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" A NOTE FROM SLYOKAMI

I'll be trying to
further...mmmm...describe the gory
scenes.... :D

Kaledd, Generalmart second !oor, Seven hours

earlier.

Karnage was currently doing her best not to

fall asleep, she glanced around the large table
at the other guild leaders. She sat on one side
with Zaahr, Birse and his o!cers then Zeeke,
Nakano and their’s. On the other side sat the
Kaledd guildmasters and their higher ranking
members, she counted seven guilds in total.

LukeSkyDiver [Forged Engineer] (Crafty)

(BW Master) Level 63

HiHelloGoodbye [Sorcerer] (Blast-em)

(LOLz GODDESS) Level 66

Djinn [Duellist] (2hands) (GO Sheri#)

Level 52

Dherik Firehide [Forged Warrior]

(Frontliner) (LOST Emperor) Level 91

Regina [Technomancer] (Ace) (PRED

Queen) Level 87

SORK [Elementalist] (FAKE Captain)

Level 45

Deathstrike [Summoner] (Picky)

(SHADY Prime) Level 58

Most of them were in a sorry state, when they

had arrived all they could see was adventurers
standing around the town or messing around
and "lling up the taverns. Their guild leaders
weren’t all that better o#, their levels alone
spoke volumes of how bad a shape they were
in.

Only two guilds out of the seven were half

decent in what they were doing. One being
LOST lead by Dherik, a PVP focused guild
which immediately set o# on grinding their
levels in the nearby swamp. The second was
PRED lead by Regina, a PVX guild and the
smallest community among Kaledd’s guilds.
They had spread out into parties and fought in
the nearby swamps or hunted around the
Dwarven mountains, they simply couldn’t
stand the sad state of the town.

These two guilds where the "rst they had

encountered, seeing a large squad of
adventurers moving through The Patch got
one of LOST’s parties to approach them. One
thing took to another and the leaders of the
two guilds came directly to Karnage and Zeeke
to explain their situation. When Birse arrived
they had explained it to him as well and from
there he called for a meeting with each and
every guild leader.

Thanks to Dherik and Regina they had

gathered them all but how the meeting was
currently going was less than promising.

“And you expect us to just fall in line?”

exclaimed HiHello leader of LOLz, a scalarian
female with mage robes and two wands at her
side.

Birse was standing up as he spoke, a large

di#erence from the Kaledd guild leaders who
lay sprawl about on their chairs. “Would you
rather stand around and wait for the Devils to
come by and MAKE you fall in line? Because
they will and they are coming.” Birse was
slowly losing his patience over these lost
hopes, if it wasn’t a distraction he’d simply do
what LOST and PRED had done and abandon
them.

Djinn a human male with a blue afro for hair

began to laugh “Oh sure, just how we’ve been
sitting around for three days. They haven’t
come yet and they aren’t coming later, what’s
the point of even trying to resist if they do?
What chance do we stand?”

Dherik a heavily armoured Dwarf male with a

Dwarven spear and shield similar to Soren’s
suddenly stood up “Why are we even wasting
our time with these sad excuses for shit? They
don’t even got the balls to "ght a fucking troll
much less a demon!”

Regina a human female wearing grey leather

armour and a brown cloak raised her hand “I
agree, we should just leave them to their
taverns and take the spoils ourselves.”

This had been going on for three hours, Birse

explaining their circumstances to the best of
his ability without giving out certain
information. He had explained how the
churches are tricking the people and them to
take over the ruling of Barik, how the royal
military will not stand and do nothing. Birse
then told them how he guessed the royal
military would turn the citadel into a
battle"eld to take back their Empress’s honour
and how the churches would "ght back.

Over all none of them had denied these ideas

but none of them seemed to care, too busy
with their own problems to do so. But Birse
didn’t care either, this was all a ploy to keep
them gathered in Kaledd after all. He hadn’t
expected it to be this bad but it only made it
easier on Serenity’s part to fool them all.
Getting on Dherik and Regina’s good sides was
just as easy as giving them advice on levelling,
skills and classes while showing o# their own.

