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Chapter 685: Burning Loyalty

"FOR THE HIGH KIN-AHAHAHHHRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!"

The stone hands reach up and grab the legs of the Skyrim soldiers just as the fire above them descends. They scream as their clothing becomes scorched and their flesh burns, quickly leaving behind only ashes in their wake.

The few soldiers who were smart enough or too cowardly to stay ahead of the chargeback away, realising just how fragile they are in this situation. Surtr only wanted to go search for Miraak, but with the state of his forces, he was required to stay and fight or risk becoming outnumbered...

Thankfully, Medusa slithers forwards and unleashes a volley of arrows into the air, which fly up high before plummeting down on top of the Halkeginian mages. Some conjure shields to block them, but only the most powerful were able to withstand a single arrow, let alone a dozen.

"'King', why don't you make yourself useful elsewhere." she drawls and points a finger over the horizon where a dozen or so dragon were now approaching from.

"You can handle them, snake! Miraak is my target!" Surtr spits back.

"I can, but I won't. Go fight the dragons or lose this war, 'Dragonborn'."

...

Surtr grits his teeth but relents, knowing that someone had to deal with the dragons. Illococoo and Charlotte were already trying to draw their attention, but the enemy was too smart to be swayed by that for long. He summons his own dragons and flies into the sky, leaving Medusa and the others to deal with the ground forces.

"He's gone, go." she hisses over her shoulder, allowing Anti-Mage, Wei, and Silencer to all start making their way towards the tower that Louise had been standing on. This was the place most likely to hold Miraak, along with his other strongest soldiers.

Just as they leave however Medusa's Mana Shield ripples as a large lightning bolt strikes it, and a mage with long white hair, grey eyes, and wand strides down from the sky as if walking upon invisible stairs.

"Your fight is with me, creature. My name is Loutiel Outous Noble of the new Halkeginian Empire. Prepare to-" he starts but isn't able to speak anymore as Medusa's eyes flash and instantly turn his body to stone. His magic deactivates and his body falls to the ground and shatters, permanently killing him.

"Pathetic." she drones, not even taking another glance at the stone remnants that were once the mage. Instead, she turns her attention to a nearby building which had blurs of black speeding out from it. The small army stops in a formation in front of her, a litany of weapons covering their bodies as a strange rune glows on the backs of their left hands.

"FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR OUR MASTER!" they shout in chorus, forcing a sigh out of Medusa's mouth.

"Do they train you to be fools or were you merely born this way?" she asks in mild confusion, this doesn't stop her casting of a Mystic Snake however, which lashes out and goes straight through the chest of the closest warrior, killing him as it arcs the next.

They speed out of the way and gain just enough distance that the spell doesn't bounce to any more targets, only killing the two. The others all rush forwards and attack Medusa, only to find their weapons clashing uselessly against her Mana Shield...

"The weakest chattel is butchered first." she boredly remarks as she raises her bow, the action completely safe behind her Mana Shield despite the many magically enhanced solders hammering away at it.

Her bow fires like a shotgun, shooting tens of arrows in point-blank range directly into the faces of the unfortunate pseudo-familiars. They drop like puppets with their strings cut, their bodies disintegrating under the godly force of her attacks.

With those weaklings dealt with, she turns her attention to the crowd of mind-controlled people of Ravenrock that were staring apprehensively at her. "If you won't begin, allow me."

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The trio of Anti-Mage, Wei, and Silencer sprint through the open door of the tower and come face to face with a number of Halkeginian earth mages. Each of them already casting their prepared spells.

Since it was the ground floor of the tower they had an absolute advantage here, though, with the slight risk of collapsing the rest of the structure if they weren't careful.

"Silence!" Silencer croaks, instantly removing all sound from around the mages, preventing them from casting their spells. He then throws his glaive at them, the thrown weapon lighting up bright blue before it hits the chest of the nearest target.

It spins and cleaves straight through their body before redirecting and spinning towards another. By the time the weapon flies back into Silencer's hand, all of the earth mages had been divested of their upper and lower halves.

"Come! We mustn't falter so close to our quarry!" Anti-Mage exclaims as they rush up to the second floor. The occupants were already aware of their presence from the screaming downstairs, but even then they weren't able to react as Anti-Mage and his apprentice Blink forward and slice the throats of the men.

This same thing continues for multiple floors, the defenders unable to do anything against the coordinated trio, their combination of Anti-Mage arts with Anti-Magic spells rendering any magic users completely helpless against them.

Even the powerful Halkeginian Nobles fell to them in their mad rush to ascend the tower, and soon enough they breach through a door and come face to face with three figures... A bearded man with blue hair wearing luxurious robes, a busty woman with pink hair in white priest robes, and a masked man wearing armoured robes and wielding a peculiar dark green blade.

"You've come... But without Surtr...? Have you decided to betray him? Or do you simply seek death?" Miraak questions with a drawl.


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Chapter 686: Silenced...?

"You've come... But without Surtr...? Have you decided to betray him? Or do you simply seek death?" Miraak questions with a drawl.

