>>33890567
Looking at the barrier you say “That thing is going to be hard to take down. It’s going to take all of our skill, knowledge, and ability to get through this.”

You can hear the commander grunt in agreement

Continuing you add “Too bad we aren't going use any of that”

After a moment Radcliff asks “What?”

Standing up slightly from your prone position you say “We move on three”

Giving you a worried expression he asks “What are you-“ but before he can finish you yell “THREE” and rush out from your hiding place. Moving faster than you have ever moved before it feels as if your feet are barely touching the ground. The commander stares at you for a few seconds before deciding it’s too late to turn back now and joins you in a sprint.

As soon as you reach the bottom you yell at the top of your lungs “SURPRISE DEMON-FUCKERS”, the robed men all turn to see what’s going before being blasted by a lightning bolt. You manage to fry a couple of them dropping a small portion of the barrier, seeing this you sprint towards the exposed area.

Flying through the field you can hear frantic yelling as they try to close the hole you made before you reach it. As you near your objective you can see the barrier is slowly healing itself, doubling down you haul yourself towards it and not bothering to slow down you dive through right before it closes.

Tumbling into darkness and onto rough ground you eventually stop rolling, lying on the floor and breathing heavily you turn your head to Radcliff and laugh “Told you we would make it”

The only response you get is a grunt, standing up you brush off some dirt “And see, nothing bad happened at all”

Off to the side you hear someone say “I wouldn't say that quite yet”

Turning around slowly you see two huge men covered in armour staring at you, Paladins.

>Stand and fight
>Run away
>Other

>>33890586
>Run away

>>33891888
>Run away

As you stand there staring at the two men the commander picks himself up “What’s the matter? Why’d you looking at- Oh shit”

Form his helmet you can see one of the paladin’s eyes burrowing into you with hatred “Any last words before we cut you to pieces witch?”

Swallowing hard you say “Ugh yeah it’s just-“cutting yourself off you point behind them and yell “BLOODY HELL, WHAT IS THAT THING?!”

Turning in confusion the paladins look behind them to see nothing. They spin around quickly to face you again but you’re already running down the hallway with the commander in tow.

The first paladin yells out “Halt!” and they begin their chase. However, you out pace them and they’re soon out of sight. Once you think that you've put enough distance between you and them you stop to catch your breath but it won’t be long before this place is crawling with soldiers. Standing up you look at your surroundings, to the left is a long hallway that seems to curve and in front of you is a stair case going downwards.

>Go to the left
>Follow the stairs

>>33892303
>Go to the left

>>33892677
>Go to the left

Grabbing a torch off the wall you begin walking down the hallway. Walking in silence the commander clears his throat and asks “Do you feel that?”

Looking over your shoulder you ask “Feel what?”

The commander looks slightly disturbed “I don’t know; it’s just… I have this strange feeling”

You’re about to say something else when you hear a noise further down, extinguishing the torch and pushing the commander into a corner you hold your breath. After a few moments of silence a light appears in the darkness and the noise gets louder, peering around the corner you can see a small patrol of soldiers. They seem normal but the dog they have looks strange to you, as the soldiers talk among themselves the dog’s blood red eyes move back and forth as if it’s looking for its next meal.

Drawing closer the things eyes rest on where you’re hiding and begins growling, looking down the soldier holding the dog’s leash asks “What is it boy?”

You’re ready to make a run for it when suddenly a massager runs out of nowhere out of breath; the soldier holding the leash asks “What? What is it?”

Catching his breath the massager says “We have intruders by the main gate”

The soldier with the dog just sighs “Bloody mages, they had one job; keep that barrier up. But noooooooooooooo they can’t even do that. Well, we better see what’s up”

As they begin to move away the dog continues to stare at you, pulling on its leash hard the soldier says “Come on you damn demon”

With that they move towards the direction you came from. Letting out a breath of relief you move away from the corner. Now that you’re not jammed in there you can see that where you were standing is actually a door, opening it slightly you can see that the room inside is empty of people.

