The Ancient Realm part 3
"I willed off my shadow mask and it faded leaving my face exposed. Then I held her towards me and kissed her.
She kissed me back and embraced me tightly. I felt her craving me, wanting me. And I want her back, more than I ever knew.
What happened next is a memory I will treasure forever. I will live for her. I will survive for her.
I will destroy for her.
I shall conquer in her name.
I will be her Dark Lord."
"Did you get that Puff? I looked down on Puff the shape shifter who's scribbling very fast to write down the story that I'm dictating him.
"Wow, you made love with the Princess?" He asked looking up at me. He is in the form of a monkey now.
"No, but better! I asked her to marry me and she agreed! Isn't that great?" I answered with excitement.
Puff looked at me incredulously. "But the manner that you want me to write it indicates you made love with her."
"What happened next is a memory I will treasure forever." he read back to me questioningly.
I gave him a stern look, "You're a pervert are you? No wonder you live in my dark realm. Now I summoned you because I need an assistant and a scribe to write my story. I have a lot in my mind right now not to mention that I may not survive the battle that I'm about to partake. I need you to write down exactly what I said and what will happen during my fight so my Princess will know my story in case I'm captured. Do you get that Puff?"
"Yes master." he replied submissively. "But did you really declaimed this?" and then he read,
"I will live for her. I will survive for her.
I will destroy for her.
I shall conquer in her name.
I will be her Dark Lord." He look again at me incredulously.
"Of course!" I replied. "I'm old school you know? I'm a romantic the last of my kind" I answered with a chagrin. "I made her laugh with that passage you know?" I asked Puff if he knew and he shake his head in answer. "Now you nu!" And I laughed more because he didn't get the joke behind it.
Now Puff, write it down that she said we are now engaged. But I need to transcend into a Deamune Dark Lord and summon her in the Ancient Realm where we will merry. And that my dear Puff is what I'll do once I'm finished with those fools who summoned me."
"How are you going to transcend into a Deamune Dark Lord master?" Puff asked.
"It's easy, I need to capture and absorbed at least a million souls. And to raise my own Horde."
Puff's eyes were wide in awe, "You can do that master?" he asked.
"Watch and learn my young padawan, watch and learn." I replied giving him a sadistic smile.
"Now, I am going to merge back with my original body. And you will morph to a fly and hide inside my hair. The moment I arrive at the summoning ground you will fly out as fast as you can in stealth and hide and wait for my signal understood?"
"Yes master" Puff acknowledge submissively.
"Goood, gooood" I replied cynically. I laughed again because Puff didn't get the Star Wars line when Anakin knelt to the Sith Lord.
I walk toward my crystal body and stood in front of it. I took a long deep breath and I hailed her in my mind. "I'm going back now my Princess. Wish me luck."
I heard her whisper back sincerely, "Take care my love, the future of our world depends on you. I love you.."
I took another deep breath, then I willed my self to merge back to my crystal body.
The world exploded in PAIN magnified several times I can't imagine. I wrestled with it, and used all my might to distance my self from it. I saw the way on how to split my self so a part of me can still function in case of injury. This skill is very valuable I realized. I already have several scenarios where I can use this. Very valuable Indeed.
I suddenly felt the powerful jerk from the Thorns of Ra. So, their starting to pull me over. I let go of any resistance and in a blink of an eye. I'm back at the summoning ground.
The drums are still playing. The hooded fools are still chanting around me. I looked around them and I felt their uneasiness upon my arrival. Good I said to my self. Because they will never forget this day If I succeeded. I noticed that there are two more figures in each side of me. My senses told me that they are the leaders of this congregation. The most powerful of them is in my right side with his hands across each other on his chest observing me. The other on my left have multiple spells at the ready.
I noticed that the elements beaten by the drums are flying all over the place. The chanters plucked and manipulated them ready to support any spells that their leaders will need.
So I willed some of the elements into a simple spell that I learned. I heard someone gasp.
And I spoke. "Why are you doing this?" then I turned my head to my right and looked at the figure observing me. "Why did you encased me under the Thorns of Ra?" I heard another gasp.
The figure in my right seems not to be affected by what I just did. He calmly took off his hood revealing a sharp young face and a pointed ear. He started to pace around me. "The Demons managed to ensnare you heart." He said as if speaking to himself than talking to me. "But they failed to capture your mind". He continued and stop infront of me. "I am Grand Sorcerer Silas. Tell me, what is your name." He asked me.
I looked straight to meet his gaze, "My name is Aymagona".
