As he arrived near Dildao, it was already late at night, and he could see the dwarven fortified city already surrounded by a mass army of undead!

The cave city was barricaded by a large city wall that had sealed it's entrance shut!

Even from a far distance, he could see the far city of Doralei on fire! And even further from that there were fires burning the cities in the even further distance, each looking like campfires from the air

On top of the wall, humans and dwarves were battling skeletons and wights that had climbed the wall. They were able to defend the wall, but were tiring fast as the undead army seemed to attack in unending numbers

Florencia swooped down, dropping Ryania and Catherine in their new guises of Storm and Battle Princess, as they joined the battle

She was dressed in the wooden armor, initially only showing her batlike succubus wings, but now the wings had changed into golden feathered wings as she internally changed from Florencia to Adeline

She started casting spells, blasting the skeletons and wights on the walls to smithereens. 

Wights were similar to zombies, undead men who were semi-immortal. But Adeline's flames burned them to smithereens and her lightning bolts smashed them to ashes. 

Catherine wielded her sword she had been using recently, the blazing sword used by the orc chieftain they defeated from before! The flaming sword burned the wights and caused them catastrophic damage, as fire seems to be one of the rare things that could kill a wight. 

Ryania showed no mercy, attacking with wind blades and slicing skeletons and wights alike with no mercy

"Who are they? Is that Storm?" an adventurer asked

"Looks like it. But who are the other two?" another asked

"Gather everyone. We have to flee" Adeline said in her Veela form to Ryania

"No we aren't leaving!" a dwarf suddenly said

Adeline recognized him and tuned back to Michael before revealing his face

"Durcell!" he said, looking at the person he wanted to meet again, but not in this circumstances

"Michael. You're alive?" Durcell said, happy to meet his friend again

"Durcell. Gather all your people. We have to get out of here and head north" Michael said

"No. We are dwarves. We will simply go deeper into the mountain and wait out the battle" Durcell said

"Deep caves aren't going to stop them. They are undead, remember?" another gruff voice said

"Then we will escape through the secret tunnels. But that will leave us exposed" Durcell said

Michael turned and saw another familiar face, Durcell's brother Duncan, whom he met in Dorelei 

"I see you managed to figure out how the firearm works" Michael said to Durcell, seeing that both of them were carrying long rifles

"Yes. They've sold well. That's the only reason we have been able to hold out till now. But I didn't know you were still alive. I found parts of your mithril armor I gave you and assumed you were dead. What could cause such damage to the armor?" Durcell asked

"Water dragon. I barely escaped with my life" Michael answered

Durcell's face turned pale at the sound of a dragon and Duncan started shivering

Nearby, the elves were gathering as "Storm" revealed her face and started preparing the elves to flee who instantly recognized her and obeyed

Suddenly, a loud raspy voice yelled from the forces outside

"Hear the sound of my voice and despair! Your champions have been defeated and your lives are now forfeit!" the voice said

Michael rushed to the walls to look over it and saw a powerful looking knight sitting on a large steed, and at the end of his long lance, he causally carried a dead man impaled on it

The lance was shoved up his ass and came out of his mouth, and it looked like he died in agony

"It's a Death Knight! And... is that... oh my God! That's Typhon!" an adventurer yelled in fright, recognizing the famous A Rank impaled on the knight's lance

But Michael was more shocked that he recognized the armor the Death Knight was wearing. Even the voice sounded familiar if not for the eerie timbre in his voice. 

If Michael was correct, that was Roland, one of he heroes summoned with him to Evalonia!

The Death Knight threw the lance over the wall, landing inside the wall and impaling into the ground. 

Typhon's dead body was upside down as his face faced the ground and slid down the lance, faceplanting onto the floor as the lance exited his bloodied anus

The Death Knight drew Durandal, confirming Michael's suspicions that he was indeed Roland, and imbuing it with a dark aura, he sliced the air, shooting a large slash of aura, cutting right through the wall and cleaving a adventurer that was standing right on the wall!

The undead army started charging immediately after as the guards and adventurers looked on in horror, unable to move as fear kept them frozen in place

"FLEE!" Michael yelled as he jumped off the wall, his whole armor closing up to protect him

As he landed, an enormous amount of vines shot out his ass. He didn't like it, but he didn't feel anything as the adrenaline in his body was pumping hard

"Husband! Isn't it painful?" Sylvia asked from within his bowels

"You three stay there. Don't come out. I will handle this" Michael said as the vines shot everywhere, impaling and hitting all the skeletons and wights

The area became a sea of giant vines that were flailing everywhere and hitting everything in sight

Ryania was commanding the people still in Dildao to flee through the mountains as the dwarves led them out a secret path

"Protect them. Don't turn back" Michael said to Ryania telepathically

"No. I will come back once they are safe" Ryania replied in his mind

Rather than argue with her, it was better if he simply wins and escapes

He saw Catherine was already standing by his side, wiping out all the undead that were struggling nearby against the vines

Suddenly, some of the vines burst open and Roland walked through, holding his corrupted Durandal

Although it was corrupted, it was still a legendary unbreakable sword

The dark energies crackling over it's silver and gold finish made it look even more ominous

Michael's armor suddenly burst open as he burst out in his werewolf form and charged forwards at Roland

Roland slashed and Fenris avoided the blow as he wasn't fully confident that even his magic resistant, regenerating werewolf body could handle Durandal

He slashed in return as Roland blocked with Durandal

"Aaagh" Fenris cried in pain as his right hand was mangled in the clash, with three of his fingers broken and his thumb sliced off!

