Standing atop the Aztec-like pyramid 6 lizard men faced off against 4 humans dressed in black.
Looking at the lizard men, Marino saw lights of a fire raging behind them, and then he spoke. " Hold them still as I finish this. "
Hearing his command the 3 hands of Marino raised their hands towards the golden armoured lizard men. Then as if an invisible force had just grabbed them the lizard men froze in place. Their eyes widened in panic as they realized that something was preventing their movements.
But then before they could do anything Marino charged. With one wide swing, three lizardmen head's were cut off. With a quick spin, Marino kept his momentum and brought the sword back around. With ease, he cut off two more heads and with a hard clang embedded them into the last ones helmet.
Marino's hands shook from the impact and numbness could be felt in his hands. Looking at the cause of this pain, he could see that the lizard man had managed to move his protected head in his blades path.
Obviously, the golden armor was not for show, he thought as he brought the blade back around and this time managed to cut off the creatures head.
Looking at the defiant lizard man's corpse Marino spat on it and said. " You piece of shit. You fucking dare to defy a gods sword. How annoying. You know what, you can keep your golden armor I don't want it. Its beneath me. "
" I apologize Master. I want able to fully hold him still. " Said Lust with a sexy but apologetic tone of voice.
Turning to look at her bowing Marino smirked and said. " Well if you feel so bad about it. Then how about you visit my cabin next time we are on the ship and make it up to me? Hihi. "
Marino licked his lips in anticipation as Lust just smiled seductively and said. " Oh master, your offer is truly tempting but I just don't think I'm ready for that yet. You need to be patient and wait another couple hundred years or so. Ok? "
As if in a trance Marino said. " Of course, whatever you desire. "
Looking at this Envy asked. " Did you just use a charm spell on our Master? "
But before Lust could answer Wrath yelled from the temple stairs. " Hey, I think we really need to go! There are a lot more of them coming our way! And they seem to be pretty pissed off! "
Snapping back into reality Marino yelled. " Quickly! Into the temple! Let's end this fast and hope that we can find a way out of here! "
Normally in this type of situation, Marino would have retreated and come back another time. Or in games, he would just restart the mission. But this time it was real life, he had a child and an pregnant wife waiting at home and the reward was too tempting to wait on any longer. And as long as he managed to complete the mission, he would get the strength that he needed to kill all these lizards, or that's what he hoped for.
Quickly they ran through the massive open temple doors and started to descend down into the temple by using the wide stairs. All over the walls were some kind of carvings of many different lizard men and what looked like planets. Wait is that a picture of a spaceship tough Marino as he ran past the strange wall?
The walls seemed to be telling some kind of a story about the lizardmens past. It depicted evil horned creatures slaughtering lizards and taking over some planet. And then it showed the lizardmen escaping it on some strange pyramid-like spaceship. Arriving on earth they buried them underground to hide from the evil creatures. Then the lizards spread from the ship around earth and started to build new cities and Temples to their gods. It depicted them using some ancient and strange technologies to build their wonders and cities. But then something happened, and a calamity hit them. Red-eyed creatures emerged from underground and the sky rained fire. After that, the story ended as if history after that time had ended. Maybe whatever happened was so bad that nobody was left to keep records of the happenings of that time and so that time was lost. Whatever happened must have been quite significant since the lizards didn't appear to have any futuristic technology now.
Is this some kind of story about ancient aliens like what the History Channel always talked about? No fucking way could that be true, thought Marino. He could have sworn that there was even one that depicted them using humans to build their stuff, but he didn't get a good view of it.
As they ran down they came to a crossroad of stairs and tunnels. Nowhere were there any signs of life as if the temple was some kind of museum or a tomb, with only a few guards at the entrance.
" Where now Master? " Asked Wrath.
" I can hear some kind of humming coming from the two paths on the left and right. " Said Envy.
Remembering something from his past life Marino said. " We will take the stairs on the left. "
Not understanding Marino's reason for taking such an action they just shrugged their shoulders and followed him.
Going up the set of stairs they peaked around the corner into the circular hallway. Down the hallway, they could see one golden armored guard. He stood guarding some smaller hallway.
