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Sol'Vak and Karee land on a strange piece of land. Sol'Vak looks about. "You're sure this is the place? "Caw" "If you say so..." Sol'Vak steps around the island and looks about, he sees something black glinting in the sun, he reaches down to pull it out and fails, so he holds his arms up, and his eyes burst into flame, and he spreads his arms wide, the ground opening and a large black circular port rising to the surface and stopping, the earth shifting back into it's original shape. Sol'Vak's eyes turn back to their original green and he blinks. "Uh, Karee? Where'd this portal come from?" Karee glares at Sol'Vak. "Caw!?" "No, I don't remember. What d'you want outta me? I'm just standing here and" Sol'Vak gets cut off as a ring on his middle finger glows and his eyes burst into flame once more. Karee stares at him for a second before withdrawing to a safe distance. Sol'Vak turns back to the portal and grins. He holds out his daggers and begins chanting. The portal slowly opening into a gate. Sol'Vak waits until the gate is nearly fully open and then throws himself through it. The gate closing as he rolls to a stop on the other side. He looks up into the entrance to the realm of UnderDark. He walks swiftly and surely past ranks and ranks of demonic soldiers, the soldiers would stop and stare as Sol'Vak walked past but he ignored them, his eyes on the castle in the distance. He busts through the double-doors, quite nearly startling a human servant out of it's wits. He marches past a double-pair of demonic guards, nodding to them. The double-doors of the throne room fly open and Sol'Vak walks up to the bottom of the Dais the throne is upon and kneels down. "Glory to the UnderDark. Under your command Sire." Liarzax issues his commands, the slight hiss of his voice forging every word into Sol'Vak's mind. Sol'Vak nods "Yes milord. I understand." Liarzax nods and says "Good, go forth with the mission then." Sol'Vak stands and turns about, he walks out into the campsite and 15 demonic soldiers stand at attention. Sol'Vak salutes them and walks through the middle of their ranks. His eyes continuing to glow their burning red. He walks to the portal and repeats the process he had used to open the gate in the first place. The gate opens fully and all 15 walk out, Sol'Vak begins to sweat and dives forward and through the gate. He lands on the other side, it closing behind him. He pants and stands. It had become dark while he was receiving his orders. He grinned, it was perfect. He ordered all the soldiers to stand in a circle and to each put a hand on his shoulder. They comply and after each of the 15 has one hand on his shoulder he grins and snaps his fingers, the 16 of them disappear in a puff of black smoke and reappear outside a keep town. The portcullis was closed, Sol'Vak throws up the hood on his cloak and smiles. "Wait here boys. I'll call you when I want you. Stay to the edge of this brush and await further orders." He walks forward and begins questioning the night guard, posted inside the portcullis.

Sol'Vak demands entrance to the city and the guard simply frowns and says "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to camp in the wilderness tonight, I'm not s'posed to open the gate for anyone, no way no how." Sol'Vak growls and his left arm comes up quickly. The guard gasps and turns for the alarm bell and Sol'Vak looses a fireball, incinerating the poor unaware guard nearly instantly, his shriek of pain goes out and Sol'Vak frowns. "Minions! Break this gate!" The 15 demonic soldiers walk out of the brush and each grabs a small section of the gate, before long they break the portcullis from the wall and drop it on the ground. "Good. Now let us destroy." A squad of guards came running towards the sound of the shriek, weapons at ready. They see the pile of ashes, the missing, guard, the demons and the cloaked man, and they put 1 and 1 together. All of the guards go into offensive positions. Sol'Vak simply snorts "Hm. Well trained, but it's a bit of a waste." He throws back the hood of his cloak, his burning red eyes showing now clearly. He grins and points at the guards. "Kill them." The demons advance quickly, pulling their long twisted broadswords. The guards flinch but hold their ground. The demons rush them full charge and battle is joined, the demons take out the guards relatively quickly, Sol'Vak notices another troop of guards beginning to take notice of the situation, he turns his arm upon the doorway of the barracks and launches a barrage of fireballs, the building quickly lights on fire. A watch-tower guard sets off the alarm and Sol'Vak shrugs. He turns to more houses and begins lighting the entire place on fire. The demons finish with the squad of guards with little wounds. A few more escaping out the windows of the barracks before the roof caves in. A pair of the demons drop and two lines of fire go out towards the windows of the barracks, in an attempt to dissuade any further escapes. The remainder turn and begin doing battle with the guards. The cry of "Fire" and "Demons" goes out throughout the village and Sol'Vak growls. "This isn't as quiet as I'd been hoping..." Sol'Vak leaves 10 demons outside fighting the Militia created by the townsfolk, he places his hand upon the double-sized door leading into the keep and it blows inwards. The soldiers holding it flying backwards. He nods to the 5 demons behind him, acknowledging permission to attack. He continues forward and bounces up a set of stairs towards the duke's room, he stops at the landing at the top of the first set of stairs and turns down one hallway, a guard turning on Sol'Vak, Sol'Vak drops to the floor and removes the floor from under him, weakening the support of the building in the process. He turns to the other side and drops it's floor as well before continuing to the top floor. He turns towards a large, gold-adorned door and kicks it open. The duke was clearly not very intelligent about his design. He walks into the Duke's room and stops, kneeling at the foot of the bed. "Ah, so I see I've hit faster than I thought. You've breathed your last breath. Duke." He stretches his arms out wide and howls to the ceiling, his entire body erupts into a burst of flame, expanding outwards from himself rather quickly. The door burns and breaks, smouldering in the hallway as Sol'Vak pushes the wall of flame he's created forward, it incinerates the room, the Duke, and his bed, by going forward to the wall behind the duke's head, and then reversing and passing over Sol'Vak, stopping at the other wall and disippating. Sol'Vak grins and turns from the room. He jumps out a window and onto the wall, heading for the archer's equipment storage area. Intending to stop them before they can make any attempts at piercing his squad's demonic skin.

