A silhouette on top of a tree in the shadows, watch a group of players confront a five meter tall creature that look like a boar, but seems to be able to manipulate orange smoky flame, their coordinated attacks mesmerizing and praiseworthy.
(Boom... Boom... Pitter patter...)
Everywhere around this group of players where a mess. Large trees at some places around them where either uprooted, burnt, split, or shattered. Also falling on them and the region, including where the silhouette watching perches, is a torrential downpour that can dissolve an average human bone and that's helped them to some extent restrict the wild smoky flames dancing at every corner in their vicinity and which was probably caused by the flaming boar.
(Boom... Pitter patter... Boom... Deep growls and grunting)
"Just a little more, spearmen target its backside, old soldier don't stop charging your nuclear fist and when a gap opens charge for its belly. It's its weakest point..." A stunning east-asian beauty wearing a white spotless long tunic that split at both sides from the waist to the ankle and adorned with a golden lace at the neck to chest region, and also wearing a long white trousers that look like a skirt from a distance. And who appears to be the leader of the group, shouted out orders as she confronted the incensed creature at close proximity with swords strikes that draw blood and ebb away the creature's life.
(Pitter patter... Pitter patter... Shing... Clang...)
This guys are interesting. Is that a battle formation... so sophisticated. That their leader is not bad, she can fight and give out orders at the same time. Her peripheral vision and multi-focusing are definitely top level. But they are still very weak, having about fifty people and still struggling against a baby flaming boar is kinda strange. Is it a general thing or these guys are just weak.
The silhouette watching from the shadow with a pair of green eyes look in another direction- away from the group of players.
Oh, the boar's mother is coming, if this is really theirlevel, then they are in big trouble. Gotta see how they handle it.
"Old soldier, now." A man with a fist cladded in a golden smokeless and luquid-looking flame at the order of their leader made a flashy dash for the underbelly of the little but bigger creature.
(Pitter... patter... Wind howls... High pitched squealing. )
In no time he reached it- catching it off guard, and he delivered a flashy punch on its protruding belly which made the creature cry out aloud in extreme pain as it tensed all its muscles, took three steps backward and fell over on its side, announcing the player's victory.
(Pitter patter... Pitter patter...)
"I thought it was going to crush me with its body. This one is definitely a big harvest, the only serious damage to it its body is just the charred stomach. We can definitely make a reasonable sum if we play our cards right." Old soldier reported as he approached the others.
(Pitter patter...)
And not long after, while he approached the others, his entire being felt a chill particularly directed at him course through his body, which in turn paralyze him and made his body that refused to move shake in fear and sweat all over.
(Pitter patter...)
"This is crazy, are we going to be wiped out again, after everything we did..." One of the group members cried out tearfully as she laid her eyes on a creature five times the size of the one they just put to rest. Not only was the creature which is identical to the smaller one humongous, it also emit a dangerous aura threatening to destroy everything in its path and when it exhales violently, lava hot red and smoky flame rush out of its nostrils like mini explosions.
(Pitter... patter... Flame blazing)
"When that thing kill us, it definitely will be very painful. God i hate pain..."
"I have ten suicide potion, 50 gold per one. Anybody interested..." A young chap dressed in a newsie outfit with the iconic flat hat and cross bag not missing, smiled cheekily in this tense situation at the others like he is relishing their misery while holding a tiny bottle he is waving at them. Something he brought from his bag.
"Maybe i should quit this sadistic game today..."
"I should have registered as a user. My poor spirit can't handle all this..."
"Why can't i log out?..."
"Idiot, it has locked onto us with its spiritual pressure. Logging out is totally impossible unless we kill it or escape its reach."
"God, no..."
(Pitter patter... Whimpers)
While some members of the group despair, the mother flaming boar moved closer to its dead child, nuzzled it while whimpering and when it received no reaponse from it, it lifted its head bathing in the heavy rain towards the sky and cried out loud, an obvious cry of pain and sorrow.
(Pitter... patter... Screaming then grunts)
"Some of us will stay behind and buy time, while the others escape and return to the base to meet up with the others, and they should please, inform only! spartan sanctuary about our situation." Their leader, the stunningly beautiful east asian lady with a cold and aloof demeanor instructs while she walk past the paralyzed 'Old soldier' towards the mad beast that is now glaring at them with bloodshot eyes. "Every faction in spartan base might have to work together to take her down. And if we fail, this is the end for us in this region, so i believe everyone understands the magnitude of this moment..."
