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Umbreal Infernias
Chapter 5: Fuck the Salamanders!
"I haven't been in this gold mine for like five minutes and already I'm hating it!"
I growled quietly to myself as I wipe my brow from the salty sweat running down to my eyes as my body is both hot and sweaty just from the sheer heat this entire fucking gold mine.
By Elune's hairy arm pits, it's like i'm in a sauna except in a long connecting, ancient tunnels that are supposed to be cold and filled with sense of wet mud and sulfur in the air. Glancing behind me, I can see most of my troops following me while the two Glaive throwers slowly and carefuly going through the pathway tunnel.
However we soon stumble upon a larger chamber where we have enough room for maneuver around each other and the war machines.
unfortunately there are two wide path that leads elsewhere, likely other deeper tunnels of the Mine.
"Well this is just great..." I mutters as I stared at the two path, nodding at Mydriel as she walks next to me and frown at the path ahead of us "Any idea what to do here? because splitting up is probably not a good idea."
"You would be correct my lady, but unfortunately we do not know the layout of the Mine nor the strength of the Salamanders... You have to make a choice." Mydriel answered honestly.
"Right..." I close my eyes and sighed deeply.
The death of my people still weight heavily on my heart and yet my nature as a Youkai is stopping me from just breaking down crying in grief. While I'm sorta happy it is doing that as we seriously need to conquer the mine before the Lizardmen attacks again, it still unnerves me just how less of a human I have become and more of something that doesn't have all of the moral compass a Human would have... Or correct emotions, either.
"Sarlina, any suggestions?"
"I'm afraid Mydriel is right, you need to split your forces in two and cover the ground quicker. Because I just got report that another wave of Lizardmen are going to attack the cavern entrance... Fortunately it is a small number this time but still, you need to decide quickly."
"Of course they are, things are never easy..."
I sighed in frustration as I thought that myself, seeing as I have no choice but to split my forces in two. With each having near same amount of Archers, Axe throwers, huntresses and witch doctors along with one Glaive thrower each in our squad.
After forming both mine and Mydriel's party, we departed in each pathway and descended deeper into the fire breathing lizard infestation.
As I led my warriors with our Glaive thrower not too far from the back, we entered what looks like another larger chamber with jagged black rocks jutting out of the ground. Not to mention the room was frickin hot as steam and jet of fire burst out from various cracks on walls and grounds.
Luckily they were small and easy to evade...Unfortunately we first met our real live Fire Salamander.
Naturally I observed it to see what we're dealing with here.
Lesser Fire Salamander
Level 7
HP 1120/1120
Race: Fire Salamander
Description: A creature that can naturally breath fire and even live in volcanoes and swim in lava. These beasts are rather territorial and won't hesitate to attack anything that isn't one of their own kinds.
yeah the thing definitely looks like it's from Dark souls 2 because holy shit! Not only is it big but it looks even more dangerous as I could literally see shimmers of heat emitting from the creature as it just lays there near the corner of the large rocky chamber.
That is until it notice us and slowly rear itself right to face us.
"Oh fuck, scatter and evade it's fireballs!" I called out as just in time as well, because the giant overgrown lizard's neck began to bulge as it spit large fireballs at our direction.
Luckily nobody got caught in its blast, as we scattered to the side and my Archers and Axe throwers immediately start firing arrows and axes at it. My witch doctors put out several totems of healing to make sure we stay alive while my huntresses ran around the Salamander, trying to give it a hard time to lock on to a target as it swayed its head around.
The projectiles hit their marks as the giant Salamander groans out in pain, it then lunged forward and begin doing that swimming in the ground move they do in game. Luckily none of my Huntresses were caught in its move but I was somewhat close enough to take my chance to leap at its side, dig my daggers into its scaly hide and almost shouted in pain at the sheer heat radiating from this thing!
Holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit!
I had to kick off the thing as it burned my body badly, fall to the ground writhing in pain as burn marks was visible on my exposed skin and my leotard and armoured pieces had this ugly burn marks to them.
I grit my teeth as my body twitch at being burned badly just by being near its skin! Luckily one of my trolls quickly came running and carefully grabbed me and dragged me toward one of the healing totems with one of my Witch doctor immediately ran up and start healing me.
I can feel the pain and burn marks slowly disappears as the healing aura from the totem and the healing spell from my troll spellcaster is doing its work.
Glancing to the Salamander I can see it's health is nearly empty but frown as i realize the bloody Glaive thrower has yet to fire its weapon and glance over to where it is an-Oh... Son of a...!
The bloody thing is stuck! there was a hole in its way and now it can't get out!