"Shit" he clasped his hand and realized that it wasn't healing!

"Michael!" Catherine yelled as she charged forwards to help him

"No don't!" Fenris said as her blazing sword was met by Roland and Durandal

Their swords clashed, but Durandal, which was already supposedly indestructible, was enforced with aura and Catherine's sword broke in two!

Roland moved smoothly by kicking her in the gut

She bent over from the force, even though she felt no pain and Roland spun and was suddenly behind her

She didn't realize what was happening as she couldn't feel pain, but as she was on all fours, he grabbed her by the back, his fingers digging through her flesh and grasping her spine!

Catherine couldn't understand what was going on as she felt her vision spin as Roland ripped her spine right out of her back!

He pulled as the flesh in her back ripped open, and he pulled her whole skeleton out of her body!

Her internal organs fell to the ground from her rib cage as her flesh was left on the ground in a bloody mess, and her brains and organs within her skull, the only thing left in her skeleton

She looked at her flesh on the ground in shock and found herself unable to move!

Roland put the skull to his face as both skull's "kissed" and he threw her skeleton to the floor onto her torn flesh!

"Catherine!" Fenris yelled in mid charge as he slashed Roland's helmet, but it bounced off harmlessly as it was covered in aura!

But the strike managed to open his helmet nevertheless, and it revealed Roland's skull beneath the broken helmet!

The once handsome man was now reduced to a skeleton with red glowing eyes with a eternal skeletal grin 

He countered with a backhand strike with Durandal and Fenris barely dodged the strike, his left year being chopped off

Roland spun and kicked him in the ribs, and the aura covered kick surprisingly broke several ribs as Fenris struck back with his left hand, which clawed Roland's aura infused chestplate harmlessly

"Die, doggie!" Roland said as Fenris' left arm was chopped off!

Fenris rolled onto the ground and picked up his arm, putting it back in place. It wasn't healing the way it normally did for such injuries and he instantly transformed into Serena!

"What are you?" Roland said in surprise, seeing the naked female vampire who instantly conjured a mist and started attacking

Serena's attacks at night were not any inferior to Fenris' but again they blows injured Serena's fingers more than Roland's aura infused armor

She changed again to Florencia and tried with her bone-like claws. But like Fenris and Serena' her claws also took the brunt of the damage and she was getting more injured each time she attacked

"Aaaagh" Florencia screamed as she was struck by Durandal, barely managing to sprout her wings to protect herself only for it to be sliced off her body!

She changed to Adeline and conjured fireballs and lightning bolts, only for Roland to charge through them with no effect

With a fast strike, his sword was pierced through Adeline's naked chest, right between her breasts

"Aaaaaah!" she screamed, transforming from Adeline, to Florencia, to Serena, then Fenris, each time trying to slow down her/his wound

Finally, Michael was left, naked and impaled on Durandal

"I know you! You're that Punisher loser" Roland said as he looked at Michael's despairing face

Michael felt his lifeforce disappearing through the wound and death energy surrounding it, preventing him from healing in any of his forms

"Don't bother. You have strong life energy, but death energy is far better. Farewell, last hero of Earth" Roland said

He infused his sword with more death energy as Michael screamed

A black flame started burning him up as his flesh was completely eaten by the flames

"Michael!" Ryania screamed in terror, seeing Michael's skeletal remains drop to the ground

She felt her heart as if it was ripped out of her chest. She expected her next breath to be her last, due to her life force link with Michael

But suddenly, she felt the lifeforces of Sylvie, Naya and Aria linking to her and keeping her alive! But where was Michael's life force?

Roland looked up and saw Ryania holding her chest and on her knees

"Get her!" he commanded

Ryania got up and immediately fled, with a horde of undead after her

She was crying, but she somehow hoped that the fact that she wasn't dead since their lifeforces were linked, he could possibly still be alive!

But then again, maybe Elderich's severing of their life bond was not reconnected after they made love again

Roland and his army of undead departed, leaving thousands of dead people

Among the bodies were Catherine's ripped apart body, and Michael's burned skeleton

A large man stepped out of the forest to survey the ruins

It was Genghis Khan, the Demon General in charge of the demon army!

He looked around, looking for something before walking to Michaels' skeleton

He bent over and looked at the cavity in Michael's pelvis and picked up a strange object

It looked like it was covered in vines in a burnt cocoon, but it held an enormous amount of lifeforce of seemingly at least 4 different powerful lifeforces

"This will make a great treasure to make my phylactery" he said, taking it away as he disappeared back into the forest