Dark Age Legends

[Jenia]

Indher approached the fountain and splashed at her own sleepy expression, only to shake it all off soon after.

"Bah! Live here? I live nowhere yet. Not officialy anyway."

She sighed and blinked, removing her circlet to shake off more water.
The sudden change in her eyecolor caused some of the children to back off...
Except one. A brunette, blue eyed boy with an azure gem in his forehead approached her.

"Miss Indher, what happened to your eyes?"

She turned to look at him, confused at first. Reality soon struck her however, and a blunt strike it was.

"OH! Don't worry kid, these are my REAL eyes. This circlet makes them look normal so people wouldn't think I'm scary."

The children who backed off whispered among themselves, but then began to approach.
Before she knew it, a whole bunch of kids surrounded her.

"Hey, what's the big idea, kiddos?"

Silence.

She raised an eyebrow and returned her circlet to it's rightful place.
The gathering of kids soon scattered, leaving Indher alone again.

A sigh.

"Humans are so odd... And to think that we've built this entire city from scratch in less than a day!"

She turned to the mysterious man, chuckling.

"The former dead sure can be dedicated! Anyway, would you like a tour? I've worked enough for one day, but a walk will be nice."

[Mikado]

Heh.. former dead? Built in one day? This place is getting more fun with the moments!

Shuichi didn't look surprised, in opposite, he smiled when he heard those words, and looked even more interested.
"Hmm, a tour sure would be nice.. I have been working without break for some time now.. May I ask you what kind of "work" you do? And if I may; what kind of "work" do you do?"

[Dude Man]

"It's firing back!" Xarn's co-pilot shouted.

Xarn clenched his teeth as his ship was struck by the cannons, suffering moderate damage.

"The ship has been damaged!" The co-pilot announced.

"Why thank you, Captain Obvious!" Xarn snarled.

The co-pilot's facial expression dropped to one of mild embarrassment.

Xarn then throttled the Lightning Wyvern forward and then made a wide turn to avoid any continuing shots...

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An army of lizard men began rushing the Gros Morne Citadel, trying to see if they could take out the hart of the city. The lizard men however had a lot of trouble getting to close as Vanguards were positioned inside and were constantly shooting their mortars at the oncoming enemies.

However, a few of the veterans recognized these tactics from the Battle of Vandrin, and were and were able to take cover before the mortars landed near them and exploded.

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Nex summoned a fireball in his hands and punched 'Puco' who was running towards him. The earth-based clone was thrown back and burnt up from the flames.

Nex looked up at just right time to see Puco with a stalagmite in her hand falling towards him. Nex then rolled out of the way to avoid Puco landing on him. Just as he got up on his feet Sienna shot a series of dark energy rings which wrapped around Nex.

"You think your little 'curse' trick will work on me?" Nex sneered, breaking the rings. He then laughed and his sickles appeared in his hands, and he moved towards Sienna...

[D. Ein]

The Enlightenment rose further up into the sky. The cannons stopped firing, and retreated back inside the hull, to avoid depressurizing the hull. Suddenly, the clouds cleared for a minute or so, allowing a sun burst strike the prism in the middle of the ringship. The scientists on board of the ship quickly seized the opportunity, firing a somewhat weak solar pulse at the Lightning Wyvern. Meanwhile, the ship continued to rise, and the air continued to thin...

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The Vanguards continued raining death on the Lizard Man army. Soon, however, even the somewhat dim Vanguards realized that many of the Lizard Men were hiding behind the buildings and effectively shielding themselves from the mortar blasts. Jameron, the leader of the Vanguards, used his M-Grid orb to contact the Stalker Corps:

-"This is Vanguard Squad Six. Can you guys spare a ranged Stalker?"

-"Yes," replied the creepy whisper. "Paris is not doing much right now; he can be spared. Expect him in a few minutes."

The Vanguard put away the orb and packed his mortar away. Without hurrying much, he drew up a glyph on the wall of his fox hole in the Citadel, and left...

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The message hissed through Paris' M-Grid orb. Goddamn, he thought. Those Vanguards can lift 200 lbs with one hand, and they can't take on a bunch of stupid Lizard Men? He had more important tasks than going all the way up that Citadel, hiding out in their little fox holes and shooting Lizard Men from a distance, possibly injuring his perfect vision. Who was he to argue, though? He was just a humble Stalker, after all.

