Kerig took a deep breath and took a look at the five other amulets he was given.
"Can we use this?" He asked Weloss.
"Mmm... The souls are trapped... Completly... " Weloss began pondering "As long as you hold unto these, I believe I can take them apart and assimilate the etherium... But it will likely couse the amulets to fall apart... Bah, nevermind that! All I need is a little. Once I have any at all, I can assimilate raw souls as much as I like."
Kerig smiled at it and put on all five amulets, just so he wouldn't have to hold them and yet Weloss' access to them would remain easy.
He then turned to hurry after the lich.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-it!" he yelled out "Mistah Crow-Nose, we are coming with you."
Weloss was suprised. "He gives us what we need and doesn't ask us to stay! Why don't you just ditch the place, goddamnit it!?" he inquired angrily.
"I...It is only proper to repay favors!" Kerig said to both Kronos and Weloss.
He then fully turned to Kronos.
"Weloss will need a little while to absorb...These... I don't know where you are going, but wherever that is, I'm sure we can help in some way... Once we get there..."
He ignored the fact Weloss accused him of being a softy, as this wasn't the first time.
"We might be stupid, pathetic little people-" Kerig added, but his string of thoughts was interrupted by Weloss (who told him to speak to himself) "But...At least I'm definetly not selfish..."
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Fernis, having left the caves, took a good look at the sky. It was quite starry, and it seemed so peaceful. Looks can surely be decieving...
Elphos was still confused.
"Hey, Fernis, why are we in a hurry?" He asked, confused.
"Do you, little pulpy unarmed human who cannot defend himself in any given way..." Her tone was almost angry "...want to get cought up in fighting off GIANT LIZARD MEN holding all kinds of SHARP OBJECTS!?"
Elphos seemed to mumble something, but Fernis didn't really notice.
She simply assumed the answer to be 'no'.
"So there!" Her voice was more of a commanding one this time "Not only I'm doing you a favor as your beloved master, but I'm saving the butt of my puny little appretince."
She smiled devilishly at him, and he couldn't help but smile softly back, though incencirely.
"Alright then." Fernis spoke more calmly now "We are heading for the capital. I'll deal with Iduran and his problem... Later."
The two slowly paced toward the city.
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Iskatyl hurried down the path has he saw another group of lizards head towards the mountains. The group was too small to be an attacking force, so it was probably just a second scout group.
He soon came upon a cave entrance. What he saw had shocked him, and he froze for a moment.
There, Zakon was fighting off, all alone, what seemed to be two forces of lizardmen.
Some were coming out of the cave, and some were the group Iskatyl just saw passing by.
"Eranor!" he cried out to him "Brother! What is...!"
"I told you..." Zakon replied angrily as he sliced off a lizardmen's arm, from which he proceeded to slice the neck "NEVER call me by that name!"
The lizard he sliced dropped dead, and as he turned 180 degrees to parry an attack from a second lizardmen, he sliced open a a third one which happened to be standing between the two.
"My name is Zakon now." he said, slightly annoyed, but only at being called 'Eranor' "And can't you see I'm busy now?"
Iskatyl shrudded as Zakon coused the blade of the lizardman's sword to fall on the floor before he proceeded to swing at the lizard himself.
"But...Brother!" Iskatyl sounded more worried than terrified "You can't take them all by yourself! Please stop and run, or you will die!"
Zakon began to laugh wholeheartedly but his laughted was interrupted by another slicing motion.
"I've already taken down at least a dozen." Zakon said confidently "They are big, but they are slow... They are inexperienced, weak minded fools. This... Is nothing more than a warm up..."
Zakon turned to face another lizardman rushing at him
"DIE HUMAN!" the lizarman cried out.
"Heh..." Zakon sighed before leaping right under the lizardman "You're more human than I am."
With that, the lizardman fell down, it's upper body seperated into three pieces.
He then turned to Iskatyl.
"Join me, little one. Perhaps you could learn something by practicing on them." he said it calmly, as he was doing no more than enjoying a nice cup of tea "Otherwise, do stay away, brother, I'd hate to see you hurt by someone as incompetent as..." he noticed a lizardman swung an axe at him, and he nimbly dodged, slicing it's head (and apperantly the skull as well) open.
"...These greenhorns."
While Zakon smiled and plunged his free hand into the now open lizard's head, throwing something which seemed awefully pink and gooey at another approaching lizard, Iskatyl suddenly noticed one of the lizardmen was aiming for him.
"AAah!" Iskatyl yelped as he ducked to dodge the incoming blow from what seemed to be some sort of a halberd.
Out of pure survival instinct, his eyes suddeny recieved a white sheen, and as he grabbed the knife strapped to his belt, not a moment seemed to pass as the lizardman's upper and lower body fell down, each in turn.
Zakon had the time to see this, and smiled.
"See, brother, you can do it if you try..."
Iskatyl was almost panicking.
"But... I didn't control it, brother... I was afraid, unlike you..."
Zakon turned to him, ignoring two more lizardmen approaching him from behind. He gave his little brother the warmest smile.
"Then come, aid me, brother." Zakon's voice was filled with honest good will "Be afraid..."
He turned around, slicing both approaching reptillians.
"...That your brother might fall!"
Shaking, Iskatyl nodded, but removed and threw his cloak away, rushing to aid Zakon.
Neither of them noticed the crashing and rumbling not too far off...
//Note: this was done assuming theres more than one cavern entrance, and both of them approached a less known one... Solve's drannic's problem, anyway.\
