With a crunch i watch as the fallen terror finally falls. I dont get a memory from it unfortunately.
"Take it apart"
If sit down with my eyes closed as the noises of flesh and bone being cut apart shrouds the area. I have no interest in informing army command about any of my stronger kills. The great clans have spies in it, obviously. I mean of course they do. I had chosen to become a scout, as to have more freedom in my movements.
With my army killing smaller hoards I am rapidly approaching my 5th core. Only a few more days, or a few really bad battles and I should finally be done. I open my eyes standing, most of it has been taken apart at this point and stored away. I'll have to get sunny to make me a bigger storage memory. I'm just not going to tell him about me wanting to kill the sovereigns. He already has one person doing that, and frankly I know his nosey ass would get involved. Quite frankly I do not want to put him in danger. I wait for a few seconds then I answer the call that had just come in
"Another mission?"
I hear a tired sigh
"Yup. I'll send you the location"
I arrive behind sunny and jet their talking about engineering for some odd reason.
"Let's get this done with"
Sunny seems to almost leap out of his skin
"Damnation how do you keep doing that?"
I walk over
"As if said let's get this done with already"
Jet puts her hands up
"Chill out"
Sunny briefly glares at her for the bad pun. Sunny then sighs gesturing at the frozen lake
"The one to our left is empty, but the right one... there is something hiding inside. Something... huge. All the shadow could see were loops of flesh coiled inside the dark well of the ancient smokestack, filling almost a third of it."
Jet sighs with relief. Hmm I'll kill that later probably at most a corrupted terror.
"Well, good. Because we need to get to the left one. Leave that thing, whatever it is, alone."
Sunny nods and one of those weirdly animated shadows he's got darts away.
I close my eyes waiting. Hm. Now that sunnys here...
"Hey."
He jumps a little at the sudden mental communication
"What?"
I wave my hand
"If I give you the stuff and all that can you make me a physically large storage memory"
He thinks for a bit before responding
"I can try. Although it would help if I got a good look at that bag of yours"
I shrug handing it over to him. He stares at it, looking at the magic used to make it.
"How did you get this?"
I shrug
"Well i found a almost completely dead fallen beast so I stabbed the thing in the eyes a few times. Ugly thing i have to say, like a malformed human."
He nods
"Well that lines up with the whole kill stealing thing you said you had going on at the time... still cheap kill"
"saint"
He looks away
"I never said I wouldn't do the same"
We follow the skull... centipede, ugly, around. Any soul shards I get go right to the... spider queen. To raise it up to be a transcendent tyrant. Its only a ascended one at the moment. I don't summon singer much anymore. With her being a unknown factor in all this.
Flame has been doing well, I still have to find something to make it a tyrant whatever that may be. Cetus, that one is with saint bloodwave, I've been watching the runes and its been doing ever so well. Maybe closer to the end of this it will become a supreme beast. Still no demon rank for it though annoyingly enough. It will become one in time, even more so with bloodwave around.
"Ah, venerable Master Sunless! How nice of you to pay a visit! Oh and master heat seeker, what a honor!"
Effie. I sigh waving at her.
"Sunny! ■■■■! Long time no see!"
I nod
"Yeah."
She frowns a bit. I guess I've gotten more quiet and I pulled a thing or two from them and I won't give away my secrets.
"...What are you talking about? We saw each other two weeks ago."
I make a hmm sound. So if me, technically sunny, Effie and kai got armors from killing one of the chain lords.... did prince?
"That doesn't count! Every time you come to the island, you and Cassie immediately slink to the basement to spend a few quality hours closely studying the floor. And no fun over here never comes to the island. The three of us, though, haven't had proper fun in ages."
I shrug
"I have... somethings to do in the waking world."
That is becoming a tyrant of course.
As we walk to wake up kai I hear some talking. I ignore most but.... is that really what I'm called? The feral necromancer? Its.... cool...? A bit try hard in my....aww it doesnt matter i cant come up with anything better.
