The statues came closer and closer, we moved into a formation and they stood infront of me, most likely to protect me. Our healer set up a sphere where we're constantly getting healed, our archer took out an arrow and put it into her bow, our mage prepared a few spells and the hero just held out his sword. "Jin, we dragged you into this, you will not suffer because of us.", he said as he rushed towards the first statue. He swung his sword in an arc, cutting the statue in half, but instead of breaking, it just regenerated.
"Shit...", he said as the statue smashed him against a wall, the force was enough to send him through that wall and he landed on the ground, unconcious. Elenara was shocked and turned around, but in that moment a mage statue fired a fireball at her, Throgar managed to block it, but it burned through his wooden shield. The fireball managed to fly through his chest. He collapsed in that moment, his axe and shield falling down on the ground, he looked towards the roof. Two of our people had already been defeated, that was the moment I had enough.
"Stop this nonsense.", I said as I stepped infront. "If you want an enemy, oppose me. But leave these people out of it.", I created my sword and held it toward sthe statues, though I had no idea how to destroy them. They were made out of stone, so fire would most likely be of no use, shadow could maybe help, but then, I had an Idea. Instead of making a sword, I could just make a sledgehammer. I transformed my shadow sword into one and held it in two hands. I had no spell to combo it with, so I kinda just bashed it. I ran towards the statue and smashed the hammer into its abdomen. It shot through walls and it didn't regenerate. It got completely destroyed, down to the last atom but that was mostly because I used strenght and speed enhancement.
"One down... 3 more to go.", I said as I got ready to strike another one, but the two mages in the back already prepared a large spell, yes, it was not a problem for me, but my party would be utterly helpless. The giant ball of lightning and fire magic flew towards the last 3 people of my team. I wouldn't make it in time, Seraphina casted a barrier, but the force behind the ball was stronger than the barrier, I couldn't do anything. I saw the attack happening in the future, it would hit, no matter what I would do... except... I tank the hit.
I activated the godly shield that the system gave me and then used shadow step to go infront of Elenara. I opened my body to the maximum to take most of the impact. And it burned, it burned more than when I tried out my blue flames on myself. It hurt, hurt so much that I could scream, yes, the shield protected me from direct damage, but I could still feel pain. After the attack was over, I dropped to my knees. Instead of attacking, I just made shadow tendrils out of the ground that had the form of a sledgehammer, they flew at the statues and had to hit 26 times to destroy the statues. This fight... had cost the life of our teammates.
Elenara crouched down to me, "Are you okay, Jin?", she asked in a sweet tone. "Yeah, I guess...", I hissed. I slammed my fist into the ground. Two people died because of my incompetence, I felt like shit. I made this world to look cool infront of others, to finnaly feel great about myself, but here I am, having wasted two lives. I shot out a scream and then stood up. "Come on... let's continue... after burrying them.", I stated. I created a few shovels out of shadow and we dug two graves for our fallen comrads.
After we had finished burrying them, we continued head on, walked down halls and explored rooms. During the whole thing we didn't speak once. I constantly had my future sight on to see if there would be any attacks. We walked further and further until we arrived in a large hall. "Looks... like a library.", Eamon noted "A fucking old one at that.", Seraphina added. We stepped inside and explored the shelves, there were books for anything you could imagine, cooking, sword fighting, magic, everything right here. I looked around and actually found some magic books. Learning a magic would normally take about 6 years depending on the skill of the person, but thanks to my fast learning, I can shorten that down to about one week.
I looked around the shelves. And found books to every kind of magic, a few books for shadow magic even, I put these into my storage that I got from the system and looked further. I found gravity magic in which I was interested in after reading some spells. I could combine it with my magical pressure to make it stronger, quite interesting. There were also books written in some old language, when I tried translating it with the console, it didn't work. One was a yellow book with some cogwheels on it, the other was just a bright yellow one. There was also another one I took which was red.
After picking up everything we needed, we just advanced straight to the boss room. But instead of a big fight, it was already dead. The corpse just laid out on the ground. We really didn't mind it because we had other things to worry about. Two people died in here, two people that my party was close with, I had only known them for short, but it was still a loss.
I just wanted to get home, home back to Emilia, back to Evie, back to my parents, back to the DC, I had no idea what was going on there, what happened after Aria send me away, I had so many things to worry about, but I knew they were still alive because I protected them using the system. I was going to say goodbye to the party tomorrow, all I wanted was to return.