Awakening: I Ascend As A Legendary Ranked Necromancer-Chapter 59: War chief building

The war chief’s building was bigger than I thought, almost like a mini fortress on its own. And the bodies were much more here; it was very obvious that this was the place where the battle was the thickest.

I shifted uneasily as I picked my way over the body-covered ground. Why is it that only goblin bodies are here? What are they fighting? Don’t tell me...

As if reading my thoughts, Litha shook her head. "No matter how you might want to look at it. The goblins fought and killed each other."

No one disagreed. We could see it, in the way their swords had cut into each other on the floor. Some goblins’ swords were still stuck in their neighbor’s body.

"Are you ready?" Temur said as we stepped into the building, crossing over the smashed stone door. He raised his sword sharply, but there was no one there. Just bodies and more bodies. Goblin and humans.

Awakeners lay on the ground with the goblins; they carried the same wounds as the monsters.

"So finally we see humans. A fight happened here between the two groups." Somehow, it was comforting to see human bodies, and I felt myself relax a bit.

But that didn’t explain what happened in the goblin territory, so we searched the whole place. The building was of two parts, the ground and the top that was connected by a stone stair.

We searched all the rooms below, but what filled them was blood and goblin bodies, green and red. Mixed between them were Awakener bodies. The wounds on all the bodies, monsters and humans, were all violent wounds that made the Gold team cautious as we began to climb the stairs up.

We knew there were still living beings in this building after all.

The silence and tension between us as we climbed was almost thick enough for a sword to cut through. No one talked as we focused grimly.

The thick smell of blood that covered the whole building wasn’t helping either. A single hallway met us at the top, and the stairs led us to the start of it.

Litha lifted her hand and pointed without speaking. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

We understood her. She was pointing to the end of the hallway where a room without a door lay. We saw light shining through and began to walk towards it.

Everyone got ready, and the air hummed around us with unleashed power. My eyes glowed green with power as I readied my bone spell and unholy magic.

We got in front of the door, and Temur raised his hand. He pointed at Litha and started to count down from five. Immediately, it was down to zero. We jumped in, Litha first, and she blocked the doorway with a straight shield.

I expected attacks to rain down on us, but what I heard was a chuckle. A low, dark, rumbling laugh that raised the hair on our bodies and made Dile bristle.

Litha began to expand her shield as we entered until a dome was formed around us. We froze at what we saw. Goblins and Awakeners.

The goblins were seated on a long table, slowly eating as if this wasn’t more than dinnertime for them. But we were frozen in horrified silence.

Five goblins were eating a human laid out on the table, their claws and fangs sinking into flesh and ripping it out brutally.

"Kelekekekakaka!" The goblin at the head of the table chuckled again. It was a mixture of red and green, so big it filled out its chair, with muscles stretched tight over its body. The goblin raised its head to look at us, and we flinched.

"What the hell," I said. The war chief’s head had been carved, the flesh carefully stripped away, but it was the eyes that were the strangest.

Each eyeball had been removed, replaced by red flowers made of blood that ran down its bloodied cheeks and dipped into its food. It was the same for the rest of the goblins too.

The Awakeners, on the other hand, were hung from the ceiling with thick ropes around their necks, their necks slit, with buckets underneath them to collect their blood.

Temur raised his sword. "I don’t know what is going on, but I think it’s time for some cold steel."

I nodded and swallowed. Death pressed around me, and if I listened closely, I was sure I could hear murmuring that wasn’t from this plane but not surprisingly, I felt no fear. "Let’s destroy them."

Litha brought down her shield and raised her hand where hot blue mana brewed. "Let’s be quick then," she said darkly, and sent a bolt into the chest of one of the goblins, sending it flying from its seat with a melted chest.

But the goblin stood up calmly, as if it hadn’t just been hit by an attack that ate through flesh and bone.

"Kekekeahhhhhh!" It roared and pounced forward, fast as shadow.

Litha jumped to meet it, shoving her surprise away. A small shield parried the creature’s claws, and another bolt to the head liquefied it to the chest. The monster fell to the ground with a thud. "For a moment there I thought...!!"

The blood on the ground and some in the buckets sloshed forward together and covered the monster. And as we watched, the monster returned to normal.

Litha took a step back in surprise. "Regeneration? I hate it!" She pulled her mana together again, but before she could do anything, a blur passed her side, and the monster was suddenly cut into four pieces.

Temur stared down at it, his sword pointed. "Don’t you dare stand up?"

But it did. While the other goblins at the table continued to eat.

I hung back. Something was bothering me that I couldn’t put my finger on. So physically the monsters can’t be beaten. Because no matter how we cut it up and crush it, a bit of blood and it’s already regenerated.

"How about burning it?" I suddenly said.