His True Nature

I launched myself towards my enemies while I saw red. The red I saw did not block my sight but shaded different things throughout the enviorment, as in for living beings, they had a extremly bright red outline that pulsed around there heart and there person was also a shade of dark burgundy color and for the enviormment itself was a mix of black, gray, white and red mixed that either showed life or no life that contained either essence and/or mana.

I had processed this information within the second I had launched myself from my stationary position to my first prey. I shot my hand out, like a knife in front of me and pireced the chest cavity of the closest goblin to me in a blink of an eye.

{Ding}

[Side Quest - Kill off all those who dared try and trap you in an illusion, and try to take what was yours]

- Goblins - 2/11

-Eldritch Dream Gazer 0.333/1 -> Dream escaped forcibly, has been crippled

-Shaman of Strength - 0/1

*Rewards - XP, Sword, and basic clothes for everyone*

The speed that I had killed that little shitbag of turd stain left every single goblin, shaman, and that hand thing, I guess Dream Gazer is its name, gobsmacked. They could not even follow his movements when he started his attack and this allowed Mike to acutally see the quest and have time to read it as well, and this just made him grin even wider, and the result of a grin that should not litterally almost reach the sides of your face put horror, fear, and dread in those little goblins.

"HAHAHAHAH," I laughed a laugh that could put a certain villan from a web slingin' hero show to shame. "I just wanted to kill you for what you tried to do to me," I said in chillingly calm voice devoid of emotion since the rage had vanished a short while ago. "Now," I said with evident joy in my tone and the same dread and fear inducing smile crept its way back to plaster itself back on my face before I continued, "Now, I get to do it with joy, and a slight bit of anger. So rejoice! I am giving you a painfree (not) death for reasons unknown."

I suddenly Jumped foward again, and this time I grabbed a goblin by the head and jumped back to where I was last slower so they could see me this time. I held the goblins head in my hands, I just looked at it and knew I could squish it like a grape. These weak things were able to get the advantage over me. ME! My face started to distort and a shadow of what was once a handsome mans face was replaced with a visage of black flame like stuff with vibrant multi-colored eyes.

"For even thinking you could match up against me, I am going to make a example of you." I said in a deep, rough, and course voice that vibrated throughout the area and beyond. I slowly started to squeeze, the increase in preassure caused the little stain to try and pry itself free until I poked its two eyes out. I did not stop there for I also grabbed its nose and pulled it off, then I went for the ears and slowly ripped each one off, I reached into its mouth and started to yank out each one of its 15 teeth, 8 on the top and 7 on the bottom all of which were sharp. The arms were up next, then the feet, legs, crotch area and until finally the torso. I was able to keep this one alive through it all while using one of Sarah's ability 'Small heal' to prevent it from dying, until now. I then put one foot onto its chest and my right hand on the right side of its head since now my left hand occupied the left side and I pulled.... I pulled alright, but I made sure it was slow and deliberate so it could feel all the pain until it was no longer able to scream.

I ripped apart that little goblin like it was a wet piece of paper, and in doing so caused a sight of blood gushing out like a gyser and organs and intestines looking like poorly strung up christmas lights. As I was releasing the body I had noticed its heart still beating... well not blood pumping beating but I guess a better word would be pulsating. Each pulse sent out more mana from the heart that dispersed in the air, Each pulse caused my apitite, no, my hunger to eat all the mana that was leaking out of the heart, and eat it I did.

I raised the heart to my mouth and chomped down on it, I consumed it within a second. After I was finished with it I looked up and around to see all the monsters, goblins, the shaman, and the gazer alike tremble with fear, dread, and horror. I liked the blood from my hand and shot straight to my next target which was the Shaman, I appeared slightly to the left of it causing its delay in defending itself after seeing me spearing both my hands, the backs/tops of them touching each other so I could rip the Shaman apart after spearing my hands through it. I shot my hands through the little fucker and tore it apart while grabbing the heart and consuming it right then and there within a second.

