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Chapter 2 - The Knight's longest day

The wizards sweats profusely, blasting aways zombie after zombie,

This feels so easy, I don't know why I was so scared before, they're just dumb corpses. He hears the growl of the barbarian,but he can't see through the green mist.

What's going on over there? Is that a boss?

what? Are they having a hard time with this thing?

well what would I expect, of course sorcerers have been known to solo this levels of the dungeon. They must be having a difficult time without me. Well no fear guys I'll be there shortly.

He feels heavy chills run down his spine, he backs aways.

My body just moved on its own, what's coming. Large flashing red eyes peered down at him,

That thing's the size of a giant.

The barbarian growles, crashing his axe down on the helpless elf who's too busy to fighting off the corpse of his dead friend . A sudden flash of steel cuts through the air, the bladed hits the barbarian knocking him off balance, his axe narrowly misses the elf.

With the sword goes in through his ear and out his neck. He turns to see the knight in his battered old armor. He sighs a pale of cooled air,

It's a good thing I coated my ribs with ice at the last moment, I would've been cut in half.

Listen! I know we didn't get to know each other much but I can tell you're a pain in the ass.

The barbarian growls and charges at him,

You know, I thought you had a lot of talent. Few memories of the barbarian flash through his mind.

I thought you had something, that you were just too stubborn to see how much you meant to our party. What a waste.

He looks at his zombified face of the barbarian twisted in horror, its jaws shivering for the feel of flesh, his eyes buried in blood lust, it barely matches his memory .

This last strike is going to ruin my armor. But here goes. Your final step.

The barbarian's in reach, he swings his axe and the knight dodges. The axe flies past his head

Fist of winter. Instantly long spikes of ice thrust out of his armor like spears. They pierces the barbarian through but it's primal hunger doesn't relent. It draws back its axe, trying to cut of head, the knight easily evades

You've left yourself open. This will be your last mistake

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Fist of winter

He punches him, dead on his chest. With the many layers of ice covering his fist, it breaks through his chest like it's nothing, the barbarian growls in pain.

I'm sorry, he eyes give off a faint flash of yellow.

He freezes his heart and his body, from inside out, the barbarian shatters like glass.

The knight breathes heavily, he quickly turns his attention to the elf. He sees the paladin motionless on his lap.

Are you alright?

He's looks frozen, unable to utter a word

Were you bitten? Hey snap out of it!

The elf begins to cry

I'd known that guy for months, months, he'd, he'd helped me string my bow, why did he come after me like that, he looks at the lifeless corpse on his body, tears run down his cheeks.

Why did he have to die like that!

Hey shut up

Why, he did nothing wrong!

He didn't watch his back now shut up!

They hear a loud scream, not too far from them

That's Reece!

Who?

Reece, the wizard

No, not my wizard! He panics, quickly picking up his sword.

I don't know how much this armor will take.

Hey run back to the healer, I'll go after him. We'll be going home when I get back.

Abit of relief dawned on him and his fear subsided, at least enough for him to find the strength to get on his feet. The knight runs off after the sound and he watches him.

is he mad, how can he just run in like that, and that old armor, he must be insane, that's it, he must be.

The smell of fresh blood fills his nose. He feels something run down his face

What's this? He cleans it off .He gasps

Blood?.

Where are you wizards! The knight yells

Over here, the knight runs into the mist, he feels the ground tremble.

It's the boss.

He cuts down a few zombies in his way, there's a thundering crash and another

It's on the move. Where are you wizard

Over here! and it's Reece!

He walks through a layer of fog and finds him amongst zombies

Are you alright? You're not bitten, are you?

No, he says while blasting away zombies. The knight cuts down the last zombies around the and no other one seem to come out of the fog

Did we win

What are you? an idiot? It's the boss, it's here.

That loud sound, that's him?

Yep

Why are you so chill about this! That must be a giant!

We've gotta get out of here, I know you want to leave

What!

There's no shame in that.

No, it's very expensive getting us up here, I won't ii won't I betray the king's trust.

Alright, then let's fight it

The monster releases a thundering roar, pushing the mist aways and revealing itself.

What's that's thing

The monster seem like a giant blob of rotten flesh t

That's the zombified corpse of a giant. The knight says. He sees the mist escaping out of his belly. So that where that comes from

He moves towards them, stumbling around from. Side to side, with its slow movement they have enough time to orchestrate an attack.

It's green blob like body jiggling, the sound of seeping fluids about could be head in every step, the decay seem so sever as other corpse hard fused into its, gnashing their teeth in hunger, with every step large bail of margots fell of him and crawled against the floor after him and death flies where all about him

Wizard! Reece turns to him. Create a shield we don't want does flies anywhere never us. The giant get closer to them.

Hey do it now!, his yelling jolts the wizard, he couldn't stand looking at the monsters, he could feel them crawling on his back, he hands tremble as puts out his staff,

Come on, you can do it, get yourself together. He sees the monster's blood thirty eyes. You can do it, it's only a giant corpse.. Focus. It's so close, I can do it, I can do it. Shields of tempest!

The knight turns to the wizard, there's no shield, he sees him covered in sweat, his arms are trembling.

Go! I'll hold it off!

What?, no I want to do this

Well, do it then! you can't cast spells if you can't keep a level head.

It's here, a loud crashing step just in front of them the impact moves the fog towards them

Watch out for the flies! The zombie let's out a violent roar.

The knight doesn't budge

Its agility has decayed away, all he has now is its size, the only problem is, I'm surrounded by idiots.

The morgits crawl about them covering their feet, the wizard feels it, he looks down and sees what seems like a small pool of margots and he was in the center of it

The fog emanating from the giant corpse completely cover the dungeon filling every corner, they could only see each other and they were in the centre of a green cloud. Out the mist beside wizard the giants arm comes swinging at him.

Watch out! The knight says. The wizard turns and sees the large pale green hand, he froze . The hand cast a shadow that completely buried him in the dark. The knight jumps in, just in time and slashes the hand in half.

Get out here! run! Damn his feels like deja vu, why do they keep giving me the worst sort of teams.

I said go already

The wizard buckles himself and runs aways.

An army of zombies begin to emerge out of the mist from all corners.

The wizards screams

What's this now? The wizards says as he's unable to see beyond the mist.

Is running too much for you

Stay aways! Stay away! The wizards says. He screams

What's going on over there? He slashes through the zombies around him, cutting through them like old fabric.

But then out of the mist the giant swings at him again.

What!

With the distraction, he's barely able to block properly, this time stopping the hand by piercing his sword through it and pushing against the palm with his entire body. The giant puts more strength into it trying to slap him away but the knight stands his ground.

The zombies start to closing in on him,

Alright, come on in, let's have a group hug. The zombies get closer and closer but he's still stuck to the giant's hand, his legs creaking from the giant's strength, he's barely keeping it at bay. The zombie gets too close for comfort. They lunge in after him, he puts in all his strength, grips his sword tightly and leaps upward, lashing through the monsters hand, it's growls

Was that just another meaningless growl or do you actually feel pain?

He raises his sword in the air. Take a deep breath.

This is definitely going to ruin my armor.

In a wild burst of motion the giant swings his arms at him from both sides, trying to crush him to death. The knight screams,

Avalanche!

He swings his sword and a bright burst of ice pours out the blade, slowly freezing everything, the giant hand gets caught and freezes and soon the rest of his body, along with the zombies . Giant shard of ice forms and the whole rooms get completely covered in ice, the green mist disappears and the knight is nowhere to be seen.