Obtaining the trust of those who had already

given up?

Birse had been buying time while waiting for

the news to reach Kaledd, he expected it to
take an hour or more for it to do so but just as
one of the guild leaders stood up to leave.

“Fuck this, I didn’t come here to be judged by

these maniacs!” HiHello stood up to leave but
before she could do so a guard came rushing
up the stairs of the generalmart and dashed
towards them.

“Adventurers!” The guard shouted to gain their

attention as he came to an abrupt stop by the
table, breathing heavily the poor guy looked
like he had just ran a marathon. “The citadel!
Sk-Sky Top! Chaos!” he managed to say in
between shaky breathing.

“Calm down man, take a breather and explain.

Slowly!” Luke a human male, the nearest guild
leader to the guard stood up and tried to calm
the messenger down.

The guard took a brief couple moments to

calm his breathing then glanced around the
table “Mixed reports came in from Eslet, Sky
Top Haven is falling!”

Birse couldn’t fake a better expression of utter

ba$ement than the real one he currently
wore “The fuck did you just say?” he had left
the others to their own workings as he dealt
with things here.

As planned three cloaked "gures walked up

the stairs and began approaching the table as
fear and panic began to spread among them.

Dherik one of the only four leaders not

panicking which included Birse, Karnage and
Zeeke, stood up to face them “Oi! The second
%oor is o# limits until we are done! The hell
are your guards doing down there Regina?!”
he glanced at the woman in question who was
still picturing the golden city falling.

Caitlyn removed her hood as she approached

the table “Please excuse my rude entry
adventurers but this requires urgency.” She
quickly explained gaining the attention of
most people there, Birse faked to pay
attention as he had written her script himself
while nobody had noticed Deathstrike the
cloaked male human had fallen asleep a while
ago with his hood down covering his closed
eyes.

Caitlyn continued to speak as Draxxer and

Darkness revealed their faces as well “I am
Empress Caitlyn Esfelt of the Esfeltian
Dominion here on Barik. These two are the
previous heroes of the blessed blade and dark
night, we’re here to beg for your assistance
with the defence of Eslet the capital city.”

“How are we supposed to stop a city from

falling onto another!?” exclaimed Regina still
trying to comprehend this outcome.

Having received word from Death about how

things were going on Elset, Darkness knew it
was just an illusion “Sky Top Haven is not
falling, this is an illusion produced by Devil
magiks. The Dezol legions are here and have
somehow in"ltrated Eslet, with the fall of the
royal family and the confusion within the
military they have taken their chances and
begun their attack.” She explained with as
harsh a tone she could muster.

“So the city is not falling?...” Birse asked with

relief.

Caitlyn nodded “This outcome was expected,

demons are known for their underhanded
tactics and this is just like them. Please
adventurers, I beg you to save my people from
their swords!” she was acting her part
perfectly, being born to royalty and made
Empress at a young age forced her to learn to
act properly.

The Kaledd guild leaders anxiously looked at

each other not knowing what to do, they were
far from prepared for this. Zeeke, Nakano,
Karnage and Zaahr on the other hand had
been preparing for this since the start, their
members had been training and grinding the
whole time while o!cers stood at the ready to
call them all in within a matter of minutes.

Birse turned to Caitlyn “We must contact our

members at Frosthold, it will take time to
make them march to Kaledd.”

“I can help with that” Draxxer stated speaking

for the "rst time, he had been glaring at the
Kaledd leaders in disgust “I can open a portal
for your people to come through, the mage
guilds have been researching them for a
while.”

This was however not entirely true; Cornelius

had made a second waystone as he now called
them and a VCD for it but Birse wanted to use
that to open a portal to Carn. Instead he asked
if it was possible to move the portal at New
Ruk, which Cornelius obliged to by sending
over a VCD connected to the waystone in
Frosthold that opened the portal in the "rst
place. This would destroy New Ruk’s portal
and reconnecting the entrance from Frosthold
to a new exit in Kaledd.

