GENESYS

FIFTEEN

Sweat pours through Monty and his crew as they watch their allies burn right in front of them. Although they knew that it’s nothing but a computer program, their body still started moving on their own without them realizing it.

It’s common for humans to run when faced with such danger, it was their nature. When an earthquake strikes, it is evident that people will panic even though they know that's not the right thing to do. It was their impulse to live that made them run at the first sight of danger.

Presented with such a threat that can burn them within seconds, the player's human nature started to kick in and they started to run without abandon. Through the chaos, the weaker players get trampled over and left behind. 

“We’re gonna die!”

“I don’t want to die”

“Mommy! I want my mommy!”

“Don’t leave me!”

“Ahhhhh!”

LZT ancestor looked at his subordinate with sorrow in his eyes. When he first started this conquest, he knew that there will be sacrifices. But even though he already steels himself, watching his allies die still leaves a bad taste in his mouth.

“Magicians, fire every water spell you got!”. 

Players are running all over the place and the battlefield is filled with a deafening scream of terror, LZT ancestor voice is nothing but a drop within the barrel of water but still, there are a few that retain their senses, hearing LZT ancestor order, they fired one water spell after the other. 

Steam pours out as the water hits the fire. Soon after, the players notice some changes. The air around them feels a little cold somehow, and the fire tornado they saw creeping toward them suddenly a couple of meters away. 

When the first player snaps to his senses, it spreads like a virus. One after the other, players started firing their spell at the fire tornado. It doesn’t matter if it's the LZT player or the alliance, everyone cast their spell with a desire to live.

Monty looked at what's happening with feelings of surprise and wonder. ‘Right, as long as we have the ancestor we can’t lose.’ 

“Everyone! Give it everything you got!”

“Got it, boss!” Using every ounce of the mana they have left, the LZT guild fired every water spell they knew toward the fire tornado.

A mist quickly fills up the area as the water from the spell dissipates into the air. The hot atmosphere that fermented the place started to weaken and eventually it was gone.

“Yes, we did it!” Monty said with a big smile on his face. 

One by one his crew walked up to him with an awkward look on their face. Due to panic earlier they might have left their fat boss behind. 

“Yes, boss we survive.”

“We did it.”

Monty welcomed his lackey with a smile. He didn’t take what happens to heart. Seeing this, everyone's expression relaxed.

“Hehehe, boss it seems that we will have a big party afterward.”

“Let’s drink until we drop.”

“Eat until we explode.”

Everyone continues to laugh merrily, except one. 

LZT ancestors stare intently ahead, ignoring the loud cheer of his subordinate, with a grave voice, he said. “No, It’s not over yet.”

As he said this a strong gust of wind blew all the mist in the area.“Swiss!” 

The players immediately feel hot and their sweat pours down like a waterfall. Their faces suddenly turn stiff as they know what this means. 

Everyone looks ahead defeated as the fire tornado they though have stopped once again grows bigger and bigger. They try to put it out again using water but unlike before all their attacks just disintegrate into nothing without doing anything.

The fire tornado slowly moves forwards, burning everything in its path.

“We’re doom!” One of the LZT screams.

Seeing that his LZT guild will once again enter a state of panic, LZT ancestor jumped in front of them and swiped his hand, taking hundreds of high-grade mana potions out of his inventory.

“We’re not dead yet, every magician that knows earth magic quickly grabs a potion and recovers your mana. Use earth magic and put as many of our members in holes.” 

Everyone didn’t act and looked at the LZT ancestor doubtfully. Seeing his grandfather getting disrespected, Monty gets angry.

“You ungrateful son of a b*cth! We feed you! We paid you! And this is how you repay us! It’s just one death. We'll compensate you so just drink the damn potion.”

Hearing Monty’s frantic screaming the remaining earth magician of LZT guild runs forward with a smile on their face. They grab a high-grade mana potion and start restoring their mana.

LZT ancestor looked at his grandson with love and care in his eyes. 

‘This grandson of mine might be rough around the edges but he was worth grooming to be a successor.’

