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The days of plotting strategies were over, Felicia had given the signal to prepare as multiple beastkin and humans got themselves ready in the armory. Mages prepared and equipped with spell tomes, flasks filled with bright destruction while druids prepared their healing staff while praying for a safe expedition. Scy and Darvo were well rested as they stepped out of their new home, the streets were filled with marching people, yelling and cheering.

A tap on Scy's shoulder made them turn their heads, Felicia stood in front of them, geared up in light armor. A rapier of some sort was sheathed away while she saluted "We shall head for west exit, there was a distress call in Lorzaila kingdom" She spoke before pointing to the marching group. Scy saw how motivated and full of strong moral the group was, they were interacting with each other while still keeping the fighting spirit.

They were probably fully aware that these next battle could be deadly, yet they marched on with fire in their spirits. Darvo and Scy followed the female in charge, her eyes were busy scanning their surroundings as she gave a small tug on Darvo's shoulder "Let's go this way, I need to talk to you two in private for a bit" she spoke softly while leading the two into an alleyway.

The female leaned against a brick wall before crossing her arms "Listen, a lot of these people never experienced actual combat, blood will flow and I want you two to keep strong" She spoke with a stern voice. Darvo nodded and scratched behind his head "I understand, we need to keep our own morale up" he replied as Scy also gave an agreeing nod. The three walked through the quiet alleyway that lead to a small inner plaza.

The plaza was hiding behind houses, the balconies having a great view on the statue in the middle while small pathways next to the houses lead to other alleyways. "Do you think we'll be able to make a difference?" Scy said as they slowly walked towards the end of the alleyway, following a pathway that led to the west exit. Felicia shrugged "We can at least try" she spoke as her ears flicked up while her eyes narrowed to the distance.

A man stumbled forwards before standing still, his hands grasping his chest, the three running closer. "What's wrong?" Felicia asked while grabbing the hands, checking for any wounds but none visible. The man was crying in pain before falling on his knees, hands digging into the earth in front of him while coughing "Those, things. They...They attacked us" he said while tears were falling on the ground.

"Things?" Scy said while he nodded at Darvo, who got on his knees to place a claw on the shoulder of the man. The man quickly looked up, shaking his head while standing up "Don't come near me...Get your men and run..." he said softly while screams of pain escaped his mouth, grasping his chest again.

Felicia took a step closer, shaking her head "Are you talking about them?" she asked. The man widened his eyes while nodding heavily "Yes! They know our loca-" the man stopped talking as his chest ripped open. Sharp red thorns pushed outwards, blood spilling onto the ground before the thorns formed a single blade. The blade got pulled back inside the man which fell on his knees. A long rope started to form around his neck. The red blade pushing out of his chest once more before long red veins started to cover his arms.

Felicia saw the event happen and turned around to face the two warriors "Step back! It's blood magic!" she yelled before unsheathing her rapier, deflecting an incoming attack. They saw how the man got pulled up by the long rope that lead towards the exit, seeing how smaller ropes coiled around his arms and legs. The sound of marching soldiers became louder as Felicia gazed back. "I need to stop my men, guard this place and don't engage any battles" she spoke with haste before running back to where they came from.

Darvo and Scy gazed upon the fallen man who was being held up on his limp feet, like a puppeteer held his puppet up. A sudden movement in the blood ropes made the man charge forwards his hands were covered in spiked blood thorns as they started flailing towards the two warriors. "Left!" Scy said while he quickly jumped to the right side of the charging man, Darvo nodded and got the left side. Both unsheathing their blades to deflect the flailing arms, pushing the man back with the blunt side of the swords before jumping back a little. Felicia told not to engage but they had no choice but to defend themself like this.

A loud noise was heard, rattling gears started running as the elevator of the west exit reached the bottom. A white robed female walked up front with her hands raised in the air, she was followed by two other robed females, their hood covering their faces. "Well well well, would you look at this little operation" the female up front said, her fingers playing the air as if she controlled a puppet. The man got pulled back, seeing how small red strings were formed between her fingers and around the man, giving a sinister smile before she looked around "Where is your captain" she spoke with a strong tone.

