besides the canines at the bottom which looked more like tusks.
"yaaaa" the orc yelled raising it's giant axe horizontally blocking the arrows.
"mmmmmmmmm, you're very pretty, I'm going to kill this ant beside you and take you for myself to have my way with you and then when I get bored of I'll chop you up and make some bone broth and bitch stew out of you." the red orc says sticking its long green rough tongue out licking his lips.
"the hell you are, Javaline help Alice I'll take on this piece of shit alone." but Damon.
"just do as I say Alice and back away now "
Damon didn't know what had come over him, but the red orcs words struck a nerve within him.
Dark clouds rolled up in the sky along with heavy rain as Damon eyes began to crackle with static.
"mmmmmm, the little ant could be a troublesome one the red orc thought looking at the change in Damon's eyes and witnessing storm clouds appear out the blue.
Alice was a little stunned seeing Damon's power for the first time, but not too shock because of the few rumors that were going around school the day Taylen and him got into a scuffle. though dark clouds and rain weren't said to be used some people did say the enchanted weapon Damon used had a electric affinity.
with that in mind she came to the realization he never used an enchanted weapon and that it was actually his own ability.
"ok Damon, kick his ass, but be careful." she says.
"my pleasure." he said as his fists became electrified.
the red orc readied his axe just before they both rushed in. The orc swung his axe while Damon threw a punch charging forward.