lvl1 hero slave pt7 and 8
(narrator)
The siege of Virocant city. The empire's first pair's debut to the nations of the world. The siege of this city was well planned beforehand as it is a city built upon the backs of slaves. It is the largest market of slaves on the continent. Boasting a city of forty thousand over eighty percent of the population was slaves. This is the place where the vast majority of the two's forces came to from the south and north for their reeducation as slaves. The plan was quite cunning by standards of the current nations. It will later be called the empire blitz maneuver. There are three parts to the plan. As with the previous raids the emperor and empress will invade the stronghold looking to purchase slaves along with the fourth division as their guard. In this case it was in the guise of a noble looking for an army to join the fight to the south. As they find the strongest supporters he could those of the third division will lead a force of over one hundred and fifty into the city. With their tattoos back on them as a show they are being controlled while in the subjugation forces armor. Without a proper commander to lead them and the need to warn the city of what is going on about the strange rebel forces they will be welcomed. Not a day later the third group or second division will lead a direct assault on the western gate. The first division will be laying in wait as mercenary slaves and adventurer slaves threw out the city arriving before them in case anything goes wrong and as information gatherers.
(empress)
I lead the force of twenty lightly armed lizkin into the city with my man at my side. It must have been the sight. After getting the shell of the slave tattoo back on my body and learned I can make it vanish at will I was relieved. If my man was to actually put a slave curse on me and use me in unsightly ways I would never trust another again. But my man he is worthy of the trust in him. And he looks so dignified right now. Higher class settings really suit him. I could not help but smile as we entered the city. What we first began doing is looking for a place to spend time till nightfall. That involves getting an inn. My man had a subtle smile on him as well as we came to a high class inn. The food should be good as the two of us dismounted. With a short talk with the inn keeper we arranged for our wagons and the lizkin a shed. As I thought he is not the first one to come to this city looking to raise an army to fight in the south. As we ate a light meal waiting others come into the inn. Normally I would not give them any mind but my man looked at them coldly. I gave a second glance and I could feel the miasma coming from one of them. The only other I have felt with such strong force in recent time was my man. I understood without us discussing it. He will be trouble. As I tried to ignore them they spotted us and laughed before coming over. The one with the miasma wrapped his arm around my neck as if it was the right thing to do. " Hey there sweet thing. It been a while sense I seen a dragon lass." I hear a crunch of iron under my mans fist as he squeezed his fork. " Please unhand me." I said as calmly as I could and the stranger gave me a confused look. " Huh? Something wrong sexy?" I turn to him coldly. " You are insulting my master. Please unhand me. I will not be polite the third time." Finally the man looked at my man. " Scan!" As soon as he said that I felt violated. Finally my man stood up. 'What the hell are you doing disturbing my lunch!' As his scream entered everyone in the dinning area my man moved to one of his escort woman and put a hand on her breast. The cat kin squealed surprised. " What the hell man? I was only messing with you!" My man smirked. 'Oh, not that big of a man that you will touch another's woman but will not accept another touching yours? Why don't we settle this outside then.' He gave a 'Tsk!' sound as he moved from my lady.
We stood in the roadway I with my man and he with his three girls. This became a duel as several city guard began to block off the street. As soon as I learned the other man was a hero I became serious. 'My lady beware. Common sense does not apply to heros. Do not hesitate and do not hold back. Activate, mate's link.' Notice 'mate of dragon blood' has been activated by your mate. Your mate has confidence in you after his dignity of being your mate was insulted. 10% bonus to base stats. Your mate's knowledge of curses enter your mind. Skill 'curse resistance' created. Skill 'soul rend' acquired. As the duel has not started yet I took a glance at my new ability. As I am familiar with curse resistance.
Soul rend- a world magic skill. Infuse your weapons with your spirit. Enables you to cut immaterial objects. When used on an enemy of the world has a 150% effectiveness. Purifies miasma.
