“Hah…I should’ve known.” Rey spat as she rose up from sitting at the cage’s edge, pushing herself even as her hands lay bound behind her back with magical shackles, she came to face the bars on the other side. “Still, I don’t believe it.” She said, as she glared down at DarkHour and Sinclair who rode right by their carriage, where the entire party lay imprisoned.

All around them Covenants rode with, almost a hundred of them, riding long-legged birds with little to no wings. Carrying forth their barred carriage with ease though was something else, reptilian in form, the massive lizard seemed like it could’ve run even faster than the quick-footed birds.

“Believe what?” Dark asked with a smirk.

“You betrayed your damn friend.” Rey snapped back.

“He hasn’t been my friend in years, not since he let everyone down, not since he let me down.” Dark mused.

“Why? Why are you doing this? We’re all stuck in this shit together!” Rey then exclaimed, pushing into the bars yet they did not budge.

“Why? Simple, I saw all I had to see back there.” Dark answered with a sigh, “He’s grown weak, you’re new, and those monsters were hiding. We simply made an educated decision.”

“You led them to us…You didn’t just pick a side…You fucking led them to us!” Rey then shouted out, her anger reaching its limits, “You son of a bitch if I wasn’t tied up and caged up right now I’d…I’d!” She grumbled, suddenly stepping back and kicking the bars as hard as she could, Rey’s expression went blue then as she fell to the floor in great pain.

The bars were harder than she thought they’d be.

Dark’s smirk turned into a grin then, “I guess I did, didn’t I?”

Rey’s eyes relit with rage at his words, pushing herself through the pain to rise, but suddenly something pulled her back down.

Roy had grabbed her shirt with his teeth, bringing his sister back down to the floor, he whispered into her ear. “Calm down and look around, this is no time to stand out…” He warned her, as both their gazes moved about the watching Covenants. “I know you’re angry, we all are, but we need to lay low for now…”

“But…Fine.” Rey grumbled, settling down next to him, she hid her tears by shoving her face into her knees.

This isn’t fair…

She thought.

“Plus,” Sin then chuckled, “Knowing him, he’ll live.”

“Don’t you dare…” Jedd then hissed out, “Don’t you dare fake hope in him, you have no right, not after all this…”

“And you do? How long has it even been since you’ve met him? You think you know him…” Sin mused with a smile, “You don’t know what he was like, at first and after. You don’t know him like we do.”

“You don’t even-” Rey was about to explode once again.

“What? That he’s crazy? That he thinks he’s different people all in one body one mind?” Sin then cut her off, “Oh we know, we also know how this game’s system flows, and we know what’s about to happen next.” She said, motioning to the Covenants all around them.

“We know more than you.” Dark mused, “Now shut up, and play your part.” He told them, his voice growing into a whisper as a Covenant mage approached the carriage, raising his hand to the bars a blue light oozed out of his palm.

Suddenly, the entire party felt very very sleepy.

“You won’t g-get awa-away with…this…” Rey grumbled as the magic flowed through her, forcing her into a slumber, “He’ll…He’ll come for us!”

The last thing she saw before collapsing, was Dark’s smirk as he glanced at her over the mage’s shoulder.

“That’s what we’re counting on.”

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Bones and rotten flesh flew aside with each of his attacks, his movements faster than ever, his four arms and four blades leaving absolutely no opening for the horde of undead to have at him. Wind, Lightning, Hellfire and Darkness burst out from his weapons as he spun, slashed and sliced, his tail then grabbing, smacking and swiping aside those that came all too close.

Standing now before the door to the final corridor in his path of destruction, Kaine stretched his arms and popped his neck, piles and piles of corpses laying behind him as he pushed his tail into the doors before him.

“It’s too bad that, I no longer get any experience for this trash.” He mused to himself, pushing open the final door to see the floor before him changing.

A flow of energy had been sizzling through the ground as the doors opened, ending where the doorway divided the corridor from his current hall, as if the corridor itself before him had just been magically…renovated.

And as he slithered inside, everything indeed looked different from the rest of the dungeon.

The walls were darker, the floors smoother and more well-kept.

