Keireen is getting the report from survivors of the border attack and is getting more aggrivated by the minute. The soldiers are still injured and are trying to seem better in his presence as to not get killed immediately but Keireen is staring them down.
"First off, these two good soldiers were the sole defenders of that village and in losing we lost them? I didn't even know someone had that magic why WAS I NOT FUCKING INFORMED!?" Keireen shouts
"W-we tried to inform you King Keireen, A report of the soldiers from nearby villages and regulars on the border patrols and forces were sent to you. Both Lieran and Scyera were in those reports." One soldier says
"You are absolutely fucking certain? You didn't just say they have mist soldiers and mist?" Keireen asks
"I'm sure my king" The same soldier says
"Ratankira..." Keireen says
Ratankira appears with the report in question.
"He speaks true though he didn't go into detail about this creature in the mist" Ratankira says
"Scyera never said why and I didn't have the authority to order her to tell me at the time, by the time I did it was too late, the report was here and the attack was about to begin so I couldn't tell you" The soldier says
"You have telepathy dont you?" keireen asks
The soldier goes pale.
"Y-yes" The soldier says
Keireen gets up and walks over to the soldier and grabs his face lifting him up.
"Then its just excuses" Keireen says as he gouges the mans eyes out and throws him to the ground stomping his head hard enough that it splatters open and across the floor
"The rest of you, get out, get healed and get back to fucking work" Keireen says angrily
The soldiers get out as quickly as they can.
"Find out if we have any other soldiers that have magics that we dont know of or I will take your head Ratankira" Keireen says as he walks out
Over in Reinlas's kingdom...
Reinlas walks to the the war room where Laraka and Yaitera are waiting for him. Reinlas looks at the war table and sees the many cities that yet await freedom. Reinlas looks at the next few.
"It would be beneficial to get some more information on them" Reinlas says
"Indeed, I can send out some stealthier members from the elite warriors to scout it out" Laraka says
"Get your best, with the Tykema likely being in the city less stealthier ones may be caught easier" Reinlas says
"Right" Laraka says
"I may just put my faith in Syremai and see if he will aid in getting information" Reinlas says
"You sure thats a good idea?" Yaitera asks
"No, I am putting trust in the fact that they came to me when they needed help and that Farenhales soul is in him and the others even if only a fragment" Reinlas says
"Right, I'll get my spies ready to move out then" Laraka says
Syremai appears in the room hanging from a wooden beam above by using his tail wrapped around it.
"I'll help, I along with the others will do our best to get back at Keireen through helping you, plus me going might end in getting more Tykema over to your side" Syremai says
"If you can then do so but dont go out of your way to do it, there is a mission and it must be completed" Reinlas says
"I know, I will do it alongside whoever else you send" Syremai says
Syremai disappears.
"I can't tell if hes still here or not, their stealth is unnervingly good" Yaitera says
"Indeed" Reinlas and Laraka say
Laraka and Yaitera teleport back to Renamerima castle and go to their spy quarters around the back of the castle.
"Erina, Jinakor and Junaim. Stand and follow us, you have a mission" Yaitera says
Erina stands up first. Erina is in light leather armour with many modifications not made profesionally but well done nonetheless she has no helmet on but the greyness of her eyes feels out of place. Jinakor then stands up, hes wearing dark leather armour with a black hood covering his head, some dark feathers are on his armour. Junaim stands up last and his armour is the heaviest of the three having metal parts in key places but he is also the only one with a bow as his weapon of choice while the other two just had daggers and a sword for proper combat. The group walks to Renamerima castles war room and enter.
"Your missions is to infiltrate the city of Okitera alongside the Tykema, Syremai" Laraka says
"You should be trying to gather everything from information about the cities people, defences and forces in general as well as anything Keireens side may be planning" Yaitera says
"Of coarse" Erina, Jinakor and Junaim say
"You move out tomorrow, its likely Tykema will be in the city so differ to Syremai when it comes to sneaking around them" Laraka says
"Of coarse, we wont fail" The three say
"Good, dismissed" Laraka says
Erina, Jinakor and Junaim leave.
"Lets hope they'll get in and out unharmed" Laraka says
"Indeed, if they do get harmed though, hopefully the information they aquire is worth it I'd have for them to be hurt in vain" Yaitera says
Laraka simply nods.
