78 Alghoul (1/2)

***Ryan***

Roar

I was woken up by a roar. My baby impulse commands that I cry and so I cried.

Waa Waa

Father was worried about me, but I'm more worried about the battle ahead for the men. However, like this, I can't speak to father properly. My mind is being taken over by impulse.

\”Hush now son. You're safe.\” Father started to cradle me and bob up and down on the spot to calm me. This is embarrassing. For a mentally grown old man to be put to serenity by a man younger than me. However, he is my father, so it alleviates the embarrassment albeit still embarrassing.

I can't mentally send father cohesive words like this, so I'll have to wait for my body to physically calm down. It sucks to be an infant with memories of being totally in control of your own body.

\”Hmm. You can't talk in this state, can you? We'll just watch how they'll emerge victorious over this monster.\” Then father shouted at them with words of encouragement, however, there was a movement of mana in the air.

\”Face this monster and emerge victorious! Show these undead that you are the true rulers of this world!\”

After that was the miserable battle of humanity versus the monster father called Alghoul.

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The Alghoul was furious that its army was reduced to only a few stragglers and would not even follow its orders anymore out of fear. The fear they had towards the Alghoul was replaced by a new fear, a fear that they had never experienced before, the fear of dying. As a matter of fact, ordinary means of killing the undead doesn't stick. The only way to kill them was to reduce the miasmic energy their bodies were made from and scatter it in the atmosphere. This ensures that the creature is reduced to its origin until a new creature is born again from a different gathering of miasma.

The way Clay killed thousands of them in an instant was reducing the miasma to nothing and cleansing the area of effect with his radiant and toxic light.

However, the men that they both were leading did not have the capability to cleanse an undead and reduce it to its origins or even turn it into nothing. What they did have though were equipment that Clay personally made for them. Javelins that inject Light attributed mana into the undead target, swords that cut miasma directly and armor that defends the wearer from miasma affecting their body, which only serves as protection against becoming undead if they died. However, a rune was engraved in the inner part of these armors which does its job quiet secretly.

Roar!

It was only because of Clay that they were seeing victories upon victories in their quest to free this world of the undead. So, no one questions Clay's orders.

Herman, the previous Lord of Erkshire and his squad did not split up but positioned themselves apart from each other, still in a formation. Clay suggested to them before this battle that they should be the leading attack force in facing the Alghoul so that the others would find courage through them.