66 Hopeless

You are zipping through the night sky with maximum speed, and you are now flying over what use to be the capital of Beastkingdom. Down below there nothing but ruined of what use to be the most lively city in the land. You stop and slowly descend to the ground, and you inspect the area around you.

"How awful..... and this was done by one person." you read the book about the rare skill known as a Job skill. And the one cause Beastkingdom downfall has the Job skill: Necromancy. Skills that let the user recreate undead life from any being that already dies. The user can recreate the undead in any size, shape or form but the cost of mana, the bigger the undead, the more the price.

"They kill everyone without a sec thought.....those monsters." You want to charge to the west continent and kill the bastard who did this but charging to unknow equal death. All you can do right now is to save the survivors.

"Aisha give the exact location and image of the beastkin survivors."

"On it." (Aisha) then a live image of bird's eye view appears on your hud screen.

"Holy...." You were shocked by what you are seeing. The Japanese style castle surrounded million of shadow spawns, but it seems the palace is cover in a dome-like barrier and the spawn smashing the barrier wall, desperately trying yo get in.

"They act more savage than before...no, more like a zombie horde. And I feel like that barrier won't last much longer." The shadow you face was like organise army, but this is different, they are charging toward any living being like that zombie movie you watch. "Aisha, how many people are inside the barrier?"

"1679, from children to elderly." (Aisha)

"Mm, look like I have to save them when the barrier break."

"But would it be better for Master to exterminate shadow spawn before the barrier destroy?" (Aisha)

"Yes, but not a great idea and you probably would think bad of me. You see Aisha; I want them to feel that their homeland is no longer safe and the best way to survive is to leave this land. And If I go to save them now, it would mean they have hope and continue to stay."

"I see… when the barrier break that when those people will lose all hope and fall into despair. And then Master will swoop down to save them and increase heroism toward the hopelessness." (Aisha)

"Correct, my daring assistant. When I save them from the hopelessness, I become their saviour, and I will convince them to leave this land and join other refugees at the northwest."

"I see….Even, I'm not sure what good and evil are, but I think I understand a bit...…you're quite evil, Master." (Aisha)

"Well, I never say that I was a good person... Now then, why don't we test the true power of War Mjolnir." You took the second War Mjolnir out of your inventory.

*****

The Ishikawa is no longer the strongest clan like it once was, their main force is about at less 400 soldiers, and the rest are civilians. Facing at least over a million raging Shadow Spawn banging on the barrier wall none stop, everyone in the dome are filled with fatigue, fear, anxiety, and paranoid. They don't even know if they are going to survivor from the horde outside the wall; the only thing they can do is pray to the Gods.

High up on the castle balcony, a young horn beastkin is looking at the ravaging shadow spawn with conflict expression, She was at 15 in appearance, but she is at least 25 of age, Long silver hair with an M bang and two black curves toward the front. She had a partially white reptile scale on her body red sharp pupil, and loveable face with a proud, cold attitude. Her body is eye-catching even with a young teen appearance, D cup breasts and nice round bottom with an extended sizeable white lizard tail that could seduce anyone. She might be described as lizard kin, but she is a rare type of lizard kin because her lineage had dragon blood in her veins. So they called themselves dragonkin, but they are not an actual dragon.

This young lady this no other than the Leader and the last of Ishikawa lineage. Ishikawa Karin. She is ambitions, cunning and charismatic. But now she is broken and confused even thou her express look normal.

"Karin-sama….." (????) one of her generals called her in a worried tone.

"Run, Huh? Report." (Karin) she turns toward the beautiful long black hair tiger Kin.

"My Lady, Our food supply running low and it seems impossible to move the border that is blocking the secret passage." (Run) she bows down on her knee.

"Sigh...…..surrounded by a horde of monsters, trapped in a magical wall, low on food and hope...is this my punishment for looking down the deity?" (Krian) she gave her trusted general a bitter smile because she rejects the existed of higher power all her life.

"Karin-sama, without you, all of us would already be dead!" (????) another tiger kin bows down as well.

she turns back and looks at a massive horde of shadow spawn. "When that tyrant murder his own brother to claim the throne, I thought this is a great chance to achieve my ambition, to unify all the clan into one single kingdom. But it was destroyed in one single night. Yue, Rin, Maon, Kannon, Shou, Rika died because of me...because of my incompetent and my selfish ambition." (Karin) she clutches her hand so hard that she starts to bleed.

"Please, don't blame yourself...we would gladly give our lives for the of your vision of the kingdom!" (Yuna) said the white tiger kin who younger sister of Run.

"Just look, there is no longer a future...…..look at the barrier, in a few hours we'll no longer be safe…." (Karin)

"Karin-sama, no matter what happens to us, we are proud and honoured to have served you." (Run)

"So am I…" (Yuna) Karin did turn to look at her loyal subordinate. Their words moved her, but Karin is still mad at herself for failing everyone that counting on her.

"If I'm going to die here so be it…..But I will not die doing anything!! "(Karin). Then she points her finger toward the sky. "Mark my word, Heaven! I will survive this! And I will make who done this to us pay a hundredfold!" (Karin) she yells as loud as she can.

"Karin-sama….." (Run and Yuna) they were both relieved to see their Master is back to her normal self.

"Well? Why both of you still kneeling? Get up! We got work to do!" (Karin) she walks pass both of the kneeling generals. Run and Yuna look at each other and start to giggles, then quickly got up and rushed toward their Master side.

Karin and her generals head down to the large room where the soldier and civilians are. There are at least 100 people in the room, and the room was quiet as if the place was empty. As Karin enter the room, everyone ignores her, because they already give up hope and waiting for their death.

