THE SHADOW FALLS CH.3-4
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Chapter 3. Whatever you can do, I've done it better
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Everything hurts... what happened...am i dead...no...im alive...i
think...o my head....momma.......

"How long has he been asleep Ashyur?"

"Nearly 4 days M'lord. I am surprised he has survived this long. His
blood line is strong, so it isn't too much of a suprise"

"Flattery won't get you everywhere Ashyur"

"I meant his mother"

"You tread a thin line."

"I wouldn't have it any other way."

......Its so dark.....am i blind?...no.....stupid...open your eyes.....

Raziel woke in a daze. So much had happened. It was dark outside;
the moons were high in the sky. Raziel stumbled away from the barrier,
looking for the exit.

Were is the door? O..forget it..it hurts to much to move......Mother...

Raziel sat before the barrier, and cried.

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"M'lord. The boy is awake"

"Already? He has healed quickly."

"As I said before his mother blood, gives him advantages over pure
erudite such as ourselves"

"You make it seem like he is one of your experiments Ashyur"

"Maybe. I had pressured the Council to encourage outmating for
exactly this reason, but that is a moot point M'lord"

"Then we won't give it a second thought then. Tell me what can you
sense from him?"

"..."

"Don't hide anything from me Ashyur or ill absorb it out of you"

".. I cant sense anything from him M'lord. That terrifies me M'lord"

"Ahh because your keen senses have failed you?"

"No. What terrifies me is that either his strength is so great that cant
be measured or that it is so great he doesn't want it to be measured"

"So. After nearly 300 years, I maybe able to join the Halls of Jahorn."

"Don't count your Sarvlaks before they hatch."
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Raziel was staring out the barrier, when a tall man entered the room.
Raziel leapt to his feet and prepared himself to attack, but he relaxed
slightly when he recognized the shadowed figure. But they said
nothing, only looking at each other. No hate or trust was formed, just
a blank stare

They stared at each other for an interminable period, and then the
figure turned and exited the room.

"As soon as he is strong enough, he'll join my trainees."

"Shouldn't he at least learn something from the Knight Guild Masters
first, before he join the Hell Knights?"

"All the way or not all. I won't take other student sullied by their
infernal pestilence"

"Old age has made you bitter"

"No.. exhaustion"

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Over the course of 10 years, I learned from Malik. Training night and
day, learning how to fight, how let my blade cut through my foes, how
to manipulate the winds of mana to my bidding. But I grew impatient,
as I leapt past the others Shadow and Hell alike, I wanted out of this
damn rock prison.

Loud cracks echoed through Paineel. In the great training grounds,
Raziel was dispatching skeletal servants with single blows. Sometimes
fading in and out of the shadows to get some room, but not to escape
the onslaught of blows from the servants, but to revel in the sight of
hundreds of shattered and chipped bones, scattered across the field.
The sight of smoking bones that had been magically blasted into
oblivion.

One last servant charged him, he simply watched as the servant's fist
flew in to strike him. The fist seemed to strike a barrier, and then the
skeleton glowed white briefly and shattered. Raziel yawned.

Why am I still here? I have already beaten everything thrown at me; I
spend all day training new recruits and myself. Why haven't I been
given an out mission?

I have had it! I am not taking this any more. He faded into the
shadows.

Fading back in he reappeared in the Hell Lord's quarters. Damn it!
Where is he!?! He faded again.

"M'lord you should know that Raziel is looking for you."

"And this is of what importance to me?"

"...well.None really.. but it is related to another matter."

"And?"

"Raziel is growing careless. His fighting strength has far outmatched
any of trainees. But he refuses to learn any tactics what so ever. He
is wasting to much of his time showing off his power, he will become
hopelessly weak at this rate M'lord"

"..."

" I understand M'lord, it will be done"

Raziel faded inside the Necromancer guild, and was about to fade out
again when a voice called out to him

"Raziel!"

"M'lord Asyhur"

"Why are you deviating from your training regimen?"

"Because I tire of it. I want out of this city!'

"Hmm. It seems Cazic has blessed you then. We have a mission for
you"

"Finally!"

Ashyur chanted a quick spell and a shimmering globe appeared in front
of Raziel. In the globe a figure appeared.

"Why are you showing me a digusting creature as this?"

"Because you are to kill it and bring me its head. It is wandering in the
Toxxulia forest gathering information for a raiding party. Leave at
once"

Raziel did not bother with formalities and faded away.
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Raziel appeared on the Ivory Bridge. Making a quick check of his
chainmail and his blade, he then peered out into the fog. There it was,
off in the distance, heading to the ancient docks to Kerra Isle.

Trolls...what filthy creatures..

He leapt into the shadows and reappeared a few feet behind the Troll.

"Hey lard ass!"

The Troll turned around "Me no Lardazz, Me Rungupp! "

"Your pretty stupid to invade into our territory. Now you're going to
pay with your life"

The Troll roared and sent a large barrage of ice at Raziel. But Raziel
faded away and reappeared a few feet away.

"Is that all you can do?"

"Me Rungupp bash silly tan man!" The troll lifted a large hammer above
its head and roared again. It charged Raziel. Raziel disappeared and a
large shadow whipped across the Troll.

"Hey dumb ass. You missing these?" Raziel slowly faced the Troll and
casually tossed the Troll arms at him. The Troll howled in pain as blood
flowed from the stumps. Raziel charged forward and ran his blade into
the troll driving him into a tree.

"That was easy." The blade made a squishy sound as he removed it,
he turn and walk over to the river to clean off his blade. There was
movement behind him. He turned to see the bloody troll charge him.

Not even thinking, strings of mana flowed to his hands, and formed a
sphere.

** "Pressure Cannon!" the mana ball leaped from his hands and
smashed into the troll's head splattering it across the forest.

The body fell to the ground lifeless. However, it did not stay that way,
the lacerated organs began to regrow, and soon the troll rose again.

** " Its impossible, he's still alive!" Grabbing the troll by the throat, he
threw the troll as high as he could. His body faded out, reappeared,
and disappeared around the airborne troll. His blade chopping of large
chunks of the troll and sending them everywhere. Soon exhausted, he
crashed to the ground the parts of the troll following suit. And again
the pieces began to regrow. Raziel exhausted, watched as the Troll
regenerated. In less then a minute the troll was at full strength, not
even a scar showed. Raziel again launched an assault on the troll,
chopping it to pieces. "WHY WONT YOU DIE!" he screamed as he cut it
down repeatedly.

I am not going to be beat by a moronic... foul.. digusgting creatures
like this! Raziel's anger rose and soon he began to radiate energy. It
was blistering out and the troll seem to fear the heat.

So you don't like heat do you...ILL SHOW YOU!!!!

His rage exploded in him and his blade went white. "NOW YOU DIE!!!!!"
he charged the troll, and it's head departed its body. The body did not
regenerate.
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Raziel walk slowly through the streets of Paineel carrying the head, his
chainmail covered with greenish blood. He entered the necromancer
guild, and tossed the head into Ashyur's lap.

Ashyur laughed.

"Just as I thought, your arrogance in your power nearly killed you
Raziel. Had you paid attention, to what was being taught to you by
the Librarian. You would have known about the troll's ability to
regenerate accept when wounded by fire or heat."

Raziel just glared at the Old Necromancer. His anger rising

"You have much to learn, just be glad you were fortunate to survive
this lesson. Now go to your quarters"

Raziel left hearing Ashyur's laughter all the way.

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