300 billion years pass by once more and many "attempted regicides" have happened making Keireens soldiers have to be "imprisoned" when they try. Farenhale has been in the valley city more and more over the years its pretty much become his home and hes been doing much in his time mainly with potions and trying to find out more about the world and creatures in it, its severely dropped his time doing actual training as hes been more invested in his discoveries. Meanwhile Reinlas has been doing all he can back at Reinholm and for the whole kingdom.
Farenhale walks out of the valley cities castle wondering what to do today as hes finished current projects.
"Maybe I'll go to the market, there may be something there" Farenhale thinks to himself as he teleports to the market
Farenhale starts looking around and greeting people as he sees them but he notices the guards are a bit on edge and walks over to one.
"Why do you all seem on edge?" Farenhale asks
"Lord farenhale some bodies were found in the valley we thought nothing of it originally but when we looked them over they were killed by blades the kind used by Keireens soldiers" The guard whispers to him
"Oh, not good, keep an eye out soldier thank for informing me" Farenhale says to him and walks away not sensing the magical barriers being put around the city by unseen forces
Farenhale is now a little unnerved by what he was told as thousands of reasons as to why those soldiers killed race through his head the main two being self defense as they try to get here like others or the fateful day of the vision. He tries to put that second option out of his head and decides to tell Reinlas about that news.
"Brother can you hear me?" Farenhale says telepathically to Reinlas but is only greeted by an unnerving telepathic silence
"Odd Reinlas doesn't just not answer" Farenhale thinks to himself
Farenhale walks back to the castle feeling somethings off.
"Something is wrong I just dont know what" Farenhale says not knowing that those barriers are preventing him from sensing things in the city
Over at the walled entrance to the valley...
Guards are on the wall over looking the valley just in case and they see one of the patrols from in the valley coming back but they're covered in blood.
"What happened to you guys!?" One guard shouts
"We were attacked by poison claws, we have one wounded here!" A patrolman says
The guard goes to order for the gate to be opened but another stops him.
"Wait something is different about them" The second guard says
"What do you mean?" The first one says
"If they had come out of a fight that bad they'd show some sign of fatigue but look at them they are completely fine" The second guard says
The first guard looks at the patrol and sees the second guard is right. The patrol seems to notice that the gate isnt going to be opened and they immediately conjure bows and arrows and shoot at the guards on the wall with perfect aim killing all of them.
"Lets move kill the prisoner" The 'patrolman' says
Another of the 'patrolmen' kill the soldier who had actually been attacked and they all silently fly up onto the wall and move the bodies away from view then use illusion magic to hide them even better and they clean their armours taking the place of the guards. When the guard shift happens they leave the wall but stay around the gates for a few hours until it gets dark.
"Now" One of the 'patrolmen' says as they get closer to the gate and kill the guards on the ground and start making a fireball together and when they throw it at the gate it blows up the entire wall the guards on top are incinerated by the fireball
As more guards run over towards the wall they're picked off by arrows or lightning and fireballs as an army starts to pour through the hole in the wall, the soldiers start attackign guards as the hand of death, onikerm, Ratankira and finally Keireen come through after the vanguard.
"Kill every guard! Anyone else take them as prisoners!" Keireen commands
"Thats not very fun" Onikerm says as his sadistic grin turns to a scowl
"Its strategy you madman" Ratankira says
"Both of you shut up and help them" The hand of death commands as he runs into the fray and chops off soem guards heads with ease as Ratankira and onikerm jump into the fray
Farenhale runs out of the castle and flies up and uses his fire magic to start burning the invading army its like a wave of fire travelling over the soldiers advance and the screams of pain from the soldiers until they are charred and dead are horrific.
"Fuck, I need to get Reinals here dammit" Farenhale says as he tries to contact him telepathically again but he cant
"They must be blocking our contact, dammit!" Farenhale says
"Lord farenhale what do we do!?" One soldier shouts to him
"I need a sheild wall to stop the enemies advance while non combatants escape immediatly!" Farenhale shouts and the guards are quick to respond by forming the sheild wall with archers behind them to fire on the enemy and mages behind the archers to put up magical shields and use their own magic for healing and combat
"Seems they have some notion of what to do in combat" Keireen says with a small smirk
"Ratankira, please show them what you do" Keireen says
"Of coarse my king" Ratankira says as he looks at the shield wall and uses his mind control to force the first few rows of shield men to turn around and starts attacking the others without shields dismantling the shield wall quickly
Keireen army barrels through the remaining guards and farenhale flies in to help but gets tackled by the hand of death and they land at the castle gates.
"Just you left 'Lord' Farenhale" The hand of death says drawing his blade
"Theres many left" Farenhale says as he kicks the hand of death back and throws fire at him
The hand of death uses hsi own fire magic to absorb the fire and starts shooting lightning at farenhale who dodges and they speed at eachother locking blades.
