The Skull Warrior by Yajat Sharma (popular books to read txt) 📕

The children were so far proving effective from stopping the Skull Warrior from reaching his full potential. They summoned their Elemental Powers and sent waves of powerful attacks towards the Skull Warrior, distracting him from time to time.

As the children and the Gods engaged the Skull Warrior and his Demons, Lynx dragged the Scavenger to the side.

Suddenly, the Skull Warrior raised his hands and roared. It was deafening. A dark wave slammed against the children. The children flew away, landing with painful thuds on the ground.

James suddenly caught a glimpse of Lynx and the Scavenger at the side. The Scavenger was crying profusely as Lynx whispered unknown words to him.

“NO!” the Scavenger was saying in a shaky voice. “I can’t let you do that!”

James could hear this.

Before James could make sense of what was going on between Lynx and the Scavenger, the Skull Warrior moved forward, straight towards Paragon, and as fast as lightning, sent a sword towards Paragon’s chest. Paragon escaped by a whisker.

Suddenly, Lynx rolled away, and held a knife in his hand. He brought it to his neck. “There have been enough deaths.” Lynx looked at the Scavenger. “You know there is no other choice.”

The Scavenger yelled, “No, Lynx, no! Not you!”

He took a deep breath. “If things aren’t right in the end, take the help of Pyros.” He readied his knife. “Don’t let my death go to waste.”

In a flash, Lynx moved the knife across his neck.

The Scavenger acted at once. His mind was frothing in turmoil because of what Lynx had done. He was the only one who understood what Lynx had done.

Everyone was shocked. Without wasting a second, the Scavenger rushed towards Lynx, raised his hands and opened the Magic Compartment.

The Poison, the Bolt and the Trident fell on top of Lynx’s body and started to merge.

Lynx was the Sacrifice.

The Slayer was about to form.

But it didn’t.

The Scavenger was shocked. For a moment, he blacked out. He couldn’t understand where he had gone wrong. Here was the Warrior with the Poison, the Bolt and the Trident merged together after the great Sacrifice. The five things required for the Slayer were all there. But the Slayer did not form.

The children’s hearts sank as they lost hope.

Something had gone horribly wrong. They were too shocked to understand what.

Time seemed to stop.

Suddenly, a figure leapt in front of the Scavenger, and smacked him away. The hit was massive in impact. The Scavenger went flying. The Skull Warrior was standing tall at the exact spot where the Scavenger had been a moment before.

The laugh of the Skull Warrior was deafening.

You are not the one. You fool!

The Skull Warrior put a hand to the blob of darkness – his face – and started to pull out half of it.

James was the one who got it first, and as the realization struck him, his knees grew weak. He understood what a huge mistake they had made. Soon, the others realized.

The Skull Warrior was the Warrior.

All along, their assumption that the Scavenger was the Warrior was fallacious.

The situation was so urgent that there was no time to think and plan. Everyone had to trust his instincts.

The children, the Gods and the Scavenger rushed forward in desperation towards the Skull Warrior. They had to stop the Skull Warrior from forming the Slayer. In whatever way required.

But it seemed they had lost crucial moments. The Skull Warrior had already pulled out half of the blob of darkness from his face. With a monstrous roar, he put the half blob of darkness over the body of Lynx, over which the Poison, the Bolt and the Trident had almost combined by that time.

There was a burst of light. Everyone had to close their eyes due to the intense light rays. When the light normalized, there was the Slayer, resting in the hands of the Skull Warrior.

The Slayer was just like any other sword. It appeared like a wooden sword, which didn’t even look dangerous.

But it was the Slayer, and that was all that mattered.

And it was in the Skull Warrior’s hand.

The Skull Warrior raised the Slayer. It is time.

He began to chant. Darkness started emanating from his hands and started to cover the Slayer. The sky up above filled with clouds. A hole appeared in the sky and started to widen.

They all knew what was happening.

The Skull Warrior was summoning the Death Lord by harnessing the power of the Slayer.

The Gods leapt at the Skull Warrior. The Skull Warrior blocked every attack with ease, all the while chanting in his cold evil voice.

Branches spread from the ground and entangled the Skull Warrior’s legs as Daniel worked his Elemental Power. James threw ice spears and Archer sent fire blobs at the Skull Warrior, but they could not stop him from chanting spells.

The ground shook. The clouds roared. A single figure dropped from the hole and, with a powerful sound, the hole closed.

The figure raised his head and smiled.

The Death Lord was back.

And he had the Arcane Crown on his head.

The Death Lord smiled, looking at the Skull Warrior.

Thank You, my loyal warrior, the Death Lord spoke. You have proved your utmost loyalty to me.

The Skull Warrior bowed. Master. It is my pleasure.

The Death Lord put his hand on the Skull Warrior’s head. Choose any number of worlds you want to rule. But first, let us destroy our greatest enemies.

Suddenly, all hell broke loose.

While the Death Lord and the Skull Warrior were talking, James was summoning water with extreme concentration. Now, he let loose a strong tidal wave of water that was focused only on the Slayer.

The Skull Warrior held on to the Slayer with all his power as he stood against the strong wave of water.

The Scavenger attacked at once and pounced on the Death Lord. In a lightning-fast move, he sent the Arcane Crown flying. James leapt towards the Crown as the Skull Warrior retaliated with a kick at the Scavenger’s face.

Paragon and the other Gods