>Check out the room
>Continue down the hallway

>>33893315
>>Check out the room

>>33894027
>Check out the room

Looking down the hallway you don’t see anymore patrols coming so you’re pretty sure it’s safe for now. Rubbing his arm the commander grumbles “You’re too strong you know that, felt like my arm was stuck in a vise.”

Sighing you say “It didn't hurt that much, stop being such a baby”

The commander just shakes his head “Whatever, lets get out of here before more of them come”

Stopping him you say “Wait, we should check out this room first”

The commander gives the door one look and says “In all my years of military service, entering the spooky room has never been a good idea”

Grabbing another torch off the wall you say “Well we were just pressed against it a moment ago and no horrors from beyond decided to devour us so it can’t be that bad”

Pushing the door open you walk into a large room cover in paper, sheets of it scatter the floor and huge diagrams are pinned to the walls. Looking around you can a desk buried in it and mountains of paper work piled right beside the desk.

Giving the room a once over the commander says “Jeez, I didn't think the church would be this disorganized”

“You would be surprised” walking in further you can see two doors leading to different rooms along the back walls.

>Look around the room
>Enter the first door
>Enter the second door
>Leave

>>33894448
>Look around the room

>>33894448
>>Look around the room
then check the rooms

>>33894592
>>33894972

>Look around the room

Walking over to the table you rifle through the papers for a second but none of it makes sense to you. The pages are mostly filled with long equations that you've never seen before and strange markings dot the pages, the only thing that stands out is that they all talk about something called the “Purge initiative”.

Looking over to the commander you’re about to ask him about it when you see him cramming papers into his pockets, armour, where ever he can fit it. He looks up to see you giving him a confused expression. “What? Intel is important”

Shaking your head you turn your attention back to the desk, looking through the drawers you come across a journal. Pocketing it you move on to the diagrams, they’re mostly of humans but with a few animal ones here and there. All over them are notes detailing different effects on a subject’s body by different things. Shriving, you really don’t want to know how they got this data. You’re about to move on but before you can look at anything else you hear a voice ask “Who are you?”

Turning around you see a young boy standing by the second door with a raised sword, in a shaky voice he says “Do- Don’t move, in the name of the Church you’re un-under arrest.”

You and the commander look at him and then to each other, giving each other a silent nod you both rush and tackle the boy. After a brief struggle you have him tied up on the floor.

As he flops around like a fish the commander looks at you and asks “What do you want to do with him”

>Question him
>Leave him for now
>Stick him in a closet

>>33895243
>Question him

>>33895334
>Question him

Kneeling in front him you say “Listen to me; if you make a sound I’ll kill you. Got it?”

As he nods frantically you pull the rope away from his mouth, quivering he says “Please don’t hurt me, I’m just the assistant”

“Don’t worry, I’m not going to do anything to you. Well that is unless you decide to not cooperate”

It looks like he’s on the verge of tears “Ask anything, I’ll tell the truth, I promise”

“Okay first question. What is this place?”

Sniffling he says “This is research lab #50, one of the church’s field labs”

Giving him a confused look you ask “Research lab for what? I thought the church was all about burning stuff and light magic”

Looking up at you he says “That’s not true, the church conducts all the scientific research for the kingdom in places like these”

“Okay, what exactly are you doing here?”

With a look of determination he says “We’re doing research on dark magic to figure out how to make our soldiers better at killing monsters like you”

Interesting, grabbing a sheet of paper off the desk you push it in his face “So what is this all about? What’s this “Purge initiative” thing?”

Looking down slightly in embarrassment he says “I don’t really know, I’m just the lab assistant” looking back up with a pleading expression he says “That’s all I know, if you want to learn more you’re going to need to go down into the lab. Now let me go, please!”

