While the shadow king was in hell, Lyndanim used the shadow kings demons and soldiers, as well as his secret police ,along with her own dark followers throughout the lands of night ,to ferret out as many dissidents as possible ,men and women who had been deemed to show disloyalty, had been rounded up and imprisoned, some had been publicly executed, many of these poor unfortunate souls had been innocent ,some had been guilty of nothing more than a passing remark ,of how things had been different when the old king had been in power .
Lyndanim was delighted in the suffering and unrest, that this caused the people of the lands of night, she reveled in each death, and with her death magic collected energy from each violent death that occurred , the more death energy she acquired the closer she would come to reaching her true goal , when she had enough death energy she would use it to release her master from his prison ,and then the universe would tremble.
For many years ,there had been people who believed and lived in hope ,that the true king would one day return and reclaim his throne .
The agents of the dark legion ,over the years had carefully fostered this belief, where ever they could .
Many people who's loyalty still lay with the true king, had now gone into hiding .
The dark elves ,loyal to the true king helped to hide as many as they could .
Soldiers of the shadow king could be seen everywhere patrolling city streets , agents of the secret police would frequent taverns and other public places,large gatherings were discouraged , the general populace, had become increasingly fearful of strangers and hurried home after a day's work , reluctant to talk to anyone who they didn't know well ,many were fearful of being accused and arrested.
After the return of the shadow king from hell , he commenced a massing of his troops and equipment, getting ready to invade the Goblin world, the first stage of conquest would soon be underway ,soon portals would be opened to the Goblin world ,for the transport of troops and equipment .
The shadow king and Lyndanim would lead their armies, and the invasion of the Goblin world would begin in earnest .
The shadow king would soon begin his campaign to conquer all the known worlds, starting with the Goblin world , he must conquer the Goblins,before he could move on to the next world he wished to conquer.
The earth with it's large population was the main prize , all the souls on earth would fall under his control.
Lyndanim had assured him that with the fall of each world ,it would enable him to grow his power, and this would help him to become a god .
Ardin Shadowbrook , was lost in madness that was created by Lyndanim she had been whispering in his ear for more than a thousand years , and he remained blissfully unaware that he was firmly under the control of Lyndanim.
The shadow king thought to himself that he could not fail ,Lyndanim had foreseen the future , she had promised he would be a god, and then he would become an unstoppable force , once he became a god, with Lyndanim at his side he would become a king like no other , he would be a god, he would even conquer hell it's self , as well as all the gods , all will tremble before him , the shadow king would become the God king , he would crush his enemies so that no one could challenge him, he would then rule the universe forever.
Ardin Shadowbrook chuckled to himself, it was only a matter of time he thought , soon he would rule everything, but first he would make Lyndanim his queen , she was the only one who he trusted, and he believed that she would be the perfect queen, a partner with whom he could rule the universe with.
With these thoughts in mind he had called Lyndanim to his side, and asked her for her hand in marriage believing that it was all his own idea , he had no inclination that she had been manipulating him for years, she had put the idea in his mind, and made certain that he believed he was in control over everything ,she had made him a puppet and he had no idea of it .
Word of the impending marriage of the shadow king to Lyndanim had spread across the whole of the lands of night , the wedding was to take place at the palace in a weeks time .
News of the upcoming wedding, and the massing of troops and equipment readying for the invasion of the Goblin world ,had reached the ears of some of the spies of the dark legion ,and the information had been passed on to Ninx the commander of the dark legion , who informed his friend and master Zachary, Vincent Aldridge the one true king of Vampires of what was happening in the lands of night .