Army of the Damned

VOLUME 5 Chapter 6

Deep within the territory of Schon, a squad of soldiers quickly charged ahead into a room, scanning its corners for any movement while slowly walking towards an intricately etched lectern where the thick black book sat on top of. With an ancient leather cover in which the text had long faded as the walls made out of weathered cobblestone leaked water from above. The decked out Operators checked for any traps as a crass and old voice was heard from the air around them.

"I knew it would only be a matter of time... Who sent you?" They ignore the sounds, still walking to the table. "Oh! If it isn't my buddies from Earth! So, how was my assistant? Pretty good isn't he? Made from the hardest of the original Werewolf Tribe!"

One of the Operators with Five labeled on the back of his advanced combat helmet quickly went for the book just to be blown away violently. This prompts them to just surround it instead. "What level were you all before coming here? You seem very resilient to survive that barrier." Another soldier with Six on the back of his helmet quickly unloaded his backpack and with his Magic Staff, began to undo the magic wall.

"Ahhh, it doesn't matter. I implore you all to try to take the book. It won't work, though I might be willing to trade. You give me information and in return, I'll lend you the book. It serves me no purpose anymore." None of them dared to answer him to ignore him, as the Operator with One in the back of his helmet then sees a discolored stone on the wall.

Using his underbarrel M203 grenade launcher, he fires onto it. Dislodging the stone and revealing a room where a cobwebbed skeleton of a horned man in fancy ornate ceremonial robes was standing on. "That's a player... Command." on his helmet with a live camera on it, many shocked eyes could see the familiar anatomy of the hard to kill Demon Species of Dark World.

"Amazing, good show. Good show. Eh, I knew this idea wasn't very pog." One immediately pointed his gun to the flat ceiling, his Elven eyes tracking every stone on it. "Hand over the book! You damn Demon Players! Have you all lost your minds?! Don't you wanna go back home?!" The skeleton corpse behind him suddenly gets animated and begins speaking.

"Home? Go back to my Eight to Five, Monday to Saturday in a dead economy?" The Operators all trained their guns at the long forgotten skeleton that's now moving as if it had flesh and muscle once again. "Your guns won't work on me. Even with those special tips." his finger then extends into One's barrel, tilting it down. "You won't open that Portal in Arnst. Even with this book." The Squad Leader looked at the other members, all of them not knowing what he's speaking about. "What?!"

Moving to his helmet, he then points at the live feed camera on it. "Not you, but them. The player immediately shoves his arm out of the way and pushes the suppressor of his assault rifle onto the corpse's skull. "Undo that barrier or we will blow this place sky high." The skeleton then collapses. The bones detaching from its points as all that remained is the blood red ceremonial robes and the horned skull. "How long will it take you to undo that barrier, Six?"

"One hour at most." The Squad Leader quickly dematerialized his combat uniform and turns into a Divine Knight with a Holy Sword. "WAIT!" he quickly dashes out of the golden beam as it dissipates the curses mounted on top of the barrier. "Make it five mikes, I don't want the Demon Princess baring down on us."

"One!" He immediately spawns his kite shield, stopping the blow of a bearded man which sent him flying. Floating up high with a pile of flesh underneath him, the Demon Player got riddled with enchanted bullets that broke his personal shield but even with so many guns, it only weakened him for the Squad Leader's Holy Sword. "GAAAAHHH! YOU DAMNED PALADINS!"

His body burns as it shifts into a halfling Werewolf with the horns of a Demon. As he roared, the flesh under his clawed feet summoned undead. "TWO!" The grenadier quickly grabbed the grenade in his vest and threw it into the ground causing a purifying light to embrace the entire room. "Six! Seven! Plant explosives!"