Elsewhere cofus rex and Aemulus are running roof to roof through fire balls at the luutons blowing them out of the sky and slicing them apart if they dare get close enough.
The sound of music warms the air while the luutons seem to only be weakening. the astrans forces keep their composure and retain their fighting strength to the best of their ability. The st of the horde has shown up maybe already half of the luutons force has been defeated while the astrans forces are devastated as the levies corpses litter the burning battlefield.
Though as the st member of the hoard shows up he blocks the sun from the sky. His mount is massive, bigger than any thing the astrans had seen before. It was incredible it was impossible, it was the doom of the astran people. The st luuton to arrive rides upon a majestic white dragon, With beautiful clear wings. As it descends and returned light to the battle field the man on top of it is revealed. A middle aged man with pure white hair looks down upon the astrans with a gaze the sends chills down their spine to all who see it. not a single bck hair adorned on this man he looked around the vilge and shook his head. His fine white scaled leathers made it hard to tell where he began and the dragon ended he simply pulls a fan from his pouch and looks towards the battle field and with saying anything he swings the fan.
Suddenly a gust of wind starts blowing apart some of weaker fortification as a unrelenting wave of ice takes out a good chunk of the battle field as a new giant spire of ice had been created from his attack. It stood a hundred feat tall and could be seen from every where in the vilge as he descended all fighting had stopped as he had not only killed quite a few astrans but several of his own men.
Several half frozen luutons hang out of the frozen spire screaming for help as the frost bite spreads. As he hits the ground the spire colpse and sets whoever was in free. If they had managed to survive that is. Many were nothing more than frozen statues at this point; those lucky to have geia are the only ones to survive in varying degrees.
The man hops off his majestic and massive dragon and looks around saying nothing his face not showing any signs of fear or anger. Having nded on the battlefield he begins to speak with the everyone’s attention on him”behold for my glory has arrived in your corner of the world. I have personally come from the east and halted my conquest of the nds of kin to offer the astran kingdom the honorable position of vassal to the great luuton khanate. enough blood shed has been shed today so now you must retreat back to your kings and tell them to submit them selves to the Almighty Aklha Fon!”
The luuton says in a heavy accent though any mistake he made he made no attempt at correcting himself. Rex and Aemulus look at each other and approach the luuton cautiously. “You cant be serious right we have sughter twice the number of your troops today we will surely be the victors of this fight luuton i do not care how big you are in the east you have arrived in the nds of astra and our kings will never submit to you”
Aemulus say with a quite abit of confidence as he point to the white haired leader. who simply looks at sir Aemulus with a frown and points at him and says something but knows not what “For talking back your arm shall be removed from your person astrou count yourself blessed i do not take more”
the Fon releases a bst of ice towards Aemulus so quickly he is unable to dodge or deflect it. It pierces into his left arm in his bicep. quickly spreading throughout his arm and onto his chest. He screams in pain as grabs his arm and starts lighting it on fire to counteract the insane cold. Rex seeing no other option quickly cute the frostbitten arm off at the should and lets it fall to the ground. The ice quickly overcomes the fmes and even freeze them as it shatters once it hits the ground the geia from his sword cauterizes the wound as well as removing the remaining frost bite.
Its tough but Aemulus manages to stay on his feet though clenching at his lost arm as he does. The Fon shakes his head and looks at the dismembered astran with pity as he himself felt sorry for what he did. He resumes speaking and the astrans wait for the transtor to transte.”I will return in 3 months in that time you will have collected your tribute or your kingdom will be destroyed without any mercy with a force twice as big as we have brought today”
The Fon gets back on his mythical mount and once again ascends into the sky no more is said and no more is done the luutons leave. as fast as they came as fast as the left. Rex holds sir Aemulus up as he almost falls to the ground” sorry about the arm sir Aemulus i saw it spreading and did the first thing that came to mind.”
Rex says holding up the dazed Aemulus who is still clutching at his missing arm. He gnces down at the pieces of thawing shattered chunks of flesh and sighs” i think you did well sir rexan if not for your quick action who knows how far that would of spread and how much more it would of took”
They both smile for a moment and rex throws Aemulus arm over his shoulder so that he may help his kinsman walk”while i must say i had my regards for you from the war Aemulus i must say it much better to have been fighting with you rather than against you”
Sir Aemulus looks at his arm and a single tear is shed as he looks at rex with a smile” well friend something tells me it will be a sweet but short memory as i doubt well be fighting together much after this”
The men walk back to their tent to see it completely destroyed the general stands beside and sighs looking at the wounded knight”well then pack your bags were heading back to the capital the demands have been set and now we must consider them”
The general eyes never meet rexes as he dazes off slightly down. Rex’s fist clench as he looks toward the battlefield ”tell me sir do you think this is our defeat
The general looks further down” it surely isn’t theirs a retreating army doesn’t set the terms a victorious one does. both watchtowers sent their reinforcements to the other vilges that means they had enough troops to send 3 different vilges at once what about the war party that had been moving down the potami river wouldn’t that make 4? And if it is true that he pns to bring twice that much is that not enough men to raid 8?”
The general seem quite somber with his concern. Rex stood there considering his point but shakes his head”it doesn’t matter right now. we have 3 months to find a way to deal with them. right now many of our soldiers don’t have 3 hours to live so i think its better we focus on dealing with the wounded first sir.”
Rex says abit somber himself. Aemulus had passed out while leaning on him and rex is now the only thing keeping him up. The general sighs and nods. beckoning to his lieutenant and starts putting things in order to help any of the injured.
Elsewhere gora lies unconscious on the ground as a heavily exhausted Alquur woman is trickling bits of water over her. Arvus and Sicus are resting against the stone wall pretty exhausted themselves. Sicus looks at the Alquur woman with pity as most of the blue from her hair has been drained”im sorry my dy i don’t carry any blue strings if i did i could help you recover your lost strength.”
She finally pours the st out of her and colpses against the wall” no i am sorry sir for i have truly done all i can i just hope its enough.” she pants heavily against the wall seeming more exhausted than the other two. Sicus pulls out his pandura and starts pying. His once bright red strings were dark and dull. As he strums a few bck hairs in the astrans regain their red. Though before he can continue anymore they turn bck and snap apart making the instrument unpyable until re-stringed.”dammit”
Sicus says before putting the instrument aside. The four of them just y their for a while until eventually a tired looking utum approaches them a cheerful secomi right beside him. Sicus smiles and manged to stand up and wave to them”hey utum, secomi im gd to see your both OK!”
Sicus shouts from the top of his lungs. The two knights grin and make use of the st of their energy to jog over to them. Utum falls over and sits on his rear completely tired his legs yed out straight as he looks at Sicus
Cofus finally arrives and sits among his friends sheathing his sword Secomi smiles and sits next to utum. Sicus plops back down with them the Alquur woman moves out from under the shield and ys against the wall out in the sun as gora continues to sleep under the shield they all sit their trying to catch their breath.
