"I don't know, if anything, Daryl and Geist have to be ready to destroy the portal frame so now one can walk through." I assured him as we were about to step out of the tent, but someone called to us.
"You two!" It was a female voice, Callias and I spun back around to the voice, she had long black hair, and a very feminine body, she was pretty hot.
"Holy shit." Callias whispered to me, and I held back a smile, damn him.
"I need two soldiers to help me, come over here." She ordered, speaking with a very authoritative tone.
"Yes, please." Callias said softly so only I heard, and the two of us made our way to her, she was standing around four other soldiers, they were men.
"You two are new here, aren't you? There is no need to wear your helmet inside of the tents." She said, motioning for us to take them off, so we did, and when she saw me, her eyes widened. "Oh, you are young, wow, your Blood must be very happy that you are here." She was smirking at me. "I am Captain Lenearis, what blood are you from?"
"We are both from HighBlood Denoir, we arrived yesterday with the batch of recruits." I answered, and then the captain's eyes gleamed with what looked like both joy and fear.
"Everyone out!" She shouted, clearing the room in seconds, leaving the three of us in there alone. "HighBlood Denoir didn't send any troops here." Callias and I stood there, unmoving. "Which begs the question, who are you two? Stowaways possibly?"
Should I kill her, I mean, it would ruin our plan, I couldn't create a clone with her knowledge of what she was doing here, it would be pointless. However, I couldn't let her expose us right now, I barely managed to infect the force, I could kill about one hundred soldiers right now, but that is meaningless.
Callias looked at me with wide eyes, trying to figure out what I was going to do. "We wanted to be part of the war, but we didn't get in, so snook over." Callias said, and I felt for the mana in the air, getting ready to conjure an ice sword.
"I don't think that it is either." Captain Lenearis said, and as she faced me, she took a device out and the sword appeared in my hand, and I cut her wrist off, catching the device in the air, then spun and held my blade to her throat.
The captain's eyes were wide in horror, surprise, and in shock. "Don't say a word." I told her, holding the device. "I think this is the device to activate the shield."
"Ahh!" She screamed in agony, and I closed the wound using blood magic.
"Damn, I couldn't even react." Callias said, taking the device from my hands. "Sorry lady, but you are going to have to die."
"Callias, change of plans." I couldn't use her knowledge, but I could use her. "I need you stay still for a second, Captain Lenearis." I used the blood then dripped to the floor when I killed her to shape a clone that looked identical to her.
"It's you, the Devil of Dicathen, the Prince of Darkness, we were told you would be coming." Captain Lenearis said, and then she smiled. "All hail the High Sovereign." I finished creating the clone, and she shouted. "Code Red!"
"Kill her!" Callias said, and stuck the sword into her throat, then kicked her body to the ground. "Shit, now what." I felt the soldiers outside making their way into her.
"I got it." I started using illusion magic, making her body invisible. "Play it cool."
Ten soldiers ran in, weapons at their side, my clone of Captain Lenearis spoke. "What are you doing? Get out of here."
"We heard code red, that means we've been invaded." The soldier said and looked at me. "Are you sure you are alright, Captain?"
"Yes, I didn't shout anything." Captain Lenearis said, I was still holding the illusion spell. Callias had his hands behind his back, holding the device that we thought activated the shield array. "You can leave."
"Captain Lenearis, code red doesn't mean we've been invaded." They pointed their weapons at us. "It means the Devil of Dicathen has arrived, and we know what he is capable of, you are a clone!"
I stopped the illusion spell and activated my blood curse on the soldiers standing in front of me, the ten of them fell over dead in a second. "Hahaa." I laughed, then said to Callias. "How convenient, all of them had been in contact with the curse, haaha."
"That doesn't solve our current situation." Callias said, and I waved my arms, not knowing exactly what to do. "Should we get everyone and leave? That is the only reasonable option, isn't it?"
"No, we can keep going, the curse is spreading very slowly, but in time, it will work." I told him. "The issue we have is making sure that no one finds these bodies, if I burn them, everyone will feel the surge of mana, and they will know something is up."
"Well, we can't just leave them here, can we?"
I shook my head, thinking about what we could do. "Alright, first, go, and spread the curse." I told the clone of Captain Lenearis to go do. She left leaving Callias and me in here with the eleven bodies.
"What about the bodies?"
"Let's drag them to the corner, and we can stay in here." I paused, grabbing the leg of the real Captain Lenearis, and started to drag her to the one corner. "I'll cast and hold the illusion spell for as long as I have to."
"Okay, that works." As Callias spoke, I felt the soldiers in the camp start to move around differently; they know, before the soldiers entered, they must have warned someone.
"Shit." I said. "Hurry up, we need to move these bodies now, and I am going to cast that illusion spell over all of us." I told him as I placed the body down, and made my way to the others, picking up two this time. "They know, Callias, they are coming for the shield switch, and for us, we are in serious trouble, maybe, this could work out for us better."
