Lore/Story The Legend Of Herobrine, A Wynncraft Story Is Out (5)

It was the year 975AP, basically 25 years before today, I assume you guys haven't been born yet?' Therck asked.

'Nope, I am just 17 this year.' Skywalker said, smiling at Krisstal. 'And you are older than me, you being 18, as well as Hearolie and Reygina.'

'I'm not older; in fact we are just around one month apart from being born.' Krisstal glaring at him, hated how she felt she aged just by hearing that.

'Still makes you ... older than me.' Skywalker teased, and received a kick from his friend.

'Shut up...' Krisstal hissed at her partner in fury, she got up and sat on a chair away from Skywalker.

'Ha...' Skywalker wiped a tear and stopped his teasing, looking at a red face Krisstal.
'Anyways...' Therck continued the story, breaking the awkward silence.
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(975 AP)

'We lost Alpha squad at Pigman Ravines; Beta squad is down to half of its team members as they are fighting at the shore.

What do we do now, Sir?' A soldier said to Therck, the soldier was panting heavily, fighting off the monsters near an area full of farmhouses, between Maltic and Ragni. They had been battling nonstop alongside with his team - Delta squad and alongside their general, General Therck.

Therck frowned heavily, wrinkles and sweat formed on his forehead. The two remaining squads couldn't hold off the undead for long while his squad is getting tired. His mind racing through the situation at hand, one squad down, what do we do? How much more men did we lost? How is the city doing with his brother in charge? His head hurts as one thought came after another. But he was immune to the pain, probably due to experience as a commander for years now. The adrenaline heightened his senses, his mind messy with thoughts, but Therck managed to keep a cool head and came up with a new plan.

'Okay then. Guess we are the only squad to have a successfully defend the territories.' Therck said, 'Commander Morris, go and take half of Delta Squad and assist Beta Squad immediately, then together retreat back to north gate, hold them off there. Once there, get the two guard golems from the north gate and stationed them to the east gate and south gate respectively. You will have full command and responsibility of both squads along with Commander Turner to defend the north gate, assuming he didn't fall in battle. I will take the remaining squad and assist General Enzan is defending the city now.'



Commander Morris (Credits go to xflashx, skin name is assassian from Skindex)

'But sir, General Turner said to never split up, he said under no circumstance should a squad split up. Are you sure about this?'

'Yes commander, in the mist of battle, rules and orders have to be flexible. Sometimes breaking the rules is the right way to do. No need to be so by the book all the time.'

'Yes, General Therck! Malson, Lopez, Sanders, and Rin; you four shall come with me.' Commander Morris led the four soldiers as they raced across the plains to help Beta Squad.

'Alright recruits, let's go.' The general said, holding his 'The Berserk' as he and the remaining troopers returned to the city.
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'General Enzan, a large cluster of mobs are heading this way.' An armoured mage with green hair told Enzan, as she knocked a zombie warrior back with Enzan finishing the monster off with her wand 'Kamikaze'.



Commander Vago (Credits go to thenova000, skin name is wizardry from Skindex)

'I see them, Commander Vago. How is Gamma Squad doing?' Enzan asked while shooting a zombie archer.

'I have ordered our recruits to split into two groups and defend the North Gate and South Gate. Things aren't looking to good though. Beta squad numbers cut in half, Alpha squad completely destroyed. So far only Delta Squad had made progress.'

'I see, I hope Therck is fine. He is out there to protect the north-eastern farmhouses between Maltic and Ragni.' Enzan replied, seeing the horde approaching the gate. The golems that were protecting the eastern gate were pushed back to the bridge.

'Let's knock them off the bridge, it might not kill them, but they couldn't do anything to get back up here.' Vago said and teleported to the ledge of the bridge.

'You are doing that risky move again?' Enzan asked, knocking back the monsters to the side of the bridge and kicked them off the bridge.

'Yep, you know me well.' She jumped off the ledge; the zombies followed her down. As she was half way through landing into the water, she turned to face towards the sky and teleported once again, this time right at the edge of the dirt floor. Losing balance would be her demise. Enzan luckily pulled her up to safety in time.

'We are going to need some assistance fast.' The commander said to the general, the general nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, footsteps thundered behind them as they saw two iron golems behind them, one approaching to aid the two humans, whereas the other went to the South Gate.

'What was that for, who's guarding the North Gate now?' The third iron golem went ahead and whacked the enemies away with the two golems. With the might of three golems, the foes were driven back. In fact, some of them are leaving the East Gate and retreated back to the wilderness. But they didn't went far, as one fire zombie had its head hit so hard it detached from its neck with a sickening crack. A group of humans were returning to the city through the Emerald Trail.

'General Therck. It's good to see you and Delta Squad return. But the North Gate is defenceless now.' Commander Vago greeted Therck and Morris.

'Not to worry, it means the remaining Delta squad and Beta Squad had joined up with your Gamma Squad to defend the North Gate, that's going to be enough to fend off the attackers.' Therck said.

'Good, now we have the manpower to push back.' Morris said, he went invisible and punched and slashed the unsuspecting raiders outside the gate with his 'Ocelot Claw'. The raiders were confused and eliminated by an unsuspecting spin attack.

The two generals and commanders alongside with four recruits shot and sliced the zombies. Soon the undead were starting their retreat and the heroes can breathe easier. Enzan ordered the squads to regroup at The Square, while the commander of Beta squad, Wrock ordered the iron golems to return to their post.



General Wrock (Credits go to serwinter, skin name is armoured assassin from Skindex)

'It is unfortunate that we lost the brave souls of Alpha squad, their General Isabell and their Commander Marie. Moreover, Commander Turner has sacrificed himself to act as a diversion to lure the threat away from his fellow commander and comrades. These three heroes have proven to us and everyone in Wynn what it means to protect those they love and care. They showed us what it means to be selfless, the will of salvation for the people of Ragni, and to an extant to the people in Ragni. They died and fought for honour, for duty, and most importantly for family.' All the squad members saluted at the Ragni flag hang proudly and intact on the wall.

