A/N: yet another chapter! I am starting to like my dark thoughts. I regard it as a little accomplishment of mine. Nevertheless, I would like to thank dear Tokyo for his suggestion in which he talked about how the Darkwraith are superior offensively while the servants of Chaos would be superior defensively.

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Dark wars III

Day I (Status quo):

- The first part of Kaathe army (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th division.) faced serve attrition from in their crossing from depth to blighttown bonfire. The gaping dragon alone killed over 100 members before dying. The basilisks, Ghouls, Blowdart snipers, Cragspider, infested barbarians reaped another 200 members. The morale was in issue as well due to the losses without some sense of triumph to compensate it.

-The second part met little to no difficulty in traversing blighttown… however, when they descended further in the tumbling wooden structure leading to the bottom level, it was set ablaze by Quelana herself with one strong tempest. Over 200 heavy melee members weren't quick enough to hurry to safety and so they hurled down to their death. It clearly left a sore impact on their overall morale. Through the red eye orb, the Darkwraith communicated with Kaathe giving him a heads up.

- The dark serpent was fumed; he expected it to happen again on his side. And so he came up with a plan:

Kaathe summoned two Serpents from the abyss from the swamps to the upper levels of blighttown. The two acted as a bridge of sort leading his troops to the bottom levels. Surprisingly enough, there were no signs of any life form in the swamp except a couple of hundred chaos servants near the entrance of Quelaag domain. The bonfire however was left unguarded for some reason. There were no skirmishes or actual contact than day.

Casualties:

D.W: 500, no division lost.

S.C: 0, No chaos regiment lost.

Day II (Ocean of flames):

-With the dawn of the second day, Kaathe commanded this 3rd light division and 2nd heavy division to engage the enemy in a spear-head formation with two kings on each side while a third king is in the middle while the 5th division would cast remedy constantly. Jar Eel personally led the charge.

-The chaos servants were aligned in three curves, with the first and third being the heavy fighters while the second was light ones. Pyromancers and archers were on the hill guarded by great shield-only servants. The first line casted iron flesh immediately.

- The swamp was unusually heavy that day; one would barely walk in it. Nevertheless, the servants fought furiously but both their training and their equipment was far less inferior in general than the Darkwraith. There was no place to roll; only to block and parry. The dark hand had sapped so many humanities during that day. Peculiar it was for the silence of the pyromancers seeing their brethren being slaughtered down there. The archers however focused on the three kings who were killing dozens by a single swipe. The king in the middle was firing dark orbs at the pesky archers on top of the hill.

-Kirk was caught by one of those kings who was trying to heal by sapping Kirk's humanity. The knight of thorns escaped his grasp and plunged the hollowed area in its chest killing it instantly. This act boosted the morale just a little but it was perhaps too late; since they lost more than 1500 in the battle … only less than 500 were fighting. They accepted their fate and casted power within. As their soul and body withered, so did the enemies around them. kirk fought till the end, in his last breath, he kneeled in ground and casted combustion on the swamp ground…

… And all went ablaze.

- The whole swamp was on fire devouring servants and Darkwraith alike. One of the four kings charred in the intense flame while the other dived into the abyss. Jar Eel was strong enough to retreat along with few others (Who were mostly light remedy casters). The remedy casters survived unscathed, their cloaks were smeared with tar… the cause of the ocean of flames. The pyromancers and the great shields retreated inside Quelaag domain.

Casualties:

D.W: all of the 2nd and 3rd divisions (3500 in total.) And two of the four kings

S.C: The chaos sword regiment (2000), half of chaos 2nd arrow (350).

Day III,IV, V:

-Healing the injured and reformation on both sides it were spent. The Darkwraith were waiting till the fire subsided. Kaathe sent half of the stealthy mercenaries to scout in silence along with some bowmen and archers in total number of 600 to an area up north. Arrows, dung pies, throwing draggers were all over them from every direction. They of course scattered and flipped easily around projectiles (they were harder to hit because of ring of fog.) but there were still some casualties. Most of the attackers were high up in the roots around the swamps who were an easy pick for the dark bowmen and archers. The Darkwraith was victorious that day.

-Kaathe was absurd to find servants away from Quelaag domain. He sensed some trickery lurking in the shadows… normally, he would send his reserves to investigate but he suffered too much to rely on a certain hunch.

Casualties:

D.W: 100, most of them are Shiva's mercenaries.

S.C: Most of the chaos first arrow (350).

Total Losses:

-D.W: 4100, two of the four kings.

-S.C: 3700, kirk knight of thorns.

So yeah here is the first stage of the war. See you soon :D