As soon as I had finished the heart I heard a slight *wooshing* coming from behind me to the right slightly so I had dodged by sliding my left foot to my left while also leaning that way as well. The spear was thrusted towards my head so fast that as it passed mere centimeters from my face, I felt the air rush past my face like I was at a F1 race up at the front. As the spear came to a quick halt I grabbed it, the shaft near the spearhead was past my right shoulder just enough to where I could grab and yank it foward. The yank I did had the goblin holding it go flying with it but as it was flying past me I grabbed the ankle of it and pulled back harder than I did when I yanked the spear foward.

The goblin came to such a sudden stop that all that kenetic energy was redirected when it came into contact with the ground. Another ding sounded but Mike could not hear it for he was in a battle crazy that was fueled by anger and rage. Mike did not notice that the goblin he was holding by the ankle died when it was smashed against the ground, having all that kenetic energy being redirected with it caused it to die on impact with the ground.

Mike then started to smash it again and again against the ground, a relentless assault of continuous smashing from side to side lasted for about 15 seconds, and all that was left of the body was the ankle of the being it had once been attached to. "For being such greedy and lustful creatures your bodies are pitifully weak," I said in a voice laced with disappointment as I dropped the formerly attached foot. I looked back to notice only half of them remained now, I scanned that battlefield and noticed two women off in the distance and a small figure slowly making its way towards them with malicous intent held in each movement.

I started to seeth with anger then spoke a short sentence that reverberated throughout the entire area and beyond, "Stop, Come, Bend, Brake." The intent of those words were directed to that towards the goblin trying to get away from me and touch my women, I had enough of this and wanted to end it, so end it I will. The moment I finished speaking the whole area started to respond to my words, it was as if my will was undeniable and if denied was punishable by death.

I stood there unmoving from my position, I watched as the single goblin slowly got up, spun around and made its way towards me. The facial expressions were not suppressed or even removed, I watched as the goblinoid, "hmm, yes I think I will call them that from now on," I thought to myself as the goblinoid kept making faces with either fear, dread, and/or horror all together. I smiled a smile so wide and full of vicious intent that my flaming black head showed its flaming burgandy red maw full of flaming sharp teeth.

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{Ding} *Updated*

[Side Quest - Kill off all those who dared try and trap you in an illusion, and try to take what was yours]

- Goblins - 5/11

-Eldritch Dream Gazer 0.75/1 -> Dream escaped forcibly, has been crippled/ everyone has escaped

-Shaman of Strength - 1/1

*Rewards - XP, Sword, and basic clothes for everyone*

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(Sarah)

"ugh, what was that dream?" Sarah said aloud, not understanding why she was having a dream of Mike but through his perspective. Slowly getting up, or at least trying to get up but having trouble do to being bound at her wrists and ankles by some weird type of rope. She looked around to see what was going on and causing all that noise. She first saw Sasha bound the same way she was but her clothes were ripped in places that shouldn't have been ripped, Sarah saw that and started to get really angry.

"I need to try and either get this rope untied or cut it with something, it hurts and I'm getting annoyed by it." Sarah thought to herself then jerk when she heard a very unpleasent sounds accompanied by horrifying screams. She quickly looked around and scanned the area looking for something or anything potentially sharp enough to cut her binds, she looked far and near with no luck in finding any knife or possibly a sword but she did she a chipped rock. Somehow Sarah could tell that the rock she was looking at could become even sharper, as soon as she started to place her hands on the ground she understood why.

"It's the mana," it came out more as a revelation than an comment, but nonetheless she then tried to manipulate the rock beneath her and in a straight line to that sharp rock to see if she could move it closer to her.

Sarah inhaled slowly, when she did so she tried to use imagery as a way to influence mana into doing what she wanted. That slow inhalation of air was infused with 'Raw mana', this raw mana helps in the slow regeneration of mana over time, but what Sarah did was use it as a base to form a more complex spell to use. Her thought processess increased 10 fold allowing her perception of the world to slow slightly as she pushed more of the mana she could grasp from the enviorment into what she was trying to do.

In the next moment the ground began to ripple, like small waves of the sea the ground rippled, small waves moving towards Sarah formed a sort of simple conveyerbelt to move that rock. While this happened, Sarah took a closer look at the rock and her connection to the mana of the world. Each breath, each movement, each punch, kick, or thrust would use or move some sort of mana, so why not try and reshape something small.