'Everyone!' Ragni's King suddenly came out of the throne room; his eyes gleamed with pride and hope, as he walked past the soldiers and stood in front of The Square. The citizens who were ordered to hide in their houses opened their doors and windows to greet the sun and the small yet strong army of Ragni. Their faces of happiness and relief infecting the hearts and minds of everyone, the atmosphere around them began to lighten and no more fear or sadness was present. They all watched as the King cleared his throat, everyone knew what was going to happen.

'Ragnians, are you ready?' The King's voice boomed across the square, in a tone that was never frightening but encouraging.

The generals, commanders and soldiers all raised their weapons to the air and shouted loud and proud. 'Yes!' There was no hesitation, no voice out of sync. All are confident in their reply.

'R! A! G! N! I!' The King yelled each letter out clearly, everyone in the city joined in. The citizens, the traders, the soldiers all cheered the letters one by one as one voice.

'Ragni! Ragni! Ragni!...' The cheering went on for a minute, but the vocals never grew fainter, only stronger, more powerful and more certain.

It was a proud moment for them, they have beaten their enemies, they have protected their homes and families, and most of all they did not disappoint Bob, their saviour and demi god. They knew they can't always rely on Bob and they knew they are not Bob; but they knew several things: they can fight, they can protect, and most importantly they can win.

The cheering finally died down, but even after all that shouting there was no one who was tired, on the contrary, they grew stronger, and they felt motivated and powered up. The cheering was suggested by Bob and that they will always do so every time they have successfully defend the city. It was as if an intangible power showered all over them every time they cheer. Bob lead the cheering for decades, until he became a bit too old to be the leading voice. The King of Ragni stepped in, and Bob had no rejection, he even told the King it felt right for a king or queen to lead the cheer, as it was the King's duty to lead his and her citizens and town.
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(Present day)

'We then always have a small party held at The Plaza, nothing too fancy or too lame, just enough to reset the mood move on our daily lives the next day. It is in that party that we, as generals praised our troops for their honourable and willingness to protect others. Vade was one such recruit, even though he is naturally clumsy, he is still a brave man nonetheless.' Therck said as his eyes felt relaxed, he remembered the party and how he and Enzan met Vade face to face.

'I was enlisted into the army since 970 AP, back then I was just merely 25 years old, Therck and Enzan are a decade older than me when we first met officially at the party. Enzan and Therck, the two remaining generals at that time promoted me as Commander of the Beta Squad whereas Wrock happily accepted the rank of General for the same squad. Alpha squad was "reborn" with new citizens who are willing to stay here and protect their homes instead of travelling around the world like most people do, but because they need training, it took half a year before new squad members are allowed to join battle, for they must train and understanding being part of the army isn't just about fighting the hordes of monsters outside . They usually do crowd control until their training is complete. So we only have two and a half squads of men and women during the next six months after that battle.' Vade said, taking out a yellow badge with the word 'Commander' from his shirt.

'Yay! Daddy is so strong and powerful! I can too!' Angel cheered while fastened the badge on her sleeve. 'Now I command you to give me candy!' She giggled and pointed at her father.



Angel (Credits go to intellectualmuffin, skin name is simple blonde girl from Skindex)

'Yes commander.' Enzan laughed as he gave her a sweet, she happily chewed it.

'Wait... So you are didn't get promoted to General after all these years?' Skywalker asked, looking at Enzan's blue badge marked General and Therck's green badge which were taken out by the brothers.

'I never felt like I could bear the responsibility pf being a general. Since I'm too clumsy, just look at my little accident a few days ago... and I got robbed a few weeks back because I was rushing to get to my shift on time that I forgot to lock the door.' Vade facepalmed himself and signed. 'But after Wrock's retirement, he told me personally to teach what I have learnt from him and my experience to a recruit full of potential. I taught her all I know, and although we had a rocky start; in the end, she is a great general, General Kathi her troops called her now. I remained the role of commander as I helped her rise through the rank, I was so proud of her when we decided to promote her to General of Delta squad. In fact she is right there patrolling.' Vade said, pointing at a female soldier with a bow buckled behind her back.



Kathi (Credits go to silverskateboard, skin name is warrior from Skindex)

She was a tall and fair skinned woman, her red hair tied into a braid which dangled on her shoulder. She seemed to also add a custom battle skirt as well, seeing how she didn't wear the standard armoured leggings.

'So... how did you guys came up with that combo move back in the trail?' Krisstal asked. The moves they performed to create such a glamorous yet powerful attack still as fresh as ever in her mind. It was nothing she had ever thought of that can happen nor knew of.

'It was just the day after the party...' Enzan recalled the story of how their creation came to be.
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(975 AP)



'Sir! This is an emergency!' The black hair of commander Morris moved in sync with the cool breeze the air had stirred, his slightly battered and dented armour clanged with each step he taken.

'Commander Vago? What is it?' Enzan felt surprised at the sudden news, he hoped it was not another horde attack.

'While Commander Vago and I are scouting around, we have discovered an anomaly; a huge number of zombies are heading to the south side behind the hill, we assume their destination is the Pigman Ravines or the Valley of Time and even though several of them were in close proximity to the other gates, they still continue going south... Something is not right here.' Morris replied as he looked at the peaceful south gate where several kids were playing in the pool.

'The Pigman Ravines due to the narrow paths and landslides every once in a while makes it dangerous and difficult to defend. Can you and Vago go to the entrance of Pigman Ravines and take a look with me, see if we can find anything that points to this strange behaviour.' Enzan said. The other commander heard their conversation and replied by mounting a brown horse respectively.

'Then what are we waiting for?' Vago laughed and signalled Morris to get ready.
Enzan chuckled and together they raced off through the east gate.
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(Present Day)

'We were at the quarters when suddenly Enzan tripped on the last stair, we helped him up and we heard what he had to say.' Vade said, looking at Enzan to which he nodded and let Vade continue the story.

