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Chapter 2: A New Empire
Construction on the field base, dubbed Nazarick after a great Elven sorcerer, was progressing smoothly, right now work on the bottom most chamber was completed, and the minions were digging their way to the surface. The journey was long but now that teleportation magic circles had been carved into both sides they could resupply from home. Hence the three heirs were enjoying a meal together.
"What I don't get..." Kieran stated as he used his teeth to mangle a turkey leg. "Is why you needed both of us to come along if you could just carve out the teleportation circle yourself?"
"I didn't." Koriander stated simply prompting Kieran to nearly choke on his morsel and Balloma to put down her goblet with a thud before she threw it elsewhere. "Did you two really think that I would quietly suffer alone while you two made yourselves at home inside of my tower?"
"You covered it with flower print, what is wrong with you!?" Kieran balked in confusion, his white hair slicked from running a gauntlet threw it.
"Our sister's aesthetics aside." Balloma stated aloud. "Seeing as how our time for the past two months has been wasted, I for one would like to make up for it."
"Yes!" Kieran stated almost laughing to himself. "There's a whole world up there to burn down! I can't wait to get started!"
"If that's the case then might I make a few suggestions?" A woman in a dark cloak bound by chains and sorcerers tomes appeared before the three of them. "There is a village above us under attack by a group of men in armor." Rose explained holding out a crystal ball which as she had claimed depicted a village under attack by armed men in armor.
"And we care because?" Balloma stated cocking a brow suspiciously.
"Here I was under the impression that you wished to test yourselves against the forces of this world?" As Rose finished speaking she with drew the orb back into her robes. "My apologies, please enjoy your meal."
"Hell yeah!" Kieran stated slamming his fist down and using his other hand to rip a chunk of turkey off and ripped it with his teeth. "If I don't kill something soon I'll go crazy!"
"If that's the case I'll go ahead of you and create a teleportation circle for you." Koriander stated shrugging her shoulders as she disappeared in the light of teleportation.
"Like hell I'm going to let you beat me to the action!" Kieran snapped as he grabbed one last handful of edible matter and ran out into the underground tunnels.
"You don't intend to come with them Balloma?" Rose asked having already moved aside for the rushing Kieran.
"Why would I? Unlike those two I am not so easy to manipulate." Balloma smiled evily while she picked through the scraps of the messy table for something Kieran had not mangled yet. "After those two have softened things up there I will simply claim whatever is left and expand it into our base of operations. In the mean time I will have the opportunity to rework their rooms to my own personal tastes."
"You are going to be a handful." Rose stated before she disappeared in the light of a teleportation spell.
The portal shimmered before the four individuals, two knights and their two victims, a pair of sisters one of whom was already grounded from a arrow to the leg. From that portal emerged a woman dressed in red but with the face of a demon, a pretty demon yes, but piercing red eyes and dark bluish skin couldn't mean anything else.
"Eenie, meanie, miney, moe." Koriander stated as she used her staff to point back and forth between the two men. "Who has got to go?" As Koriander finished her rhyme, her staff was aimed directly at the nearest knight, he raised his sword as if to attack her, it merely shortened the distance that her bolt of lightning had to travel to strike him. "Now than, oh the things that I'm going to do to you!" The other knight chose to turn and flee, however he was interrupted by the rumbling like a Earth Quake and a armored hand emerged from below to grab him by his foot. The owner of that hand burst forward from the ground, and grabbed the man by his shoulder. Then Kieran bent the man, like he was cracking an egg until a loud snap echoed leaving the man a bloodied pulp on the ground. "Ah you broke him, I was going to have so much fun doodling on him." Koriander stated in a disappointed child like tone of voice.
"What was that about teleporting me here when you got here Koriander?" Kieran asked in a deeply suspicious tone of voice.
"These two attacked me when I got here, so I defended myself." Koriander stated shrugging her shoulders.
"Oi that true?" Kieran asked looking down at the two sisters who were on the ground.
"Wha...?" The elder sister, who looked like she stopped processing the situation since some time ago, could only bob her mouth in response to Kieran's question. "Did these guys..." Kieran gestured to the body and bloodied pulp in armor on the ground. "Attack her before I got here?" Kieran asked in a intentionally slow voice to the confused village girl. The still thoroughly confused and utterly terrified sister could only nod her head in response. "Great, what am I suppose to do now?"
"Well there are more of these guys where those two came from in the village over there." Koriander stated using her staff to point in the direction of the village.
"Eh. That'll work." Kieran stated before he proceeded to walk towards the village whistling merrily. "Now than." A chill went down the spine of The elder sister as she turned around slowly to face Koriander who was leaning over behind her and smiling sweetly. "Those two are no good now, so what kind of flower would you like me to carve into your bones?"
All of the villagers had been rounded up or killed, all that was left to do now was to kill these prisoners and then burn down the village and they could move on with the next one. That and pick up those two idiots who were taking their time with the two girls that ran away a while ago, how long did it take to kill two people?
