Tau walks through the enemy camp. He has decided that these gobos are a problem. It is now clear to him that they are intentionally being disruptive to the follower camp. The fact that they spoke about it in front only shows. How low they place him in their eyes. The one guard gobos' are watching. The events of the tent didn't go unnoticed. Tau walks slowly scenting bravery. He thou makes sure to add more fear than normal.
By the time he makes it back to his own massive red command tent. Gcina is inside he can smell her. He walks in grabs his weapon a spear made from Steelhorn, horn. One of them died from a sickness that has been going around. Diana is currently investigating the cause. Gcina would have said something but his scent has long since changed to a one of controlled fury. Not quite the same as with Raul but she can tell he prepared to go all out.
His new weapon is heavy. The spear that is really just the Steelhorns horn attached to a stick. Even fowl Steelhorn is something they can't forge yet. The only reason he is using it is because the tip is hard. Harder than monsters they have come across so far. Tau doesn't take any of the beasts they captured. It's a way of him telling himself, ' he must get the Martial Eagle or not come back at all.' He swallows his pride this fight will require him to use every dirty trick he has.
Tau is walking at a controlled pace...
Diana says, "Like bring me a knife and like where the hell up is that boy?" She moves some stuff around in her banners main tent. It is filled with medicinal herbs and dried monster bits and other experimental materials. Infront of her is another young grub who is wheezing. His natural red color has turned greenish and he has purple blots all over his body. One of Oda's new acolytes this gobo is. Diana is waiting for Impi she sent him to get some herbs from the Giant she use to trade with back in the Get. Impi is the best flyer so borrowing one of Gcina's Hippogryphs.
Diana just needs some of the Giants, Yorker root then she should have the beginnings of a remedy for the illness. The gobo's have taken to calling it Globbkank. Diana is still having the nightmares ever since she left the cocoon. The vividness of the dreams means she hasn't been getting much sleep lately and has a rather ugly yellow bags under her eyes. She knows Palesa is trying but her partner has her own worries right now. Of all the goblin leaders Palesa's job is the biggest. Diana rubs in a poison into the gobo's blood the reaction slows the fever and gives him more time.
Impi is soaring through the skies, the Hippogryph he is riding is the one that was allowed to evolve up. It is twice the size of normal Hippogryph's and three times as feisty. Especially after Liti said her goodbyes. He is mounted on his hide legs crunching more than sitting once he sees the Horde he jumps off the Hippogryph. His body falls through the air. He tucks his body in dashing towards the crowd. He shouts in excitement the wind slashing past his ear making him deaf to his own screams of joy. The Hippogryph soon catches up to him flustered it never enjoys his antics but alas the way Impi flies make the Hippogryph happy. Impi knows this because of the raised neck feathers during flight which is more for pleasure than aerodynamic control.
Impi stands at the precipice of Diana's tent complex. Impi's scent travels announcing his arrival two of the nine go to greet him. Diana the moment she catches his scent. Assembles all of her nine. The nine have grown in power and color. Their greens are now almost of four a kind. The look is distinct to her gobo's much like the Blue bastards as they call them in Diana's camp. The seven and Diana all meet up with Impi at the entrance. They all including Impi scent subservience to Diana.
Diana says, "Did you get everything Impi?" She is anxious the items she sent for trade with him are things she thought the Giants much like but wasn't one hundred per cent sure. Impi scents success and hands a note respectfully by handing it to her second. Or at least who he thinks is Diana's second unlike every other master in the horde. Diana doesn't seem to have a second rather all her nine are her second.
Impi says, "Master if there is nothing else I have to make a report." The reason Gcina allows him to fly her stock. is because he is still the best scout they have. The others still make too many mistakes the Moundmaster. Diana can pick up something is troubling in his scent.
Diana rubs her fingers together and scents a pleasant aroma similar to heavy rain with mud. Impi begins immediately to speak formally. She has invoked her right as a master while she cannot command directly she can enquire from him and since the mission he has is not from his master all the masters below Tau have privilege to question.