A loud screech from the Salamander took my attention as I whip my head toward where it rear its upper body up and falls down dead, arrows and axes with various amount of slash wounds from my huntresses glaives were visible.
I shakily stood up and inspected the area, so far my warriors manage to evade and handle the situation quite well. It's just me being a bloody dumbass and decided to try attack the bloody thing in close combat and getting burned for my trouble.
Glancing toward the body of the slain Salamander I spot my daggers and went to retrieve them... Only to pull out half melted blades.
"Well shit...!" I cursed out loud, seeing the state of my weapons and only means of defense... beside my magic of course.
Which i almost slapped my face as I sorta forgot I had spells that I could use, shaking my head as I put my now useless weapons away as I contacted Mydriel "Mydriel, how goes on your end?" I waited for a bit before I got an answer back.
"Doing good so far, we slew two of the Salamanders but we lost one Huntress and two Archers to their fireballs." I wince hearing that but held it back as I respond "We slew one as well, unfortunately my daggers are like half melted so I have to resolve this by going range."
"I see, be careful my Lady, these creatures are a lot tougher than they look."
After the psycic phone call, I look around to see my troops all healed up and manage to help the poor Glaive thrower out of the hole its wheel got stuck in... And notice something else at the corner near those jagged black rocks.
Curious what it is I walk over and bend over to pick it up and realize it's a bastard sword. It's almost long as I am and surprisingly light for something that looks heavy... Not to mention there was no rust or any burn marks considering it's been in here for who knows how long with fire breathing lizards.
Curious what it is I used observe and got this.
[Bastard Sword -Titanite-]
A two handed sword made out of titanite, a godly ore that is said to be able to even kill gods and hurt magical beings with devestating effects.
ATK +21
AGI -4
My eyes widen in shock and joy!
Not only am I holding a literal sword made out of titanite but it also confirm that it exist in this world!
But also, I have a weapon that I can use! Sure I have no idea how to wield a two handed sword properly but at this point it's better than nothing as I kinda need to save my Mana for either healing my troops or dealing some high damage against the Fire Salamanders.
Equiping the weapon, I can actually feel a lot stronger just by holding the blade in my hand.
Testing swinging the blade, it feels balanced and easy to handle the swings and weight of it in my hands. Smirking to myself I placed my new weapon over my shoulder as I waved my troops to move forward, it's time to clear out the damn Salamanders.
After what felt like hours went by, me and my troops manage to clear most of the Mine of the Fire Salamanders and even reunited with Mydriel and the others.
Sadly however, both our sides lost several people to the giant fire breathing reptilians.
Some got blasted with fireballs, some trambled and smashed to paste by their lunge attacks and some even eaten by them and cooked from the inside. Not to mention we even lost one of the Glaive throwers because we honestly wasn't expecting one of those bastards to come out of nowhere from above and smash the war machine to pieces with its fatass.
Once we manage to kill almost every Fire Salamander except one, I counted down how many of my warriors I have left.
8 Witch doctors, 41 Archers, 31 Axe throwers, 21 Huntresses and one Glaive thrower left.
We lost a fourth each of my units to those damn fire breathing lizards. Me and my warriors did what we could to put our decease where we can find them without them either taken or eaten by anything while we are clearing the Gold mine out.
But on the side note, the Bastard sword that I found works like a fucking charm!
Not only is it resistant to the sheer heat of the Fire Salamanders but it is easy to slash through their thick hides with such ease that I almost danced around them while they thrashed around trying to hit me.
Granted i did get few close calls that almost killed me in one shot, but thanks to my Witch doctors and my own healing spell I was fine after couple of minutes~
However, that's not the only good things that has happen so far.
Turns out, whatever happened back in the day before humanity was wiped out by the Dark god. My only guess is that the Drangleicians must have hid inside the mines a long time ago with some armed personnel since from what I gathered at the mayor's journal, nobody had any idea what was going on and that the kingdom was going through some anarchy since Vendrick was missing.
Then the big boom happened, the fire Salamander moved in and likely ate the hollows and their equipment were dropped on the ground.
That's right! We found more equipment infused with titanite ore lying about in the Mines, although they aren't exactly in good condition and some were half smashed or melted, but I decided to hoard them until we can get a blacksmith that can repair them.
Something tells me we're going to need these titanite weapons and armour against not only the Grimm but the rest of the monsters living in Drangleic.
"Alright" I said, after drinking the borrowed waterskin that one of my Archer gave me as we took a quick break to catch our breath and heal any injuries we attained "Any news on Tervalian's end?"
"Tervalian and the forces stationed at the cavern entrance manage to repell the second and third attack. I had to order few wisp to go out and deconstruct few ruins for gold to build Ancient protectors at the entrance as the enemy are getting more and more bolder."