Vade mouthed a thank you to the younger brother; he cleared his throat a bit to tell the tale clearly. The audience, even the playful Angel kept quiet.
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(975AP)

'Enzan? Why are you here and not patrolling the city?' I asked, brushing dirt off his friend.

General Wrock put down his book and stood up. 'Enzan? What's going on?' He sensed something must be very wrong and he was right.

'An enormous amount of zombies, maybe two hundred based on observation, are gathered by the entrance of Pigman's Ravines. We have an army to deal with...' Enzan said, gulping down his bottle of water.

'What? The undead are fighting this soon? This is the first time that happened, usually we have weeks or months to prepare. Where are the two commanders?' Wrock said, realising Morris and Vago still haven't return.

'They are gathering the remaining three squads or two and a half to be exact.' Enzan replied and slowed his breathing.

Therck and I cast a worried look with each other; this would be a challenge without a doubt.

Enzan took out a map and spread it out on the table, the generals and commanders gathered around the map and saw a red X is marked at north east entrance of the Pigman Ravines which they assumed it is where the monsters were gathered.

'The zombies are gathered here. We could defend the ravines much easier had it not been swarmed with Ravine Pigmen. Their gross pink skin and loose leather skirt thing, with their golden helmet and stone swords are nothing our recruits can't handle. They however beat us in quantity.' Enzan said, pointing at the marking.

'This is bad... It means we have not only need to fight zombies but also the pigmen. We are heavily outnumbered and the passage to Troms is cut off, guarded and rampaged by a Pigman Overlord there. We would have killed it were if not the sheer numbers of mobs. Forget it, we can't win this.' I signed, feeling hopeless at our victory. What could we do? Bob is not here in Ragni, plus his age is catching up to him, he is not in his prime anymore.

'Commander Vade, you should be ashamed of yourself. Such poor attitude and mentality! How could the troops fight with such low morale? You are their example and should start being one!' Wrock scolded, hitting me with his Phantom Blade's handle.

'True! We haven't even start the battle.' Therck signed, picking up his 'The Beserk' while Enzan buckled his bow, 'Savannah Wind' behind his back.

'Yes sir! Sorry sir!' I said, grabbing my 'Sloth' as we went down to meet up with the rest of the people to discuss a plan.
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'Wait, wait, wait.... Savannah Wind?' Enzan asked, 'No! I used 'The traveller' for the war, isn't it?' The retired general scratched his head, confused with the conflicting memory and story.

''No... It was 'Savannah Wind', I'm sure of it..." Vade argued.

'Vade's right, stupid! A Fruma recruit gave you 'The Traveller' just one month ago. You found 'Savannah Wind' in a loot chest near the east gate! Have you been lying to everyone?' Therck scoffed at his brother.

'No! Just bad memory, sorry OK?' Enzan retaliated and shouted. 'My bad! Happy?'

'Sorry for shouting.' Enzan apologized seeing how he frightened Angel a bit.

'It's okay, brother. Just think twice before you say anything and sorry for triggering you off.' Therck said.

'K' Enzan signed and sat back down.

Unbeknownst to them, a shadowy figure had been listening to their conversation. He had watched them ate dinner and listened to their story, it was interesting hearing that story from the human's perspective. For he too knew of this particular battle, and he has a different perspective...
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(Back in 975 AP)

While the humans were preparing for battle, the same mysterious figure reappeared in front of the horde. He has a purplish black mist surrounding his body, and wore a hood that covers hides his face. He didn't how the humans didn't saw him, probably because his clothes camouflaged him well. The undead obediently lined up behind him, listened carefully to his orders. They knew what he is capable of, not only he does have special powers, but has a strong determination to get his revenge, and the skill he has with his axe is unmatched. This maybe his first time leading battle, but nevertheless the monsters obey his command for he treats the troops with respect during their training and practise.

'The time has come... attack!' His ghostly voice reaches the ears of the zombies. One by one they rushed towards the ravines and were on their way to get the humans. But suddenly loud explosions echoed across the ravines, the rocks crumbled and crashed down onto several zombies at the front, burying and squashing them. The leader of the horde performed several backflips and got away in time.

'What? A landslide?' He looked at the rocks which completely blocked the path, their advancement came to a halt. They heard another explosion, making more rocks to tumble and stacked upon the previous ones, climbing over them would be difficult and dumb, as they could make the rocks collapse and get themselves injured.

'So the humans attempt to cut us off by blocking the path, alright then. Fire zombies, destroy these barriers that protect the humans.' He shouted, the monsters blasted the rocks but made little to no progress, more rocks crashed on the old ones, the wall got even higher He halted the monsters, which they immediately stop their attack.

'This is going nowhere, it would be better if we just choose another path, or...' He smiled, 'The horde shall retreat now, I have a way to outsmart the humans...' He said, leading the pack away from the ravines.
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(Readers' perspective)

'Nice thinking using the cannons, general.' Vade said, giving the order to fire a cannonball at the ravines.



'Of course it is, I'm the one who thought it.' Wrock smirked. 'Even if we can't destroy the horde, we are slowing them down and reducing their numbers at the same time.'

'Too bad we haven't fully explored the rest of the ravines, would be better to know if we are hitting anything at all. We are firing shots just based on our estimations on distance.' Therck replied, having fun shooting the cannonballs.

'That's a pity for sure, but we don't really have a choice. Seeing how we don't usually have a chance to explore around without getting killed by everything, but we are making good use what resources we have.' Wrock said, seeing the cannonballs sail and battered against the rocks.

'Morris, Vago, Enzan.' Vade shouted, 'how are things going down there? Holding up?'
'Hell yeah, this isn't so bad.' Enzan shouted, firing arrow storms at the pigmen. Morris used his weapon to hold a pigman in place, letting a warrior troop to kill the mutant. Vago teleported around an archer zombie, confusing it while dodging every shot from it. Vago panted a bit but managed to blast the pigman till it died.

