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"We should receive word from our informant any time soon" Hector said. "We've met her at Caelin, I think I could find her." Mark said, but Matthew found her before Mark finished his statement. "Leila!" He ran toward his fellow spy of Ostia hoping to speak to her. Solomon Kane, however, knew something was up. A man who fought and killed like Solomon knew death all too well, and he knew the young red haired woman he met at Ostia had met her fate. "Leila! Do you have a report?" Hector asked. "She is not moving" Kane said in a grim voice. Matthew looked closer at her "No!" He felt he pulse, nothing, he turned her over to find two stab wounds in her back. "She is dead, they killed her…When this was over, she was going to let this behind her… We were to live together… She's dead." Matthew held the body of his fiancé, and kissed her forehead one last time. "I need a moment to bury her." "Take your time." Mark said.
Mark, Serra and Kane left the sight of the others, leaving them cope with the tragedy. "So, you think he'll be ok?" Lyn asked "Only time will tell, he seems the easy going type, maybe that'll go away now." Mark said lowering his head. "But on the other hand, we're here to find out about Eliwood's father, and the sooner we get our answers the sooner we can leave this light-forsaken…" Mark did not finish his statement as then an army made it known that they were surrounded. "By order of the Black Fang you are to be executed for trespassing on our lands." A man on a horse said, he had the look of a Sacaen nomad, one such as Lyn or Rath. "Then draw your blade, we fight here" Hector said readying his axe. The man then grabbed Lyn and put his sword to her chest. "Move and she dies." He ordered "You are a fellow plainsman, I know this is not your way, you have honor." Lyn said to the man, then a sudden scream of thunder roared across the isle, and the man fell. "Coward" quietly spoke Solomon Kane as he emerged from the mists letting the smoke leave his flintlock pistol. The others retreated when they saw how their commander had fallen so swiftly. "What was that?" Eliwood asked, Mark answered "He calls it a pistol, not as accurate as a bow, but more lethal and easier to carry. Now that that headache's been taken care of, let's go get Eliwood's father, and bring down Nergal if we get to."
After some walking the group found itself at Nergal's base, soon the fighting began. Mark gave his orders "Matthew, pick the lock on that door." He did so and revealed the enemy presence through the doorway, a few mages and shamans. "High resistance, Fiora, Florina, Kane, take 'em out." The three of them went down the corridor. "Sain, Rebecca, Lyn, Hector, Eliwood, go down the breezeway in that order." They lined up with Sain striking those in his way. "Kent, you follow Matthew, he gets whatever he can break into and carry out."
Solomon, Fiora, and Florina went to work dispatching the foes in the corridor. Fiora impaled a mage on her lance, as did her sister Florina, Kane sliced a shaman across the chest with his Rapier, and the three moved onward to another hallway. Kane saw two archers, but quickly they fell to his pistols, he dropped them and re-unsheathed his Rapier.
Eliwood's group dealt with enemies as they came to them, a stark contrast to Kane's group which rushed the enemy. As Enemies rose, they cut them down, Lyn was approached by the apparent leader of the group, a paladin with a halberd. He charged at her but Lyn slashed her sword and cut the paladin's horse at the front legs, he flew off and Lyn pinned him to the wall with her sword.
Kane's group made its way toward the front of the base, but he noticed a man in front of them, he spoke "Oh don't mind me, I'm not an enemy." "Then what is your business here?" Kane asked. "I used to work for these people, no use staying on a sinking ship, so I thought I'd take a little severance package before I left." "So you are thieving?" Solomon said with a touch of rage in his voice. "People might need what the Black Fang has taken, you cannot simply take it for yourself." "Sure I can" The puritan raised his Spanish blade against the man, but Fiora ordered him not to. "He could be useful, whoever you are, would you be willing to work with us? The young Pegasus knight asked. "If the pays good." "I'll have to talk to our commander, but stay ahead of us until then." Kane spoke in retaliation. "He is a thief" "But he is our thief, at least until Eliwood says otherwise." Kane grudgingly nodded and the four reached the main hall.
By then Eliwood's group had worked its way there as well. Marquis Laus, who was believed by some in the group to be a cause of the problems of the region, stood waiting for them in full armor and a lance in his hand. Eliwood struck first into Laus's right arm with his Rapier. Lyn's blade followed, cutting out a large piece of his armor, and Hector finished him off with his axe.
"Now we enter, keep hope for your father's well being Eliwood." Mark said as the warriors entered the building.