After Alex and Ryan get up from their brief break, they both start heading west toward the nearest town to rent a Flatbed Trailer. Along the way of this 15-mile walk, Ryan tries to break the silence with a random conversation.
“Hey Alex, random question. What did you want to be in life if you didn’t die that day at school” Ryan asks her.
Alex turns toward him and smiles.
“Ahh there were a few things I had dreams of being. One of my dreams was to I wanted to be a badass investor. Another dream of mine was to be an Electrician. I fell in love with that work field when two of my wall outlets in my room weren’t working and my mother didn’t want to hire an electrician to fix them since quote “I only need one outlet to be happy”. Alex said while making a quote gesture with her fingers.
“I got tired of unplugging things and re-plugging things back in when I wanted to use them and decided to turn to YouTube on how to fix it myself. When I turned off the breaker to my room and got to work and fixed them myself, I was sort of expected after that point to fix all other electrical things in the household by my mom and sister since I was the only one brave enough who wanted to risk getting shocked. Hell I got shocked only three times during those endeavors. The first time I didn’t know what the hell a capacitor was and what it did and decided to touch it bare handed. The other two times I didn’t properly tape up an extension cord wire and a lamp I repaired that I got out of the garbage. I sort of fell in love with the Electrician field after that” Alex says to Ryan while stepping over a crumbled log that was in her way.
“That’s amazing. Ryan said while hoping over the same log.
“Before my sister died, I floated the idea to use money I would make from the electrician field to buy stocks and shit and get rich and leave the ghetto life behind me. I learned a lot of investing things from a reddit group called “WallStreetBets” I stumbled upon by accident looking at memes and kinda picked up a lot of terms and information I could have used if I ever got enough money to pursue it. But you know I’m dead and this is my afterlife so I really can’t do any of those things anymore” Alex says with a little bit of disappointed while walking behind Ryan and opening up his backpack.
She pulls out a container of water of fresh mountain water and starts drinking until her thirst was satisfied. She then offers what was left to Ryan.
“Ahh I didn’t know there were investing memes” Ryan says while taking a few sips of water.
“Oh I can make some investing puns from your playlist if you wanted to hear them” Alex giggles.
“Go for it. Entertain me” Ryan challenges her.
“Let’s see. Bullet For My Portfolio, Stoned Temple Stonks, 30 Seconds To Loss Porn, Bring Me The Gain, My Chemical ETF, Mayday Dividend, Five Finger Death REIT, buythefall, Green Day, Crown The Forex, Of Mice and Meaningless Losses, Peirce The Moon, and if you were ever subscribed to that reddit group; We Came As Retards” Alex said with her head tilted and pointing her finger at Ryan while wearing a giant smile on her face.
Ryan who was laughing with her falls to his knees laughing. “Those are really good. I don’t know what those terms mean, but those puns are funny!” Ryan tells her while kneeling in some snow.
He looks at the sky warm blue sky and feels the warm Seventy-Two-degree wind that was blowing on his face.
He then comes to a stop and looks at all the snow that was in the path ahead of them. The Valley ahead was flooded with a massive amount of snow.
“It’s a pretty warm day today, what’s with all the snow ahead of us?” Ryan asks Alex.
“Don’t know, but I don’t feel like putting on our winter gear just to cross a damn valley. Let’s just bypass the snow and walk up the side of that mountain” Alex says while pointing to path that was clear of snow that appeared to take them up and around the valley that was flooded with snow.
Ryan and Alex then detour right off the main road and attempt to bypass the valley.
They spend 2 hours zig zagging up a mountain trail and when they pass through the valley they see a town up ahead. The town was on fire and he could see people running,
“What in the-?” Ryan said confused when suddenly a crossbow bolt hits the soft clay ground behind him. He and Alex quickly turn to look to look at what that “Thud” was and then hears the reloading spring mechanism of a freshly cocked NP-16 Crossbow. Both of them turn their heads behind the bolt and sees a Palmlandian Sniper wearing a pure white snow jacket laying in the snow just 15 yards from them. Ryan without thinking twice casts [Detonate] on him and blows up and out of the snow.