'Sir, listen! Something is not right.' A female assassin suddenly yelled, the humans quieted down, and hear the voices of the undead everywhere.

'They must have split up! Fire the cannons at every path!' Wrock commanded.

'But we only have a dozen cannonballs left...' the operator next to him said.

'Do it!' Wrock barked. 'Even if we can't kill all of them, we are reducing their numbers.'
The operators obeyed and fired every last cannonball at random directions, dust and silence filled the Ravines.

'Haha...' A maniac laughter echoed through the ravines, sending chills down the humans' spine. 'You thought you killed some of the zombies? You didn't killed any after the initial attack. I just ordered my zombies to make noises at the entrance routes of the ravines, what you heard were their echoes, not the actual zombies. Good luck fending off the zombies now.' The figure had been invisible all this time, seeing how the humans are looking around frantically for the source of the sound is entertainment, he could sense their fear increasing.

'Why you...' Wrock exploded realising he had been tricked. 'Show yourself and fight us, instead of hiding in the shadows.'

'I will when I feel like it. Good luck surviving! Attack!' His ghostly voice made the humans' hair stood on ends. It was like a nightmare but in reality, their morale is disappearing rapidly, which the invisible man is hoping to achieve, weakening their will to fight, crushing them mentally and then physically.

The zombies heard their leader's command, and commence their attack, without the cannonballs, they have absolutely zero resistance or difficulty in advancing.

'Archers and hunters, go to the house rooftops and on this gate to shoot. Everyone else...' Wrock jumped down from the southern gate, and equipped his weapon.

'Hold the gate. Golems, you must protect the other two gates, I think their leader can be invisible, and he could lead an attack through the others gates. You six golems are needed to prevent anyone from entering at all costs.' The golems saluted and hurried to the other gates.

Therck, Wrock, Vago and Morris stood in front of the warriors, assassins and mages whereas Enzan stood on top of the gate. They equipped their weapons as they saw the first of many zombies rushing towards them.

'For Ragni!' Wrock shouted and raised his weapons before slashing his weapon into the side the the zombie, Vade immediately impale the zombie knight a few times and sliced the zombie lengthwise.

The first foe had died and the humans wanted to make sure every zombie perish.
The warriors immediately rushed forward and clashed with the zombie knights. The archers shooting the zombie archers and visa versa. Mages fire particles which collided and exploded with the fire zombies' fireballs. Assassins of humans and zombies locked blades with one another. It was pure chaos, as while the zombies have the quantity advantage, the humans have the quality advantage. Spells from the humans rained at the zombies and the pigman, the monsters retaliate by swarming at the gate.

The hooded figure figured it's time to have some fun, he took out a weapon which caught Wrock's attention who 'General Wrock, is it? This thing here is my weapon, Drakefang.' The man was now visible to everyone. The Drakefang has two giant, boomerang shaped bones clamped at where the giant axe head made of bone as well is welded to the wooden haft. Wrock nodded at the mysterious person in front of him, a weak zombie tried to surprise attack the general but the general just kicked it out of harm's way, the weak zombie then got destroyed in the crossfire.

'You know me, but who are you?' Wrock asked he knew his next battle will be with him.

'I don't know either.' The man said as he held his Drakefang tight and launched himself straight at Wrock.
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Enzan and the archers were lucky they don't have to attack head on with the monsters. They saw the close range fighters dodging and attempting to kill one another, so far they had only lost a few comrades and eliminated half the undead army.

'This is going to end better than I expected, out of the 25 people we have, we only lost 3 warriors and 1 assassin. This is not such a bad battle.' An archer said, facing her fellow hunter.

'Don't get distracted yet, we don't know what they are capable yet!' The hunter said.

'Good thing those undead can't aim.' The archer laughed, five fire zombies noticed the archer had lowered her guard. They all launched a fire ball attack at her, the archer was shot and fell from the roof of where she was standing and fell to the pavement below, the armour prevented her from fatal injuries but she was knocked unconscious.

'Instant karma.' The hunter signed, looking at his friend being carried to the hospital by several civilians.

Enzan, Therck and Vade were busy fending their troops when they heard a loud crash behind them. They turned around and see General Wrock fighting the mysterious man. The Drakefang crashed down at Phantom Blade, as Therck was pushed back with every blow. Therck was surprised, his enemy had both immense strength and speed, he was always more offensive in his approach, but before he could make any attempt to slash at his enemy, the sharp bone would always be there to hack off his limbs, locking Therck into defensive mode at all times. After a few swings and clashes, Therck managed to successfully catch the giant axe, looked down just in time to glimpse the bottom of a boot headed right for his sternum, and smacked him tumbling onto the cold floor of the city.

Seeing how Therck was still recovering from the blow, Enzan jumped off the gate and used the arrow shield spell as he charged straight for the attacker, then he launched 'Arrow Bomb'. The axe wielder did a few backflip to prevent from bring hit by the bombs, he skidded to a stop and took out a dagger from his cloak and threw it at the charging Enzan. The dagger made contact and triggered the spell to disappear, the dagger got repelled and embed to a nearby wall while leaving the archer vulnerable to the axe that was heading right for his hand. Wrock got up in time to duck under the axe head and quickly push Enzan out of harm's way, the axe grazed at his helmet as loud scratching noises vibrated to the surroundings. He kicked Enzan and Wrock back to gate entrance but the two humans were able to recover their sense of balance and landed on their feet stumbling, which caught the attention of several mages and archers who were at the back of the warriors, knights, assassins and ninjas.

Several mages looked back and launched their meteor spell at the hooded man. But he turned invisible once again, the mages frantically searched for their foe; only to be kicked and punched by an unseen force. Archers buffed by the war scream spells shoot arrow rains at the gates while avoid hurting their comrades; however the man reappeared in front of them with a smirk and using his battle axe like a bat, whacked the arrows right back at the archers. They were able to dodge the attack in time with their escape spell, but this let to the other warriors losing cover fire for the time being. The man turned invisible once again, the archers and mages knew they had lost track of him, and decided to continue to provide supportive fire for their allies. Unbeknownst to them, Therck and Wrock were pushed back to within the city floors, the three continued their duel back where they started it.

