Arana woke up in the morning, tightly hugging Rex. She had been awoken in the middle of the night screaming, yet another nightmare haunting her. Rex had been the first one to rush to her side, and calmed her down with his presence rather quickly. Fearing yet another nightmare, Rex had allowed her to drift back to sleep while she was clinging to him as if her life depended on it, and he was quite sure she actually believed that to be so. Whatever the case, she had slept rather well after that, no doubt the reason being Rex's presence by her side.
The breakfast was once again an absolute suprise for the sister, the meal surpassing the food Rex had given her before. She also felt a notably greater strenghtening deep within her, due to the food, and the girls around the table wasted no time in explaining the properties of their meal, then praised Aisha, their cheff, for once again delivering such an exquisite meal for them to enjoy. Arana had only good things to say about the girls and so she begrudingly admitted the they passed her evaluation, proving themselves to be worth of her brothers companionship. She also had to admit that her brother was quite the ladies man, one way or another, since the girls were rather happy even with having to share him. Then again, they had to, since no single woman could ever hope to keep up with his drive and tempo in the bedroom. Yet another thing that suprised Arana. The girls did not shy away when talking about their nightly escapades. On the contrary, they seemed more than happy to share.
After breakfast Rex left Arana in teh company of the girls and excused himself. He had a city to siege and sack. Echlisiarchy will not burn to the ground on its own after all. And while slightly reluctant to beleft behind, she was among family now, not alone, so it was not too hard to get her to remain here, since it would be much harder to do what Rex wanted while at the same time ensuring a pleasant watching of the events for Arana. Rex did promise his sister to allow her to witness the fall of Nor's capital.
With that out of the way, Rex once again crossed the portal he had conjured, and stood quite the distance away from his target, yet the rather large walls were in his line of sight regardless. A rather gray wall, three meters in height stood there, encircling the entire city with its rather thick walls. Countless soldiers patrolling the wall, searching for the slightest signals of an enemy attack. Countless archers stood on the towers, some being changed for fresh and rested soldiers to replace the ones most tired.
It was clear the adventurers guild's warning had done more than warn just the foreigners and guilds, The leaders of the city had enacted marshal law, prepearing every man capable of wielding a weapon. The reports from some of their scouts that had returned and warned of burnt to the ground villages apparently had not gone over well either. And yet, no matter how prepeared the city and its defenders were, what was coming after them was just too damn powerfull.
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Jared was an innitial S class entity, with specialization in scouting and long range combat. Right now he was sitting in one of the towers along the wall of Rinne. Fully focused on the surroundings few killometers that he had in sight. He had rather strong doubts about the validity of the adventurers guilds warning regarding the coming calamity. While yes, the villages around were burnt down to the ground, with no corpses in sight, their mighty city stood tall and proud, No enemy had dared to come and try their luck against its walls.
While fully focused, he was not tense. Yet another boring day guarding the surrounding flields from possible overeager bandits or raiders, or whoever else could be the culprits of said warning. He believed the day would be just the the rest in the coming future, but then something suddenly changed. The air around grew still and stifling. The banter of the nearby soldiers immediatly stopped, tensing the atmosphere even more than it already was by this point.
And then Jared saw something. His eagle eyes were zoomed to the maximum possible as he focused his entire being on examining the cloacked man. The clothing the man wore seemed rather simple, and the cloak was a simple rain cloak that near every mercenary used. While it hid the upper half of the strangers body, his chin and lips were entirely exposed. What scared Jared though was that in just a few seconds of his focus on the man, the mercenary turned his body, as if facing him, then slowly lifted his hands to his hood, and removed it. What stared right back at him at that moment were to eyes with pitch black sclera and yellow irises. And those eyes were staring right back at him. And not in his dirrection either, he left that haze examining himself just as much as the scout had done to him.
"Boo!" the forsakens lips moved, startling the scout even more, and then a savage grinn spread across his face as he started to move towards their walls with a rather fast pace.
"FORSAKEN INCOMING!" in full voice screamed Jared, now feeling a rather grimm suspicion the whole town might have taken the possible threat not nearly seriously as they should have. And while the common sense dictated that there is no way a single man attacks and actually takes down such a large city. No what the abomination was performing was a plain old suicide if Jared had ever seen one. And while confusing and unbelievable the actions of the stranger might be, it does not seem as if the man is coming to end his own life. No, his instincts scream and beg him to run, run as fast and far as possible from the city, run and never look back.
