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As Breder stood at the bloody barricade that was set to stop him, he scoffed at such a sight! With a wave of his hand, Mirielye charged! With a bang! Breder stood in the middle as his horde ran through the open door!
[kill the defenders! But capture the rest!] yelled Breder
POV Trolls
[mommy?] says a child while clutching her mother hand
[what dear?]
[Is the king really on his way to save us] ask the innocent child
[yes… Maddie…] replied the mother with worry
[Don't worry about it, my love! The man I swore my loyalty to is not weak!] said the troll chief as he overheard his family talking
But as the man was consoling his family, the chamber shook violently! Worried he had all the men gather outside the church, with bloody prints they stood among the bloody floor, with weak lights they shined their guns forward at the only entrance into the chamber. As the thunder clouds that formed on top the church brought down their bloody rain, they readied themselves!
With a bang they saw a horribly tall monster! With kith and kin behind the men fired, but as the alien creatures poured into the chamber, like an ant crawling on top and to the side of the opening. As the big one charged down the middle, as blood splashed and fell, so, too did the men's morale. As Surely as the men managed to kill a few, their puny resistance meant nothing!
Within a few moments of engagement, the men fled inside their precious church! The second the door closed on a man who barely missed his chance to get inside! He stared as the light giving form inside closed forever as he was torn apart by the monster, but while he died, those inside huddled in darkened corners praying to whichever deity they believed in! All the while they heard the sounds of their son, father, and brothers all being torn apart right outside those very doors!
As they heard the banging on their chamber doors, they screamed as the spiritual leaders with their cults all gave up their spirits to summon a protective barrier around the church, knocking all the alien monsters back!
As the chief people celebrated their momentary safety, they looked out the church window to see a metal monster stare as its fellow children fell, as the monster snarled as he looked at the white bubble! With contempt in his heart, the monster ran up the back of Mirielye and with a loud roar that scared all inside! He jumped off her back while smashing his claws against the barrier that exploded like fragile ceramic!
As the barrier exploded so did the altars of the church, while the bodies used to fuel it, burned to ash in magnificent red flames! While that may have gone unnoticed by the people, the crumbling of the barrier did not! All while the metal one looked to his right at a nearly pitch-black monster with red lines across its skin! They stared in shock as the creature that was there one minute disappeared with a blink!
Scared, the chief continued to stare out that open window as the metal one and all his horde just stood outside and waited! Waited for what he did not know… for he did not want to know! But while he waited, the church dim lights went out like a candle in the wind, while children screamed the window shattered! As chandeliers and statues fell! With flashing lantern light, the more brave or foolish men would race to the window to what end the chief could only imagine. As those frenzy men opened fire they were pulled or impaled by monster tails and led outside!
As people inside could hear the chewing and bloody screams of men they knew! The women and children were forced to watch as some were pulled below, while others by the windows were pulled out! Nowhere was safe, not the floor, not the second floor, not even the altars they prayed to, for the monsters would burst out of the wooden floors-beds', and broken ceiling!
But as their number dwindled the chief pulled out his ancestors' hatchet while looking at his wife and child while saying:
[I love you…Now and in the next life! May the gods embrace our souls!]
While his daughter cried for him, she held onto a doll made in the likeness of an Eldritch god that was depicted on the carvings. As she watched her father raise his hatchet to attack the metal one as he busted open the chamber doors, as the ancestors' runes carved in the hatchet glowed in mysterious light, but it was all for nothing! For as the light met the metal one, the steel hatchet broke in two!
With a broken axe in hand, the chief coughed up blood as dozens of tails pulled themselves out from his body! As he fell forward, the metal one caught his body and whispered:
{your wife and child, will make great tributes to the nest! Be honored knowing their bodies will be used to further its growth!}
While watching her father's body fall in slow motion! The daughter screamed and yelled while crushing the doll in her hands! With bubbling red-tar oozing from within the doll, one drop was all that was needed as it escaped from between her fingers! As the drop touched the bloody floor, red tentacles burst forth covering the young lass and she was pulled below!
Seeing her child pulled from her hands, the mother looked at the metal one and cursed him! In a language he did not understand, For the mother cursed him to forever be at war! To never know peace! Though it was meant as a curse. It was in truth a blessing for the metal one for it was the war he craved!