Seeing this Marino said. " That's where we are going. Lust can you take him out? "
Hearing this Lust pulled out 3 needles infused with pink mana and said seductively. " Oh, It would be my pleasure, Master. "
Then the 3 needles were tossed as she ran towards the lizard man. Before the lizard man could react a needle pierced its left hand, causing its shield to drop. Another needle hit its eye, blinding it partially and one hit its throat silencing its pained groans.
With muffled screams of pain and anger, it turned towards the direction of the attacks. Before he could even see the attacker he sent out his own strike as if predicting Lusts movements. With its spiked blade in its right hand, It sent a wide swing towards Lust.
Skilfully and with the help of the force Lust slid under its blade to its exposed right side. Quickly she realized just how big the lizardman was. It towered over her small frame, making it almost impossible for her to reach its exposed neck.
Hesitating for less than a second gave the lizard man enough time to bring its weapon back around. This time it aimed low, straight towards her legs.
Seeing this she jumped forward like a gymnastic girl jumping towards a pole she grabbed a hold of the lizardmans right arm bicep. Then skilfully using her momentum she swang herself under the arm and up. After which she released her grip, causing her to fly high over the lizard man. And In mid-air, she did an amazing acrobatic spin and landed on top of the lizard man's head.
Before the lizardman realized what was going on, Lust crouched down pressing her breasts against its armored head. Then she placed both her hands on its unprotected neck and with her finger blades dug in deep.
Feeling the 10-finger blades enter its neck, it tried to struggle but with a quick motion, Lust ripped its throat wide open. Blood sprayed out of its throat as the lizardman dropped its sword and desperately tried to stop the blood flow.
Jumping off its head Lust pushed hard with her legs, causing the lizardman to fall to the ground hard. There it struggled spewing out blood as it slowly died of blood loss.
Seeing this Envy huffed and said jealousy. " That took you 7 seconds, I definitely could have done it faster. "
Hearing this Lust was about to say something until Marino ran past them and said. " Come on follow me quickly, more lizard men will most likely be coming here soon. Let's not waste any more time here. "
Gritting her teeth in frustration Lust lowered her head in defeat and followed Marino as did Wrath and Envy.
Following a narrow corridor with room only for two people to pass Marino finally stopped at a small set of stairs. Above the stairs, bright lights came and the sound of beastly chanting could be heard much more clearly. To him, it sounded like one of those relaxing and beautiful Indian mantras. But as a bunch of beastly lizards were doing it, it sounded quite ominous and scary.
" What is it? " Asked Wrath.
" Sounds like an opportunity to me. " Said Marino, causing confused faces to pop up on the others.
Walking up the stairs he saw a stone balcony. And there stood one well-dressed, soft-looking, human-sized, Gekko-like lizard man. It was singing along with the mantra, completely oblivious to their presence.
Moving a bit closer Marino could see that the massive room contained 6 balconies in total. Each balcony had one similar-looking lizard man, singing along with closed eyes.
He could not see down below clearly but it looked like the circular room below was swarming with lizard men.
Seeing this Marino decided to take a closer look. First, he walked behind the entranced lizard and with a quick twist of its head, he dislocated its neck and killed it.
Then he crouched down and walked to the edge of the balcony. Now finally able to see the room entirely, he could see 6 wide and tall corridors leading to the circular room that was filled with lizards.
All the lizards were kneeling with eggs in their hands as they faced the center of the room. And there he finally saw it, Jabba the Hutt. Well not really but to Marino it looked like it. If Jabba was a blue toad instead of a slug that is.
The massive fat blue toad sat on top of a slightly floating throne. Watching the scene Marino saw a lizard man carrying an egg walk up to the fat blue toad as he then proceeded to offer it to the toad. Then with its short and chubby arms, it grabbed a hold of the egg. Next, it brought the egg close into a hug and kissed it. After which it said a few words and gave it back to the now delighted lizard man.
Then the scene repeated itself as more and more lizard men brought their own eggs to the fat toad. To Marino, this looked like a Christian priest baptizing the soon-to-be-born lizards.
