Chapter 74
The mercenaries start running in all directions, and the one who gave the news is going with a team of five people, but one of his eyes turn black, but no one sees anything.
The boss is looking at the pagoda and knows that more than half of the energy was depleted, he was planning to use the hostages to unlock another level from the pagoda, but now he can't even charge it anymore. Without the hostages his entire plan has gone to waste, not to mention that when the ones from above find out that they won't have to worry about hurting the hostages, they will destroy the entire mountain, with them still in it.
Morven is watching everything with calm eyes from the darkness. The hostages long gone, when the monster's attacked and everywhere mayhem was, they went to the vault and used a special artifact to make a portal and send the hostages to the surface, in about ten minutes they saved them, Morven hiding the scene with his darkness, no monster or mercenaries' saw anything. Now he is the only one remaining, he told Nr.1 to tell Zmaug to wait with the invasion of the city, because he is interested in the Artifact that can protect the mercenaries from his darkness.
Of course, only from the black smoke. When he was face to face with the mercenary who came to check, his visual powers managing to bypass the Artifact's protection, so he was successful in corrupting his mind. Now he is interested to see the limits of protection of the Artifact.
He watches from the shadows, the Artifacts power of trapping anything but the mercenaries, not doing anything to stop him from inside the shadows and darkness. He watches how the mercenaries split again, and some are alone now, he goes to them and using his visual powers he corrupts the others.
In but a few moments he has almost half of the mercenaries corrupted, now he can even use the others to kill their friends one by one, because no one is expecting for their team mate to stab him in the back, they were together for years, so a little bit of trust was built between them. But Morven waits calmly to turn all of them, he plans to use them to take the Boss by surprise, and maybe he will manage to even enter his mind, even if he is directly protected by the Artifact.
He saw in the mercenary's memories that the Boss was sharing the Artifacts powers with them, once he won't be sharing anymore, he will be ten times more powerful. And it was only the first level unsealed from the pagoda. He saw they were planning to use the hostages to unseal the second level.
Easily but surely the mercenaries were one by one corrupted, the Boss feels something wrong, why didn't they still find them, how could a few million people just disappear in thin air, something is wrong, he thinks, 'Weren't there two of them when they came to the planet and killed the others? Where is the other one, i think he was using some kind of Dark powers.'
The more he thinks the more he feels something really wrong, he gets up and walks outside. He looks around and can't see anything, is quiet, no one is screaming, no one is attacking, the Dragon it's not coming anymore. But why are his people so quiet? It's like the quiet before a storm. His instincts tell him to pull back the pagodas power from them.
And so he does, he pulls the glow from his people, then the glow is shining a little bit stronger now on the pagoda. And just in time because he sees his people all coming back. But all are eerily quiet, and all are walking with their heads down. When he sees them, he knows something is wrong, he says;
"Stop hiding and come out, i know you are there. You are hiding in the Darkness."
Then the people all stop, in front of them a dark silhouette of a man in his forties appears, but his eyes are a snake's eyes. And those are his most notable trait. Is like you can't look away from them. But if you look too much, then you will lose yourself.
Malakar concentrates the pagoda power on his eyes, and then he can stare without losing himself in those snake eyes. He knows that a formidable opponent is in front of him then he hears;
"How did you find out so soon about me? I was planning a surprise for you. Well, is no problem i can still work with what i have."
Malakar looks at his people and sees them raising their heads,
The eyes being completely black, he knows that his people are not his anymore. Then he sees them walking towards him.
He closes his eyes for a moment, then he takes his swords out and he also starts to walk towards them. He turns his head towards Morven and sees him smiling and watching like a spectator at a play. He starts to become really angry, and the next moment he disappears from his spot, he appears in front of the first mercenary and hits him in the back of his head, losing his consciousness. Then he appears next to another, he tries to do the same but Morven says;
"Kill him."
When they hear Morven's command is like they become savages. They turn towards Malakar and all are like berserks, they attack him form all side with all they have, the one who was next to him, he makes a few wind blades and sends them towards his head.
Malakar raises his sword and blocks them, then he jumps up and all the attacks hit where he just was, killing the mercenary there.
The others take their guns out and start to fire, some uses fire balls, some uses ice spears, some uses lightning. But no one manages to hit him, he avoids a few attacks then he makes a blood shield around him. The attacks making just some ripples.
He turns towards Morven, and he starts flying, he sends some red energy balls, but Morven just sends some meat shields, the attacks killing them on the spot. Malakar stops the red energy balls; he looks at Morven with red eyes that if stares could kill, he would've died a thousand times already.
But Morven just smiles, he wants to play with his mind, so that he can look inside his head, where did he find it, and the secrets around it. Then Morven also starts sending some dark energy blades, but Malakars just avoid them in the air, the attacks hit the mountain above them and rocks the size of houses start falling down.
Malakar wants to stop the rocks, so he can save a few of his people, but knows that that is also what Malakar wants, so he avoids the stones and then he disappears. The mercenaries looking for him, not caring about the falling stones, when the stones hit, they become pancakes. Morven also looks for Malakar, but he can't find him.
A stone also heads towards Morven, but he sends again a few dark blades and destroys the stone in thousands of smaller stones.
But from behind the stone Malakar appears and in just a millisecond is in front of Morven, his sword already near his neck, if it hits, his head would be sent flying.
But Morven just looks into Malakar eyes, his eyes losing his shine for a second, and that makes him lose his momentum, Morven makes a dark shield around his neck, and when the sword without any power behind it hits, it just stops.
then Malakar recovers from the mind attack, and he retreats. He looks at Morven not even moving one step form his spot.
But after he stops for a second the mercenaries again send a wave of attacks towards him, he needs to keep moving if he wants to stay alive. But now he runs again towards Morven, and while running he makes some blood spears, from the blood of his men. He sends them towards him while avoiding the attacks form his men.
The spears fly with the speed of light becoming just a red blur, when Morven sees the spears, he jumps up and starts flying. But the spears follow him, he flies back down between the mercenaries and sends again a few meat shields in front of the spears.
But when the spears hit, they kill but are also becoming bigger and faster with each killed mercenary. Morven looks behind him and sees that his plan backfired against him. Now if he is hit by one of those spears, he will be left with half of his life. He needs to be careful. He hears Malakar saying;
"Run, run little snake, or the big bad wolf will catch you."
Morven looks up at him and for a moment wants to transform in his full snake form, but he shakes his head, he knows that if he does that the entire planet will be destroyed by his gargantuan body. So he knows is time to stop playing. He says;
"I wonder how powerful you are without your toy little wolf; how many times you would've died until now? I will make you see, how weak you are without the Artifacts power."