Chapter 20

Did it work?

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Authors note

Hey guys are liking it

and you should read CAREFULLY , alot of things i mentioned in this rather ' boring ' chapter with alot of history will be of importance.

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Damion , Erica and Iz were all sitting around the offerin bowl with the flames inside. The godess Lilith was hovering in mid air and she was laying on her stomach rolling around from time to time.

As Damion looked at the rolling around figure occasionally , he got smacked across the head by both of his companions , and saw stars. They just had cleared the Yetis but none of them had respawned yet.

So they were bored and the godess has been bored ever since she appeared.

" So Lilith you mentioned the 5 other gods and Palanthalos before does that mean there are a total of 7 gods inculding you? " Damion said after he regained consciousness.

With her legs wipping back and forth she retook her tilted head pose with a hand resting on her chin before she spoke.

" No. There are 9 greater gods inculding myself. The all father and mother , the gods you already know , me and my sister. Only us 2 were born as twins but we are polar opposites. " She concluded her speech.

Now all of them were quite attentive towards the godess and pestered her for more information.

" Okay , okay let me tell you a story of the long forgotten past. " She started.

Once there was peace amongst all the Gods and their creations and everything strived. All of the elfs , the teachers of the races , were also at peace even though they were quite different.

There were 3 distinctive races of elves at that time.

The quick and proud Wood elfs that Palanthalos had created from dew he collected from plants and light of a new day.

Sandrias her twin created the wise and arrogant Drows from volcanic ashes that had just been spewed from the earth and the shadows that lurked in the depths of the underworld.

Lilith created the smart and dejected High elfs involving the never thawing ice of the south and brightness of thunderflashes.

Once all three lived in harmony in the great planes of the old world even mixing between eachother creating the various other races. Dwarves were created from mixing the lines of Palanthalos with Sandrias. Humans were created from mixing Liliths line with Palanthalos.

Naturally they still had pointy ears and elvish features but as the other gods infused them with powers of their own they changed their appearance.

Trios the god of humans instilled the creation with the power of balance and neutraility and created his own domain.

Ungdir gave the newly formed dwarfs the ability to survive underground and he passed on his greed for shiny metals.

Gwatuk came later and stole some of Trios people and corrupted them and gave them green skin , the orc were born.

Kirach stole the Drows himself and made them eat his own flesh , thus they became dragons.

But as Sandrias was angered at him she killed many of the dragons and set the rest free. Kirach on the other hand took the unborn offspring of his own creation and used an even greater darkness to corrupt them into the shape of what we know today as Draconians.

Some other minor gods intervened with the set 7 races and created the multitude of races we know today and some even hidden that the gods know nothing about.

Some gods were angered at the minor gods that just wanted their own domain and slew all of their people making them fall into nothingness again.

While other such as Lilith allowed a minor god to govern her creation with him. She asked her followers if they wanted to greet this new god with open arms and as they were as pure as their creator a few revered both the ice godess and the new god.

Then another minor god came to Lilith and begged on all fours for people of his own. She even gave to this god some. Now more and more minor gods came crawling to Lilith and demanded their own people.

She consulted Sandrias about it , the only other greater god that allowed minor gods to co exist with her people.

Both were troubled by the increasing number of minor gods that kept trying to grab their creations away from them.

As they turned to the other gods for what they would do the other 5 laughed at them. Ridiculing them and spiting them.

WIth a feeling of betrayal they returned to their domains. Each of the twins dealt with it in a different manner.

Sandrias gave a minority of her people , against her creations own will , to the minor gods. As they had corrupted them Sandrias order her drows and their allied races to enslave the now transformed drows to do slave work for them.

Lilith on the other hand formed a new ' crop ' of race formed purely out of ice without her essence and gave it to the lesser gods. Some gods decided to life in the sculptures themselfs while others just gave a little bit of their own life to them to create their own race.

The twins domain grew and grew through their respektive ways and soon the other 5 gods felt threatend. They turned towards Lilith first and told her of the cruelty and atrocity her twin was letting her creation do.

