Greero made his way through wall after wall, destroying all in his path and slaying all that tried to stop him. He was no longer even being slowed with all three undead commanders beaten and their armies destroyed. Not to mention he had figured out how the defenders of the walls fought so he could slay them without even trying, and it didn't take much effort to make a wall through the walls.
Due to all of this, Greero was left to his thoughts as he closed in on the skull that had conquered his homeland. Greero found himself rather excited as he closed in, as the last several battles had been exciting. While they had not been all that challenging in the grand scheme of things, they had each featured interesting opponents. Though perhaps if they had fought together, they could have been a genuine threat.
Greero found his mind circling on the grand battle that could have been had the armies that tried to stop him joined together to do it. Though eventually he broke through the last wall and saw the walls surrounding the great undead skull that had conquered his people along with the ghostly tornadoes that patrolled its personal walls. "Well, perhaps I'll get one last interesting fight before the adventure is over." Greero said as he made to move towards the inner walls.
He made it about halfway towards the last walls standing between him and the ruler of the undead kingdom when he was intercepted. A claw coming seemingly out of nowhere headed straight for him. He dove to the right, easily avoiding it as he took in what exactly it was. He then saw three strange undead creatures. A three-headed serpent, some kind of giant insectoid armor, and finally the thing that had shot the claw at him: a ship flying on a constantly streaming flow of smog from the faces at its front.
"While this kingdom is so generous, it's almost a shame I have to destroy it. But despite all the interesting opponents, it has given me, the hero has to destroy the evil kingdom." Greero said with a disappointed sigh as if he was having to condemn his favorite playground to demolition rather than a kingdom to destruction. Greero then charged towards his new opponents while the ship pulled back its claw.
The three-headed serpent opened its three maws and met Greero's charge with its dangerous breaths. The left head quickly chewed up a lot of grass and then shot a tornado of ghost grass at the intruder. The center head fired its angry necrotic gas to the side of the intruder, causing a bunch of angry serpents to be born and then attack the intruder. The final serpent head on the right fired its strange tear breath that burned all it touched, mixing it with the left head's ghost tornado breath to do even more damage.
Despite the three-headed serpent's devastating breath attack that would have killed most anyone else, it didn't kill the Greero. In fact, not only did it not kill him, but he also managed to kill the angry grass serpents that had been creating while somehow charging through both the grass ghost tornado and the acid tears. Greero charged through the danger, somehow finding a path through the danger, but before he could strike a fatal blow as he had closed in to melee, he was then suddenly pushed away.
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The strange floating undead ship that had shot its claw at Greero earlier had shoved him away from the three serpents using a combination of its sails, wind, and its smog river. The three-headed serpent used the distance between it and the hero to fire its breath once again. Though this time instead of having all of its heads fire the necrotic breaths. It had only its center fire so that the intruder landed on a bed of angry serpent snakes.
The three-headed serpent had hoped it would prove an effective tactic. Sadly, the intruder made quick work of the bed of angry grass serpents and was once again charging towards them. The undead ship and the three-headed serpent made sure to keep him between themselves, as when he got too close to one, the other would either push him away or pull them towards them. Their teamwork makes them an effective threat against the intruder.
Greero found himself getting annoyed from the constant back and forth, which was a novel experience as fights rarely lasted long enough for him to feel anything about them. Though as he thought about the current situation, a thought occurred to him, and he spoke this thought aloud. "Weren't there three of you?" Greero said realizing that perhaps he had let himself become too focused on the two and forgot the third as a result.
The third then made his appearance as all of a sudden Greero heard a strange sound and ducked as the third undead creature tried to shove its strange spike through him. He dodged it as his senses were far above the average grass pixies, and so he heard the sound the strange spike made a bit earlier than the insectoid armor probably intended. Greero found himself in a melee battle with the rather dark-looking armor in front of him while the undead ship and three-headed serpent provided support.
Greero found himself facing a decent fighter that could keep up with him for the first time in a long time. Though it wasn't because his opponent was as skilled or as fast as him. The strange insectoid abomination in front of him masquerading as armor had hidden blades all over him in the form of mantices. As such, it was ready to match his strikes because it had blades already intercepting his.
The battle went on for a while in a stalemate between the three elite undead and the grass pixies swordman hero. Though that eventually ended as while the three undead elites were good, they were young as well. So eventually they made mistakes due to experience. The first was the insect armor; it left a gap in its defense due to experience, which Greero quickly exploited by running it through.
With the melee down, the other two elite undead were back to keeping the intruder between the two of them. Though the next mistake made was by the ship as it shot its claw at the intruder, he didn't just dodge to the side as he had done before; instead, he leaped up and ran along the chain connecting the claw to the rest of the ship. Once he reached the ship from his chain walk, the intruder made quick work of the undead ship.
That left the three-headed serpent as the only undead elite left. It never stopped fighting; it kept firing different necrotic breaths, trying with all its might to destroy the intruder, but in the end, it wasn't enough. The intruder closed in on the three-headed serpent, and it was soon left in pieces on the ground.
The hero took a moment to gather his breath. As it had been quiet some time since anyone besides a villain or another hero had gotten him to work this much. "It really is a shame this kingdom is coming to an end soon." Greero said he was saddened at the loss of all the interesting opponents that the undead kingdom had given him. But he had a job to do, and it was time to finish this tale. So with that thought, Greero closed in on Maxwell, who was too focused on his holy ritual to notice the danger closing in.
