//I give up...\\
Suddenly, as the mages were finished doing whatever it was they were doing, all the undeads fell. A small black transparent blob of something erupted from each of their chests, and flew off into the distance.
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"This battle no longer had point. Vincent was seemingly convinced that my efforts were genuine, and that is all that this battle was intended for. I released the souls of the undeads, which were powering them individually, and gathered them all up. In the distance, I ordered my servants to gather up the deactivated boneyards and bring them back to Kandarin. I slowly opened my eyes...
...discovering the hulking shock troop over my head.
-"Magnot? What are you doing here? How'd you gain independent conciousness in the first place?"
This was either my early mistake, or someone else is tampering with my force lines. Of course, this would be crucially important to investigate, but not under these circumstances. I forcedly wretched the giant's soul from him. The purple glow inside him slowly dimmed, and vanished...
I noticed the man not far away from my position //that means you, TKGB\\. I stood up, and yelled out:
-"You! If you value your very soul, you will forget what you see here!"
As I was saying that, the souls of the undead mages became vividly visible on the horizon. I waited for them to gather into one orb of pure blackness in my palm, and threw down into the ocean. This is the closest to a burial those troops will ever get...
Without any second thoughts, I propelled the platform I was standing on towards Kandarin. On my way, I channeled my remaining power to the warriors in the Blue Minotaur temple."
//TKGB, I would've had a longer conversation with your guy, but you don't post as much, so that would've been somewhat difficult. If you want, though, Quadricentennial could follow Kronos or something.\\
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Steorra quickly hopped off the ship, and fully spanned her wings, gliding over Vincent. She caught up with him, and leveled herself with him, to a comfortable speaking position.
-"Sir, after you left, those undeads seemed to deactivate. Just in case you hadn't noticed..."
A concerned look appeared on her face.
-"You know... this seems exceptionally ironic. I mean, here I am, a Light sorceress, and we just happen to ally with an undead army. If I wanted to, I could've annihilated all of them without any effort. Light and heat are very effective against zombies alone, but combined they would indeed be the perfect weapon against that army. Makes you think that someone is messing with our fate..."
Her casual look was back.
-"Anyway, as I was saying. Kronos has released the undeads from his rule by taking back the energy he used to power them. Essentially, he stole their souls. Now, this was a very lage army, and for him to dispose of it just like that - that's just... I don't know... un-warlike. Perhaps he has achieved whatever his goal was? If so, then we should soon perpare for an even larger impact... Large or not, I somehow doubt that this is the last we've seen of him."
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Ein, somewhat relieved by Marshal's well-being, was still pretty pissed.
-"What the hell does it look like? There's a big fuckin' cage around me, and I can't break free! ARGH!"
He made another pitiful attempt to break free, by banging on the bones that made up the "bars" of the cage. Although obviously uneffective, this seemed to calm him down.
-"This is an incredible warding spell. Nothing so far has worked against it. Whoever made this certainly knew their stuff... Marshal, it seems we've got another major player in town."
He turned around, then back to Marshal.
-"Listen, whatever you do, you do NOT want to go outside. Last I was out there, there were people all over the place. Your best chances are to run deeper inside, and hope that your folks made some sort of a secret escape route. Anyway, don't worry about me - run!"
Zombies were closing in on Marshal.
