Aouthor's note: I will explain character dialouge in several ways, depending on how it happens.

sacasm will be contained within<> marks

character thoughts, when from the character straight, will have '' surrounding them, like 'this'

character thoughts, when viewed from third-person, will be in italics

speech will be contained in "" marks.

so,  "" would indicate that the person is speaking with sarcasm

PS: this part of the story deals with the guild already being together and OP. the next few chapters will deal with some of the character development, and some backstory on how they got so OP.

PPS: This chapter will be similar to the kiro vs. DrakexScales fight in LNW. check that fiction out!

PPPS: read the general info to understand some of the things that happen or are said in this chapter

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"Ahem, ahem. Testing, testing, one, two. Can you hear me way in the back? good, now, I have something to say." says the Eternity Mirror's Guild leader, Hardstijorinn, as he tests the magic microphone, as it's called.

The crowd stiffens, shocked. they know without even hearing the news that it will be bad. Given that Eternity Mirror is the strongest guild in Arcania Online, they can do pretty much whatever they want, so long as the player code of conduct doesn't get so violated as to make the devs. step in.

"Starting tomorrow morning, at 7:30 sharp, we will start recruiting people for our next expedition!" Hardstijorinn say, a twinkle in his eye as he watches the crowd silently moan. He looks at the crowd, makes a show of acting all apologetic, and says "any complaints can be delivered to our guild office between 10:00 PM and 3:00 AM on the third Sunday of each month." 

'And any complainers will be executed and then repeat killed to level one' I thought. Eternity Mirror required cannon fodder so the elites could kill the boss and not even get their hands dirty. any who objected where a nuisance, and had to be dealt with. preferably in as public a manner as possible. But that would change tonight.

 I duck down into an alley. No need to even use an illusion, as no one notices a halfling in beginner clothes, even the muggers. They are after the rich, not the weak. thumbing a special illusion I prepared beforehand, I switch on a 3d-comunicater just in time to see Kurnonos's face take on a really excited expression. I knew what he was going to say before he even opened his mouth.

Once he took notice of me, he stopped, startled, for a second, then got an ear-to ear grin, and chirped at me "We have permission to use the stage 2 penalty on the elite of Eternity Mirror, an't that going to be fun?"

"Yes, yes, it'll be fun, but we'll have to move in tonight. further developments have been made." I muttered, crossed at his happy-go lucky attitude.< He would sing  Happy, by Pharrel Williams, to the background music of the world ending>. 

He leaned in close, like a person asking a close question "what further developments? Hard got a new sword?" I sighed. Hard was Kurnonos's name for the leader of eternity mirror, and it was a bad one at that.

"No, Hardstijorinn has not gotten a new sword, he has instead started a citywide draft. both Players and NPCs"

Kurnonos suddenly gets really quiet, which I know means he is either thinking, pissed off, or very, VERY, VERY, angry. Slowly, with the dead calm of a blizzard, he says, "It is settled then. The wild hunt gathers tonight. All wolves shall run, along with the master."

I started to say "Kurnonos, do you really think that such a show of force is-" but he cut me off with an explosion of rage.

"Of course it's neciccary, they crossed the point of no return!!" he shouts, eyes burning holes through my body. just to be safe (you never know, he has burned a hole through a person once before just by looking at them), I pull a 3-inch thick titanium plate out of my inventory, and position it in front of me before continuing.

"So, where shall we meet?"

Kurnonos, startled by such a simple question, thinks for a minute, then replies, "well, how about the Krostvian woods?"

I bring up a map of the area. the Krostvian forest is about 100m from the city walls. should be about right.

"That sounds good, spread the word to all the others and I'll meet you there." I call to Kurnonos as I shut the 3d comunicator, severing the contact.

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At night, in the Krostvian Forest.

Kurnonos looks around, nods a couple times, and then says, "good, we're all here"

Dauda, our resident assassin, drops from the tree she was perched in, and calls out, ""

"It is impossible to sneak up on me, for the record, because..."

Stenfa, our summoner interrupts kurnonos with a load of sarcasm deleverd to the face. "" she drones, "". 

Kurnonos takes the insult in stride, and, ignoring previously stated sarcasm, maps out a battle plan for the group in ten words. "Find stuff, kill the elites, and leave Hard to me."

"alright, let's do this  peeps! Lerooooooooooooyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" our gnome, who, by the way, looks more like a cross between a juggernaut, a dwarf, and superman than anything else. a perfect inverted triangle in the for a torso, about three feet tall, and coated in a three-inch thick coat of titanium.

Stenfa sighs, blonde hair rippling as she shakes her head. "that idiot" she complains. "we haven't started the hunt yet."

Kurnonos looks at stenfa, then at as I will call him, the lifts his head to the sky and lets loose a single wolf howl. the howl echoes over a long distance before fading from hearing range. 

The hunt has begun.

I run towards Todos city, casting illusions on my mates to protect them as they rush. all except Leroy. he simply runs through a hail of armageddon. Arrows bounce off his armor, fireballs and lightning bolts are suppressed by his slipstream, and hexes simply dissapate against a golden shield that he summons. he rams the wall at mark 1, crashes through the wall, collapses a 50 meter wide section of it, and knocks himself out.

