My Beginning After the End

The Sand Grotto Pt. IV

We just returned from our last raid; we were going to inform Commander Jagger about our discovery. I couldn't wait to go and fight that thing; this was going to be so much fun. A beast that might actually put up a fight against me.

"Let's go, Veer." Helen told me. "It will be me and you telling the commander, everyone else go and rest up." They all nodded their heads, and turned away from us, Callias shot me a smile, and I nodded my head. "Nice job today, you were the one who healed Jasmine right, while you were fighting."

I took my mask off and placed it in my mana ring. "I did." I shot her a smile. "I wanted her to be okay in case we needed to make a quick exit from the fighting." That wasn't the entire truth, but it was reasonable.

"Smart thinking." She said as we walked into the commander's tent.  "Commander Jagger, we have news on our dungeon run." Commander Jagger and two other leaders turned to us. "Tell him what you sensed, Veer."

"Helen, Veer, let's hear it." Commander Jagger said with a smile.

"We believe we found the mutant." I told them. "The power it was emitting was tremendous, greater than any other beast I sensed." Their eyes lit up, and then a smile crept over his face.

"I knew your team was going to be the ones to find it." Commander Jagger chuckled. "You all can rest up, I'll start preparing all the other teams, and send a message to the higher ups." He pulled out a scroll of paper. "Are you positive, Veer, I know I can trust you."

I nodded my head. "It definitely was a mutant." If that thing wasn't a mutant, then the mutant inside this dungeon was going to be even more terrifying. However, a mutant doesn't have to be here, it could just be a regular powerful mana beast. The Alacryan I killed did say there was one here though.

"Okay, go rest up, we are going to need your team's power." Commander Jagger ordered. "Was there any other beast there, like protecting it?"

"Yes, over a hundred, closer to two hundred." I said honestly, I didn't count them one by one, so I couldn't know for sure. There were a lot of them. I just wanted to go now and fight this thing. "We should be fine with the adventurers here."

"We only have forty eight people, we've been losing a lot, let's hope we don't lose a lot in this battle." Commander Jagger looked down, like he was thinking of something. "Go, now, I'll send word of your findings immediately."

"Yes sir." Helen bowed, and the two of us walked out. "You should really bow to him, Veer, he is our leader."

"I know, I try only to bow to people I respect." I told her honestly. "I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but it's just how I think." I bow to Elder Virion, King and Queen Eralith, and Lance Varay and Aya.

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A day passed, and everyone was ready to go, I helped heal Jasmine as much as I could, she said she was back to normal, so I took her word for it. "Let's go everyone." Commander Jagger ordered. "Remember, Augmenters in the front, form a line, and don't let anything pass you. We will kill this mutant today."

"Yeeeaaahhh!" The soldiers around me started to cheer. How many of them were going to die? No one from my team will, I know that I won't allow it.

"Move out!" He shouted and everyone ran into the teleportation gate.

"We got this." Callias nudged me as we entered the portal, and my eyes flashed with color. Everyone was now running through the tunnels, towards the cavern where I sensed a whole lot of mana beasts. "Don't get scared now." I activated "Blood Oath" and lit my body and sword up with blue flames.

"Shut up." I shook my head at him, he couldn't see my face because of my mask, but I had an annoyed look. I could see the cavern now, and spells being launched at the beast. There were definitely Esenes and Frepirs.