"I see... We only got one more left and I guess this last one must be the leader of these Fire Salamanders as I can see a huge chamber ahead of us." I said, hefting my weapon over my shoulder as we were getting ready to assault the last one.
"Be careful my lady, and good luck."
I nodded and with a quick look up at my profile to see my stats.
[Taesi Luvidas]
Title: The newbie druid (3 days before expires)
Race: Nekomata
Gender: Female
Eyes: Light purple
Skin: Flawless pale skin
Hair color: Black with tint of purple
Bust size: K Cup
Height: 5 Feet, 4 Inch
Faction: The Conclave
Class: Druid assassin
Level: 11 (Next level, 1420/6100 EXP)
HP: 822/822
MP: 442/442
Armour stats: 15+
Stats:
Strength: 20
Endurance: 20
Intelligence: 16
Willpower: 20
Charm: 11
Speed: 20
Dexterity: 40
Luck: 9
Combat Ranking:
Dagger: D+
Long Blade: E+
martial art: D+
Magic casting: D-
Wrath 1 lvl (52% / 100% to level up) -Fires a sunlight infused magic bolt at enemies, may damage dark and frost based enemies greatly.-
Regrowth 1 lvl (82% / 100% to level up) -A slow healing ability that mends wounds-
Shadow Bolt 1 lvl (72% / 100% to level up) -Fire a bolt of darkness based spiritual bolt, damages light based beings greatly-
Spiritual Conduit 1 lvl (15% / 100% to level up) -As a Nekomata you generate far more mana but also able to use darkness and death magic based abilities-
Evasive 2 lvl (02% / 100% to level up) -makes you evasive and aware of your surroundings a lot more than average warrior does, capable to avoid getting hit during combat as well-
Sneak- 1 lvl (13% / 100% to level up) -Sneak allows you to be stealthy and go unnoticed by anyone. Stealth bonus 30% (You're now stealthy enough to bypass detection magic by range but can still be detected if you're 15 meters close to it.)
yeah, turns out I leveled up two times during both the skirmish at the Cavern entrance and clearing most of the Fire Salamanders in this Gold mine that I leveled up. Of course I put my stats in both Strength, endurance, Intelligence, Willpower and Dexterity to make myself a bit more tanky and still capable of taking hits and dealing reasonable damage.
Though the bloody fire breathing lizards could at least given me more EXP than what they gave me...
Either way, now i'm not only slightly stronger and faster but my mana recovery is a bit faster as well, while also increases my stealth chance of not being detected around 15 meters so that's good.
Not only that but my Evasion leveled up as well since I did notice I was much faster and I could actually read my opponents movement far more easier than I did before!
Dismissing the screen I glance to Mydriel who glances back and nods, looking around I could see the rest of my troops were not only tired but also ready to take this Mine for ourself and bring hope to our Conclave for a better tomorrow.
With a deep breath I pointed my sword at the entrance to the last room and exclaimed "March! let's end this once and for all!" And we all moved in, ready to tackle the last Fire Salamander.
We marched toward the large open path to the larger chamber, that it's large enough to be the same size as majula with various black rocks jutting out of the ground, with more broken equipment lying about with bones of humans this time... huh, thinking about it we didn't come across any bones of the decease on the way here.
Either way, looking around I noticed that there are sloped rocky platforms around the chamber, near the walls that likely was used to support the miners to dig around the chamber as I could see ancient broken down wooden platforms here and there with discarded pickaxes.
However my attention was brought toward the large darkened opening at the far end of the chamber, where steam of heat comes out and I could hear the sound of a Fire Salamander growling.
Except this one sounded deeper and louder... Like it's far bigger than the one we fought against.
"Mydriel, take our long range units along with the Glaive thrower up the side of the platform, the rest of you comes with me and do as much damage as possible and distract it for our range units to hit it without any delay!" I ordered and hefted my new weapon ready, with the Huntresses following behind me as Mydriel and the rest of my range units ready themself.
This is it... This could be my very first boss battle ever since I got here.
Just as I walked down the sloped path with my mounted warriors standing beside me, the ground started to shake and loud growling noise echoes through the hot chamber as thick smoke erupts from the giant hole in the wall as the last Fire Salamander emerge.
The thing stomps slowly out allowing me to see what it looks like.
It looks nearly the same as it's lesser brethrens but twice bigger, more jagged scales and what seems to be a row of spikes coming down from its back.
As the thing finally left its hole it rear up and roars that nearly deafened me as I wince at the volume of its roar.
Greater Fire Salamander
Level 12
HP 4300/4300
Race: Fire Salamander
Description: An ancient Fire Salamander, this creature has not only lived for centuries but has grown smart and intelligent against any that prey upon it. It leads its lesser brethrens in packs and won't hesitate to kill anything that tresspass in its lair.