“Shit!” Alex screams as she pulls her 2-handed sword out of her sheath.
“Let’s get out of here!” Ryan tells her while grabbing her hand. They both then slide down the cold slope of the hill they were on and run away from the snowy valley area and toward the green plains where the town in front of them lies burning.
Ryan and Alex then see a small-town militia force fighting toe to toe with a small Palmlandia force.
“Damn it Guys! Why didn’t Relay that message!” Alex screams in frustration.
Ryan then turns to her confused.
“What message?” Ryan asked her
“That scout’s movement map from when you freed me. The one that I handed to Faterrian Military official that was SUPPOSED to give them a heads up to prepare. It looks like that message was never relayed” Alex said with extreme anger. “We need to help them!” Alex says while running toward the front line.
“Wait up, let me help” Ryan says as pulls out his spellblades and enchants them with [Black Plasma] He holds out one of his blades and touches Alex’s blade and shares his enchantment.
Both of them then start running toward the fight.
Ryan and Alex approach the front line from behind rear of the Palmlandian soldiers and spots a line of hunters, and mages firing from rear of melee fighters who held a pretty heavy wall that was pushing the defenders back into their city. Ryan and Alex who were sneaking up on 6 ranged fighters who had their back turned on them see this and get to work.
Ryan charges [Ball Lightning] up in stun mode and lets loose the spell from behind them and stuns them.
Alex and Ryan quickly run in and cut them down with their blades from behind. Ryan cuts down the three of the Frost Mages down first and Alex puts her sword out to the side of her and runs as fast as she could toward Ryan slicing through the wall of stunned hunters like butter with her weapon enchantment.
Ryan and Alex then spot a Healer that wasn’t paying attention and Alex sneaks up behind her and swings at her but steps in a hole in the ground and misses. She slices through the women’s robe but barely glances her skin. As the woman turns around to feel the stinging hot wound on her shoulder; Ryan knocks her to the ground and places his hands over her mouth.
Ryan sees this healer’s terrified little pretty face while Alex gets back up to her feet. Alex marches right up to her and plunges her sword right into her. As the healer dies in his arms, he throws her on the ground and sneaks away from the line of oblivious warriors.
“Good job silencing that healer” Alex said with sarcasm
“That was dark” Ryan replies back to her.
“I know but look!” She tells him while she points toward the wall of Warriors that were being pushed back. Suddenly a Fireball blasts through the front line and Seven warriors go down. One warrior who was scared that his health was low looks behind him and notices their healer was down. As he looks behind him a man with a halberd bursts through his buddies and gets impaled.
Ryan and Alex then sneak up behind another healer and Alex watches her footing and swings from behind. She cleanly cuts off this man’s head and picks it up off the ground. She throws it forward onto the front line of warriors who were fighting while Ryan charges up [Void Blast] He then lets it loose over their heads and detonates it. The spell disorients 3 Rogues who were jumping about and when a Defending mage shoots an Arcane spell at that wall of attackers; the spell critically hits the warriors due to Ryan’s [Void Blast’s] Magic Debuff that reduces the ability for his victims to resist incoming magic damage. A Man who was critically injured by that spell then notices his healers head on the ground. He looks behind him and sees Ryan who just finished charging up [Ball Lightning] in Stun mode.
Ryan lets his spell go and stuns this warrior and ten more of his allies who was caught in the blast zone. As the men fall over the defending fighters take advantage of this and end them. The defenders then spot Ryan and Alex behind the line. They all nods at them. Alex gives them a Thumbs up and one of the towns defenders grabs one of his mage allies.
He points this mage at the direction of Ryan and Alex and she starts Raining down Ice shards onto the frontal sector. Ryan and Alex then run away and find another Enemy healer that was blindly casting an AOE healing spell on a particular Area of Soldiers. Ryan gets ready to jump her when notices a lavender glow emitting from her staff. Alex grabs his shirt and pulls him to her.
