"Michael, the False Familiar!?"
Michael crooks a brow up at the large man riding an even larger dragon, "That's what they call me, do you need something!? Cause' I'm kinda busy." he cockily says, gesturing at the corpses around him.
If it wasn't obvious, he was taunting them. If they fought intelligently against him, then he'd stand no chance. He couldn't fly yet, and they were hovering way out of his Blink Strike range, so he needed them to get into melee range before he could do anything to them... Plus, stalling them would allow him to regain more of his mana.
"YOU!" a man who seems to be an underling of the leader starts, but he stopped as the large man waves them off.
"I am Ralf Kaliker! Commander of the Twenty-Second Unit of Albion's Dragon Knights! I have read about you, False Familiar. So I ask, Why have you decided to attack this town!?"
Michael's brows almost reach his hairline as he hears this, this guy had read about him? Even then, what was written that'd make this guy ask such a question? "If you've read about then you'd know! But I doubt those 'Oh-So-Noble-Cunts' would write anything truthful, even if it killed them!" he loudly retorts, causing a few of the dragon knights to grit their teeth at this man insulting their lords.
"If it's the Reconquista leadership that you hold a grudge against, why not attack them instead of these innocents!" Ralf asks, not understanding Michael's motivations...
Michael snorts, "These people, innocent!? They burned an innocent person to death! If they're innocent then I'm a saint." he cockily spreads his arms, "Bow down and lick my ass, for the grace of Brimir!"
Ralf scowls, as do his men who were waiting on his command to attack, "You would butcher these innocent people for a demon!?"
Michael laughs, "Fuck yeah I would! If that girl is a demon, then hell might as well be heaven! Like it matters anyway, you guys are still stuck on sucking the dick of some dead Hitler-wannabe... Ah, right, by that I mean, Brimir can suck my fat cock!" he shouts, realising they wouldn't get his reference.
Of course, this seems to finally cause a few of the Dragon Knights to lose their tempers, ordering their dragons to attack him while beginning to charge up their own spells.
The Dragon Knights numbered around twenty-five, not a huge number, but since all of these guys were mages that had dragon mounts, they were the elite of the elite when it came to Albion's army.
One dragon flies down towards Michael while another circles around nearby, ready to attack when it spots an opportunity. Their bodies were quite large, their height almost reaching the tops of the nearby buildings, so if Michael went into the more constrictive sections of the town they'd be completely unable to reach him... This didn't mean that Michael intended to do this, however.
Michael waits for the dragon as it charges him, swooping down like a reptilian hawk with its mouth wide open, ready to snatch him up in a single bite. The mage atop the dragon was also casting a spell, but he wasn't observant now knowledgable enough to determine just what that was.
Just as the dragon's about to reach him though. Michael uses Blink Strike and appears behind the rider, surprising the man as he drives his blade through his chest, and into the neck of the dragon, nailing the now-corpse there.
The dragon isn't instantly killed however, instead, becoming enraged at the sudden death of its rider and begins to flail around in a vain attempt to dislodge him.
Michael holds onto the embedded swords as the dragon flies over a couple of buildings before eventually falling. The dragon turns mid-fall however in an attempt to squash him between it and the building below...
Michael pulls the weapon out though and uses Pounce to escape as the dragon hits the building, easily crushing it beneath its weight. The dragon seems somewhat stunned by its rough landing however, allowing Michael to leap from the nearby rooftop and onto its soft underbelly.
His blade enters it, causing the great beast to give a pained roar, but it's unable to pull itself out from the building's wreckage to remove him as its wings were caught under some heavy rubble. It couldn't escape without tearing its wings off, allowing Michael to slowly drive the blade across its belly, disembowelling it as it struggle to fight back in vain.
With it now bleeding out, Michael leaps to another rooftop, only to be blasted straight right off of it with some sort of wind spell. "Ack!" he groans, already feeling the bruises start to form as he spins through the air.
He careens straight towards another building, his body crashing through a wall and flipping a couple times before he rolls to a stop... "Urrrgh..." he mutters as he slowly sits up, wondering if he could claim damage against that mage for whiplash... Only to realise that a family of peasants were staring holes at him... "Er, hi?" he awkwardly says, glancing around to see if his swords had made it into the building with him.
The answer was yes, it had, and was now embedded into the floor between the legs of who he assumes to be the father in this regular family...
"Y-you're that fuckin' elf lover." he growls, prying the sword from the ground and marching over to Michael. Raising it high and shouting "DIE!" as he tries to behead him...
Michael just slowly rolls to the side, however, his sheer agility making the man look as if he was in slow motion. He stands and sends a kick into the man's stomach, literally almost splitting him in half with it as he catches his sword out of the air. "Thanks for the assist." Michael remarks to the man's broken body as he brushes dust and splinters from his hair, all while ignoring the family's screams at their father's abrupt death.