>Leave him tied up
>Take him with you
>Let him go

>>33896109
>Take him with you

>>33896109
>>Take him with you
I will show you the world, frightening, hellish existence....

>>33896454
>>33897094

>Take him with you

Looking at you the commander asks “So, What do you want to do with him?”

Thinking for a second you kneel in front of the boy again “Hey kid what’s your name?”

Giving you a confused expression he says “Briar, why?”

Smiling at him you say “Well Briar you’re in luck, you get to join team awesome” looking up to the commander you add “Grab him, he’s coming with us”

The commander looks worried “Are you sure?”

Nodding you say “Yep”

Shaking in protest Briar asks “Do I get a say in this?”

Giving him a bigger smile you say “Nope, come on it’s going to be fun”

The commander just shakes his head, reaching down he picks Briar up and throws him over his shoulder. As Briar struggles you walk over to the second door and open it up, behind it is a stair case leading further than you can see.

Looking over your shoulder you ask “Hey Briar, this is the way to the lab right?”

Sighing Briar says “Yes, that stair case leads to the main laboratory”

Turning around you begin walking down the stairs with the other two close behind.

As you come closer to the end you can see a glowing in the darkness and soon the stairs level out into a hallway, pressing yourself against the edge of the wall and walking slowly you eventually reach the end. Peeking around the corner you see a large room filled with tubes of every kind that seem to be the source of the glowing. From the centre of the room you can hear a few people talking.

>Try to listen
>Sneak further into the room
>Rush in there and take everyone by surprise

>>33897311
>>Rush in there and take everyone by surprise
We can interrogate them later.

>>33897311
>Try to listen

>>33897311
>Rush in there and take everyone by surprise

>>33897311
>Rush in there and take everyone by surprise

Leaning closer to the commander you whisper “Okay, you take the left I take the right”

As he gives you a nod you get into position, looking over the commander’s should Briar asks “What are we-“ but before he can finish both you rush out screaming. Breaking right you move past tubes and experiments of every kind and rush for the centre of the room. As you pass by shelf covered in vials you come across a startled guard, bringing your daggers down you plunge them into his face, pushing him over you continue deeper.

Soon you reach where the voices where coming from, stopping to catch your breath you see three men in robes hiding behind four more guards. Off to the side you see another guard fly through the air and smash into a shelf causing vials to crash to the floor. Stepping out from behind a shelf you see the commander with Briar still over his shoulder.

As you two face off against the small group one of the guards yell “Who the hell are you?!”

>Tell them to surrender
>Attack
>Ask what’s going on here

>>33898566
>>Demand that they surrender

>>33898566
>Ask what’s going on here

>>33898566
"Divine Justice"
shoot lightning

>>33898566
>Tell them to surrender

>>33898566
>Tell them to surrender

Pointing a dagger at the guards you yell “Surrender now or face the consequences!”

The guards look between each other for a moment and then break into laughter, tilting your head you ask “What? What’s the matter?”

Wiping a tear from his eye one of the guards says “No offense but you guys aren’t all that intimidating, I mean the big guy might give us so trouble but other than that you don’t have much else”

Pouting at them you wave a dagger around “Hey! I’ll kick your ass for that”

This just makes them laugh harder; crossing your arms you say in frustration you say “Fine, do you really think you beat a witch”

Hearing this they stop laughing, the first guard eyes you with doubt “Prove it”

Pointing to the side you fire off a fireball, hitting a shelf it explodes and causes all the vials to light up as well. The first guard stares at the fiery mess you’ve made and looking back to you he drops his sword “Yeah, I’m not dealing with that”

The other guards follow shortly and drop there weapons as well. As they move out of the way one of the robed men yells in frustration “You fools! We have to defend the research!”

The guard just shrugs “If you want to fight it’s your funeral”

>>33900448

The robed man smiles and says “That’s where your wrong, we can’t lose when we have an angle on our side!” spinning around the robed man grabs something that looks like a knife off the table and raising it above his head yells “AWAKEN PUNISHER OF THE WICKED”.