Lilith thought of them as lies and threw the other 5 gods out of her domain with the help of all the other minor gods that loved her for what she had done. Everytime she called for them they would swarm to her like she was their godess. The revered her for her kindness and pledged eternal loyalty.

After their disgrace at the hands of their eldest sister the 5 gods turned to Sandrias and told her of the riches her twins lands held. With a eye of greed and the prospect of new slaves the now combined forces of 6 gods waged war on the high elfs.

With the help of the minor gods that she had given life to and the races they and herself had created they threw the invaders back but Liliths grief was so deep at Sandrias betrayal that she shed tears and entrapped all the creations in eternal ice in her domain.

The 6 gods returned after she had lost the strength of the lesser gods she had trapped in ice and bound her essence to the ice that she had created herself.

The drows had lost most of their people and had gained no new slaves so now the 5 other gods fell upon her. Since she was already weakend at the loss of her people they bound her essence to a giant immortal centipede that lived in a cave all the way at the north of the continent , where she should remain bound to for eternity. While her people and the 2 minor gods people were to be hunted until they were extinct.

Thus ended the first Dusk war.

Centurys later the second dusk war picked up where the first one left off and the creation of the 5 remaining gods turned upon themselves.

As a certain King had almost entirely wiped out all the other 5s creation the all father and all mother threw a burning rock on the land to start anew.

But their children warned their creations , or what was left of them , and created a new land for them with combined efforts.

For this they sapped the eternal ices strength and cut of legs of the centipede weakening their sisters further.

As the bond between Lilith and the ice weakend she lost the majority of her creation and also most of the minor gods she had entrapped. But she managed to settle the remaining ice in the new world

But Sandrias on the other hand turned the centipede into a glutonus Spider that even devoured her own off spring with her last remaining power.

This spider that devoured the drows that she created gained more and more strength, and a idea popped in the head of the ' Queen of spiders '. If her people thrived and she ate more maybe she could be set free.

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So she ordered the spider to carry her people to the new world and only feed on them to keep growing , not to drive the drows to extinction. And the spider did as it was told.

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" Its all done. " The worker said while pulling up his pants so the moon would stay in the night sky and wouldn't shine in Craigs bedroom.

" So what was wrong with the capsule? " Craig asked in a excited voice.

Slowly sipping the instant coffee Craig had made for the hard worker ... he grimaced at its taste put it down carefully before he spoke.

" Got no idea. "

" Excuse me , sir , what do you mean , you got no idea? " Craig squeezed out as polite as he could.

This guy had been rude the second Craig saw him , from laughing at Craigs furniture , to farting loudly everytime he bent down , mock the coffee he made to the best of his ability and even flashing his a** at Craig.

It was really hard for Craig to remain calm but all he was thinking about was ' Back to TNB back to TNB back to TNB ' .

" Was ordered to exchange parts. Nothin more. Don't care about the reasons. Whatever it works now. " The guy said.

Craig still containing his rage lead the guy out his door after signing some papers and finally he was free of the guy that also stank to the heavens.

[ AUTHORS NOTE : I know not all electricians that work at customers homes , stink or flash their behind , as i myself had a job for electricians for quite a while. But i think the prejudice is funny :) ]

Now Craig ran to the capsule and saw all lights burning in a blue color and he jumped in the capsule.

The buzzing sound appeared and the lazers started working. Carefully scanning his unique makeup of synapsis in his brains and the surface area of his pupils.

As Craig thought he was flying he came to a realization it was only a wishful thinking and he saw the blue buttons that glowed even inside the capsule.

" AHHH F**K ! " Craig shouted.

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" That sums up what happend. " Lilith ended her story telling.

" Wow ... you gods have it rough. " Iz , the least tactful of the group , said.

Erica slapped her palm across her forehead while Damion ran over to Iz and tried to cover her mouth with his hands , to prevent any further things to escape her.

But as he was covering her mouth she bit into his finger and even drew some blood. Now Damion , the full plated dwarf , was hopping up and down blowing on his fingers.

