after barely a second the entire arm was frozen, Karina took a step to the side, let the arm rush past her, and then smashed it with her staff.


Now the creature seemed to start to burn, a bright shine of light came out of small openings in its body, and in seconds it shriveled into a fairly large, halfway oval piece of wood.


The others, neither Karina nor the four other movable wannabe trees, didn't seem to mind, but Goten did.


What was it, how does it work, he wondered while looking at the remains of this being.


He only noticed in passing that Karina muttered strange words, swung the staff over her head, and finally held it up to the other four attackers (she held it with both hands on top of each other, as if she wanted to stick it in the ground in front of her), whereupon A lightning charge promptly opened from her hands and the staff to one of the creatures, it hit and jumped over to the next, the creature charred again, the next one too, and so on, until the lightning bolt passed in a nearby tree.

The tree broke at the point of impact and fell with a crash, which finally distracted Goten from the lump of wood of the first monster that had meanwhile had company.


Karina put the staff aside again and, her ki swelled again.


When she turned back to Goten she gasped, and her concentration seemed to have lost too.


She sat down next to him and Goten asked confused: "What was that?"


The attack didn't bother him particularly, but rather what she had attacked.


Karina misunderstood this question and explained: "It was a chain lightning, a magical attack that allows several opponents that are widely scattered to be attacked without having to worry about each one or use very strenuous magic with a wide range of effects . "


"Aha," grunted Goten.


"And what kind of creatures were they, why did they attack us? What's going on here anyway?


Where am I?"

Karina looked at him in surprise, she had expected that she had stumbled upon a runaway who wanted to go on an adventure in the jungle and had run away from Kurast, the port city, or the remains of it, and stumbled upon a horde of monsters.


Of course he would tell her how bravely he had fought, and then he would offer manly to protect her from the monsters.


But after the third or fourth demon he would realize that there were innumerable hordes out here, that the protective charm of Ormus, who, with her help and that of a few others, had regained strength, was the only thing between him and his Death stood.


So far she had expected that.


(Note: I notice that you won't see through without knowing Diablo, I'll explain most of it later, but to Kurast, I'm not sure.


So here is a short explanation about Ormus: (If further explanations about other characters are necessary, I will give them.) Ormus is the magician of an ancient religion in Kurast, when the problems with the monsters in Kurast began, he put a protective spell around the harbor and the nearby residential areas.

This spell slowly crumbled under the power of the demons.


So a couple of warriors were assigned the Gidbinn to fetch an ancient relic.


With this Ormus strengthened the magic again.)


But now she had to face two new options.


First, the boy was suffering from amnesia either from magic or from head wounds, a few of which he had, or some unknown force had brought him here, either he was made by magic or he came from a place dreamed of by the horror was completely untouched.


Both required more power than any magician she knew could muster.


To create something really living, and he really lived, no magical power controlled him, in him there were no residues of that power that created beings whether living or not.


And the possibility that he was brought here, or made it himself: How?


In this place there was no magic intended as a target point, he would have had to do a blind teleportation, over thousands of miles, because everyone in the area, on the entire continent (no others are discovered) knew it, except for the quite large number of the dead.

While she was still shuddering at the tremendous force that had made him appear as if he had fallen from heaven, Goten became impatient.


She had been staring at him for the full four minutes now.


At last Goten said: "If this is supposed to be an attempt at telepathy, I have not understood you.


How about ... "A small fit of coughing interrupted his complaint, which he continued immediately afterwards:" ... How about if you try to speak? "


Karina awoke from her thoughts and decided to tell this Goth the truth: "You are here in Sancturio, does that mean something to you?"


Goten looked at her perplexed: "No, what kind of critters were they and what did they want."


Karina replied: "They were thorn thrashers, like all other demons and evil beings, they emerged from harmless beings through the influences of the three great evils on our world."


Goten 's face was now even more confused, so she decided to talk.

She told of the great conflict, the war of heaven against hell, and of the Horadrim, of the soul stones, and ultimately also of the reasons why she and other warriors had started fighting again.


The soul stones of the three great evils were left on earth because they could create their own bodies in the "other world", in which heaven and hell lie, and thus would have taken shape again.


Diablo, the last to be caught, was buried under Tristram, a small town to the west and under a maze over the sea.


"That was centuries ago, the Horadrim founded a school there.


But they became less and less because they had fulfilled their task of fighting the great evils and few wanted to learn magic (funny).


Today there is only one of them who is no longer a magician, just a narrator, and a wise old man who is at our side with advice.

Baal was captured second, before Diablo and after Mephisto, there was a problem with his incarceration, he damaged the soul stone, and so Tal Rasha, the head of the Horadrim, was chained to a stone in an old grave, and they caught Baal in the biggest sliver for a while.


Then the archangel Tyrael Tal Rasha thrust the soul stone into the chest.


Now Baal can no longer leave Tal Rasha's body (the soul stone is still stuck and holds it tight), and her two souls will fight for one body forever, and even if Tal Rasha lost Baal could never escape this crypt and the chains.


Mephisto was the first to be caught here in Kurast, with him there were hardly any problems (I mean when you are on the hunt for the devil every day).


But Diablo could dampen the limits of the soul stone as long as he could force a priest to speak old, powerful words that almost removed his barriers, only he cannot leave the soul stone.

He influenced the world around Tristram and gathered beings from Hell in the labyrinth that led to his chamber.


And terror came over the land, but a mighty warrior descended into the labyrinth and fought the hordes.


And he came to Diablo's chamber, where he fought with the Lord of Secrets (he had chosen a child to be the bearer of the soul stone, and the priest helped him, and stuck the soul stone in the boy's head, Diablo had the opportunity To adapt this body to his ideas.


i.e. three meters tall, red skin, spines everywhere, and large horns.)


There he defeated the Lord of Terror, but he longed for his power, and so, he took the soul stone and poked it in his own head (Ouch).


A fight began like the one Tal Rasha was already waging, the hero lost it.


Now he has set out to free his brothers, we could not prevent Baal's liberation, although even Tyrael fought, we came too late.

Now we are here to at least prevent the liberation of Mephistus and the return of the great evils to Hell, because it seems that the lower evils have rejoined the great ones. "


After Karina had finished speaking, they were both silent for a long time.


Son Goten tried to process what he had heard, although it was difficult for him to concentrate, he was still exhausted.


And Karina was still thinking about Goten, she had expected, only half-heartedly but at least a little, that he would know something about it.


But nothing, he had listened as carefully the whole time as it was now, he was still wounded.


After a while she startled.