It took less than a second to fully grasp the skills nature. Being the legacy of dragons I had at least at least the basic concept of the world and my place. Even after falling from grace the world has not abandoned me it seems and I smile gently. 'You seem calm and happy?' I look back at my mate. For the first time speaking to him I spoke with my mind only. 'I never realized how fortunate I am to have such a good man in my life now.' After that I drew my sword. Notice 'mate of the dragon blood' skill boosted. Accepting your partner as a life long mate has awakened your dragon blood nature. You keep a calmer head threw enraged states of mind. Class changed from dragonnewt knight to dragon blood knight. I closed my eyes to focus after reading that as I stepped into the middle of the area. The so called hero looked at me surprised. " What is he not coming out here himself? And what is with your stats jump?" I eye him coldly. " You are one to talk after getting all those enhancements." We eyes one another another minute before the guard that acting as judge spoke. " All right then. We guards will set up a barrier. After that anything goes." The hero looks at the guard. " I want to add a wager. I want this woman as my own if I win." I hear my man's thoughts after that was spoken. 'Then I desire his current equipment and items and the price to repair them fully and replace the consumables used. I will of course match the price difference of my slave if she looses.' The guard looks at my mate unsure but the hero speaks. " Agreed! I can always use some extra spending money." My mate closed his eyes and spoke to me threw our link. 'Destroy him. Let him be an example only I have the right to touch you!' Notice, you have felt your mate's rage of someone other than him acting upon your body. Temporary 'mate of dragon blood' effects increased to 20% from 15%.
As we backed away and revealed our murderous intent to one another I took my sword and held it to the side in a low stance with both my hands. My blood was boiling from both my own anger and my mates. Threw that anger I had a clear mind. As the copper the guard tossed hits the ground I rushed forward with an upwards diagonal slash. To my surprise the hero took out a shield from nowhere and blocked my attack. My sword became embedded in the shield as I quickly pulled it away. My attack left me exposed to a counter attack and I felt the fool for not heeding my mates warning about heros being beings that defied logic. I took a blade to my side and I was forced to let my left hand go of my sword to stop the bleeding. Luckily it was beside my belt and I took a nut potion out and poured it on my open wound as I fended off his follow up attack. " Shield bash!" I took to a roll in pain to avoid the attack as I grit in pain. If that hit me I knew I would have lost. " Surprising! To think you avoided that weak attack." I spit out some blood as I got to my feet again. My speed and experience is higher than him but his strength and endurance outstretches mine by a good margin. Plus the fact he is a hero with odd abilities. This is not going to be an easy fight as I took my stance again and focused as a red aura appeared around my body and sword. " Oh what is this. Deciding to get serious? All right then. Become my exp." I ignored the weird thing he just said and focused fully on my soul rend. As a world skill I felt it as natural to use as flying. I must show my man a star lit sky from above as I smiled at the thought as I moved. " Descend, sword of fire mountain!" As I spoke I charged again. And as before he took a defensive posture. " Parry!" I smiled more as his shield hit the flames of my attack with impact. As he raised his shield and thrust his sword that was my opening. " Chain, valley of molten flow!" Of course only the magic of my attack hit his shield. His stratagem was easy to read as I reversed the blade and pushed into his groin with my blade and magic. I barely hear him whimper. " Low blow!" I did not care. It was time to finish this. " Rend, worlds echo!" This is the true ability I learned from the skill soul rend. I turned quickly as I pulled the sword upwards. In a flash blood spattered in front of me from my sword. It would have been a shame to destroy the armor he wore as I took a cloth to wipe my sword off and walked back to my man. He only smiles at me happy. My blood was still boiling and I could feel his was as well as we went into our room to finish passing the time. We were only disturbed when the spoils of the duel were presented to us. That was a small thing to the satisfaction we were getting from the lust in our loins at that moment. Notice +2 vigor
(narator)
The duel of Virocant City. The debut of the one the world would call the Hero Reaper. If the emperor became infamous for his curses then the empress became famous for permanently slaying heros. In her lifetime she is said to have slain over 100 heros, but historians can conclude that the actual number is far less. With the exception of once, when recorded she used soul rend on the emperor, every hero who has met her blade has met an eternal end. As her signature move is a world magic it is concluded at the time the heros she fought against had vast amounts of dark miasma. A tainted energy of the world. An energy her mate wielded for the beginning of his rebellion. The fighting style she created dealing with heros in her long life and eventually passed onto her son and seven daughters is named World's Hero. In time the style became common knowledge and it was used as a standard to fighting overpowered individuals with unique traits. While few heros in history after the empress death were recorded to permanently fall to this style it became feared by heros as what they call a 'game breaker' 'bugged' or a 'cheat'. The exact term definition uncertain for a large number of years but the style soon became known as a natural bane to heros. With the exception of extreme mismatches in combat experience and fitness or under unfavorable conditions, users of the fighting style often fought evenly with heros. Making the empire the strongest melee artists of the world. It is worth noting that heros are not able to learn this style.
