Ahnaressu's Travels Ch.9 Options

[Dantrag]

Here's the beginning - I promised I would post it before leaving for the week.

Chapter 9
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Valnor and Nyph stood behind Lergo from a distance, still skeptical about what the mage said he could do.

There were one hundred training dummies all in a group, with Lergo facing them about a hundred feet away. The mage began chanting loudly with both hands raised to the sky. The sound of his voice got louder and louder as the spell gained in intensity. A swirl of black clouds appeared over the dummies, and Lergo stopped chanting. When the cloud stood still over the targets, he slowly put his hands down and walked back to Valnor and Nyph.

"Just wait a second." he said with a wink.

Immediately after Lergo turned around, one hundred bolts of lighting came down, hitting every single dummy - a powerful spell to say the least, but it had taken the mage over thirty minutes to cast it.

Valnor and Nyph stood speechless as Lergo walked towards his tent, mumbling about how hungry he was.

As soon as the utter amazement subsided, Valnor grew more serious. "I think it's time to begin the attacks on the tribes again." he said to Nyph once Lergo had gone.

He had raised quite an army - not large enough for any full-scale war, but more than enough to eradicate the ashlanders. They had gained more people by hiring sellswords, and had kept them here with fulfilled promises of plunder - they had raided many a daedric shrine, dwemer ruin, and even some of the old dunmer strongholds. One such stronghold, Rotheran, served as their home for now.

"Start with the Erabenimsun. They have to be dealt with first, before they hear that we are acting again. If we start with another tribe, they will hear of the attack from word of mouth, and prepare. I would like to see them unprepared." Nyph said with a smile as he stroked the edge of his dagger.

Valnor shrugged. "Hmmm...your idea may work, though the Erabenimsun camp is a little far away from Rotheran."

"It will be a long way to get to any of the camps." Nyph replied. "But this way, we get rid of the most difficult tribe while our numbers are at their highest."

"I'll think on it." he said, walking back inside the fortress to eat some dinner.

Nyph still stood outside, watching as a hundred straw dummies burned in the distance.

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This post has been edited by Dantrag: Jul 15 2005, 01:54 PM

[Dantrag]

okay, so I was wrong....

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Valnor's timing was perfect. His army went into their positions swiftly, ready to attack when the signal was given. The darknesss hid the army from the eyes of the ashlanders.

It hid Nyph even better. The assassin grinned in satisfaction as the fourth guard fell in a pool of his own blood. Only one more, and he could give the signal. Nyph crept behind the last guard, silent as a shadow. his red eyes lit up in anticipation of the kill. Nyph's job was a thrill. As the blood poured from the ashlander's throat, Nyph let out a sharp, high-pitched whistle.

Nyph watched as the army mercilessly cut into the Erabenimsun ranks. He smiled at the fact that his old tribe was finally eradicated. He had a lot of smiles as of late.

Han-Ammu, the recently-appointed ashkhan fought with all his strength, though he was no fighter, once stripped of his magical belongings given to him by the one seeking to be named the Nerevarine. His eyes grew wide as a claymore stabbed through his stomach.

"And so the tribe falls." Valnor remarked as Han-Ammu fell to the ground.

The remaining Erabenimsun were allowed to run - it was only a few women and children, maybe one warrior.

Nyph walked up to Valnor, who was surveying the scene, proud of his victory.

"One down." he remarked to the warrior.

"Three to go." Valnor finished for him. "Who's next?" he asked with a grin.

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