"SCATTER!" I below as I dodged an incoming fireball that was twice bigger than the one we fought against.
Luckily none were caught in its blast but the sheer force of the explosion was enough to actually send me and few of my huntresses and their mounts flying few meters away and land on the ground with a pained grunt.
I immediately rolled to the side to avoide being smushed to paste by the giant Salamander's paw as it tries to smash me and swipe its front leg to the side in order to hit me.
I evaded the attack and swiped my Bastard sword at its limb and actually manage to give it a small cut, not large enough as its hide was thick and strong enough to stop most of the power behind my swing but also making sure to stay from a distance because like its lesser brethrens it is also letting out dangerously heat from its body as I could literally feel it's stinging my body slightly painfully.
While rolling to the side to avoid its fire breath, I saw my huntresses attacks its sides while my range units pelted it hide with arrows, axes and magic... and yet when looking at its health we only took down like eighty HP just from the first combined attack alone!
Dammit! It's going to take longer than expected because it suddenly swung around with its tail, hitting some of my huntresses and sent them crashing against the wall while most of them and me manage to avoid it by jumping over or ducking.
just as I jumped over its tail, a suddenly woosh suddenly flew by my and hit the side of the Greater Fire Salamander as it actually screech out in pain.
Realizing that the Glaive thrower was near me as its giant glaive weapon was sticking out of the giant fire breathing Lizard, also realize I NEED to move away as it rear its head toward my direction with an angered look and its neck bulges.
"Oh fuck!"
Once I landed i immediately bolted out of there, just in time as it spits out another giant fireball at my Direction. Glancing behind me I see the ball of hot death crashes against the area around the Glaive thrower, setting it on fire as it breaks down.
Shit!
looking at the health of the giant lizard that one shot from the Glaive thrower took it down to HP 2534/4300 and now we don't have anymore of them to deal massive damage to it!
I growled angrily as I dodged another swipe of its claw, seemingly ignoring most of my troops and going after me for some reason...Wait.
Does this thing know that i'm the leader and by killing off the leader the rest of my warriors will lose cohesion and order should I fall?
Taking a chance I ordered my huntresses to gather one side and attack from there while I go from another angle. Sure enough, after ordering that and executed the plan the giant lizard WAS focusing on me! it rear its head toward me and tries to blast me with its fire breath or claw at me to death.
Ok so this thing getting intelligent as it ages certainly lives up to it.
Nearly tripping over what looks like to be a charred root sticking from the ground, I glance toward the creature as it spins around again to try whack me with its tail, fortunately I ducked but was not prepared for it to stop in its mid spin and spun the other way around.
Forcing me to raise my two handed sword to shield the strike and was flung backward by the sheer force of its attack.
I crashed painfully against the wall, far away from the others as they desperately try to bring the creature down. I spit out blood as I could feel my insides are bleeding and glances up to see the creature slowly walked toward me. I tried to stand up but my knee brush against something.
Looking down I see another charred root sticking out.
Looking quickly at it and the giant Glaive still stuck at the side of where its neck is, I got an idea that I honestly HOPE it works!
Dropping my weapon I put my hands on to the ground and start using nature magic to pour onto the ground, to feel and find where the roots are located. Once I could feel them I let my magic to seep into them, heal them and make them grow large enough to what I have planned.
Soon enough a Shadow cast over me as I look up to see the Greater Fire Salamander ready to chomp my head off.
It never got the chance to do so.
As large, thick roots suddenly exploded out of the ground and smacked it back as it yelp in surprise and pain, forcing it to back away.
Me on the other hand, grinned.
Suddenly more and more large roots exploded from the ground, wrap around the now trashing giant fire Salamander as it screeched in shock and panic. Now held down, it's time to execute my plan to finish this thing for good.
Controlling the roots that weren't holding it down, I guided them around its nech and wrap around the stuck giant Glaive and began pulling it.
Now realizing what I have planned it now screeches in pain and horror as it trash even more, trying to break free as it getting harder and harder to keep feeding my mana to the roots and controlling it.
I grit my teeth as I could feel I was getting dangerously close losing all my mana if i don't finish this quickly so with a yell of defiance, I poured everything and pulled with all my strength that I had...
To pull the giant blade and cleaved it's head off its body, as hot steaming blood poured out off its neck and its head flew in the air and landed right in front of me as I stared at it in the eyes panting.
It moves its mouth and eyes a bit before it finally stay still.
The Greater Fire Salamander is dead.
I let out a sigh of relief and fell back on my butt, coughing a little as trickle of blood seeps down from my lips but looking at my mana pool I still have enough for Regrowth to heal most of my injuries.