"Who the hell are you?" Farenhale asks
"Exactly what people call me, The Hand of Death" The hand says as he headbutts Farenhale and pushes him back after it to try and stab into him
"Shit, I mean you name" Farenhale says as he blocks and drops down to take out his legs which he does successfully takign the hand of death down to the ground
"I'll tell you when your dying on this very ground" The hand says as he teleports above farenhale and speeds down towards farenhale driving his knee into farenhales back smashing him into the ground and he then quickly stabs hsi sword into farenhale shoulder
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Farenhale yells at the pain and pulls the sword out quickly and slashes thew hand with it successfully hitting him as he didnt expect him to react so fast
"Fuck" The hand of death says as he flies up and conjures a few hundred bows and arrows which start to continually fire on farenhale and farenhale makes a wall of fire which burns every arrow and he makes the wall travel quickly to the hand of death and starts burning the bows themselves and burns the hand of death
"Alright, fuck this magic fight I'm going to DESTROY you with sword fighting" The hand of death says as he flies to farenhale and hits into him with such speed they crash into the ground creating a small hole which farenhale then kicks the hand of death off him
"Fuck I lack severly in fighting compared to him" Farenhale says as he speeds at the hand of death to lock blades with him and farenhale pushes the blades towards the hands face as farenhale is still stronger due to being of the first generation
"Oh farenhale such strength but lets see if your mind is as strong as your body" The hand of death says
The enemy soldiers have been taking men women and children those who can and cant fight are all taken prisoner and keireen looks at farenhale and the hand of death fighting and nods.
"EXECUTE EVERY PRISONER" Keireen commands to his soldiers
Most of the soldiers dont want to but as they themselves dont want to be killed or exiled they start slitting throats and taking the heads off of every man, woman and child that are shackled.
"NO!!!" FArenhale shouts as he grabs the hand of deaths head and slams him into the ground thinking he knocked him out he looks at the enemy army as hsi eyes turn a dark red
"YOU FUCKING BASTARDS ILL END EVERY ONE OF YO-" Farenhale is cut off by the searing pain at his shoulders as the hand of death has quickly while he was distracted chopped off farenhales arms
Farenhale falls to his knees in pain and bleeding profusely.
"Want to end your sentence?" The hand of death says with a grin on his face as he kicks farenhale in the face knocking him to the ground compeltely
"F-fuck y-you" Farenhale says as he uses his magic to call on a lightning storm which starts striking lightning all around the city killing hundreds off enemy soldiers a second and a few times striking the hand of death but soon enough farenhales magic runs out
"Pathetic" The hand of death states as he chops farenhales legs off making him yell in more pain
Farenhale is still barely concious as the hand of death picks him up by the neck and makes him look at keireen who disappears before his eyes and then farenhale is turned to look at the hand.
"W-what?" Farenhale says weakly fighting to stay concious
"I'm surprised word still hasnt reached anyone of this" The hand of death says as he takes his own helmet off revealing Keireen to be the one under the helmet
"A simple clone is all it takes to war all day while the figurehead of ruling stays home 'commanding' everything" Keireen says
"M-my b-brother-" Farenhale is cut off by Keireen
"Will die just as you" Keireen says as he uses fire magic to light farenhale on fire burning him to death which agonising screams comign from him until he dies and hsi body is thrown to where his arms and legs are
Upon his dead body landing a huge magical shockwave is released sending keireen back a little and hsi soldiers get sent into walls destroying some houses.
"Odd but never mind that, ANYONE WHO STILL LIVES I AM KEIREEN AND I WILL KILL YOUR KING AND I WILL KILL THE REST OF YOU SHOULD I SEE YOU, REMEMBER MY NAME FOR SOON I WILL RULE THIS KINGDOM" Keireen shouts
Ratankira walks over with Onikerm.
"Getting cocky there Keireen?" Onikerm says with a sadistic grin
"Shut up Onikerm take anyone still alive you can find and do as you wish with them, Ratankira you know what to do" Keireen says
"Right" Ratankira says as he goes to the soldiers
"I need the best illusion user with me and the rest of you do as you wish, rape pillage or jsut burn anythign down" Ratankira says as the illusion magic user steps forward and goes to farenhales body making his body look normal after onikerm has a little 'stab' at it
A few hours later...
"EVERYONE MOVE OUT TO OUR TERRITORY NOW, LET THEM FIND THEIR PRECIOUS LORD FARENHALE AND CITY" Keireen shouts as everyoen begins to leave and the barriers from before the attack are taken down
Over in Reinholm...
Reinlas is in the sky over looking his city but he has found it weird hes heard nothing from Farenhale all day.
"I swear he must be working on something and its makign him be completely focussed on it or something" Reinlas says to himself but smoke comes over the cities sky and reinlas stops flying as high as he is and coughs
"What the hell? Where did this smoke come from?" Reinlas asks himself
People look up at the smoke and Reinlas wondering whats going on and a scream can be heard from Reinholms gates and Reinlas flies over and lands outside where the guards are tryign to calm a man there.
