Another fantastic adventure on the Siel server, this was around the time we were having huge lagging problems too, which made everything more difficult :p
"Mal! Could you help us out in Azoturan Fortress? We really need to kill Icaronix!" Hackfield pleaded as he stepped into the room, catching me off guard for a second. I looked up wearily at the Templar's face before getting to my feet. I love helping out my legion mates, in fact I often enforced they come to me if they needed anything. I didn't want to feel like I was too intimidating to talk to, and ever since the last Brigade General, best friend and partner in crime Gabian handed leadership to me while he traveled I've wanted to be a good leader like him. His leadership skills came so naturally, he could be so powerful and yet everyone loved to talk to him, that's what I wanted to do. Then again I had also just gotten back from my first trip to Katalam, and I still felt a bit of the soul sickness from how many times I was summoned back to the Obelisk. I knew though that I had a responsibility, and it would give me an excuse to go talk to the soul healer like I should have before.
"Of course I'll help out." I laughed, picking up the last piece of my armor that I finished dying. I decided that since my training began in Katalam it was time to change a few things. So now my armor, which was originally white, I had now finished dying black instead. I clicked the plate pieces into place and picked up my old Polearm. Looking at the thing I sighed, because it looked shiny and new and powerful but that's all it was, looks. I had no resources at the moment to get a new weapon, so I'm stuck with that one. I placed the polearm on my back and nodded to my legionary.
"Alright I'm ready, let's do this." I said before walking out the door, glancing back to see him close behind. I gave Hack the order to round up whoever else needed or wanted to come and meet me in Heiron near the gate to the fortress, and I set off.
Sneaking into the place was easy enough, those Lepharist Revolutionaries never did pay much attention, and I stood beside the portal to wait for Hackfield and the others. I sat against the stone structure and stared into the rift beside me, mesmerized by the swirling vortex of Aether that changed colors every few seconds. I sat there, thinking to myself, humming a soft tune. I am not sure how long I waited, it's easy to lose track of time when you have endless amounts of it, being a Daeva and all, but finally I had to go check to see what's up. I hoped down the side of the steps to avoid alerting any of the guards and looked around.
At first I didn't see anything, besides the Lepharists I saw no other Daevas or people about the place. Finally I caught glimpse of a dark head, and from the great sword he was wielding I knew it was Hack. He was followed close behind by 3 other legionaries from the legion. Hackfield, Mabohn, Kaleesiah and her husband whose nickname was Cpt, pronounced 'Capt'. They snuck pass quite a few of the guards before that clumsy Templar tripped on a root and landed with an 'OOMF!' on the ground. Mabohn's eyes widened and as the Lepharists turned to look at them and she quipped 'you idiot!' before battle shouts raised around them and they were surrounded. I tried seeing if maybe they could hold them off, from the classes they had Hackfield as a Templar, Mabohn a chanter, Kaleesiah a song weaver and Cpt is a gunslinger. It became quickly apparent however, that they couldn't hold all of them off.
I shuffled through my bag of different potions and pots and picked out a small container with aether jelly in it and consumed it quickly before moving out from cover and towards my legion mates, Polearm unseathed. I was going to make this quick, I didn't want to waste much of my energy here before we got into the fortress, so I decided to focus on more area of effect attacks. I quickly sprinted into the middle of the battle and shouted back at Hack and the others.
"Get back! I got these guys!" they knew what I meant then, I was going to use a very special attack. I turned to the many Lepharists around me and smirked. "You know your buddy Lehar is such a joke, some babbling idiot if you ask me." Outraged cries erupted around me as they all turned their attention away from my legionaries to stare me in the face. I took that moment of shock to lower myself closer to the ground before using all my strength, turning my polearm and focusing all my aether through my hands and right into my weapon. I reared up and slammed the tip of my weapon into the earth, releasing the Aether into the ground and erupting in a blast of power, ribbons of energy swirling into the sky and leaving cracks where the polearm hit. The ground quaked with the sudden blast of energy, knocking the already injured Lepharists onto the ground, I used that to send a spark of electric Aether around them, electrocuting and stunning most of them. It didn't take long after that to take care of the rest, and when I was finished I hurried over to where everyone was waiting.
I was very hesitant on going to Azoturan because I remembered Fragment of Memory 3 being my least favorite quest
I said yes in the end though, I was bringing some knew legionaries and it was good to make an impression on them.