20 Error: Skill force unlocked - “Violent rampage”

'Alert: Master Chaaya has opened a B-rank gate'

It's been a week since me and chaaya fought. We haven't entered any gates since. That's fine since I had stuff to figure out. Instead me and Avon spent our days battling in the arena. We became infamous around this area for being unbeatable. My skill tree looked so different from when I had first arrived. My strength and speed class were towering above the rest. There were two columns that concerned me. The wyvern wing was in a class called dragon's blood. It had other skills like fire breathing and full body transformation. The second was a demon class. It wasn't supposed to be accessible without receiving that path but somehow I unlocked it without the correct specifications. Will this game make me choose between dragons and demons? Will using these skills turn me into something else? These are questions for another time. It's not like demonic stare is all that useful.

Now I had a much more prominent issue, we landed in a dark field, blood ran like rivers over the corpses. There were crows pecking out eyes. Swords rusted in the ground. Armour was broken and destroyed. The sight was grim but I have to say I don't mind it. I stepped forward.

'Alert: Skill activated - "Conjure" '

My sword appeared in my hand and my armour equipped the plates wrapping around my hands and chest, covering my legs. I looked around for the enemy. Off in the distance was a set of stone doors. They were open, that was the entrance to the boss room. How the hell did it get out? Is this what happened to the monsters?

I heard a cry from behind me, it was Avon, the corpses had started to crawl towards him grabbing at his legs. The rotting soldiers dragging across the mud. I ran over to him stabbing the monster in the head.

"Well now I believe the adventurers have arrived. It seems it is time for us to take the human world. After all this time humanity will know the fear of the greatest magician." Wow, could he have a more generic evil speech? In front of us was a large figure sitting on a throne of bones. He was adjourned with a large clout that had bones sticking out of the shoulders. A small staff was in his hand. It had a purple crystal on top, everything about this guy screamed generic villain.

The ground began to move corpses piling over each other struggling to get up crawling across the ground. This was the horror of necromancy. An undead legion of hundreds, maybe thousands of corpses. I dropped a knife I had gotten from one of the dark elves in chaaya's hand.

"Stab anyone who gets near. If you shout my name I'll return to your side."

I walked out in front of her, Avon was standing next to me. The fights against humans will help. I may have experience fighting monsters, but humans are another matter. Hopefully since they are being controlled by another they won't be as strong as normal soldiers, still the immense volume makes this a risk. If I could take out the caster I could take them all out in one.

'Alert: Skill activated - "Wyvern wing" '

I soared up into the sky and dashed forward my wings flapping behind me as I soared over the undead. But I underestimated the distance. I wasn't going to make it, My wings disappeared in midair and I plummeted to the ground, falling into a horde of undead humans….. Humans! I won't dir to them. Of everything I won't die to them.

'Alert: Skill activated - "Smash" '

I cracked into the ground the enemies flying into the air as I slammed into the ground like a hammer.

'Error: Skill force unlocked - "Violent rampage" '

For some reason everything burnt.

'Alert: Skill activated - "Violent rampage" '

I charged forward, my speed and attack didn't improve but for some reason I wasn't completely in control. I could see what was going to happen like everything was laid out before me. I chopped a zombie's nape with perfect precision. Then impaling another on my sword like a map, a path laid out for me. A set of instructions. But there was only one command flooding my brain. KILL! KILL!

It was terrifying, like a black cloud consuming my will, stealing my desires and replacing them with death. I didn't think I was capable of this. My hand moved on its own, the slashes coming naturally, I felt lost in a dark anger. Bodies fell before me. I was rampaging like the skill suggested, I was being swallowed by my anger and rage. Wrath was the only thing I could feel in the inky blackness. There was no light, no escape. I just floated alone in the darkness swallowed by death.

How could it come to this? I should have controlled my anger. Damn she called it! I'm a demon after all.

"..." what was that?

"R...y" Who said that?

"RHY!" Chaaya? Is she in trouble? Damn it, what can I do?

There was a golden glow infront of me, a figure of pure light blinding and brilliant like a sun in the sky shining above me, the brilliant radiance reaching me even in the blackness, the pure glow pushing back my anger and rage. Her hand extended down pulling me up. Like a lifeline in the black ocean she pulled me up she pulled me to safety. I was standing in front of her covered in blood, the crimson liquid rolling down the plates of my armour. Chaaya was being attacked by three of the zombies.

'Alert: Skill activated - "Lightning rush" '

"Sorry for being gone for a while but I'm back."

"Good. now let's clear this gate"

"Yeah you are the only one deserving to be called the greatest mage."

"Hahahaha!"

"Now go out there and don't scare me like that again."

I turned to the caster and his army was dead (again). There was nothing to protect him now.

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