Darvo saw how the two hooded females stood next to their leader, their exposed arms were pale just like the ones he saw before. Scy too remembered the events at the church in Hearthfort, these women looked the same "Why? What is your business with her?" Scy asked, creating a laugh on the female's face. Her hands started to swing around, fingers tapping the sky while the man lunged back towards them. His chest ripped open as a blade stuck out, ready to thrust into Scy. Darvo saw this happen and quickly extended his empty claw, releasing a burst of wind magic to bring the puppet off-course.

"Am I late?" A familiar voice rushed through the cave, Scy's gaze turned around to see Felicia, Jax and one of the citizen. Felicia had her paws up in the hair while Jax dragged the other female by her hair, cries of fear were heard while his gaze was set upon the two warriors. Nodding to the three cult members while walking towards them, leaving Felicia behind with Darvo and Scy. "You!" Scy said in anger as Darvo held out his paw, ready to fire a magic spell towards him, seeing how Jax held up one of his whip swords against the citizen's throat "Nah-ah, wouldn't do that if I were you, unless you don't care about innocent bloodshed of course" He said jokingly while gazing back to the lady behind him.

"Ah, Felicia my dear, long time no see" The lady spoke as her pale face was now fully visible, her long black hair danced around in the wind, her eyes were fully black with small red dots. She looked somewhat pleased while she nodded back to Jax, letting him walk and stand between the lady and the threesome. The three unable to act without fatal consequences just giving in to talk. "What do you want? You got the whole Lorzaila district, leave us alone" Felicia said while Jax chuckled at her words.

The lady lowered her hand, stretching out her fingers, the man she had control over started to breathe heavily. Felicia widened her eyes as she saw how he became conscious of his surroundings, unable to move and crying out in pain as the blood sword was still ripped outwards from his chest. "W-what?! WHAT?! S-STOP...please..." the man cried while the woman started to speak, red wired pulling the mouth of the man out to make him unable to speak. "There are some...Changes in our contract" the lady spoke while Jax walked closer to Scy and Darvo, grinning while sticking out his tongue.

Scy exchanged looks with Jax, wanting to pull his blades out to cut the bastard open, but it would cause problems if he did right now. Darvo nudged him, nodding softly as if he could read his mind, seeing Jax walk back to Felicia to hand out a small scroll. The two smaller women walked forwards, kneeling down next to the whimpering man, who was still awake. "Make that suffering stop and I shall read it" Felicia said, keeping her emotions in control, she knew this lady and was aware she would play with shown emotions.

The lady shook her head, snapping her finger as the small red wires stretched out his mouth more, the two women who had kneeled down raised their heads in the air. A gagging noise was heard while thick red ropes started to flow out of their mouths, falling on their back as the ropes started to coil around the victim's legs. thorns pushing into the flesh while it started to creep upwards. The started had wide eyes that gazed around in quick looks, flinching in panic and struggling in fear, which caused the blood ropes to tighten their grip.

The lady showed no emotions on her face, her palm closing, as if she was choking the male. Felicia opened the scroll, seeing how the woman grinned a little, her palm opening again while the two women were still chanting their blood into this event. Felicia started reading the scroll, mumbling the words softly "From the day that I shall attack Hearthfort city, you shall have all rights to destroy the underground city. Let them feel pain" She stopped talking and threw the scroll back to Jax, who caught it to tuck it away in a pocket.

"So, the grand king has made you his pawn" Felicia said, seeing the facial expression change into something more grim. "You can call it that, but that is none of your concern. What is, however, is what your final words are" she spoke while the two women stopped chanting. The red blood ropes coming from their mouth splashing into liquid blood, slowly getting up while they held each other to stand up, walking back towards their leader. Jax licked over his lips, his blade pushed into the neck of the victim he held close. "Miss Razette? If I may interrupt, those two beastkin are my...Acquaintances, may I have the honor disposing them?" Jax asked, the lady merely nodding in return.