Impi says, "During my flight I spotted three dangers to the horde Coinmaster. First is a small squad of elk riding Elves they are the furthest from but are risking traveling the Illusionary Grass to cut down travel time. Second is the another goblin army. The real threat is that there is a zombie yard ahead which should not exist. As you know the Moundmaster is taking maximum precaution with our route. So I'm sure it must be an enemy trying to hinder us. " Impi is of course detailed, presenting Intel in conjunction with observations and also making sure he is clear why he believes each is a threat. In total he left out three monster zones, the groves to the east of the camp and of course he left out Oda and jade's Hyena movements.
Diana sends him away she was asking only because she will have something to talk to Palesa about and her real focus right now is curing the illness. Her own nine are already investigating the cause and Impi has given her a clue but till now she didn't dare accuse the protectors of life. She watches her gobo's take the roots and other medicinal herbs she ordered. She orders them without speaking they follow command as given. The nine and Diana work silently each of her goblins an extension of herself. Snapping her fingers one of nine appears fully dressed for a long Diana sends him off to confirm her suspicions.
Impi is making his way to the Moundmaster, he should be rushing but he knows Reku is there and he has been been dodging her for the past three days. Reku wants something from all the seconds. Palesa is yet to make a real decision her ten are too busy raising an army to go through the the trails for army second. Palesa has decided for now that the military and her banner are one in the same meaning all the forces are hers to command directly. Again he scents this time a pop from the Moundmaster's Chirib stops Reku from blocking Impi's path. Impi is scenting of tones of servitude and anticipation. He knows Tau is not in camp so he has go support him. Impi can pick up on a nervous energy whenever Tau is not around. Plus being his second he has a general idea what the Horde master is doing.
Impi scents with his palm his up. Gcina grabs him licking his wrist. It is to get a better sense of his emotions especially since she is not his master and needs a definitive way to understand his emotional state. His scent reports are muddled with his anxiety about Tau. Gcina lets go of wrist her scent pungent he has to be quick she is very busy. He repeats his scout report to Gcina only adding the terrain details she likes to have.
Impi leaves as soon Gcina releases him. He takes to the air once more. Flying south towards the Martial Eagle Nest. He flies for an hour before spotting his Horde master. Tau is in walking alongside the river. The shadow of the Hippogryph flies directly over Tau. He is surprised at the arrival of his second. Tau is in fact glad he had rushed out so fast that he still hasn't left any orders at the moment after his confrontation with the twins.
The Hippogryph's lands with Impi already scenting greetings. Tau eyes the gobo he looks a little weird.
Tau says, "You know that won't help you right?" He points at the clothing Impi is wearing. The full brown leather would fool normal monster but the Martial Eagle is too strong, too smart and too fast.
Impi says, " It doesn't hurt to try, the others are almost ready." Impi is scenting a little embarrassment over his false bravado. Impi has seen first hand the devastating power of the martial eagle. He has dragged Tau back to Diana once already.
Tau says, " That's true it really doesn't this time thou you can't interfere at all. I mean Impi you are here to observe." Tau's scent is an absolute command even if Impi wants to refuse. He can't the scent is like a binding spell. Impi can only steel his heart against the possibility of the death of his Hordemaster.
The two gobo's walk through the vast grasslands towards the mountain nest of the Martial Eagle. They spend most of their time going over the difficulties Tau will face against the Martial Eagle. It is a close combat powerhouse with a range attack that makes it deadly at all distances. Tau has his Palesa's ice alongside the behemoth skill he is borrowing from Jade.
Arriving at he base of the small mountain. Tau and Impi spy the Martial Eagle flattened mountain top. The rest of gobo's are sitting around the bottom having being here clearing the territorial monsters. They look brow beaten and tired and all of them scent hope to their Hordemaster. Tau scent lingers in the air a mix of determination and subtle whiffs of fear, pain and responsibility. Impi walks behind him follow up the thin twisting path up the mountain. The wind blows cold and both the goblins skin shows some goosebumps.
Impi stops without needing to be told. The edge of the mountain is where the path comes out on top of the flat mountain top. Tau is breathing heavily he steps past an old Martial Eagles nest. The horde system goes off in his head.
