chapter five

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As the group neared the Dwemer City within Blackreach Shadow-step grabbed Gentu by the shoulder holding his hand up lightly taking his Nightingale hood off momentarily and putting the gray cowl of Nocturnal on. he stared at the city for a few moments his mouth silently counting before nodding. " This place is crawling with Falmer I see twelve archers on the walls and at least thirty or forty on the ground within the walls, not counting the ones that are more than likely inside the buildings" Shadow-step said reporting what he was seeing before taking the cowl back off and putting the hood back on. " Since it's obvious stealth is not an option here, we will have to fight our way through unless anyone happens to have a mass paralysis projectile that can neutralize the entire area." Gentu asked looking back at the group who shook their heads. " All right then Gila, Shadow-step, Severin you guys take out the archers, Gentu stay back with Asadelf and provide cover. Me, Tully, Myra, Suvvan, Sabrina, and Yamma with take the frontline." Ebon-shi said as they get onto the position. Gila and Severin both climbed up large mushrooms on either side to get a vantage point to easier pick off their targets while Shadow-step stayed with Asadelf and Gentu to provide additional support for them with his enhanced elemental arrows as the group got ready Ebon-shi was first to charge in get their attention pulling out the bow of Shadows hitting a couple of the Falmer who was coming down the stairs. Before slinging it over his shoulder and pulling the Ebony Blade from its resting place on his back right next to Shadowrend. Once all of the Falmer started focusing on him the group charged in marking their targets and going into battle. Tully pulling out the bloodskal blade off his back drove it through the Torsos of three incoming Falmer pinning them down to the ground before pulling out the mace of Molag Bal that was connected to his right hip and begin bludgeoning their skulls "That's right shriek and struggle like the insignificant pathetic and weak maggots you are!" Tully laughs as he smashed their skulls into a thin pinkish and white paste while Myra watched her cousin's back decapitating a Falmer Archer with her Blades sword when too many of them started to crowd them she cast her high-level Illusions spell Hysteria to scare the brunt of The Horde off to keep the heat off of her comrades. Sabrina went from one enemy to the next dual wielding her twin scimitars hacking and slashing them into pieces using her agility to avoid damage and on occasion pulling up the spiked shield she picked up and charging to close the distance before impaling a Falmer on the shields spikes and smashing its skull repeatedly with the blunt Ebony mace then hurling the body at the next Target then charging and quickly switching back to her twin scimitars cutting off both its arms before driving Bloodscythe through its chest and moving on to find her victim. Yamma let out a loud roar as he crushed the skull of an oncoming Falmer dual-wielding Falmer War axes with the great Warhammer Volendrung. Feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder from another Falmer War axe pulled his mace scourge off of his hip and bashed The Farmer in the head with it embedding the head of the mace in its skull before pulling it out. Suvvan wielding the silver Greatsword of the Daedric prince of order, Jyggalag beheaded three Falmer shadow lurkers before brutally kicking another Falmer in the base of the chest before driving the silver blade in its blinded eye. " You ugly mess, you look like you fell down the ugly tree as a baby and hit every branch on the way down, hahaha!" Gila and Severin were focusing on The Two Towers on either side taking out any reinforcements that came through the door. Gentu uses his wards to keep the oncoming spells from the Falmer Mages at Bay while on occasion using his helmet the visage of Mzund to fire scolding jets of steam at the enemy. As Shadow-step kept bulls eyeing them with his Nightingale Bow firing fire, ice, and lightning arrows at the advancing Falmer swarm. But soon a horde had come on to the small group of three. " okay everyone down!" Asadelf yelled as she cast firestorm a Master Level destruction spell Gentu and Shadow-step took cover underneath the Rocks behind as she Let it Loose. The twirling Inferno that spread out from her incinerated the oncoming enemies into ashes their screams of agony were drowned out by the whooshing of the torrent of flames because she was a high elf her Magicka was a lot higher than most she held The Firestorm for a few more seconds before letting it disperse to see the aftermath. There was a charred ring around them and multiple piles of Ash, the Falmer weapons were glowing an orange Hue from the intense Heat. Gentu wasted no time tossing her a restore Magicka potion that he kept that she quickly downed as the three of them along with Severin and Gila came into the city to assist. Gila drew the rueful axe off of her back and completely decapitated an incoming Falmer Night Stalker as Shadow-step using his Nightengale blade started blocking the oncoming assault. Tully noticed another horde coming he put his hands together they glowed a greenish fiery Hue and punched to the ground the dead Falmer immediately rose as his thralls now at least had numbers on their side. Ebon-shi went on ahead heading up on the stairways taking out the brunt of The Horde while Suvvan and Yamma pursued behind him providing him reinforcements as he took care of the staff-wielding Falmer by quickly driving the Ebony Blade through its heart twisting the blade so the sharp end was pointing upwards and pulled straight up the splitting him from the abdomen up to its neck as the top split like split log grabbing the Falmer staff of firebolts he quickly tossed it to Asadelf who was rushing to catch up. Taking advantage of the staff of Firebolt she used it to pick off any stragglers wielding Goldbrand in her other hand as she rushed to his aid. " Hurry Love, find the leader and take him down!" Asadelf yelled as herself Yamma and Suvvan held the oncoming horde off after the few of them stormed the Tower of Remuneration. After climbing the tower he found what appears to be the leader of the Falmer invaders perched on a stone throne overlooking the Dwarven City. It was dressed head to toe in hardened Falmer armor but unlike the Falmer weapons, their kind was known for this one wielding a massive two-handed ebony Greatsword that appeared to be nearly double the size of a standard one. Considering a standard ebony greatsword was at least four and a half feet in length from tip to handle this one was at least 8 ft in length and damn near looked unwieldable. But surprisingly enough this Falmer was different as it seemed to wield the ebony Greatsword without a problem. Without warning the Falmer charged swinging the ebony Greatsword down as Ebon-shi blocked it with the Ebony Blade although just barely, Not only was this thing stronger it was also faster than its peers. Bringing his ebony-clad boot up to the Falmer's torso he gave it a firm kick to put some distance between the two of them but all the kick did was add to the momentum of the Falmers sideways swing which he barely blocked just in time had he been a split second later that Falmer would have taken off his head. Realizing this thing was using two hands for it he was forced to take a risky move pulling Shadowrend off of his back as well as the shadowy battle axe now being wielded in his left hand he kicked the Falmer off of him again now dual wielding the Ebony Blade and Shadowrend something he had never done before and the weight was throwing him off. But he knew the only way he was going to win this fight is if he overwhelmed this Falmer before it overwhelmed him. Swinging the Shadow-clad battle ax towards the Falmer as expected it ducked its head out of the way giving him just the time he needed to brutally kick it right between the leg right in the genitals as expected it did indeed feel that and it staggered wasting no time Ebon-shi charged forward with the Ebony Blade driving it clean through the hardened farmer armor straight into its heart giving it a warriors death. As the Falmer warmongers body went limp and slid to the ground Ebon-shi sheathed both Shadowrend and the ebony blade back onto his back before giving his worthy opponent a bow of respect. " You fought well, may you finally find peace in your next life." Carefully laying his deceased opponent's body on the ground he gripped the unnaturally large ebony Greatsword and put it in the Falmer warmonger's hands above his chest. Just as the rest of the group had caught up Asadelf immediately noticed the cut on his neck wasted no time taking off her ebony spellknight helmet and rushing over and checking him making sure he was okay. " Ebon-shi, by the nine. Are you alright dear!?" Asadelf asked as she started dabbing the cut with a cloth in a worried tone. " Yes, I'm fine dear really, I just had one hell of a fight." He said softly to the gorgeous Altmar who was tending his wound. As Gentu took off the visage of Mzund and put on another dwarven helmet he called ' the vessel of restoration' used healing hands on the group as they stopped to catch their breath. After about a half hour they went back down among the horde of dead bodies and investigated the tower that they were in looking for any clues, upon finding nothing of Interest they left the tower and proceeded to explore the city a little more before coming to a couple of doors which Gentu translated from under the visage of Mzund that he switched back on once he was done healing his group. " According to this inscription this is the debate Hall from the looks of it if I had a guess this is where the Dwemer held their meetings." entering the building led the group into a meeting room with not just Falmer but others too. Orcs a few Nords and a couple of High Elves. There appeared to be five entry points into this debate Hall which would more than likely make accessing easy from any side. " Hey boss, I think we're all a little exhausted from that Mini war that was just waged outside, would you mind if I took care of this?" Tully asked and Ebon-shi nodded. Nodding in understanding Tully walked out into the view of the Hostile enemies before bearing his fangs and changing into his vampire lord form. His skin faded into a pale gray color as he removed his Daedric helmet and quickly took his backpack off revealing two slots along the back beneath the shoulder blades. His fingers elongated and his nails sharpened themselves into six-inch talon-like claws his ears molded into his head as they elongated leaving a hollow Channel along the sides of the skull as his nose also formed more like a bat his double fangs above and below forming longer and sharper teeth as two Wings spread from the opening on the Daedric armors back although they appear to be more arm-like appendages.

