TO BULLY AN ENTIRE BLOODLINE
"The Bully got the map in the end. That is what you wanted isn't it?" Golrimon asked the Skeleton King.
"Fools. I am surrounded by fools", Kolgane complained again and lamented.
"I don't understand your majesty", Golrimon asked in confusion.
"The Bully Oriese is not an ordinary foe", Kolgane replied to him.
"Yes, the skeleton king is correct. I would not fall for your trap if I didn't find the map to the Temple of Dragons myself. It becomes even more suspicious when the object that I was looking for presents itself to me so conveniently", I explained to them.
"That fool of a brother. I should have killed him myself. That is a weakness on my part to spare that moron", Kolgane complained.
"But the prince is your brother?", Golrimon asked him.
"That is my weakness. As the Skeleton King, I should never have attachments with others. That foiled my plan", Kolgane complained and told him.
If Kolgane were to let me find the map to the Temple of Dragons myself, I might not be cautioned.
That caution led me to take precautions and Sara brought many of her drones to the mountain to scout the area for hidden danger. That was how we discovered the schemes of the Skeleton King beforehand.
"But how did you know that we set a trap for you in the mountains? Nobody mentioned about it to you", Golrimon asked me.
"Perhaps if I didn't acquire the map to the Temple of Dragons so easily and suspiciously, I might become negligent and fall into your trap in the mountain. I already knew something was fishy in the entire trip to the Temple of Dragons, wouldn't I take more precaution when I exit it. How should I interpret a suspiciously cleared path in the fog given the extra caution?", I explained to him.
"Fools", Kolgane added.
"But I clearly saw you trapped inside our bone prison dome. There should be no escape from it", Golrimon insisted that I fell into his bone trap.
"Yes, that is true, if that was me who activated the trap. I already knew there was a trap there, do you think I will go in myself. The one who went into the bone trap was a body double", I replied to him with a question.
I didn't fall into the skeleton army's trap.
The one who went in was Alpha, my Malevolent Slave.
The bone dome trap was really tough, so even Alpha couldn't break free from it. All he could do was hide under the shadows in the ground but not escape the dome, pretending that he escaped.
Then Beta appeared on the other mountain suddenly to give the illusion that I escaped from the bone trap and reached the other peak.
The soldiers and conjurers of Kolgane thought their trap was useless, decided to attack me on the other mountain and abandoned their magic arraye. That was how Alpha managed to escape.
On the other hand, the skeleton prince and his men were easily picked off one by one as they tried to climb the other mountain, leaving one of them to escape. Only one.
We followed the escaped conjurer to this sacred grove that we would otherwise not have found.
"How do you know we have a hidden sacred grove here. This place is only known to the most loyal of my fools?" Kolgane asked me one last question while his eyes suddenly turned to Golrimon angrily when he realizes.
"You said it yourself. These scums are fools. How can fools like them fool me. To be able to manifest the powerful arraye trap in the plateau is not within the abilities of these fools and your even stupider of a brother. The Queen of Demons must be behind this, and she should be in the vicinity, and I might as well find her. I never expected that the Queen isn't here, but you are", I explained to Kolgane.
"I do not need the Queen to deal with you", Kolgane told me furiously.
"Even the Queen couldn't deal with me herself, what gives you the confidence that you are capable. You merely offer yourself to be bullied again", I replied to him.
"Oriese, I will kill you", Kolgane screamed toward me.
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Suddenly, the canopy over the hidden grove shattered with a powerful crash. To the left of the impact, everything froze; to the right, flames erupted, engulfing the area in an inferno.
"Dominion of Ice and Fire."
At last, my allies had arrived.
After days of searching with our drones, we had finally uncovered the secret hiding place of the skeletons in the mountains, revealed by the paths of the cowardly conjurer who tried to escape back to his master.
Ahead, a dozen flying ships materialized, their forms twisted into menacing demon faces. Holy light poured from the airships, casting an ethereal glow over the skeletons' grove.
Explosive rounds rained down from the sky, igniting the earth below.
The human conjurers caught in our onslaught below were swiftly eliminated. The skeletons trapped in the combined assault of holy light and fire were effortlessly obliterated, while those lurking beneath the surface sprang out in desperation to escape elimination.
But their efforts were in vain.
Malevolent Slaves scoured the ground, hungrily seeking bone magic. They found them in abundance in the bones of the deceased and devoured them with ruthless efficiency.
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"I came to the right place after all. This is the ancient burial ground of Trogdol that I have looked high and low for. Thanks to you I found this elusive place", I said to Kolgane and thanked him.
I heard stories from Gagarine that there was a sacred place near the Valley of Death that housed the tomb to the ancients of Trogdol kingdom. Millions of dead people and their bones were buried here for worship by the Trogdol kings.
However, this ancient tomb or grove was difficult to find. Until now.
"No, you will not desecrate our sacred grove", Kolgane protested to me angrily.
"Your bloody bloodline shall end today, Kolgane", I told him.