Chris tried to focus on what was in front of him. All he say was sky. Finally the disorientation cleared a bit and he realized he was laying on his back and looking up.

Sitting up slowly Chris thought about what was happening in such a short time. He had met and talk to Zeus, Athena, and Hermes. Actually gods from the myth stories of the Greeks or where they just stories I mean he had seen them and spoke with them. Chris was the most rational of the four and lest able to suspend reality. But reality was not suspended now it seemed but completely torpedoed sinking to the bottom of logical ocean. Its not that he doesn’t believe that what was happening was true. Just that he had been in his office 4 days ago working at the bank planning the next 5-10 years of his life and now all those plans were gone. Roland and Joe were flexible and could change focus as needed pretty easily. Shane was the one that would plow through no matter what stood in front of him disregarding what was and what is now as easily as changing his shoes.

Now Chris had a staff instead of a pen and calculator also he had boots that would make him fly. Thinking of skills and equipment he got from Zeus and the other gods, Chris remembered the Guardian of Hephaestus skill and wonder what that was. Looking into his mind he felt around where he thought that the skills were and located the one he was looking for. Following instinct and what he felt the skill wanted him to do he activated the skill. In front of him the ground turned bright yellow and orange the heat from that area felt like it was about to blister his skin. The center of the glowing stone mounded up and started to rise. It rose till it was standing over 6 feet. Arms and legs separated from the mount and the top thinned down to a head and a neck as the body absorb the run off. The outside of the body started to cool to a cold grey of stone. Chris could feel a place in his thought where he knew the consciousness of the being in front of him resided. Chris instinctively knew that this was his shield against those that came to attack him while he threw out his magic.

That thought brought Chris up short thinking back to the time when people had to work and study hard to get the knowledge that seemed to be implanted into the brain of the person that was going to weld the power of that skill. The changes that had just started while the old gods used their power to slow time down. While him and his brothers got stronger. Chris and Athena had talked about what was to come after a month had passed once the tutorials closed. The goddess of War stated that after 8 months to him and his brother have passed. After the tutorials that they should be in at that very moment, the heavens would open up not fully but only to those sanctioned by the multiverse to test Earth. The Zane Empire had won the right to test Earth and if humanity wasn’t strong enough to stop them then besides the 1/3 of the Earth population that wouldn’t either make it to the tutorials or make it through them. Another third will be sacrificed to the unholy gods of the Zane and the last third will be put into slavery while the Zane Empire strip mines the entire planet for profit even taking the core to use or sell. All that will be left is a cold dead rock floating through space.

The plan of the gods was for certain individuals to be taken under the different pantheons wings and trained and empowered to help withstand this threat. His brothers were some of those that would be trained. Chris was going to be trained and empowered by the Greek gods to train other into the Phalanx style warfare of the Spartan and the ship and seafaring warfare of the Athenians. His little brother Shane had been scanned by the gods as they all had and was chosen to represent the Roman gods with the Power of the Legions. Roland had been chosen by the Warlike gods of the frozen North and chosen by Odin to train and lead the new Viking horde in there wolf pack tactics. Joe had been chosen by the Celtic gods and would lead the very nature of the planet against those that came with greed and malice in their hearts. Athena spoke of others that would lead followers of Pantheons. The Egyptian gods along with the Hindu gods and Aztec and Mayans gods were training there followers and chosen during the tutorials. What humanity had called World wars was going to be a spat between 8 year old compared to what is to come. And he had to be ready. Steeling his nerve to the job he now had he and rock man moved forward toward progress and the fulfillment of this dungeon.

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Looking around Chris spotted a path to the right that moved down to the plain. Commanding the elemental to move ahead of him he started walking. Once he was on the plain Chris could feel the arcane energy moving. Sense a wrongness to the energy to the north he moved in that direction. After about a mile of walking the energy had gotten to a palpable level the darkness that he had seen ahead of him started to come into focus. It was a mass of dark bodies moving toward him. Then like a switch had been flipped the mass screamed a earth shattering wail and started to charge at Chris. Chris mentally commanded the elemental to hold and shield the horde of around 10-15 bodies. He activated his boots and floated to about 25 feet above the ground then pointed his staff at the horde and triggered the innate magic within the staff.

Lightning lit up the darkness as a bolt of lightning about a wide as Chris’ body shot toward the horde striking the lead mob and chaining into others around it. Charred bodies were left in the wake of the lightning as Chris felt the rush of energy enter his body from the kills.

[You have slain undead hordling lvl2 x5]

[Ding you have reached lvl 2]

It was at about the same time as those alerts that the rest of the horde met the Forge Elemental, as Chris now knew it was called from the combat log that he had in his field of view. The forge elemental swung his massive arm and splattered the first two heads of the undead being to come in reach. Chris activated arcane bolts as to bright white orbs appeared around him and shot into the next undead in line creating massive holes in the chest of the beast. Chris used the arcane bolt a second time killing the second to last undead as the Forge Elemental wrapped his arms around the last undead and lifted it into the air and slammed it down into the hard stone of the ground with skull shattering force popping the head like a melon. Looking around Chris saw no more enemies. Lowering himself to the ground was as simple as thought as he looked around at the damage his elemental and him had done. Bodies of the half rotted dead laid in varies states of death with scorch marks to blasted holes the size of Chris’ head. Chris looked at the last set of alerts and smiled as he prepared to move toward the source of the energy.

[You have slain undead hordling lvl2 x 2]

[Forge Elemental has slain Undead Hordling lvl2x 2]

[You have slain undead hordling lvl2x 2]

[Forge Elemental has slain Undead Hordling lvl2]

[You have slain undead hordling lvl2]

[Ding you have reached lvl 3]