[Unified Horde Mission]
Information: Strengthen your banner by acquiring ten Warbeast.
Description: Capture ten beast and assign them as your banners' Warbeast. Warning assigned Beast cannot be changed until a full banner is assembled.
Rewards: 10x Flight Suit
Unified Rewards: ???? 4/5
[You have entered into a dangerous zone! The God of goblins knows you will die do you wish to accept his wager?]
Tau reads the message slowly. His veins and scent pop with a hint of anger. Also there is also dissapointment in his heart. His thoughts tend towards the message. Tau says, "I do." At first he thought that the God of goblins betting against him is a bad thing. That was until he remembered that goblins are the bottom of the food chain and their so called God has done nothing for his people. Tau doesn't even know his name. Tau decides to use this as motivation against a useless God and his dreaded enemy The Martial Eagle.
[Blood sacrifice detected! Goblin King Scarifice accepted! bloodline detected! Ancient bloodline activated. Horde blood line active. Due to the sacrifice of the most powerful goblin ever to live your bets value has increased x5. Goblin God is forced to match your bet. You have inccured his wraith -1 to fate score. Unified rewards x5 {minimum rank pseudo legendary} fate score triggered limiting rewards to five of the same type.]
Tau smiles and thanks the old goblin king even if he only meet him in the Get. The Kings Scarifice has helped him become the goblin he is today and once more again. Tau also smiles as he cant help but think that the Horde system made this happen. He feels once more that feeling of deep dread of being manipulated into something much bigger than himself.
Tau grips his spear and use Palesa's ice magic to form a shield. The shield has mist coming off it. From the edge of cliff Tau can some shouting. Impi has been joined by Zetu, Peto, Luna and Zipo are all shouting with Impi.
"You can do it!" Yells Zetu her arms flailing in the air pointing at the Martial Eagle coming down from above.
"Show that bird its feathers!" Impi shoulder bumps Peto for what he believes is a stupid comment .
"Let's go!!!" Yells Luna and Zipo their voice like screeches as they are high. These five are those that remained loyal to him in the Dungeon. He is using them as leaders in his banner to train the new recruits.
As the clouds are parted by the wings of The Martial Eagle. Tau lifts his spear into the air his Chirib pops a deep loud guttural sound. Like two Thundersnaps fighting one another. The Eagle decends whirls of winds spiraling in every direction but down. This is Tau's first advantage through the weeks he learnt that if he fights inside the nest area the leader has to control his power and fights at half strength as to not destroy the nests. This is where the majority of where Tau's confiendence comes from.
Tau moves his shield infront him. His Hordemaster is currently set to give him as two boosts mainly magic regen and pure strength which also increases his health. However he is weaknes is speed and defense two important and tough barriers to overcome.
The ground pulses are the Martial Eagle lands. All Two thousand blue power of her. Her lack of head feathers marks her out as the only female in this cluster. Her males sit on her eggs which at the moment they are surrounded by twelve eggs in nest all around them in a perfect circle. Tau's observation shows that she chooses which nest and make to spend the night in. She extends her wings her golden brown feathers glint in the morning sun. The chill of the wind not enough to temper the heat Tau is feeling.
She screeches at Tau her sharp pale daffodil colored beak feints at him. Tau pops his chirib feinting his spear forward. Her right wing comes down scarthing the ground. The Sparks coming off her wings from the blow. Tau swurls his spear in the air to pick up some speed then it also scratches the ground. The Sparks are much bigger than the Martials Eagle which causes her to stand straight up.
Zipo being the last to arrive from assignment asks, "What is he doing, guys! Impi tell me!" Zipo is quickly shooshed by the others. Zeto brings her in and says under her breath.
"The Martial Eagle is a royal bloodline like the Shedu and so when approached their are certain protocols that must be observed or else she will simply remove you by dropping you off the side of the cliff. If you weren't so busy with Oda you could have seen the third time the Hordemaster was thrown off and managed to survive by making wings out of ice that's how he managed to learn to manipulate shape of their ice powers before the Warmaster." Says Zeto who's hand and scent are asking Impi if she explained properly after all she too heard it from him. Who saw it while he was riding a Hippogryph.