Looking at this Lust spoke quietly in disappointment. " What a shame. It truly looks like all these lizards are of the same sex and just merely produce their own eggs. I guess I will just have to be without cum for a while. "
Hearing this Wrath turned to look at her with a disgusted face and said. " That's fucked up. Please don't talk out loud about your hunger for cum. "
Smiling Lust spoke to Wrath teasingly and said. " Oh, are you jealous that I have been milking other men dry? If you'd like I could always give you my special treatment also. I would love to see how long you would last. "
Shivers ran through Wraths body as he heard these tempting but threatening words. For he knew what she did to all the men that got her special treatment. Nothing but dry and bloody lifeless corpses would ever remain.
Envy huffed in disdain at the side and spoke. " Your such a slut. How pitiful. "
Smiling Lust spoke to Envy. " Oh, and you're just an envious little virgin who has never even held a man's hand. But I can't blame them for who would even be interested in a flat-chested little brat? "
Shocked and angered by her words Envy spoke quietly as she pointed her finger at Lust. " How dare you, mock my chastity? You are a virgin yourself also. "
Then Marino raised his hand, gesturing for them to stop and said. " Enough. Just shut the fuck up, ok. You can diss each other once we return. Now just focus on the toad. "
Then Marino saw a group of golden armored guards appear from the corridor under the balcony that they stood on. They approached the fat toad with haste. Kneeling down in front of it the guards said something, causing it to turn its face into something like a frown. Then with a deep commanding voice, it said something and pointed to the corridor they just come from.
Then with a single word and a nod of their heads, the guards ran back into the corridor from where they came from.
Then Marino spoke. " Looks like they are searching for us. Since we don't have a lot of time, let's just end this fast. "
Though the floating chair intrigued Marino a little, he didn't care about it that much. Maybe it was an indicator that the toad had magic or maybe it was ancient technology, he didnt know and he didnt really care since they didnt have much time left. All he cared about was accomplishing his mission and getting the power he was promised. And now by the look of things it seemed to be quite doable. There really didn't seem to be anything special about this fat toad. To him, it appeared like a simple 5-meter-tall giant fat blue toad on a floating chair. Even if it was magical it most likely could still be killed with a surprise attack. It had worked fine on the elven mages, so why not now?
Thinking of this Marino quickly gave out some orders. " Envy and Lust split up and go take over two of those balconies. once you are done, we will attack that toad from 3 different sides. Wrath you act as support and keep those lizard guards off our backs, just in case this takes long. "
Nodding in understanding Lust went into the corridor from where they came from. At the same time, Envy resurrected the dead lizard man as an undead and followed Lust into the corridor, with the undead lizard at her back.
After a few moments, Envy appeared at the balcony on the left with 3 undead behind her as she proceeded to kill the lizard one on the balcony.
Then on the right appeared Lust with needles in hand, paralyzing and killing the lizard on her balcony.
As they both nodded to Marino in confirmation that they were ready, he heard voices start to come from the narrow corridor behind him. It appeared that time had run out, thought Marino to himself.
Then with a simple gesture to Lust and Envy the toad assassination commenced.
As Jabba, the toad was hugging another egg 3 sharp paralyzing needles pierced its fat naked body. It barely even flinched from this. It appeared that its body was so large that it hardly even felt the impact of the needles or their poison.
Then immediately after Envy tossed a lizardman body from the balcony. Dark energy rose out of the body like a dark mist and once it made contact with the toads right side it exploded. Sharp bone shards were sent flying everywhere, piercing lizard hides killing them and destroying their eggs. Feeling the explosion the toad hunched over and used its fat arms to protect the egg in its hands blocking the bone shards.
Seeing this scene the lizard men were alerted and started to roar in anger as they tried to look for the attackers. But unlike the lizardmen, the toad was calm, even though it was bloodied and wounded. It still simply just handed the egg in its hands back to its parent.
Seeing this Marino was surprised, clearly the paralyzing needles weren't working and the corpse explosion had just managed to bloody the toad a little. He had hoped for better results before he himself struck the killing blow on the toad, but nonetheless, he decided to commit. Then as he readied himself to attack the toad, it lifted its arms up and made a motion as if batting away a bunch of flies.