The next day...
Syremai appears in Renamerima Castles war room where Laraka, Yaitera and their spy team await.
"Alright, you three follow syremais lead though keep an eye out for anything" Laraka says
"Because you still dont trust me? Thats understandable I wouldn't either" Syremai says
"That doesnt invoke confidence" Yaitera says
"I know but im being honest, my people were made for deception and information gathering so im asking you to keep an eye on me, I wont betray you or this kingdom but I want you to watch me so you know I ain't doing shit against you all" Syremai says
"We will be watching Syremai believe that" Erina says
"indeed" Jinakor and Junaim say
"Well then good, lets get going. lets teleport to what was her name... Scyera? Her village and I should be able to lift you three to fly the rest of the way" Syremai says
"We can fly as well you know" Junaim says
"Yeah with magic but I dont need to use that, makes us harder to detect with magic scans and sensing plus I can use tykema ways of stealth to help you three even harder to detect" Syremai says
"Fine lets go" Erina says
Erina, Jinakor, Junaim and Syremai teleport to Scyera and Lierans village and syremai grabs junaim and jinakor, his tail wraps around erina and he starts to fly up and towards Okitera.
"Is carrying us three easy?" Junaim asks
"Oh fuck no, but it is better for going to Keireens lands, speaking off" Syremai says as he makes himself and the other 3 disappear as the contested border comes into view
Several minutes later they fly past the contested border, skirmishes are happening along the border constantly and Syrmai flies right over with no one beneath knowing.
"Its weird that we can't be seen... like this anyway" Junaim says
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"Can still be heard though so be careful when we are close to people" Syremai says
"Right" Junaim says
Hours later Okitera comes into view, the flight would have taken longer but some useful shortcuts syremai knew off allowed them to get there faster. Syremai flies over the wall and lands down in some alleys unwrapping his tail from around Erina and lets go of Junaim and Jinakor.
"Alright I'll keep you three and myself unseeable and unsensable but it will be tougher the more seperated we are so stay in stealthier positions or else you may become visible in terrible positions" Syremai says
"Understood" Erina, Junaim and Jinakor say as they jump up onto nearby house roofs
Erina heads to the more eastern part of the city while Jinakor and Junaim go to the western part of the city.
"Guess I'll sneak into the castle, best information will be in there" Syremai thinks to himself as he flies up and towards the castle
Erina meanwhile swiftly and quietly makes her way across the rooftops in the eastern part of the city, she jumps down into an alley and sees a guard watching movement at the end of the alley so she looks around and jumps off a small tree growing in the alley causing it to fall and crash through an old wooden structure back there, the guard turns around and walks over.
"What the fuck happened here? Someone use magic on the tree? Why?" The guard asks himself as Erina hits the guards head hard enough to knock him out, she grabs the guard and props him up on a box against the wall making it look like hes just sitting down
Erina looks around and then walks out of the alley, she sees archers lining the walls of the city but a part thats got less of them. She also sees the prison of the city with the subsequent guard station next to it.
"Ok not much but its something" Erina thinks to herself as she gets up onto another rooftop moving away from that area as someone watches her without her knowledge
Junaim and Jinakor explore their part of the city along rooftops. Junaim points out a city gate with seemingly some faults to its mechanisms. Jinakor sees this as well and the guard nearby at the entrace to an alley but also the guards who can see his position and would know if he was attacked from behind. Jinakor jumps down into the alley and makes some noise and drops some of the feathers on his armour on the ground, as the alley guard turns around.
"What was that noise?" The guard asks
"Check it out, shout if theres trouble" Another guard says
"Yeah I know" The original guard says
The guard walks into the alley and kneels down picking up a feather.
"I think some bird got trapped in something around here, hold on im going to find it!" The guard says
"Alright!" The other guards say before looking at each other
"If anyone of importance comes around and asks about him we say we dont know its his fault" One guard says
"Agreed" The other guards say
Jinakor sneaks up behind the guard he lured into the alley and knocks him out. Junaim jumps down next to him.
