A giant spear flew at terrifying speeds as it cleanly cut through the air above the clouds.
Despite the strong winds, a man was lying ontop ot the flat shaft. Oblivious to his position. His Dark hair flattered against the wind, following that, his intuition was activated as he lazily rubbed his eyes and streched.
This was a Captain of the first Division. This status was very high and influential throughout the planet. Afterall, there were only 16 such positions in the kingdom and human race.
He maneuvered the spear to slowly decend, going below the clouds revealing a massive mountain filled with huts and houses.
His eyes brightened. "They actually exist! These accursed beasts are truly capable of starting a civilisation."
Beastmen were typically known for being vicious, bloodthirsty creatures that were incapable of being gregarious and living as a group.
Although they had intelligence greater to that of a normal animal and had exemplary hunting and fighting skills to the point of using weapons together with their capability of speech. They were solitary animals.
Thus, after receiving information of a city of beastmen, this particular person was quite suprised. Does this mean they are evolving?
Not quite. He concluded.
This was simply a behavioural change they copied from humans. However, with it, will come an explosive increase in there overall threat level. Coordinated group attacks would become much more dangerous.
"So this is why Beastmen cases have increased by over 90% over the last few decades" He chuckled.
"Now then... Prepare to die!!!" He laughed maniacally and jumped off the spear.
Thousands of swords, spears, trident etc materialised around him, shooting down towards the city.
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"Master, 3rd Captain of the 1st division, Captain Leon has already arrived in the area and is currently taking action" Two servants bowed infront of a man.
The man had a dark green robe with mysterious patterns and symbols on it. His face was hidden in the shadows. He spoke in a calm tone;"Good. How long before the other assigned captains arrive?"
"Captain Quin and Captain Ash have already arrived."
"You may take your leave"
The two servants bowed before taking there leave.
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The fight erupted quickly, spears rained down like blades of lightning tearing through the furious sky. In a few seconds, the ground was blood stained, thousands of beastmen dead on the floor.
That was when the stronger ones started to emerge. Beastmen were creatures that have hairy bodies and razor sharp teeth with evil looking eyes, some even had horns, though they were extremely rare. They looked like real devils.
Weaker beastmen had two arms, some had four, some had six. Ofcourse, the more the arms, the bigger, stronger and faster they are.
Now, the four armed beastmen started emerging from the mountain, running on six limbs like wierd wild dogs. They had a much higher vertical jump, reaching a stunning hight of 20 feet.
They jumped towards Leon in hordes.
"HAHAHAHAHA!!" Leon laughed in excitement as a sword appeared in his hand, it was silver and short, yet had a magical feeling about it.
One of the four limbed ones jumped toward him, attacking with a slash of its two right arms, Leon leaned his body slightly dodging the attack. He swung his arm in a full clean arc, beheading the monster easily.
Before any chance to breathe, another jumped at him. He jumped off his spear as another appeared on his feet. He launched himself off it, beheading another of those beastmen.
Multiple swords appeared in the air, he kept jumping from one to another, finishing off all him enemies with clean swift deaths.
Suddenly he heard the roar of thunder booming from behind him. He looked back with a smirk. "Calm down, Thunder-bird. You'll scare off the kids"
Lightning flashed brilliantly, vaporising multiple beastmen. A woman with long black hair tied to a back and large wings sprouting from her back made of lightning descended.
"If you fear the noise then step away." She sneered, flapping her wings, causing thunder to roar once more as she continued her massacre.
"It's called a joke Quin, all that thunder and not a single sense of humor... tragic" Leon said as he rode a sword like a surfer board and followed Quin closely behind.
"Tch!" Quin relaxed the urge to vaporize this man and focused on the task at hand. " The Beastmen King resides in that mountain, we have been ordered to not rashly destroy it because of some unknown reason, we will have to calmly wait for him to be lured outside."
"And how will that happen? Can some candy work?"
"Ash is already inside."
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Inside a well crafted hall, the Beastman King gawked angrily at his servants...