Anti-Mage jabs a glowing blue glaive-dagger at them, "There is no betrayal without loyalty first, we neither seek to serve you or him. Your vile magic must be put to an end, for the sanctity and peace of all." he growls.

"Heh, hear that Valliere? These three think they can stop us!" Joseph smarms.

"What can three peasants do?" Louise remarks as she points her wand at them, "As you don't follow the false-king, you must be Michael's. How do you cretins want to die?"

"Enough, both of you." Miraak grouses before pointing at Silencer, "You're the one who rid the world of sound earlier?" he asks despite already knowing the answer. At Silencer's nonresponse, the First Dragonborn just shrugs his shoulders and continues, "If you won't join me willingly, do not blame me for taking your choice away-"

"DOWN!" Anti-Mage shouts but doesn't have enough time to save everyone, so instead just pushes Wei out of the way.

"GOL HAH DOV!" Miraak shouts, enveloping both Silencer and Anti-Mage in the subsequent shockwave.

"Master!" Wei shouts as Silencer and Anti-Mage grab their heads and let out pained groans. She leaps to try and help him but is forced to block a green tendril that shoots from Miraak's weapon, throwing her into the nearby wall with a crack!

"You're both mine now... Kill the girl." Miraak orders as the duo continue to squirm and writhe with mental anguish.

Silencer's arms go limp as his head turns towards Wei, the girl's eyes widening as he mutters "Yes... Lord..." He raises his arm to throw his glaive but pauses when a hand grabs his forearm...

"Control yourself, Nortrom!" Anti-mage rasps while grinding his teeth, face still grimacing and twitching from the ongoing mental assault.

"That won't do." Miraak utters and uses Bend Will on them again, this time causing them both to scream out.

Wei Blinks forwards and tries to cut the masked man's head off but Joseph's form blurs and sends a lightning bolt at her. She blocks the attack with Counter Spell which sends it right back at him, but he deflects it with his wand and causes it to crackle against the nearby wall.

She Blinks once more, appearing at Joseph's back and making an attempt for his neck, only for his form to blur once more and duck under it. He points his wand at her chest as she's recovering from that rapid movements, and she's barely able to conjure her Counter Spell shield to catch the burst of wind that hits her.

Even with her magical resistance she rolls backwards through it, even so, she lands feet first and leaps off of the wall and continues her assault.

"You're not fast enough!" Joseph cackles, "Haste!" he casts on himself, causing his speed to quicken further, allowing him to easily dodge her attacks.

She wanted to use Mana Void on him but she severely doubted that he'd used enough Mana to render it a lethal attack. With how powerful the mage before her was, she had no doubt that he'd be able to heal or maybe even block it.

Wei glances over and spots her master trying to dodge Silencer's glaives, occasionally stumbling due to the ongoing mental assault from Miraak. He jumps once more but a large stone hits his legs, sending him tumbling to the floor.

*SLIIK!*

A glaive slices through Anti-Mage's robe and cut a deep wound across his right pec, he groans in pain but still resists. He catches the glaive that attempts to return to Silencer's hand and uses Mana Break on it, causing it to glow blue with anti-magic energies.

Silencer catches the weapon as it's thrown back but jolts in pain as a swathe of his mana reserves are cut simply from being in contact with it. Shaking his head, he casts a litany of curses at Anti-Mage which all begin ravaging his body... But, unbeknownst to Miraak and his slaves, Silencer was doing this in opposition to their orders...

Miraak crooks a brow as his new thrall casts curse after curse, some not seeming to do anything while others were just copies of those that'd been used earlier. "Stop. A slave needs to be alive, otherwise it's not worth keeping." he commands... But glances to Louise as Silencer keeps going.

Realising what was happening, Wei stops her assault on Joseph and begins fighting far more defensively.

"Come on! You came here to kill the Emperor, didn't you!?" Joseph taunts as he casts cantrips at her, his enjoyment for battle preventing him from discovering anything...

"I said, stop!" Miraak roars at Silencer which causes him to halt in place entirely... Anti-Mage, taking advantage of this Blinks forwards and dropkicks Silencer into Miraak's arms. Miraak's eyes widen as he sees the resolution in the enemy monk's eyes... "DOWN! MUL QAH DI-"

"DIE! MANA VOID!""MANA VOID!" both Anti-Mage and Wei shout at once while simultaneously activating their Counter Spell shields to the max.

*SHHHRKKKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!*

The entire top half of the tower erupts in a bright blue explosion that momentarily blinds anyone who was looking in its vague direction.

Huge stones and pieces of shrapnel fly away with at rail of smoke as the area fills with dust. The morale on the side of Miraak's soldiers all quickly fall as they realize what just happened... The tower where their master and his most powerful subordinates had been utterly annihilated by an unknown spell.

After a few seconds the dust slowly clears, revealing a huge see-through golden dragon that had its wings protectively wrapped around Louise and Joseph. Miraak controlled it from its chest, but he was looking far worse off than either of his slave mages.

His mask had been obliterated and allowed the explosion to horrifically scar his face, the only thing preventing his death, funnily enough, being the corrupted scales that'd grown during his time in Apocrypha.


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