A long time ago, about 1500 years ago, a king, known as Hrucrypt, desperately needed to win a war to keep his throne safe. He dug up an ancient book of rituals that he used to summon the goddess of the undead and ghost, Rapulnu, and signed a contract with her which to his benefit, he got as many undead armies as he wanted. He used his army to win the battle and many more to come.
But that wasn't enough, the king desired more power, and he proceeded to sign different contracts with other chaos gods which led to the tearing of the veil that kept the mortal realm and Divgodian realms (-General name- for any realm that is not the mortal realm) separate.
With every connection the king made with the Divgodian realms using his book of ritual, the keeper of the veil loses the strength to hold it close.
King Hrucrypt kept conquering other kingdoms, signing many more contracts that granted him and his army supernatural abilities. This overwhelmed the King and led to his sudden death.
His son, Prince Vryt, took over. The Empire didn't expand, but neither were there any more wars. Vryt led the Empire without the use of his father's methods. But part of the deal his father signed with the goddess of the dead and ghost, was that once any firstborn child of his bloodline reaches age 31, their soul and energy shall be granted to the goddess.
Other humans began to deal with demons, gods, and goddesses and the veil inevitably fell, giving way for the Chaos of the Divgodian realms to cross over, into the Anaheym, the Earth realm.
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( Somewhere on the Hexagon Mountains ) *Xyxtherous Guild base*
A man in a dusty, turned-up robe covering his entire body and face entered the base. He stopped by the door and whipped the hood from his face. He sighed before walking up to a counter where a lady in her early twenties stood.
She shoots the man a smile as he approaches her. "Eryth, good to see you again. Thought you had quitted the Guild," she mumbled.
"Ah," the man chuckled. He leaned on the counter, placing his elbow on it and resting his head on his hand. "Fera, my dear. If anything I'll stay in the Guild just so I can keep seeing you." The girl smiled and copied his pose, such that her face was only a few inches away from the young man's.
The lady was of the Banther clan of the Demon race. Like the other Banthers, she had two tiny horns on her forehead, completely dark black eyes, and hair. Her skin was red with a few markings here and there, with the most notable one; seven vertical thick black lines on her cleavage. She wore a dark brown leather bra-like top that covered little of her huge breast, long, leather hand gloves that peaked up to her elbow, and tight brown leather pants.
"Really, am I that pretty?" She muttered ever so softly, her words coming off like a melodic sound.
"Not just pretty, sexy. You are stunningly sexy."
"Ah." She smiled and licked her bottom lips. "Your compliments are-- making my 'between the legs' tingle'"
"I bet they are."
He smiled. "As much as I'd like to ride down that road, I'm here to take on the quest, the one that is impossible to complete. I heard the recent members that took on the quest died, true?"
"True that," Fera replied. "It's the main mission of this guild, to find the Ampher stone to fix the veil. Many have taken this mission, and all never return."
Eryth stood up straight and hummed. "So if I complete this quest, I'll be the face of the guild meaning?"
"Not just the guild honey, the entire realm. Closing the veil will mean stopping all the monstrous beings from entering into this realm from whatever hellhole they came from," Fera explained. "You'll be a hero."
"Umm. That sounds good. I'll take the mission. How many are on it?" he questioned.
Fera took a giant book from below the counter and placed it on the table, causing dust to fly around. She flipped through the pages until she finally reached the page she wanted. "Five others already took the mission, they are leaving in about thirty minutes."
Eryth facepalmed. "Balls. Thought I'd be the only one. Anyway, I'm it, I'll join the quest."
"Great." Fera turned the book to him, pointing to a space. "Sign here would yah."
After Eryth signed it, Fera smiled and returned the book to its place. "They are in the waiting room."
"Alright then. When I get back, I'll take you on this counter, we'll ride down that road for as long as you want," he said with a grin on his lips.
"If you get back, if."
Eryth chuckled and turned his heels to the waiting room. He met the others already equipping their weapons. There were two females and three males. Two of the men were humans and the females were of the Zholm race, the last male was a demon.
One of the men turned to look at Eryth. "Oh look, someone else joined." He looked like he was barely twenty with white hair and a few streaks of black.
Another one of the men turned to Eryth with a boiling frown lingering on his face. "Who are you?" He asked. "I don't think I've seen you before." The man had a scar that ran from just below his right eye and down over his lips to stop on his jaw. Another scar was visible on his bald head.
"What does it matter who he is? He is another man who desires the gold for completing the quest, another suicidal fucker." He was darkly skinned with low-shaved brown hair. His eyes were completely black like that of Fera from earlier, no doubt he was a demon, only demons possess that kind of eye. He was surely a demon from another clan.
The two female Zholm both had their face covered. "We'll be on this mission for a long time, so how about we start with an introduction? I am Syntera, and this is Merilth, we are obviously both Zholms. Merilth is a Shifter and I am also a Shifter and an Energy Act user."
"Well," the demon started. "I am Ken, a demon from the Wint clan, and a Fire Elementalist, we'll have a lot of fun together."
"I'm Stewk, and I use the teleportation act," the bald man said.
"Henryk," the young man waved. "And I use the self-duplication act, pretty cool powers, hell if not for energy usage, I wouldn't have gone myself."
They all turned to look at Eryth at the same time with their brows up. "The name's Eryth."
They all waited but he didn't add anything else.
"Alright, let's be on our way then," Syntera said.
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Days passed and the six had traveled even farther away from the Hexagon mountains, progressing in their journey, but nothing close to their destination. They were to travel far into the pits of the Anomal lands, where they'll find the Ampher stone.