"What!" He exclaimed. "We need to get the hell out of here then."
"All the troops are going to be side by side, spreading my curse all around, this could be good." I don't feel like dragging these bodies anymore. I conjured wind under them and brought them to the corner where the other bodies were. "Alright, alright, shit, I need to think, Daryl and Geist need to shut that portal down, but if they do that, they'll be a walking target, Melody and Cassandra are far from them, they are hiding out behind a tent talking it feels like."
"We can split up." Callias suggested. "I'll get Cassandra and Melody; you go help Daryl and Geist."
"No, that'll still put them in harm's way." Should I send word to Sylvie, I have a clone with her, telling her everything was fine. "Okay, the safest thing we can do, is if I take on the five thousand troops, you guys get out, and prepare to join me with the division."
"You want to fight against five thousand troops by yourself, even you can't do that." Callias was probably right, I don't think I can kill five thousand troops, arrows being rained down on me, or spells, while fighting someone straight up, a spell would hit me at some point, but it would be fun. "Veer, it----"
I cut him off. "Shut up." I whispered, conjuring an illusion spell over us and the bodies as soldiers ran into the tent. Callias made eye contact with me, he looked worried, I was calm, holding the spell active as they walked in the room.
"Find the switch to the shield array, we need activate it." A soldier said out loud, and the men started to go through things.
"Are we sure it is a code red?" Another said, and my clone walked in.
"What are you all doing?" Captain Lenearis said to them all. "Get out, I already said it was a false alarm." The soldiers turned toward the clone, and their weapons were pointed at her.
"Captain Lenearis, what blood are you from?" Oh, come on, are they really that suspicious.
"I don't have to answer you, get out."
"What blood?" The man repeated. "It's a clone, the Devil of Dicathen, Virion Leywin, is here." I dissolved the clone, and the blood fell to the ground. "Send word, the High Sovereign was right, he has come."
Agrona knew I was coming, he said he wasn't taking it seriously over the last couple weeks, I should have believed him, and thought about this attack better. "We need that portal closed." I whispered to Callias.
"How?" Callias shrugged as he asked. "They know we are here."
My eyes started to dart around the room, thinking about what I should do. "The device should be in here! We need to activate the switch now! Isn't there a backup?!" The soldier was screaming to the other people in the room as they broke down things.
One of the soldiers looked at us in the corner like she could see us, was she a Sentry, shit, shit, shit, okay, nope, there is only one thing to do. "Callias, I don't think we get out of this without me fighting them" I whispered as we spoke very quietly. "You are going to go grab everyone, and leave, I"m going to buy you time."
"I can't let you do that." Callias responded. "It's a death trap."
"Not for me." I conjured an ice sword, shot out of the illusion I had casted, beheaded a soldier, threw the sword into another's chest, conjured two daggers, threw them into the skulls of two more.
I ripped the blood out of another, shot it through a soldier's armor, killing both, then pushed a force outward, killing everyone else in the tent like it was nothing. It was now just Callias and I as the soldiers outside began to enter formation, facing in our general direction.
I cracked my neck, and Callias spoke to me. "Veer, I'm not leaving you; I know you are on a whole different level than me, but this, no, I'm not leaving."
"Callias, I should have listened to you from the start, we should have left after I killed the captain." I could kill four hundred soldiers right now with the curse that was spreading through them, but that would barely put a dent into their force. "Now, you need to leave with everyone, I'll buy you time."
"No."
I bit my lip looking at him, I wanted to get angry at him, but I couldn't, I know he cares about me. "Okay, fine, this what we are going to do, I'm going to go and get Daryl and Geist, you are going to go and get Cassandra and Melody, we will all meet at the tunnel where we came from, and we will leave." I placed my helmet on. "You have the switch to the shield, we can leave, they aren't holding us here."
"That's what I was saying, I know you have your mental problems, and want to kill them all, but I think you should push past it, and leave before the battle begins." Callias told me. "We can leave and let your curse do its job while we are up there."
I nodded my head, pushing past the desire to kill five thousand men. "Let's go then." Him and I exited the tent, and I said. "Be safe, Callias, I'll get Daryl and Geist, they are on the far end, close to the troops in formation."
"You too, Veer." Callias nodded, placing his helmet on, and we split apart, heading in two different directions, he was going to get Melody and Cassandra. The two of them were on the west end, also, near the troops, but on the other side of Daryl and Geist.
As I picked up my pace, trying to look like a worried soldier, I ran towards the portal frame, and the soldiers in my way were getting into formation, shouting orders to one another, worrying about where I was located.
"Boom!" The portal frame exploded as a fire and wind spell collided with it.
Shit, all the soldiers turned toward the frame that was no longer there, Geist and Daryl did their job, but they should not have. "Kill those two!" Soldiers shouted as they got into fighting positions.
I could feel all their cores activating, Daryl and Geist's heartbeats were quickening as they faced the enormous force before them alone. Shields activated in the front row, well, there goes trying to escape without fighting.