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The Last Rider

Chapter - 07 – Battle for Farthen Dur

Play Music - Invincible – Two Steps From Hell - Power Of Darkness

The battle hadn't even started and Koinzell was already bored, though that's the problem with living so long the joys of the waiting for the foolish enemies to charge blinding at you to their doom gets old real fast.

It didn't help that he could hear them marching right for him… twenty minutes ago.

Koinzell was half tempted to lob an explosive tipped arrow down the passage but was worried that would stop their advance and he have to wait even longer.

Once his red glowing eyes locked in the infravision saw the Urgals storm around the corner Koinzell didn't even wait before notching an arrow and letting it fly. He started lobbing normal arrows that were pitch black wooden shaft with silver feathers and black metallic arrowhead which was a mixture of ebony, steel, and diamond dust.

While was no simply task to forge his enchanted quiver always made more four of his specially crafted arrows each. It took Koinzell months to get the seals, runes, and arrows made and ready for the spells and enchanting, totaling to over five years of work.

While his quiver showed twenty arrows inside was it actually is forty arrows. Two of each of his ten sets of arrows was stored in a pocket space. One to make a magical replacement, while the other to replace the one that was fired. So there would be a few microseconds of a delay at most for it to replenish its supply.

It was after nearly ten laboriously long minutes of lobbing arrows after arrows with the Urgal charging blindly through the passage till they were within sight of Koinzell.

Koinzell choose this hallway for two reasons, one it was more than two hundred meters in distance end to end and mostly as the crow flies with a twenty percent slope going up to him.

The second was be removing the torches only in the hallway the Urgal normal vision in darkness was piss poor at best allowing Koinzell to kill more than one-sixth of their numbers before then even saw him.

As they reach twenty meters Koinzell switch to a spiral white bone tipped design arrowhead arrow. This was his bone splitter, made from the harden bone of the died Jubi (don't ask how he got it you don't want to know) it was made to pierce its target and the next and the one after that and further depending on how much power and speed Koinzell put into it once he release the arrow.

More than half an hour later Koinzell could long since hear the battle on the surface. It had taken almost ten minutes after switching arrows for them to reach him.

From there it was all sword swipes cutting axes, clubs, armors, swords, and limbs against less than half of the force that had been sent in the passage.

While Koinzell may have lost the ability to release chakra outside his body to do any ninjutus, inside and around his body was another matter entirely. Using fire manipulation on his sword cauterize the wounds stopping blood loss so their wasn't a massive pool of blood on the ground.

Which was why even though Koinzell had been fighting for more than forty-five minutes, their not a drop of blood on him to neither show for it nor the hordes of Urgals he killed and were scattered around him.

Killing the last Urgal near him, Koinzell flicks his wrist as if to remove any blood on his sword. Though there wasn't any there more a habit so his sword was always clean as it could be in a battle.

Sheathing his sword then redrawing his bow Koinzell picks off the stragglers in the back to see them all dead before letting out a sigh. That almost too easy though knew Bruenor he still complain how the stupid elf was always stealing all the action and having all the fun.

Play Music – Allure – Two Steps From Hell – Dreams & Imaginations

Koinzell was broken out of his musing when he sensed a distress in Arya magical energy, though the marker that he placed on her if she was endanger that he put on Arya during their spar but hoping never to need to use it.

He remembered many praising his sperm donor of a father for his flying thunder god jutus, though Koinzell wasn't among them. While he could do it seeing as he still knew the blueprints for it and was a seal grandmaster he knew better than to.

The technique had too many holes and drawbacks. You always needed to have a marker like in the tri-prong kunai or a premade one time pager tags. Second was the distance the farther you go the more chakra that's required and even short jumps not only drains chakra but causes mental exhaustion.

And third was the one that no one released or even knew about but his dumb ass father, the skill gave the user the speed to move at three-fourths the speed of light leaving an impress that the user flashed away.

However the user is not immune to the g-forces placed on the body by traveling at such a speed. Causing extreme damage to the body and pain with prolong use, like fractured and cracked ribs, bones and even ruptured blood vessels.

He must have been on some heavy pain meds with how much he using it. My version doesn't require a marker unless it outside of his line of sight or if I haven't been or seen it before.

Using seals and magical runes removes the last two drawbacks to negligible at best. While he was use to traveling at high speed when not in line of sight and using a marker to go to a place he can't see, has the side effect of numbing his whole body temporary.

While not a problem for long it leaves Koinzell only able to attack and defend with just his sense of sight and hearing for a few minutes to at most three. With a grunt at the sharp spike of pain, as Koinzell flashes away in a silver streak to the battle above.

Play Music – Forsaken – Two Steps From Hell – Dreams & Imaginations

Arya had fought before and while the Urgal and Kull forces weren't hard to kill one on one or even three on one. The sheer quantity of them coming in dozens upon dozens began to overwhelm her and the Varden.

Koinzell plan had worked flawless in cutting their numbers down and given them a chance. The archers were a blessing to the troop below and Arya now knew why Koinzell had them placed behind the dwarves.

They could support both backs and flanks along with backup for when the dwarves became overwhelmed. Everything was going smoothly and the Varden seem to be holding them back at least till he arrived.

Play Music – Flameheart – Two Steps From Hell – Dynasty

Durza walked behind and among his army lobbing fireballs, lightning bolts and magical attacks everywhere. He carried a sword and held a crazy look in his eyes and kill anything even his own troops if they got in his way.