With  out of action, Tonlist and Kappi, our two best buffers, step to the frontlines. Tonlist mutters something under her breath, while Kappi roars at the members of Eternity Mirror, causing them to flinch. Tonlist finishes her chant, and, as the rythmic clash of sword on shield begins, starts talking really fast, as if tryin to be an auctioneer. but the chant is anything but a call for wares, it is her battle chant, and the song she sings is one of death.

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Bone-bone-bone-bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone

As she says this she breaks nine different bones in a single persons body, instantly killing him. she draws a rapier and continues:

Now tell me what ya gonna do when there ain't nowhere to run. 

When judgement comes for you

When judgement comes for you.

She proceeds to teleport in front of two fleeing people, and slice them in half. she then teleports behind a skulking assassin, and continues:

Now tell me what ya gonna do when  it ain't nowhere to hide.

When judgement comes for you, 

cause it's gonna come for you.

Cutting the assassin's throat, she proceeds to teleport to the center of the breach, and teleport several of our members in, continuing:

Now let's bring it all for Wally, Easy-E, Uncle Charlie,

Little Boo-Boo, god's got him.

And I'm gonna miss everybody.

And so on, teleporting in our guildmates, teleporting all over the place, and generally causing mass chaos.

I shift my focus over the battlefield, looking for a spot that I am needed at. but there is none. Kappi is leading Jordin and Framsyni into battle with a squad of knights, Saleldur, Sattamala, and Skemdarvargur are engaging the mages in a range battle, ducking from a stray energy bolt, I turn and see that Iskoma has a blizzard surrounding him, occupying three squads of pyromancers. has recovered and is running around bull rushing people onto his spear.

A scream pierces the night air. Eldingar, writhes on the ground, storm energy, his very life essence, streaming out of a hole on his right sholider. 'Crud, a sniper!' I think while Truarlega starts performing a ritual of strengthening, designed to heal mortal wounds,, I quickly cast illusions to make it so that all of my guildmates appear to be five feet to the left of where they actually are.

Eydimork turns a half pace, draws an arrow the size of a ballista bolt, and draws the ballista that he uses as a bow. with pinpoint accuracy, he shoots the sniper, hiding in the crook of a roof, straight through the head.

The fight continues for half a minute before the remaining members of the wall-guard, (7,000 out of 20,000 alive) run towards the center of the city, leaving the assassins and snipers to catch us in the maze of back alleys and side streets. this is where tactics come in. We use all the resources avalible to scan for hostiles, and then go down the route with the most. 'This is fun' I thought as I wiped my short sword clean after yet annother fight. this was the final fight before the keep. From what our diviners(actually we have several different diviners for warfare: Framsyni, who can see most possibilities of the future, Calderero, who can scan everything with his drones, Timiskera, who can see chances of things happening based on actions, Haltivafi, who can read minds, and Forradamadur, who can use his to foresee coming attacks.) have told us, there are about 15,000 members of Eternity Mirror left in a half-mile area. All surrounded by a meter-thick wall of stone. magically reinforced, treated to withstand dragonfire, easily passable for all of us. runs through the wall, followed by most of the melee and both of the other tanks. Dauda and I jump over the wall, which was about five meters high. Kurnonos simply blasts down the gate.(which was treated with enough spells to make it stronger than the walls by about twice as much.)

As Kurnonos walks through the enemy, his eyes start burning holes in people's eyes, then their faces, then their chests. 'ah, $^#(, he started shooting lasers again.' I thought to myself. the one problem with Kurnonos being in is that he has to cool off, which usually takes a mini-nuke size explosion. he ends the slaughter by summoning wolves of pure flame to antihilate the remaining players.(about 1,000 left) the wolves pass over about half, revealing them to be conscripts, and the other half is antihilated utterly. 

There is one tiny sliver of movement, though. It appears that (guild leader of Eternity Mirror, the strong*ahem* second-strongest guild in Arcania Online. Kurnonos has already noticed him though. Kurnonos steadly walks over to , picks him up by the coller of his shirt, and says a couple words to him. when he finishes, pales, and then tries to break Kurnonos' grip. 

Kurnonos smiles, and draws the third blade, Malankir(there are three blades that Kurnonos uses. the first destroys the body(death), the second destroys the spirit(character reset) and the third destroys the soul(character deletion.) "Any last words in this world?"

"Gah, #^#( you, you #!^(#!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"then die."

With a single clean slice, Kurnonos cut from head to toe, transforming his body into a pile of pixels that spread with an imaginary wind and disappeared. Kurnonos scratched some words on the cobblestones of the keep, turned, and made to leave. almost as an afterthought, he sliced the head of the reporter who was watching from the shadows with serdingal, the first blade. I sighed, and rubbed my eyes. Life was going to be a lot harder now.

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Author's corner: Prolouge done!!!!!!!!!!!!! this covers the climax of the story, and starting with chapter one, I will begin explaining how the characters work, fleshing them out, and all that. but I really wanted a giant mass murder of the guilty, so here!

Oh, PS: if anyone wonders, the lines that appear in this chapter belong to "Tha Crossroads" by bone thugs n harmony. you should check it out :) 

Until next chapter.