Sorcerers of Avalon were making their way towards a particular direction. The surge of magic was unreal.
One of the sorcerers cast a spell to see from afar, scoping out the area of disturbance. What he saw was something that they have never seen before!
There were so many archfiends that moved like an army fighting a pair of dragons! one of them seemed to use the element of wind or more like commanded it, as dragon looked human, but the arms and legs said otherwise!
There was another dragon that was heavily armored and long. It looked like a giant centipede as it burrowed underground after eating a few Archfiends, but back to the task at hand, he had to report this to the mistress!
The blonde-haired woman leading them heard the report they could join in, but why put themselves at risk when the two groups can tire each other out?
They could do the silent method. However, where was the fun in that her hunger for revenge often blinded her and made the worse choices, but thanks to being with her 'bloodhounds' for some time, she had some attachment towards them, so she was making better choices now, they were stronger now thanks to the number of archfiends and monsters they had hunted.
They failed to find the target, but there was still some progress as the sliver of the target's magic seemed to be connected to the flock of archfiends as if to command them to control them!
Having this idea added to their information and the two greater archfiends that made them suffer, it might have been the one called Bahamut. They haven't heard of anything about it for the past five years. The stories about it were pretty frightening. It further got solidified by the unnatural gathering of archfiends that were considered its kin and concubines.
There were three ways for an archfiend to come about. First was a natural growth, meaning that a fiend growing into an Archfiend, second corrupting a sorcerer to become a doppelganger of one lastly breeding yes, archfiends can breed as any male archfiend can interbreed with female ones.
That was something that was proven by some unlucky sorcerers that got to see that foul sight for both breeding and sudden birth during a battle.
This was another reason why sorcerer doppelgangers are made as they tend to be easier to breed with compared to the older archfiends.
One of her bloodhounds inquired since she was her sub-leader and was familiar with her tactics they were more than willing to attack now despite the dangers that's how much they feared William and how loyal they were to her.
"Shall we attack them from afar mistress? or shall we-."
The Blonde woman cut her words off by shaking her head then said.
"No, we shall wait for them to weaken there is no sign of our target yet so there might be a chance it will appear later so we will wait to maintain our strength until then, is that understood?"
Smiles formed on her bloodhounds' faces as their mistress had grown again this was a good thing after all she had another secret that they were all aware of, thus, following the rewards will be greater when the time comes.
RRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
The battle between the dragons and army of archfiends grew more intense but the sibling of Sortiara smiled excitedly at the prospects of receiving the one thing that she desperately wanted even if it meant the lives of so many to make that one wish come true...
She then looked towards the ongoing fight as the concentration of magic was slowly becoming alluring for her and her bloodhounds she will prove to the world soon that Soltiere wasn't some 'thing' to be tossed aside because a mother being bored of her!!!
----the Archfiend leader pov----
There was a time that we were mindless monsters struggling day to day to survive, we were weak, weaker than the archfiends, weaker than sorcerers, our kind hunted like pests just because we migrated to their lands unintentionally.
We stayed clear of humans and sorcerers alike but the actions of 'gargoyles' made them assume that we were the cause of the destruction left by the one mentioned earlier.
We suffered bitterly by both sorcerers and archfiends alike then the dragons came along, ruining our homes and our lives, even more, many of us despaired nearly gave up, no, we did... we gave up as it was too much.
That was until one stood up against all of this, and he showed the world his strength. He subjugated two of the greater archfiends granting his the title of the strongest.
He is our leader, our king. He shared his strength with us upon his birth, helped us grow in numbers, in power!
Then when our numbers reached past 10,000 the blasted gods banished him!
The one that would lead us!
The one that would FREE US!!
So we gathered our numbers, banded together! We wanted our king BACK!!!
Until five long tiring years had passed, we lost so many times and only managed to slay 3 of the 7 gods at the price of losing over 8000 of us. We were that desperate and became the temporary leader clinging to the hope that our king may return.
Many had given up again while I clutched to the hope that our king will return again bringing us to that glorious time...
Then after a few months, the familiar magic and calming feeling trickled into our bodies!
The knowledge, the way to get stronger, and the fury our king felt...!!!
He roared in anger for us!!
We returned the roar with our own!
We shall unite with the king!
And our vengeance shall make it rain with the blood of our enemies!!!
Damned sorcerers! Damned Traitors! Damned dragons! And most importantly, DAMNED GODS! We shall slay them all to ensure that our king shall not be banished again!
We will devour our enemies to the last.
"Ʉ₦₮łⱠ ₦Ø₮Ⱨł₦₲ ł₴ ⱠɆ₣₮!!!"
The survivors who were with me held a hand to their hearts and looked to the skies, and all recited the unfinished promised that our king showed us a glimpse of that we all wanted to reach.
Paradise.
"May our king lead us to the promised lands."
Our voices echoed through the lands before we began gathering our numbers again and hunted the dastardly dragons that entitled me and my kin an inferior species!
Right now we have killed one as did our king now there were two of them that were in front of us. I wonder how delighted our king would be if I delivered their heads to him?
There was a disturbing third group that was waiting to kill us when we are weakened but my kin didn't care as the flaring magic was coming from the very being that we waited so long for we doubled our efforts to show our king he hasn't wasted his efforts on us!
That we this time will be his swords that will cleave through his enemies!
As my kin that isn't here right now were growing our numbers, and we intend on surpassing the last number we had in the past so that our enemies would drown in terror of our numbers as it was over 7000 now half was coming here, and the rest were making new brothers and sisters.
The wind user and the centipede below prepare yourselves I will be claiming your heads!!!
Soltiere waiting to ambush the two groups when they are weaker.
A blindly loyal/crazed archfiend that acted as a leader in the absence of the king.
and Cu is finally arriving.
the question is... will he accept them? or not?
either choice what happens afterward either way?