ARRIVAL OF THE ARMADA
"Your magic will not affect us", Adept Shadow Conjurer Axe said to me defiantly.
Although my Upheaval affected many shadow conjurers, it wasn't very effective against the stronger shadow conjurers.
Axe rushed toward me with his powerful axe.
His axe quickly broke the ground in a tremor as his axe landed. However, his strike failed to hit me. I already evaded him.
Hammer managed to swing his enormous hammer on me flattening me completely. However, when he raised his hammer again, he realized what he flattened was only one of my Malevolent Slave who appeared to look like me.
Sword swung his sword to project massive waves of energy that could destroy everything along its path. But the sword waves missed me too.
"You cannot evade us forever. You have no way to harm us at all", Hammer screamed toward me to gloat.
Although I could evade the Adept Shadow Conjurers easily, I don't have a powerful magic to deal with them. My strongest magic was my divine weapon, the Chasing Blood Guillotine.
Suddenly, a long chain flew toward Hammer with a Bell attached to its end.
"Do you think you can use that against us? We are not those book worm elders that you killed", Hammer replied to me before his hammer smashed my guillotine and threw it off its course.
Earlier, I killed many elders of the Shadow Conjurers with my Chasing Blood Guillotine. However, those conjurers were the magic casting type and not really fighters, so they were easily killed by my guillotine.
The Adepts were in a completely different category.
Although Adepts were lower than the masters in shadow sect hierarchy, they were the Enforcers of the sect. They were the strongest fighters in the Shadow Sect which were loyal directly to the Grandmaster.
They were really quite tough to kill.
"The Conjurer Inheritance will not help you defeat us, traitor. It is not magic that can help you to fight against us", Grandmaster Morgren said to me suddenly.
Even though Seamus forced the Pillar of Supreme into me, I couldn't make much use of the magic yet. The magic of Order was a new source of magic that I could use but I don't know how to use it yet.
"You are correct. The Pillar of Supreme don't help me much yet", I replied to Morgren before I added, "but who says I need that magic to defeat you scums".
"You are being delirious. You cannot defeat us", Axe replied to me.
"This battle is over for you, Shadow scums", I said to the shadow conjurers.
Suddenly, the sky darkened as it was covered by enormous ships that were ugly and intimidating. These ships appeared like the faces of ghastly demons and their horns were rotated to point toward the ground.
"Zzzziiiiiinnnngggggg"
Powerful beams of laser were fired into the Supreme Hall of the Conjurer Court, aiming perfectly for the Adepts and those shadow conjurers who were still fighting.
These lasers were fired from our Behemoths, the strongest ships in the armada of the Southern Empire.
"Behemoths"
"What are these ships?" Grandmaster Morgren asked in surprise.
"You have left something out from your calculation when you invaded the Conjurer Court", I told the Grandmaster.
"What did I miscalculate?" Morgren asked me.
"You forgot that you are in the Southern Empire now. Do you think you can destroy a protectorate of the empire without any consequences?" I asked Grandmaster Morgren.
The laser fired from our Behemoth wasn't particularly devastating. They were only the equivalent in intensity to the Apostle's conjured sword beams.
But the strength of the laser from our Behemoth's particle cannons was their consistency and durability. When our laser locks on targets, the beams will fire continuously on its victims without giving them a chance to escape.
"What the hell are these irritating beams?" Sword asked angrily.
Although the Adept Shadow Enforcers were not fatally harmed by the laser, the laser interrupted their mobility and action.
Before the other Adepts complained, more ships arrived on the scene. More than a hundred Hell Tanks arrived to battle against the Shadow Conjurers.
With the arrival of the armada of the Southern Empire, the situation changed for the Shadow Conjurers. Although, they defeated the conjurers, many shadow conjurers were wounded and killed.
The remaining Shadow Conjurers couldn't continue fighting against the new forces that had just joined in the battle.
"I get it now. You are not working with the Conjurer Court. You are an agent of the new Emperor", Morgren said to me and pointed out before he added, "Why is the new Emperor protecting the Conjurer Court? Once our Shadow sect takes over the Conjurer Court we can still work together".
"We will not work with you scums. We will bring Order back to this world", I told Morgren.
"Don't be so hasty with your words, we are more alike than we are apart. The Southern Empire is not the harbinger of peace and prosperity to this world. Since you took over this kingdom, there is only suffering. Where do you think we gained so many new recruits and why will they join us if they are not miserable under your rule. Your rule is worse than the demon army", Morgren told me.
What Morgren said made some sense.
Although I planned to bring peace and prosperity to my kingdom, in reality it wasn't such a utopia. The cold scourge from the north and the heavy taxes from the Church and the devastation from the wars all drained the kingdom of needed resources for the people.
Our Rule wasn't perfect at all.
In fact, we were one of the causes that people like the Shadow Conjurers and places like the Pleasure Court would proliferate in the new empire.
"We will reflect on our weaknesses but first you shall all die", I said to the Shadow conjurers.
Suddenly, Axe, Hammer and Sword returned to the grandmaster's side.
Grandmaster Morgren raised both his hands to conjure a powerful dark magic. The sky was covered with enormous dark clouds which surrounded our ships.
To our shock and horror, many of those shadow conjurers on the ground were soon lifted into the sky. Long appendages emerged from the dark clouds to grab these people. These shadow conjurers were offerings to the dark realm.