The sound of my troops cheering at my victory and planning reach my ears as I could see them raising their weapons in the air and cheers, with Mydriel and a witch doctor jog over to me while the latter immediately summons and healing totem.
"Appreciate..." I weakly said, accepting Mydriel's hand as she helped me up to my feet.
"I'm not gonna lie lady Taesi, that was probably the most reckless thing I seen and yet you manage to pull it off... Well done." Mydriel scolded but smiled as she patted my back which i wince a little but smile back.
"My lady, are you alright?"
"I'm fine Sarlina, just need some healing and I should be good to move about... But anyway, Mission completed~!"
I grinned as the mission complete screen appears before me.
Gold rush.
Quest difficulties: C Rank
Clear out the Flame Lizard from the Gold mine!
13 / 13 Flame Lizard killed
1 / 1 Titanite weapon Acquired
Reward: Gold mine, 2000 Gold, 200 Lumber, Ring of fire resistence, Flame lizard scales, 5000 EXP, A Rank summoning crystal, S Rank summoning Crystal.
Bonus Reward: 2000 Gold, 200 Lumber, Ring of Mana recovery.
My eyes widen as not only did I get one hell of a reward with a ring of mana recovery BUT also a fucking S RANK SUMMONING CRYSTAL as well!?
I wince as I leveled up but relaxed as every wounds and my near depleted mana reserve were now fully healed. Opening my status screen and input the stats I want and looked over what I got and was surprised to get another passive spell ability of sort.
[Taesi Luvidas]
Title: The newbie druid (3 days before expires)
Race: Nekomata
Gender: Female
Eyes: Light purple
Skin: Flawless pale skin
Hair color: Black with tint of purple
Bust size: K Cup
Height: 5 Feet, 4 Inch
Faction: The Conclave
Class: Druid assassin
Level: 12 (Next level, 320/7500 EXP)
HP: 822/822
MP: 522/522
Armour stats: 15+
Stats:
Strength: 20
Endurance: 20
Intelligence: 20
Willpower: 24
Charm: 11
Speed: 20
Dexterity: 40
Luck: 11
Combat Ranking:
Dagger: D+
Long Blade: E+
martial art: D+
Magic casting: D
Wrath 1 lvl (52% / 100% to level up) -Fires a sunlight infused magic bolt at enemies, may damage dark and frost based enemies greatly.-
Regrowth 1 lvl (83% / 100% to level up) -A slow healing ability that mends wounds-
Shadow Bolt 1 lvl (72% / 100% to level up) -Fire a bolt of darkness based spiritual bolt, damages light based beings greatly-
Spiritual Conduit 1 lvl (15% / 100% to level up) -As a Nekomata you generate far more mana but also able to use darkness and death magic based abilities-
Evasive 2 lvl (11% / 100% to level up) -makes you evasive and aware of your surroundings a lot more than average warrior does, capable to avoid getting hit during combat as well-
Sneak- 1 lvl (13% / 100% to level up) -Sneak allows you to be stealthy and go unnoticed by anyone. Stealth bonus 30% (You're now stealthy enough to bypass detection magic by range but can still be detected if you're 15 meters close to it.)
Nature's call 1 lvl (5% / 100% to level up) -The power over nature is at your call, capable of manipulating roots, trees and even the earth to your bidding-
Huh, guess me chancing at try control the roots like Malfurion does gave me a new passive ability to level up.
Shaking my head, we gathered our dead and left the Gold mine while giving Tervalian the go ahead to send the wisp over here to begin building our new base.
Hours later...
"uuuuuuugh... What a day..." I groan out, just relaxing in my bath tube and try to simply relax and rest for the night as I got a long road ahead of me to finish the battle against those Lizardmen tribes.
After we left the Gold mine and gathered both our dead and whatever equipment left behind, the squad of soldier along with the wisp were waiting for us and I gave the order go ahead for one of the wisp to turn into a Tree of life.
The process did take over an hour and we had to fight off another attack of Lizardmen, hollows and a Toadmen attacking the gold mine.
Guess they figured out what we planned and tries to stop us, and yet they still sends smaller numbers to try attack us which still makes no bloody sense to however is leading these creatures.
Either way, the Tree of Life finally finish constructing and immediately went right ahead to convert the gold mine into ours.
After several hours of constructing a proper base along with recruiting new units to refill what we lost while also took our dead back to majula to be given proper burial. It was around there I finally let my emotions flow and silently cried as we payed our respect for the people who gave their lives to get us where we are now.
As much i wanted to continue mourning, I still had a job to do and that was constructing more bases and further upgrades for our equipment as now we have a functioning gold mine to turn to.
