[Secret Quest completed: Kill 5 people]
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Galien power's
'Galien?' I thought as I remembered his story.
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In the days when Hallownest still shone, there was a warrior named Galien. He was strong, perhaps even a little too proud of his strength. Galien harbored a fervent desire: he wished to be recognized by the Pale King himself and appointed as one of the elite Royal Knights.
For Galien, a Knight was not just a protector, but a guardian of the kingdom's very hope and dreams. He was determined to prove his valor was unmatched.
To test his might and earn the King's notice, Galien sought the most fearsome challenge he could imagine. He journeyed deep into the kingdom's shadowed, terrifying underbelly: Deepnest. This was a place of primal horror, ruled by creatures that crawled and spun, a chaotic realm the Pale King himself struggled to control.
Galien plunged into the darkness, fueled by his pride and the certainty of his own victory. He battled the monstrosities of the deep, wielding his great, curved scythe with ferocious skill. The fighting was long, the enemies ceaseless, and the environment itself was an enemy.
Galien fought until he could fight no more. He met his end not in a noble duel, but in the grime and chaos of the nest. His body—a proud, armored shell—was left to decay in a small, remote corner of the horrific web, his mighty scythe resting beside him.
But Galien's sheer, blinding pride refused to let him accept the simple truth of his demise. When I arrived with the Dream Nail, I found not a corpse, but a vibrant, spectral warrior hovering over the empty shell.
The spirit of Galien is cheerful, energetic, and utterly oblivious to his own fate. He greets me as a "fellow warrior" and, looking down at his own corpse, remarks on the "poor fellow who has fallen before us." He never realizes the fallen warrior is himself.
He challenges me to one last "joyful combat," believing it to be a test sent by the Pale King. The resulting boss fight is a chaotic, spinning dance of death as his spiritual self and his weapon (the spectral scythe) bounce around the cramped arena.
When I finally defeat him, Galien is humbled, yet still misunderstands the situation.
"Unbelievable... I am defeated at last! So this is what it feels like to be bested... Still, though, I am strong, am I not? When you see our King, surely you'll tell him of my valour...? Yes... he sent you here to test me, didn't he?"
I looked at him, feeling bad for him.
"Yes, he sent me here to test you, and he will be happy with the results."
He looked at me, feeling proud and happy.
"So, I finally met his expectations...Thank you, my friend, let's see each other sometime."
With that final happiness for recognition, Galien's spirit shatters into Essence, finally released from the prison of his own dream. His story is a poignant footnote in Hallownest's decline: a brave warrior whose greatest enemy was his own refusal to acknowledge the inevitable.
"I don't know if we will meet, but I will be waiting for it even if it is impossible."
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I summoned the scythe to see it.
"It's heavy, no wonder he was using telekinesis to lift it up." I said as I tried some move with it.
After few minutes I heard footsteps behind me.
I looked behind me seeing a group of people who saw the bodies with a stunned face.
'If I'm correct no adventurer should be here since the evilus is around here.' I thought as I squinted my eyes.
"Hey." One of them said as he looked at me.
"What do you want?" I said readying the scythe in case if one of them attacked.
"Did you do this?"
"Yes, why? are you with them or not?"
"What level are you?"
"Level 2"
After hearing my words, the group started laugh.
"HAHAHA, LEVEL 2 KILLED A LEVEL 4 GROUP."
"RIGHT? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO KILL THEM."
"IF WHAT HE SAID IS TRUE THEN THEY'RE TRASH."
They mocked as I felt hate to the evilus group.
'They even mocking the death of their companion...That's it.' I thought as I focused at the group.
"But jokes aside they're with us so you have to pay for it." The guy said with a malice intent.
Everyone got into fighting style, but I only raised my right hand to snap my finger.
-Snap-
When I snaped flames from underground erupted killing the man who was talking instantly.
"Now, allow me to elaborate why I'm here." I said gaining the group attention who they were surprised then turned into rage.
"First, I'm here to gain stats but realizing the danger you can put I changed my mind."
Spikes, two small scythe, and two shields appeared out of thin air.
"Today, the hunt will start." I said with cold eye's.
"Tch, Don't get cocky just because you killed trash." One of them said.
"Why do see your comrades lives like trash?" I asked.
My question made them stopped and started to think about it.
"Why? Because they're trash who can't do one job."
"That's right actually it's amusing to see how they fall."
One after another saying the same thing.
I felt annoyed so much that I felt that they should know what fear is.
I used the void tendrils to appear behind on my back.
Seeing this they felt shiver's.
"What do you find so entertaining? What's so amusing about this? What do you take life for, exactly?" I said as I started to aim my tendrils at them.
"Tch, what will you do abo-splash-"
One of them said but his head got blown from the force of the tendril.
"SHIT, KILL HIM."
All of them started to move but I expected that.
I moved every weapon I have to kill them.
"GAH"
"HELP M-Splash-"
"HE'S ONLY ALONE WHAT'S SO SCARY OF HIM."
Seeing everyone dying one of them tried encouraging them to keep fighting.
"Look some of his weapon disappeared that mean he is getting tired."
They looked only seeing the two shields.
'Good make them feel the advantage so I can get them off guard.' I thought as they started to get close to me.
The two shields started to spin fast that they looked like the distructo disc that Krillin throw from dragon ball.
Using them I made it go through some of them.
"WHAT THE FU-"
The person who was encouraging the other's got cut from up to down.
All them started to feel helpless that some of them started to think to run.
"Who said you can run?" I said using the tendrils to go through them.
"WA-"
"RU-"
"WATCH OU-"
None of them managed to complete their sentence as they got penetrated to the heart.
'There's more coming." I thought as I sensed some people coming.
This will take a lot of time to finish is.