The Dragon Empire
Chapter 6
Drachen had spent nearly two weeks preparing for his departure to Azeroth and in that time he trained his men and his new General, Leviathan, in the arts of war, improved their equipment, packed up everything in the safe house for Transport and was currently portkeying over to Gringots London, with his warriors, to inform the Goblins of his absence. When they re-appeared at the apparition point connected to Diagon Alley, he immediately placed an extremely powerful notice me not charm on his warriors before be lined for Gringots.
When he walked through the main door he was surrounded by Goblin warriors who were looking at him with the utmost caution, Drachen merely raised an eyebrow as his warriors raised their rifles at the Goblins from behind earning shocked glances between the Goblins for not noticing the warriors before the situation could get any worse a goblin came rushing up to them with an extremely worried look on his face. "Stand down, what you think you're doing" Shouted the goblin who, by looking at his clothes, was an account manager, the Goblins leader walked over to the accountant and muttered something quietly but Drachen caught words such as dragon and extremely powerful.
After about five minutes the Goblin warriors dispersed but not before sending Drachen and his warriors dirty looks, the accountant mean while came over to Drachen and said "I apologise on behalf of the Goblin nation my lord, we recently set up dragon wards because of a certain client wanting a dragon to protect his families vault. If you and your warriors would follow me, I will take you to your account Lord?" Drachen merely showed his personal ring which made the goblins eyes widen with shock, after getting over his shock he beckoned for them to follow him.
When they arrived in an office which was covered with Drachen's banners and pictures and statues of Dragons similar to his animagus form and in the corner of the room was a desk with a goblin, very old judging by her appearance, writing on a piece of parchment. When Goblin noticed their arrival she immediately had her eyes travel over each and every one of them before her eyes widened in surprise when they landed on Drachen's ring. After a few moment she spoke in respectful voice as she bowed her head. "Lord Le Fay, Pendragron, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor and Ambrosius or do you prefer Lord Kaiser?" As she was saying this the goblin, which had led Drachen and his men into the room, began to pale remarkably quickly when he discovered that the man, no vampire judging by his pale skin, was the Lord of the most powerful houses in all of Magical Britain, possibly Europe.
"Lord Drachen or Kaiser will be fine miss...?" asked Drachen as he sent a mental command for his warriors to spread out around the room. "Darkgold milord, Darkgold and it is my pleasure to tell you that I have been assigned by the goblin High council to be your bank accountant" Said Darkgold with a toothy smile as she sat down at her desk and pulled out a stack of Documents, Drachen mentally groaned when he saw all the paperwork that he had to read and sign. For the next four hours he and Darkgold went through the documents making all of his businesses, accounts, properties and possessions were still as they were since their previous owners, eventually they came across a file which contained something he had been dreading ever since he had found out about the responsibilities as head of house, marriage contracts.
"Now, milord, there are four marriage contracts that you must fulfil because if you don't your magic will be stripped from you, now you are betrothed to two daughters of the Delacour and two daughters of the Greengrasses, at the moment there are none available but from what I have learned from some Goblin fortune tellers is that your betrothed will be born around 1977 to 1982. Great my wives will be young enough to be my children thought Drachen as he looked at the contract sighing in frustration, after ten minutes of looking over the contracts he sighed and asked the goblin to lead him to his vaults to which she nodded. The trip down to the Pureblood family vaults of old was to say disturbing and when Drachen finally set foot on solid ground again he thought that if he didn't have to use the goblins mode of transport again he would die a happy man, the first vault they came to was the Ambrosias vault which was made out of steel with runes covering all of its surface.
When Drachen approached he felt something nudge at his mental shields and it seemed to be coming from inside the vault which immediately caused him to be on guard as he sent a message to his Guards, who had followed him on a second cart, to be on guard. Drachen sent a burst of his magic to the vault door as he placed his hand on a pedestal on the side of the door, at first nothing happened but after a moment the door creaked open to reveal what you would expect from a person like Merlin. There were piles of gold, books and other valuables but what was most unusual about this vault was there was conopic jar sitting on a pedestal with heavy wards around it which prevented anything but the lord of house Ambrosias from approaching it, Drachen was rather puzzled by what he saw as he approached it and finding that he couldn't see into it with his mind magic decided to open it.
This was a stupid idea.
For inside the jar was something that was so foul that even Grindenwald wouldn't touch it, a Horcrux. These things were a perversion of immortality that was so unnatural that it drove a person insane by using it. A black mist rose out of the jar and lunged at Drachen merging into his body as it sort a new host for it to posses, Drachen though was having none of that, he had been a slave before and he now something once again trying to enslave him. He would never be a slave to anyone the world would burn before that ever happened, he summoned all the magic that wasn't keeping the perversion of nature at bay and launched his mind at the spirit. What he found made him enraged, this spirit was once a part of Merlin and it embodies all of his cruelty and evil, Drachen knew that Merlin did some evil things but he never imagined that his ancestor to have this evil and cruelty inside him, pushing that aside he used all of collective power and tore the demented fragment of the once most powerful wizard to exist apart.