"Was this necessary?" Jinakor asks
"We may not able to be seen or sensed at least by these guards but we can be heard speaking and our breathe would be felt or if we touched them as well, better safe having this one knocked out than possibly getting found out by some idiotic accident" Jinakor says
"Alright fine, going to agree with you on that because invisibility is your thing" Junaim says
"Yeah it is now shut the fuck up before someone hears" Jinakor says
"Right" Junaim says
Junaim sneaks his way over to the gates mechanisms for lifting up and he sees that its currently stuck open but it seems a little noticable considering he noticed it, he hides the fault in the mechanism and gets back over to Jinakor.
"Little bit of sabotage done now lets look around for more" Junaim says
Jinakor nods as they jump back up onto the rooftops and look around for more.
Syremai flies in through an open window of the castle and takes down one guard and quickly chokes out another two with his wings. Syremai looks around and sees this went unnoticed so he moves towards the head guards office location takign out and hiding the unconcious bodies of 10 guards along the way, as syremai gets into the room he sees the head guard asleep at his desk seemingly overworked by the mountains of documents around him ranging from requisitions to orders for the city and a few catch syremais eye. Syremai looks at them and they have Keireens royal seal, syremai quickly reads over them and he learns that this city is going to be used as a staging ground for a naval invasion of Reinholm and ahead of the invasion Ratankira has been sent to the city to prepare it. Syremai uses magic to clone the letter and leaves the office quickly opening a window and flying out as he uses telepathy.
"You three I'm taking a risk in using telepathy, Ratankira is in the city he knows the tykema ways, HE CAN SEE US" Syremai telepathically shouts
"What?!" Junaim, Jinakor and Erina telepathically shout back
"Regroup outside the city all of you" Syremai telepathically says
"Right" Junaim, Jinakor and Erina telepathically say back but seconds later Erina gets knocked out and carried away and put into the guard station temprary cell
Erina quickly reawakens with her arms chained to the wall up next to her head and her legs are chained seperated to the wall, her magic is shut down. Her visions is slightly blurred but as it focusses she sees Ratankira.
"Oh you awakened faster than that guard you knocked out, nice work by the way but right now I have some questions for you, like what do you know?" Ratankira asks
"Like I'll tell you" Erina says with conviction
"As expected, first generation laws after all, Onikerm isn't here and is dealing with something else so..." Ratankira stps during his sentence and grabs a blade
"Seems I have to do this myself" Ratankira continues
Erina knows whats about to happen and prepares herself for the pain as Ratankira steps forward but he stops and looks out a nearby window.
"Syremai..." Ratankira says to himself and smirks as he digs the blade into a wooden beam and walks to the door
"Keep an eye on her and do as you wish, just make sure she stays locked up" Ratankira says as he rushes out the door
The guards look at eachother then Erina and smirk.
"Lets have some fun boys" One guard says
Erinas eyes widen and and begins to struggle against her chains and realises that the shackles for her legs are not locked properly but continues to fake struggle.
"Look at her squirm" One guard says as he walks over and unlocks the door and gets close to her grabbing her chin and stares into her eyes
"We're gonna break you and maybe get whatever information you have afterwards" The guard says
"Like hell you will" Erina says as her legs get out of the shackles and wrap around the guards neck and she swiftly snaps it
Luckily for Erina this guard is the same guard who was shutting her magic down and she levitates the keys for her arm shackle lock into the locks quickly freeing herself and her eyes suddenly turn a deep fiery red as she grabs the guards blade and speeds towards the guards leg sweeping them and slicing through their necks and fire begins to erupt around her starting to burn down the guard station. More guards rush in and see Erina free with blood covering her as she armours up and re-aquires her own weapons, the guards rush her easily about 20 guards comgn at her and she uses masterful control of the flames as they move quickly to the guards incinerating 5 of them alive as she jumps through the flames and drives a dagger through one guards neck and she gets locked into some hard combat with the rest.
"I dont have long before it happens, while it may be the best way for me to leave and warn the others of ratankira Its a risk... Fuck it theres more guards coming and its going to happen anyway" Erina thinks to herself and a few minutes of combat later the reinforcements arrive to back up the guards fighting Erina and to stop the flames
Erinas eyes fill with more colours and her eyes bleed as she lights her blade on fire cutting through a few soldiers easily and shoots a barrage of lightning through half of the guards causing them to scream out in pain as one guard rusn towards erina she turns and freezes the guard in time and zaps him full of lightning and then kicks his back letting him unfreeze and causing him to fly forward towards some more soldiers and the lightning causes him to explode pushing the guards back as the limbs smack them. Erina flies up into the air quickly and shoots a small blizzard down towards the guards freezing them all in ice. Erina quickly scans for where Syremai and the others are and senses Ratankira is where they are and flies over there quickly.
