Dust and blood swirled around Grover's boots as they emerged from the Crypt's gaping maw. Sunlight, harsh against his cave-accustomed eyes, revealed Shambala perched on a nearby rock, a mischievous glint in his golden eyes.“Let us find a place to clean up this blood and dust from ourselves,” Shambala said to the team as they began to search for a watering hole to do so.“There is one watering hole we could use,” Krystal pointed out as they made their way to it.“Justin and Riley just crossed my mind; I was wondering if they would be done with the training manual Sensei gave them,” Vladimir said.“Hahaha, they cannot exhaust the training in the manual. I used magical ink to write down the instructions, and every week it renews to a new set and routine to be carried out. They may or may not be missing out on anything right now. Nice right?” Shambala asked after explaining."Yes, Sensei, it is quite thrilling. I was not expecting that to be the case, though. You really thought it throug
Shambala laughed as he saw the look on his face.“I do not know what to do, Sensei. I am confused,” Grover said.“I can see that young lad. You just have to summon the Raven spirit to assist with the outsmarting aspect, and you are good to go. Since you are already its master and it resides in you, all you have to do now is call on it, and it will answer,” Shambala explained.“Is that all, Sensei? And I will be able to have the outsmarting ability.” Grover asked."Yes, lad,” Shambala retorted. Grover stared at the ground for quite some time, a mixture of confusion and frustration swirling within him. Shambala had just revealed its unique property: bonding with the user and allowing them to summon the Raven spirit. But for Grover, the spirit remained stubbornly silent."Don't fret, young Grover," Shambala chuckled, his voice a dry rasp. "The bond takes time to settle. Patience is key."Patience, however, was a scarce commodity for Grover at that moment. The weight of the unknown and t
“What do I do Sensei?” Grover asked Shambala with a confused face which was something Shambala was expecting.With a soft laugh and placing his hands on Grover's shoulder pulling him close, “You see young lad, carrying out this task should not be a hard one, but if it seems hard, all you will need to do is persist. All you will be doing is summon the Raven sprirt by calling on it.”“How do I do that Sensei?” Grover being so inquisitive at this point expressed his confusion even further as he thought summoning could only be done with an artifact in hand.“You see this artifact isn't one you can hold or touch in hand,” Shambala said taking a pause to see if he was following the explanation he was about to give.“Yes sensei, that is why I am confused,” Grover retorted.“Understandable. The artifact is not like the normal kind of artifact you will see all day, once it bonded with the user, it will go into the user's body and the user can summon the spirit of the Raven by connecting with hi
Three days had passed since Grover had the artifact, yet the promised power of the Raven spirit remained stubbornly inert. Disappointment clouded his mood as he watched Krystal practice his shadow magic patterns and Vladimir train with his thunder and beast summoning skills. He, however, remained bound to the frustration of unanswered pleas.Luckily their journey had been smooth and there was no one who attacked them, as a result, the group was at rest.The past three days had been quite interesting for the team Shambala involved them in practices and Grover was told to focus to his inner spirit so he could connect with the Raven spirit.Shambala taught Vladimir and Krystal how they could combine their powers and fight as a team especially with the change in the fact that Vladimir had two in his possession now and was powerful than Krystal unlike before.“Krystal you will have to evade attacks that are too much and Vladimir you would intercept in any case were your team members are fou
On hearing this Vladimir and Krystal were shocked on hearing this and they were not ready to be found wanting, so they started fighting with all they had. The power difference was very evident in the effects Vladimir and Krystal attacks were giving on the beast, since Vladimir was a wielder of two artifacts. He was able to use his strength, couple with thunder abilities, and also the ability to summon Bull demons from the void to aid him in battle.The bull demons would usually appear in units of ten and rush towards their targeted enemies attempting to trample them as seen during the training with Shambala earlier on, the good thing is that even if they are killed, it would have no effect on the person who summoned them.The team kept on attacking the beast.“What kind of beast is that Sensei?” Vladimir asked as he was shocked at the way the beast was just taking his attacks without flinching.“That is the last titan that was not bound or destroyed by Zeus, it is called NEMESIS. It i
Engaging back with the beast, the team were a bit weary of dancing around with the beast.Krystal who wanted to proof a point suddenly created a huge shadow blade and took off the head of the beast and the body of the beast thudded on the ground as it dropped dead.The rest of the team looked at each other, at least they have killed the beast for now.“Do not relax lads that beast Krystal just killed will revive even stronger,” Shambala informed them as he noticed they were feeling relaxed after the beast dropped dead.A minute later just as Shambala had just said, the beast revived and they had to fight it again, this time the beast had new features and discover that Shambala was serious about it coming back stronger. The beast was not holding back as it used its tentacles to wrap Krystal tossing him away time after time causing him more injuries than the others because he was the weakest. Vladimir crossed over to where his hammer was and grabbed it immediately, summoning a wave of
The injuries were becoming worse as they kept on fighting with each revival of the beast. Krystal was the first to get injured and it was serious that he had to stop fighting the beast.Vladimir and Shambala were the ones now left to face the beast.Seeing Krystal limp away from the fight, Grover got distracted from calling the Raven spirit and wanted to help, but Shambala yelled at him telling him to focus or they were all going to die. “Do you want us to die? Go back to concentrating on getting that Raven to come to our aid,” Shambala yelled.“Okay Sensei,” Grover replied as he went back on the flat rock and crossed his legs to keep meditating.The group were scared seeing the expression on Shambala's face, they had never seen him so serious even when battling very strong enemies.Grover had no other choice but to concentrate on calling the Raven. Grover was focusing his energy on getting a connection with the Raven spirit at least when the spirit of the Heart of Malcoda appeared be
Krystal and Vladimir were now injured, so the only person who was able to fight the beast now was Shambala who was looking very serious.The beast was now able to channel all its strength on one target being Shambala, it pounce on the ground severally trying to smash Shambala but he was too quick for him.Plus the others were also helping by telling him that the beast was about to do this or that in circumstances he could not see what the beast was up to.The beast could not even land a blow on Shambala and neither could he as he was more of evading than attacking.Shambala was trying to wear out the beast as he was dancing around it still making sure the beast could not reach him either grabbing him or hitting him, so he does not sustain any injury.“Come on you foul beast!” Shambala shouted as he got angrier at the beast.“That is the spirit Sensei. Do not let that abomination of a creature get you," Vladimir said under his breathe as he was weak and could barely stand.Shambala gave