After the earth magician of LZT guild restores their mana, they cast a spell creating numerous small holes placing LZT members underground.

The fire tornado swept everything on its path, burning everything into nothing. If not for LZT ancestors quick-thinking LZT guild would already be wiped out.

Seeing that the danger has already passed, LZT ancestor jumps out of the hole.

Arriving at the surface, he was shocked by what he saw, everything around him was charred black, and the air was so hot that it's difficult to even for him to breathe.

Wiping the sweat in his face, he felt a strong pressure crushing his chest. He looked in the direction of the village gate and there he saw a figure walking.

"Futile effort."  The village chief once again raises his staff and through that, a surge of mana erupted. After chanting a bunch of incantations. The mana transforms into a wave of magma slowly rises beneath the village chief's feet. It continued to rise and not long after it began to overflow and movies toward the LZT guild's direction. 

Seeing the approaching magma, LZT ancestors quickly order. "Close the hole quickly!" 

The earth magician looked puzzled ‘Is LZT ancestor have dementia?’. If they closed the hole they would die due to lack of oxygen, they began to hesitate if not for Monty shouting, they might have already left the hole and looked at what was happening outside.

“Just f*cking do it!” Monty roared.

Following Monty’s roar, the hole closed and LZT players became trapped inside.

“Damn! What’s happening?”

“Didn’t the tornado already passed?”

“What are the magicians thinking?”

“Guys, I’m claustrophobic.”

“Let me out! Let me out! I’m afraid of the dark!”

The LZT guild chats quickly got flooded with concern.

“Shut the f*uck up all of you, Grandfather must have his reason. Everyone just be quiet and await his command.” Monty said, calming his guild. With his grandfather's busy and his father dead. It was up to him to manage the guild.

“Live or die every one of you will receive a bonus if we win this battle. I swear it in my name!”

Hearing Monty everyone zip up their mouth and become motivated.

Magicians started meditating to restore their mana while swordsmen and the other classes sharpened their weapon.

Everyone was getting ready for another tough battle when suddenly magma started sipping out the hole.

“What is this?”

“Is this rain?”

“Damn it's hot”

“Hot! hot! hot!”

“I’m burning!”

“Waaahhhhhhh! Open it!” LZT players wail in pain as they slowly drown in magma.

Some players can’t take it anymore and proceed to cast numerous skills blasting the hole open but this only quickened their death.

“I’m burning! Help!”

“Help! Please!” 

“Mommy, I don’t want to die.” 

The magma continued to pour down as the LZT player cried out in pain.

Up above LZT ancestor listens as his subordinate burn alive."Damn It!" 

Grinning his teeth, he said. "Golem come out!"  

50 golem rises on the ground forming a wall, stopping the flow of magma. LZT ancestor knows that this is not the right time for this but he can’t just stand there and watch as his subordinate dies.

"Useless." The village chief hits the ground with his staff and the wave of magma suddenly grew, easily swallowing the 50 golem whole. 

He then walked at the top of the burning magma and approached LZT ancestor. 

"Are you the leader of these bunch of fools?" 

LZT ancestor didn’t answer. He unsheathed his blade and ready his stance.

The village chief looks at the ant before him with disgust. Once again he raised his staff. 

"What a waste of my time."  

The magma around the village chief started to move, it twisted and turned taking the shape of a golem. Within seconds the village chief created one hundred magma golem. 

There is no fury in the eyes of the village chief as he saw no reason to be angry with an ant. He quickly got bored and walked back to his village. Leaving 100 magma golem to squash the ant that bothered him. 

"Torture him and kill everyone in sight."

LZT ancestors stared at the back of the village chief. Usually, people fawned over him, wanting to carry his favor. This is the first time that someone looked at him as if he was nothing. He laughed frantically and sheathed his blade. "Hahahaha, Do you think I’ll let you run away just like that?" 

Hearing LZT ancestor, the village chief stops and looks back. He saw the figure of LZT ancestor being pummel by the magma golem.