"I found the female member of your little group Syremai, bold move, escape and join the enemy? Hilarious, you know of all the conquests and should know this wont work out for you. You had a better chance with the exiles" Ratankira says as he drops the unconcious bodies of Jinakor and Junaim infront of Syremai whoes wings are sharpened like blades and has scales hardened like armour
"We'll see about that, Ratankira" Syremai says as he gets into an attack stance
Ratankira laughs but quickly senses somethign amiss but is too late to react as Erina crashes down like a small meteor ontop of Ratankira slamming his face into the ground. Erina grabs him by the head and throughs him through soem nearby trees and as blood gushes from her eyes and the colours in her eyes glow she shoots a barrage of fire and ice at Ratankira burning him and stabbing him with ice crystals, hurting him badly.
"You bitch" Ratankira says as he falls to one knee as that leg has beens tabbed by an ice crystal
"Oh shut up!" Erina shouts as she conjures some blades and throws them into Ratankiras body stabbing him multiple times but Erinas arms can be heard cracking until one final loud snap is heard from them and the blood coming from her eyes gushes forth like waterfalls
Syremai quickly wraps his tail around her and grabs junaim and Jinakor teleporting back to Tykenheilm as its the closest friendly city with good healers. Syremai unwraps his tail from around erina whofalls to the ground with another loud snap eminating from her right leg.
"WE NEED HEALERS OVER HERE!" Guards shout as they see them teleport in
Mages with healing as their main magic run over and begin to heal them all. Erina doesnt seem to be improving at all until her eyes return to their natural grey, the healing magic from the mages begin to work on the snapped arms and right leg but the blood coming from her eyes does not stop. Jinakor and Junaim begin to wake up, they see Erina and the state shes in.
"What the hell happened to her?!" Junaim shouts
"Her magic has gone crazy from what I sense" Jinakor says
"All I know is that her bones snapped during the fight even though she didn't get hit and her eyes were bleeding by the time she got to us" Syremai says
"What the hell is causing it?" Jinakor asks
"No clue, might be erratic magic, does she have that?" Syremai asks
"No, wouldnt be a good spy if she did" Junaim says
"True, though let me be sure" Syremai says as he scans Erinas soul
"Yeah no tear in the soul" Syremai says
Junaim uses telepathy to contact Laraka.
"Laraka, we are in Tykenheilm, me and Jinakor at least have something but we awoke here after a fight with Ratankira, Erina seems to be pretty badly injured" Junaim says
Laraka teleports there and looks at the mages healing them.
"What is Erinas condition?" Laraka asks
"We are healing her bones but whatever is causing the eyes bleeding its not giving up right now even with our healing" One mage says
"Keep working on it" Laraka says as he turns his attention to Syremai, Junaim and Jinakor
"What did you three learn?" Laraka asks
"Me and Junaim found out the city gate on the eastern side of Okitera is currently stuck open so if an attack was put on the city that would be an optimal point of entry into the city" Jinakor says
"I didn't get something on the city because my mind was drawn to this document" Syremai says as he hands Laraka the document from Keireen
Laraka takes the document and reads it causing his eyes to widen.
"That bold bastard..." Laraka says
Laraka quickly uses telepathy to talk to Reinlas.
"My king, I have news from the spies" Laraka says telepathically
"What is it?" Reinlas asks telepathically
"Keireen plans to attack Reinholm through a naval assault" Laraka says telepathically
"That son of a bitch is going to actually try that? Ill need you to get some of your forces to Reinholm then. How are the spies?" Reinlas asks
"Syremai, Junaim and Jinakor are fine but Erina seems to be quite injured, I'm going to find out soon as to why and how it happened but shes unconcious in the meantime I will get soldiers to Reinholm as per your order my king" Laraka says telepathically as he turns back to Syremai and the rest of the spy group and looks out at the ocean
"Naval combat... this is not going to be easy..." Laraka says as Erina lays unconcious still with blood pouring from her eyes and Syremai sees the dread on Larakas face as the realisation hits that none in the kingdom have experienced that yet...