But while he is struggling to come to a decision, the window of opportunity closes, and he hears a colosal sound coming from the city gate the crazed forsaken had been runing towards. As it turned out none of the arrows that were shot at the intruder had actually stuck, let alone a slight injuriy had not been caused to the man. Then in a few breaths another resounding crashing sound reverbertes through out the city. His keen eyes are now focused on the gate from which the crashing sound came, and soon enough the dust cloud settles, and out comes the forsaken, not even a little bid winded or tired.
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"Let the carnage begin" Rex speaks as the cloud of dust settles and his form is revealed to the trmbling deffenders blocking his path further inside. Countless arows are shot in his dirrection once again, and Rex sighs.
'Had they not learned?' he asks himself as he withdraws Limitless and basically dissapears from the defenders field of vision, only to reappear in front of the shield wall, and in a single swing disecting or outright splitting the ones in his weapons swing in half. Felling half a dozen men in a single slash, he once again dissapears, to reappear a moment later, once again disecting a bunch of the defenders.
Rex slaughter is relentless and unending, not differentiating men from women. All people in his path get cut down, be it man woman or even a child. Rex had made his decision, and he would live with it, for better or worse. The common man, while generally not engaging in the same sick and depraved hobbies as their nobility, was also guilty for the crimes their country was performing on basically day to day basis. They were following the wicked commandments their prophet had laid down, and were entirely ignoring most of the transgressions their chlergy took when any of them happened to witness them.
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Guilty . All of them. And so Rex judged them all the same. Only the trully gorgeous women could hope to escape the reapers maw today, and then, once again the question would arise. Was it not better to die alongside their companions. And so, Rex moved from one place to the next, creating near mountains of corpes with his enourmous speed and ruthless swings to end all human life within his reach.
Rex even had a cosmic crow keep track of the observant scout that was now stumbling and escaping his possitions rather quickly, most likely on his way to the management to demand the big guns to deal with their quickly growing problem. Rex could kill the man her and now, and he probably should, but at the same time Rex is more than a little curious to see what the church has prepeared as the big guns, so he just continiued to slaughter the people present. He was well aware that this city was near double the size of Provedence, with double the poppulation, so he was also aware just how futile such an action would be in the long run. No, he too would have to pull some of his more magic based skills to bring the city to ruin in a relatively short amount of time. And while technically he had all the time in the world, why spend weeks on something you know you could pull off in days time, should you actually put in a bit of effort and the right skills.
Once again, the localized barrier around the city had been deployed so he could ensure there were no succesfull escapees, since he had decided to clean go full devastatione here, with the rare exception of an oracle or saintess of sorts. Maybee, just maybee some of the prettiest girls would earn a maid spot for his brothels to be, but he was still in a rather foul mood when it came to sparing Echlisiarchies people after he learned more about his sisters life during the past ten or so years. As such, after some twenty minutes of almost teleporting around and spilling guts and brains after each swing he finally decided to speed up his culling. Each swing ended the lifes of multipple men, and with his extreme speed a swing was made every few seconds. Still, his speedy killing with just his sword came up to about about few dozen men every minute, so if he kept up the pace that would tally to a bit over hunder in an hour, and following the same calculations that would round at almost three thousand people per day, asuming the density of his prey remains the same, which it will not, but even then, with around twenty thousand people, in perfect conditions, he would need no less than five days.
Now, take into consideration that a lot of the people are non combatants, who will undoubtedly try to hide in their homes or any other place that they believe they could survive this calamity, and his purge will easily extend into weeks. Thus, having slain a decent amount of people already, and having slightly calmed the rage he felt over his sisters suffering, all the while having his ravens draining the killed people behind him, leaving only clothing and other belongings behind, he exhaled a deep breath as he willed his mana into action.
The blood that was spilled on the earth, as well as from the fallen bodies still not drained and turned into fleeting mana dust, started to be pulled into the air, more and more blood creatures that looked quite a lot like sky serpents with their slender forms and draconic looking snouts. Similarily to his cosmic ravens, these blood serpent spirits were somewhat autonomus entities that still shared their vision with Rex, but could act independantly upon orders recieved. And so orders Rex gave.