((SV: Just edit it into here, conversations seem to take up too much good post space.)) Sol'Vak kicks open the door into the archery equipment room and noting that some of the equipment is gone he continues, kicking open the door on the other side, he sees a woman and a wolf standing over a group of dead archers. Sol'Vak arches an eyebrow as he looks the woman over, he licks his lips and then his mind snaps back to reality and he raises his left arm towards her. "Hmph, impressive. But that doesn't give you a free ticket out of here. How do I know I can trust you?"

Flint smiles at him. " You don't. But, if it says anything i am part demon, and it is obvious that you are the comander of those particular demons. " She waves her hand at the chaos bellow them. " Plus i have been looking for a cause to join for a while now and whatever you're doing seems quite enticing. But i do have one question. Why did you blow up the Keep? Other then for the fun of it of course. The Duke was already dead. "

Sol'Vak looks a bit confused. "Wait, you mean he was already dead? I incinerated his entire bedroom for nothing? And the keep's not quite demolished. Yet. Though it's pretty close." He continues aiming his left arm at her. "So you would ally yourself with demons? Even those with the intent to demolish the society placed here now? I find this suspicious... If you are truly a demon. Then surely you can tell me which demon currently reigns supreme in the UnderDark?"

Flint continues smiling. " First of all it's Lord Liarzax. And second, I was the one who killed the Duke....I am an assassin of sorts. " Stonefire glares at the man who is confronting them. " Grrarrf? " " Of course i know what i'm doing now hush up. "

"Hmm. I suppose I can trust you for now then. So long as you have no attachments to the humans." Sol'Vak moves his arm, indicating the destruction of the village. Many houses were on fire, and the demons that had originally walked into the keep were now back outside. Destroying houses and killing villagers. None were safe frm the demonic brutality. Men, Women, Children, all were slaughtered accordingly. Seemingly heartlessly by the demons. Sol'Vak frowned as the dog apparently makes a comment. He arches an eyebrow. "That seems familiar, but I'm not entirely sure why. Hm." He turns back to the door which he had splintered off it's hinges and bows slightly, indicating, with both arms, that she should go first. "Milady."

Stonefire continues growling. " Arrreh..." Flint glances at him and frowns. " Of course not!...How could you even say such a thing?....I would neve- not with- Oh just shut up. " " The wolf jerks his head slightly as if to say " If you say so. " And pads into the the room toward the stairs. Flint continues frowning and follows him down tthe stairs. As she steps out onto the street a shout rings out to their left and five soldiers come running at them. Flint sighs. " Humans really can get annoying. " " Arrref. " Stonefire leaps at the first soldier, jaws closing on his throat, breaking his neck and tossing him away like an uninteresting toy. Flint sends a bolt of lightning at one soldier and takes the other three with her staff. " Such fools. "