“That would be of great help” Birse turned to

Zeek and Karnage who sat by him “Let’s
contact the others and tell them to gather, we
cannot allow the Devils to take Eslet.”. He then
glanced around at the Kaledd leaders
“Whichever of you wish to survive this storm
with us you are welcome to join, we’ll share
information and assist each other where ever
possible. The rest? Feel free to stand about
and do nothing.”

Birse stepped away from the table followed by

the other Frosthold leaders “Empress Caitlyn,
we shall save your people.”

Dherik, Regina and Luke also stood up to

follow.

“We’ll help too” Regina announced with a

bored expression.

“Count us in.” Luke stated as he bumped his

mechanical gauntlets together.

“LOST is behind you too.” Said Dherik with a

grin.

Birse couldn’t help himself but grin back

“Gather your members then. Karnage and
Zeeke with me, we’ll gather our own.”

---

High above Dread Swamp, three hours later.

Birse gazed out of the large carriage at the

dozens of others that %ew alongside his. The
large creatures were twice the size of your
average wyvern with three times the wing
span, two of them were connected to each
carriage the size of a town building. Each
gri!n had two thick metal rods to each side of
them protruding from the carriage’s front,
metal chains that were connected to the rods
were then connected to the gri!n’s saddles.

The carriages where triangular in shape with

large metal wheels on each of the three
corners, the back was a corner while the front
where one gri!n pulled wasn’t. They were
mostly made of oak wood with forged metal
keeping it all together, the inside’s pavement
was wooden planks while the seats where a
single long plank protruding out of each wall.

The outside walls of each carriage were

slanted to decrease air resistance while the
inside were actually vertically %at. The second
gri!n that pulled the carriage was connected
to two metal rods that protruded from the
roof, using it’s immense strength and
wingspan to carry the carriage while it’s
partner steered.

Each carriage could hold up to forty people

each, normally enough for the every day
travellers. With the threat of a Dezol invasion
on the capital and Draxxer’s persuasive
growling they had been able to gain their use
but couldn’t transport everyone. With only
twelve carriages at Kaledd’s disposal the six
guilds could only take 480 people, a small
amount compared to the joined number of
3,700 they held together.

Birse had made the call to only take their

highest levels while leaving the rest to
continue training and guarding Frosthold in
case the Devil’s main force pushed through
Helix again. In truth he simply didn’t wish all
his forces to move out of Frosthold and would
have done this call whether they had
transportation or not, he even went so far as
to get Draxxer to talk down Karnage’s idea of
opening a portal at Eslet due to ‘how long’ that
would take.

He currently sat inside the carriage alongside

the other guild leaders and many of their
members. Having spread out Seren, Cherry
and Soren into other carriages holding their
lower ranked members the other guilds had
done the same. They had discussed of landing
inside the city straight up but Birse made it
clear that joining up with the royal military was
the best course of action. So it was decided
they would land outside the military district as
to not be shot down by them then request
entry from their gate.

It had taken them three hours to gather their

forces and "ll up the carriages, 220 people
going through a single portal took a while but
it was mostly because of them having to pick
out the higher levels and send back the lower
ones.

He glanced around at the others, three days of

"ghting monsters and bandits had forced
them all to bottle up their fears and will
through. Those who couldn’t were left to rot in
the streets, unable or simply unwilling to "ght.
Birse wondered if one would respawn from
dying of hunger, would natural deaths be
allowed a second chance? Then what about
death by aging? He found himself considering
a lot of things since "nding out that everyone
excluding monsters could respawn.

“An hour and a half till arrival!” announced the

gri!n master from the front of the carriage
where he overlooked the entire inside and it’s
inhabitants.

---

Esfeltian Dominion Capital Eslet, Military district

outskirts, two hours and a half later.

