The Battered

= The Battered =

"Lost soul damned to harvest innocent's lives whenever its awaken from the blade that created it. Its body battered and mangled into a monster"

The Battered are a group of beings corrupted by their despair. Wanting to find the help of their gods and ascend these souls corrupted themselves in a series of lost and forgotten rituals. Finally ending their lives with a copper sword imbued with a cursed green light; they got mangled until they became shells of who they once were and getting trapped in their sword until a curious soul awakens them from their slumber. The Battered move in four legs so they can maintain their balance due to their size and pain.

Behaviour
When one of The Battered is released from their sword their only thought is to harvest souls in a search of a way to release them from their curse, they will kill everything they see, innocents, warriors, animals, pets and other monsters in the search of this way out. Once they have killed everything around them they return once again to their sword waiting to be awaken again.

The Battered seem to be in constant pain which can be seen in the way they attack. They twich in pain and sometimes move impulsively.

They usually attack with their arms rising one of them and swinging it against their enemies, they have also been seen increasing the amount of goo they are made from and spitting it in large amounts to trap and harm their prey. When they are desperate most of them get enraged and attack more repeatedly, raming blindly hopefully hitting something.

Appearance
They are tall humanoids mostly around 3 blocks (3 meters/9.8 feet) tall when on four legs and 7 blocks (7 meters/22.9 feet) tall. They are made of a black and dark green goo that sometimes drips to the floor, the goo could be described as a more dense type of slime which smells like a rotting corpse. They are skeletical with their bones pronouncing through their goo skin. They also keep their hair, which has turned white with age and grown longer with time. On their back, they have the cursed blade stuck and can only be removed by killing the Battered.

Their bodies are covered with agonizing faces of the souls they have already harvested, their eyes and mouth as well as the Battered's glow with a green tint which can be seen even in the darkest nights.

The Cursed Blade
The weapon stuck to the Battered's back, these blades were the ones that the Battered's embed into their chests to finish their ritual.

These swords seem to appear out of nowhere, they seem stuck in the ground with a small amount of black and green goo surrounding it, when someone touches it, the body of a Battered starts to form out of the goo around the sword with the sword being left on the back of the monster.

Once the Battered is defeated, its goo falls to the ground like a normal liquid and in a matter of minutes, the most of the goo dissapears into the soil though some can be collected and only the blade remains.

The cursed blade works mostly like a netherite sword but it has higher reach due to its size and the ones harmed by it seem affected by wither for a couple of seconds but the user is also weakened by its curse and becomes weaker to attacks.

The cursed goo, on the other hand, can be crafted into slime balls.