His right thin eyebrow slightly rose up. "Aymagona?" Repeating the name. Subtly telling me he knew I'm lying because he felt no power behind it.
"Yeah." I confirmed. "Aymagona kick your ass if you refused to free me." I continued solemnly.
He smiled sharply. One instant I'm standing before him then I suddenly found myself on the ground trying to clutch my chest as the Thorn of Ra snapped to my heart crashing it to a point of bursting. I tried to gasp for air as if everything is being squeezed out of me. And then suddenly the pressure is gone. After an eternity, I was able to think again.
I was jerked to my feet by an invisible force. I was facing him again.
I took a deep breath and meet his gaze once more. "I'm giving you my last warning". I declared to all of them with all the solemnity that I could master. "Walk away now and I will forget all of this. Stay and you will all suffer the consequence." I saw his right eye twitched. He's about to viciously squeeze my heart again. "A-ah!" I stalled him, "I can summon a huge dragon to lay waste on all of you, you know?" I declared out laud with eyes wide in panic. Someone laughed. And then I felt it starting to squeeze my heart again but this time I'm ready. I willed the dark rope encasing my heart to harden and to give me a small space for my heart to beat and then I shouted "Dragon!!!
Pandemonium broke out.
A huge dark winged dragon materialized out of nowhere roaring and stamping and tail swinging.
The dark rope shielded the Thorns of Ra from crashing my heart. I used the time it gave me to split myself into seven Avatars. Sixty percent for my main body which instantly transformed into crystal. Ten percent for my second and third Avatar who will face off the two leaders. Five percent for each of the remaining four Avatars which I will use to capture the other summoners.
It's a very difficult strategy for me because my sight was instantly divided into seven. My main body closed down in defence the instant I closed its eyes, now I have six vision to manage.
I used the commotion created by Puff the magic dragon to deploy my six Avatars. They are all clad in the same battle armour and a dark hood. They all have a head made of shadows with no ears, nose and mouth. They only have a pair of burning eyes. I numbered them from one to six. Seven is my main encased already in crystal. One and Two were the ten percent. Three to Six are the five percent. Three to Six dashed right away to the chanters surrounding me, to seize two chanters each. They were captured instantly in surprise and was sent to my domain together with three to six. In my domain I merged my three four five into one and started using skills of buffering. I then split number six into five avatars with one percent power each. The moment One and Two split up from my main I dashed them to the two strongest person in the gathering. One dashed to face Silas and Two to face the bearded figure.
I now have eight sights for eight Avatars. I now name them One Two and Three and five one percent avatars I called scouts. Three will be my Ace card I'm activating all the buffering spells for him. But it will take time.
Doing this made me dizzy. Yes I'm each and everyone of my Avatar but my vision is fragmented to how many splits I made. And the catch is, even if I split my self, my mind stayed whole. So there's only one captain steering multiple ships at once.
I felt One being blasted by the elf, and Two is not doing well either. Apparently both Elf and Mr Beard are expert fighters. Luckily my Battle Lord Avatar is a tank defence expert. Both One and Two have their shield out dashing and spinning trying to get closer to their opponents so I can send them to my domain.
My domain skill apparently have a different range for a different race. Puff is around seventy meters away from me but I can feel that I can send him to my domain at will. But I have to physically touch this summoners before I can carry them to my shadow realm. I suspect that it has something to do with their aura. I have special dominion over dark auras.
Puff is not doing well too he's been continuously attacked by three magic users, one support buffer, two archers and four melees. I have to help him. Three already have enough buffer I think, not complete but it should suffice other wise Puff will be defeated and I'll have to contend with the others alone.
I placed my concentration to Three as he materialized back to the summoning ground. I immediately dash to help Puff by sharing him my protection buff. I summoned my battle lord shield and one handed sword. I joined the fray and faced the melees. They don't know my Domain skill yet so they tried to attacked me altogether and they vanished as soon as their weapon connected to my shield and sword. The four Knights vanished instantly leaving a hooded figure with a shield and a spear. The shielder immediately retreated moving back to the magic users. The three magic wielders immediately casted a blocking spell to hinder me from reaching them.
This is going nowhere. I'm fighting three fronts all at once and even if I merged at thirty five percent it will not be enough. I staggered as One died from a powerful spell by Silas. Two is in critical. I have to cut my losses.
I sent Puff and my main back to my shadow realm. And then I staggered again as Two died from the hands of Silas and Mr Beard.
They turn to me cautiously, readying their spell.
My scouts are moving fast in five directions. They are now far away from any detection.
"Nice game!" I called out to them. "Let's play again next time".
I shimmered back to my Shadow Realm.