What do you mean his elite group were being murdered like flies caught on a Web? A suprise attack? How did the humans even discover this place?
If one were to remove all the hair from his face, it would most likely reveal a outrageous expression. The King frowned for a moment before looking at his two greatest subordinates, each had six arms standing at 8 ft tall with iron hard hair.
"Stay here and make sure no-one intervenes." He ordered as he rushed to a heavily sealed door, pushing it open and revealing a ritualistic altar, on it, there was a closed coffin made of a unique material.
The Beastman King bowed: "My lord... your humble servant seeks your advice. I wish to be advised on how to deal with this situation, can we do the forbidden ritual in order to survive?"
If one were to see this scene, they would not believe it. Never in million years. This was simply too unheard of, a beastman, the most ruthless murderous devils, being so formal and humble. This has never been recorded in history.
For better understanding, it is similar to seeing a buffalo serve people dishes and even doing a little dance for them.
It was simply unheard of.
The Beastman stared at the coffin for quite some time, receiving no response, he decided to return.
Going back to the main hall, his pupils constricted as his pulse quickened in rage. Not only was one of his subordinates missing, but the other one was dissected, his body parts neatly arranged on the floor disturbingly neatly, from the lungs to the kidney, heart, brain, eyeballs, arms, legs ed cetera.
The person responsible was a slightly thin man with short neatly combed white hair. He seemed oblivious towards the Beastman king as he took tools out of his toolbox with fast presicion, knives, surgical scissors, syringes and many more. He was calmly examining his specimen.
Suddenly, he looked back slowly, his facial featured, were cold and sharp. "I've never seen such extraordinary anatomy, flesh-beauty and terror fused in a perfect design. Every organ has been enhanced by a mile." He said in a blunt voice before smiling softly "I can't wait to see your enhanced muscle structure."
The Beastman King exploded at him. He had two bulky arms it there normal human like position. However, six terrifyingly powerful arms emerged from its back. His stance was as straight as a humans but 10 feet tall. Thus, when he charged, his fists were pulled backwards and his legs burst forward. He swung dangerously at Ash.
All of a sudden, they interchanged positions, this made the beastking end up smashing into the ground, shaking the whole mountain and creating a spiderweb of cracks.
Ash, who was behind him, had already took out two slick daggers, swiftly aiming the Beastmans neck. The dagger broke on inpact. The Beastman King's hair was much tuffer than the previous one.
Ash took a quick step back. At the moment, he had no way of penetrating the King's defence without badly damaging the mountain. Thus he decided to retreat.
How outrageous!! The Beastman King followed him closely behind, however, Ash was extremely fast, nearly disappearing from his view.
"ENOUGH!!" The hair on the Beast King's body elongated as they were shot out with blinding speed.
Ash being caught off guard, was unable to dodge in time
Shhhk! Shhhk!
A blade went through his head and another through is abdomen. The BeastKing, overjoyed, rushed forward, more hair elongating as he split Ash's body clean in half.
Before the upper piece could touch the ground, it turned into a group of butterflies, flapping its wings harmlessly on the air.His whole surrounding changed, becoming a vast and beautiful field of grass.
Someone has me in an illusion!! How? Was it when I was chasing that man? How did I not notice?
A soft bubbly infectious laugh could be heard throught the grass field, it was similar to that of a child.
A girl?!?
"Show yourself!!" He yelled, glaring angrily all over.
"Calm down." A girls voice responded.
The Beastman King suddenly felt increasingly calm, as though nothing bad has ever happened happened in this planet he lived in, and, for the first time in his life, wanted nothing but peace.
Realisation flashed through his eyes as he roared in anger. The illusion shattered like glass.He observerd the real world once again.The place he stood was outside the mountain ontop of bloodstained sand. Blood of his kin.
At the distance, he could see Ash standing calmly, dusting his clothes, and next two him were two people; a fierce looking woman with thunder cracking from her body, and a male with an arrogant smirk.
Three captains.