Then from the toads arms came a powerful shockwave. And then came a mighty bang as the two balconies that Lust and Envy were on exploded into a bunch of stone rubble. It was as if something stone shatteringly strong had just hit the balconies head-on. Oh shit, so the toad does have magical powers. Marino thought.
Marino could not see through the dust what happened to his subordinates. But seeing the toad wide open he decided to use this opportunity to make his move.
As the toad held out its hands and had its eyes closed as if it was concentrating on something Marino leaped off the balcony sword in hand. As he did so the balcony's stones cracked from the force of his jump as he was catapulted forward with the speed of a high-speed train. Wrath covered his face from the flying stone debris as he watched this scene in shock and disbelief.
Hearing the cracking of stone the toad lifted its head and started to open its eyes to look at what was happening, but it was too late. Marino thrust his sword straight into the toads left eye.
At the same time as the sword hit its eye the force of Marino's jump pushed the toad and its chair backwards. The chair and toad were tossed to the hard ground crushing countless lizard men under their weight.
Standing above the toads head Marino's was shocked, something hard was preventing his sword from piercing the toads skull. Then it groaned in pain and opened its hate-filled one good eye towards him. Looking at its eye Marino could feel its hatred towards him and he could see its yellow eyes start to glow brightly with some kind of magical energy. Shivers ran through his body as he started to feel fear and doubt overtake him. Was this the end, was his story about to end here, right when he was so close to obtaining his real isekai protagonist powers, though Marino?
Not wanting to end his story just yet Marino pulled his sword out its eye and with defiance in his own eyes grabbed his sword with both hands and prepared to strike once more.
But then as if in a vacuum gravity disappeared and his body, sword in hand was pulled towards the ceiling. Desperately he struggled but was unable to move as if something invisible was holding him still. As his body hit the temple roof hard he could see Wrath fighting off the lizard guards on the balcony while he was slowly being pushed back. Not seeing any sign of the two others Marino tried to yell to wrath, but then like being deep down in the ocean depths, he felt immense pressure on his body. All his organs and limbs were being pushed together and slowly being crushed under immense pressure. Looking towards the toad he could see it doing something, shit is it trying to crush me to death, thought Marino. Mustering up all his strength he managed to move his mouth just barely enough to let out a few words. " Tadeo kill that toad! Now! "
Then he felt his body start to crumble and bones crack as the pressure increased. He used all the mental power he had to try and fight back, but the toad was too strong. Then right as his eyes started to turn bloody red, as if they were about to blow up.
There in the distance, he saw Wrath toss his shield like a superhero from his past called Captain USA and with great precision, it struck the toads face hard. The shield nicely impacted the toads already damaged eye, causing it to scream in pain and loosen its control on Marino.
Feeling the mental restraints loosen Marino pulled his own sword back as if he was an Olympic javelin thrower and smiled saying. " Let's see how you like this! You fucking toad! Die! "
With his right hand pulled back into a javelin-tossing position he aimed his sword straight into the toads one good eye.
But then the toad appeared to compose himself a little and seeing what Marino was doing it struck again. But this time it only focused on his right arm and with great mental force shredded Marino's right arm just when he let go of the sword.
Marino's arm twisted, turned and his black veins blew up. Then the great pressure and mental force ripped his right arm apart. But with the help of his left hand, Marino managed to use the force to guide the sword forward. With the help of the force, the sword flew fast straight towards the toads eye.
Seeing this it tossed Marino into the back wall and focused all its power on to the sword. Right before its eye, the sword was stopped. But then from a dust cloud, a needle flew past the panicking lizards straight into the toads one good eye.
The fat toad let out a pained scream and accidentally lost control of the sword. Now freed from the toads control, gravity took a hold of the sword and then it dropped straight into the toads eye.
With a needle and sword in its eye, it was now completely blinded. And in its blind agony, it tossed and turned on the ground crushing its loyal followers uncaringly.
Standing amidst ruble Marino smiled uncaring of his missing arm, for soon he would have a better one. Hearing all this commotion angry lizard guards started to swarm the circular room, and Marino leaped into action. With his one good arm, he grabbed hold of a small, unarmed lizard man who was just trying to protect its egg. Uncaring of this he kicked the egg aside breaking it and then he started to use the lizard as a living weapon.
