Book Three: Part 2 Herobrine’s Message. Sean Wolfe Fay

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      “They warped away, lad,” the Commander replied as he nursed a blast wound on his arm. “As soon as Sirus ’n’ his scallywags arrived, the other scallywags realized that they were outnumbered, ’n’ couldn’t win. Th’ poppet that goes by th’ name o’ Enderchick grabbed her mates, ’n’ they all warped away. T’ where, we can only venture guesses, but I doubt they’ll be comin’ back anytime soon.”

      Charlie nodded in understanding and looked around at the scene around them. Sirus and Stan were in deep conversation, Stan’s eyes wide, as if he were talking to a ghost. The hostages were wandering around the cave, some of them tending the wounds that had been inflicted during the fight. Suddenly, there was a commotion in the back of the cave, and two of Sirus’s followers came forwards, holding Leonidas with his arms behind his back.

      “Hey, what do ya think you’re doin’?” Leonidas demanded, clearly too tired from the fight to resist them.

      “We found another one of them, Sirus,” one of the two players said, and Sirus turned to face them. Immediately, his jaw dropped.

      “Leonidas of RAT1! Force him down, men!”

      And with that, the two players delivered sharp kicks to the back of Leonidas’s knees, forcing Leonidas to fall to the ground, a grunt of agony escaping his mouth as Sirus loaded an arrow into his bow.

      “I’ll take care of this,” he announced heroically, and he was about to let the arrow fly when Stan realized what was happening. He knocked the bow out of Sirus’s hand, sending the arrow flying down the mine.

      “President Stan, what’re you doing? This is a dangerous criminal who needs to be executed!” Sirus cried out.

      “Sirus, calm down, it’s OK! Leonidas is on our side now. He’s realized the errors of his ways and he’s fighting for Element City.”

      Sirus looked at Stan incredulously for a moment, and then raised an eyebrow in scepticism.

      “President Stan, with all due respect, this player is responsible for tons of terrible things that happened during the rebellion against King Kev, and he’s killed more people than you’ll ever realize as a part of RAT1, so are you sure you don’t want me to kill him?”

      “I am positive!” Stan barked in fury. “I’m granting Leonidas a complete presidential pardon for his past actions. He’s been traveling with me for weeks, and has proved to me time and time again that he’s sorry for what he did under King Kev and the Noctem Alliance. Now, he’s willing to give everything that he has to make up for what he did in the past! So I’ll thank you for not being rude to him!”

      Sirus opened his mouth, and then closed it again. He gave a sideways glance at Leonidas, who had pulled himself to his feet and was shooting a dirty look at Sirus. Finally, Sirus spoke again, his voice still sounding suspicious.

      “If you say so, President Stan,” Sirus replied slowly, and with that he turned to work on Charlie’s bad leg.

      “Thanks, man,” Leonidas said, smiling at Stan for a moment before going to tend to a burn wound left on him by one of Lord Marrow’s attacks.

      “Don’t mention it,” Stan replied offhandedly, barely paying attention as he came to a startling realization.

      Within the next day, Stan would be at the underground bunker of Element City, which held his friends and all his citizens. They would surely be overjoyed to see him, along with Charlie, Kat, Cassandrix and Commander Crunch. However, he had never considered how the citizens of Element City would react to Leonidas.

      As clear as it was that Leonidas had had a change of heart now, Stan still couldn’t change the terrible things that Leonidas had done in the past. And as he led his citizens forwards in the greatest challenge that Element City had ever faced, Stan wondered just how they would take it when they found out that he had granted a full presidential pardon to one of King Kev’s most powerful soldiers.

       CHAPTER 2

       UNDERGROUND

      As the frigid winds of the eternal blizzard tore through the streets of the Nocturia complex, the Noctem Capitol Building stood tall and looming. Throughout the war, the Elementia forces hadn’t come close to scratching the capital city of the Nation of the Noctem Alliance, and the Capitol was proof of that. The building was totally untouched, and still the crowning jewel of the Noctem Empire with its gothic stone-brick block design, gold and lapis lazuli block accents and beacon blocks that shot radiant pillars of light into the sky. The building was also by far the largest and tallest in Nocturia – the highest spire of the building extended out of the base castle and far into the sky.

      Atop this spire, a single light could be seen. Torchlight shone from an open window, the only pinpoint of luminescence in the midst of the raging snowstorm. And it was within this one window atop the highest tower of the Noctem Capitol Building that Lord Tenebris sat on his throne of obsidian and quartz, deep in thought.

      Lord Tenebris had his eyes closed, yet he could quite clearly see through the eyes of one of the Withers, patrolling the skies over Element City. Lord Tenebris had been experimenting in private, drawing energy from the server itself to bolster his power and discovering more and more new skills by the day. However, this particular new ability that he had discovered had proven to be the most useful by far. On a whim, Lord Tenebris could borrow the eyes of any player or mob, provided, of course, that he knew where they were, and see all that they could see.

      In the past few weeks, during the Noctem Alliance’s drive to take Element City, this power had been especially helpful. Between clairvoyance and his ability to speak using telepathy, Lord Tenebris had been able to have direct control over the troops on the battlefield through the eyes of General Drake, while still staying hidden away in Nocturia and Fungarus. And he knew that it was for the best that he remain hidden. After all, though the Noctem Alliance now had the upper hand in the war, fear was still by far their greatest asset.

      To be honest, Lord Tenebris quite enjoyed the feeling of commanding the troops from far off and tactically manoeuvering them to ensure total domination over a region. Furthermore, he was also well aware of how necessary this step was if he truly wanted control over the server. Lord Tenebris knew that, if he wanted to, he could destroy all the Elementia forces in a matter of minutes using just his own abilities. However, he fancied himself a wise leader, and he was well aware of the vast difference between destroying all the enemy forces and winning the war.

      Lord Tenebris saw through the eyes of the Wither that soldiers, clad in black, with bows, weapons and potions at the ready, patrolled the streets of Element City, securing them in the name of the Noctem Alliance. He gave a sigh of satisfaction. Finally, after all these months, Element City was back in the hands of the players who had earned it, those who had toiled and struggled to raise the city after starting from nothing but a meadow.

      At long last, they had done it. The Noctem Alliance had conquered Elementia.

      One thing still tainted Lord Tenebris’s perfect victory, however. Although the Noctem Alliance now had military control over the entire server, they had yet to capture Stan2012. Lord Tenebris actually found it rather surprising. Drake knew exactly what Lord Tenebris was СКАЧАТЬ