Taking a quick look at bird eyes view, I could see both the cavern entrance and our second base much more protected and well armed as new walls, ancient protectors and units of Night elves and Trolls were guarding the key location to our next step of our campaign.
Dismissing the Third Pov, I sighed as I lay back and just let the waters from the moonwell take their effects...While also keeping myself ready in case Sarlina decided to shout in my head of something important happening.
...
...
"Well that's a relief" i mutter seeing as nothing happened like I expected ever since I got here.
Maybe for once things are going the way they are.
After taking a bath, went to put on one of those long elegant sleeveless dresses those Night elves in game like to wear and left the building and head toward the Altar of elders.
Ever since taking the gold mine and began constructing the necessary buildings, I didn't have time to use the crystals i got. glancing at the time it currently says 18:21 Pm as the sun is about to disappear, might as well get this over with before taking a well earn rest... And hope I don't get nightmares.
Standing upon the rune circle, I first presented the A rank summoning crystal and spoke aloud.
"I wish to summon a Blacksmith!"
No sooner I did that, the blue colored crystal floated from my hand and did the same thing it usually do whenever I summon special NPC for my base.
Once the light died down and sees what I summoned I couldn't help but be surprised what I just summoned.
"Andre?"
"The one and only lass!"
What stood before me was a huge old man with wild white beard and hair, muscular from likely years of working the forge was none other than Andre of Astora!
The giant of a man looks around and nods "hmm... Not bad, the base still need some work and I can already see some equipment on yer soldiers need proper upgrades than the crap they use."
I couldn't help but grin as I nod "Yeah we definitely need some serious upgrades, glad to have you on the team old man!"
"hah!" Andre laugh as he crosses his arms "Well if ye don' mind, got some work needed to be done!"
"Sure and word of warning, avoid Ithalaine at all cost."
"Will do lass, come see me whenever you have time." With that Andre of Astora left to head to our main base at the Tree of life, likely want to start working on the forge right away.
Hopefully he can repair my daggers or at very least give me something good as I still have the scales of the Fire Salamanders in my inventory.
I can't help but shake my head of how frickin incredibly lucky I was to get that guy, with a smile I presented another crystal to the rune circle and spoke out loud of what I wanted.
What I need that could not only hold themself in a fight but lead and gather intelligence and forming connection where I need them.
"I wish for a hero unit who can fight and use magic, gather intelligence and forming connections!"
No sooner I said that, the gold colored crystal in my hand floated away and a burst of pure golden light exploded from it, streams of golden light seems to dance around the spot before they all clash to each other and formed into a large sphere that exploded afterword.
Once the light died down and the being began to materialize, my eyes were getting wider and wider as my mouth hung open at what I just summoned to be my second in command.
"greetings, lady Luvidas" a deep sinister voice that would send chill down to lesser men as the voice sounded far too evil and out of the world to be natural "I'm ready to serve for the good of the Conclave and to you~"
What stood before me was something that further brough me in, in the fantasy rpg games as a child. The very same guy that served as the villain of the game is now made real and he stands before me, ready to serve and carry out with my orders.
Jack of Motherfucking Blades.
"So..." Behind the white mask with his demonic looking eyes stared at me expectedly "Who do you want me to kill~?"
Miles away from Majula and the surrounding forest.
Where there are barely any life with only mountains and crystal like growth coming out of the ground can be seen above the canyons. Where there was not a single soul can be seen.
But deep within the dark, forgotten caverns.
There was silence... Then a sound came.
First out of the darkness came a large man sized spider, then two more came out crawling from the darkness.
Then a horde of them emerge from the darkness as various sizes of giant spiders and even different variant forms of them emerge from the pit of the world.
Soon several glowing red eyes can be seen in the darkness as it hisses.
"Life... Energy... Father...!"
A deep, feminine roar echoes through the Brightstone cove Tseldora as the beings childrens spread out, attacks anything in their sights. Even against the creation of the Iron king's monstrosities.
The Duke's dear Freya has reawaken once more.
Omake: Dealing with the cannon cast...
Jaune ran as quickly as he could back to Atlas in order to find their enstranged ally who was willing to give them aid against Salem and her forces, hopefully against ironwood as well, from the very beginning after the fall of Vale and Beacon academy.
Though he probably should have went and gone looking for Oscar and not run away from the giant Whale Grimm, some-fucking-how bypass the clashing army between Atlas and the Grimm, manage to get onto Atlas and avoid detection and likely dooming his friends still inside Monstra to Salem.