PART 8
(emperor)
The battle went as planned. In fact our romp in the inn made us nearly miss the entire thing. I knew sex was tiring and draining but to a degree my legs felt limp I did not expect. Maybe because I pushed myself to try to impress my lady. In any case the plan worked. I unleash the free slave bomb while our infiltrators kept the gate open in order for our army to advance in. In fact the plan worked too well. When our liberation forces came to us in the central auction square the freed slaves were attacking us. Perhaps it had to do with the fact I was still alive. I had to release a wide area stun as soon as reinforcements came in order to subdue the numbers around us. Even then this heart of a lion bastard managed to get to me and engaged my lady directly. He wore no armor but the broad sword in his single hand was larger than my whole body. I already had a level four curse on him and any more would kill him. " Rend, worlds end." Unlike before, where my lady cut the physical body of that hero in half, This time there was only a small gash on his back, but that also left nothing between him and me. 'This is how the proud beast kin thank their liberators? Have you bothered to look around and see how many are trying to keep you from killing me?' The blade stopped just short of landing on my face and a bead of sweat fell from my brow. As my lady was in no position to stop him now she backed away as so many lizkin were ready to charge at the lion beast kin the moment my life ended. " Is that so? They are loyal to a human that they will court death upon yours?" The loin beast kin laughed loudly before lowering his blade. " I lost a lot of energy in attacking you." I nod and look to my lady who understood. It was not a minute later a healer was on his back as he sat beside me. " So who are you human? What will turn your back to your entire race?" I look at him and blink. 'I see you are familiar with the mind speech. You looked like you would understand. I am an out worlder, or one humans call a hero, in your terms. I had what I called an acceptable life when I left my world and forced here and turned into a slave." The lion beast kin laughed out loud. " Ha, I knew they did something to some individuals to gain such strength. To think they would go to such lengths." I smiled slightly. 'You can call me Emperor. As that is my aspiration. One day the entire world will know of me and fear my name.' The lion beast kin laughed again and slapped his knee. " Hahahaha, a weakling like you. Boy you better go home to your mothers breasts with dreams like that." He then suddenly froze as my lady had her sword to his throat when he stopped and realized it. " Mock my mate again and I will not hesitate to make you eat your words." I looked at her and nod slowly to signal for her to pull back. Reluctantly she did. " To breed with a dragonnewt. I sure did pick the wrong human to fight today. So what are you going to do with me so called Emperor? I obvious attacked you, and I refuse to serve a human." I close my eyes a moment. 'The way you act and how skilled you are. You are not a normal individual. I bet you are a high ranking individual of the beast kin nation to the south. That is likely your destination. We will provide a map later and further details of our actions so far. It should not be too hard to meet up with others you have freed. We plan on raiding several more locations before arriving at our final destination. Of course you are free to stay. Set up guidelines to those fleeing south, or join them yourselves, but any of those willing we are going to form our own empire." This time he did not laugh and took my words seriously. What I told him puzzled him. He could not understand. After a moment of confusing he made his mind. " It will take some time to organize all the freed slaves. So in the mean time let us work together." He extended his large paw hand and I grabbed it. It almost seemed he was grabbing a child's hand. " Third legion commander Lenard at your service."
Lenard is a tough old bastard if I had to say it. Perceptive to a fault too. He figured out most of our plans before we even hinted at them. No wonder he was leader of a legion of beast kin. Currently over two thousand of his men were within the city and even more soldiers. What became of the numbers of the city amounted to this. The first division amounted to five hundred scouts. The majority of the forty dragonnewts we freed will be here. The second division mainly consisting of beast kin men and lizkin will be led by my love to secure the north. The third division which will have the vast majority of the women, as well as the old and young and other non combatants will be following them. While I in the fourth division will go free more slaves. Hitting towns and cities more slowly as we head north. Because of my link with my mate instant communication is possible over vast distance and I learned soul rend from her while she learned a large aoe anti miasma skill similar to what I use to absorb the curses of the slaves. The how and why we learned these things is because the city is housed over a world spring source. When I used my miasma absorption skill I, accidentally, purified the source. It does not have the strength to serve as a miasma dump but it can serve as a respawn for me if needed. Combine my massive miasma and the knowledge from the slave organizations as well and my ability 'curse manipulation' evolved again.
