A Guide to Kingdom Building ( Me Reincarnated 365 x)

Fire spread all over the floor, scorching everything in its way. Ghwynmyr looked at his back and saw the flames chasing his buttocks, licking the edge of his armor. Urfaal carried Orphella in his arms and dashed as fast as he could, while Adaloun was having the same predicament as his dwarven friend.

"Yah know…Yah should've had a plan!"

"I have now!" He replied.

"Wuzzat?!"

"Don't get your ass burned!"

"Gods' balls!"

Adaloun ran as fast as he could and tried to pick up Ghwynmyr, but instead he got a slap on the hand and a glare from the dwarf.

"Don't yah dare." Ghwynmyr said.

The two of them kept on running as the rain of fire continued. In a desperate attempt, the dwarf scooped dirt from the ground and blew it towards Tristam, creating a thick blanket of dust. That was the small window of opportunity they needed for them to hide.

Urfaal raised his hand behind a huge chunk of broken wall. Adaloun and Ghwynmyr raced over to them as the dust was starting to settle down. They only have a little time to plan their attack, with Tristam currently pausing his attacks, they knew it only needed them a well-coordinated move to bring the possessed knight down.

The possessed knight continued the barrage of fireballs. From the trajectory of the attacks, it was clear how effective Ghwynmyr's cloaking magic was. Even with a man possessed by a god, he was sure unable to locate them accurately.

"What do we do?" Urfaal asked in his growling bear voice.

"I can disable his abilities with a single arrow." Orphella signed. "Just give me a clear target."

The rest of them looked at each other and nodded. They knew what they had to do. Adaloun took out one of the rocks from his satchel and held it in his hand.

"I'll go first!" He immediately ran out from their hiding place as the dust settled and surprised the partially transformed knight by throwing a rock directly at him.

The possessed knight easily dodged the attack. He went back at Adaloun by throwing a fireball directly at him. Luckily, he dodged at the last minute. He tumbled to the ground and immediately took cover at a broken pillar.

"A rock for an attack?!" Zaduriel mocked. "You couldn't be anymore creative?!"

Adaloun smiled. "Nope. But it made you look!"

Before Tristam could ask, a ground spike emerged in front of him and skewered him on the stomach, then trapping him on the ceiling. He immediately broke the spike out of his way and was about to heal himself when an angry beastman came leaping in front of him and landed a punch on his face. The impact blasted most of the remaining glass from the ceiling.

Tristam fell to the ground, face first. He immediately stood up and was about to attack when Ghwynmyr quickly created a trap that held the possessed knight's arm down. Then before he could react the beastman was at it again. He appeared in front of him and attacked him with vicious claw swipes and punches.

Urfaal made sure to hit and damage his face preventing him from seeing the next surprise attack, but before he could land another blow, Tristam's other arm broke free from the trap and immediately caught the beastman's arm, then punching him straight out of the way.

Ghwynmyr came up with his earth shackles once again and trapped the possessed knight back in place.  Adaloun charged and was about to strike him with the scythe when the glowing gladius swooped in and almost sliced his neck off if he took another step.

The blade revolved around Tristam and chipped off the earth that entangled him. He yanked his arm out once again and grabbed the gladius. The possessed knight grinned as he released himself from the hold.

"Is that the best you can do?" He said, as his wounds slowly closed. "It would take more than just that to kill me!"

Adaloun clicked his tongue and charged towards him once again. Both men clashed their blades and began to dance in the rhythm of death. The slashes were mere inches away from their necks. They swayed gracefully from side to side, cutting corners and attempted to break each other's defense.

But no matter how much he tried, Tristam was too skilled for him to cut. Zaduriel took advantage of the poor knight's body, hijacking his skills and magic capabilities, using it against them. Ghwynmyr joined the fray and went in with an attack of his own.

He swung his own blade, but Tristam parried the blade and kicked the dwarf away before going back to Adaloun. He choked him with his other arm and slammed him into the ground. Urfaal gored Tristam out of nowhere and smashed him to the wall. He held tight as Adaloun and Ghwynmyr went for the kill, but the possessed knight threw them away with his wind magic.

Tristam hovered on the ground and smirked. "I was just letting you have the fun for a while." He raised his weapons and pointed it at them. "My turn to attack!"

He suddenly teleported in front of the dwarf and slashed him across the body. Before they could react, Tristam was already in front of Urfaal and took down the bear in one slash.

"Urfaal! Ghwyn—" Before he could finish, Tristam was already in front of him and went for his neck.

Adaloun miraculously parried the sword but was thrown away from Tristam's godly strength.

"See?" Tristam pointed the sword at his downed opponent. "You are nothing! You can never defeat me!"

Adaloun coughed and stood up. "Yeah, I am indeed no match against you." He picked up his sword and smiled at him. "But…I made you look again!"

"What?" Tristam asked.

Adaloun pointed at Tristam's leg, grinning. The knight looked down and saw a glowing arrow stuck in his right leg. The possessed knight was too preoccupied with fighting them, that he forgot the fourth one. He fell to the ground, screaming in pain. Orphella launched her own offensive. She rained arrows down on Tristam as he writhed on the ground in pain. The knight tried creating a dome to stop her arrows, but she was relentless.

She broke the stone dome with a charged arrow and would've fired another round of magical projectiles when Tristam smashed the floor so hard it shook. They all lost their footing and gave him just enough time to activate a portal rune for him to exit away. He broke the rune and a portal slowly appeared from the ground.

Adaloun saw through Tristam's plan and immediately raced towards him, just as the portal was about to be completed. He saw fear in Tristam's eyes as he desperately threw him some fireballs at his attacker. However, the magic attacks were simply parried by Adaloun.

The portal was finally ready, and Tristam immediately jumped into it, hoping that it would save him. Unfortunately for him, Adaloun followed him there and was about to hit the finishing blow.