This human was nothing like the others he had encountered before, not only in strength but also in endurance, although in terms of speed he still wins even if only slightly.
'Where are my useless soldiers or my descendants?!!!!!'
He asked himself during the exchange of punches, kicks, lunges and retreats. Normally this kind of thought would never cross his mind, but at the moment it didn't matter, if he wanted to win, get a place to attack more humans, recover his strength and not disappoint the Master, then he would have to win here no matter what.
His chance came unexpectedly when he made a wrong move and ended up losing his balance, allowing the human to see behind him towards the woman who was his target before. As soon as the human saw her, he froze right in the middle of his attack, seizing the opportunity, Evrolk punched him in the stomach and threw him to the ground before he could fly away, holding his throat.
To ensure he didn't escape again he stepped on his chest and smiled when he saw the look of terror on his face. But his satisfaction was short-lived, he realized that the look of terror was not at him but at something behind.
"Sofianna don't do that!!! You won't take it!!!!"
The human shouted something he didn't understand but he felt something coming from the human behind, something dangerous, much more dangerous than anything he had felt so far in the match. It was the same level of danger he felt from the Master.
He knew that whatever the woman was babbling while holding that carved piece of wood, it was something bad. He soon turned to go at her, not caring if the human was going to attack him from behind in the meantime, but he couldn't even take a step. The human had held the leg with which Evrolk pinned him to the ground very tightly. In response he increased the pressure on his chest until he felt his ribs begin to crack and the human was spitting blood and having difficulty breathing.
However, he didn't have time to appreciate his suffering, he soon felt a very sharp pain in the back of his head, followed instantly by 3 more blows to the back of his neck. When he turned to see who was attacking he was completely frozen, even the fear and urgency he felt about the woman disappeared from his head as he looked at one of his descendants, his only female descendant, with her stone-throwing leather strap getting ready. to attack him again.
There was no confusion or doubt in the face hidden by her helmet, she was betraying him simply because she wanted to, not because she wanted to take his place or consume him, she just wanted to kill him. And that was what shocked him even more.
But again he didn't have time to even get angry before he felt a new sharp pain on the back of his knee forcing him to kneel. Then he felt his other leg, the one he was using to hold the human, literally fall to one side with an audible and painful *creak*, looking down he had time to see the young human pulling the strong human from under his foot while another of his descendants, the last one besides her, rising from below and attacking him with his warhammer.
With both legs useless, the attack was made even more painful by forcing his torso to the opposite side of the broken leg. Despite the intense pain he felt in his body, what really paralyzed him was his disbelief at what was happening, he only came to his senses when he felt yet another attack, which now sealed his fate. The younger human thrust her shining iron sword into the foot of the leg she herself had severed, while her decent thrust the pointy part of the hammer into her other foot.
The pain was so strong that he couldn't even scream, but it wasn't just from the injuries. He was also... sad?
Yes he was really sad, for the first and last time he would feel sadness and understand what it was.
Sad for the betrayal of his decent, yes, because he couldn't understand. Why did they do this if he treated them so well, giving them training, food and weapons, why did they still betray him after that?
His final contemplation didn't last long, soon the woman stopped babbling.
"....so that the unstoppable forces, bring destruction to my enemies. [Double Calamity]!!"
He didn't understand what the human said, but he didn't need to, he felt it. He felt like this was the end, no matter what he did, the amount of strength he put into his limbs, the energy he tried to release, the energy he tried to recover by devouring himself. Nothing would save him.
But a part of him didn't care, as he looked at his descendant he asked the same thing with his eyes.
'Why?'
A blinding white flash flooded his vision as well as a muffled ringing in his ears. And then nothing but darkness and silence.
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And... GG!!!.
The giant fell. It was a great match but the home team still came out on top.
If the giant in question were not a creature, apparently (although I cannot guarantee) he would be a sadistic wretch. I would even consider this a good game, but following the possible narrative of the story, no, just no.
Anyway, as in every game, soon after the commander is defeated, what was left of the goblins began to retreat, I think there were only about 14 or 13 left including the elite goblins, I mean one of the elite goblins and a goblin. Normally I would even send my troops after them, but here I don't control them so I can't even do that.
Besides…
[!]
[Emergency Mission]
[Mission: The small village, despite an immense disadvantage, managed to withstand the attack of the goblins and expel them back into the forests. However, at great expense, one of them can still be remedied.
Objective: save Sofi
Reward: +1 devotee (rare), +500 Karma, +1,000 Divine Power, ???
Failure: Sofi's death, - 1,500 Karma, - 2,000 Divine Power, - 45% believers
Time: 5 minutes.]
This appeared right after he fell, not only that but also the timer started running as soon as the message appeared. Ok, with no choice and with several demerits, honestly I don't think there would be a need for a penalty, remembering that I already died in 70$$ because of a mission from Sofi, if I let her die, money would literally be thrown in the trash.
The question is how to resolve this. Although it seems simply a matter of HP, things with her are a little more problematic since I could never see her status completely, and still can't, I can only see this.
[• Curse of corrupted mana.
• Overload of mana channels (forced redirection).
• Continuous mana drain.
• Continued HP wear.]
Sofi has more problems than I expected, and I have no idea how to fix it, I don't have any healing skills and I can't even get them, since neither the store nor the gacha are available. After all, technically it is still a "combat event". I have no idea what to do every moment the timer, Sofi's HP and MP will decrease more and more.
I even tried using the HP and MP potions that I have and they even work but only give +10 seconds each. I really have no idea what to do to fix this!!!
While I was frantically clicking on everything I could to find a solution I also accidentally found it by clicking on my NPCs and ended up hitting them with the Punishment, that at the moment for me would be irrelevant but it seems that it isn't for them. Soon the flap of my believers glows red due to the NPCs hit, luckily they didn't die (they're tough, huh).
But with the tab glowing red and attracting attention I remembered a small area that was still gray in that window. Most faithful management.