"Whats going on?" Reinlas asks one guard
"This man came from the valley city he speaks of some kind of attack theres millions dead" The guard says with a low voice but upset
"WHAT?!" Reinlas says his eyes immediately turning red and he teleports to Reinholm castle and to laraka specifically
"Laraka get as many soldiers as you can to the valley city immediately, thats an order" Reinlas says
"Of coarse my king" Laraka says as he runs out to the training area to grab soldiers
Reinlas flies to the valley city but along the way the plume of smoke just gets bigger and bigger.
"No, this cannot be true, the vision was right" Reinlas says drawing kylorn
"Indeed, I hope there's survivors" Kylorn says
"There has to be, farenhale was there" Reinlas says
Soon after they reach the city and the walls around it are demolished hundreds of thousands of houses, burning corpses in the streets are dismembered and burning even children. The smell of death is everywhere.
"By the rest of the first" Reinlas says feeling sick to his stomach as he floats down to the ground
"By the first" Laraka says as he and a small army arrive behind Reinlas
"Search for survivors Laraka" Reinlas says as he flies towards the castle
"You heard the king! MOVE!" Laraka commands as he draws hsi sword and starts searching with his men
Reinlas sees many more dead as he flies there but also some remaining enemy soldiers which he attacks with all his anger cutting them in two or jsut simple decapitations are common as he does it. Soon he lands at the castle inside is where he lands as the castle is completely demolished like his visions showed, theres rubble everywhere even on guards who lay dead as they werent prepared for the attack, reinlas runs to the potion room which has destroyed potions everywhere and newly grown trees and plants as an effect of the potion.
"Dammit where are you Farenhale?!" Reinlas shouts but gets no answer until...
"KING REINLAS, WE FOUND LORD FARENHALE" Laraka shouts
Reinlas feels hopeful on this sorrowful day and immediately runs to the former castle gates now lying in ruin but sees Farenhales intact dead body.
"No, no, no, F-farenhale...." Reinlas falls to his knees and picks up farenhales body
"Dammit no wake up brother, please" Reinlas says with tears in his eyes
"I'm sorry my king, I'll leave you" Laraka says and he walks away
"Farenhale..." Reinlas says as he starts crying
He closes his eyes as he starts crying but feels magic around him disappear and he opens his eyes and see hsi brothers body for what it truly is, he sees his brothers arms and legs have been chopped off and are now on pikes around them and across farenhales body is slashes and cuts made post mortem and on farenhales face a blade was put in there cutting up his face. Reinlas puts farenhales body down and gets up.
"NO! WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DO TO YOU?!" Reinlas shouts in anger and grief
Laraka runs back over and sees this new horrific sight.
"By the first..." Laraka says feeling more sick to his stomach and sorry for Reinlas
Reinlas looks at him and tries to stop his anger.
"Any survivors?" Reinlas asks laraka with tears still streaming down his face and hsi eyes are turning a darker red every second
"A few and apparently the 'Hand of death' was Keireen himself he killed lord farenhale and ordered the execution of millions of prisoners" Laraka says
Reinlas looks at his brothers body again and remembers everythign hes heard about Keireen and something breaks inside him as his eyes turn completely black and its almost like black trails of liquid travel through hsi body from his eyes as he starts turning into some kind of vantablack shadow.
"K-king Reinlas? A-are you alright?" Laraka asks
"No, take every survivor to Reinholm and take EVERY soldier as well, I will send them a message" Reinlas says in a demonic voice
"A-are you sur-" Laraka is cut off
"Did I stutter?" Reinlas asks looking at him
"No" Laraka says looking over the city
"I NEED EVERY SURVIVOR EVACUATED TO REINHOLM NOW BY ORDER OF THE KING AND EVERY SOLDIER LEAVE THE CITY AS WELL" Laraka commands as he flies to Reinholm
Reinlas looks at his brothers body.
"You will be avenged" Reinlas says as he flies up and he commands the shadows everywhere around him all across the city as the day turns to night he gains more power.
"KEIREEN!!!!" Reinlas shouts loud enough in anger to be heard across the world
Reinlas starts flyign through the valley the shadows following him life a tsunami of darkness and death as he reaches the kingdom on the other side which is under keireens rule and he puts a shadow dome across the whole kingdom and out of the shadows raises creatures of shadow bent on death and destruction with looks of the things out of a persons nightmares as they start attacking people brutally tearing them to shreds but some people are passed by as id they werent there as the shadows which has taken over Reinlas's body are targeting everyone who attacked and did not mind doing it anyone innocent in it or those who regret it or even those who only did it because of the law are unharmed but the others are being decimated
"I WILL KILL EVERYONE OFF YOU BASTARDS!!" Reinlas shouts as the destruction goes on and he uses other magic as well and the creatures hes made start to be charged with other magics like fire, ice, water and even lightning and control over the ground as they roar terrifyingly
After hours of destruction and moving to attack other places 4 kingdoms that were taken over by Keireen stand destroyed but those who were never attacked go to Reinlas's kingdom to live there instead as Reinlas now has conquered their kingdom.
"I will destroy Keireen even if it means I die in the process" Reinlas says seething in anger as he flies back to Reinholm castle but when he lands there he falls down onto the ground falling unconcious drained of magic and hurt from the use of magic he shoudlnt have been able to use