Warlock of War: My Ares System

"Now what,"

I took a look around and saw my friends with their clothes all torn apart, covered in scorching dirt from head to toe.

"Are you alright?" Bella asked, gripping her head which was obviously pounding with a horrible headache.

"Yeah… is anybody injured?" Aisa asked as she began to place pressure on an open wound, but just as she was about to summon something from her storage ring… she noticed it wasn't there.

We all checked our fingers and noticed nothing was there, causing all of us to groan.

"Can we all try to figure out what the fuck just happened? We escaped into what seemed to be hell on earth, then almost died to a massive fuck-all meteor, and then! ONLY THEN did we meet those giant people who sent us down here," Luna complained, and I decided to just give them an explanation without going too in-depth on how I knew it.

"We're in Tartarus, which is essentially just hell. Those people that we met were Olympians… the twelve powerful gods from the greek religion," I said while taking a gander at the scenery around us.

It was a massive forest of flaming red trees. Their trunks were burnt to a crisp but still managed to stay straight up. While on those trunks and little branches were flaming red leaves that burned anybody or anything that it touched.

Oh yeah, did I mention how tall these trees were? They were practically as tall as a small building, reaching even jungle heights if you were lucky.

"And how do you know this?" Luna asked, brushing the ash off of her clothes.

"Don't sweat the details. I'll tell you some other time," I replied, knowing full well I was about to be assaulted by various questions… but strangely, nothing happened.

All my friends kept quiet as they looked at the scenery around us… and it was almost beautiful when compared to the city.

But, we didn't have any time to relax as a strange pounding like an earthquake shook the ground beneath us, and a deadly presence sent shivers down our spines.

We all turned to look behind Cy, only to be met with one massive eye and a grotesque, red troll greeting us with a malicious smile.

"Demi flesh," It muttered, drool dripping from the edge of its slimy and disgusting mouth.

FWOOSH

Its attack came so fast that Cy barely had any time to react, causing him to be swatted into the massive tree trunk beside him… but the tree still didn't break.

It was somehow hanging on with all of its might.

The troll began to completely wipe us out as we had zero weapons and our skills almost seemed to be suppressed here.

We could still use them but to a very small degree.

"Wait… no… It's just that compared to everything else here, we're fucking weak… oh no…." I muttered to myself before just barely blocking an open palm that slapped me into Cy, who just barely managed to get up.

"Oh, come on, man, it took me a while to stand up,"

"Like I care. We have more important problems at hand- ugh… ouch…." I muttered to myself as I only just realized my left arm, which took the brunt of the block, had been nearly shattered into hundreds of pieces.

It was just fractured now, but anymore beating, and it would definitely be unusable in the future.

"Hey, we have to run. We can't beat this thing now…." I muttered but Cy suddenly took the reigns of the battlefield by screaming out.

"SEE THOSE TWIN HORNS AT THE TOP OF ITS HEAD! THEY'RE WEAKER COMPARED TO THE REST OF HIS BODY! SO TEAR THEM OUT AND USE THEM TO SLASH HIM UP!" Cy shouted before serving as bait by himself.

He managed to just about dodge the first slap, which he instantly read, but the troll's stubby legs managed to kick him in the next second.

The situation seemed to grow dire once again until we all saw Findir, whose arms had been coated in layers of swirling winds.

"ARGHHHH!"

He screamed as if he was in pain while he gripped both of the horns in a wide position, both arms spread out like a bird.

The troll attempted to swat him off, but I quickly opened my mouth and shouted,

"[PAUSE]," which nearly tore my throat to shreds as using such a powerful command on something so much stronger was life-threatening.

As I reeked in my own blood, coughing up the lining of my esophagus, Findir tore out the twin horns, splashing thick black blood all over him.

"UGH! HERE!" Findir shouted, tossing the horns over to Bella, whose eyes had been coated in a green flame.

She managed to dodge the first swiping attack as the troll felt her presence was dangerous, but she didn't let him get in a new one as she jumped up and forward, digging both horns into the troll's skull.

"Huff… huff… huff… huff… Dammit… Why do we not have a healer?" I muttered to myself as Luna came running over to me, checking up on my limp arm and somehow healing throat.

『Status』

[Name: Orion]

[Race: Demi-Human]

[Class: Prince of Blood]

[Level: 12/55] (250/200) XP Needed

[HP: 75/75 MP: 50/50 SP: 45/45] - Above Human

[Strength: 40] - Above Human

[Defense: 40] - Above Human

[Magic: 45] - Above Human

[Speed: 45] - Above Human

[Skills: [Spear Coating] [Berserk Coating] [Empower] [Scout] [Ancient Torterras Tongue]

[Prince of Blood Skills: [Tangible Bloodlust] [Blood Manipulation] [Blood Envision]

[Blood Sampler] [Cloak of Blood] [Egg of the Progenitor]

[Passive Skills: [Toxic Immunity] [Toxic Body] [Night Vision] [Breath of the Snowy Underworld]  [Blood of the Underworld] [Blood Tainted Aura] [Blood Tainted Presence] [Speech of a King] [Constitution of a Tarturling]

[Rune Path: [Influence of Battle] [Locked] [Locked] [Locked] [Locked] [Locked]

[Equipment: [Magic Ring] [Storage Ring] [Sangria King's Spear]

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"Geez, you almost got decimated, bro," Luna chuckled as she saw my rapid regeneration and helped hold my arm in place so the bone wouldn't shatter inside of me.

Everybody else came running over, which surprised me because I thought they would be more injured, seeing how easily they got tossed around.

"Everybody… check your status… quick,"