"Holy hell! That's Soul Reaper, Necromancer and Devil!"
Can't my nickname not be about that.
"I heard the necromancer's army even has guns, and that they can kill awakened and even fallen abominations!"
True buts thats only because their made of my ice
"I heard they dropped to all fours and fought a corrupted monster alone and ripped it apart!"
It was better to be lower to the ground in that fight to be fair. We finally make it to kai
"Wake up, birdie! The most honest person in two worlds is here!"
The battle is coming up with that ugly ugly thing. God i do quite dislike bugs. Their ugly and they keep trying to murder me.
"Wolves! Prepare! For war!"
Finally may we kill that ugly ugly thing. A stain on the world that's what it is. Kais voice helps get rid of that resentment towards it but, it is not in fact gone. I summon my army, with two main commands, keep those alive from being killed and to kill as many of its minions as possible. They may not be as powerful as masters, they are certainly incredibly powerful. I jump far into the air summoning commanders authority, it is not very useful with my army, but with a human army, it is quite the incredible boon.
Ice forms around me like a shell, after ever so long as a being of pure ice i had learned how it worked quite well. With all this time as practice I have finally been able to make quite the ice shell.
I land on the tyrants back using one massive arm to hold it down with my other I rain down attacks with a dagger. I'm not able to get a hit in on its head. It sends Effie back but with how big the ice shell is its not able to do so with me. It raises its head and two black beads appear in the air, not that their able to do anything as kai comes like a falling star breaking one of its antlers, i turn my dagger into fluffy snow catching him in it. A arrow shoots from a ball of darkness hitting it dealing incredible amounts of damage. I notice sunny slink off, a new core if I'm right. Poor guy those things hurt hurt.
I keep thr thing pinned under me as I keep on the attacks. Although with how fast its being destroyed this ice shell won't last too much longer. Thankfully kai and effie, also that echo sunny has, are of quite the help.
The three armies are keeping the minions quite distracted, even more so with jet, flame and now sunny rampaging within them. Even the mundane weapons seem much stronger now with a pale blue gleam to them. As their unable to use essence or most abilities in general giving them any of my aspect abilities isn't very useful but cold film is very useful with its poison like effect.
Soon with me and saints arrows its slowed down enough for Effie to get a good hit in on its head. That let's kai use a particularly powerful arrow to blow its head up. I stand up at my full height. As everyone else prepares for a retreat my army starts putting the soul shards away. I don't take them all of course. But I do take some as I participated in this so I should get some. I have growing ice shards after all. I personally grab the tyrant after they take the soul shards and I break the larger parts down. I want them after all they will be of great use to me.
"I'm going to kill that bitch of a old saint!"
Jet laughs then stops thinks for a second before laughing again
"No... you wouldn't"
Sunny glances at us
"Uhhh why?"
I scoff
"Sunny, we are going to be their government links. Why me I fucking hate those good for nothing, foolish clowns!"
Sunnys face falls
"Do you think they'll get to choose who's going to be the one serving them?"
I point to him
"You'll be valors"
I point to jet
"You'll be songs"
I then lean back crossing my arms
"And ill either be released or I'll become some kind of middle man."
My money is on the second. Jet raises an eyebrow
"Oh really why is that?"
I lift a hand
"Sunny has that weird will they wont they with neph. You'll fit pretty well with the sing sisters. And as for me, I have no doubt its known I don't tend to follow orders to the T very well."
Sunny shoots me a embarrassed glare and jet gets pretty amused by both it and the whole situation.
I dont say anything but I do not doubt how unhappy I am is very well showing. I'm not hiding it one bit after all. I sit uncomfortably normally on this overly expensive chair.
"...You're thinking about murder again, aren't you?"
So am I, but this one of a certain bird man.
"Yes. Why?"
I hear jet laugh
"No reason..."