The undead numbers were withering, down to the reaming fifty or so, but the close combatants were struggling a bit without the help from the archers and mages for that brief moment of time just now. Therck and Vade were in the front lines using spells and hand to hand combat to brawl the monsters, the humans managed to back the monsters into a line which Therck took notice and suddenly got a brainwave. He yelled at Vade, his voice barely audible.

'Vade, use your uppercut spell on me!' Therck shouted.

'What? Are you crazy? You'll get hurt by my attack!' Vade said.

'Don't argue with your superior. Do it!' Therck said, as he prepared to cast a spell which Vade knew what it is.

Vade obediently launched Therck to the air as he finished casting the spell for 'War scream'. Vade immediately caught up and ordered his fellow close range fighters to knock the horde back with War Scream and Mutihits along with their variants at where Therck was aiming. The spell attacks knocked the right side of the monsters back till they were behind the monsters on the left. The monsters were pushed back together, forming a uniform circle for the last attacks to end it all. Therck while falling back to the ground shouted at the archers and mages.

'Use your area damage spells now at them and don't stop till you drop.' The general yelled. Meteors, Arrow Rains and Arrow Bombs covered the sky as the attacks were spammed one after another. The undead stood no chance but due to their lack of senses. They were all crushed by the explosions, body parts of all sorts flew everywhere. It was a disturbing sight to behold for some newer people, but it meant one thing - victory. They squads cheered at their success, some high five each other, some fist bumped each other, some just collapsed and lay on the ground.

Commander Morris and Vago exchanged a hug whereas General Therck mouthed 'Thank you' to commander Vade. The pigmen rushed back into the deeper parts of the ravines, frightened and ran like cowards.

However, their celebration was short lived. They saw Enzan and Wrock being knocked down by the single enemy.

'Troops, you won't be able to defeat him. So stay out of this. Commanders ,let's go!'

Therck ordered as the four stronger soldiers charged at the man.

'Oh? Six against one?' The man asked, Therck saw no facial expression due to the cloak covering his face, but the tone send shivers to him. They outnumbered him heavily, but he sounded as calm as ever, even acting terrified.

The six humans surrounded the cloaked man, two warriors, one dark wizard, one assassin, one ninja, one archer. The other soldiers went up to a higher and safer to watch the fight.

When everyone was seated, the generals and commanders headed straight for him. Enzan and Vago fired their attacks at their adversary, which he effortlessly dodged and blocked. Morris and Wrock slashed at him, with their claw and blade but the organic weapon simply proven to be tougher than it looked, not even a scratch were made. Therck eyed Vade and then pointed at Enzan, Therck yelled at Enzan to fire his arrow spells at the antagonist. Enzan braced himself as he prepared for launch, his feet felt hot even with the tough armour boots he wore. He was right above the man where he fired arrow storms at him, but his arrows were deflected by the spinning motion of the axe. He landed in time to see Vago using her move, teleporting around the antagonist as an attempt to confuse the male, but as if he could read her mind, he raised his leg and yanked at his left side, right at that exact moment Vago appeared, the combatant grabbed the dark wizard by the throat with blazing speed and threw her right into the solid ground, her armour cracked a bit from the impact, her body didn't move after that. Morris roared and charged straight at him, the warnings of Wrock became inaudible to his ears, before his claw could even touch the skin of his foe, he watched wide eyed as the person in front of him flipped over him and before he could react. A streak of white hit him right at his helmet, but the helmet almost gave no protection to Morris's head. He felt a sharp pain as red blood trickled in front of his head and he dropped to the floor and fainted. His associates stunned and couldn't move at all even if they wanted to, too shocked at the sight.

Their enemy picked Morris up by his leg and threw him towards the wizard, whom was still dazed from her injuries. However, all she saw was the armoured assassin sailing towards her, she tried to catch him but the force was too strong and they both crashed to the floor once again. She let out a groan and passed out as well, next to the bleeding Morris.

Therck motioned several mages to heal her, surprisingly their adversary threw the mages a few healing potions.

'No tricks, you can try drinking a bit to test.' The ghostly voice echoed across the street.

Vade seemed surprise that someone would help his or her foe, Wrock seemed a bit shocked as well, but show no facial expression of that emotion. Therck eyed at him suspiciously, trying to read what that person's mind is thinking. Enzan prepared his bow to fire an arrow at any moment their enemy tried something.

The mages tasted the potions and confirmed it was the real deal, they even drank a bit and sure enough, their own wounds showed signs of recovery. They darted past and behind the imposing figure and spoon fed the commanders, sure enough they began to make sounds, indicating they are no longer unconscious.

'Why are you helping them?' Therck asked, giving up guessing what was going on through the person's mind in front of them.

'I have more humanity than the mobs out there.' He smirked, sending a sense of uneasiness to the crowd, even the wounded commanders glared at him, not believing a word he said.

'Now then...' He looked at his Drakefang, admiring the organic weapon once again.
'Shall we continue?' He said as he looked at his precious weapon, as if talking to it. He immediately had his sights locked on the remaining four warriors. 'I can't wait to kick your asses, again.'

Enzan answered nodding at Vade, immediately knowing what to do. Enzan jumped and got launched to the air, performing a few flips to adjust his momentum and firing the spell 'Arrow Bomb's below him. A few arrows missed but Therck was already doing the War Scream spell, which pushed any bombs that missed their mark to be boosted and pushed forward, which is heading towards their intended target. The arrows went forwards and downwards at the same pace, their opponent looked generally shocked at that coordinated attack. He gritted his teeth, as if waiting for the perfect timing. Seeing him being distracted, Wrock turned invisible after giving his allies a visual cue.
Their enemy dodged the arrows from above by jumping back a few meters, and threw his axe forward, making contact with the bombs and preventing him from taking damage from the archer's attack, but his cheek got burned a bit from the heat. Moreover, the axe got blown away, leaving the antagonist unarmed. When he tried to reach for his weapon, Wrock while invisible used 'Leopard Punches', not expecting that surprise attack, he got trapped him in a fury of attacks, driving him further from his weapon. He winced in pain but a smile appeared on his face.

