Two colossal shadow arms emerged from the forest moving towards each other in a clapping motion at an incredibly speed with Adam at the center. At the same time, a humanoid being emerged from Adam. The being wore the clothes of an ancient ninja clan, blue in color, the clothes covered every part of its body other than its pure white eyes. As soon as it spawned it kicked Adam with full force directly in his stomach. The kick was so powerful that it sent Adam flying out of the area, a second later,
Boooom....
The hands collided. Noir dashed after Adam as soon as he was kicked so she wasn't affected, Jellon had flown higher into the sky, Shinobi could be seen jumping from the top of the two hands into the sky before doing and few handsighns and spawning clones as it fell into the forest with its clones and sadly, Sicklet the gremlin didn't make it.
He had just finished recovering all his essence as he got up from his meditative pose. He looked around and still could not find what he was looking for.
Alsvid: "Where the hell is Adam, I had time to absorb all five cores and fully recover yet he's still not here, he should have been back by now."
He walked around a little and started doing some stretching exercises to keep himself busy as the bodies of all five monkeys lay behind him.
Alsvid: "Huh."
Unknown being: "Where's Ragon?"
Alsvid stopped exercising as an incredibly old man appeared in front of him, weirdly enough there was a floating skeleton wearing a black cloak and holding a skull staff with green flames burning in its eye sockets.
Alsvid: "Uhm, I don't know who this Ragon you speak of is."
Old man: "Don't lie to me boy, where's Ragon?"
Alsvid: "I seriously don't know who this Ragon is."
Old man: "I will not ask again, where's Ragon?"
Alsvid: "Who the heck is Ragon?"
The floating skeleton waved its staff as behind Alsvid, the four intact crystalline monkeys woke up silently and dashed towards him.
Old man: "Youth nowadays, you don't respect your elders one bit, having the guts to lie straight to my face."
Alsvid: "I seriously do not know who this Ragon i- ugh"
The monkeys got to him as they all struck, one swung its claw across his back, one aimed for his legs and the last two aimed for his sides.
Zing...
Four well timed strikes disrupted his statement as a large amount of pain rang through his body, his injured legs forcing him to his knees as large amounts of blood oozed from a large open wound on his back and two sides. The four monkeys then surrounded him as the old man laughed.
Old man: "Hahahahahahaha, this will teach you never to lie to your seniors again, now die."
The old man continued laughing as his floating skeleton pointed its staff at Alsvid, a large beam of green essence wider than the area occupied by Alsvid and the four monkeys flying out, it also served as the signal which caused the monkeys to pounce on him.
Alsvid: 'After all I've endured throughout my entire life this is how I die? No no no no no no no.' "I REFUSE TO DIE LIKE THIS."
Alsvid's essence burst forth from his body and formed a small dark orb around him protectively as the monkeys and the beam hit it simultaneously. As instantly as they touched the beam, a sensation as if someone just ripped out every bit of energy he had overtook him as the shield didn't even last a second before disappearing leaving his defenseless body to face the attacks as his mind went blank.
The energy slowly died down, a vast part of the area was destroyed, Alsvid lied on the ground, chared, his heart bearly beating, his breath so faint it was undetectable and his clothes none existent.
Old man: "Oh you poor thing, you shouldn't have resisted, now look at you, you are hugging death. I would put you out of your misery but you just lied to my face not too long ago, I know you will die anyway but I want you to suffer as you slowly and painfully embrace death, while that's happening, I'll go look for Ragon, don't worry, I'll return back and resurrect you as a servant of mine. I'll also bring some of my servants just in case Ragon returns, anguish can be a real motivation even for the weak."
With that, the old man left Alsvid to die in agony.
Although he had been kicked out of the area, literally, he had managed to find his way back to the edge of the forest. He arrived just in time to see a burst of electricity from the forest as Jellon flew out of it holding Shinobi and then they floated just above the forest. Adam was about to give orders to then when he felt the earth rumble before a familiar voice yelled out a name as a force of essence powerful enough to push him back burst out.
Kage: "SHRILL SPORE."
A gigantic shadow stem grew from the forest destroying parts of it as at the very top, a flower bud could be seen. It grew so tall that it reached the floating Jellon as its width was also nothing to laugh at. Then from the forest floor, multiple thorned shadow roots erupted and quickly wrapped around Jellon causing it to let go of Shinobi who wasn't spared as a very thick vine from the stem slapped it from the sky to Adam's side. The bud opened up into a spore and standing at the center of that spore was Kage. Adam and Shinobi dashed towards the spore and split towards the left and right respectively whilst dodging multiple thorned shadow roots and thick shadow vines as they were making progress, up until Kage stopped laughing long enough to notice their progression. Right after they were spotted, multiple branching buds grew around the first one but they didn't open, instead they fired of multiple explosive seeds that caused huge explosions when they came in contact with anything physical. Then, to get to the main spore, Adam and Shinobi started running on vines and roots that grew around them while dodging the seeds, this caused multiple fly traps to grow at various points of the spore as these living components tried to bite Adam and Shinobi. After things became two difficult, both Adam and Shinobi were ready to take another approach when suddenly, Shinobi lost his footing as every part of the spore other than the stem started moving. Shinobi loosing his balance allowed to a fly trap that was lying in wait to bit one of his legs off as a seed slammed into him and exploded. An unknown rage built up inside Adam at the loss of one of his powerful summons, he erupted with essence and was about to summon another of his powerful guardians when a large surge of an unfamiliar essence was felt from the direction of Alsvid.
Adam: "Oh no."
And just like that a decision was made, the decision to summon his most powerful guardian.
Adam: "Summoning: Orochi"
Kage blinked. His eyes closed for a millisecond and when he opened them all he saw was the wide open mouth of a gigantic snake. The snake's mouth was so wide that it cast a shadow of the entire spore and its main stem as all the essence used to hold up the skill broke down and flew into the mouth of the snake and it sucked it all in. The snake with one swift motion took a large bit, destroying the whole shadow creature before rushing in the direction of Alsvid with Adam on its head.
Kage: "Whew, that was close."
He had jumped off the spore as soon as he spotted Orochi's open mouth and as he suspected, the spore was devoured.
Kage: "So that's the legendary guardian that father warned us about, a beast with such immeasurable power that it drains all its users essence in under just 1 minute. Father used to own it, I wonder how Adam got it. Anyway, I need to send word to old man Noland. There's no way he'll survive with that thing out."
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(Helpful information)
Adam's full name is Adam Ragon, that's why Old man Noland kept referring to him as Ragon. The reason Alsvid didn't know who he was, was because he never told him his full name.