Soon the man i now do not like in any way enters. Wake of whatever. I stare at him no doubt not too happy looking.
"Soul Reaper. Ascended Sunless. Ascended Heat Seeker Welcome."
If I eat one of the birds of his transformation ability is that cannibalism? Jet and sunny stand i do not. He glances at me as he gestures for the two to sit down
"How did your last mission go?"
After a little bit of frankly boring small talk he finally gets to the damn point
"Consider yourself reassigned effective immediately. The proper paperwork is already being delivered to the SRU headquarters."
I feel one of my eyes twitch. How annoying.
"Sorry, sir... but reassigned to where?"
He points to himself
"My personal retinue. That's officially... unofficially, however, you'll be acting as special envoys assigned to the Legacy forces. Each of you will be a contact person between the Evacuation Army and the Great Clans."
Sunny frowns
"With all due respect... sir... I get it why Ascended Jet might be considered a good candidate for such a position and Ascended Heat Seeker is a named famous awakened, but what do I have to do with any of it? Surely, you must know that my relationship with the Great Clans is a bit... rocky. That is nor even mentioning whether I want the job or not."
The old bird looks at sunny
"On the contrary, I think that you are the best person for the job, Ascended Sunless. You are quite close to one of the leaders of the Valor delegation, no?"
Yap yap yap.
"That depends on who that leader is, I guess."
The man's looks at his watch. I adjust the monocle thats positioned like a pocket watch. It got uncomfortable.
"Why, it's young Lady Nephis of Valor, the Changing Star... of course."
He looks away and adds like it doesn't matter
"She'll be arriving alongside Valor's other emissaries soon. Actually... I think they'll be there in a few minutes."
I cut in my voice likely not too nice
"Great. Why am I here. You have the two contacts so I'm really not needed."
He looks at me with a raise eyebrow
"Someone has to be the one to deliver messages. The communication rig may be good but its nice to make sure there's someone keeping some peace between the two."
I am going to beat him to death with a shovel
"Is that... so."
After a frankly engaging speech about how the great clans aren't that bad Valor finally arrives. Its the best of the best Saint Tyris! And two fucking BUMS Morgan and what's his name. As well as changing star. I tap my foot trying to look at Saint Tyris as to not have the most unfriended and hostile aura possible.
"Wake of Ruin."
Even his voice is annoying
"Whispering Blade. I have to admit... your appearance is a bit of a surprise."
Wow silent conversations, aren't we all 'friends' why did I have to be chosen for this?
"Isn't it only right for me to be here? My clan announced its full support for the brave men and women of the Evacuation Army. That, of course, includes my personal assistance."
After a show of power and all that with echos they finally choose the person they want to be their contact, sunny of course.
"Why, we'll take Master Sunless. He's my dear sister's former companion, after all. I feel like we're good friends already!"
Don't glare. I can not glare. Both Morgan and saint bitch, I am not verbally calling him that, could probably easily kill me with even a small amount of prep time. Soon they leave oh thank God. A shame Saint Tyris was forced to be their minion.
"You should really get that hostility under control."
I look at the man with disinterest
"It doesn't matter its clear I'm going to be the damn messenger."
He shakes his head like some some youthful fool. God I dont like him.
Soon song gets here. There's 2 men, a saint and a not saint. And two women, a saint beast, thats all, and song se i had come to know. Now that last man interests me. Oh isnt that so very funny. Their faking someone being prince, because that is not prince, the heat signature is too different to ever be him. I notice sunny about to make a fool of himself so I step on his foot shutting him up.
"Hello again. It is quite something that we keep running into each other"
I say it to song se. She nods politely
"yes i must agree we do run into each other in very odd situations."
Saint wake sounds annoyed when he speaks
"Now that everyone is here... let's skip the introductions. I extend my gratitude to the elders of the great clan Valor and the great clan Song, for coming to our aid in the time of need. Come, let's start... we need to discuss the war..."