Luke stared down at the large lake that lay by

the military district’s outskirts, large Dwarven
contraptions where built right outside the
gates where ships for the military were
constructed before being moved into the sea.

He was sitting down staring at the lake

alongside his party of "ve others, being the
weakest of the six guilds he was only allowed
to bring a single party of his best "ghters
which weren’t many. With tanned-white skin,
shaved brown hair, brown eyes and beard the
Berserker’s Wrench guild master sighed
deeply as he waited for the military to let their
small army inside.

His guild in the "rst place was mostly a

crafting community, very little of their
members were "ghters and level-wise were
almost as bad as the zerg guilds in Kaledd. He
glanced back at his party members, a healer,
two "ghters including himself, two gunners
and a mage.

Surrounding them were larger groups of

adventurers laying about the grassy outskirts
of Eslet, the guilds trying to stay in their tight
social groups.

He then spied Birse walking out of the door

within the large gates made of pure metal
followed by the guard that had let him in in
the "rst place and a third solider he did not
recognise. Unlike the guard this one looked of
higher rank with several badges decorating his
shoulder armour.

The man quickly looked around at the

adventurers with a surprised expression as he
inspected their levels, averaging around 80
they seemed of higher quality than his own
men. He turned to Birse and nodded before
speaking, Luke and his party were too far to
hear him.

Birse turned to face everyone and spoke with

mana infusing his voice “We’ve been allowed
inside, all guilds gather in platoons of 40 each.
Spread your classes among them as we
discussed on the way, the military shall assign
you escorts through the city.” He then walked
o# to his own gathered members.

“You heard him” Luke told his party while

standing up “Let’s go ladies and gentlemen,
we’ve got a city to defend” he announced with
his usual jolly tone. After gathering his small
party Luke walked up to Birse’s group.

“Yo mind if you assign us to a platoon? We

didn’t bring the numbers.” He asked the burly
wolfkin guild leader.

Birse turned from talking to Cherry and

quickly glanced over Luke’s party “Yeah go
with Shepperd, he’s the elf dragging a giant
%ail behind him” he pointed the person in
question out and turned back to assigning the
others.

Luke nodded as he caressed his long beard

and gestured for his party to follow, "nding
the man in question was easy. “You
Shepperd?” Luke asked as he inspected the elf.

Sh3pp [Gladiator] (Brawn) (SER minion

level 2) Level 87

The heavily plate armoured elf nodded “Yeah,

you with us?”

“BW guild, we’re assigned to you.” Luke stated

as he gestured at his party.

Shepperd seemed to grimace after inspecting

their levels “Warriors on the front, mages and
healers middle then rangers at the back. Leave
your party and join our raid party.” He told
them sternly.

LukeSkyDiver [Forged Engineer] (Crafty)

(BW Master) Level 63

Zaya [Enchantress] (BW Enchanter)

Level 65

Kain [Technomancer] (BW Tinkerer)

Level 72

SorryNotSorry [Geomancer] (OCD) (BW

Builder) Level 64

Painmeister [Forged Gunner] (Creative)

(BW Blacksmith) Level 71

TrippinMeBallz [Blade dancer] (Un-

orthodox) (BW MadScientist) Level 68

Luke glanced back at his guild members “Do

as he said” he told them knowing they
wouldn’t take orders from others. He himself
disbanded the party with a thought “Invite?”
he asked the elf.

Guild [Serenity] has invited you into

their public raid. Do you wish to join?

“Done, hurry up and take your place.”

Shepperd gestured at the platoon of
adventurers behind him, they stood almost at
attention waiting for the order to move. Their
eyes were distant as they gazed at the tall
stone walls ahead of them as if dreading what
was to come, very little of them talked with
each other.

Luke joined the raid party and noticed several

small icons appear above everyone’s head
indicating their name and distance, ignoring
them momentarily made them disappear. “See
you bastards later, don’t die on me aight?”
Luke told his members before dragging away
Trip with him.

