Setanta lands and the moment he does, he moves to the crowd and grabs a knife from one of the members of the mob who are all holding miscellaneous weapons. Then he moves towards Culainn and Aurelius pulling them out of harm's way.
"You ok old man, do you need some worms?"
Culainn looks at Setanta and says, "Don't make fun of birds you stupid wolf."
Setanta smiles, then gets up and faces Dáire, then he says, "First son of the Lugh Ó Faoláin, next head of the house of Faoláin and the next king of Gorias, Setanta Ó Faoláin. I give you only until the next time I blink to explain to me what just happened to my compatriots."
Blinking, he says, "Times up."
Setanta glares at all of them with a ferocity that makes many of them except Dáire elite warriors shudder in fear.
Dáire looks at Setanta, and says, "Son of Lugh, a human was caught walking in our lands, and will be judged by the rules of it."
"This is Biorg land."
"But this is the providence of Findias, so it still all falls under the control of the Laoch."
"Did my allies not say they had affiliations with my house?"
"Why should I care for such an affiliation in my very land? Faoláins are not allowed to just come into any providence they want and overturn the rules of the land they are in?"
With a smile, Setanta says, "You're right. So, I won't say this with any form of authority behind it, but out of compassion not to see my fellow countrymen slaughtered. Leave us this very minute, or your eyes will never see another sunrise."
Setanta turns his back to them and moves towards us, but Dáire utterly unamused by Setanta's actions says, "Kill him."
Soon a group of his men move towards him with weapons in their hands, but soon all of those weapons fly into the air, and after a moment I see all of their fingers have been cut off.
All of their eyeballs are sliced through, which causes all of them to fall to the ground and hold their hands to their eyes which causes blood to leak from their fingers into their open eyes balls.
"I don't see a single child in sight, but I am a kind person so I will give you all a second warning. Go home right this instant or die."
Setanta's words, the screaming of the beastkin, the cockatrice in the sky, and the ease with which they were reduced to this state all caused fear to take root deep inside.
Dáire says, "To whoever strikes the killing blow on this boy, I will grant my daughter hand, and a position in the upper court of my brother, the king of Findias."
The men who had been stricken by fear were soon overcome by the words of their leader, and headfirst they ran into Setanta.
"Setanta grab Aurelius and run, I know you can both get away."
He looks back at me and smiles, then says, "You talk as if there is danger nearby."
As he turns to face them, I notice something about his presence.
Right now, he is wearing dark blue pants and a dark blue shirt both made with fine wool, which had the golden Faoláin crest over where his heart was, and from that crest emanated a design similar to a harp string throughout his body.
But it wasn't the clothes, his posture, or even his wonderbeast traits, but it was his soul that made him seem so similar to his grandfather in that moment that made me stop and just stare at his presence.
Setanta moved forward and started to destroy the foes in front of him.
Φ While moving forward towards my for I weave spirit energy into the weapon in my hand and start carving through them one by one. Each of them wears a type of armour or padded clothing which makes it hard for me to properly slash through them with the knife, so I aim for each of their throats leaving one slash after another.
But the amount of them that I am surrounded by is so much and so dense that I feel like I am going to be drowned by them, so I say, "Red branch battle arts; Tulip."
I move around all of them at high speed in every changing pattern. Tulip isn't an attack-oriented form, it is solely focused on maximise your speed in a series of hard-to-follow footwork, allowing you to completely break away from whatever situation you are in to reposition.
And as I use it, I manage to make it out of the crowd, and then I say, "Red branch battle arts; Starflower."
I quickly rush back in and throw seven strike towards the beastkin at high-speed slicing their necks, and I continue to do this until I hear, "Beast blood battle arts; Ceangailte."
Suddenly plants from around the area move towards me and end up binding my leg, which causes me to say, "They got a druid!"
Looking in the distance, I see a group of druids standing with the branches sticking out of their heads, and quickly lock my eyes on them which causes them to be stricken with fear.
But Dáire says, "DO IT NOW!"
This causes them to snap out of it, and movement later I see a group of seeds fly throughout the air, and then I hear, Beast blood battle arts ultimate art; Fás Glórmhar!"
I quickly remember back to when Findabair used fás to cause the plants around her to grow, and I quickly prepared for something like that. Soon all of the seeds around quickly turn into trees and their branches move around everywhere.
Seeing this I instantly move to make sure Culainn and Aurelius don't get crushed by them, and after I pick them up, I see the trees have grown into a giant intertwined tree that reaches up to the cockatrice in the sky.