But that's alright, they're protagonist! They're the good guys! Especially him who has been given far too many screen time and plot point that he might as well be the main character of the show and get all the ladies and definitely not some self insert of somebody! If he can find her and use his Talk no jutsu to convince her from staying out of this fight, kick Salem's and ironwoods ass and save the day while Ruby and her team reap the benefit and reward!
So panting and huffing as he slow his pace, he came upon a lone bar that was still open and quickly opens it and search for the Ally/enemy they had come to rely on for the past several months.
Immediately spotting her sitting at the counter drinking away, her winter and nature like outfit seemingly leaves no skin exposed and actually looks like what you would use for cold climates instead of needlessly show off fan service.
Either way it doesn't matter, jaune immediately walked over to her and exclaimed.
"Taesi! Quick we need your help against Salem!"
The now revealed ally of their was Taesi Luvidas who was sitting at the bar, drinking heavily with beer as several bottles were scattered all around her, did not say a word other than take another sip from her mug. Not even giving Jaune a glance or anything but silence until she finally spoke.
"So... Once again you fuckers came crawling back to me for help." She scoffs "What a joke..."
"Look!" jaune stresses "We know that we had some differences but we really need your he-"
"Differences?" Taesi cut jaune off angrily "Ever since I joined your group to try stop Salem from getting both the Relics and the maidens, it's been NOTHING but PAIN and SUFFERING for me. Everytime that i either come up with a sensible plan that doesn't risk people's lives or causing Grimm to suddenly come running due to people getting scared, it gets immediately shot down and get ridiculed for either being too harsh or too stupid that it would even work."
"W-Well I mean, we're huntsmen and we have to think of the people! Not to mention we should trust Ruby as she is-"
"A bloody arrogant, know it all and always in the right little shit is WHAT she is. Everytime I try to debunk her plans and what it ACTUALLY means to be a grown ass adult like myself as I try to show and tell that not everything is black and white in the world and that whatever actions you make has consequences that could impact not just you but everyone else around you... But Noooooo, I instantly get vilified by you assholes and I get 30 minutes speech from Ruby that I have no fucking idea what the hell she was talking about other than trusting her and you assholes! Because you're young while me and Qrow are too old to make sensible decisions!"
"B-But your idea was to try contact Ironwood through Weiss or Qrow so that she could explain our situation from Argus! We couldn't be sure if Salem's minion could be watching our comms and come try steal the relic!"
"Yes we fucking could, because there was no other fucking options that didn't involve putting your sister and nephew in fucking danger and try steal a ship from a military group owned by the very kingdom we were trying to fucking get into!" Taesi crushed the glass mug in her hands as her rage is now breaking out, all of the headache and suffering she went through with these idiots is finally surfacing.
"Not only that!" She added "After you fuckers nearly brought a giant Grimm to Argus and nearly disable the giant robot that could fight it, you fucking assholes left me behind because I was too harsh on Ruby~ Bitch! if she listened to a single DAMN THING I said then we wouldn't been in that fight and risk the very lives of Argus and your fucking family so that I didn't have to scream and tell her off how fucking stupid and risky she was! But Noooo, I was too harsh and too hard on wittle Ruby that me trying to make her see some goddamn sense of what the actual fuck she was doing was just too much, we can't let you join us because you would ruin the mission nor do we trust you~" Taesi mockingly mimicked what Jaune and the others said before they literally dumped her on the cliff and flew away on the ship to Atlas.
"B-Because we weren't sure if we could trust you! For all we know you could be on Salem's side or having a hidden agenda tha-"
"I gave every bit of things to show that I was trustworthy. I risked my life on every life threatening situation to protect you, I went along with your shit to try show that you can trust me, even sat and listen to the little shit speech of trusting bunch of teenagers that hasn't even fucking graduated from huntsmen academy to handle the situation AND I told EVERYTHING about me, that i'm from Drangleic and that I was the queen that led an army that is ready on my command to help you fucking assholes out with Salem."
"And yet i'm still treated like I was suddenly a villain because i didn't agree with WHAT you fucking idiot were doing, view point or planning." Now really angry as she glances at Jaune with her glowing purple eye, her rage shimmers as both Dark and nature magic seemingly emit from her body like smoke.
"W-Well-"
"Oh and let's not forget the fact I had to run ALL the way to Altas, getting framed by you fucking assholes and told ironwood that I couldn't be trusted, that I could be working with Salem and nearly thrown into jail and being hunted all across Atlas and out in the wilderness, further dehumanized when you assholes finally decided to give me another chance and when i tried to say we could leave mantle behind and call in the SDC ships to gather the civilians so that they can evacuate elsewhere for safety while taking Atlas further up in space far away from Salem, then we were right back at me being pointed out as a fucking villain by you fuckers and chased across the city by the special forces and the military until the general finally snapped because he couldn't handle your bullshit anymore and even gave me an apology and allowed me to go free whenever I want in Atlas... Hell he even asked for an alliance once this whole fucking mess is somehow over."
