The first Ummite shuttles arrived but the troops and soldiers forced the civilians, the elves, some beastmen to hold flags in the honor of the dignitaries come to visit the planet while Tyran looked at his new acquisition of...

The first Ummite shuttles arrived but the troops and soldiers forced the civilians, the elves, some beastmen to hold flags in honor of the dignitaries who came to visit the planet while Tyran looked at his new acquisition from space in his destroyer palace. He could see the moon and the earth and behind it... there was the Keeper of the Idol, the Alien Artifact that gave all the magic to the inhabitants and recycled their existence as the elves and other races sometimes had difficulty adapting on worlds conquered and rebuilt by the Ummites.

Obviously, the inhabitants of the Village saw for themselves who they worshipped and they were not at all as they thought. They thought they were following angelic beings, full of good will, but the reality was quite different.

They were brutes from the empire, some wearing masks to filter the toxic air of the earth. They were armed to the teeth, policing and giving arbitrary orders.

The human soldiers bowed down and, outnumbered... could only witness the future they were promised under the Ummite empire: serfs... not to say slaves...

The elf general did not take the shuttle and when the first Ummite soldiers landed... he was quickly disillusioned...

The humans, possibly terrifying with their technology, were a joke against the Ummites.

But General Mondeville did not give up and played the fool's game that was offered to them.

He ignored Sarah's pleas, confident in his men, and trusted Yuri, hoping to win freedom or a position of responsibility within the Ummite empire and with their forces.

Why not join their army?...train and follow the guidelines... Thus, in his mind...humans, could show their difference with the wild people (elves..) and prove to them that they do not need magic to be useful...

His arguments were noble and selfless but ... often ... choices have consequences.

Those who didn't pick up flags fast enough were getting a stick in the face...

Mandragus gritted his teeth and went to the hydra temple himself, masked by tarps so as not to irritate the Ummites. Even the statue of the hydra had been covered and hidden under tons of hay bales.

He went himself, alone in the black tabernacle and cut his hand, his blood in offering.

"O mighty Destroyer...Forgive me for not listening to your son sooner.... I was blinded. Mercy for me. Mercy for my people..."

And... the next moment he was in space, on the edge of a vortex, a black hole...

The protective bubble was so small... so fragile...

On the other side of the bubble... the emptiness, the lack of air, the space cold and the cosmic fire and its batch of radiations... the kingdom of death... of non-life... and yet, there were so many planets, often sheltering life, like islands in an infinite ocean of darkness... Everything seemed so big, so disproportionate...

The mage was dizzy and ... now fear and the overwhelming presence of the aura of a deity.

Then, next to him, a black sphere materialized and out of it came a young blonde girl with long hair.

He knew it was Darkia.

Darkia: "You finally had the courage to come without Hans...I can understand...he ate a lot of yours... Me...not...not yet...but you are safe..I will protect you."

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The reassuring words had their effect and the elf regained some of his reason, clouded by terror.

Then, in all its grace, the black Hydra came out of the star in which it had made its lair. A space monster sheltering another monster, even more terrible: a black hole.

Like a spider coming out of its tunnel, Enka appeared in front of the bubble, but at an astronomical distance, otherwise the poor elf would have been crushed on his skin, by gravity, so imposing was its mass.

Enka: "I am listening to you, slave of Tyrant.

He looked to Darkia, hoping for support and perhaps a helping hand..."

Darkia: "Be honest and tell the truth. We are not here to destroy you.

"I am Mandragus... the default representative of my people... We lost our world and were deported here by the Ummites. We are slaves to their artifact and our lives are bound to it...sorry...Goddess of the Stars..."

Enka: "I know all this... and your sacrifice grieves me but also your existence is at the expense of other existence... Your resurrections are done by sacrificing a soul or an unborn soul each time... and Carnage, my son has only tried to balance the scales. Life is precious and you lose more each time. With each return, a part of you disappears feeding the power of Tyrant... and so it is with every planet... You are supposedly happy but do not revolt. And Tyrant sows, deports, creates and destroys, each time for his own power. But I am above all this but being from another world, another dimension, I cannot intervene directly. We also have an empire... A thousand times bigger than those of the Ummites. You are fortunate to have Carnage and Darkia as candidates to rule this world and then become part of the Electron Empire. This is also their test. But back to you. You know the Djizira. It's hard, it's unfair, but it's the price of saving your souls and your lives... But hurry up... time is running out now... in one day... it will be too late..."

The next moment he found himself on the ground in front of the temple, the door open and the tabernacle spread out.

He didn't waste a moment, and called all his soldiers and administrators to explain the emergency.

From my den, I could see their despair and for the first time I felt pity for these beings...

Humans would suffer the same fate... as all conquered creatures.

We were indeed monsters, dragons, Vespalians, Kobolds dinosaurs and a whole bunch of carnivores but we were whole... we had our feelings, our notion of right and wrong and empathy... We were all capable of restraint and capable of compromise in order to live together... except for hunger... (we had to eat!!) Finally, a balance was always possible. for example, the elves raising cattle that we could devour (slaughter...) at our convenience in exchange for their lives... and our protection... a bit like the mafia that protects its "subscribers" but it was livable... But the ummites were like succubi...an end in itself, an extermination... "Soft".

Sarah then summoned all those who remained faithful to her and went to the temple. Darkia was waiting for her, but in human form, with gazelle horns and her long black serpentine tail to remind her that she was a dragoness but also a nightmare...

"Your majesty. I have heard everything from Mandragus and we sincerely regret our conduct. We did not mean to betray you and ask that you forgive us."

Darkia "Is it fear or are you sincere?"

Sarah: "We wish to have the mark of Enka..You saved us and we owe you a debt of life..we regret for those who followed Yuri and the harm done to your majesty Lord Carnage.."

She drew her forehead close and looked into Sarah's eyes and they found themselves in the palace, near the Storm Coast. Darkia stood in all her grandeur. And Sarah was naked, with nothing in front of the queen.

Darkia: "I see that you do not hide anything... you say the truth... but I want more.."

Sarah knelt before the gigantic monster in front of her. Darkia was black as the darkest darkness and no reflection emanated from her.

"Lord, Goddaughter...Everything we have is yours...We gave you everything..."

Darkia...no.. I want Monty....

Sarah cried. It was a nightmare... then the next thing I knew they were in the temple. dressed, as if a blink of an eye had passed.

Darkia, as a human... "Do you understand me??"

Sarah was defeated... "Do you want to eat it???"

Darkia then laughed... "I have never eaten humans... here... but in A'Arnateth... That's another thing... no... I don't eat anymore... I kill..well... my enemies and my friends' enemies...

I want Monty as a crew member of my palace ship. He will make friends and they will be like a family. Of course, he can come and visit you.

Sarah: "And Raven...??? they love each other... she might even be pregnant with his child..."

Darkia: "I like women too... she can come with if she wants... "

Sarah: "I understand... you have human friends I see... you are not the monster you decried.."

"Yes, Sarah...I have a heart too but I am and remain a monster..there was a time I wanted to be human but my nature is that of a dragon..and I am proud of it..."

In the following days, flee the city and take refuge in the woods but definitely not caves. You can also take refuge in the wreckage of the ark but do not stay near the windows...for those who have difficulty, the tabernacle of the temple will be open to the abyss..."