Paris took off from his hidden post in a half-ruined building, putting away his bow. He sprinted over to the Citadel, which was just a short distance away. The guards were missing from their posts, leaving the portal completely unguarded. Well, screw them.

The portal immediately took him to a foxhole, in which a Vanguard was already positioned. The brute noticed Paris, and grunted:

-"You're the help, huh... Certainly don't look like much."

-"..."

-"The quiet type, too?"

-"..."

-"OK..."

That Vanguard was not worth his speech. Paris tacitly took out his weapon - the Iron Wingbow - and his quiver. The Wingbow was a technological miracle, it seemed. In the Stalker Academy, when he was first shown the weapon, Aahzmandius decided to make a point with it. He invited a girl - a little, five-year-old girl - to try the bow. He held it up for her, and she pulled the string, with an arrow nocked in place. The bow was aimed at a dummy made fully of metal. The string itself pulled almost effortlessly, even in the child's hands. Once it got to a certain point, however, something inside the bow clicked - just clicked - and the arrow was released. The bolt pierced the dummy completely, through and through, and even damaged the wall behind it. In the hands of an expert, which Paris was, the weapon was beyond deadly. It could hit a squirrel's eye from a distance of three miles, not even fully notched.

He carefully held the weapon horizontally, in a true master's way, and aimed for a large lizard man crowd.

Click.

Several Lizard Men were impaled by one small, two foot-long arrow, falling to the ground immediately.

[Xorlak]

"Afterlife?"  Vincent raised a brow and looked at Kronos as if he were nuts, then quickly realized who he was talking to.  "I don't remember much at all besides waking up in someone's meat locker.  It wasn't quite dead, anyway..."

Before he could say another word, the ship rocked and shuttered.  It was evident the ship was taking some hits from The Enlightenment, which while a good thing, wasn't so good with them in it.  "Blast.  They'll ruin the core."

He dodged as a series of blasts whirred over his head, and the ground erupted in a green flame.  He ducked behind a pillar jutting from the side of the hallway as the lizards shot their explosive weapons, peeking his head out and drawing it back multiple times.  He managed to squeeze a few shots back at the Lizard Men, but for the most part the reptiles had him and the Sovereign pinned.

Gritting his teeth, he collapsed his shotgun and returned it to the interior of his coat.  He leap out from the safe spot into the middle of the hallway and slammed his hands into the ground.  Immediately the metallic floor surged upwards like a wave in a like, and at the crest a multitude of gleaming sliver spikes jutted out, quickly growing for the firing lizards...

[Drannic_Lord01]

//Forgot to mention, Dori and Valimore are inactive, for the time being. Will get to that on DAL pedia, just give me a sec.

"Hmm... that's odd. I can't feel any residual energy from the battle outside... maybe it's over?" Sierana got up from the table and walked outside. The fighting outside indeed seemed to be quelled, for the moment. She also noticed Justin, unconcious in the street. Ignoring everything else, she ran up to him. Being a lot stronger than she looks, she lifted him up and held him on her shoulder. Lucy left the house and followed her.

"I guess this is it for us here... He's breathing. A magic-induced coma, no doubt. Come on, Lucy, we're leaving Tjed for now. Back to Terian."

//Justinian Constantine is now inactive.

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"Heh... they have the general idea. I'm leaving, probably not gonna be back for a while, say a few years or so." Tiberius walked out the door to the house as well. He left for the Arctic Region, as the stone had told him to do. It's dark secrets still lingered in his head, whispering to him the ancient knowledge. It had completed its task, which was to corrupt the one that bore it.

//Jason Tiberius is now inactive.

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[ElderScrollinIt]

(Sorry I haven't been on in a while.)

Ko'ji followed the others into combat, racing into the houses to save the families from the lizards. Unlike the others, after she defeated the lizards, she gave a quick bow to the family. Hopefully, she thought, that would give them the idea of who the good guys are! She then zipped off form house to house, doing the same thing over and over. The lizards varried in size and strength, but that usually mattered not, for she would give them a quick three or four stabs in the neck and they'd be down.

Arata leapt off the ship with Jack, landing on a nearby roof of a house. He then jumped off that and rolled to break the impact of the fall. Jack did the same, though not as good as did Arata. The house was near the castle, however, and loads of lizards were merely waiting there for them. They all rushed the two, wielding broadswords and maces. "This might be a bit of trouble..."