Rumors had it that whoever walks into the Anomal lands never returns the same. But the six were determined to fulfill their duty as a member of the Guild and fix the broken veil shielding their Realm from the Divgodian realm.
Eventually, they were forced into a nearby cave by a heavy storm that caught them by surprise. The six sat around a campfire with their weapons loose, finally having time to fill up their bellies, after two straight days without eating.
"So tell me Syntera," Ken started. Since they started their journey, the Wint demon always finds time to strike up a conversation with the older Zholm. "What do you miss from your hometown? What's it called again?"
"Zhopidon. And what I surely miss, is the men we have around," she laughed. Merith also threw her head back and laughed.
"Excuse you?" Stewk burst in with his mouth full. He immediately spat out the bush rat meat that filled his mouth and got up to his feet. "That sounds like an insult! Are you striking an insult card here?" The short-tempered man pulled out his axe and leveled it at Syntera's face.
The Zholm rose to her feet, staring at Stewk. "Taking it as one would surely do a lot of good."
Eryth chuckled. Since the journey started, Stewk never got along with anyone, Syntera most of all.
"Guys stop," the young man, Henryk tried to break them apart.
Eryth glanced at Merilth to see her sitting with her meal in her hand, unfazed. He stared at her for quite a long time before turning away when their eyes met.
"Guys stop, I think I hear something," Ken said out loud before he stood up. He had his eyes fixed on the pathway leading further into the cave. He opened his hand and a small fire appeared before he walked in.
"Ken, stop," Syntera yelled before chasing after the demon. The other members chased after the two, leaving their weapons.
"What are you doing?" Syntera queried.
"I feel a massive amount of energy in here, I need to find it," the demon replied.
"Gold," Eryth blurted out.
"What?" Syntera asked.
Eryth who was behind the team rushed up to them. "Demons, especially the Wint clan have a massive infatuation for gold and can perceive the scent of one from far away."
"How'd you know about that?" Stewk asked.
"Let's not go there."
They followed the demon further into the cave until they arrived at an open area with a large amount of gold that brightened up the cave, rendering their torches useless.
"Wow, humans are right, heaven does exist!"
"This is too much gold," Henryk stated. "Someone must have put it here."
"No, not someone, it's Aalik the immortal, we need to get out of here!" Eryth said before immediately turning his heels back the way they came.
"Fuck me!" Stewk exclaimed.
Syntera, Merilth, and Henryk also ran back the way they came, following in the footsteps of Eryth.
Stewk rushed up to Ken who had already curbed down to his knees to pick up the gold. The former grabbed the demon's collar and pulled him with him. "Wait, just one!"
Ken ripped his clothes and went back for the gold, taking a handful of it. The moment he took the gold, a giant black dragon emerged from the many golds on the ground. It let out a blaring roar, causing the cave to begin to crack.
The dragon outstretched its wings and launched itself at the two. It threw its body forward, crushing Ken under its weight while Stewk managed to teleport in front of the others.
The dragon drew closer and closer to the five, roaring even louder. It jumped high up, stomping its head to the wall above. Giant boulders began to crash down on the five as they tried to escape through the tiny part they came through.
One of the rocks landed on Henryk who was left behind but his body split into two and he continued to run. Another crushed him down but the same thing happened again.
Henryk became even slower the more he used his act. Syntera noticed this and stopped. "Keep going forward!" She turned towards the dragon.
"No! Syntera, no!" Merilth cried.
Eryth grabbed the Zholm and kept running. Syntera's hand began to glow with green energy as she channeled her powers. She leaped from the ground and landed a punch at the dragon's neck, throwing it backward.
Stewk who was already out of sight appeared back next to Henryk and grabbed his hand before teleporting himself forward of the other two.
Syntera rolled out of harm's way, dodging the dragon's claws before shooting a ray of energy at it. The dragon staggered backward again. It tactically turned, using its tail to knock the Zholm back into a wall.
It charged forward and used its claws to smash her into the wall, but as it pulled back, she wasn't there. Stewk and Syntera appeared in the pile of gold with the former on the latter's body. They both got up on their feet and assumed their fighting position. "I'm out of energy, I can't use my powers," Stewk said.
The dragon's eyes turned red and steam began to exude its eyes. "Well, you did well, probably even better than some men from my hometown."
The dragon breathed fire at the two. They had both accepted their fate, ready to die, but Henryk appeared in front of them and released a massive amount of clones in front of him which took the damage instead of the others. "Why did you come back? You know we can't kill this thing."
A giant bird with Eryth on it appeared. Eryth jumped off the bird and drove his glowing sword into the dragon's head. It screeched loudly and threw Eryth off its back. The giant bird tried to catch him but they both crashed on the ground.
Henryk fell to the ground, coughing out a pool of blood. "Ohh, I'm gonna die…" he cried.
"Take them away!" Syntera morphed into a giant snake and wrapped herself around the dragon. She kept tightening until the dragon couldn't move anymore.
Stewk wiped the blood dripping down his nose and strode to where Henryk was but the young man couldn't even move his eyes to look at him.
The bird transformed into Merilth who lay on Eryth's body unconscious. The dragon roared and spread its wings, shattering Syntera into flesh and blood all around. "Holy fuck," Eryth's eyes widened in shock and fear.
Stewk appeared in front of Eryth and the Zholm and teleported them to where they were before the demon went into the cave. "Complete this mission, for our sake."
Eryth got up to his feet but the bald man was nowhere to be found. He rushed back into the cave to look for his partner but both the dragon and Stewk were gone. The gold was not there either.
Eryth looked around the place, still trying to catch his breath but nothing was working. He looked all around at the remains of his partners. "Fuck…"
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