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Chapter 24 - Power Within

Crunch Crunch Crunch

Lore's metal greaves crunched as he took each step on the gravel trail.

While on the road he read the spell tome Valorum gave to him, extensively. He began his practice of the Lightning Arrow, and Bolt Chain. As the name implied Lightning Arrow formed a pure Lightning construct of an arrow. Bolt Chain could send a Bolt of lightning that chained from one enemy to the next. This required more mental fortitude so the caster didn't injure his allies.

Lightning Magic took a lot of practice; the caster had to infuse a Flame Magic with Light Magic, and in a synergistic combination plasmatic lightning occurs.

While Lore tread down the path towards the outskirts of countryside. Small homes littered the fields and crops of a wide variety spread out like a sea. Far on the horizon a huge wall of trees spread in either direction farther than the eye can see. As Lore traveled further down the path, burned to cinders, homes lay destroyed on the ground, ash floating away in the wind. As Lore drew closer to the forest's edge, everything lay burned to a crisp, thr crunch of gravel turned to the crunch of almost snowfall.

As Lore made his way through the burned and charred ruins; impish like creatures came crawling on all fours, out from the ruined buildings. At least twenty came swiftly crawling out towards Lore. Lore drew his longsword and rushed toward the imp-like creatures. They shrieked and rushed towards Lore. A fireball formed at the tips of Lore's fingers and he threw it into the middle of the group. Lore was already in the air sword arcing down toward the front creature and impaled its forehead. Kicking the creature off of his sword, he brandished it and then with a wide horizontal arc cleaved three other creature in half. Lore crashed towards another grouping of creatures; He lifted his sword high and swung it methodically.

Crack! Crunch! Splat!

spurt.. spurt.. "raaaaooohh!"

Sharp yells and moans could be heard as Lore continued to massacre the creatures.

After about a half an hour, Lore stood surrounded by dead creatures, slightly panting.

As Lore recovered his stamina, he began exploring more of the ruins. He found remnants of tve inhabitants who lost their lives in the monsters raid.

Burned corpses were strewn everywhere, and it slowly began to bring an unsettled feeling to Lore. As he made his way through the buildings, an eery silence fell upon him. The birds stop chirping and the wind stop whispering.

As he walked through the burned wreckage of a building door, Lore saw two tall, lanky creatures. Claws sprouted from both their hands and feet. black gaping holes replaced what would be mouth, and beady red eyes stared mindlessly out before snapping their heads toward Lore.

"Shriiiiaaaaakakiii"

A shrill screech erupted from either creature, and Lore found himself slightly dazed by such the loud and piercing screech.

Lore drew both sword from their sheaths and enveloped them in flames, then tentatively started circling the creatures. Though Lore didn't know it he found himself fighting two mid-rank level Daemons known as Wraiths. Not only were they fast their claws were absurdly sharp and the edges even seemed serrated. Both of the Wraiths rushed at Lore, their claws whistling as they sliced the air. Lore contored his body, and used his longswords to drive the claws away. The tip of one pierced Lore bracer, and ripped the metal like it was butter. Lore chanted in his head, building up magic before releasing an electric discharge to chain and paralyze the monsters. Lore swung his swords viscously, and ripped apart the torsos of the Wraith's who then became unparalyzed and began swinging at Lore again. You could see Lore had two custom long swords that Valorum had made for him the magnetically attaches both longswords together to increase it'd weight to create a greatsword. Lore activated the magnet in his twin swords and began swinging the heavy blade around. His blade severed one arm of a wraith and its loud shriek escaped its mouth.

Black ooze geysered out of the creatures arm, taking this moment of stupor Lore cleaved his greatsword the the injured Wraiths torso. As his blade started to stick, he chatted a Flame Enchantment on his sword and ignited it. The Wraith screeched out in agony as it's wound seared snd it's body erupted in flames. Lore yanked the greatsword out of the creature, the other of which dug its claws into Lores shoulder. Blood splurted out from Lore's shoulder and Lore audibly groaned. Lore jumped back and began casting a Healing spell to stop the bleeding, He also took two small items out from his bag and tossed them hard toward the Daemon, and on impact they exploded in a bright flash.

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