In the land of Lordran, just a few miles south of the Northern mountains in the main continent, lies a dark and gloomy place called the no man’s land. Home of the dead and hell for the living.

The no man’s land was a barren dark land where no sun shined. Stepping into this bleak dark world would robbed you of all your senses. The loam in the earth and the decomposing leaves made the atmosphere close and thick. Just like it’s name, the place was a dangerous restricted area for many, forming hell for the living and playground for the dead.

The blackness of the everlasting night nurtured a sense of isolation and loneliness as the dark corrupted woodland stretched unbroken for miles. There was no map to follow, but even if there was, the perpetual darkness would prevent you from using it. Only the strong and brave would dare enter these land.

Here on this desolate land where no man wanders, stood a tall black menacing castle. Inside the dark gloomy castle, there were innumerable cultists. Many wore the same type of clothing, a robe. The robe was red in colours and was decorated with skulls. On it’s back, the insignia of their cult stood out. A big white skull surrounded by 7 smaller skulls.

Only few had different robes than them. Inside in the castle, there was an altar room with a statue of a skeleton in golden robes. In its hands was a staff with countless scratches and chips marks, however, an dominating and unholy aura was still emitting out of the staff despite it’s horrid conditions, causing all who look at it to kneel in worship.

In front of the altar, were two figures, an old man and a young women. The old man worshiping the statue while the young women stared at the old man with a bored expression

The old man had a fringe of grey-white hair around his balding, mottled scalp. He had a wizened face and a back slightly hunched. With each movement there was the creak of old bones. He had the look of disbelief as the staff in the statue’s hand started to glow. Unlike the other cultist robes, his robes were black and gold in colour, instead of red and white. One could tell that he was a big figure in the cult.

As for the young women, she was a cold and tall female elf, her long silver hair reaches down all the way to her waist, her pale skin which has no trace of redness from blood had a bizarre kind of aesthetics to it and a long skirt that drags all the way to the floor had the color of red and black intertwining on it.

Unlike the other cultist and the old man, she was not wearing the cultist robe. She wore a dress that reveal all of her features while hiding the inappropriate, as if teasing everyone. While the old man had the look of disbelief, she had the look of confusion. She stared at the old men, wondering why he had suddenly gone dumb.

“Old fart, why are you looking so dumb for? Did your old brain finally cracked?”

Under The beautiful woman’s questioning, The old man didn’t even raise his head and only threw out a sentence at her.

“Our great lord has returned.”

The young women was stunned for a moment before shock covered her face. “I thought you said it’s impossible for the great lord to return and that we had to carry on his legacy without him?”

The old man raised his head and his eyebrows twisted together and his expression could be said to be flavorful, there was happiness, angry, reminiscence and uneasiness…

“Take a look at this,” the old took out a piece of parchment from the inside of his robe.

“I thought that this was some important intelligence, but isn’t this just random squibbles? How is this even legible, i can’t read any word of it!” The young women complained as she snatched the parchment from the old geaser.

Already used to his unreliable daughter being dumb, he solemnly said plainly with helplessness and pleading was infused into his tone “sigh, please look at it more carefully, you are reading it upside down.”

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“Oh right, i knew that, erm.. I was just… erm... testing you, yeah i was just testing you!” Embarrassed with her mistake, the young women flipped the parchment over “Erm… what am i supposed to be looking at? I don’t get it.”

“You dumbass! Did all your brain power go into your rack? That’s the language of the ancients! Did you not pay attention during any of my lessons?” Even though, the old man was used to his daughter eccentric and scattered thoughts, he could not handle how she had not pay attention to him during his lessons.

“How am i supposed to pay attention when all you say is blablabla take over the world blablabla. Seriously, who even wants to take over the world now a days, that’s so last century,” the young women defended, striking her chest out in confidence.

“Insolence! How dare you tarnish the dreams of our lord, Kel Kazan! Give me that!” The old man snatched back the parchment and began reading it to her.

“Look here! These words were written by our great ancestors who once served under Lord Kel Kazan, they were the ones who managed to escape after our lord fell. This parchment speaks of how they had a divination that one day our lord would rise again and that the soul bound staff of the lord would shine to his return. Thus they risked their lives to steal the staff from the hands of the united forces to know when he would return. This is the task we were created for, to ready our forces for our lord’s return so that we may one day rule the world!” The old man preach fanatically.

“It was just yesterday that you said that the divination was wrong and that you wanted to carry on his legacy yourself instead of waiting for his return. And now you are saying you belief all of this crap? Are you sure you’re still sane? I know we been living here for centuries and all.” The young women refuted.

“Yes, i used believed that, but after seeing the staff glow with power, how could i deny the evidence? The staff have been in this altar room for centuries, before i was even born, the staff stayed silently in this very room. I once believed the staff was a fake but now, i have no words to refute my ancestors! Can you not feel the aura that’s emanating from this staff? If our lord is not alive, do you think the staff would be glowing this majestically?”

“The power that the staff is giving is proof enough that i was wrong and that our ancestors were right, our preparations were not for naught! Our purpose in life is clear to me now, we must prepare our forces and reunite with our glorious leader!”

“Gria! Go forth to the to the mainlands and join the Red Spider, while i prepare our forces for his return, once he returns, we will set forth to conquer the world!” The old man ordered.

“Wait! Red Spider? You mean those lunatics? How are they going to even help us? Aren’t they crazy about trying to revive the ancient ones? How would me joining them help us in any way?”

“Do you not pay any attention during my lessons? Do you know how they are going to revive the ancient ones! They are going to use the power of death that resides in our lord’s soul to revive them! This means that they will be trying to round up all our lord’s horcruxes and uses it’s powers to revive the ancient ones!”

“I don’t know how our lord managed to revive but surely our lord would suffer if his horcruxes are destroyed! Though it is impossible to destroy our lord’s horcruxes through normal means, using the powers of the ancients, they have the capabilities to destroy it! We can’t let that happen!” The old man snapped.

“Wait wait wait! If they are going to destroy our lord’s horcruxes, why am i joining them? Won’t i be helping our enemies if i join them?”

“Oh my dear daughter, how i wish everyday that you were born smarter instead of developing into a nympho. The reason you are going to join them is because you are going to stop them when they are doing the final sacrifice and take back the horcruxes. If our lord sees that we have all his horcruxes when he returns, won’t we be rewarded?”

“Wait, then how am i going to join the group? They only have a maximum of 9 members and surely they have a way of finding out my allegiances.”

“That’s simple, you just have to defeat one of them and take their place in the group. There are very few people in the world who knows why they are looking for the horcruxes and what they are going to use it for. This is true for the group’s members as well. Only a few inside the Red Spider knows that they are trying to revive the ancients. Many thinks they are just stealing them for the money. So just pretend like you are just interested in making money by joining the group. They have a rule stating that the only way they can join the group is by killing one of it’s members.”

“Oh then i’ll be off then,” the young women cheered as she raced out of the altar room. A soft shout could be heard by the old man as she got further away. “Finally! Freedom! I hope there are some cuties in the group!”

Oh lord, i hope i didn’t make a mistake by sending her. Oh lord, when you return, we will soon be ready to take over the world again! Hahaha! This time, there will be no heros to stop you.

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“Achoo!” Nora sneezed.

Dammit! Am i getting sick? My first day living as a human again and i’m already sick. Great.

“Nora, are you ok?” Emily asked in concern.

“Yup yup, no worries, let's go back to sleep,” Nora replied, patting emily’s head.