[Bearer No.8 deployed. Area No.77.]
In another distant land, a black portal opened, throwing a woman out of it. She landed on a hard, uneven surface, black stone ruffled with thin glowing cracks. A twisted skyline loomed above, with jagged towers that pulsed like veins, which was very magical.
Her name was Kaela, a mercenary in her old world. Yes, she is a female mercenary, which was rare even in her old world.
She rose to her feet instantly, her instincts sharp, looking around her, observing everything.
A thin mist hung in the air, carrying the stench of copper. Her hands tightened around the sword that had appeared with her; it felt very familiar, like an extension of her arm.
She had no time to study the landscape. A screech echoed through the fog. Then came the sound of movement; they are not footsteps, but feels like scraping. And dozens of them at the same time.
She turned around just as a group of creatures emerged from the mist. Vaguely humanoid, but crawling on all fours, their jaws were distended, full of jagged, white teeth. Kaela didn't stand there; she charged forward.
She struck the first clean through the skull, and it crumpled. But as more piled in, she backed up quickly, slashing, stepping, and rotating her stance now and then. For a moment, she fought like a shura, blood spraying all over, limbs flying here and there.
But, it didn't last long, as one of them grabbed her leg and yanked her off balance. This allowed them to pound on her.
She roared, stabbing up through one's eye, kicking another in the chest. She rolled free and ran. Down a slope, into a shattered temple. Strangely, the creatures didn't follow her inside. She collapsed against a wall, gasping, clutching her side. She was bleeding.
That was when she noticed her wound was slowly closing. Which was strange, as it didn't happened in her old world,
[Skill: Regenerate (Weak 2)]
When she was observing her wounds which were closing up slowly. A whisper came from the back of the temple.
"Run."
She turned her sword towards the voice, a figure crouched in the darkness, thin figure, eyes glowing faintly in red.
"Run. They are coming"
She didn't dare to stay there anymore. Kaela bolted through the back of the temple into the deeper ruins. Strange statues watched her from the sides, their eyes glowing now and then, which made them look creepy.
The ground shook suddenly, a shriek came from afar, something enormous was awake.
Kaela made it into an underground chamber in the temple, and slammed the stone door shut. It isolated all the noise.
She sat down, checked her gear, tore cloth from her shirt to bind her wounds. She drank the water trickling through the wall. She stayed there throughout the day.
The next morning, she moved out of the underground chamber. She needed to find a way out of this ruin. She emerged into a new part of the ruins. This area had overgrown grass, wet land, and very humid, steam hissed from vents in the stone.
That was when it dropped, not a creature but a machine. Sleek, silent, hovering in the air, with a single red eye. It looked at her and locked her as a target instantly.
A laser beam was shot towards her; she dodged it, but the impact melted the stone behind her.
She sprinted forward, zigzagging, using broken pillars as cover. She got in close to it, and jumped high in the air, raised her sword, and sliced the drone in half.
When she thought everything was over, more came. It was then she realised it was all a distraction so they could quietly surround her.
Even realising that she didn't run, she screamed and charged forward. A blast hit her in the chest, killing her.
[Bearer No.8 Eliminated.]
[Time survived: 1.5 days]
[Cause of death: laser by unknown entity, heart failure]
[Result: failure.]
[Started selecting the next bearer….]