Then I notice that all of the beastkin are scattered across the branches, and Dáire says, "You won't be able to hide amongst us anymore."
I quickly take note of the druids and see that they are leaking blood from their palms, and I say, "They must have used up a lot of their blood to make sure of a large attack, I shouldn't have to worry about those guys for a while now."
From behind me a group of beastkin comes to attack, and I start to move at high speed and strike them all down. But as I move from person to person, I am constantly interrupted by beastkin.
Due to the larger space, all of them can now have far more room in between them, and when I hit one target it gives the rest the ability to reposition and attack me before I reach my next target.
Moving around this entire area is also draining my stamina, and I constantly need to keep an eye on Culainn and Aurelius to make sure no beastkin gets past me over to them.
Right now, I am in a rather inopportune position, but regardless of that, I am still fighting.
Remember; be just like Aoife, and fight freely.
"Red branch battle arts; Tulip."
I move around at high speed all over the place unable to be caught by the eye, and annoyed by this the beastkin starts to move towards Culainn and Aurelius, in an effort to force me out of hiding.
But as each of them moves I go from body to body and take them off, wrapping them around their body parts like their appendages or neck, while also tying them against each other clothes connecting them.
Then soon I have a chain of beastkin all connected to their clothes, and I then grab the person on the end of the chain, and then plunk him right in the middle of the cockatrice's mouth.
Then I say, "Go crazy boy."
The Cockatrice swings the beastkin in the chain around into the air and then throws the chain far into the distance, and as they are thrown, they start to fly in the air like a sword thrown in a circular manner until they crash into some of the forest.
But just as I catch my breath, I hear a surge of noise, and feel spirit energy approach me, so I prepare to defend myself with my knife but both it and a portion of my chest are cut through.
And looking at my attackers, I say, "So the elite have stepped onto the battlefield."
I bring out my claws and send spirit energy into them, then I clash with the man in front of me, but I soon manage to outspeed him and get behind him where I whack the man in the back of the neck knocking him down.
But as he falls the horse beastkin uses his tail to grab onto me, and then pulls me forward before giving me a kick to the gut which I just bear through.
We both fall from where we were standing and I use this moment to bite into his neck and rip out the flesh, which causes him to do the same towards me, but he passes out due to blood loss before we land.
Then while I get myself back up, I look and see that above me are twenty beastkin with spirit energy covering them, and Dáire at the back of all of them.
"Ehh, you're not sending in any more rookies."
"I acknowledge your strength, and I don't feel like allowing any more young talents to be butchered."
"Don't worry you won't be alive long enough to even mourn the ones who have been."
The beastkin moves towards me and I rush forward to me them, but then one of them a Spider Fanalis shoot webs at me mid-air which cover my arm, then I hear, "Beast blood battle arts; Bog."
Then the plants start to move towards me from all around to strike me, my unbound right arm, which causes intense pain as the plants move inside the wound.
I use Red branch battle arts; Sky flower to kick off one of my shoes towards the pursing beastkin, and then I bring out my claws on that foot and use it to rip off my arm that is bound by the web.
The pain seeps throughout my body, but my arm grows back quick enough for me to rip my other arm out before the other beastkin reaches me.
With only my newly regenerated left arm, I fight off the beastkin as they come for me, but their skills are equal to mine, and their bodies are stronger.
The crushing jaws of the hippo Fanalis, the unbreakable skin of an Armadillo Fanalis, the venom of a cobra Fanalis, the dexterity of a rabbit Fanalis, the flight of a sparrow Fanalis, and the overwhelming strength of a Kraken Fanalis, all combined with the leadership of and abilities of the flaming bursting bear that Dáire is, leaves me beaten and battered by the bottom of the tree, and as he stares down at me, Dáire says, "You where a fool to challenge us to this battle."
"Maybe, but it had to be done. Because there is no world where I will allow my friends to be hurt like that, and for my people to be animals that find joy in the public beatings of others."
"So, you do this for us?"
"I am not sure about many things in my life right now, maybe one day I will believe you're right about the way you think about things, but right now I don't know. So, until I do I won't allow you to make judgements and decisions like this."
"You're an arrogant fool."
"Yet all the things I hold precious were also gotten by that same fool, I am fine being like this. Now throw down your weapons or never feel a sensation again."
"Kill him."
"Come and try me and you will all die unhappy deaths."