Sol'Vak bounces down the last few steps, sniffing the air he catches the very slight trace of demonic scent Flint leaves hanging and he grins. She was one of them alright. He strides outside of the tower and notices her holding her own against a trio of guards. He moves towards the town center and orders his demons to finish off the rest of the small straw huts and their inhabitants. He holds his arms together, pointing the tips of his fingers at the base of the keep, his eyes glow brown for a moment and a crack spreads out from his feet to the under-side of the keep and a rift begins to open, the majority of the keep collapsing and falling into it. He closes the rift again, leaving only a large ruinous feature where the keep once stood proud. Sol'Vak turns upon the rest of the village, taking in his force's handiwork, noting the burning buildings, the screaming villagers, and the dead and wounded spread across the area. He grins viciously. Arcing a bolt of lightning through three cringing wounded villagers. He turns back to the 15, currently breaking the doors into houses down and killing stragglers. One of them runs through a man, his wife, and their child, with one strike. Sol'Vak chuckles as the man looks down at his stomach and the child's screams are suddenly silenced, the demon withdraws his blade and the three slump to the ground with shocked expressions. One man ducks under one demon's sword and jumps over another's. Then makes a mad dash for the gate, one of the demons drop and is about to launch a line of fire towards the man when Sol'Vak holds up his hand "Halt! Let him go. Let this planet know of it's doom." The demon cringes at the idea of letting one go but stands and nods towards his commanding officer. Turning and slicing through two of four support beams on the house. It dropping, then the demon sticks the tip of his blade in the straw roof of the fallen house and it catches ablaze. Almost the entire village is destroyed at this point and Sol'Vak moves for the entrance. Leaving the rest to the fire. "Finish the rest and meet me back on the grasslands. I am prepared to move to the next location."

Sol'Vak nods. "Yes. The demons are quite powerful. They provide a good deal of manpower. I wouldn't have been able to take this city without their help. Speaking of which." He turns and all 15 demons are filing out of the town. Sol'Vak pulls up the hood on his cloak, hiding his glowing eyes by bowing his head slightly. "Gentlemen. I believe I gave one of you a little side mission." One of the demons steps forward and presents Sol'Vak with a small brown pouch. Sol'Vak looks inside and grins. "Excellent. Good work." Sol'Vak takes a collection from all the demons, taking the items of value and worth, appraising them, and splitting up the shares evenly. He presents Flint with a small golden statue of a cat, the claws made of diamond and the eyes emeralds. "Hm. Not much, but it should be suitable as a reward until we can raid another village." Sol'Vak then pulls a little something extra out of his backpack and presents it unto the demon who gave him the pouch. It was a golden brooch. "For your extra used time." The demon nods in acknowledgement and pockets the brooch after looking it over. "Now, where's the next nearest village?"

Sol'Vak arches an eyebrow at the dog. "Well I'll be damned. I know who he reminds me of..." Sol'Vak puts two fingers to his lips and lets loose a shrill almost supernatural whistle. "Hm. Now it's only a matter of time. Lady and gentlemen. I suggest we move for the next village post-haste before the escapee can warn many of our plans. All should gather around and take hold of me in some fashion." 4 of the demons put their clawed hands on Sol'Vak's shoulders again, and the rest stack their arms on top of his head. Sol'Vak looks at Flint and smirks. "All onboard the one-way express to human annihilation."

Sol'Vak sits with his back against a tree while trying to make small-talk with StoneFire, all he could get were low growls and grunts. Sol'Vak hears Flint almost as if she were speaking right into his ear and he jumps and looks around. There was nothing there. He stands and looks about again. Still nothing, so he issues orders to all 15 of his demons involving the city, after ensuring his orders were grasped he runs through the shrubs in the direction Flint had gone. He reaches the city and notes that all of the guards are either dead or not visible. He grins and salutes Flint. He turns around and indicates silence to his demonic soldiers. They all unsheath their broadswords and walk in. Sol'Vak indicates a hut for each of them and then takes a hut for himself, he holds up his right hand with all five fingers raised, he lowers a finger at a time, then when he lowers his last finger he shouts "NOW!" And presses both hands against his hut, lighting it aflame quickly. Each of the demonic soldiers take a swing and knock out two out of four of the hut support beams, then set their blades on the straw roof-tops, lighting each of them aflame. The scene was brutally efficient as the villagers attempting to escape were frequently lit on flame, those who weren't were quickly cut down by the demons. Sol'Vak grins as he watches the brutality unfolding as the demons spread, chopping down halves of huts and then burning them. A bell rings out loud and clear through the city. Sol'Vak looks over and notices a citadel, a man atop it in the belltower jumping up and down to ring out a warning. Sol'Vak growls and aims a lightning bolt at the bell, he fires and it strikes true, the bell becomes electrified and the shock carries down the chain all the way to the man. whom it quickly kills. Sol'Vak grins and looks about, the militia coming out of their houses with pitchforks, scythes, shovels, and other such farming implements.