Karin can't help but felt dishearten again by seeing her people lose hope in her. But she will not give up. It either dies giving up or die trying. Karin turn toward a certain mercenary that she hire before the civil war even started. She is a centaur wanders from the far east with highly skilled in archery even though she blind.

"Ren...how are you holding up?" (Karin)

"....Hungry." (Ren) she said a low soft tone.

"I see...…..you have any idea how to get out of this mess?"

".....run fast." (Ren)

"Of course, you would say that. After all, you're the one that has four legs." (Karin) she turns away from the centaur and turns toward everyone in the room.

"Everyone, listen up!" Most of the people turn toward her. "I'll be honest with you we are going to die. Those demons will kill all of us, and they are not going to stop until we're all dead...….but, are you just going to sit there and let those bastard kill you and your love ones?" (Karin) her words hit everyone in their heart; some of the beastkin looks at their child and agree with her.

"I know fighting them is madness! But it is the only to survive this crisis!" (Karin)

"But Karin-sama how are we going to fight them? there are too many of them." (Run)

"I think I have an idea…" (Krain) she gives Run a bright smile.

***

You are hovering above the castle in full camo look on a map on your hud screen.

"Just where the hell is he?!!" you have been searching for the Shadow spawn Master for hours, and it seems you can't find him anywhere on this continent even you have the state-of-the-art tech.

"Result not found." (Aisha)

"Could it be that he is using some kind of magic to block his location?"

"456 hidden type magic spell found. But I don't know which magic the enemy is using." (Aisha)

"This is why we must study and understand how magic works. It is the only weakness we need to overcome."

"I'll try rerun scanning with magic info from the database to see if there any new possibility will come up." (Aisha)

"Please do." You turn off the map and look down at the castle. "Oh, it seems they got their hope back." You can see that the beastkin starting vandalising the castle. "Mm, mm, they to be constructing something." They carry the stuff they destroy and pile into one place, then another group dismantling the material from the pile. "Fascinating, they somehow regain hope, or it is a one last desperate attempt....properly both? But they better be quickly…." You turn to look at the distance and saw colossus figure heading this way.

"times is running out."

***

The Besatkin are busying preparing for an escape from the horde of shadow spawn, by constructing a moving fortress, a Tank.

Thanks to Karin speech the everyone had hope again, and now they are working together to build a save passage from death. The Tank design was quite simple, a box-like cover with a large shrape spike all over. And a 1000 people would carry the box from inside with some grapes for spear attacking if the horde tries to get closer with the Carrying Tank on their side the beastkin better chance of survival. But it was too late.

At first, they ignore everything outside the barrier wall, but they still felt the ground shake. Bam* Bam* Bam* It was soft shake but never the less they felt. But as time went by the ground shake more violently and the sound of thunder smashing to the ground, grown ever louder by the second.

The Beastkin already know that death is getting closer, but they all keep telling themselves that in all of the noise and the ground shake was only in their imagination. When the shake and noise finally stop, they can't help but feel relief.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!** One loud monstrous roar, stop all the beastkin from what they are doing and required their attention.

The beastkin turn toward the origin of the roar, and they saw a massive 50-meter tall, ugly looking humanoid figure with blood-red eyes outside the barrier. When everyone saw the colossus monster, they froze in place, not because of the monster's power, but from fear, and despair, some even drop on their knee while trembling from hopelessness.

"It's over...….we're doom….." (Karin) she softly whispers to herself.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!*

The monster roars again and sprint toward the barrier with a shoulder charge. BAMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!* with one shoulder bash from the monster caused a massive crack on the barrier wall. The beastkin snap back from their froze state and run back toward the castle in a full panic.

"Karin-sama! Karin-sama! We must pull back now!" (Run) she shakes her Master, who is still in froze looking at the monster.

"It's hopeless. It's hopeless. It's hopeless." (Karin) she is mumbling while being shake by Run.

The monster steps back and prepare for another shoulder charge. The sky began to rumble; lighting could be seen flashing across the sky. Then the monster charge toward the barrier again.

CRASHH!!!!!!!!* the barrier shatters in pieces like broken glass. The horde roar with joy as they flood in the gate of the castle wall.

"Karin-sama!!" (Yuna) she is trying to call her, but Karin still mumbles and won't a muscle. The horde was getting closer and closer toward Karin and her generals. Run quickly swoop Karin up in her and dash for it, but it was too late the hordes are right behind the three to extend it sharp claw and frags toward them.

"Run, Yuna...…I'm sorry, I fail all of you." (Karin) she accepts her fate by closing her eye. And at that moment a huge lighting bolt strikes the horde around the three beastkin. Krain, Run, Yuna close their eyes tightly due to the flash. A few seconds later, they open their eyes, and they were surprised to see the shadow spawns around them was burned to crips. Then turn around and saw the sliver armour standing heroically with a Warhammer spark with electricity.

The shadow spawns horde stop and looks at the new arrival with hostile blood eyes, but the giant monster still running with it fit ready to strike.

The silver armour figure raises his Warhammer up, the sky rumble and then a 100 of the lighting slam toward the hammer and for a few seconds later it stops. And it was enough time for the giant monster get close to the silver armour with the fist coming down toward him.

But the silver armour just casually points his hammer toward the monster's head and blast it with a massive lightning bolt which pierces right through its head. All the beastkin jaw drop when they saw what the silver armour could do, and he just did the impossible. He kills the Beastkin's message of death.

"w www who are you?" (Karin) she was trembling from relief and fear. The silver armour turn toward her.

"Me? I'm Tin can man…"