"So you admit being on ironwoods side!" Jaune accused.
"Bitch didn't you fucking listen what I just said!?" Taesi snapped.
"Taesi you need to stop thinking about sacrificing people or question Ruby's leadership, you can't ju-"
"THAT! That is the problem!" Taesi snapped once more as she stands up, her back facing jaune as her anger is reaching to the breaking point. "You kids think you know EVERYTHING, always believes that you are in the right because you're the good guys and this fucking belief is WHAT caused EVERYTHING to be the way it is now!"
"Atlas is about to fall, General Ironwoods went insane and his trust broken after he gave everything to you fucking assholes to show he can be trusted! You Lied to him about the lamp and Salem and then had the gall to question a man who is trying his fucking best to save those he can save and keeping the Relics and winter maiden from Salem without dooming the entire fucking world while YOU have NO FUCKING PLAN on HOW to save everyone other than throwing more bodies of Atlas loyal men and women against a near endless army of Grimm and against the immortal bitch queen herself other than 'because it is the right thing to do!' as your only fucking motivation of WHY, which is why we all are in this situation because of that!"
"B-But it is the right thing to do!" Then jaune pauses before point at Taesi while exclaim "...Wait, the entire time you weren't on our side the whole time... You were on Ironwood side the whole time! I knew we couldn't trust you!"
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"...Alright, that's it." Taesi crack her neck side to side as loud cracking noise could be heard as she turns around with murder in her eyes as she calmly walks up to Jaune.
"I hope you're ready to meet Pyrrah again jaune because I've enough of your and your friends bullshit, I was ready to give everything I had and even the lives of my people back in Drangleic to fight against Salem but I should have realized that it was a futile effort." She narrows her eyes dangerously as dark aura began to form around her "You fuckers want a villain that you can't beat? then I give you a fucking villain that don't give a shit about you, Ruby, Salem or remnant anymore... So, any last words Jaune?"
"Uh...Y-Y-Yeah, just one question." jaune stammered out, scared out of his life as he couldn't move due to how scared frozen he was by this powerful Neko girl deadly aura that's making it hard to breath or think (wait he can think!?).
"Ask away."
"Who is Pyrrah?"
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"...No seriously who is he? As the main character (Sometimes) i'm literally surrounded by hot chicks who likely i'm going to end up with two or five as my girlfriend so who is Py-"
CRA-CK~!
SPLAT!
Taesi didn't even bother answering a dead man's question nor the blood staining her hands and torso as she left the bar with a bottle of beer in her hand, jumped up to the roof top of the buildings to see the battle going as it does in show with the same outcome that she tried everything she could from happening.
Sadly everything she done was all for naught.
"...Why the fuck did I even bother?" Taesi asked herself as she gulped down the bottle of beer, tossing it aside and giving atlas, Monstra and everything else around her where she really, REALLY hoped that team RWBY and the others can see her giving them double birds before hearthstone out of there, leaving everyone else to their fate and not bothering to leave Drangleic...Aside sending a spirit owl to yoink the relics out of Salems hands and to be never seen again on Remnant.
Hey folks, it's me again!
Sorry if this took a while to update but once again, motherfuckers at work won't stop being complete assholes and continue to further make it worse to work at my job... Not to mention realizing that my boss is a manipulating fuck that he says he's going to help us finding a better job or workplace elsewhere but now I'm just keep getting the same excuses that the previous boss gave me...
Fuck that company and fuck the people in charge and fuck my so called coworkers who constantly keep getting away with their shit.
Anyway... Aside from my depressing situation with my job that I honestly wonder if i should either try find another job and company to work for, or try my hand at and try grow it big enough to what I usually do becomes my job.
Here the sixth chapter of Umbreal Infernias and Taesi succeeded conquering the Gold mine AND even got Andre and fucking jack of blades as her main blacksmith and hero unit for her growing army!
gonna be interesting to see how this will pan out~
Now I can already see some people asking, where is Ruby or any of the cast in this chapter? why are we focusing on the main character of the story? Simple, there is something that is known as "World Building" as I rather like a somewhat slow world building, to see the characters actually grow and learn from their mistakes and plan out how to be better than they were.
Either way, I hope you enjoyed the chapter and the omake as to be honest, it honestly WOULDN'T surprise me if RT completely forgot Pyrrah considering they can't seem to even fucking remember what they did in previous seasons.
Speaking of which, the hell happen to them? haven't heard much from them for quite a while.
Meh, either way. I hope you enjoyed the chapter and i'll see ya next time!