The Ruins II [LEON]

The lizardmen, Leon, Noel, and the triplets enter the ruin.

Dark eerie atmosphere. The inside leads to the underground.

Lizardmen had prepared a torch, they lit it up with flint and moved forward. The inside is unexpectedly wide.

Broken pillars, rubbles, destroyed structures. There are pillars and statues, some broken, some half broken, some as it is.

They move forward, then suddenly…

Cracks splintered through the surface of a nearby stone effigy.

From one of the statues, a gargoyle emerges.

Red-eyed, twice the size of a man, wings like a bat but much larger. The red eyes make Leon a little flustered, with large horns, and sharp claws.

The gargoyle lunged.

Leon raised his sword, bracing himself for impact.

A metallic clang rang out as the creature’s claws crashed into his blade, sending a shuddering force through his arms.

The gargoyle pushed against him, forcing him back, its sheer weight threatening to crush him.

Suddenly,

A shadow darted past.

The eldest triplet.

His Warhammer swung through the air, smashing directly into the gargoyle’s chest.

CRACK!

The stone monster shattered, fragments flying in all directions as its red eyes flickered out like dying embers.

Everyone paused, watching in stunned silence.

They move forward to be greeted by more and more gargoyles.

One

Two

Five

Ten

They somehow manage it all.

Leon with his blazing sword, Noel with her ice magic, Triplets with their perfect coordination, and the lizardmen with their cautious footwork and teamwork.

They use teamwork and coordination to easily slay gargoyles. Lizardmen were shocked. The enemy that gave them a run for their life was being slain much more easily with the help of humans.

The scarred lizardman touches his scar amidst the battle to remember the sensation of his previous encounter. There was a glimpse of hope in lizardman.

After the battle as they ventured deeper into the ruins, the passage stretched into an ominous abyss, the air growing heavier with each step.

Suddenly the entire ruin shakes.

Then, three gigantic figures emerge. No face, no personality, figures made up of stones and minerals, humanoid-shaped but very bulky and big. They are golems. Not any ordinary golems, but imbued with something evil to make them much stronger than the regular ones.

Youngest triplet, “Golem?”

Middle one triplet, “An annoying opponent?”

Lizardmen and Leon are in awe seeing its size, and mountainous figure. They engage in the battle.

The youngest triplets with the spear helped the lizardmen take on one of the golems.

Eldest and the middle triplet with a Warhammer and a twin-headed axe engaged with one.

Leon and Noel synchronized their attacks of fire and ice to engage with the last one.

The battle was intense, it was ferocious. The golems were much stronger and sturdier than the gargoyles. Even though they were slow, it didn’t minimize their ferocity.

The eldest triplet launches the Warhammer to the golem, scattering the part of its body but unexpectedly, it regenerates within a minute.

Eldest alerts everyone, “The golems regenerate, find their core, and destroy it. It’s the only way to completely stop it.”

Everyone tries. Though lizardmen don’t understand human language, amidst the battle Leon translates to them.

After a long battle, the battle eldest shouts,

“Brothers, let’s take it a little more seriously” He sends a message to his brothers.

Middle Triplet, “We are very sorry, young lady Noel, but Marquis had instructed us to match you both’s level during combat and all but it seems monsters are getting more and more dangerous so we shall be taking this a bit more seriously”

Actually, the triplets were not even taking all the battles they had fought seriously. They were trying to match Leon’s and Noel’s levels for their progress and development.

The triplets tighten their grip. The youngest one, slashes the parts of the golem’s body with his spear, and the core is revealed, a magical sphere inside of the golem,

“Now!!”

The lizardman, though they couldn’t understand the human language understood the youngest triplet's intention and struck the core with their spear, and finally one golem crumbles.

The eldest one strikes heavily with the Warhammer scattering the golem into pieces, revealing the core and before it can heal, he destroys the core.

The middle triplet goes to assist Leon and Noel. He swiftly cuts through using his axe and instructs Leon to strike, noel plays the role of a mage and freezes the parts of the golem, immobilizing it. Leon with an opening, strikes the core. Finally, the golems are defeated and they move forward.

After a while, they reach a point where they feel a wave of immense evil aura. It sends shivers down to their spine. Lizardmen trembles.

Scarred lizardman grunted, “What is this evil cursed energy?”

The triplets, “There’s something there, much more evil and dangerous”

As they move forward, at a point, they meet it. Larger than gargoyles but smaller than golems yet much more dangerous than them.

It was crouched, its broad, muscular frame hunched forward.

The group could only see its back,

But it was doing something.

Something sinister…