"Do not disappoint me" she replied while she began to float into the air, the blood wires making her in full control of the man she used as puppet. Razette blew out a puff of black fog, Scy saw how the fog invaded the man's mouth, slowly bringing him to the world of the death again as he fell limp, the strings being pulled by the lady flying in the air. "We are the Bloodmaidens, ascendants from the creators of the Beastiary Codex and we arrived to take back what is ours!" she spoke while snapping her fingers.

Jax grinned while letting his hostage go, who quickly ran towards the three others. Jax shook his head while pointing his blade towards the running female, the sword pushing out and extending into whip form. Felicia widened her eyes as she saw how the tip of the whip pushed through, shredding open the hostage before a quick tug pulled the whip backwards, leaving the female motionless on the ground.

Scy quickly ran towards Jax, seeing how he had killed the victim, Darvo following and ready to use his destructive magic. "Oh? Ready for round two?" Jax said while raising his paw, his fingers clenching together as blood got pulled out of the dead hostage in front of the two warriors. Felicia unsheathed her rapier, lunging forward the puppet that Razette was using. Jax took a step back, his free paw forming a fist while lowering, the dead victim in front started to get pulled up by the strings of her lost blood. The strings started to coil around Jax's free paw as he groaned as if he was in pain.

His eyes rolled back while he fell on his knees, Scy threw his long sword forward, grabbing onto the tight rope to steer it towards the distracted jackal. Darvo released a ball of explosive fire, following the long sword close. "Only this time we are prepared! Bastard!" Razette's eyes lit up as she began screaming, releasing small wires out of her mouth that slammed into the earth, throbbing slightly as if they were pumping. The explosive fire ball weakened before fully fading, the jackal jumping back up to swing his blood coiled paw around.

Darvo widened his eyes as he saw how his magic was broken, Scy throwing his short sword too. Jax had pulled the dead female up with the blood wires, lunging her forward into the long sword that created a wound in her stomach. Jax grinned and pulled his puppet upwards, catching the short sword as well before quickly sheathing away his whip, using his free paw to chant.

Scy gasped, surprised by this counter attack while quickly pulling strongly on his ropes, feeling his swords return as Darvo tried to cast another spell. "No good, Scy!" Darvo said as he felt his magic drained. Scy shook his head, seeing the blood veins that had connected to the ground near Razette "Maybe...Felicia! Those veins!" He yelled towards Felicia, seeing how she was deflecting incoming lunges of Razette's puppet, which had a sword sticking out of his chest. Felicia nodded while dodge rolling aside, the puppet crashing into the ground right behind her, jumping up to cut one of the multiple blood ropes that held the puppet.

"I know, I know! I am trying to get there" She yelled while Razette was floating idly in the air, her eyes close while moving the puppet around. Jax started to lunge both paws forward, the open wounds started to gush out blood that quickly hardened into spikes. "Watch out!" Darvo said while jumping in front of Scy, lifting his blade upwards, the blood spikes that had formed in front of the puppet shattered and became liquid again, retracting back into the puppet.

Darvo couldn't contain his anger anymore, seeing how the two cultists used dead bodies as weapons. He started charging towards Jax, his blade raised in the air and ready to lunge downwards. Jax saw the incoming dragon naga and unsheathed his whip blade, holding it sideways as the heavy blade came crashing downwards. He made his blade extend into his whip once he felt the heavy recoil, the whip wrapping around the blade while Jax grinned and pulled Darvo closer "Remember this? You're too slow for me" he said as he kicked his foot against Darvo's knee.

Meanwhile Felicia was struggling with keeping herself up, Razette was a born fighter and knew every step her opponent would made. Her eyes slowly opened to see Felicia nearing the blood veins she created, lowering herself as Felicia ran into her grasp. Felicia widened her eyes, feeling the cold hand of Razette on her shoulder, her eyes peering into Felicia's without any emotions. "That, was a mistake" she spoke as her fingers pushed into the shoulder.

