Chapter 5: Chapter 4 : The Chaos and Order [Second Trial: 2]
That loud roar shook my legs, and before I could continue my steps, I asked the mysterious voices, "Wh….what, what is that sound? Can you tell me what that sound is?" I asked him in my stuttering voice.
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The mysterious voices were silent for a second there, but then he said, "No way... how can it be here now?" He said this with a surprised voice, too, but then he talked to me in a worried voice. "Richan, fasten your pace, run like your life depends on it, because it is!!" he said to me, almost yelling.
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I'm a bit angry at him for that because I ask for explanations, but he still keeps telling me to run. Then I say to him, "Can you at least tell me some…..." But just before I can finish my sentences, he cuts me off.
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"JUST SHUT UP AND RUN, WHEN WE GET OUT FROM THIS FOREST WE'RE SAFE FROM IT DAMMIT" he shouts at me this time, is the same as when he warned me to get away from the red door.
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When I hear him raise his voice, I know this is a serious problem. I immediately run again, fastening my pace to my max speed, knowing nothing is going to happen next. I'm just running forward.
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But then I hear a loud noise in the distance. It's coming near now. It's a sound of stomping and falling trees, and that thing is still roaring. At this point, I know that whatever it is, it's chasing me now, and it seems it doesn't like me being in here or more like it doesn't want me to live.
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The urge to look at my behind is so big right now, but I do not dare to do that even for a second. I hope that I'm faster than that thing chasing me right now.
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And then, after I sprinted with all my life for a minute, thank for the love of god, I finally saw that it was the end of the forest. I could see the sunlight again, not taking long. I hastened and come towards it, but, I start hearing some yelling from the crowd from a distance outside the forest, I don't know what it's saying, but it's like there are many people there, the yelling becomes clearer when I'm at the end of the forest.
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Finally, I get out of the damn forest, it's a long way and taking so many hours, and running from that thing too, I still don't know what it is, and I don't want to ask about it again.
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"*pant, pant* are we.. *pant* already... *pant*… safe from it ?" I ask the mysterious voice while still panting, and drop my knees on the ground out of oxygen and energy.
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"Yeah, it can't chase us anymore, the forest... is keeping it in there" he replied calmly.
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"Oh, thank god *Pant*," I said in relief, finally dropping my body and face to the ground.
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Well, after resting and collecting myself, I realize something strange again, why was the sun still lit up like before, I thought its noon or night already, its more like nothing change from before i entering the forest or now.
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I take a fresh breath and lie on the ground for about five minutes, but then I'm distracted by the yelling crowds from earlier again. Curious, I get up from the ground and look around me.
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And yeah, now I know the reason for the earthquake from 6 hours ago up until now which not stopping, it's clear now that its actually not an earthquake afterall.
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"What, what is this? What's happening here? Who are they?" I said after I saw what was in front of me now.
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Right now, I stand at the edge of a cliff, and the scene before me is something. It's a big battlefield under the cliff, and to be specific, it's a wide gorge. And so far as I can see, two sides were fighting, one with a…. I don't know. I think it's like a wheel symbol?? as their banner and one with a Blue Wolf head Banner.
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Two armies are facing each other, and I saw that it around 5.000 Throng people on the Blue Wolves' side, but on the other side, its around... 40.000 Legion; it is already pretty overkill for the Wolf Army, which is eight times of them, at this point, I think it's obvious that there's just no way they can win this.
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And the earthquake from before—it's them, the 40.000 Legions who march. Their stomping makes the earth shake. It's amazing and terrifying at the same time.
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And for the rooster of them, these guys... are not human, this is something else, out from my video game, and every mythological story I read, they are... Minotaurs, goblins, orcs, giants, and there is a dragon-like thing, no, no, no, it's not a dragon, it's a Hydra, it has 7 Head; I know I read it from the Hercules story.
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It's a mythological monster known as the immortal big lizard, and worse, there is a person—no, it's not a person—it's a big Orc riding it.
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This is a nightmare army, but on the other side... the blue wolf army... only consists of wolves. Yeah, there are many packs of Wolves, but these wolves were so big—they must have been the size of a Horse. The wolves are fully armoured, and there is also a rider on each one of them.
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They look like humans, but because all of them are wearing fully covered helmets, I can't see too clearly; I might be wrong, but I also thought that they looked badass. But compared to 40,000 armies of monsters, this is a pretty disaster for them.
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"What the this is very unfair, they don't stand a chance against these monsters, they gonna get slaughtered," I said to myself but the mysterious voice that accompanied me, after hearing what I just said, laughed hard with his cold voice"Hahahahaha."