“Don’t kill her yet. I need this spell she has” Alex tells him.
Alex then silently walks behind the woman and touches her sword up to bottom the woman’s staff. “Party Poison” then loses its black flaming hot hue and obtains a lavender glow. Alex then places her sword into the ground and places her hands around her victim’s neck. Alex throws her into the ground and jumps onto her neck. As the woman screams with her face forced into the muddy ground, Alex then grabs her sword and plunges her sword into her. The ground then starts to puddle with this woman’s blood.
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The bright yellow healing zone that she was maintaining then disappears. Several soldiers notice this and immediately look behind them.
They both see Ryan and Alex and break from their wall and charge after them yelling something in Palmlandian. As the screaming and news traveled through the area, more men break away from the line upon hearing that they were being attacked from behind.
“There goes our Stealthy approach!” Alex screams and she runs away. “That was not just your ordinary healer. We just killed one of their captains” Alex yells as she sees a wall of mages turn their attention to Ryan and her. When she sees a mixture of Arcane, Shadow, Ice and Fire spells fly toward her she jumps up and holds her blade in the air. When the spells hit the edge of the blade, the enchantment she stole activates. All the spells aimed at them bounce off of her and back toward the charging soldiers. This catches all of them off guard and injures them.
The spell enchantment soon fades away from her sword and Alex quickly touches Ryan’s blades and re-enchants her sword with [Black Plasma].
As the soldiers get up off the ground they are soon over ran by defenders that broke through the lines they were holding and are quickly dispatched with. Twenty men and woman then start charging and over run the enemy from the side. As they do this, the Palmlandian’s try to send more men to cover their flanks but the damage Ryan and Alex caused was too much. That one man Alex gave a thumbs up to ran to the middle of the skirmish line and gave his allies the heads up on what Alex and Ryan were secretly doing. As they moved men to cover a flank that was now weakened with no healers, the Palmlandian’s over-extend.
They break right on through the middle and all hell breaks loose. As Ryan and Alex see the chaos unfold to the left of them Ryan sees in the distance a group of defenders about to get their ass handed to them by a giant hulky man tank that was being healed by a two stressed out healers. Ryan smirks and charges up [Ball Lightning] in stun mode at sends the spell flying toward them from over 40 yards away. He then detonates the spell. The spell stuns the two healers that frontline tanky warrior, and an annoying frost mage.
Five defenders see Ryan do this and overtake the Ice mage. They slide across the ice sheet the mage purposely put on the ground to slow their advance and cut him down with extreme prejudice. When he dies the Ice disappears on the ground instantly and they both jump the healers. One of the healers who got cut in chest manage to break out of his stun effect early and tries to heal himself but a defending warrior slams his shield into his head and kills the spell he was casting. Another man come up from behind him and ends him. The big hulky tank guy then gets up and realizes his healers and support were dead and all Five warriors were popping their knuckles and getting ready to rush him.
Ryan and Alex escape this chaos they created and see the leader of the resistance wearing sky blue and yellow trimmed armor waving them over to him. On the way over to this man, both of them see a skirmish ahead of them and run in and stab two rogues that were busy from the rear. Immediately after that Alex jukes out of the way of an incoming swing from a man holding a war axe. Ryan then casts [Detonate] on the attacker and sends him flying toward a group of friendly Rogues. When he hits the ground they all pounce him.
Alex and Ryan then meet in a clearing with the man.
“Thank you for helping us! You helped a lot by that little stunt you all pulled” The man told them in a deep slavic tone.
“You’re welcome. Sir” Alex says while looking at this man’s face and recognizing him. “What… happened here?” Alex asks.
“Mriya sent her forces from all directions to attack our town. We were able to hold them off easily from the west side of the town since we expected her to jump the border there and raid from that direction like she always does, but she threw us a curve ball when she had forces attack from the east side of town at the same time. We lost got over ran and this is the current result” He explains while looking at the town behind him.
