A flaming warrior

Chapter 51 Ash

"What is the lore here? It feels alive." Athena asked, looking around while we walked in the snow. "Amazing feeling, right?" Joseph asked her, showing up. "Welcome to Frostveil Grove. Frostveil Grove is a town where the forest itself seems alive. Its silver-barked trees shimmer faintly under the moonlight, and the snow never fully melts, preserving the beauty of eternal winter. Homes are built into massive hollow trunks and connected by rope bridges and crystalline walkways. Icicle lanterns illuminate winding paths, and gentle streams run beneath sheets of ice like frozen glass veins. The air hums softly with Astal energy, a mystical force said to weave through the roots and branches of the Silverpines. The people of Frostveil, known as the Vevrani, are skilled artisans and healers. and spiritualists who harness this energy for warmth and light." Joseph tells us, "So that's what I'm feeling. It's astal energy," Chris said, feeling the energy.

"Please, Eirwyn, guide us through here and protect us," Chris said as we then see a light moving past us. "Is that...Eirwyn?" He asked, "It is. Come on," Joseph said as we started going towards the light. We continue to follow it and sense a strange, overpowering energy. And then saw the fire monster sleeping. "There that fucker is," Joseph snarled. "Tuya, do you know anything about this thing' Chris said, sending her a picture. "Vulkarion. It's a four-legged, semi-draconic wyvern with a massive. Broad chest and serrated horns that curl forward like molten antlers. Its scales shimmer between obsidian black and glowing magma-red, pulsing with heat. See that heart? Break it. Once you do, it will fully disable that monster. It acts like a second heart. The tail is a sharp lava vent that sprays lava everywhere, so that armor may be useless. The wings are Thick, heat-warped membranes that glow ember-orange from within. When folded, they hiss as superheated air escapes through vents in the joints. I would like to know why it came here, though. It's supposed to be in magma areas. Take it out. But be careful. Once you see its heart start glowing, he's going to try to blow up the area with magma, and once you see it fly, it's going to dive bomb. Now let me go tell the others about their monster." Tuya said.

"Are we ready?" Joseph asked us. "Yeah, let's go," I said as we charged into the fight, which woke the monster, whose roar let out massive amounts of heat, causing us to flinch. "Damn that heat," Joseph said. Chris and I weren't entirely bothered by it, so we attacked it to stop it from roaring. The wyvern keeps moving around. "Look," Joseph pointed out, a ring emerging from its body towards us. "It's a bomb," Chris said, pushing us away as the ring blew up, sending a massive shockwave. It started getting ready to charge us, but Athena pulled out her shield, which turned the monster to stone, so we could recover. But the monster broke out quickly and flew into the air, its body changing as it did so. Starting to glow purple while still completely black with some glowing orange spots. Three different versions of it showed up and dove at us before disappearing. Then, the last one dove at us, but all four of us blocked it. "You can not beat a god," Athena said as her shield glowed very bright, blasting away the monster. "The heart is exposed," Roku said. I ran up and struck it with the katana, pumping it with light, which caused a nasty reaction to occur. We then heard a loud female roar from a great distance. "The hell was that?" Chris asked. "I have no idea, but focus on the battle.

We now had the whole fight figured out and took turns stabbing his chest until, after Joseph did it, the monster mutated. It went into a rage mode, but it was off. Arms start growing from its body, and it was bleeding a lot, seemingly having its energy drained, roaring in pain, making it hard to see from its ash, and making it extremely hot. "I ca..." Joseph was fighting the heat, but we were losing. "My energy... It's gone' Athena said as we started to faint. We all blasted the monster before passing out.

It was cold. Very cold now. Were we dead? Did we fail? "Good, you all have life. Phoenix seemed to have helped save you all, too." Eva said, but sounded very off. I was slowly waking up and getting off the cold, snowy ground, noticing everyone on the ground was passed out. Then I saw Eva. "What's wrong...you act like you've seen a ghost?" Eva asked me who was now changed. She was naked, but her body was completely purple, looking oily, glowing with blue spots. Her eyes were now electricity, her mouth was bright, glowing purple with a long purple tongue, her fingers were long, her hair was long and runny, and her stomach...it was a giant mouth that was also glowing with a long tongue.