Bringing the knife down he stabs into a figure on the table that’s covered in a sheet of cloth. After a few moments of silence you ask “So, was that your trump card or something because it hasn't seemed to wor-“

Suddenly the cloth begins to move, slowly whatever is under the cloth raises and sits up. As it sits still a hand reaches from under the sheet and pulls it away revealing a man with stitch marks all over his body.

Smiling at the strange figure the robed man says “Yes, yes, awaken and punish these fools. Deliver divine wrath upon them, show no mercy! Kill them, Kill them, KILL-“

Before he can finish his crazy rant the man sitting on the table thrusts his arm forwards and stabs the robed man’s chest. As he falls over the stitched up man slowly stands up and looks at you.

>Try to talk to it
>Kill it with fire
>Run away

>>33900485
>Kill it with fire
Also tell it straight lines are better

>>33900485
>>Kill it with fire

>>33900614
>>33900694
>Kill it with fire

As the ‘Angel’ stands there in silence the two other robed men fall to their knees and begin to pray. Looking at it in horror you ask “What is that thing?”

One of the robed men looks up and smiles at you “He is our savoir”

Giving them a quick downward glance the ‘Angel’ moves his arm at blinding speeds, from where you’re standing you feel a gust of wind blow past you. A few moments latter the kneeling men erupt in a fountain of blood.

Taking a step backwards the first guard yells “What the fuck! I'm getting out of here!”, turning around he makes a break for the exit. Before he can make it a few steps a small red line forms around his neck and his head falls off. Looking back to where the ‘Angel’ was standing you can see he’s gone.

Suddenly you hear one of the other guards scream in terror, turning to the commotion you see the ‘Angle’ standing in the middle of them, in a flash the rest of the guards fall into pieces. Covered in blood and gore the ‘Angel’ turns and looks at you with a blank expression.

Recoiling in horror you throw a fireball at it, not even flinching it takes the fireball to the chest leaving a burn mark but slowly its flesh twists and morphs to cover the wound leaving it perfectly healed. Gritting your teeth you fire off another fireball with the same effect, switching spells you let lose a lightning bolt with seems to do more damage but the wound is also healed after a few seconds.

Breathing heavily you stare at it as it stands completely still, not its eyes off of you.

>Run
>Try to communicate with it
>Attack it more

>>33901679
>>Try to communicate with it
Admin code:PraiseTheLight. Force stop.

>>33901679
>>Run
collapse the tower on top of it

>>33901679
Back up without taking your eyes off it.

>>33901679
>>Try to communicate with it
Golem? Is that you?

>>33901679
>Try to communicate with it
Parley!

>>33901679
>>Try to communicate with it
when that fails
>>Run, RUN FAST

>>33901679
>Try to communicate with it

Staring at the ‘Angel’ you ask “What are you?”

The ‘Angel’ tilts its head and continues to stare at you, looking to the commander quickly you ask “What do we do about this thing?”

He gives you a worried look “I don’t know but if this thing wanted us dead it could have done that already”

Turning back to the ‘Angel’ you see that it’s closed the gab and is now standing right in front of you, jumping back in surprise the ‘Angel’ looms over you. As it reaches out you flinch and close your eyes, after few seconds of waiting you can still feel your body in one piece. Wondering why you aren't a goner by now you slowly open your eyes, instead of slicing you into pieces the ‘Angel’ is continuously poking your cheek.

Looking at it in confusion you ask “Ugh what are you doing?”

The ‘Angel’ stops and stares at you, opening its mouth it tries to say something but the only thing that comes out is a loud shrieking noise. Giving it an even more confused look it makes a couple more shrieking noises and then sprints towards the exit.

As it disappears from sight the commander takes a cigar from his jacket and lights it, looking down at you he says “I'm not going to even ask any more”

>Chase after it
>Look around the laboratory
>Trash the place

>>33902512
>>Look around the laboratory
then
>>Chase after it

>>33902512
>Chase after it

>>33902512
>>Chase after it
IT A BABY!