He wiped a small amount of blood from his cheek and laughed. 'Good... This is a fun battle...' His murmured to himself, 'for me that is.' He began disappearing.

Therck, Enzan, Vade and Wrock formed a line in front of the panic stricken youngsters. In a flash, the Drakefang was lifted in the air and the axe began making its way towards the four heroes with speed so great it gave the humans tunnel vision, as if cutting the air in half. As it was about to approach them, the man reappeared holding the axe on its sides, charging at them as if to ram them.

The four men dropped their weapons to grab hold of the charging weapon, the four humans grabbed the axe's handle. They try to push the axe wielder back, only to hear a giggle from the other end. The man yelled as he began overpowering the four humans, his immense and inhuman strength began pushing back the four men slowly but surely, their armour boots grinding against the floor titles. Therck and Vade did a war scream spell to in an attempt to boost their strength, yet the man sniggered, as he did a hand sign that made Wrock gasped. Suddenly, the strength the four humans just gained was gone whereas the already inhuman strength seemed to doubled. The four humans realized what had happened. Before Wrock, Vade or Therck can bolster their power, the axe suddenly moved upwards, carrying the four humans along with it. Their problems weren't over however, not only were they lifted up to the air, during their airborne, their foe smiled a maniacal grin as he used 'Multihit' on them. With the added strength and extreme close proximity, the humans were hit and knocked back so hard that they released their grip from the handle and went flying across the air. They crashed into the floor like Morris and Vago did earlier, some on their backs, some on their chests. The four staggered and struggled to get up after enduring those brutal attacks, the armour cracked and dented.

Suddenly, a solider who wore a custom made battle skirt shouted. 'You can do it! Get up and save Ragni!'

Hearing her words, the soldiers who were ordered to stand back began cheering for them and encouraging them to fight, some of they even began singing the cheer like they did yesterday, hoping to give them strength, knowing those four are their only hope. The man looked amused by the sight, until the same female soldier launched a war scream spell at him. He blocked the attack with his enormous axe, being pushed back a bit, his amusement became an annoyance, and threw smoke bombs at the fighters and one particularly aimed for that girl that overestimated herself. They all were unable to escape the smoke radius, they coughed violently and some even passed out, unable to heal themselves and still tired and injured from their previous battle.

The voices reached to the ears of their superiors nonetheless, they slowly stood back up and faced their rival. Wrock heard the words of encouragement, however a female voice stood out than the rest, he saw the voice coming from a girl, no, a woman. The woman collapsed from being directly hit from the attack, but she let an impression to him. Her courage to lead, her bravery to speak, he nerve to fight; even against the odds...

'She has the potential to be a great commander. And maybe a general in the future' Wrock thought, seeing her body limped and fell on the roof angered him... He will avenge her, he will avenge them.
His dagger found its way to his hand. The others held their weapons in their hands. Even the remaining troopers seemed to want to get into the action, they glared at the man.

Therck did a war scream and they all charged right at him. Assassins turning invisible, Warriors and Archers giving buffs to one another, they all rushed right for their target. He saw all of them running right at him, cracked his knuckles and began his move. First, he turned invisible to avoid being spotted, under the speed boost he was right next to the humans without being seen, he again absorbed their buffs as he began beating the soldiers with his weapon. His feet making contact with armour and body parts, sounds of pain could be heard with every contact he made. After toying with the weaker ones, he launched himself straight for Enzan, who somersaulted away before the axe could be stained red with his blood. Therck glanced at Vade and then looked at his hammer, Vade again made no comment but jumped on the hammer, instead of expecting a 'War Scream' he got launched to the air. He saw his target below him and used his own war scream spell on him, pressing their foe on the ground. A grunt could be heard, as Therck released uppercut spells. The attacks successfully made contact as he wasn't able to escape and he got thrown up to the air in flames, and receiving an explosion that surrounded him. He fell to the ground, with his axe imbedded to the floor just a few meters from him, his cloak ripped from the attacks, and even he began to feel fatigue. His tried to get up, only to feel a sudden sharp pain that slashed his cloak and his face. He roared in pain, and saw a certain general reappearing in front of him. He had felt for the same trick twice.

There was silence, everyone stood still with not a sound coming out. A strong wind blew and most of the cloak that was once covering their figure sailed along with the wind. All that's left standing in front of the humans is a person, who wore a mask. A grin and evil looking pumpkin mask. Behind that mask, purplish and black aura leaked through the cracks of the mask like smoke coming out from a fire. The man wore a plain blue shirt and purple pants, his skin was surrounded with the same dark aura.
'Impressive you injured me, though just a bit.' He yanked his axe from the solid floorboard. The Drakefang wasn't damaged at all. 'Goodnight kids.'

Suddenly as he grabbed the weapon, he felt a sudden surge of power flowing into him. He at the same time experienced a vision and a voice, he heard the three words, 'Defender' and 'Wounding Strike'. He saw himself raising his weapon and hit Wrock. A mage tried to heal him but... he wasn't healed at the normal rate but in a much slower pace. The vision ended as he came to his senses. He felt even stronger, even faster. He felt he could fight longer than before.

'Even if the healing potions and heal spells are not at their full power, it shouldn't take that long... Unless my new attack could...' He thought to himself as he heard a cry.

Wrock held his weapon tightly, charging right for him. The masked man however rolled to the side the with a cry hit Wrock towards the troopers. He crashed into them, and yelled in pain. The mages healed him with their heal spells, however they looked shocked at their rate of healing, a few mages did the healing spells but it seemed as if no healing was done at all. Wrock was about to take out a healing potion whereas Vago walked towards him to attempt her own heal spell, when all of a sudden the healing effects returned to normal, but Throck was still having difficulty standing as all of them were confused as to what happened.
The masked man looked in his axe in awe. He realised his vison is a reality now.

