Dark Age Legends

[Dude Man]

Marshall followed Ein to their destination.

"Well, I guess so." Marshall said to Ein. "Haraldur or Tesla can replace my armour and my gun. Besides some scumbags messed around with it, and I have no idea when it will explode in my face next time it fires."

Marshall removes his armour, and slip the new clothing over his old ones. He put the gun and his armour in the wardrobe. He slipped his amulet under shirt. "I'm going to keep this with me, it's irreplaceable now that the Blue Minotaur are gone."

[Zeros']

Zeros' looked at tha maul as it swung for him. He didn't move, but responded to his companion.

"Yes, yes... And no. He hasn't going berserk yet, if you must know," he said, while ducking under the maul. He brought up his left forearm and put it on the maul, hoping to send the mail off-balance.

His other hand came off the sword hit and charged a ball of energy in it. He then shoved it towards Horus.

[Burton_projects]

Nick stoped as the door closed and turned around to face Kronos. "It's not about money any more it's revenge. I can bring you my strength, my stealh, my speed, and many demonic abilities." Nick now looked at Kronos with more intensity. "My one cuase at this moment....and that is to bring down the Asypes." Nick folded his arms and leaned against the wall. "So what do you say?"

[D. Ein]

//Zeros', the maul was not going from left to right - more like from up down on Zeros', just letting you know\\

The maul slammed into the ground. Horus tossed it aside. His opponents were treating him as a pest, nothing more. Not satisfactory.

He did not have time to dodge the energy ball shoved at him by Zeros'. The glyphs on his armour seemed to absorb it as well, further lightening in shade.

It seemed to Horus that these fleshy creatures did not understand the power of converted tissue... of converted souls, countless of which were circulating through him as nothing but power. Well, time to amaze them, then.

His armour began to unfold - the plates of the strange stone were being shoved aside, as if with a hiss. The deploying armour exposed metal poles serving as bones, tubes with glowing purple liquids running through them, strange ball-like structures for joints, and other things that these people could not possibly comprehend. The largest plate over his stomach moved away, exposing the Conversion engine.

In the same manner as the rest of the armour, the conversion chamber began to unfold. As it moved, incredibly bright light poured from the formed fissures. Just when the first ray of light broke out, the rest of the machinery in the remaining body parts started to do the same thing - they unfolded, letting more light out.

All the passive energy, accumulated by Horus from countless victims, started to seep out of the mechanism, along with the light. No matter how much armour people were wearing, no matter what kind of a ward or shield they would use, they were completely unprotected against it. This kind of arcane power was only helpful to Horus. It was deadly for anybody else who would encounter it.

//No time to update others. I'll do that later.\\

[Trent]

"What the hell is that?" asked Xenai.
"Something I should probably stop. Aura, do-" "No!"
They all looked at Zion, who then spoke. "That energy, it's too dangerous. Hold onto that attack. It's incredibly impressive, I'll give you that. But if you get near that energy, it will probably kill you. I'll let you know when to use it. For now... Stay away from it."

The four of them obeyed and stood there, watching the energy closely. Tsu held onto the swirling ball as long as he could.

[Dude Man]

"Hah, well that's good to know. Generally I don't trust demons, nor does Zeus and the others, which is sort of why I am here, if you catch my drift. Ha ha." Aegidius says to Zeros'. Apparently they slightly knew each other from the past.

"Now, anyways. I don't think this thing should be taken so lightly, it may be a machine, but I sense that it's got a mind of it's own."

The angel then flung forward his free hand, a dark blue glow surrounded his hands, and soon a visible array of rings blasted from his hands, flying towards Horus. If they hit he would greatly slow down for a small period of time (how ever many posts you want, as long as it's not less then 1)

After he fired the spell he then covered himself with a light green sheild of energy.

//Cookie goes to the person who guesses what DA Magic Spells those were. With the clues I put in, you're a fool if you don't get this, even if you haven't played Dark Age.\\

[D. Ein]

//

No matter how much armour people were wearing, no matter what kind of a ward or shield they would use, they were completely unprotected against it.

Damn it, DM! and you said you read ALL the posts...\\

The rings coiled up around Horus, however, without much point. He was not moving anyway, simply radiating the energy piled up inside him. The deeper parts of the mechanism started to leak, too... the area of effect was expanding, crawling forward, very slowly.

[Dude Man]

//The sheild was not blocking the attack, he merely made it to protect himself from other attacks, so next time he gets attack I won't have to dodge it or get hurt, but just for one hit, to be fair.

Anyways, I was confused with your light ray attack, it seemed like he was charging up an attack on my first read, and when I reread it, it kind of just seemed like he was just doing some fancy light show, but I understand now. (It's energy polluting the air.)\\

"Arrg, great Hades, this is exactly why I came here." Aegidius complained, as the energy was blasted at him. "Zeros', we better back up a bit, this thing is tough."

(Come on guys, we gotta have a fair fight here.)

The angel kept his shield around him, to protect him from any attacks that he'd shoot at him. He flapped his wings, and began to fly upwards.