When she awoke next, she was trapped in a black tar like substance, that was suspended on the cave wall overlooking hundreds of eggs! As she turned her head to look around, she noticed many of her tribe that were inside the church were there as well, some even had a weird looking creature on their heads. Scared, as she looked at the open eggs, she began to struggle and grunt when the egg in front of her began to bloom like a flower in season!
Worried about what was to come, the woman kicked and screamed when a black alien monster put its hand over her mouth! Panicking, the women watched as the alien creature stretched its arm out to grab the little hand-like monster that came out of the egg! Watching the little creature scurry up the alien arms, the woman's eyes pleaded in all seriousness to the monster holding her mouth shut, only to be met with contempt as the little creature jumped onto her face!
With her unconscious, the alien creature continued its duty of caretaker of the eggs, when suddenly, the woman she just finished planting burst into red flames! The fire spread, consuming all the eggs within a few feet of the women! What was worse was that the fire threatened to consume all the "incubators" along the wall with it!
Scared about what her father would do to her if she failed at her job to protect the next generation! The alien tore away the tar that connected the individuals, letting them fall face first onto the floor. As much as that hurt her, it was better than letting the fire consume the unborn children! With burning hands and blistering skin, she told her father what had happened.
Breder POV
After reassuring Elphe it wasn't her fault, he decided ultimately to transform her into an irradiated spitter rather than a carrier, for carriers can't really hold stuff with their mantis-like hands. Plus, she was one hell of a sharpshooter! With that out of the way Breder ask Vice:
{Hey, can you explain what Elphe said, I don't understand how the troll woman bursts into flames, alone with what happened to that child back in the church.}
[beep… form what I can till, the woman ignited her very soul! Now that takes powerful determination, she must have really hated you! As for the child, I think you know what happened better than me! After all, you saw the tentacles!] replied Vice
{you're right… it was probably one of those damn eldritch playing their hands into my game! Anyway, what happens to one when you ignite your soul?} relied Breder
[Beep… the color of the flames represent the gods you called upon using your life as a bridge, it's a forbidden act in most cultures, not because it kills the individual who uses it, but because it condemns your soul into the hands of the god you believe in!] giving a seconded for Breder to grasp what he said Vice continued:
[as you can imagine many extreme cultuses would do this just on a whim to meet their gods! They didn't even care about the intense pain you would feel by doing it! Heck, some probably relished in it! Either way it is a dangerous gambit that one can even use to exploit some of their god's power! Of course, doing so isn't without its risk, if anything happens to distribute the flow… Well, let's just say the end result is the same.]
{that explains why the church was on fire as we left… that barrier must have been made using some cultist magic…} replied Breder
{Hey Vice!}
[Beep... YA] replied Vice
{Is there any cybernetic upgrade I can do now that we have some much random stuff available from the king vault plus the random components through the cave?}
Beep List
1. curved forearm blades or saw like blades
2. Sharper tail, moldable [ spikes, barbs, anything you mind can come up with]
3. Sharper claws or mantis hands
4. Faster regeneration
5. Extra robot arms
6. Your back pips can turn into hidden blades
7. Stronger inner mouth
{Great! I'll take them all but the mantis hands…that's just stupid! And I'll go with the curved blades instead of the saws! and no to the extra arms} replied Breder
[Beep..Ok the change will take but a few hours and the process though normally painless might cause slight discomfort!] replied Vice
{wait... What did you just say!} replied Breder as he was it with a sensation of unbearable itchiness with a shocking sensation throughout his body!
As Breder was undergoing his upgrades to the very much amused member of his family watching him squirm about, the guards he had stationed outside noticed the fog above their head lift as the falling snow parted for a big zeppelin that looked heavily damaged was making a landing in the mountain clearing.
Goblin king very short POV
As it touched down, the goblin king had one of his men said over the inner coms:
[hello… Can anyone read me…]
[...]
[this is the king's vessel, is anyone there?]
[sir there is no response, it's only static!] said the navigator to the king
[Umm... Open the bay doors! I'll go with a team to investigate what's going on!] replied the king
[But sir! You can't, it's too dangerous to go yourself!] said the man that was in an agreement with everyone on the bridge
[Sigh… I have to! My wife and concubines need me! Cough… I mean it's only natural that I'll go, after all I am the king! Also, while I'm away, keep trying to connect any more of our scatter fleet! I refuse to believe we're all that left!] said the king
[Yes sir!] replied the men
As the bay's doors opened the king readied himself with a team of six individuals as they stared at their once lively home!