In her mind Sarah held that little rock, she kept forming new objects that had an edge sharpenough to cut through even metal. After trying again and again, Sarah had to unfortuneately tone it down a little and become a little bit more realistic, she imagined a knife or even a short sword with a edge that could cut through extremely thick rubber with ease. With some effort and the lack of knowledge of any type of swords especially short swords she tried her best to form a sword based on her memories and imagination she tried to make something useful after the cutting was done.

In her mind she started to make it, "ok, ok I think I can make something now," she said breifly before getting back to it. "Ok from what I can remember from a forging show I used to watch I need a tang, or a handle," during the construction of the tang, Sarah realised that her magic could also structurally reinforce the weapon as it was being made. The tang which would normally be the weakest point if not forged right got a great upgrade in strength, next was the blade itself.

From the tang or aka the hand, a hand guard would also need to be made. A piece of heavily reinforced stone extended from the would be top and bottom of the blade, extending from that was a stone slab that could have ressembled a chefs knife while the only difference was that it was almost 2 feet long or 19 inches from tang to the tip of the blunted blade. The next thing Sarah did was add some 'Blood Grooves' to reduce the overall weight once done.

The blade edge was next, Sarah had sharpened it where it could easily cut through flesh. The blade had been sharpened on both sides making it a pirceing weapon instead of a slashing only weapon. After finishing her weapon, she opened her eyes to see a nightmare, blood and guts thrown everywhere, along with body parts that were scattered throughout the area. She quickly and clumsly cut her and Sashas binds and looked back to see if she could spot mike.

What she saw horrified her, for all she saw was a shadow like man. He looked to be roughly about 200cm or 6ft'6in with a face that seemed to be made of a black flame-like shadow with multi-colored eyes. The broad and lean frame made him look weak but also powerful, the clothes seemed to also be of a flame-like substance for they also licked the air.

He had his arm extended infront of him while also having his back to me, I saw many ugly looking humanoid heads thrown about the area, but the thing that made me have shivers run down my spine was being held in that beings hand. The pure fear it emited from its being could be seen by its intense trembling, even though the creature was being held like it was not a threat to the "man?" it still looked my way, but that did not escape that things perceptive eyes.

Its head looked at one of the stalks that was no longer looking at him with calculating eyes but at something else, Following its eye stalk It spotted me but instead of looking to attack me it just seemed to get inraged. The man ran through as many trees as possible during its short sprint causing the monster immense physical pain but not enough to kill it. The next thing that happened was that thing spoke in an oddly fimiliar voice albeit was more a deep growl but the words were heard, "YOU CAN'T LOOK AT HER! SHE IS MINE!"

The next thing that happened was utterly terrifing as it procceed to EAT THE THING ALIVE! Every bite it took could be heard, every swallow could be heard, it seemed like the noise was being amplified that no one and nowhere was safe. After that display of carnage, I started to process everything that had happened including what it said, "you can't touch her, she is mine."

I fell back on my ass after coming to that realisation. I was completely shocked by his appearance and at his behaviour, but my heart filled with warmth remembering he called me his. The only thing I can do is try and talk to him.

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(Mike, True Nature persona)

The Gazer lay there limp in my hands while I continued to eat it. The weird thing is that it was not made of flesh but mana and essence, I never would have thought of it being like so since it gave off everything feeling a nonmana made and nonessence made body.

While I continued to eat the thing I heard a thing call out, I heard a name but was not sure if it was to me. I stopped eating and slowly rose to my full height which had slightly increased to 6ft 8in due to the mana and essence consumption.

I looked towards the being who I guessed call to me, I had an insanely good smell permeated the air around. When I saw her my stomach hungered, she had such a dense concentration of mana and essence, I know for a fact I could be seen salivating.

I wiped away the drool and stared at her until another woman appeared next to her. I wanted to lunge at them and eat there mana and essence but I was being held back by something. There was something preventing me from having all of that power to myself, then my body started to cease all functions and drop limp to the ground.

The last thing I remember was the two women running towards me, yelling something I couldn't hear or make light of what they were saying. The Midnight black of the void has come back to take me, I will return one day and claim this body for myself.

For I am the.....