Duilin overheard the angel and flew up in the air as well. Duilin's mace and his left hand had a yellowish glow and small bolts of lightning spinning around.

Rink is further away, and lying on the ground, so he should be safe from the light ray.

"Excuse me, young demonic one. Might I ask that you stay out of the way? You see, this official Olympus Elite Guardian Business, would you mind telling your friends over there the same?" Aegidius asked Duilin, with a grin.

"Okay, one, I'm not young I'm thirty-six." Duilin said back to the angel with a glare.

"Oh wow, really? For a human, you don't look a year over twenty-eight."

Duilin rolled his eyes but ignored the comment, he was aware that his demonic life span made him look slightly younger then he was. "And two, no, I was here first, and I was just doing fine until you showed up. You know, it really pisses me off when people pop up out of nowhere and start attacking either me or even my enemy when I'm in a fight."

"Hmph, have it your way." Aegidius then shot a light cyan laser from his left hand, at Horus, aiming right at the source of were the light was coming from, the Conversion engine.

Duilin continued to charge energy, and Rink continued to rest on the ground.

[D. Ein]

The cyan laser entered the energy field and was quickly dispersed among the entire area, only making the field stronger. The Conversion engine continued to spew out the wasted energy, but it seemed it was running out. The clogged mechanics were becoming clean again, and it would most likely take a lot of victims to clog it up to this level again. It still, however, radiated the deadly energy over the entire area. The remaining trees simply seemed to burn down, without a fire.

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Ein looked back at Marshall.

-"Yes, we need some sort of means of self-defence. I have my crossbow, but I might not be able to defend you if we get separated, so it's best to keep the amulet either way."

He noticed another citizen walking in their general direction. Ein caught up with him.

-"Excuse me, do you know where I could find an allocation officer?"

The person chuckled.

-"Why, at the allocation office. However, it's break time there, and it just happens that I am an allocation officer myself. I understand it would be hard to tell the symbol apart, through this horrid fog. It's never been this thick before..."

Another passer-by joined in.

-"Yes, I hear it's because the Lord got some sort of a new weather-controller device. I suppose we'll use that to our advantage in the upcoming war with the Crimson Continent."

While they were talking, Ein noticed a small golden pendant on the first person's chest. It looked like a stylized watch. Probably the allocation officer symbol. He, however, still had a question.

-"Yes, I'd like to find a person. Amaya was her name."

The officer turned back to Ein.

-"Alright, just follow me to the office."

Ein was already about to leave, but then he remembered he forgot Marshall behind.

-"Hey, uhh... Darion! Come on!"

---

"What an amusing fellow I've got to deal with...

-"What do I say? Well."

So he isn't joining for the paycheck, but for access to my armies, so he can take down the Aspyes. Ah well, it's still a common goal.

-"Alright. For now, you can be sided with us. We will send armies to crush the Aspyes like the bugs they are, and you may be lucky enough to command the assault on them. However..."

I searched around in the folds of my robes. Ah, there it is. I pulled out a ceremonial dagger, once used by Skorn himself.

-"...if you fail, expect no mercy. Also, right now you are but an ally. If you wish to truly join the Kandarian Sovereignty, you must prove your dedication to our cause."

[Ulmec]

Ulmec had finally asked Huget and he agreed to switch the Orc-stone with his human stone. From then on his goblins were unafraid of everthing. The entire island was turning into a large fort. The foundation at the plateu was complete and some goblins returned from the the ruins of the grey empire with plenty of supplies, all is going as planned.

[Burton_projects]

" Well thanks....but i don't need to be shown mercy i've been to hell and back. The is no mercy in war...." Nick unfolded his arms and opened the door leaving the courtyard. He quickly moved to the market area. " Hmm, need some new blades..." He saw a blacksmith. " Hello fine blacksmith..."

The gruff man looked over at him. "Aiye young lad."

"Who you calling young!" Nicks veins poped out and he held him arm to keep from killing the man. "What ever old man, give me your finest swords."

"Aiye lad." The man went into a back room.

Nick waited for five minutes untill the man came back out. "How much?"

"How much for what young lad." The man looked at him puzzlingly.

"Two of your finest swords......."

"Oh 2000 gold coins for each."

Nick slaped his face. " I don't have that much." He said to himself. "Maybe some other time old man..."

Nick heard two men talking about some jail break in Qim (if i'm not mistaked) "Wonder why that Kronos guy didn't do anything about it....or did he?"

[Trent]

The four slowly backed away from Horus...  Xenai frowned, then pulling Eternity Weapon out of Hammerspace ((Yes, that's where he keeps it.)) One, it was an object, not living. Two, it was protected by its own dark energy. This totaled together, it would not be affected by the hazardous energy field.

"Xenai, what the hell are you doing?!" Why Zion would cuss here would never be known.
"Take this, pal!" He held the large sword by the hilt, and launched it forth toward the energy converter, twisting his hand a little bit to put some spin on it. The large sword was now flying toward the converter like a spinning dart.