"Trouble!? More like fun as hell! BRING IT!!!" Arata whipped out his katana and slashed left and right, easily dodging the blows form the larger lizardmen. Jack, on the other hand, was having a bit of trouble dealing with the broadsword against the lizardmen. Seeing as how they all had a broadsword or a mace, the only thing different was size and power, and the lizards won by that measure, twice over. He didn't fight back, just blocking the attacks of the lizards. He'd let Arata do all the fighting, or so he thought.

[Dude Man]

//I forgot were Valos and Spider Retan were? Who's turn is it to attack?\

"Oh two can play at that game!" The A-Class elite shouted, as he stopped firing. The spikes moved towards him an he held his gun with one hand. With his free hand he held one of the shells and then slammed his fist on the ground, and the floor stopped moving, but was now totally deformed, and looked like a frozen wavy lake.

"Suel, Gumbo." The A-Class said to two of the other elites. "Rush in there, and bring back their heads."

"With pleasure!" The two lizard men with the doubled bladed swords then rushed through the hallways, the wavy floor didn't seem to bother them that much.

Suel rushed towards Vincent and spun his blade around making a series of showy moves. "Show me what ya got, human!" He then leaped towards Vincent and slashed one side of his sword down at him...

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The Lightning Wyvern was struck by the solar pulse and almost fell off balance but was still in fighting condition.

"Gah! Charge up another thunder blast!" Xarn commanded.

[Ted Der]

…Damn! Must have missed it. Just great. Well, Akran was making quite a fool out of himself. He thought for sure he was going the right way. Standing up, all he could see in front of him was endless blue water. Akran shivered and sat down again. He rubbed his hands together and tried to think of what to do.

His thoughts were interrupted.  What’s that noise? It sounded like something flying through the air. Akran turned around.

“What in the world…”

A monstrous beast was flying towards him with scaly, ugly wings. The creature’s mouth blew a cloud of fire and on top of the dragon was a figure - still to far away to see. It shouted something that sounded a lot like “…get himsss!” followed by a crackle of laughter.

The dragon dove towards the boat at an incredible speed. It’s going to hit the boat! Akran grabbed for the wheel, but not in time. The dragon flew down and with its claws, ripped the small vessel in two. Akran was flung from the boat and he hit the water.

He wasn’t expecting the sudden change in temperature so, he lost his breath. Akran couldn’t move. He was sinking… down, down…

Was a hand pulling him up? Everything went dark.

[Xorlak]

The spider monster, now only five-legged, crawled up from the dent its impact made in the bottom of the crater.  Angling its blue leg up towards Valos, it blasted a volley of icicles at the man.

(Just kill this thing already, blast it.  Heh...)

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After the casting the insane Dark Thunder Rage upon Anti, Retan turned his attention elsewhere as the distorted stars seemed to move more slowly, the illusion cast by the cataclysmic spell fading, the night sky and misty ground returning to normal.  He paused upon a spec in the distance.  Immediately the three weapons he was carrying-- the sword, the spear, and the dagger materialized in the air surrounding him and began to circle slowly.

"I believe you have something of mine..."

With that, his black cape unfurled like the wings of a dragon and he sped through the skies, straight for Daimien Roth...

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Virmir landed on the deck of the Death Evan, the rest of the Velkens filing in one after the other.

"How goes it?" he asked.

Anselm saluted.  "The main reptilian forces are in shreds.  The rest are confused at best. The humans have been released and should be able to take the rest of their city themselves."

"Good..."  Virmir placed his hands behind his back and turned to look at the mountains.

The sun was beginning to rise over the jagged peaks, and the sky was painted breathtaking crimsons and violets.  He stood there brooding for a moment as his tail slowly waved behind him.

"We've one task left, then..."

"Kendo!"

His ears perked as his thoughts were interrupted.  The white-clad Priestess Urocy came flying across the deck, her guards and little Emile chasing after.  "Thank the gods you're all right!"  she yelled.

Virmir took a timid step back before she fell upon him and gave the vulpine squad leader a tight hug.  "Lucile... you shouldn't be out here..."

[D. Ein]

"I had a horrible, terrible heartburn on that ship, I'll say. I wasn't exactly in the best of moods.

-"For the love of anything, Eldridge, can we just get a move on? Cast one of them spells and kill everything in radius. Honestly, I have absolutely no desire to be staying on this ship any longer.