Directing her bow Arya shot straight and true at Durza heart but missed when Durza jumped back. Ayra quickly ordered all the archers to target him.

Durza just laugh madly at her attempt before conjuring two shadowy fireballs, one in each hand before throwing them at the archers on both sides. With a quick shout of "Scatter" to all the archers Arya and many others jumped down the steep slope rolling and tumbling down to the battlefield below.

Arya was luckier than most with her graceful movements down the slope and her catlike reflexes as she enter the battle below. From their Arya slowing worked her way to Durza through the thongs of bodies, the blood, dead, and dying.

Arya heard more than saw Eragon fighting with Spahira against Durza and his shadowy dragon like beast before she saw Saphira go down low enough for Eragon to jump off and fight Durza on the ground.

Saphira took to the air but was injured from the arrows and the magical assault from Durza and the Kull and eventually went down. Though not before taking out the shadow beast as she did, followed by a hard landing on the rocky floor.

By the time Arya reach Durza she was able to see Saphira down unmoving after trying to get Eragon away from Durza. Eragon was heavily injured from his fight with Durza and with everything her had been through, but couldn't get the killing blow.

Arya was out of arrows but saw a Kull with some but having lost too much ground trying to get three and was distracted realizing to late that she surrounded on all sides completely and little help to Eragon now.

It was difficult enough fighting so many when they were so large and had such a long reach only made worse through their growing numbers. Arya was in the heat of battle and missed the Urgal slip through her guard leaving her barely time to block, knocking her sword wide and leaving Arya rear flank wide open for the Kull behind her.

Arya was off balance and barely saw a flash of silver behind her out of the corner of her eye but didn't have time to dwell on it as she was so focused on reforming her footing and restoring her guard.

Though Arya couldn't ignore the slender arm that went around her waist or the warm heavy breath in her ear as the arm pulled her closer to the person chest, "I told you to watch your rear flank she-elf."

Hearing Koinzell unmistakable monotone voice Arya almost sigh in relief that he was there before getting angry for him calling her a she-elf again. However before Arya could yell at him Koinzell spun Arya and himself around three hundred and sixty degrees in a full circle with Koinzell black blade out slashing and cutting the mass of Urgal and Kull to pieces.

By the time Arya registered she was off the ground she was back where she was before with Koinzell letting go and all the surrounding enemies died. With a quick flick of wrist the blood was shook off his blade before he sheath it and drew his bow and a spiral bone tip arrow and taking aim at Durza.

Eragon and Durza were in a clash of blades moving all over the place with Eragon never staying in one place too long otherwise Durza would unleash his magic and keeping Durza close and engage with a sword prevent his spell casting.

Arya consider herself a expert shot with a bow but in the flash and clash of blades couldn't hit Durza anymore than Eragon at this distance. Koinzell though seem to completely ignore everything around him as he watch Eragon and Durza clash.

What Arya didn't know was since Koinzell body was numb what would have been a easy shot by reading the wind was now all about sight and muscle memory. If Koinzell put too much force into the shot it would go through Durza into Eragon.

Without reading the wind he was still able to hit Durza just not in the heart as easily, releasing his breath then breathing in slowly as he pull back the bowstring, focusing on the target, followed by releasing his breath as the lets the arrow fly.

The arrow soars through the air piecing into and through any Urgal or Kull that got near or were in the way. Ripping a hole in them to soar pass them to penetrate deep into Durza back and into his heart.

Eragon seeing Durza stunned stabs his sword in his sword as well, causes Durza to scream in pain before dying. The shockwave knocks Eragon back where he lands near the down Saphira.

The Urgal and Kull horde without Durza influence began to lose focus many fleeing or just going wild and attacking everything open abandonment. With the death of Durza the Varden and the dwarves cheer and charge the disorganized Urgal and Kull horde that was in shambles.

Arya seeing the battle won turns to Koinzell who strangely hasn't moved, and then as if his strings were cut Koinzell arms fall limp at his sides. Arya starts towards him confused till she notices the growing crimson red appearing in his light tan cloak and the pool of thick red blood beneath him.

Play Music – Mercy in Darkness – Two Steps From Hell – Dreams & Imaginations

As Koinzell knees buckle and he starts falling back only for Arya to rush up behind him to catch him as he falls down. Arya quickly unbuckles his cloak and turns Koinzell on his side.

Arya at first thought the wound was from fighting in the tunnel till she remembers that his cloak was just starting now turning red with blood and that's when Arya realizes the only time they were close enough to hurt him was when he was shielding her from behind.

No soon does Arya realize that as she turns to were the circle of dead Urgal and Kull with a thick red life giving liquid was leading directly to where Koinzell lay. He had protected her, shielded Arya with his body. Before the words even started Arya was already had her small hands trying to slow the blood lose as she began to heal him.

Only once Arya started to heal Koinzell did she realize how severe his injury was as the deep slashes were bad enough but the stab wound in his back was the worst. That cause Arya to remember Koinzell telling her to watch her flank and she didn't even listen so self-confident in her skills and abilities that she didn't even take his advice seriously.

It wouldn't be till Hrother and the dwarves running over to help and asking her if she was ok seeing as she had been crying the whole time without even realizing it.