“We knew this was going to happen! We just came from Faterra, Mriya was sending scouting teams and troops through Faterra and we intercepted intell that we turned into Authorities. They were supposed to give you a heads up this attack was coming!” Alex replies to him.
“No one said a damn word to us about that! It would have helped if we knew because we would have balanced out our defenses a little better. Look Mriya has taken too much from my people. She thinks she can walk all over us since this land used to be a part of Palmlandia. She already took my birth town of Chimera I will stand by and let her take my childhood town of Edough. Please keep helping us repel Mriya’s attack” He asks them.
“We will do what we can!” Alex tells him. She hears a few loud explosions and turns around. Thirty Palmlandian soldiers just fell. In the time they have been talking to him the defenders pushed hard took down a lot of them. With twenty Palmlandian solders remaining and one hundred plus fighting them it was evident that this chaos they started, was coming to a close.
“How can we help? It appears this fight is coming to a close” Alex screams over the blast of another Explosion.
“This is just ONE SIDE of the invasion; we got a whole other front on the west side of town. You helped a lot by taking out their healers. But at the same time there would have been more here if mother nature didn’t bless us with sudden and Avalanches that flooded the valleys with heavy snow in all the valleys. The Avalanches was a blessing since it trapped and killed Sixty percent of that flanking force in those valleys” He tells them
“Wait a minute, when was this?” Alex asked him.
“This was not that long ago. We saw Kyoto the dragon fly overhead and not soon after that we heard a weird roar in the valleys and felt the earth shaking for about five minutes. During that time the snow just started rolling off the mountains” He tells them.
Ryan and Alex then look at each other in shock. They then look down at Ryan’s phone.
“Oh god we caused the avalanche” Ryan said while looking at Alex.
“I don’t see how that was bad thing” Alex replied while shrugging her shoulders with an innocent tone to her voice.
Suddenly there was another blast from the combined forces of defending Fire Mages.
There was then an eruption of cheering. They just wiped them all out.
Suddenly there was a rush of soldiers running into the city. With no explanation needed the two of them run with the pack of soldiers into the town.
Ryan and Alex then find themselves running through a burning town and dodging stray enemy arrows. This force they were following immediately joins forces up with the western front-line forces.
It is here Ryan and Alex see able bodied villagers contributing to the battle. Ryan and Alex observe Healers from within the city doing their best to keep the defenders alive.
Ryan looks at a swarm of attackers getting ready to rush their own healers and he quickly casts [Void Blast] at them. He hits them and knocks them down and an Ice mage comes in and rains down ice upon them. The ice mages attack does critical damage thanks to Ryan’s spell Debuff on them and he lets a small group of Hunters leave the healers side and get to work at sniping high value threats.
“This is our Town! Don’t surrender and keep fighting!” The man in the blue and yellow armor yells.
There was then a rallying war cry from the defenders.
“Ryan am I seeing things, or does that man look a lot like Dennis Stoff?” Alex says as she watches Ryan charge up [Ball Lighting] in Stun mode.
“Yes, he really does look a lot like him” Ryan says as he lobs the spell toward a group of 15 attackers. He then detonates the spell and stuns them. The defenders nearby take advantage of the opportunity he just gifted them and rush them.
Alex then decides to run over to a mini skirmish and help them out.
Ryan who was watching Alex, and not paying attention then gets hit in the shoulder by an arrow. When he realizes he’s been hit he gets hit again with another arrow in the hip. Ryan then falls down to the ground screaming. A woman nearby then pops a healing spell on Ryan and baths him in a flash of light. The arrows inside of him disintegrates and crumbles into dust. Ryan who was healed but still facing the emotional trauma of being hit looks behind him at this healer that saved his life and sees man with a battle axe sneaking up behind her.
Ryan casts [Soul Shield] on her. Ryan screams in pain as he gives her that shield, and the shield absorbs the devastating blow she was going to receive. Ryan then casts [Detonate] on him and sends him flying into the side of a building. A nearby Rogue turns her attention to him and slits his throat.
Immediately after that warning horn from a defense tower starts to blow.