He frowned as LZT ancestors crumbled beneath the magma golem fist with a smile still glued on his face.

The village chief looked confused when suddenly the ground beneath him shook as one hundred golems rose to encircle him. 

All of the golems is carrying magic cannons in their shoulder, fully charged and ready to fire. 

Standing at one of the golem heads is LZT ancestor with his arms crossed. “Courtesy of the tinker,” The latter said looking at the village chief with satisfaction in his eyes. 

"Fire!" Without giving the village chief time to react, LZT ancestors order one hundred magic cannons to open fire. Every one of these cannons has the power to destroy an entire army and one hundred of them is focusing on a single target, the village chief. The residual blast alone is strong enough to send the one hundred magma golem to oblivion. 

LZT ancestor looked down at the direction the village chief was standing. He was waiting for this chance since the beginning. Knowing that the village chief will be extremely powerful. He was very careful, only controlling a life puppet at the distance while his real body hid underground waiting for the opponent to lower his guard.

He knows that there is no way for the village chief to survive the attack from one hundred magic cannons but there is no harm in making sure."Second wave!" 

The ground once again shakes as another five hundred golems equipped with magic cannons rises from the ground open firing toward the village chief.

To make sure that they won this battle LZT ancestor paid no expense, he prepared 1000 golems and spent millions of dollars. He even cashes in favor of the Tinker to make him one life puppet. If this war fails he and his son might even end up in jail.

Not taking any chances, LZT ancestors prepared the third wave. "Go!"  

Another three hundred golems rose in different places around the battlefield. This golem is not equipped with magic cannons like the rest of the golems but instead, there is some sort of antenna with a magic incantation in the golems head. 

This antenna connects, forming a unique formation. 

The formation gathers mana around the surrounding area through the antenna and with the strange symbol within the magic cannon, the mana is then transferred to the magic cannons, quickly charging it.   

LZT ancestors look at the smoke coming out of the crater where the village chief is, despite bombarding the village chief with power enough to level a city, the bad feeling he was having didn’t go away. ‘Why can’t I shake this feeling of death?’ 

"Are the magic cannons ready? " LZT ancestor asked

"Yes, ancestor!" LZT members operating the magic cannons replied. 

"Fire it again" LZT ancestor urged.

Another valley of magic cannon once again bombarded the village chief. The cycle continues again and again. Every time the cannon finishes recharging, LZT ancestor orders his guild member to fire, not minding the cost. They bombarded the village chief until a canyon formed where the former is standing.

Not long after one of the magic cannons cannot take it anymore, it overheats and explodes, killing the player operating it.

“Stop!” Seeing this, LZT ancestor quickly ordered his subordinate to stop.

He then walked toward the direction of the village chief, trying to find his remains.

LZT ancestor arrived at the canyon created by cannon fires and looked down.

‘There is no way someone would be able to survive that.’

He stands around waiting for the completion of the quest when suddenly a roar sounded at the bottom of the canyon.

“Roaaaaar!” The ground shook as the roar echoed throughout Mt.Seranide, filling its inhabitants with fear. 

LZT ancestor staggered with fear as he fell to the ground. ‘It can’t be?’ 

With despair in his eyes, LZT ancestors hear a voice filled with anger coming beneath the canyon. "Roar! Insolent fools, you dare damage my master dwelling" 

Then in the canyon, a dragon flies out 

………

Meanwhile in the village.

Leon stunned, hearing the dragon's roar ‘The dragon is still here?’

‘No this is only a Wyvern.’ Spotting familiarity within the roar, Leon deduces that it was not a real dragon but a Wyvern, a lesser type of dragon.

Knowing that his chance has arrived, he closes his eyes and operates the mana he used at the combustion stone he left all over the village.

”Kaboom!” 

The moment he opens his eyes several explosions happen simultaneously around Ganiyu village. 

The whole village burned in fire.

"Hehehe revenge" 

With a smile on his face, Leon moves out of his hiding spot, his destination the village chief house.