'Wounding strike...' He murmured, and turned to look at Vade. He jumped and slashed his weapon at Vade, Vade quickly used his 'Sloth' to block the axe but was overwhelmed immediately. Therck used his hammer to help protect Vade, but it did nothing. The axe wielder strike their unarmoured arms, forming deep cuts that leaked blood. They screamed in pain and was kicked away, landing flat on the ground. The axe man aimed at Enzan, before Enzan could react his neck was grabbed and he felt a strong kick driven into his stomach. He coughed a bit blood out and was thrown straight to where the other humans are. He landed heavily and rolled to where the others were.

Vago lead the mages to use meteor over and over again, Morris lead the remaining forces. They all launched their meteors, war screams, arrow storms.... But the masked man just stood there, his arms opened wide, as if taunting the attackers, mocking and insulting even with their combined strength can't harm him anymore. The attacks hit their mark, dust filled the air, the entire scene was quiet. Everyone remained quiet, and after what felt like an eternity the smoke and dust cleared, revealing the person that they combined all their power to attack was still standing in the middle of a crater.

'My turn!' The mask man used a Multihit and knocked everyone back. With his astonishing speed, he high jumped and aimed right for Wrock's sweaty neck.
But Wrock's neck was never severed. All he heard is a loud clang and was faced with a black and green handle. The spear was one of a kind, a long space dark handle, brilliant green crystals encased some parts of the staff. The spear head is a sparkling green crystal encased with the same black material. And everyone knew only one person holds this weapon.

'Bob!' Wrock whispered. The smoke cleared and revealed the demigod of Ragni himself. The humans cheered while the masked man groaned.

'Bob...You will pay for what you did to me.' He hissed.

'Ehm... Who are you exactly? I never met you before...' Bob asked, trying to rememorize the people he met for the past 121 years.

'You didn't save my love ones when you had the chance. You ignored their plead for help, you let them die.' The man behind the mask growled, he took his Drakefang while went to retrieve the dagger he had threw earlier. He attached the dagger to his ankle, once made eye contact with Bob again, he zoomed towards Bob, making an attempt to kill the demigod he once worshipped. Bob, despite his old age was moving unnaturally. His movement may have slow down whereas his strength diminishing with every passing time, but he still and will be the demigod of Ragni, and for good reason. The black and green spear in his hand morphed into a dagger, yet another oversized one. Their weapons clashed, the masked man jumping around trying to land a deadly hit with his axe and the dagger, but Bob while staying on the same spot moved his blade so swift and powerful, he became an impenetrable wall. Frustrated, the mask man backflipped to gain some distance between them. He was about to threw his axe like a boomerang when suddenly...

'Frost Serpent!' Ice blue and snow white colours of ice were raging towards him. He tried to turn invisible and dodge the attack with his increased speed but it was too late. The ice froze him in place, leaving his head free. He saw Bob holding not his dagger but yet a wand, the same colour scheme of green and black.

The wand morphed back into his dagger as Bob shouted. 'Fire Bomb'. But the masked man couldn't break free. The spell crashed into him, exploding in his face.

Bob landed gracefully while the masked man got thrown back, though he finally got free from the icy grasp. The masked man felt rage boiling within him, he will make Bob pay for ruining his life. He ignored the blood and pain his body is having. There he is, an old man standing in front of him. He can finish him with his new power. He charged once again straight for him, preparing to use 'Wounding Strike'.

Bob never gave him a chance. He signed at how impulsive his opponent became, a foolish mistake indeed. His dagger transformed to the brilliant spear that saved Wrock's life, and with the spell he said, 'Rising Upper cut'. Brown particles travel on the earth in front of him, they travelled forward till they reached where the masked man was, suddenly the earth under the antagonist feet raise up at such speed that it looked like a blur. The sudden rise of the ground caught his adversary completely off guard and he got rocketed sky high.

'Ah!' The pain grew stronger than ever. 'No... I just need to land one attack. I can't fail.' He thought to himself, he struggled to open one eye to see what Bob is preparing to do. His hand clutching onto his axe.

Sure enough, the spear transformed into an emerald and black colour bow, just like his other weapons. 'Arrow Barrage' Bob shouted. The arrows with their tips on fire and smoke zipped across the night sky and headed straight for the falling man.

'This is it. I'm too hurt and tried to continue...' He saw the arrows closing the distance, down below he saw the humans cheering and clapping, while Bob winked at him. Seeing that wink, he felt insulted, he heard a few words from his mouth before he made got exploded once again and made landfall were 'You piece of...'

Boom! The arrows exploded as his entire body rubbed against the hard floor. A bloody red line formed from where he landed till where he stopped.

'You're defeated, surrender!' Bob said holding his spear and pointing to the defeated person.

'Ne...Never.' The pumpkin mask man said, using his axe as a support to stand up. His body full of blood and bruises, his shirt and pants torn beyond repair. 'You may defeated me this time, but... this isn't last time we meet.' Suddenly, he felt his mask got teared off from his face, his whole face revealed to everyone there.

Bob held his weapon with one hand, and the mask with the other. He looked at the mask in every angle and his eyes widen.

'This... This is a haunted mask. Master Mael... Where did you get this. Answer me.' He looked at the foe he defeated. However, he was not expecting what he saw. A pair of glowing white eyes stared back at him, he felt his glare staring into his own soul.



Hooded man/ Masked man/ Herobrine
(Credits go to freddyfazbear66677, skin name is cloaked herobrine from Skindex)

'You...' Wrock gasped in realization. 'Brian... Is that you?' He dropped his dagger, confused and bewildered at his old friend that he thought was missing all those years ago, would be the one to hurt him.

