Egor Squad continued to walk forward and they started to find more and more parts of the walls and pillars scattered on the ground; some would even be massive chunks; it was strange to say the least.

Oran was looking around but pointing his light to the debris to the side and noticed that some of those had a strange shape. He tapped Ethan on his shoulder and pointed at the large rock.

‘Sarge, i think we should take a loot at this.’ Ethan raised his voice for a moment.

Egor looked back and noticed the soldiers pointing at a rock to the side. He started to walk toward it, followed by Kurt, not noticing what they were looking at, but he was right in front of the light; his shadow obscured the view. Ethan, now right beside him, pointed at the rock with his rifle and revealed a large humanoid face.

‘There are no statues on the walls, anywhere for that matter; are these the goldens?’ Ethan looked at Egor.

‘You are right, and take a look to the other piles of rock; they look similar to this one.’ Egor looked around, pointing his rifle at those piles.

‘Kurt, give me a line to command, now!’ Egor looked at the soldier with distress in his eyes.

‘Yes, sir, is already calibrated.’ Kurt gave the radio to Egor.

‘Command, this is spear; do you copy?’ Egor spoke while signaling his men to look around.

‘Loud and clear, what is the situation?’ Alon’s voice sounded calm.

‘Some of the debri we found has a humanoid shape, and there is alot of them around us.’ Egor scanned the darkness around him with no luck.

Alon was starting to put some pieces together in his head. The conversation he had with Edmund and the duchess at the mansion was still a theory but it wasn’t a bad one

‘Maybe you will have to deal with the demon lords army sargent; if what Edmund said was true, those piles of rocks should have been the enemies you were there to fight.’ Alon’s tone became more serious.

‘Did i hear demon lord’s army?’ Asher eyes widen.

‘How can you hear from here? You are a freak, Asher.’ Caleb shook his head.

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Egor took a deep breath, again scanning the darkness for sighs of movement but nothing could be heard or seen. His mind came back to the conversation as Alon asked again.

‘Spear, do you copy?’ Alon sounded apprehensive.

‘Yes, loud and clear, we are going to continue forward. Spear over and out.' The sargent gave back the radio and walked to his initial position.

As they continued to walk, some other entrances were clear by the squad, but the difference was that the pieces of the golens were inside of the rooms, and it made everyone be more and more nervous. Ethan started to think that, by the numbers they saw until now, there was no way they would be able to face this many.

‘Sarge, i think we should go back and come with a full platoon.’ Ethan was right to the side of Egor as they walked.

‘Why? There is nothing yet; we maybe close to the end.’ Egor scanned a head with his rifle for a moment.

‘Look how many of these things are around; we couldn’t have possibly done this alone so if whatever killed them is here, we will die, sir.’ Ethan looked to the side, trying to see movement between the rubbles.

‘No, doing this is literally our job, we can’t risk a platoon because we might die, we can always retreat.’ Egor walked around a fallen golen.

‘Yes, sir.’ Ethan returned to his position.

Some more time passed and look of the walls and pillars was more like a battle took place there. Parts of the walls and the pillars were blown up, which clearly should be those entrances with the rooms, completely destroyed, but as they walked, a sound to the right of a rock hitting the ground was heard by everyone, making everyone point their rifles in that direction.

It was dead silent once again. Egor looked around, trying to scan for anything. For a moment, he hears the sound of something cutting through the air.

‘Take cover!!!’ Egor jumped to the side, right behind a pile of rocks.

Everyone jumped to the side out of pure instinct as a sight that was far to familiar for them to forget. An ice lance landed right in the middle of their formation; they scanned ahead but now they could see light coming their way.

‘Scatter!!! Fireball!!’ Ethan yelled.

Everything was happening too fast but fortunately the fireball hit the same spot as the lance and they had already spread out their formation, Samal pointed his rifle towards the front and there he could see it; it looked like a mage but it was bigger, like nothing he had seen before. With no hesitation, he pulled the trigger, hitting the monster on the shoulder but it had no damage.

At the same time, the others formed what looked like a line; some of the squadmembers too saw the monsters ahead of them; like Samal, they too fired at them; the ones that had a hit confirmed were shocked by the fact that it didn’t cause any damage.

‘No damage!!!’ Samal yelled.

‘Here too.’ Others spoke.

Now the monsters approaching started to fire magic in their direction, trying to hit the soldiers; they were not that close to them so the hits were not really accurate; they overshot most of it in the first volley, hitting the back lines of the squad.

‘Are they trying to cut our scape?’ Egor talked to himself.

‘Command, this is spear, we have contact with enemy, i repeat, we have contact with enemy.’ Kurt spoke with the radio next to his mouth.

‘Return fire!!!’ Egor yelled.

'But, sir, is not effective.’ Caleb yelled from behind a fallen part of the pillar.

‘You are just not trying hard enough.’ Egor aimed at one of the monsters approaching and pulled the trigger.

As his shot impacted the creature's chest, it didn’t do any damage. Ethan saw the one that was hit by Egor’s shot and aimed at him too; he was finding it odd that these creatures were also hiding behind the parts of the fallen walls.

The battle was ragging on and the monsters were still trying to get closer. Ethan, who was aiming at the one Egor had shot before, got his chance and took it; his shot blew up one of the monsters shoulders, knocking him back.

‘It needs shots to hit the bastards; we can do this.’ Ethan yelled.

The darkness now was illuminated by the flashes of blue light coming from the rifles of the soldiers and the fireballs coming from the creatures.