The guards hesitated and Marino used this to his advantage. With great force, he smacked a guard with the small lizard. The guards head was struck hard, its eyes widened in shock as the smaller lizards back broke from the impact.
Using this opportunity Marino tossed the useless and broken small lizard into a group of other guards, only managing to stagger them a little. Then he grabbed a hold of the guards sword-wielding hand and with great strength crushed it. In pain and with its fingers twisted and broken, it dropped the sword. And with a kick Marino sent the guard flying to a group of lizards behind it. Then he picked up the sword with his left hand and started swinging.
Now with a spiky sword in hand, he started to slaughter the guards. With their dinosaur bone shields, they tried to block his attacks but Marino's strength was out of this world. His sword shattered their shields and bodies. With each hit the swords he wielded broke and needed to be immediately replaced.
As Marino kept fighting with one arm and his inhumane strength. Wrath fought his own battle with one sword in hand. Wrath was slowly pushed to the edge of the balcony, then he decided to jump down and join Marino's fight. Now they fought side by side against the lizard guards.
At another corner, Envy and Lust fought back to back. As the battle went on Envy kept summoning more and more of their victims back to life. Now there were a good number of undead fighting alongside them. Though the undead were not skilful they were still resilient which made them great in holding the line.
From the 6 corridors more and more guards and regular Lizard men warriors charged in, amongst them came big crocodile lizardmen also.
Then as Marino killed another golden guard, his danger senses suddenly went off. Jumping backward he saw a lightning bolt hit the now-dead guards body right where he was standing just a moment ago. The body was turned black and a fist-sized hole appeared on it, where the lighting had struck. Looking to the source of the lightning he saw the remaining fancy-looking lizards on the balconies gathering magical energy for something.
" That doesn't look so good. What should we do Master? " Asked Wrath as he fought three guards.
Fuck they have more magic, if only I could somehow make it to that fat toad and kill it. Though Marino to himself. Then right Before he could answer the temple shook as if a powerful earthquake had struck. Everybody stood in shock, barely managing to hold their balance.
Then Marino saw it, the fat toad started to float. Its body was bloody and its eyes bled immensely. In the air, it yelled in anger and spread out its fat arms.
Seeing this Marino yelled. " Use the force to protect yourself! Create a force barrier around your selves! Quickly! "
A massive mental shockwave shot out from the fat toad destroying everything in its path. Stones turned into rubble and lizardmen turned into meat paste.
Marino was pushed back against the wall. Then as the stone walls crumbled around him he felt the pressure lessen, as all of a sudden gravity was turned off. The Temple started to come apart as walls started to move and dislocate into their original forms and everything was lifted into the air.
Higher and higher they went until the sun shined through the cracks onto the fat toad. Now under him, Marino could see the lizard man city clearly down below and the toads fat face. The toad sweated as it took in a massive breath of air, clearly in pain and intending to strike again. Seeing this Marino decided to act.
Still holding a broken spike sword in hand he sent it flying through the floating rubble towards the toad.
Hindered by the ruble its trajectory changed despite Marino's force interference. Then the sword struck the toads right shoulder hard, embedding itself into the toad. But It only gritted its nonexistent teeth more, as its large body wasn't all that affected by such a small sword. Seeing this Marino cursed out loud. " Shit shit shit, why is my luck so bad! Why won't you just die! "
Then as if god was answering his prayers a black dagger flew from the left, straight towards its face. Then with a bang, it hit some kind of an invisible barrier right before making contact with its head and exploded against it. The dagger then started spreading dark magical mist as it did so. Seeing this Marino cursed his bad luck in his head as apparently now the toad had made himself a magical barrier.
" Ooh no you wont! " Envy yelled out from some distance away.
Then Marino saw the dark mist float into the toads airways as it continued to gather energy. Breathing in the mist, its bloody eyes started to form water droplets and bleed more. Then as if it were a chain smoker, it started to cough violently.
Then as if realizing what was happening it quickly gathered whatever energy it had left and sent out a massive shockwave, sending everything flying away from it in a large radius.
Oh shit, Marino thought as he and everything else was sent flying. Down below he could see the entire city get deleted as the buildings were blown away.