A few days pass and rumours across the world of a god getting involved in the human and elf war is spreading alongside the rumours of Golanier which for many fall on deaf ears except for races of whom have kept the knowledge of him. Sunhale stands upon the walls of the fortress and soon enough the defences of the fortress begin to activate, Sunhale quickly checks what is happening and he sees that the supply transport has arrived outside the teleportation barrier and is making their way up so he quickly stops the defences from attacking and gets the undead prepared. A while passes as the transport makes its way to the fortress.

"Alright we're here! You going to open up!?" The transport leader shouted

Sunhale and several undead guards jump down onto the guards of the transport and knock out all of them save for the transport leader whom Sunhale landed on grabbing them by the throat.

"W-what the f-fuck!?" The transport leader shouted confusedly while struggling to breath

"I need to borrow this" Sunhale said

Sunhale untightens his grip yet he stabs his finger into the neck of the transport leader as he begins to shapeshift into his form. Sunhales ears change from pointed ones to the rounded ones of humans his face and overall body change to perfectly match that of the transport leader while the magical tattoos on his body seem to disappear they flash a magical light before doing so. Yorun and Golanier walk out to him as he takes his finger out of the transport leaders neck who rapidly tries to heal themself as the undead grab them.

"Well that's horrifying to watch" Yorun said

"Well necessary to perfectly match the form of a person otherwise the shapeshifting isn't correct, were I going for a general human look I could do it easily" Sunhale said

"Regardless you've got your mission Sunhale do what you need to do" Golanier said

"Indeed we're counting on you" Yorun said

"Yeah lets make this look better, injure me" Sunhale said

"What?" Yorun said immediately confused

"Alright" Golanier said without a care

"Hold Golanier" Yorun said

"My plan is to make it seem like the fortress hasn't gotten supplies due to being attacked enroute as a result you need to make me injured, illusions would likely be picked up then so would the shapeshifting" Sunhale said

"If they think the fortress hasn't gotten supplies then they'll likely send more we can give to the new mages on our side and get some more undead" Yorun said

"Exactly now Golanier hurt me once we are away from the teleport barrier, don't want to walk through the mountain range injured" Sunhale said

Sunhale and Golanier made their way through the mountain range and once they are outside the teleport barrier Golanier within an instant injures Sunhale by slicing across his body with conjured weapons, Sunhale begins to rapidly bleed and teleports quickly to Deranel. Within seconds the gate guards run over to him and begin to heal him while taking him into the nearby guard tower where the cities captain of the guard walks in.

"Eltikra, the fuck happened to you!?" The captain shouted concerned

"Attacked enroute to the f-fortress by the e-elves fuck the others are g-gone" Sunhale said biting through the pain

"Shit, get healed up then come to me after I need a report, need to know as much as possible, think you'll be alright?" The captain asked concerned, Sunhale notes small smiles on the guards healing them

"I'll heal thanks to them" Sunhale said while motioning to the guards healing him

The captain nods as they walks away, the guards healing Sunhale continue to heal but soon enough Sunhale looks at them.

"Always nice when the captain cares huh?" Sunhale said

"Indeed, Captain Wonakri always shows concern when this sort of thing happens but well it definitely keeps us loyal" One guard said getting a small laugh from Sunhale

"Yeah, almost like we're children to Wonakri" Sunhale said

"Agreed, some people need someone like him in their life glad he's there for those people" Another guard said

After a small bit of talk with the guards Sunhale is healed enough and is then brought to Captain Wonakri's office within the city. The guards leave Sunhale whom they still believe to be Eltikra, Wonakri helps Sunhale to sit down.

"So Eltikra you, feeling alright now? Nothing still needing healed?" Wonakri asked

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"No, I'm better now thanks Captain" Sunhale said

"Alright well as much as I'd like to send you on your way home to rest right now you need to give this report so I can prepare anyone that needs to go there next" Wonakri said

"Alright, as you know we had to teleport a few times to make our way to the fortress due to the nature of the supplies and the amount of them as well as us guards going with it. After two or three teleports we stopped for a few minutes around the Kolakinta forest road, as we rested and got our magic back we heard noises and we began to investigate since it could have been bandits" Sunhale said not giving away anything that he'd be lying even in this unfamiliar face

"I'll take it it wasn't bandits given your training I'd be slightly disappointed if it were" Wonakri said with a little levity clearly trying to make the situation less sad for himself and who he believes to be a comrade

"Indeed it wasn't, elves from the elven army likely scouts or spies I don't know they bore weird tattoos that changed and they attacked us they overpowered us pretty quickly, first one of us fell and then another and so on. They took us away as well as all the supplies but they weren't teleporting either, don't know why but they weren't it eventually gave me enough of a window to teleport out as they hadn't set up a barrier to block that likely to ensure no one else came to investigate an obvious barrier" Sunhale said