>>33902512
>Chase after it

Grabbing the commander’s arm you say “Come on, we have to chase after it!”. He just sighs as you drag him along.

Sprinting up the stairs you can hear shouting and cries of pain from above, entering the room you see that the door to outside has been broken open. Looking down at the floor you can see a small puddle of red flowing from the hallway.

Slowly poking your head out the door frame you can see a sight of death and destruction, it looks like one of those patrols looking for you was unlucky enough to cross paths with the ‘Angel’. Picking your way through the body parts you see a paladin resting against the wall covered in red, he’s just rocking back and forth muttering “What have we done, what have we done”.

As you pass by he looks up at you with wild eyes, screaming at you he yells “NO, NO MORE, LEAVE ME ALONE!”

Kneeling in front of him you say “I’m not going to hurt you, tell me what happened here”

Rocking more he says “I don’t know; it just came out of nowhere. One moment we were patrolling the next everything was red.”

Grabbing him by the shoulders you give him an urgent look “Tell me which way it went”

The paladin suddenly stops rocking and smiles at you “Just follow the trail”

Leaving him muttering to himself you hurry down the hallway coming across a few fights here and there, by the looks of them they only lasted a couple of seconds. Soon you find a pair of large double doors that have been knocked off they’re hinges.

>>33903628
Entering the room you can see the ‘Angel’ just standing there, you’re about to say something to him when you hear a growl. Following the noise you see a huge dog with red eyes walk out of the shadows. As you wonder why a Hellhound is here it sniffs the air and looks over to you. Growling it charges forwards and takes a bite at you but before it reach something impacts it sending it flying.

Shrugging off the hit the Hellhound gets back up and looks at the ‘Angel’ who is now standing in front of you. Growling the creature charges, the ‘Angel’ stares at it for a second and does the same.

As those two are beating each other senseless you notice the Hellhound was guarding another large pair of doors.

>Help the Angel
>Run for the doors
>Stay out of the way

>>33903645
>>Help the Angel
MAH BABEH!
also your trip but whatevs

>>33903850
whoops my bad, there we go

>>33903645
>>Help the Angel

>>33903645
>>Help the Angel
then
>>Run for the doors
if that demon bitch is behind them I swear to god she's not walking away from this one

>>33903645
>Help the Angel

Watching the fight you can see the ‘Angel’ has a clear advantage over the Hellhound but a giant demon dog is still a tough opponent to beat. Charging forwards the Hellhound clamps down on the ‘Angel’s arm, taking the opportunity the ‘Angel’ lifts the Hellhound off its feet and throws it into the wall with enough force that the stone cracks. Looking back to the ‘Angle’ you can see that he’s missing his arm.

Pulling itself up the Hellhound charges but before it can reach the ‘Angle’ you fire off a lightning bolt. The bolt strikes the creature’s face causing it rear back in pain. Not letting this moment go to waste the ‘Angel’ rushes in and kicks it in the jaw, with a sickening crack the Hellhound falls to the floor.

As whinnies in pain the ‘Angel’ walks over to it and stomps on its neck, you hear a sharp cracking sound and the Hellhound stops moving. After a few moments its body begins to turn to ash and it blows away.

Once it’s completely gone the ‘Angel’ looks at you and smiles for the first time, giving him a smile back he wavers for a bit then falls over.

Rushing over to him the commander feels for a pulse. After a few seconds he says “He’s still alive but he’s out cold”

Sighing in relief you sit down.

>Check the last room alone
>Check the last room with everyone
>Stay with the Angel for now

>>33904444
>Check the last room by everyone
>If trouble, go, else
>Stay with the Angel for now
Maybe move him somewhere to recover/safer.

