My Beginning After the End

The Iron Tombs Pt. III

(One Week Later)

We have now been in the Iron Tombs for about a week now, besides going further into the dungeon nothing else has happened. I've been bonding with my team, and just getting used to being with them.

So far, no one from the Floating Castle has shown up, which I think means they still don't know where I am. I have to imagine if I speed up the process here, they won't take me out of the field.

Today, the whole scouting team is going into the dungeon together, because one of the teams found something. Surprisingly, we have only lost one person, there was another injury, but they were treated and are back to full strength. This meant that there were nineteen of us heading into whatever the one team found, which only the team captains had been told.

"Everyone, I want the augmenters in the front, conjurers behind, we form a wall, and take out the beasts as they approach." Commander Xander was shouting, as everyone stood in front of a teleportation gate. "Stay with your teams, but if someone in the front line falls, try to take their place."

Callias looked at me. "What do you think they found?" If it's something that the entire scouting team has to go and look at, it can't be nothing.

"I don't know." I had my guesses, it wasn't Alacryans, but I believe they are responsible for what was going to be on the other side.

"The portal is set up fifty yards away from where they located the Flukets, so when we get there, everyone fall in line, and prepare for battle." He raised his hand. "However, I want to make sure that everyone is prepared for what we are running in too." Everyone started to chatter with one another. "These Flukets have extra armor on their bodies, and some even have hand crafted weapons." This made everyone start to talk louder out of concern, but this was what I predicted they would find.

This meant that there could be Alacryans somewhere, or they travelled through a tunnel nearby before. I mean weapons or no weapons, I'll still kill all the beasts. The thing I didn't understand is why the scout team was going to be fighting against this force. I can't sense if people are holding weapons, but I have located groups of Flukets in the hundreds.

"Oh my." Samantha said from behind me.

"How did they get weapons?" Callias asked. "That should be impossible."

I spoke up, so only the two of them could hear. "How do you think?"

"You guys ready?" Victoria asked as she got into position, Callias and Samantha gave me a confused look, and then seemed to get it.

"Let's move out people, stay together, this force is large, but nothing we can't handle together." Commander Xander ran through the portal, and we all started to follow him. "Battle formations!" He shouted as we ran through a tunnel and into a cavern.

"Holy ----." Callias said as we all got into formations and stared into the caver, inside was a shit ton of Flukets, you couldn't even see them all. I activated "Blood Oath" and "Water Helix" surrounding myself with my own personal barrier of water. "Haven't seen that spell before."

Callias's sword lit up with crimson fire, and I summoned my sword and reinforced it with mana, then infused the blade with fire, causing a blue flame to appear on it. "Never had to use it." I told him as the Flukets started growling and running towards us.

The five teams created a wall, there were ten augmenters in the front, and ten conjurers behind us launching spells. I was the third person from the outside, Callias was to my left, and Samantha behind me.

Before the beasts could reach any of us yet, spells were launched, and I decided to help out the conjurers by conjuring ice swords pointed at the approaching army's front line at an angle. I shot the swords, killing over twenty as they slid into the heads and bodies of the Flukets. People who weren't on my team shot me a look of what the hell are you doing, but I just ignored them, and did it again, and again.