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Hearing him laugh, I wonder if he is sane or not. Then I reply to his laugh, "What?? Are you laughing? Don't you know that these poor wolves are about to die?" He stops laughing, and then he says to me, "Are you sure about that ?"
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"Huh? What do you mean.."
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I stopped my words, and I realized what he was just meant to say. The wolves' army doesn't flinch a bit or even shake at the sight of their enemies. They seem not afraid of what they are facing. Normally, these armies' morale will crumble, and they will run from the battlefield.
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Suddenly, there is a loud sound coming from the Wolves' army—wait a minute, it sounds like a drum sound. They play the war drums so loudly, and then they cheer and chant. What? Are they sure they're going to win? Now, as I hear them chanting repeatedly, I think they say.
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"For Elrath", they chant this repeatedly, and I don't know what it means.
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The Blue Wolf's army is still chanting while the monster army is coming near them. What are they doing?
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The mysterious voice was talking again. "Here he comes," he said. I replied to him, "What ? Who?" while I was spectating the battlefield.
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The wolves' army seems to be moving right now; they look like they are making their way. The army splits in two. And there is someone in the middle of the army—a person in Dark Blue armour with a black cape. His menacing helmet resembles a wolf. And the wolf he is riding is different from all of the others.
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It's a gigantic silver wolf the size of an elephant. Why didn't I see it earlier? Am I too focused on the monster army?
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He then dismounted the wolf by jumping forward on top of it, and after that, he began to walk. He walked towards the direction of the monster Legions. His cape was fluttering, his helmet shined brightly, and the way he walked could make everybody thrilled. He moved forward with his big glaive that resembled a crescent moon in his right hand.
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After he reached about 500 meters from the monsters, he stopped and… took a stance.
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He has already been in that stance for a while, and the monsters keep marching towards him around 200 meters away from him. I run to the end of the cliff to yell at him to run because I can't just stand looking at the wolf's army; they are doing nothing and just about to witness someone about to get stomped.
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But after I yell, he looks like he takes a glance at me. But there is no way he can see me, right? I was one kilometre away from him, and I was on top of a cliff.
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But then I saw a blue color-like aura emit around him. The blue aura intensifies more and more until it completely wraps around him. Next, he spins the Glaive and swings it horizontally on the monster's army; with the swing he makes, there is a stream of water out from the Glaive, and it forms a Gigantic Glaive blade that is around 1 km long. He swings it on the monster army, and just like that, the normal 40.000 armies of the monstrous unit are reduced to 10.000, and the 30.000 of them are now cut in half freshly by one swing of this man.
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They are cut by a high-pressure water blade. The 10,000 others left from the monster army are running away in fear. I'm pretty sure their army morale's crushed, especially since their leader is cut in half now. Even the hydra—he cut the 7 Head instantly to the point the hydra can't regenerate.
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He then raises his glaive and makes a gesture that looks like a command for the Wolf's army to march toward the enemies. I'm pretty sure the Wolf's army is now just killing the scattered left. Now, this is a slaughter, even not the one I expected. This battle turned around because of that one guy, and it was completely one-sided.
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"No way, he single-handedly takes care of more than half of them," I said in response to the slaughter of the monsters while dropping to my knees on the edge of the cliff, looking in awe and amazement at that mysterious blue wolf commander.
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Suddenly the mysterious voice spoke to me "Okay, now, I think your time is up now", I replied to what he just said. "Huh? what do you mean ?" and he talks to me again, ignoring what I just said. "See you later, Richan. I hope you learn something from this time. Don't forget this moment."
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What, how did he know my name? I'm pretty sure that I never told him my name before. After that, a random wind blew so hard, and I braced myself on the ground, afraid that it would blow me off the cliff.
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After it passed me, I stood up. "That was a hard one," I said to myself. Then, after that, I felt a push from behind me. I was caught off guard and then fell to the cliff. Suddenly, I could grab the edge of the cliff with both hands, but I think I can't hold off any longer.
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But then, when I was still holding on to all my life at the edge of the cliff, I saw it. Someone showed himself at the edge of the cliff to look at me struggling, and that is what surprised me the most. The big figure of him, of course, how I can't forget him. It's the Blue Wolf Commander that is just below the cliff.
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"Help me," I said to him in a pleading voice while still holding on with all my gut, but then unexpectedly, he...he was waving at me cheerfully.
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"Eh?" I said to myself while looking at him with a confused face.
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Then, that's it. I have no strength anymore; my grip is loosened at the end of the cliff, and I'm letting go of it. Yeah, I fall from the cliff while looking at this Blue Wolf commander helmet that is looking straight at my face.
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