"Bah, you know what? I've had it with this little skit."

The recently deceased Lizard Men rose up again. Curious... something was tugging at my control over them. I don't trust them. Of course, at a mere thought, they fell back down. I came over to one of the fallen ones and picked up his blade.

-"This is a sword." I looked dumbly at it. I had absolutely no idea how to swing one of those oversized knives properly. "I shall now commence in killing Lizard Men with it."

I swung it in a rather amateurish way at an incoming lizard. It bounced off, dealing the Lizard Man no harm. Ah, well... I flicked a whooshing electric arc toward the reptile, killing it instantly and several others around him.

-"They yell to me, CONSERVATIVE! CONSERVATIVE! Bah! The old ways are old because they're CRAP, I tell you. Liberalism is the way to go. See, that's why they barely use swords anymore. Swords suck. Magic, on the other hand, is amazing. Then in a decade or so, they'll discover something new, transcending magic. Are they still going to swing their little butterknives? Haven't you heard the quote, "It's just a flesh wound"? I mean, that's proof enough right there. Nothing like a third-degree burn to the brain to finish someone off, rather than cutting them and having them still screaming - still screaming, yes, still screaming, while they should already be dead - for an effective killing method."

A few Lizard Men later, we finally made it to the chamber containing the flotation crystals.

-"...and that is why I think that corpses are more attractive than the living. Their calming sky-blue tone of skin... The glossy eyes... the... stiffness... You ought to take up Necromancy, really. It is so thoroughly insinuating to make pretty corpses dance like puppets!"

Of course, the word "insinuating" comes rather naturally in a casual conversation.

-"So, what shall be done about that door there? I'm sure you can make a limb of yours into one of them thingies to open doors. Get to it, if you will."

//of course, Kronos could be wrong about the designation of the chamber - it may have been the cockpit, or some other place.\

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The Enlightenment kept rising, increasing its speed. The clouds pulled over the sun again... Unfortunate. They had no more weapons to defend with, and the enemy ship looked like it was charging another shot. Suddenly, one of the damaged glass tubes ruptured.

Air rushed out of the hull, wildly throwing the ringship to the side. The inner ring groaned in its place dangerously, perhaps endangering the precious lens in the middle. Finally, the rupture was sealed - but not before the ringship changed its course, just enough to completely miss the arrival point... They had to steer while they were in the atmosphere, and at a significantly lower altitude. The ship descended, and then re-deployed its cannons, opening a circular volley at the ship below. The cannonballs were fired under a very particular angle, so that once they reached the Lightning Wyvern, they would condense into one tight spiral, definitely crushing some bone...

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Tethys followed Akran at a safe distance, always out of eyesight and earshot, but never out of his own. He was itching to use his new weapon - a shortbow known as the Heartstopper - but orders were orders. Strict ones, at that. A flicker of a bladed whip eviscerated his mind like a thousand razors...

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Damien noticed the black figure coming down for him with somewhat of a start. He expected to find Draven here, but he was nowhere to be found. An unfortunate turn of events... A thought of fighting the Draken off by himself did cross his mind, and he actually thought it might be a good idea. Then again...

Roth rose a little bit into the air, spreading his arms as if in a welcome towards the dark silhouette.

[Dude Man]

//Ein, Vincient is in the middle of fight with the elite group? Or are you getting sick of it? If so, just kill them all off then.\

Valos created two fireballs in his hands and then smashed them together and then shot it at the ice spikes heading towards him. The two fireballs split into several smaller ones, and most of the ice spikes melted before they got towards him.

He wasn't sure if the blue leg was mostly ice or water, so he shot both a fireball and a lightning bolt at it, and blew it off.

"Had enough yet!?" Valos taunted.

The shadow spider continued to move towards it, with its four remaining legs.

"Guess not!" Valos then pointed his opened hand at the spider and aimed for its white leg, and shot a shade blast, blowing off. Half of the spider’s legs were gone. The fire, air and shadow one. Unfortunately, he didn't know any water, earth or light attacks.

"Screw it, I'll just blow its friggen' head off." Valos pumped his arms, and clenched his hands into fists. His right hand glowed red with fire and his left hand sucked in light with its shadow energy. "Open wide!" Valos growled as he ran towards the limping shadow spider.

He then smashed his fists down onto its head and there was a large explosion of fire and shadow energy. The smoke settled, and Valos stood over the shadow spider which was dissolving away.