Curse physics (greater) - a complete understanding of the concept of curses. With this you are immune to all curses and can bestow high resistance to curses to any you share a link with passively.
Which means me and my love will never be affected by curse again. As I gained curse resistance 10 which states I am immune to curses in a simple manner. Add to the fact I add curse resistance 3 to all my followers and resistance 5 to all those near me. It is hard to describe. I feel I am walking down a dark path. With all the curse stuff. We spent over a week in the city. Considering the only people that visit a place like this are slave dealers or merchants I had no quarrels with any that killed them. They simple chose the wrong occupation at the wrong place and time. On the morning of the last day my love was getting dressed in front of the bed we both were laying on earlier. I just woke up as she tied her shirt on her back. Her wings were spread wide and I sighed as I moved to help her. " I never imagine we will get this far." I loosely tie the knot before sitting on the bed. " The first part of the plan is done. Let us hope the luck continues." She looked behind her at me and noticed my glum. " Do not worry. It will only be for a few weeks. And if any of those cute cat beast kin jump on you in heat I will not mind." I became nervous. 'You noticed my looking at them, huh?' She nods as she sits down and puts on a sock. " Of course I noticed. I know you fancy to touch those ears as well." I swallowed hard. 'I have no desire of a harem.' She puts another sock on and smiled at me as she took my hand. " I know. You are loyal to me, but it is not bad to experience others. And we need to train that vigor of yours. Maybe a beast kin's lighter touch will do more than me." I actually considered it a moment and I felt my hand being crushed. 'All right all right. If they come into my tent I will not turn them away unless I am tired. Otherwise I will show restraint.' She release the death grip on my hand. 'And you. If I need to train my vigor you need to train your head. The next battle lead your people without actually drawing your weapon. A good commander knows how to fight but a great one will never need to.' She became slightly disappointed as she sighed. " Fine, it is a small price to pay." I smile at her and nod. 'I wonder how long we can last on this luck?' I feel her looking away from me unhappy.
I met with Lenard after I got ready after noon. My love left shortly after dawn and Lenard was about to move out his own forces. I move to him and handed him a letter. 'I had my love write this up before she left. After we create our nation and become stable we will be open to diplomacy with the south. That letter carries the mark of the empire we will make.' Lenard took the letter and slowly took it into his armor. " I must say I am surprised. Freeing so many slaves just to create an empire with them. That is a story of legend. It a shame I could not spar with you." I thought it over a moment. 'As I recall I threw the strongest curses I had onto you and you still stood on even ground to my love. When the time comes you can boast such an accomplishments.' He considered that a moment. " True, thou I believe you could have killed me at any time." I rubbed my chin with a finger. 'The thought did cross my mind, but you did stop your sword. Another inch and I would have dodged backwards and I am sure at least one of us would not be here talking right now.' He sobered his mood to my words. " In the future lets have a proper spar." I shook my head. 'Lets agree to have a drink instead. If I succeed in my plans then I will buy and if we do not. The first one at the bar in the next life buys.' He laughed sober to my meaning. " I can agree to that. For a human I like you kid." I smile at him and nod. Perhaps we were friends in a former lifetime I considered. I rubbed the back of my head after waving to him. I wonder if we made that agreement at that time too. I also wondered if we did did we ever manage to keep that agreement.
(narrator)
The slave rebellion. The war that led to the creation of the empire. On the continental year 12,654 of the Ers era this event is formally recognized in history and is often refereed to in military lessons to this day. Because of a simple but strait forward objective of founding their own nation it was an unprecedented event of an unimaginable scale at the time. The entire population of the entire continent was just over twelve million. To the south in the beast kin empire laid a population of five million and to the north where the empire was founded was less than one million. At the time of the war the total military might of the south was eight hundred thousand by estimate. The humans had a total of twenty five hundred thousand there with a reserve of five hundred and fifty thousand. At the time sixty percent of the human country populations was believed to have been slaves. In the winter of that year world had spread threw out the continent of the demon hero and the hero reaper. By this time the human leaders started to take action a total of twelve major cities had fallen. Hundreds of other locations have been seized and looted. When the rebel army population reached one hundred thousand is when a full contingent of the humans combined elite forces finally act to put an end to the bloodshed.
(Kiko, cat beast kin elite sentry of the fourth division of the empire. 20~ years after empire founding)
I sat at the bar enjoying my drink as I watched the youngsters be merry among themselves.