'Brian is dead, now it is Herobrine. And I will crush this very town that you were born in, Bob! Until next time.' Herobrine raised his axe at Bob and turned invisible before anyone can stop him. The humans fired their spells everywhere but it became clear that he is gone. Soon the humans were left alone on the quiet street.
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'There was no cheer, there was only shock. I could never forget the look on Wrock, he seemed tormented and he was never the same again. Sometimes I ask him about it, but he would just say he's fine. None of us never knew what was going on. Bob immediately left after that night, saying he has to deal with that mask urgently. Why? He never told us. But we began to rebuild the destroyed parts of town and soon Ragni was back. We fight off the monsters but we never did saw Herobrine since then...' Vade concluded the long story.

There was nothing but silence. Everyone remained where they sat until Angel stiffed a yawn and placed her head on his dad's lap, who began snoring and drooling.

'Oh wow, its so late already. I side tracked too much. I told more than how we made that combo move...' Vade said, looking outside the night sky. 'Way past Angel's bed time. You two should go home.' Enzan and Therck nodded as they bid farewell, they shut the door quietly. The two brothers greeted a few patrolling soldiers, and went to their house.

'Pardon me, but why didn't you use better weapons than you had back in those battles all those years ago?' Skywalker asked, feeling ironic that the people should have gotten better gear than that, and won battles much easier with less casualties.

'A good question, mainly because when an undead horde does in fact enters the city, they loot and raided everything, potions, food, weapons, armour, gears... This list goes on. Back then, even after we won the battle, the price is heavy. Trade routes have existed for decades that goes to other towns, but with the monsters keep spawning and appearing from the portal and the human population more or less the same over the decade since the portal appeared.. It's hard for us for have successful runs and get good loot and trade. Most of our stuff are mob drops until recently so they are limited in power. Don't forget, the corruption affects all of Wynn, so it's not just us who have difficulties, it's every human settlement and town. Each town is fighting for their own survival, so Fruma letting their recruits come to Wynn to help us is a huge relief and joy. So thank you!' He patted the two Fruma recruits.'

'Feel free to sleep here using the two folding beds I kept in that chest next to the stairs, sleep well and continue your journey. Maybe help a few citizens, I'm certain they will appreciated. Good night.' He said as he carried the snoring Angel upstairs.

The two were left alone at the living room.



'Sky? I think I found my purpose. I'm going to help people like yours. Seeing Angel happy is ... heart warming.' Krisstal said, taking off her boots and helmet, putting them next to the door. She rested her spear on the table like Skywalker's dagger.

'Awesome. I'll support you as always, besides I have a new goal. Finding Herobrine and learn about him.' Skywalker said smirking with confidence.

'Yeah sure. No one found him for 25 years. He could be anywhere.' Krisstal said, laying on a couch.

'You don't know that...' Skywalker replied, and rested his head on the soft leather.

Herobrine while invisible jumped from the roof and landed outside the window, seeing and listening to everything they did and said. He thought to himself. 'I'm much closer than you think...'

He smirked as he left, sprinting back to the portal.
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Author Note

This is a long chapter, second longest for the whole story so far. There are lots of reasons why this is needed to be a long chapter. Firstly, to give you an idea how battles with the undead and corruption looks like; people do actually die, but they also fight to live as well. Secondly, to introduce how (in my story) Ragni's army works and operates, different squads sent to defend territories that are swarmed and conquered by the undead, like in real army would do, protect their country and their own people. Thirdly, if you recall in chapter two of my story, I discussed how Krisstal didn't really have a purpose to be here, well now she has. Fourthly, I want to add a bit more lore to my timeline, showing how different battles were in the past and the present day, such as the usage of cannons in the past. But now with the help of Fruma recruits, trading of much better stuff became more accessible and thus the whole city has a much better chance of defending themselves than in the past, emphasising how life was harder for everyone back then. Fifth, I finally get to introduce the Antagonist for my story, Herobrine himself. Through this chapter, we finally learned of his minor past and motivation for attacking Ragni, why is he interested in Sky and Kriss will be explained further down the story. With Herobrine finally having a place in the story, I also could put the warlords weapons into my story with a solid introduction (from my point of view). Of course, in the game there are no such weapons, but they are just so awesome when animated by Youtubers such as Rainimator and NinjaCharlieT, I just couldn't resist how legendary these weapons are, and I will make sure to make the Hypixel Warlords weapons are portrayed as such.

School is about to start and I will be more busy, thus I will post shorter word counts for my future chapters (Maybe around 5000) unlike this one lol.

Also which title for this story is better? 'The legend of Herobrine' or 'For the Wynn'. 'Wynn' as in 'Win'. For the Wynn the basically the name of the group/team/guild for Skywalekr and his friends (like Fairy Tail), more characters will join this guild down the line as well. I couldn't really decide on which title fits my story better, plot won't change, but both titles seem to match, keep in mind Herobrine won't always be the antagonist. There are lots more, but let's just say Herobrine has a major part in all this as well.

Thank you every officers, admins, builders... that has created and developed Wynncraft. Do share important information about Wynncraft, such as easter eggs and timelines or even 'wynn'consistencies. (The term is not created by me; credits go to whoever comes up with this.) As knowing these will help me improve my story. Thank you once again for reading till the end. I do not own anything except this story. oh and if you are interested , I could add you as characters (only minor roles sorry), just send me your name and a screenshot of your character (with or without gear)in wynncraft, preferably you front, side and back. It would be a bonus if you can list out the names of your gear and mount. (Makes me able to write your character a lot cooler than just saying your name.) Thank you all.

P.S. After the author's note, I exceeded 10000 words. Holy Peppered.

 

Wow, that's a lot of writing. Good job!

 

Thank you. But it is worth it if you enjoy reading my story .

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Thank you once again for your support like before . I never wanted to make a crappy story that has nothing at all in the end and call it a day. When I wrote this ,I want to give it all and challenge my own skills, but most importantly give readers an enjoyable experience ,because that's the sole response and motivation I need to keep going . Plus I enjoy writing this ,even if it takes years to finish .