>>33904444
>>Check the last room alone

>>33904444
>Check the room alone

>>33904444
>Check the room alone

After resting for a bit you pick yourself up, turning to the commander you say “I’m going to check out the last room, stay here and take care of him”

Laughing a little the commander says “The small feisty girl goes on to fight whatever evils are beyond that door while the seasoned warrior sits here and plays nursemaid, must be backwards day”. Giving you a nod he adds “Have fun in there”

Nodding back you walk over to the doors and with a great push you open them, stepping inside you see a large circular room with huge purple jewel floating in the center. Other then that the room is completely empty save for what looks like a bed by the jewel.

Standing in the room you hear a scraping sound off in the distance but slowly it gets louder and louder, pulling your daggers out you brace yourself for whatever’s coming.

A figure moves out of the shadows but instead of the large monster you were expecting it looks like a person dragging a suitcase while they mumble to themselves. The person is obviously not a human due to the wings and horns. They haven’t seem to notice you yet as they drag the bag past you.

>”What are you doing?”
>Attack first, questions latter
>Keep watching

>>33905209
>”What are you doing?”

>>33905209
>”What are you doing?”

Looking at the figure in confusion you ask “What are you doing?”

Not bothering to look at you the figures says “Getting the hell out of dodge, what does it look like?”

Suddenly realizing that they’re not alone anymore the figure turns around and you recognize that pair of tits.

>>33906099
“Pran?! What the hell are you doing here?”

Giving you a shrug Pran says “Well someone *wink, wink* killed my last boss so I was left unemployed”. As you wonder if demons actually care about employment she continues “and these guys did the summoning ritual right so what was I going to do?”

Sighing you say “Fair enough, so are you the one putting everyone to sleep?”

Kicking some dirt around a little she says “Mayyyyyyybe”

“Okay, can you reverse it?”

Rubbing the back her head she says “You know I would if I could just for you but it’s kinda a permanent thing. You need to kill me or the thing with the enchantment on it to stop the spell”

Looking behind her you ask “Is it the giant crystal?”

Quickly looking over her shoulder she says “No, that thing? That’s just there for decoration” with that she gives a nervous laugh.

Raising an eyebrow at her she says “Fine, it’s the stupid crystal. I told them that would be too obvious but noooooooo they had to be flashy”

Sending a lightning bolt at the crystal it creates a crack along the surface, soon the crystal begins to change colours and it implodes. Looking at you Pran gives you slow clap “Great job, now can I go?”

“Wait, you need to answer my questions first”

Pouting at you she says “You get one”

“Okay, what the hell is going on around here?”

Pran thinks for a second and says “No idea, bunch of weird shit I think”

“Ugh, could you give me a little more detail”

>>33906108
Pran shrugs “I don’t know, they were messing around with demons and Alchemy and magic and who knows what else, this place is just plain weird”

Massaging your temple you say “I guess that’s all I'm going to get from you, thanks for the help”

Waving you off Pran says “No problem, oh yeah by the way you should start running”

Giving her a confused look you’re about to ask why when a large stone lands beside you, looking up you can see the ceiling beginning to crumble, looking at Pran you ask “What did you do?”

“Me? I did nothing. That was all you when you broke the jewel”

As more and more pieces begin to fall you decide you have better things to do then argue with her, turning around you sprint out the door leaving Pran yelling “Thanks for the goodbye” behind you.

Running to the commander you can see that he’s improved the ‘Angel’s condition considerably. Stopping in front of him breathing heavily you say “We need to move now”

With the ‘Angel’ and Briar thrown over his shoulders you and the commander make a run for the exit. Following the path you took to get here you eventually find the place where you started. As the ceiling and walls around you start falling apart you run towards the surface, right before everything collapses you dive into the bright sunlight.

Breathing with relief the commander looks at you “I'm never doing anything like that again”

Nodding you say “Ditto”

>>33906122
That's all for tonight, see you next time

>>33906137
yay, more friends

>>33906137
See ya, thanks for writing.