The True Power of Heroes

The True Power of Heroes

Year 73 Month 2 Week 4

Heroes & Champions

Eleven heroes. They run, leaving destruction in their wake. Explosions, deflected by barriers. Fires, blocked by magical shields.

The heroes, they try. Magical thunderbolt here, lightning blast there, and the lesser demons fall like flies.

Yet, there are easily tens of thousands of them, and only eleven heroes to stand against it.

The fan lady twirls, and she mutters a kind of chant. The demons attempt to disrupt her, but the other heroes cover her.

Swoosh. A blast from the sky, and hundreds of the demons, crushed instantly.

And a blue giant fireball streaks through the demon swarm, roasts all in its path, then explodes, killing a few hundred more

The giant tortoise demon stomps its feet, and the earth shakes tremendously, and a few dozen massive boulders fly at high speeds towards the heroes.

A wall of light emerges, disintegrating the boulders and also the the lesser demons in its path. An ability that both Hendry and Max use together, a holy wall of some kind.

The tortoise stomps its feet, and a few dozen more boulder fly towards the wall.

Ugh. Hendry and Max both winces, Its using up quite a lot of mana. Alexis!

The heroes retreat closer, and Meela runs up to me.

Tree Spirit, please aid us in battle!

What if I refuse?

Then the demons will kill you too.

So, do you have a plan?

Yes.

The heroes retreat into a formation behind me, and start some kind of chant.

The horde of demons charge in, the thousands flood the fields. My insects and Jura together with my roots, form a protective layer, drive the demons away from the heroes.

The three demon champions seem particularly disturbed by the chanting, and so they join the battle. The centipede, the fastest of the three, is unable to tunnel too near, due to my dense subterranean root network, and so it chooses to attack us directly, trying to ram the heroes.

My wooden shields appear to block the centipedes strikes, and they shatter on impact. But it is sufficient to deflect it away, as I land a few holy-enchanted root strikes on its side, and it knocks it back a little.

I have its attention, and it tries to ram me instead.

*wham*

That hurt, a few barks crack, I had all my defenses up, but not fatal.

Another root strike, this time to its body, and a big chunk of stone chips off.

It rams me again.*

The centipede tries to crush me even more, but my roots are also sucking out energy from its body.

The golems other arms are free, and it throws a few more punches at the dome. Once again I create wood shields and try to reduce the impact.

But only the first punch is weakened. The other few punches land squarely on the doom and it cracks even more.

The dome glows.

It seems, I have done enough. Now the heroes need to show what their plan is.

The dome pulses somemore, then it the glow becomes brighter.

Then, woosh.

A blinding light.

The dome explodes, and a massive energy wave sweeps outwards, like a nuclear shockwave. The wave disintegrates all the demons in its path, the lesser demons all vaporised, and in an instant, only demons surviving in the entire battlefield are the champions.

Thats just too overpowered.

The 3 champions though did not escape unscathed. The giant tortoises shell is half destroyed, revealing its charred in body, the golems arms and half its head that faces the dome is destroyed, and the giant centipedes body is half gone too.

Yet somehow, the rest of us are safe. It seems like a special ability tuned to demons.

The heroes, they emerge from the dome, wielding shining weapons, and covered with an armor of light. They dash towards the demon champions, and in just a few flashes of light, all the demon champions are killed.

At that moment, the only thing that went through my mind is, What the hell was that?

Did I just tank three demon champions so the heroes can activate some kind of ougi power of friendship OP ability?

Indeed, the heroes in their light armor form make such quick work of the champions that I found it hard to believe they are even demon champions in the first place.

The heroes, having destroyed all the demons, regroup.

Thanks for covering us. We gained quite a few levels from that.

Seriously.

Now that they are not jumping or flying from place to place, we get a better look at them, and the heroes new outfit actually reminds me of power rangers. Or maybe kamen rider.

Meela Did you guys unlock some special ability recently?

Yes we did! We got this special uh [Heavenly Form], and a few special skills. That big boom thing is our [Starlight Nova].

Whoah. How do I get that kind of power?

Meela may I ask you dip into the pod again?

Yea sure! Meela says happily.

At this point, Alexis and Hendry grabs Meela. No. Its our power, we cannot reveal it. Dont do this.

Meela shakes her head. Both of you are being unreasonable. TreeTree just helped cover our butts because this skill activation has a ridiculously long chant time, and now you want to deny it?

Hendry and Alexis pauses, Lets decide, collectively. As a group.