(Pitter patter...)
Her stern and weighty reminder reached the others and momentarily she looked behind at her followers. "Only the strong should stay. And 'Old soldier' you will run in the opposite direction the others that will escape takes when i give the signal..."
(Pitter patter...)
"But Ma.."
"No one should question me. Just do as i say." She snapped at 'Old soldier' who tried to object her arrangenent, and after that, she raised up her long and black sword that glints at the edges as rain drops bounces off it above her.
(Pitter patter... Shing...)
"I am not that strong. I am only good at running..."
"'West lad' i am faster than you. If we need anyone that can reach spartan sanctuary in the shortest time, i should be the one not you"
"Fuck you 'ferari', i am only two minutes slower than you and what difference will that make..."
"Idiots.." A guy wearing a black baseball cap, a black mask, a black sleeveless sweater, a black baggy shorts and a pair of black gloves on his folded hands looked at those who are arguing around him in contempt.
"Hey you, you are clearly stronger than me, shouldn't you be staying behind?"
"Crazy bitch You got the wrong person."
(Pitter patter...)
While the group try to split into two, and those who have excuses to give fight to join the group that will escape back to the base, the silhouette watching from the shadow analyze their dire situation.
What a nice plan, but its not going to work again this brute. Not only will it take all their life in one hit, they wouldn't even be able to outrun it if they are given a one mile headstart...
And this idiots unaware of the timing. Is she the problem or is she just unlucky to be leading a pack of strays.
The silhouette on the tree quit his contemplation. Then he shifted and set his eyes on seven individuals who set themselves apart from the rabbles and moved closer to their valiant female leader who still has her sword that is gathering lunar energy around it raised.
"Not bad."The silhouette chuckled after he carefully examined the seven players and his eyes turned to look at the gigantic creature that is obviously crazy and thirsty for blood, reved up itself by stumping the ground with its left front hoof and exhale more explosive smoky flames from its nostril with increased intensity.
(Pitter patter...)
"Now, run!" The valiant female leader shouted as she brought down her sword that released an arc of flashy lunar energy that crushed the air and explode its particle after it swallowed all the water droplets along its path as it head for the creature that's still reving itself or maybe showing them contempt in the distance.
(Clang... Pitter patter...)
"What!" Someone among the seven behind their leader that remained after everyone else including Old soldier had taken to their heels, shouted after he saw the powerful energy arc that should be the strongest attack anyone in the party can deal bounced of the creature without causing a tiny scratch. And the person not having a second thought, fled in the direction the group that recently escaped took.
Coward. Someone among the remaining six that also tacitly agreed with the others to ignore the coward dressed in a yellow combat suit, sneered.
"Can we really buy time for the others?" Another one of the remaining six who is beside their leader turn to look at her.
"Here it comes." A tanned skinned beauty in a cowgirl outfit, hold tightly to her fishing rod and reel its line after she saw the creature seemingly turned to a flame shied that is almost upon them.
We tried, we were just unlucky...
Our boss is cursed. But having a female boss might not be a bad idea...
My boxing still need to improve...
This people are interesting, maybe i will stick around longer...
What should i cook when i return to the real world...
No loss, no gain...
I am very weak and also a terrible leader...
(Ting...)
As they wait for death and while various thoughts intrude their minds, suddenly and all happening in a split second, they all look up above them at a bright golden light suspended in the air and that put a sudden end to the despairing rain in the region.
What? Wondering. They saw the bright light like a meteor, with all of them simultaneously having an instantaneous feeling the earth was about to split, land instantly and apparently on the flaming shield that seems frozen in front of them.
(Boom...) Instantly and as a response to the light that now rest on the flaming shield, the earth shook, the elevation lowers, sand wave rose like water splashing after you drop a stone in it and a deafening sound like that of twenty kilotons of TNT going off, propagate with ease along the distorted air of the place for quite a while.
Then after about a minute; "Crazy...(cough)" The young chap, playername 'Star Boy', who managed to hold his footing, after the explosive crash and amidst the fog of dust it created, coughed and squinted his eyes as he try to make out the figure standing tall on the gigantic body of their impossible to beat foe that is now ironically lying lifelessly in a very large and deep crater that also include them in it.