The front gate of the city receives a surprise. They get Zerg rushed by 1600 troops. This causes panic and everyone gets forced back. As everyone gets forced back a squadron of dragons start bombing the city from above. This causes more mass panic and massive damage to the defenders of the city. Ryan who was running away from the strafing runs the dragon pilots were making then hears mass explosions from the inside of the city. A fireball then rains down near him and knocks him off his feet.
Ryan then hears a large snap from something nearby and watches a ballista bolt fly up and hit an incoming Dragon’s belly side. When Ryan sees the ballista, he sees Dennis working aiming the thing and Alex holding people off of him.
As the dragon falls from the sky it crashes into 20 incoming troops.
Suddenly huge stones and boulders start raining down on allies nearby.
“Catapults outside the city!” someone yells as he and nearby defenders start getting pelted by the hard stones. Suddenly another dragon comes in and makes another strafing attack with fire spells. Adding insult to injury to the already injured defenders.
Dennis then gets to work on shooting it down. The woman who healed Ryan then runs up to Dennis.
“We have to much wounded and not enough healers! This isn’t going to be a battle we are going to win!” The woman pleads with them. “Give the order to evacuate the city” She says.
Ryan then gets up off the ground and sees people of this city fighting with all they have left against a horde of relentless attackers.
“No! We won’t give up! We won’t give in! Jasmine keep doing your best until they force us out”
Ryan then pulls out his phone.
“I can’t heal them all Danylko! We need a Miracle!” The woman pleads
“If you need a healing boost, I got the miracle you need right here” Ryan shouts over to her while pointing to his phone.
“What is that going to do?” She asks him.
“I got something that can give all of our healers a healing boost” Ryan tells her.
She then looks over at Dennis and Ryan goes through his playlist and finds a song that fits her needs.
Ryan then puts on the song “Voices” by Crown The Empire on global mode and activates the songs buff.
“This song will increase all healing done by 300% for the songs duration but I can only use it once. Start rallying other healers!” He screams as the song starts to play.
The woman looks over at him and stares. She then runs in and starts casting a AOE healing spell over the battle ground. The radius of her spell was about 200 square feet. She heals 20 men that were fighting, and 18 men get off the ground fully healed from their wounds. They then run in and join in the fight.
Another healer who sees her spell then casts his Area Of Effect healing spell and notices a huge radius from his spell.
All the healers who felt defeated, look over to this healer and then raise their staffs to the air and start Hymning to the song and start flooding their Ultimate healing spells onto the field.
The attacking soldiers who were confused as where this music was coming look up to the sky and then look notice huge holy aura coming off the healers. The defenders with their moral significantly boosted; charge as one. As more and more people get off the ground this scares the Palmlandian attackers and people start to step back and out of the city.
Dennis then shoots down another low flying dragon and defenders then spot another barrage of stones and boulders coming at them. A Dispersion priest then casts a huge shield over his allies and the rocks make their way through. The defenders band together tighter and start unleashing hell.
Not only that, but a flight of Five Faterrian bomber Dragons just arrived.
Alex runs up to Ryan and grabs him and points up at the sky.
“Those are my guys! Better late then fucking never Yulee!” Alex shouts.
The incoming bomber pilots notice the catapults that were littering the field and decide to take them out. The Bomber pilots split up and start making bombing runs. They start decimating their war machines and the mages onboard start strafing the attackers down below with fire and ice spells.
The Palmlandian Airforce then retaliates back. A Palmlandian dragon bomber tries to ram one of the attacking Faterrian dragons. The maneuver doesn’t go as well as the Palmlandian pilot had hoped and the Faterrian pilot evades and forces his pursuer into a tree. The shear impact into the tree breaks the dragon’s wings and not only that the dragon crashes into 10 more of his buddies.
Just as fast as the Faterrian bombers arrive, they take out 28 catapults and leave the city to head back to their base. At this time the entire city militia has managed to push everyone outside the city’s walls. The healers who were making the fighters unstoppable right now managed to turn this battle around. Now the invaders or this case the hunters, were now the Prey.