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Michael was about to leave the home he'd unintentionally intruded into, but frowns when he realises that Shadow Dance wasn't working... He felt as if he'd busted a few ribs, so those idiots staring at him was only making his life harder, not that they knew about his ability of course.
Instead of running back out of the hole he'd made earlier, he turns around and heads downstairs and out the front door, becoming invisible once out of sight. His injuries automatically start healing once he was out of view of the family, allowing his broken ribs to shift themselves back into place in a rather nauseating fashion...
Once outside, he could see the many dragon knights all circling around the house he just exited, all of which were still out of range for any of his abilities. And unfortunately, it seems that they had some mages skilled in detection spells.
A ripple makes its way through the air in a similar fashion to the spell the scout team of dragon knights had used previously. Once the ripple makes contact with him, he could see a shift in the knights above him, letting him know that they were aware of his location. He was still invisible, but their spell suck to him like metaphysical glue, undoubtedly tracking his location at all moments.
Dark Pact would work here, but getting rid of the tracker wasn't really worth burning his flesh off... Especially since they'd likely just cast another one. Michael frowns to himself and disables his invisibility, allowing the knights to see him... Except, when he reappears, they're greeted by him standing peculiar stance while flipping them off. "I can this one, Praise the Fake-God Brimir!"
*THWWOOSH!*
Michael had the wherewithal to stay ready for a reactionary attack, allowing him to dodge to the side as a large ice spear buries itself where he was previously standing. He looks up at the knights who were furiously glaring down at him, the sides of his lips upturning, "Is this all Brimir's magic can do!? Gusts of wind and tiny ice-picks!? No wonder the elves killed him, he must've been a bigger joke than all of you combin-!" he's abruptly interrupted as he feels a sharp pain in his back... Only, the dragon knights weren't the ones responsible... It was the wife of the man who tried to stab him with his own sword from earlier...
"You fuckin' bitch!" he growls as she pulls back her knife for another stab, the woman shouting, "DO NOT FOUL BRIMIR'S GREAT NAME!" as she makes another attack... Only for Michael to easily sidestep it and bury his fist into her face... His Strength and Agility which were enhanced by his Gandalfr runes made themselves readily apparent as her head cracked open like a dropped ripe watermelon.
"MAMA!" some kids shout from behind him, but he couldn't muster the focus to care as the dragon knights were swiftly descending on his position... While his insults against Brimir might not have aggravated them enough to make them act, his murder of an 'Innocent civilian' certainly was.
"YOU RABID ANIMAL! WE'LL PUT YOU DOWN FOR GOOD!" a knight roars as he rapidly swings his wand at Michael... Nothing happens at first, but just as this thought occurs in Michael's mind, the ground begins rumbling.
He leaps backwards as the ground spins like an upturned revolving door, only for the phenomenon to follow him as he avoids each one. Michael knew that getting caught by one might feel like getting stuck in a wood chipper... By the time he avoided the fourth revolving earth trap, the knight's dragon was already upon him.
Its head was a meter away and was about to chomp down on him, he could use Blink Strike to avoid it, but he decided to try out Tricks of the Trade first. "Tricks of the Trade!" he whispers, feeling his body literally disappear, but his consciousness remains in the same spot. The peculiar feeling of a dragon passing through his 'not-body' soon occurs, but he just ignores it and instead observes the strange phenomenon happening instead.
All the air in a couple meter circumference from where he'd disappeared had begun to shimmer slightly, almost ominously. The dragon and its rider were unaware of it when they charged into it, but soon realised their mistake when metallic whirs sounded out.
Flashes of silver appear behind both the knight and the dragon, cutting into the flanks in random locations. The tip of the dragon's tail was severed, and the butt of the knight now had a large slice running along it, causing the man to shout out in pain.
But, just as soon as Tricks of the Trade started, it ended, with Michael reappearing where he'd vanished a second or two after the spell was initially cast. He was a bit disoriented at suddenly having control of his body again... Or even having a body, but his opponents were far more confused than he was.
Additionally, using Tricks of the Trade had rendered him invisible again, as his disappearing act seemed to count towards 'being unobserved'... This didn't remove the tracker however, leaving him in the exact same situation as last time.
Unfortunately, his enemy wasn't fighting alone, so as soon as he reappeared he had to pounce away in order to avoid the barrage of spells shot at him from above. They weren't using any large-scale or fire-based spells for obvious reasons, which made it relatively easy to avoid, but it was still him against a small army of dragon knights...
He twists and turns through the spellfire, and eventually backtracks towards the knight who'd been baited to attack him. He Blink Strikes behind the man and holds his sword up to his throat after knocking his wand to the floor, causing the spellfire to stop in order to avoid his hostage. "Not so cocky without wood in your hand..." he pauses at how strange that sounded before shaking his head and continuing. "Fly this dragon up to your buddy's or I'll carve my name into your forehead!..."
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