" Haha , serves you right. " Iz said.

After this she laughed and Erica joined in and even Lilith giggled slightly at the small figure making rattling sounds while bouncing around.

" Guess they should start to respawn soon , how about we get going. See you later Lilith. " Erica said and headed down the long and icy corridors.

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* ring* , * ring* , *ring*.

" Hey dear , whats up? " Craigs mothers voice came through the cell phone speakers.

" Mom , there was a guy here just now. He ' repaired ' the capsule and it's still not working. " Craig stated in a annoyed manner.

Craig heared the typing of a keyboard while he spoke but as he finished the noise stopped , he expected his mother to be baffled.

" I already told you , there is now way to bypass the Ai Palantalosses directive. Why did you even hire a company to fix it. " She said and the typping noised resumed.

Now it was craigs turn to be shocked and he scratched his head before he continued.

" Uhm Mum , i actually figured you had sent that guy. "

The typing stopped once again and now Craig had his mothers full attention.

" Tell me everything. "

Craig sighed and started the story without leaving any part out.

" ... He had no idea just replaced parts. " Craig finished his story.

A brief pause hung between them but his mother knew a way out of this stalemate.

" You got a copy of the order right? Go get it. "

With his cellphone being pinched between his cheeck and shoulder he rummaged through some papers at his computer desk and soon found the paper.

" Uhm ... Ah there it is. It just says TnB Corporation at the top. " Craig told her.

A few clicks of a mouse later his mother spoke once again.

" I got no such order on my list here ... This is very ... mysterious. Craig now listen to me very carefully. This technology is rather ... complicated ... who knows what that guy did to the machine. "

After another half an hour of discussing back and forth his mother just decided to leave it to him what he would do with the machine and she would investigate into the matter further until she found the person who hired the company.

Craig went for a jogg and ordered some food in. After he ate and took a shower he was bored so he researched more about TnB. The rankings hadn't changed and no really good new info was released.

He checked out the video channels of hermes guild , but nothing caught his interest. As he took up another book he simply put it away after a few minutes.

" Maybe i should do something ... constructive ... if i can return to the new world. " Craig spoke his thoughts out loud.

Now he researched various martial art techniques on the net. But he got bored so he returned to one of his favourites. Sun tzus Art of war. He had gathered multiple books about strategys of war in his digital library and read through them occasionally.

He focused mainly on ' western ' warfare nonetheless. Not about advanced war-craft but the old style. Focusing around the Roman empire , Germany , Babylon , Greece and his two favourites Carthage and Byzantinum.

Most of them were very early and around the same time they had reached the heights of their culture. But the two he found interesting were in very different times. Carthage declined as Rome rose to power and Byzantin Empire rose as the ' heritage ' of rome , well one among many that claimed ancestry of the strong and mighty S.P.Q.R .

The tactics they used were ingenious and refreshing instead of having to think about advanced or modern warfare where the pull of a trigger or a click of button caused world destruction.

Guerilla tactics , flanking , pincer or the more advanced formations of troop movement were the key to victory during those times instead of superior numbers.

Not only that but also how one trained their armys or how they used their cavalry. Terrain used to their full potentional like when Carthage tried to conquer Rome and they couldn't cross the alps with their STRONG and MIGHTY war elephants.

Everything played a important part but most of all logistics. Even if another nation invaded your territory , just by using guerilla tactics and killing of their supply line a whole army would fall apart.

Or the example of Napoleon that wasn't prepared for the cold weather and that the russians were smart enough to burn down the villages that the french wanted to pillage for food along the way.

Everybody had their own ' style ' of thinking and combat but what would happen if a lone person with a army underneath him could combine all of this?

Now a smile appeared on ' GRIMS ' face and his feet naturally dragged him towards the capsule. He climbed inside and closed his eyes as he took a deep breath and flipped the switch to on.

The familiar feeling of weightlessness aussaulted him and the tunnel filled with colors that flew by engulfed him and he was smiling a very ... pleased smile as he landed in a world of white ........