Chapter 15 The Shadow War part 2
Ella and her group followed their captors as they where dragged through the tunnels. She saw goblins fighting other goblins and she weep in desperation. She hoped that this Kingdom's defence will hold and expel the invaders. She have witnessed an invasion before where the the attacking forces won. Half of the slaves were given to the army for food.
Then she heard another horn blasted and echoed through the tunnels. To her surprised, the goblins stop from fighting and looked through the the tunnel leading to the entrance.
I found a treasure trove of souls I can harvest. Just a few kilometres north of the shore I landed, there's a huge mountain like structure made of earth. It looks like a termite nest, but I know that it is a goblin nest. I am standing behind the trees with my minions as I watched the battle unfolding. I have to move quickly and attack the invading force, or they will just kill each other and reduce the souls I can gather. I ordered ten of my minions to flank the attacking armies at each side to prevent them from escaping. Then I silently approach the invading armies from the rear. The moment I landed on this realm I felt that my powers were magnified in two folds. I sense that my dominion range is about one hundred twenty feet radius. I calmly walk towards them and willed my dominion spell.
What happened next is an over kill.
I came, I destroyed, and I conquered.
Ella and her companions where terrified. The horn blast they heard says there's another army attacking. They were doomed. it means that this Kingdom will be over run. She saw all the goblins stopped fighting and charged to the entrance.
The horns kept on blaring and the goblins poured out of the tunnels. Then the horn stopped and replaced by silence which confused Ella. The goblins guarding them snarled and charged through the direction of the entrance then they suddenly disappeared.
They heard the footsteps of someone coming from entryway. Her heart stopped as a figure in full battle armour walk in. Ella heard her companions weep as they all saw the burning eyes of the hooded figure. The figure stopped upon seeing them. He gestured and a creature with four arms approach him from the entrance. "Take fifteen of you and search all the tunnels for any prisoners. If you find any, bring them here to me unharmed. Capture any remaining goblins, bind them and gather them in one place." The figure with the eyes made of flame commanded.
"As you command Dark Lord." The creature bark an order and a group of them entered and started searching all the tunnels.
After the creatures left, the figure approach and stood in front of them. He studied them with those burning eyes which unsettled Ella, she can't help herself from crying.
"What do they call you?" She heard the figure spoke asking. She looked up and saw that those burning eyes is looking down at her.
She hurriedly answered, "I'm called Ella, master."
"How long have you been a captive in this place?" He asked.
"I can no longer recall master. I've been in this place for a very long time."
He nodded and walk to speak with the others, he asked how and when they where captured. He asked what happened afterwards and what the goblins did to them. They answered him truthfully. After sometime, one of his creature approach and gave him a report, then he turned to us again. "This is my minion, he will not hurt you. follow him, so you can join the others, When I come back, I will bring you out of the Dark Realm." And then he left
I'm outraged!
I'm disgusted!
This goblins doesn't deserve to live!
They are animals!
Predators that needs to be controlled!
I remembered the look, fear and the story they told me. It made me simmer with rage.
I turned to another tunnel which opened to a vast chamber. The remaining goblins that my minions where able to capture in the tunnels were huddled together shaking with fear from their captors.
"Now you're all shaking with fear?" I roared, and made them huddled back together. I used my skill and sent them to my domain. From my estimation I think I was able to capture around two million goblins for this expedition. This will be enough to summon my Princess to this world.
Ella and the rest of the captives have no choice but to follow the order of the figure who called himself the Dark Lord. They walk through a dark shadow conjured by the Dark Lord and emerged to huge grand throne room.
She was scared before, but she is terrified now when she saw the throne and the skulls beneath it. She saw that some of it where skeleton and skulls of bones of every races. She almost yelp in surprise to see another Dark Lord with the same armour and hood on their right talking to an Elf and a Human.
"What's going on?" she whispered to herself. She looked back at the portal, the Dark Lord is stepping through and closing the portal behind him leaving an army of his creature behind the empty kingdom of goblins that lived there before. She heard the other gasp, the other slaves have now noticed that there are two Dark Lord's in the room. The Dark Lord who took them from the goblins walk towards the throne, they look at the other Dark Lord who turned to walk towards the throne too. They all gasp once more when the two met and merged into one and sat on the throne looking at them.
She's fascinated by the Dark Lord's power. Who is he? He seems to be nice to us. And he felt his anger when he learned our story.
"Greetings my dear friends," she heard the Elf addressing them. She did not noticed that the Human and the Elf has approached them. "Your enslavement in the Dark Realm has ended. The Dark Lord will set you free and return you to your lands in good time." There were gasp and murmurs among the slaves. "All the Dark Lord ask is for your patience, he will search for a safe place to release and return you to our world so you can journey back to your home and families.
"What about the other slaves in the Never Day?" Someone ask from her fellow captives which were echoed by the others. She understood their sentiment. Their enslavement in the Dark Realm bonded them together, She will be very grateful to be freed at last but she knew that she won't be able to live in peace knowing that there are countless slaves left suffering in the Never Day.
"The Dark Lord has vowed not to rest until he freed all the slaves in the Dark Realm." The Human who introduced himself as Michael declaimed. "At this very moment his minions are tracking down the Kingdom who attacked your captors so he can vanquish them and free all the slaves they possessed."
Her fellow slaves cheered upon hearing this. She looked back at the figure sitting on his throne watching them. Her cheeks wet with the tears flowing from her eyes. She never thought she would feel happiness again. This Dark Lord in his grand display of darkness have given them the light of hope she thought she lost forever.
She stood there staring at the Dark Lord crying with the tears of relief and gratitude.