"Oi, can someone please tell Edward to not rape the villagers before killing them? We're on a schedule!" One of the knights piped up.
"Oi I'm right here!" And indeed the resident rapist of the group was there, so then who were the two that were sent after the two escapes and why had they not got back by now? The forest that surrounded this area was suppose to be filled with unruly monsters, had the scent of blood attracted them and lured them out? As if answering what happened to the other two a body sailed through the air and landed at the feet of the men guarding the villagers.
"Hello!" Turning their heads at that overly cheerful greeting two soldiers saw a man dressed in the armor of a demon waving at them. "I heard that a massacre was being carried out here at this village and I was wondering if I could join in!?" At once several of the soldiers rushed towards Kieran their shields out as they surrounded him.
"Who are you and why are you here?" One of the men asked shield in front and ready to swipe with his sword. This man was dangerous, they understood that immediately, the body of their comrade looked like it had been crushed, and if the indentations on his armor was any indication, it was done using the bare hands of someone who was roughly human sized.
"My name is Kieran, nice to meet you. But weren't you paying attention earlier? I came here to kill people!" The villagers tensed up fearfully, at Kieran's declaration, one held what might have been his wife closer to him.
"We have no intention of working with you demon!" One of the knights declared full of Bravado.
As if accepting that as a cue, the knights stepped forward and slammed their blacdes into Kieran's armor, bending them at a odd angle in the process, the red glow indicated that they had been heated to the point of malleability.
"A demon? That's a little harsh." Kieran stated in a tone of voice which did not match his statement. "I'm just a kid with a magnifying glass, I see ants, I want to fry them in the sun." Saying that, Kieran grabbed hold of his blade in the sheath at his waist, he drew it out a little and it was accompanied by a little bit of flame. Kieran suddenly yanked his blade out like it was propelled by a rocket and slashed through all of the soldiers with the flame wreathed blade, sending torso's and bits of swords, shields and armor flying through the air. Not only that but the shock wave had carved a trench of molten earth in front of the village.
"Ah-Ah...!" Those that remained could only stare in shock at the monster that ended the lives of most of their men in a single blow, his sword still wreathed in flame.
"Well your blades cannot pierce my armor and your armor cannot defend against my blade, it would seem that there are not anyone here worth sparing a second thought." As Kieran said that the flames of his blade grew strong as he grabbed the handle with both hands and raised the sword to strike.
"Monster!" At once one of the men broke off from the others and ran away in another direction. As if waiting for that chance, Kieran jumped into the air again and swung his sword in a arc, carving a huge crescent into the ground before him and off the fleeing soldier dead in his tracks.
"Thank your fellow gentleman." Kieran stated as he landed behind the would be fleeing soldier, effectively trapping him between molten ground and himself. "For in bravely trying to draw my attention away from you, your lives have been spared another few moments." As Kieran said that, he severed the legs of the knight who tried to run away knocking him to the ground on the back.
"Some body Help me!" To the soldiers pathetic cries for help, he was stabbed in his guts by the flaming sword. "I'll pay you! 100 gold!" And again. "1000 Gold!" And again. "All of it! I'll pay all of what I have!" Kieran did not stop the repeated stabbing of his blade into the guts of the soldier crying out for help, rather the remaining soldiers had another idea.
"Stall for time! Our only hope for escaping alive is to call for Reinforcements!" Towards this end, one of the knights got out a horn, several others moved between him and Kieran and held their shields up, projecting a protective aura in the process. Kieran eventually noticed that his stabbing dummy had stopped moving so turned his attention to the soldiers still standing and heard one of them blowing on a horn.
"This is a strange time to break out into song." Kieran commented looking at the soldiers suspiciously.
"They're calling for reinforcements!" One of the villagers shouted prompting Kieran to give a interested look. "If you don't stop them, then more soldiers will show up!"
"Oh Really?" In response to this, Kieran simply flipped his sword around and stabbed it into the ground. "Well go on, don't let me stop you, having the rest of you come to me is a lot more convenient then going out of my way to chase you down after all."
In that moment something snapped inside of one of the soldiers. They had always looked down people who didn't believe in the Six Gods, pitied them, their short lives, and their eternally damned souls for rejecting the existence of their deity's. It was this same faith that gave these men confidence in their darkest hour, after all to ignore the words of their superiors, who speak for the gods, to obey something as mortally chronically fallible as their own conscience would be same to reject those same gods. In other words, as long as they used the excuse of 'it is the will of the gods' these men could commit any genocide, any massacre, and not blink a eye.
"Damn you! DAMN YOOOOOOUUUUU!" And thus the remaining soldiers ran to their death's.
"Roses?" Koriander asked walking back to the village.
"Ah... no thank you." Enri replied leading Nemu back to the village proper, since drinking that red potion, more accurately since Koriander dumped it down her throat, Enri's leg was fully healed and she could walk again.
"Oh come on, you're ruining my buzzkill." Koriander state pouting with her face.
