"Apparantly, those woh wish our destruction are predominantly the former comrades of our leader, Haraldur, the one made up of ten. Hence our tatoos. One, Lars Draven, is Emporer of the Crimson Empire, and former High General in the Dark Empire. Haraldur himself was a High General in the Dark Empire, and a governor, of the Northen territories. In fact, he had been there even before the Dark Empire's existance, in the ancient Azure, Blue and Green Empires, although there were several others. We do not know why the feud.
"Then there is a group including a half demon half angel called Zeros', and a half demon half human called Duilin, and an imp called Rink. In fact, your two friends were involved with that group quite a lot, sometimes at the same times as Haraldur was. Maybe they could answer any questions you may have. Apparantly, they also seem not to like our leader very much, and what is more, Haraldur himself does not seem to know why that is.
"It seems that mostly we are being attacked because of who our leader is, although, as I say, their emnity towards him he does not, and certainly do not, understand.
"Are we vulnerable. Apart from you, no. This is because it is absolutely impossible to enter at the place we came from, without killing our leaders first. I expect that is the point, he wants to protect us. I would have said it was absolutely impossible to enter, but for you, however, I have no expectation of anything similar happening again, so we are safe as long as our leaders live."
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Through the pond, they could see that there was a large force in the distance. It seemed to me mostly comprised of flying ships.
Haraldur grinned as the sight moved to be directly above the force. He picked up a stone from the ground, and skimmed it accross the pond.
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Down where the ships were, sudden craters suddenly appeared in the water, which then shot huge quantities of water upwards. There were five of them. The fourth one to appear (they were all in a straight line going in the same direction. What caused them was unseen) was directly underneath a ship, of medium size. It was knocked out of the air, and broken into splinters, before the wreckage was then sucked down into the deep.
There were some 5 survivors clinging to various barrels and tables.
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Haraldur smiled and then shouted into the pond, sticking head in, so that it was visible from the ships as a huge head floating in the sky, the size of a large cloud. His words were, "We regret to inform you the nation of Aspyes is not as yet open for visitors! Begone, trespassers, you have entered our territorial waters."
He lifted his head out again, water dripping from his face. The sight moved away from where his head had appeared, just in case.