After he finished destroying the abomination he noticed that his accountant was looking at him in shock at what he had done before she passed out, deciding that he would deal with her later he proceeded to look around the vault and while he was at it h took half of the gold in the room and poured them into his money pouch which was enchanted to be bottomless and light as a feather. After looking around for an hour he decided that he should just take his accountant back to her office before he left, as he scooped up the Goblin he sent a mental order to his soldiers to follow. When they arrived back at the office Drachen set down Darkgold and left the room with his warriors following him, as they walked into the lobby he sent a mental message to one of the Goblin guards to go and check on his accountant to which the guards eyes widened at how easily Drachen got passed them, they left the bank and headed to the apparition quickly in order to decrease the chance of being spotted by an auror.
Two days later...
Drachen was sat in his chambers back in the US researching for a way to give magic t his warriors; he came up with this idea as he was thinking of ways to give his warriors even more advantages to their enemies. He had already turned them into vampires even though it weakened him considerably with the amount of blood he had to give to all twenty of his warriors, anyway at the moment he was reading through the research journal of Merlin when he came across something that intrigued him greatly, apparently magic was a part of the soul and that mundane had theirs blocked for some unknown reason. Drachen smiled by the end of it as he was quite proficient at soul magic and should be able to remove the block, as he was finishing reading the journal he summoned Leviathan, who had been sent to go and find any remnants of the Grindenwald's dark wizards. Leviathan appeared through a portal created out of Fel magic which was only accessible to demons and Drachen apparently but he doubted that was true because he knew Azeroth had seen so much contact with the Burning legion that people had to of found a way of manipulating it to their own needs.
"You summoned me, master?" asked Leviathan as he knelt at my feet with his head bowed in respect and reverence. "tell me how goes your search for the forces of Grindenwald, Leviathan?" for the next half an hour Leviathan gave his report, in the report he told his master that he had found as little as ten wizards and witches and he had found another ten ex Germen soldiers who were desperate for a purpose now that Germany had fallen, Drachen ordered him to bring them to him in the evening before he dismissed him. Drachen then went to the main dining room where he found his men doing their routine, he coughed to et their attention which it did as every one of them shot up, faced him and bowed to him while saying master, Drachen personally didn't like being called master but he put up with it as he knew they no longer had any personality as the spell Grindenwald used on them wiped away the person they were before and replaced it with the perfect servant for Drachen.
Drachen mentally told them to form a line as he dived into their souls and removed the block, the entire process took about four hours and the time was now four o'clock, but the results were worth it. He could feel magic coming from them and there were all as powerful as Dumbledore is now, which comparing to Drachen is like comparing a worm to the universe which made him snort at the thought. His soldiers could magic now but it was useless if they didn't have a focus which allowed them to manipulate their magic, luckily Drachen had foreseen this problem and created them a focus unlike what normal magical's use today. The focus itself was a bracelet made of Mythril with an amethyst on the top of it, Drachen found wand's to be ridiculous as they could be broken easily then you would be defenceless, it didn't help that you completely ridiculous waving a flimsy piece of wood around.
As he levitated them out to his warriors he kept sending them all of his knowledge on Magic in order for them to know what to do, after this was done he ordered them to train with it outside and to blend it in with mundane warfare that they were experts at considering they knew everything their comrades knew. Drachen knew that they wouldn't be masters at using it right away and considering they have to merge it with what they know of mundane warfare, it was going to take a while luckily Drachen had time as he had decided that after getting his new 'recruits' enrolled they were leaving for Azeroth for a while.
Later that day...
Drachen was facing the new recruits with his soldiers as they were brought here by Leviathan, who of course was disguised to look like a human using his Fel magic. Some of the wizards their recognized Drachen and were looking at him with either awe or confusion, the mundane were a bit disoriented but didn't really are as they focused on the heavily armored man who had promised them a new purpose, Drachen knew this was going to be hard but he was going to give it his best shot, he sighed before he stepped forward. "Welcome friends, you know you're here and what it entails, for those that don't i will now explain" and so for the next ten minute he explained to them his plan, which was to unite the world and then to conquer the stars themselves, those who looked at him as if he was bonkers had their doubts dashed as Leviathan revealed his true form to them in all its unholy glory.
Regardless to say all of them agreed to serve him and swore themselves to his service using the unbreakable vow, Drachen then joined their minds to one another and used his magic to enhance their bodies to what his Death Guard had, including infecting them with a modified version of Vampirism which instead of drinking blood they absorbed magic around them to keep them sustained, the enhancements included increased stamina, increased strength making them as strong as Dragon, increased bone density making near impossible to break their bones and increased mental capacity making the among the most intelligent people on the planet. But the one thing that they didn't have in common with the Death Guard was that they could still think for themselves.
Drachen knew that the death guard was unique as they were going to be his body guards for all eternity while these new recruits were going to be his starting of an army dedicated to bringing about his rule on this world and countless others. He had thought about the armor that his new soldiers were going to were and thought it should be similar to the death guard but it was more bulky and armored, it was built for all out fights while the Death Guard was built for being quick and agile. It had some the same features as the Death guard but it was made differently.
Drachen concentrated as he willed his magic to create the armor and enchantments into existence, it took only a few seconds before they appeared out of thin air, Drachen also willed into existence the same guns which the Death Guard were using and the bracelets. He commanded them to train until the Death Guard said they were fit for duty, with that he left them as he made his way back to his chambers to get some well deserved rest.
The armor was to hard to describe so just imagine Killzone 3 Assault trooper but instead of red lights it violet lights and it is more heavily armored with Drachen's symbol painted on a shoulder pad.