Tau is the first to attack he throws himself currently is his max power is around one thousand blue being artificially inflated by the ring from ten thousand white. Since she is standing straight up he hopes to get in close as her power is a little bit more manageable when your up close with her. Distance is his enemy.
The Martial Eagle flutters her wings to gain a bit of height. Her sharp red claws coming down like four swords of fury. Tau has use to his ice magic to push him aside in the air. Tau then swings his spear at her mid area. She lifts her leg to block but his spear explodes with ice. Freezing her claw she spins on her frozen wings tucked in close. She manages to knock him into a nest.
In a fluster she rushes him just managing to reach him while her leg is pinned. She bites him on the sheild since it's the only thing she can reach. Tau yells as he is thrown into Centre again. With her free leg she stomps on him her claw smashing into the sheild. Tau can feel a powerful shock through the sheild. His arm feels limped. He is already sweating a coat of fear surrounding his sweat.
In gobos wince and cringe at the blows from the Martial being around only white seven hundred they can't understand the power she has. The closet is any of them have come to facing such power was when Luna was on assignment with Palesa. Their one on one quickly fading as she sees what a real fight is instead of practice with the he Warmaster.
Tau shoots a spiraling shard of ice from his sheild. The shatters into smaller shards as soon as it meet the claw. She stomps on him again. The force causing him to cough out his breath. Being winded makes everything ache even more on top of being unable to breath. Tau with his spear which is pinned under the shield. Shoots and ice blast at the nest behind him.
The Martial Eagle leaps elegant using her wings wings move through the air effortlessly and land in first of the blast. She sweeps it aside but she takes some damage. The reason she had time to respond to the ice is because Tau charged it making sure to put a lot of magic into to the blast. He actually put half his magic into the blast. Being at blue one thousand that means it has enough cold energy to put the nest and the egg in it close to freezing.
Tau gets up holding his chest while she is also flapping her wings tryin got get the blood plow feeling normal again. They both throw a couple of feints and one real swing which made the gobos watching duck down just as Tau does to dodge the attack. She had just a Martial skill even weakest magic user here Peto can feel a pressure from the Martial. Similar to the one feels whenever he around the Moundmaster but hers is less obvious.
The two fighters unleash more skills, Tau has the advantage since the Eagle has to use attacks that won't destroy her eggs. Her mates are all flying above they will only interfere if one of Tau's gobo's interfere a mistake Impi will never make again. With each thrust spiral and swing Tau tries to corner her. She is sharp and strong each of Tau's attacks countered while protecting all twelve of her nests and remaining eggs.
Tau is the first to gas out of magic power. He now has to rely on his power for the next minute while all his magic recovers thanks to the Hirdemaster ring that give him plus one random for every gobo in the horde. He usually doesn't wear it because Palesa said it will make him weak. Plus Diana laughs at him whenever he is wearing because according to her. He looks like a mob boss whenever he is wearing it.
Tau spins in and out of the way of her wings which are now sharper than death. She unleashes a furry at Tau that he has to dance around. His small body and shield giving him a chance. As the last three blows nearly break his shield. Tau breathes heavily his arms numb his body sore. His mouth is full of blood and he is sure his ribs are cracked. He smirks thinking to himself, 'I know my guy it's just two seconds. You don't need to me it's my body I know what I need to do.'
His thinking is not muddled he is trying to motivate himself. Like the last time he faced a great he starts to question why he dead set on this course. He hears a voice that distinctly sounds like the goblin king. 'Rise.' Tau heard this deep in his soul.
[Your ancestor has been punished by the Goblin God.]
"Are you fucking kidding me! The world already hates us and all you do as add fuel to the fire well fuck you. My people will never pray to you." Tau yells at his God for not helping. He knows the God doesn't care to help but to hinder him is beyond frustrating. Tau grits his teeth lifting himself up from ground as another wing swings at him. Dirt is kicked into the air as she twists her her wing again. It pivots towards Tau slicing the air as a cold metallic shine envelops her wings momentarily.