Truth be told, Enri was terrified, she was shaken down to her core, she screamed for a few good minuets earlier, but Koriander told her to stop doing that and Enri instinctively reacted. That is what every fibre of her being was telling her. That if she failed to give this woman what she wants then she and her sister would suffer horribly. And right now the only thing she wanted was to have a nice quiet conversation.
"No thank you. That sounds rather painful." Enri stated stress sweat dripping into a false smile. "I have to ask, but do people actually enjoy you doing that?"
"Oh absolutely, my girl friend loves my body art!" As Koriander explained this, she pulled up her sleeve to reveal a surgical scar from someone cutting deep into the flesh of her arm. "I gave her tons of Bone carvings too!"
"So... they're a sign of affection?" Enri asked confused.
"Well sometimes, truth be told I've got a throne back at my place made out of bits of people that have displease me all sorts of ways covered in them too." Koriander stated shrugging her shoulders. "Truth be told it's just a hobby of mine."
"...I see." Enri stated after a gulp. "Is... your brother going to spare my home village?"
"Well... I honestly don't know truth be told. He's kind of a sadist." Koriander stated tapping her chin in a thought, before she suddenly snapped her fingers. "I know! You and your sister can come back home with us and work as a maid! There's no way he would object to that!"
"Gulp... I'll think about it." Enri stated swallowing deeply. While Enri was quietly living in fear of that possibility she came back to the sight of ruin, several trenches had been carved into the ground, they were still burning as if some kind of powerful fire magic were responsible.
"Well come on!" On the subject of which, there was a man dressed in demonic armor standing in front of the villagers with his knuckles on his hips. "No one wanna fight? No one!?"
"Brother." Koriander stated walking up behind Kieran. "Do you not think that if there was anyone in that village more powerful then these inferior lifeforms then it would be they at the end of your blade instead?"
"You make a fair point. Well I'm off for the rest of them then!" Kieran stated waving his sister off.
"Where are you going?" Koriander asked cocking a suspicious brow.
"They called for reinforcements earlier, I'm going to go find them too!" Stated as he proceeded to continue walking Kieran smiled underneath his helmet. "Obviously these were only scouts, which means that the real meat of their forces are further away."
Inside of Nazarick, the teleportation magic circle was active again, and Balloma was sitting in front of it awaiting the arrival of the forces from the other side. Don't get her wrong, the minions were great, the greens proved to be the most useful of her forces when she used them correctly. But when put into a serious fight, there were others that also proved to be even more valuable than they in terms of pure fighting power, their siblings had also called over a select amount of elite fighting forces as well.
"Albedo! Leader of the Red Dawn!" Quaver, the one eyed court jester minion, announced. The first to appear in the circle, was a succubus of ravishing beauty, black horns and feathered wings created a sharp contrast with a beautiful stark white body, Koriander's succubus lover Albedo.
"Beast Master of the Elves and her assistant, Aura Belle Fiora and Mare Belle Fiora!" Following behind her, two dark elf children with mismatched blue and green eyes appeared in the circle next.
"Paladin of the Fallen Knights, the Bloody Valkyrie Shalltear Bloodfallen!" Contrary to the declaration of Quaver, a young vampiric aristocrat wearing a red and black dress and holding a parasol next appeared in the magic circle.
"Lord of Ice and Vermin, Cocytus of Nordberg!" A huge figure resembling a humanoid beetle with four arms and a long scorpion tail appeared in the light of the teleportation type magic circle.
"Overseer of the Dark Tower, Arch Devil Demiurge!" Man with a tail and dressed in a pinstripe suit made his appearance known next, his calculating eyes briefly going over the other summoned servants.
"Last survivor of the Kindred, Sebas Tian!" The light of the summoning circle produced a handsome but old looking butler.
"The Angel of Sacrifice, Victim!" By far the ugliest of creatures to appear was also the last, a mass of pink flesh with tiny wings off to the sides and a small halo above it's head.
"Is that everyone?" Balloma asked after she watched the individuals line up in front of her.
"As you've requested, the elite forces of you, your brother's and sister's forces have been summoned here mistress." Quaver explained taking a bow.
"Very good. As you are aware my siblings and I have launched a expedition to the new world with the intent to conquer, as such I have called the eight of you here to begin assigning tasks. Shalteer and Sebastian, we will be focusing our efforts on gathering information concerning the nearby kingdoms, so the two of you will stand by and await your orders from me." Balloma stated speaking directly to her subordinates.
"At once mistress." Shalltear stated bowing before the one that owned her body mind and soul.
"Your will shall be done." Sebastian stated straightening his posture before bowing head first. "As for the rest of you, your respective masters doubtlessly have their own tasks that they wish for you to attend, so until further notice you will remain here until you receive word from them."
"With all do respect Balloma." Rose had made her presence known again. "But you yourself felt that the time you spent in the tunnels was 'wasted' so perhaps it would be best to contact your siblings directly." Saying that rose produced her magic orb from which the images of Koriander and Kieran appeared.
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