"Humanity prevails."

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Duilin came towards the house, were the group was staying. Bell and Rink came out of the house to greet Duilin. Lagart was panting, as he was pretty tired out from all the fighting.

Bell gave Duilin a hug. "I'm so glad your safe." She said.

"It'll take more than that to take me out." Duilin said, half jokingly.

"So, I see you saved the Velkens." Bell said with a smile.

"Yeah." Duilin replied.

"I bet they're pretty greatful."

"Actually, not as much as I thought they would be. It's fine, they aren't completely free and I haven't finished helping them yet."

"What do you mean?" Rink asked.

"Well...I need to face Retan now." Duilin stated.

"Now? Like, right now?" Rink asked sounding a little worried.

"Well, not right now. But soon."

"But...you're not strong enough."

"I'm not weak. And who else is going to do it?"

"The Velkens or maybe Draven." Rink stated.

"The Kandarinians." Bell added.

"Yeah, but they'll need help. I just...feel like it's my responsibility to try and do something to stop him." Duilin said, not making eye contact with anyone. "If I don't I feel like I haven't done enough. And don't say I need a rest. I'm fine."

"Well, let's just talk about this for a little while. There is still a lot to do. Ven is very sick and needs aid."

"The Velkens have somebody who can cure him."

"Well, let's go talk to them then." Rink said.

"They're on the airship."

"Maybe they come down here." Lagart suggested. "Me no fly."

[Trent]

//I seriously don't feel like updating anyone else at the moment, and in all honesty, I didn't even skim through very much. Neutral I'll only do Anti for now.

Anti grinned as the final boss-esque environment came to be around him. "Oh, you're good! Powerful and flashy! Let's see what you've got!" He watched the black bolts connect around him, and prepared for what might come. He expended a lot of energy right there and then, as the stars shooting past him started to slow down dramatically. The first black needle shot towards him... He pulled his body out of the way. Another one came in, and he dodged it as well. As more and more came, he found himself having to deform his body in order to prevent himself from getting skewered, but when the last several ones came, even that wasn't enough. When the black sphere vanished, a red blob was visible in its place. Anti reformed himself, panting heavily. Incredible. He did that, without even trying! I need to put him on the defensive, like now!

"Flame Lance!" A large sword of fire shot diagonally down from the sky toward Retan....

[Xorlak]

- Inside the Lightning Wyvern, above Gros Morne -


Vincent simply stood there as the lizard showed off his blade.  As the creature leapt at him, the alchemist brought his shotgun to the reptile's muzzle and blew his head off.

The second lizard proved more tricky, and Vincent had to leap back to doge the thing's sword. He pressed his hand against the wall to his right, and a serious of spike jutted out where the creature was standing, impaling him from the left side.

By this point Kronos was getting annoying, so he jammed another cartridge in the top of his gun and lead the sovereign down the hall, blasting the lizards left and right with a constant spray of fiery explosions, the bright flashes reflecting in his sunglasses as he walked forward.

Just as all the lizards had been dispatched, the gun made an empty clicking sound.  He ripped the cartridge out of the top and opened his coat.

"Blast... out of Auto Shells..."

He replaced another sort of cartridge on top, this one with a flame emblem, then inspected the door Kronos was yapping about.

"Yeah, yeah..."

He tapped the golden gun on his shoulder and looked the giant reactor door over.  It was well over a dozen feet tall and obviously made of a medal at least a foot thick.  He pressed his hand on in, then felt the lock hole.  His fingers melded into a metallic sort of pick and flowed into the key hole.  After a moment the door clicked, and began to swing open, a bright yellow light emanating from within...

(DM, if you rather the airship not be disabled next turn, send a sign.  Heh...)

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- Death Evan, deck, above Tjedon -


"I know... it's just that... I was so worried about you..."  Lucile said, still clutching the silver fox general, who was looking like he was getting squeezed to death.  "And there are humans down below who need my help.  I'm going now."

"Absolutely not," Virmir said as he pulled away.  "You will not be putting yourself in any danger."

"I won't be,  I promise."  With that, Preistess Urocy took to the skies, closely followed by her four Velken guards.

Virmir looked like he was about to take off after her, until Anselm put a claw on his shoulder.  "She'll be fine."