Only a whistle can be heard as the wing swipes at his life. Tau with little in the way of options throws his spear. The wing spirals the spear back at almost through his stomach. Tau would his magic but he wants to save it for a next round. This opening round has just gone the Eagle. Tau takes a deep breath stands up straight and bobs his head forward.
"Sqawka!!!" Ruffling golden feathers. She parades her claws scratching the ground. Tau can only growl. The eagle above squawk back the Martial Eagle. She then spreads her wings wide as feathers fly at Tau. Twelve golden razor sharp bladed wings. Tau scrambles backwards grabbing his spear tip. The shaft has cracked and has splinters everywhere even some in his hand now.
"Your suppose to take a break!" Tau knows that the battle dance of royal beasts is meant to be followed. The Martial Eagle presents her self unwilling to back down.
Her sharp claw swipes left then other unseen. Tau feels his whole body go stiff he has only got half way with his ice spear. The spear is half the length ots suppose to be allowing him to use it in one hand. However she has him in her grasp. He should have seen that deadly cold claw coming for. The Martial Eagle had changed its attack without warning.
Tau can't believe he fell for such a simple feint. If this was a boxing match he had just been outboxed by the Martial Eagle.
Impi says, "Move out guys take your positions." The gobos move closer to the fight in a formation with Zipo in the middle her hands are dripping small amounts of blood. The blood moves unt its thin. Around all the gobos who are in a defensive formation around Zipo as she chants under her breath.
Tau can feel an intense pressure as his body is thrown a kilometer into the air. Tau able to breath can only throw ice lances at the Martial Eagle as he ascends onto the sky. He knows the sky is her domain and if he allowed he to simply take to the sky he is as good as dead.
Due to his high speed he also had to add more power into the lances. He is unconcerned with aiming since its also a way to control his movement. Being a faux blue level fighter he doesn't have of the benefits like faster casting or more powerful spell. What he does have thou is almost fives times the magic pool to use on his his white level magic.
Tau unleashes in twelve lances six aimed at her directly and the six more powerful ones at the nest around her. It had also taken him fourteen seconds to reach one kilometer. Those two seconds he spent fixing his position was all the Martial Eagle needed to evade the Lances.
Golden feathers spread as she flies and twists without any wasted movement. Her head tilting and making calculations and then she sees it. Those frigid ice lances. All aimed not at her. They are also all at the same descending into six different direction.
She squawks, the dust around the nest is kicked up. She moves with miraculous speed. Her acceleration three hundred meters into the air. Only took two flaps of her golden wings.
Tau smiles he has spent a lot of time learning how to make these lances a nasty surprise. Palesa had given him the idea as she natural has a freezing effect to her ice spells. Its also why hebhadnt learnt of blue the spells picked because they would use a lot more magic than just his white level magic.
A shatter of frost permeates the sky. She cries out as close to her neck a solid collar of ice is forming. Yet she doesn't stop or call for her flock. She would have to submit to this goblin if she did that. She Twists through the freezing pain flying into two more lances. The first spreads soothing death into her wings. Her right wing is most affected the clasp of cold, crippling her mobility with its chill. Still she pushes on still through cystalizing frost. The bone chilling collar of ice growing making her breathe turn misty.
The Martial Eagle cries out a final time. Her blood frozen in her body. Her feathers coates in frost bite. Her breath threading as she crashes to the ground. she lands with a devastating thump of finality. Her eyes glazed over by ice she can only make out her main nest. Crumbling to the stress she starts to freeze...
Impi leaps forward holding a bottle in his hand. He rushes towards the body. Tau receives a notification from the Horde system.
[You have won the bet against the Goblin God.]
[Your Ancestors Power has increased]
[Goblin Kings' Spirit has earned Saint Status]
[Horde Bloodline Improved]
[Extra spell slot award]
Fate has triggered affecting gifts from the Divine Armory. Five matching item found!!!
Elemental Evolution Crystal's
1: Devil Flame Elemental Crystal
2: Kraken Water Elemental Crystal
3: Ymir Ice Elemental Crystal
4: Raven Shadow Elemental Crystal
5: Sun Gods Origin Elemental Crystal {fragmented}