Felicia widened her eyes before quickly stepping back, Razette had one hand raised, the blood ropes retracting to her palm. Scy saw how Razette pulled her puppet towards Felicia's back, throwing his blades towards her hand while swinging his ropes around. He extended his ropes as much as he could, feeling his blades become heavy , slicing up and down into the air. His blades pierced the blood ropes that were attached to the puppet, quickly pulling them back as Felicia became aware of what was occurring. Turning herself around to use her rapier to push the victim away, seeing how he fell motionless on the ground and the blood sword had become liquid blood again.

The lady didn't seemed to bothered by the loss of her puppet, a small smile even appeared on her face "Felicia, you are bleeding" she spoke, the words rooting Felicia to the ground. Her eyes widened while bringing her paw to the wound in her shoulder, feeling the red liquid flowing lightly. Darvo felt the strong foot against his knee, stepping back while pulling his sword back with force. Jax chuckling as Scy was distracted by Felicia, his fingers snapping while lunging the puppet forward again. Blood spikes formed again from the wounds that were open, Darvo quickly flinging his sword upwards to cut through the blood ropes that connected the puppet, breaking them and making the victim fall on the ground.

Scy jumped back as he heard the noise of the victim crash into the ground right in front of him, scratching his back while nodding towards Darvo. Felicia swung her rapier towards Razette, feeling how an invisible force pushed her rapier back with recoil, blasting her backwards with a stronger force. Razette broke the veins off that were leeching the ground before she held both hands together, her black hair floating idly in the air as her eyes widened. The black iris narrowed while her pupil started to glow red.

Felicia crawled back up, her eyes falling on Jax and Darvo who were once again dueling, Exchanging sword blows while the other deflected and tried to break the defense. Scy quickly hurried to the downed female, Razette started to laugh while raising her hands above her head to create long red veins that lunged upwards in the air. Scy kneeled down, pulling Felicia up before letting her hold onto his shoulder, his paw raising one blade while walking backwards.

He saw how multiple blood veins started rushing downwards, finding their way towards the open wound of Felicia, Scy fending them off by slashing them one by one. Razette chuckled softly before her hair started to hang low as is gravity returned, thick veins started to appear on her pale skin while a long tail rolled out of her robe, sweeping behind her. The tip of the tail had a red crystal and was shining brightly while she dragged the tail around herself, creating a magic circle.

Jax saw the magic circle and grinned, shoving away Darvo before dragging his sword into the ground to create the same circle around himself. Darvo quickly recovered before thrusting his sword forward, feeling a strong barrier form around the magic circle while Jax simply stood there, smiling and rubbing into his paws. Razette too stopped the chanting of blood veins and began rubbing her hands together, the tail coiled around her own leg as she slowly closed her eyes.

Darvo ran towards Scy, lifting Felicia up while gazing towards his partner "We need to bring her to safety, she is vulnerable to their attacks" Darvo said while Scy shook his head "If we leave now they will push onwards to kill everyone they come across! You go! Be back quick" Scy said with his focus on the chanting enemies. Darvo nodded and quickly started to run towards their house, Felicia had her eyes closed shut while grasping onto the dragon naga.

Jax started to huff out slowly before whimpers of pain were heard, falling on all four before arching his back. Loud howls were heard while Razette was chanting, the magic circle started to grow blood veins which dug their way into Jax's flesh. His eyes narrowed and blackened fully. His claws became sharper and more rough while his fur started to grow and lose color. His muzzle became pale and red veins were visible as he slowly got up again with a light chuckle.

Scy couldn't believe his eyes as the jackal went through a transformation he had never seen before. The jackal held out his claws as a glass card appeared in front of him. Growling while lunging his claw inwards, feeling glass dust alter him. His tail split open and sharp thorns grew outwards. His arms stretched out slightly, his claws dangling over the ground while red veins started to grow out of his claws. He jumped upwards, breaking the magic barrier as he began floating in the air by magic, his fangs forming an over and under bite while he grinned sinister.

"My puppeteer has born" Razette said, snapping her finger as if she ordered Jax to attack. Jax growled out loud while flailing his claws forwards, letting the blood veins fly towards the dragon iguana.