"Kill all the people on sight and drain the corpses."
Short and decisive order, just as Rex dashed forward towards the next group of unlucky defenders who came into his view. He would summon quite a few more blood serpents from his fresh kills on his way towards the center castle, since they were rather well equiped and specialized in the killing of the weak. Even as he was slicing his way through the ever dwindling numbers of defenders, or just plain desperate civilians, he could not help but snort at his own situation.
What was good and evil? He could not help but question himself as he cut through yet another defender and a random peasant by the looks of it. Undoubtedly, he was the ultimate evil for the people of this city right now, but at the same time he must be the avenger, the true good in the minds of countless archons who had been chased or persecuted due to Echlisiarchies policies and doctrine. And yes, killing other people surely was a sin back in his old world, but that too, was conditional.
Those with the biggest clubs could always go much further with the way they enforced their ideals, beating down or outright killing the people in opposition. Governments sent their troops to other places on the planet to enforce their interests, and even killed whoever stood in their way. All in the name of peace and freedom. And the people back home would cheer for their warriors. Why wouldnt they? It was their victory as well after all. With their rights and ideals preserved and protected.
Was it much of a wonder that Rex too quickly adapted to the mindset of culling those that threaten him and his family to be? Even if it would eman teh deaths of thousands or even hundreds of thousands? No. It mattered little to him what his victims might think of his way. Even less so when they had been the ones to dish out the same, if not worse towards his kind- the archons. No, he was doing what was right by him, and his family. Even as more and more blood serpents were summoned forth, as they spilled into the city further and slaughtered without thought or hesitation.
And while Rex was not paying much attention to his blood serpents consciously, he still had to move to one of them every now and then to evaluate a pretty lady or two the serpents had come a cross. Women who would live should Rex find them timid and pretty enough to be employed as servants in either of his mansions. Blythes one or the mansion in Elysion. He supposed he would need some peasants for Elysion soon as well, but he could get those through Brognis slave market at a later date. He had no desire to aquire the fanatical zealots of Echlisiarchy as his people in the future.
Due to the constant pings he recieved from the blood serpents, either due to a somewhat pretty lady, or a group of defenders that could either stall, or outright kill the summons, it took Rex quite a few hours after midday to reach his current target. He was now standing before the castle of the town, and he could sense quite a few capable fighters and a decent amount of mages and priests collected within the walls. As he looked ahead, both through his own eyes and through the eyes of quite a few crows high in the sky, he assessed the situation, and calculated the most effective course of action with how to proceed.
He could just continiue the way he had, cutting his way through the toughest of opponents, while animating more blood serpents to replace those that were lost, even if it happened rather rarely by now. The serpents were doing a phenomenal job in culling the city, ending the lives of all that stood in their way, while at the same time, draging the potential pretty ones with them to a place where other pretty girls were herded.
With his unreasonable mana pool and mastery over blood, soul and space, each and every blood serpent was al least peak A class entity, with some rare cases having even reached low S class. So it was no wonder that rarely did he have to actually move over after one of the serpents was defeated. This ability alone would rate him as extremely dangerous battle mage on its own, and coupled with a defender or two, he would be nigh untouchable on the battlefield and could have hiss ass kissed by almost any of the ruling lords who would hear of said ability.
A smirk adorned his face as he once again focused his attention on the inner castle in front of him, filled with defenders of rather high skill and power. For ordinary people that it. A few S class entities, including the scout he had seen earlier, and quite a few high A class people.
"How to say a proper hello." Rex mused as he drew Limitless once again, infusing the sword with both mana and aura as he was prepearing a rather nasty hello for his opposition. A while later Rex swung the blade, a black energy arch shooting in the dirrection of the fortified wall of the inner castle. Anyone with any decent perception or mana sense skill almost jumped away from the wall in question, every one fleeing for their lives from the incoming skill. Then again, they were right to do so, as the attack devoured anything it its path and a meter to each side of the energy wave.
Rex soon walked in through the now two meter huge gash in the walls, not being able to resist the temptation the csream "HERE'S JHONNY!" as he passed the wall. and entered the inner courtyard of the casle, quite a few of the S class blood serpents flooding in after him as well and quickly slaughtering the defenders.