The membrane was there but it appeared to be folded as he used the extra two appendages to spear one of the oncoming Orcs through the chest and flung it into the oncoming attackers the appendages unfolded revealing bat-like wings as he spread and ...

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The membrane was there but it appeared to be folded as he used the extra two appendages to spear one of the oncoming Orcs through the chest and flung it into the oncoming attackers the appendages unfolded revealing bat-like wings as he spread and started flapping them. A reddish hue forming in his right hand with a blue hue in his left, using his right hand he continuously threw red projectiles and appear to be draining the life force from his victims and using his left hand to shoot a blue projectile into the corpses reanimating them as thralls as the last Falmer approach he Dives towards it grabbing it by the neck in his clawed hands before sinking his teeth into the side of its neck in holding it in a headlock as he began to drain the blood out of it. Feeling his victim squirming and struggling desperately Tully sunk his teeth into the jugular deeper before dropping the blood drained Falmer on the ground licking his lips with his long vampire tongue before very gentlemanly pulling out a handkerchief from the small hip belt he wore on the Daedric Armor and carefully dabbed the bit of blood that he had on his face trying to clean himself up. " Pardon me for the noise, one can never resist a good meal, can one?" He said in a soft chivalrous manner as he carefully shifted back to his human form walking over to retrieve his Daedric helmet and his backpack carefully re-equipping them and looking back to the group with a nod as they spread out to look. " Gentu, what do you make of this?" Severin asked as he carried over what appeared to be a schematic that was heavily deteriorated on the ancient paper but still somewhat readable. Gentu wasted no time walking over to Severin to see what he had found taking off his helmet to be able to see better before his eyes widened and a giddy grin crept on his face. " guys you might want to come over here, I think our boy Severin may have just found what we were looking for." Gentu yelled to the group as they all converged to listen to what had been found. " so what is this?" Sabrina asked as Gentu looked over to the group. " if my eyes are not mistaken and I am translating this correctly this is the blueprint and schematic of how to build a Dwarven pickaxe."

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