[Zeros']

// Actually, my post still works... If it was coming down at him, he could duck and absorb the impact and then knock it off-balance. He might be really powerful, but he can still be off-balanced. \\

The second Horus had started to convert the energy, Zeros' had backed away a sufficent distance. He studied the air and the machine from afar, looking at Horus as he charged...

Effectively, Horus was immoble, at least until he stopped charging the energy. If anyone was to get close to him, they would probably die from the energy he was radiating... But, if any energy attacks were thrown at him, they would only be absorbed...

Which left...

Physical attacks.

"Guys... We need to hit him with physical attacks... Anything containing any sort of magic or ki will be immediately absorbed and converted to energy... But, the problem is, that energy is highly violate to anyone, but that man down there," he said, pointing down towards Horus.

He looked down at his sword and frowned. He could possibly throw it, but it was one of his most prized possessions. It would - of course - reform, but it took awhile and it also took his own energy to do that.

He then blinked and smacked his forehead and groaned. How could he have forgot! He had been relying too much on his ki and magic lately. He slowly crossed his right arm over his chest and slashed downwards at Horus.

From where his arm slashed, a highly compressed vaccum blade flew at him. It contained no sort of energy that Horus could use to convert. It had no ki or magic in it. It was simply a construct of highly compressed natural air and energy.

And since, he pondered, the natural air and energy of the planet isn't being absorbed - at least not from what I can tell - this attack shouldn't benefit him...

[D. Ein]

//10 woots to Zeros' for explaining the nature of the energy. Couldn't've put it better myself.\\

The zooming sword hit the Converter, slightly scraping it on the outside, but not doing much damage on the inside. The Weapon, however, still managed to cut a random purple tube open. Dark purple liquid gushed out, melting right through the ground where it hit. Moving at momentum, the sword went through Horus and was stuck in the earth just behind him.

The vacuum blade greatly threw Horus off. He could not identify the attack's nature, so he made little attempt to dodge it, hoping it wouldn't do much damage when it hit. The blade struck him at the tip of his outstretched arm, moving upwards to the shoulder. Most of the armour plates in the attack's path were sliced off, each dulling the attack just a little. In the end result, when the blade reached his head, it lost most of its momentum and evaporated.

The energy being let out had a certain threshold. When enough radiation was let out (radiation as a different word for energy... not the X-ray type), it engaged in a chain reaction, completely melting every carbon-based lifeform in the area. By the looks of it, Horus had just enough wastes left to reach that threshold...

The Conversion engine continued venting, further advancing the deadly field. Now dead birds were dropping right out of the sky, falling around Horus.

--- --- ---

//Burton: the districts of Kandarin are as follow:
1. Jovil, the capital. This is where Nick is right now, and where the main palace is located. There's also a small port there in a tightly guarded bay.
2. Qim, the industrial region. Here are located a number of ports, as well as factories, and some storage yards.
3. Sizri, the magic research centre. The Kandarinian "superweapon" (The Enigma complex) is located here, as well as all sorts of magic... er... thingies. Yeah.
4. Undecimus, the military coalition. This place contains large military installations, barracks, as well as prisons. This is where the jailbreak took place. It is also where Ein and Marshall are, and it is surrounded by high walls and eleven towers (Undecimus means eleventh in Latin, which I study at school).

Also, you may have already known, but just to avoid confusion: Kronos sent out an armed apprehension squad to capture the prisoners, as well as a nice legion of 400 orcs, complete with OMG T3H Gattling guns.\\

As Nick turned away, the merchant's face changed from "I-don't-give-a-damn-about-anything-as-long-as-it-doesn't-concern-me" to "holy-crap-what's-wrong-with-me". He quickly called Nick back.

-"Oh! Aren't you the new ally our Lord informed me of? Yes, I can see it's you!"

He was beaming.

-"Here, look at these beauties." The merchant took out two beautifully ornamented silvery katanas. The part where the blade met the hilt had a stylized bird sign on it - the unmistakable Kandarinian crest.

-"Compliments of the Lord."

[Dude Man]

"Oh, bloody hell..." Aegidius groaned. "Well, I'm out of ideas. I can't get to close sadly, I don't want to risk it."

"So much for your official Olympus Elite Guardian Business!" Duilin laughed.

"Well, what are you going to do? It's not like you would last any longer in that fog of death then I would." Aegidius snapped back.

"Oh stop fighting." Rink mumbled finally getting up. "It's about time I do something."

The imp walked over to a brick that was formally part of the Bandervil fortress. He then flapped his wings, until he was about fifteen feet into the air. Despite his size, he had a surprisingly good throwing arm. "Hey dog-head, CATCH!" Rink then swung his arm back and chucked the brick right into the Conversion engine...

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"Oh um." Marshall lowered his voice. "Uhh, yeah. I'm uh, coming."

Marshall then stepped off and followed Ein and the other person. He was pretty uncomfortable since, he wasn't to sure what he was doing and he was scared that they may get caught. Never the less, he followed them.