As they both walked over to the front of the

platoon an explosion sounded o# in the
distance, several murmurs and whispers
followed.

“What the hell is going on in there..” Asked Trip

as the leather armoured "ghter "dgeted with
his sword hilts.

“Better not be another one of those gigantic

demons..” A male lionkin wearing plate
armour replied.

Luke and Trip turned to stare at him “Gigantic

demons?” Luke asked with disbelief.

The lion beast-man shuddered at the memory

“Damn thing was larger than a skyscraper,
fucking crushed the enormous trees up north
like they were trash in it’s path. Took every
single mage we had to bring it down to it’s
knees, then it just blew up like a fucking bomb
and blasted most of us away.” He explained
with an anxious expression.

Trip audibly gulped “Demons explode?...”

“Hell if I know or want to know what the others

do! All I know is what followed was a thousand
times worse…” His expression seemed to pale
as he remembered.

“What? What followed?” Luke asked drowning

with curiosity, they had heard of the attack on
Helix but none of the details.

The lionkin glanced at them before reluctantly

continuing “Something…appeared out of the
explosion. A Devil…straight up a fucking Devil.
Called himself Lucifer, fucking king of hell
himself!” he exclaimed while giving a weak
chuckle “Most of us couldn’t move an inch, it
was like an aura was pressing down on our
throats…He threw around our stronger
members like ragdolls, if it wasn’t for the mage
guilds blasting him away while we kept him
busy…” he trailed o# not knowing how to
continue.

Trip turned to stare at Luke “Yo boss…” he

whispered with a pale expression.

“I know…we can’t back o# now though.” Luke

replied dreading over doing ‘the right thing’.

Most that overheard the story inwardly cursed

at being reminded of those events, nobody
wanted to face that thing again. Yet here they
were ready to defend a city from that and
worse, they didn’t have much of a choice but
doing so.

Birse had very clearly told them what would

happen if they didn’t "ght, how the demons
would destroy all spawn points except for one
and keep them locked up like sex slaves. He
had painted a very vivid image for all of them,
something everybody hated him for doing.

“Hey we’re starting to enter” someone pointed

out from behind Luke, looking towards the
gate he indeed saw a whole platoon of forty
walking after a soldier and into the military
district.

“When will it be our turn?” asked Trip as he

glanced around at the other gathering
platoons.

“Probably sooner than you expect, we’re the

third closest platoon to the gate so…” Luke
trailed o# enjoying his friend’s expression of
panic.

What he didn’t expect was for the platoons to

enter so quickly, soon a soldier walked up to
their platoon leader. “How are things inside?”
Shepperd asked the soldier.

“Not well, we are unable to locate the

invaders.” Replied the soldier with a gru# voice
“The civilians are still being escorted to the
ships as per procedure but it will take a couple
more hours, the nobles on the other hand
have already left through their own means
and the churches of night and day were the
"rst to abandon the city taking with them their
forces.” He reported in full.

“What do you mean you cannot locate the

invaders? How do you miss a Devil or demon
amidst the streets of a city?” Shepperd asked
in disbelief.

The soldier grimaced as shame was apparent

on his expression “Our scouts are scouring the
streets while gri!n riders took to the sky. We
cannot "nd them anywhere yet destruction is
evident at multiple residential areas owned by
key "gures in Esfelt.”

Shepperd sighed “Where will we be going

then?”

“We’re sending you adventurers around the

middle streets being the slums, markets and
housing districts. Our men are scouring the
noble district while the elite squads have been
sent to the royal district.” The soldier
explained before gestured for them to follow,
he turned around and began walking towards
the gate.

Shepperd turned to the platoon “March forth!”

Luke watched as the melee combatants

around him unsheathed or unstrapped their
weapons, he himself went through a series of
movements with his "ngers as the mechanical
gauntlets glowed a dim green.

The platoon began to move forward, "ve lines

of eight people walking after each other. The
soldier had waited for Shepperd to catch up
with him at the gate then guided them inside.
The military district held many buildings at the