Virmir shot him a glance that made him remove his hand as if it were on fire.  He turned and looked up at the sky, then the Velkens around him.

"According to the last intel I received, the Dark Emperor has left the Tower of Heaven's Bane on an errand.  Furthermore, the final High General, Gorus, is not stationed anywhere near the tower..."

"You mean..."  Renard's ears folded back.  Emile had found him and clutched to his side once more.  The little fox girl looked very out of place amongst the black clad and somewhat bloodied vulpine warriors.

Virmir nodded.  "The tower is his primary power source.   It will not be unguarded, though..."

Anselm folded his arms and scratched his chin.  "But we do have three destroyer class airships in our possession..."

"True.  But we only have the manpower to crew one."

"Couldn't we teach the humans to fly the others?"

"There is no time to teach.  We must move immediately.  The humans have suffered enough and I'm loathe to involve them in this...  There is a fair chance we may not make it back..."


"Where are you going, Galry?"  little Emile said, looking up at Renard with big blue eyes.

Renard picked her up off the ground and carried her away from the dismal meeting.  "It's going to be all right... You're just gonna have to stay with Lady Urocy for a while longer..."


"What about Sir Rikarl and our families?"

"We will have to trust him to get in contact with us.  There is no way we can afford the time to send a messenger all the way to North Point.  We have a very narrow window of opportunity.  If Retan is not struck down, then there is no point in bringing our families to Gaian..." Virmir said.

They all nodded solemnly.

"My lord?" Bryce had also separated from the group and was leaning over the railing of the airship, pointing to a neighboring war ship that was pulling away from the group.  "Uh... The Sinistral is flying away..."

They all turned.  "Blast it!"  Virmir snarled.  "Who cleared the lizards from The Sinistral?"

The Velkens all folded their ears and looked at each other.

"We have to stop them.  Right now!" Virmir's deep voice boomed.

They scambled, flying over the deck and into the door which lead to the control room.

The engines rumbled and The Death Evan began to move, pursing The Sinistral as it fled, leaving the third and final airship, The Dhaos empty and waiting high above Tjedon.

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- Above the ocean, northeast of the Dark Continent -


Anti's burning sword cut straight though Retan and the Dark Emperor flew backwards and exploded in a flurry of bright flashes...

Or rather that's only what it looked like.  It was indeed another shadow, as the true Retan took off after Damien Roth a few posts back.  (Heh...)

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- Above the ocean, north-northeast of the Dark Continent -


Retan stopped, folding his arms as the three weapons floated around him.  By now the sun had risen, and his black armor and cape bore a stark contrast to the glistening sky and sea.

"The weapons that you hold belong to me.  If you return them, I shall demonstrate my generosity in kind..."

[D. Ein]

- Above the ocean, north-northeast of the Dark Continent -

-"To you? Haven't you ever heard of the expression "finders, keepers"?"

Damien mocked Retan, and then rose one of his hands.

-"But if you insist. I am, after all, simply a humble servant..."

His palm began sending out sparks, and he curled it in towards himself. Then a few seconds later he uncoiled his arm towards the Draken, sending out a pebble-sized lightning orb. The orb blew up right before reaching Retan's face, doing absolutely no damage, but creating a very bright, blinding flash.

Retan's accuracy sharply fell!

(Heh...)

"...to the Sovereignty! So come and take them from me, snake!"

With those words, Damien sped off somewhere to the west...

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- Above Gros Morne, inside the Lightning Wyvern -

"I eyed the gold light seeping out from the widening fissure.

-"I believe that I am done telling you about the very important things, on which I will, quite naturally, quiz you later to see if you were paying attention or not. I shall move on to more current matters."

Judging by the light, this was indeed the crystal containment room.

-"Keeping mine and the Sovereignty's interests in mind, what do you think such crystals would be useful for, other than building big things that float? Do they exhibit any properties that could somehow be used to create something else? The thing that's been bothering me a lot is the NGO device. They are truly incredible marvels of magic and engineering. We've only got five or six left, from the eleven that I brought back from the Nightshade temple. For what I found out, there were only twelve of them in existence, and one was used by the Nightshade's elite squad, the Iron Wing. I believe you would be familiar with that encounter - it was used against the Crimson Capital fortress.

"In any case, these devices are close to becoming the very centre of our technology. My scientists found a great many uses for them, and are finding more now. I fear that the Sovereignty will not reach its full potential without more NGOs."