"Well those definitely had to be elven spies, there's been talk from those that came from Gantoral, there were elves in that attack and they bore such tattoos. I don't believe there was anything about them changing but reports made there seem like so many more tattooed elves so maybe they were changing and it confused people, ah fuck that's actually smart" Wonakri said impressed but also annoyed

"I also saw something else but I scarcely believed it, now that my mind is clearer and I remember what went on in Gantoral, I swear to the gods I saw a walking corpse" Sunhale said

"Well the reports did say they were working together with one who controlled the dead before Raeknar showed up and fought Gaeronak, Gods this is getting more and more complicated but thank you Eltikra for this, wait here a moment while I go tell the other leaders of the city" Wonakri said before getting up and walking out

"Perfect" Sunhale said himself

Sunhale looks around the office without getting up and lightly begins to use magic to find the guard personnel files and it takes a few moments but once he does he scans for the file on Eltikra and begins to get all the information of the person he is pretending to be.

"No family at least none in this city, that's good, wouldn't be the first time I've had to dance around a family dynamic but at least I don't need to this time, some other personal information and such so I'll deal with it later" Sunhale thought to himself

Soon enough the door bursts open and Sunhale quickly looks to the door as some pompous looking noble who walks in looking angered, Wonakri is coming in behind the noble who quickly lifts Sunhale telekinetically and throws him into the wall holding him against it.

"You dare come back here like a miserable failure of a soldier due to some shitty fucking elves!?" The noble shouted angrily

Wonakri acts quickly upon those words being said as he grabs the noble by the arm and his eyes glow an ominous red.

"Halt" Wonakri's said his voice commanding and and teeming with magic

The noble instantly stops and stands there with a dead look in their eyes as Sunhale gets up holding his head but he watches intently.

"You forget yourself, you may be noble but I don't care about that so if you dare ever touch one of my guards again you will walk yourself to a cell and if you even dare of trying something being that you will put a noose around your neck understood?" Wonakri asked

"Yes" The noble replied with a monotone voice

"Good" Wonakri said as his voice and eyes return to normal as does the nobles expression and voice

"Oh you son of a-" The noble is cut off

"You know what I just did and you know no one else will give a fuck, now leave before you end up walking yourself to a cell" Wonakri said with a smirk

The noble walks away angrily as Wonakri looks at Sunhale.

"Well Eltikra, sorry about that you know how the nobles are now go home and rest" Wonakri said

"Thanks captain" Sunhale said as he walked out and teleported to Eltikras home

Sunhale looks around the house which he notes is surprisingly large for just one person who lives alone however despite that he finds it empty and nothing to suggest another person is around so he relaxes.

"Alright I should find out if there is an elven network in the city I may not technically be with my people right now but regardless we'll share information if they are here, now that I'm in the city as well I don't need this particular disguise but should I need it I can do it again without the blood this time. Thank the gods for the ways the soul works" Sunhale thought to himself

Sunhale sits down cross legged on the ground and as he closes his eyes he begins to float as his form changes to a different human look, his tattoos are still not visible. He begins to concentrate on the hidden tattoos made by magic.

"Need to see them regardless of whether they are hidden or not, only our people know the secrets of these tattoos so need to focus on them and remember Orailonkra" Sunhale thought to himself

As he thought that final elven word the magic in his body swells and he opens his eyes seeing the tattoos on his body yet as he looks in a nearby mirror they do not show up on the mirror.

"There now I'll see them" Sunhale thought to himself as he stopped floating

Sunhale soon teleports away from the house to a nearby alleyway and walks out, he soon begins to wander the streets making his way to a market the city has, he pretends to look at what multiple merchants are selling but he doesn't find another elven spy so he continues on out of the market looking around the city. After a few hours of searching he comes across some construction being done and he notices one of the workers has the tattoos and so he sits nearby to wait for this worker to be done with their current job which luckily doesn't take too long given it is getting darker. As the disguised elf walks away Sunhale begins to tail them and he knows the elven spy has caught wind of him, as he follows, Sunhale carefully watches the other mans movements, noting he favours to walk on the left of the path and every couple steps he scratches his ear so Sunhale responds by walking on the right of the path scratching his own ear in turn with the man the man puts his hand to his head scratching it but in doing so moves his head like a slight nod. They both continue to walk for a while longer until the man heads into a building, Sunhale soon follows him heading inside he is then face to face with the guy who opens a secret passageway in a wall that leads down, both of them go down as it closes behind them. Once they reach the bottom of the stairs they arrive into a large chamber full of tables of information, documents and weaponry, Sunhale and the other guy return to their natural elven forms and soon a small legion of elves who were hidden in the chamber reveal themselves.