with my axe in hand, I launched myself into the panicked oni people and started cutting their heads, left and right
"a hero has come to save us!"
"we are being saved!"
"please help us out of here!"
"get us out of here, great sir!"
"I have a family to go back to!"
while massacring the oni tribesmen, the captured people were shouting for my help, asking me to release them but releasing them would do more harm than good. if I release them they would be a source of distraction, they would hold me back because I would be trying to protect them and the Oni tribesmen can effectively us that to regroup and attack me besides I never came here to save them, I came for my own purpose so their life is none of my business
after a while, I released my thunderstorm skill again, taking out another chunk of their forces leaving them with maybe forty percent left.
shooting fireballs and rock bullets left and right while using my axe to take their head off their shoulders, they started to retreat deeper into the cave while some of them stayed back to fight me so that they can regroup. with the element of surprise gone, the Oni tribesmen started to fight me and push me back and my wounds started pilling up and becoming more visible. if these captured people were not here they would have been razed to the ground by by dragon flames.
I immediately cast Thunderstorm effectively wiping out the rest of the forces and ran deeper into the cave. immediately after entering I cast Thunderstorm again which wiped out the rest of the ordinary Oni tribesmen.
ROOOOOOAAAAAAR!!!
ROOOOOOAAAAAAR!!!
The oni king and queen released powerful roars that shook the whole cave. They were both two times bigger, taller and scarier than the regular Oni The king had black skin and tusks, long claw like nails and a bigger belly, now I don't know who's the real pregnant one the women or this oni king. The queen had red skin, longer tusks and white eyes in both their hands are clubs the size of small cars.
since we are inside the cave safe from the prying eyes of the women, I transformed into a dragon, shot myself to the queen and struck with my claws cutting half deep into her arms. the king appeared behind me and used his club on my back pushing me away from the queen. he swung his club towards my face which I dodged and cut a part of his abdomen with my claws before distancing myself from the duo.
The wound on his abdomen started to close up until it was no longer visible 'shit, I need to kill him in one hit or this fight would not be in my favor' I undid my dragon form then brought out my axe and cast [body of flames] giving me the small man advantage.
I appeared behind the king and tried to strike his neck but he dodged and hit me with his club
BOOOM
A booming sound resounded as I collided with the wall. immediately the queen appeared in front of me and brought her one good hand intending to punch me. if this punch hit me I definitely would be squashed to a paste so I cancelled the body of flames and activated embodiment of earth. from the wall the rocks started to come together and cover my body
BOOOOOOM
as the first struck, it felt like I was hit by a speeding train. two of my ribs broke and my mouth was filled with a lot of blood that I later spit out, maybe I have some internal injuries that I couldn't notice but this would definitely put the fight in the king and queen's favor, I cancelled the embodiment of earth and thought
'if I don't use that skill I definitely would die here' I got off the floor and held onto my axe tightly
' immediately after activating the skill, I kill the king and bombard the queen with some spells before killing her too'
[swift foot] I started sprinting with my increased speed towards the king who swung his club downwards
[space lock] immediately, the king stayed rooted in his spot like someone pressed pause on him. I jumped on the club and started running along his arm.
[flaming fury] the axe immediately caught fire. I swung it down and cut his head off. I jumped off his body and deactivated the space lock and reactivated it again but this time I'm targeting the queen
[fire ball]
[call of thunder]
[water cannon]
[rock bullets]
[thunderstorm]
I immediately bombarded the queen with all of my skills and cleaved her head off of her body
Bam Bam Bam
the sound of three bodies falling to the ground echoed. I dragged myself to the oni king and absorbed it with it's core still in the body
[absorb]
[host has absorbed black oni king]
[all host stats has increased by forty seven]
[host has gotten passive skill (regeneration)]
[host has absorbed black oni king core]
[all host stats has increased by nineteen]
Crack~ crack~
the sound of my ribs returning to place as the skill immediately got to work "argh, fuck fuck fuuuck" my internal injuries also started mending itself and the whole process was very painful. As the painful process ended I started panting heavily 'And those bastards would make it look like it's not painful. fuck them in hell, bastards' I thought while struggling to regain my bearing
"shiiit, what the fuck" I cursed as my stomach started churning and growling because of hunger. I brought out my remaining cookies and candies and stuffed them into my mouth but it did nothing to stop the hunger.
While looking around in vain for food, I looked at the body of the queen from the corner of my eye and started having some weird ideas
"oh hell no, I'm not eating that shit r–argh. fuck it" my stomach growled, reminding me of the hunger. I walked to the queen and plunged my hand into her chest, I ripped out her heart and started eating it and surprisingly the taste was not as bad as I thought it would be like but it felt like I was chewing on rubber, unfortunately my stomach didn't want to hear any of it so I just continued eating it.
After eating the heart and a part of her arm, I found a key tied with a rope around her waist which I took before taking a rest and absorbing the remains
[host has absorbed red oni queen]
[all host stats has increased by thirty six]
[host has gotten active skill (berserk state)]
[host has absorbed red oni queen core]
[all host stats has increased by twelve]
I came out of the inner part of the cave all bloodied and came face to face with different oni tribesmen bodies scattered around and at another part were a bunch of people in cages. I started picking up all the oni bodies and stored them in my spatial pocket, there were a total of one hundred and six bodies then I made my way to the cages holding the women
seeing me coming out they didn't care that I was bloodied and they started their pleas and reasons to release them but I just stood in front of them where they can all see me.
After a while when they noticed I didn't budge from my spot, they all kept quiet then I started to speak
"I will let you all go but you have two options to make, first when I let you go you find your way on your own back to the town or second when I let you out you follow me back to town but you follow everything I say whether you like it or not, okay"
they all nodded furiously
"if you choose the first option immediately I open you cage, you find your way out but If you choose the second option you all create four queues, two for the pregnant people and the other two for the people who are not pregnant, understand"
they nodded again then I started opening the cages with the keys, as they came out of their cages they lined up like how I asked them to
"good"
we all made our way to the place where I killed the bandits then I told them to pick up any piece of clothing they find even if it's armor. when they were all dressed we continued our journey to the town and reached there around an hour later. I took them to a security station and explained their situation to them and left the place, whatever they do to them is none of my business now
I reached the hotel, had my bath, washed my armor, changed into comfortable clothes, ate my dinner before going to bed
Back in town, the people started talking about how the bloody reaper saved women from oni tribesmen all by himself. The story became legit since it was confirmed by one of the saviors
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if you have any ideas for the story, you can chip in by writing comments of what you think should happen next.
If you're wondering when all the revenge arc would happen, it would happen very soon I just want to make him stronger than he is now