The torches, dimmer.

And there was an air of malevolence hovering about this place.

From behind him, a chuckle resounded, wicked and villainous the laughter sent a chill crawl up his spine.

Grinding his teeth, Kaine knew what to expect, yet still he continued forth.

And as he trod through the new corridor with conviction, a voice spoke from all around him.

“I grow tired, of your disrespect and disregard, for your destiny.” Krakt’s voice surrounding him, “We offer you so much, we offer you power, standing and a future nobody else could deny you. We offer you to blacken the world into whichever shape you desire. We could make you a lord, a king…No, an Emperor of Darkness. It is in your blood, in your soul. It is your fate.”

Kaine ignored the voice and continued onwards.

“The Revenants of Darkness, the Legion itself, would follow you. You, dark one, the last and first Dark Elf to escape the kingdom’s clutches in eons! You are free, but you never will be, not as long as the kingdom exists. Not as long as there are Elves out there, who do not take the path of darkness!” Krakt explained, his wretched voice filling Kaine’s surroundings like a tremor filling the ground.

“Why do you deny us? We…I can give you the world and more. Join me, make me a God and I’ll make you Sovereign.” Krakt offered as he Kaine reached the next door.

“You don’t understand…don’t you?” Kaine asked, his serpentine eyes meeting the Lich’s as its ghostly form appeared before him, forwarding his hand. “You’ve probably figured it out by now, there’s more to me than just me.”

“Insanity is not an illness, not to the Legion, you are more in one. We do not judge sanity.” Krakt said with a grin.

“Then you should also know, that each of me wants something different, each of me argues and walks a different path. Even this new me…” Kaine said, raising his four hands as he looked over them, “He usually names us…I know, I’m the other two but as one…I guess I’ll name myself. Keeping to the theme,” he looked back up to glare at the Lich. “Jor wants happiness, Nidhogg wants attention, I want…I am Vali and I want glory.” Slithering forth, Vali got into Krakt’s face.

“I assure you, beating you, will feel very glorious.” He hissed.

“You make little sense, for if you want glory, what is more glorious than absolute victory over the entirety of reality?” Krakt laughed, yet the light in his eye sockets dimmed when Vali had moved in closer.

“True enough, but there’s one thing you should also know.” Vali said as he then grinned widely, yet a venomous glare left his eyes. “Not one of us. Likes. To. Be…” He hissed out, the green hue in his eyes growing brighter and more ferocious with each word. “Controlled.”

Vali burst through the ghost, dissipating it from his way, “Told what to do.”

He bashed his tail into the doors, forcing them open.

“Destiny? Fate? You won’t tell me what is my fate, you don’t control my destiny. I’ll write my own. That was your mistake from the very start…In my blood? Don’t fuck with me.” Vali’s voice then filled with malevolence matching the one that floated in the air. “I don’t want your black history on my shoulders. I don’t want your kingdom built upon poison and blood. I’ll build my own legion, I’ll put together my own kingdom.”

His clawed hands clenched around his four weapons, their respective elements surging out as his anger and conviction rose.

As he entered the dark hall, slowly lighting up only with what rose in the centre.

Seven times his own height.

Eight blade-tipped legs raised the beast, each of skeletal make and pitch black with orbs of blue glowing brightly along their length. Each leg led to the same body, a hunched back humanoid torso with two very long arms each made with the same black bones. The arms ending in hand with all too long palms and far longer clawed fingers.

Each claw glowing a dark blue.

The beast turned as Kaine entered, its elongated skull meeting his gaze with its two empty sockets filled with shining blue energy.

Its mouth opened then, a horrid sight of the entire front of the skull cracking open and revealing long rows of viciously jagged blue fangs, as from deep within its maw a dark blue light flashed out giving off a loud buzzing sound which filled his ears with dread.

{Floor Boss} {Revenants of Darkness} Dreadnaught of Terror [Level 24]

Yet Vali retained his conviction.

“I’ll pave my own bloody future.”

Kaine stood strong before this monstrosity.

“I’ll bring forth my own apocalypse. Starting, with your pet.”