@NoobCW "I'll stay wherever I want, don't you see this sword I'm carryin'?"

Ellison flashed Aesik at Rammus.

"Greetings" said Aesik

"DAMMIT AESIK! I TOLD YOU NEVER TO SPEAK TO PEOPLE!"

Ellison was furious, giving up Aesik's identity could prove dangerous if the Empire got wind.

She placed her weapon inside the sheath and crossed her arms.

@Diabolic - Ellision

"Wait, did this sword talk just now? Holy crap O.o" Rammus stopped as he was at the verge of heading off for his home village. Survey mission nearby borders, he changed his mind for that stuffs, the village will be invaded no matter what he does, sooo he's ditching that job just because he noticed a sword talking to him. "Umm... You're Aesik right, Mister, or Madam? O_O" He asked to Aesik, as he stood in front of the sword intentionally. "Name's Rammus, and do you shit? o_o"

@Magnato @MonsieurShade @Diabolic - Wolf

It was night when it happened, towards the direction of Swyn, gunshots are heard from the direction of Swyn, bringing bright flashes on the night. A huge roll of sanddust was invisible, as neighs of horses are heard. Most likely, the cowboys from Swyn are not there for tourism with their guns flinging around like that. Most likely an attack from the nation of Swyn. In a closer look, they look more like outlaws rather than trained soldiers considering all of their bandit mask, in numbers of hundreds.

@Zatoshi

"Whew, finally done~" The Mayor wiped his sweat away after completing Rammus' bow. Nothing much seemed to change in the bow's appearance, just that it has a darker appearance. "Your's will be quick, since its already a magic weapon~" The Mayor replied after taking Irita's Scythe, grabbing a orange & black crystal, melting it into a ingot as he hammered it into the staff. After a few minutes of hammering & forging, the scythe got a darker orange shade around it.

"Just made a bit of modifications to your scythe, Since you're of a dual affinity, the weapon bridges the gap between the fire & darkness, and with this, you can draw your flames with it. Moulding your flames would be easier that way. As for that boy just now, its just a bow which eats his raw mana & transfer it into his arrow, that's the only type of weapon I can think of for him, Chaos magic is very hard to control..." The Mayor ended his speech with a sigh, "I don't trust them, those of a Chaos Affinity."

@nobody

"Yawns, that old ass Hadrain changed his mind, he wants the invasion to start at night." Atticus sips on his bottle of Mineral Oasis water as he looked at the cactuses of Swyn, sitting in his train carriage,"Oh well, Hadrain's rather reasonable a zombie apocalypse should happen at night instead of the afternoon >.<"

"Hello old man, there's a traitor that defected from the Empire, and revealed some info about us, I mean, I heard that person's dead or something O_O, did she turn into a ghost or something? I forgot her name, but please check the death logs of The Houses." Atticus talked to a magical crystal ball, and it revealed the face of a man with piercing & intmidating red eyes, his face with a purple scar on his cheek. Atticus is speaking to the Ruler of the Empire, Emperor Hadrain.

Jacque glared coldly at the entry point of Payon village as he heard the sound of horses and gunfire in the distance. After alerting old man Adrian of the attack to come, he'd cleaned his weapon, restocked his gear, and then taken to patrolling the outskirts of the village in tandem with the night watch guard shifts to ensure an attack wouldn't come earlier than expected. Call in paranoia, but Jacque couldn't bring himself to quite trust a Dog of the Empire, even if he had taken bounties for the nation in the past. And lo and behold, that paranoia may have just saved his life.

The bounty hunter tightened his grip on the cold metal barrel of his gun, now made slick and shiny thanks to a cleaning as well as a liberal wipe down with a bit of polish. The bounty hunter knew that taking part in this battle would potentially mean the end of any Empire contracts he had. It probably also meant that Jacque himself would end up with a bounty placed on his head, but that was of no matter right now. "I swear to God you owe me for this Adrian. You'd better not die on me you crusty ol' bastard." he hissed over the edge of the rooftop. Adrian smirked from down below as he and a few other men remained crouched, all manner of weapons and shields at the ready. Jacque noted that among the weapons to be found, very little were actually guns, with a majority of long distance weaponry taking the form of compound bows and crossbows. Everyone waited with held breath for the first few of the enemy forces to enter the village, then the assault began. The bounty hunter had to admit that he was impressed with how quickly Payon had mobilized, as well as how rapidly they began to fight: Adrian had barely finished shouting "ATTACK" when the men -ranging from police and soldiers to farmers and even bakers- all rushed out to defend everything they held dear with the ferocity only seen in a desperate man.

Jacque took aim, making use of the flashes of fire casted by a few of the magically attuned soldiers and bandits below him, and fired off a shot. The slug went a bit wide, striking his target in the left shoulder rather than his heart, but it was more than enough to knock him off his horse and allow the bandit's head to be caved in by what appeared to be a blacksmith with a hammer. Satisfied with this, Jacque took aim at another target. This was going to be a long night.

@NoobCW
Irita looked really interested in how the mayor worked. He hadn't seen a process like it before so it was a given that he wanted to know how strenghtening of a magic weapon happened. He took a good look at the scythe when it was handed over to him. It had a different feel about it than before, that was for sure. "Thanks a lot!" Irita said, grinning from ear to ear. He was truly happy for the upgrade.

@Zatoshi

"Gulp..." Rammus felt a weird vibe. For a moment, he'd felt a strong magical presence, emitted over all the Payon's residents?

The residents' eyes aren't normal, as if being possessed by something. The nearby residents charged towards Rammus & Ellision, instinctively chasing them with their jaws open wide.

"Did they just turn into zombies??" Rammus took to his heels and ran from them, they're definitely controlled by something, there is no way that many people would have the same magical affinity and have such an amount of magic. {'Damnnit I must get to the Mayor!') Rammus shoved aside a zombie, as he burst open the Mayor's room. "Huff... MAYORR! The residents turned into Zombies after some strange magic, and they are aiming for us..." Rammus locked the doors, stuffing furnitures behind it to secure it for the moment... "And my boww, is it done yet???"

"I knew it... it was that brat Atticus..." The Mayor sighed, as Rammus receives his new bow.

"Sooo... Anything to get deal the zombie horde outside? Right now... Payon seemed to be screwed up... hope it stays up at tomorrow dawn..." Rammus asked.

@MonsieurShade

Meanwhile in the entry point, the defence is going rather smoothly, mostly due to the horsemen of Swyn are heading to Payon on a straight direction, without much strategies or something. The invaders don't seem to have much common sense or intelligence, they seemed to be controlled. But, an unnatural vibe of magic is felt from the village center.

@nobody

"Was planning to sleep, but ima just try play warcraft & Left 4 Dead from here~" Atticus, still in his Swyn's train carriage, his table consists of a chessboard with some Krrstria-like drawings on it, "Heh, the village wasn't going to be invaded, its already been invaded o3o"

Irita listened to what Rammus said and it was quite unbelivable. "So are we going to try to turn them back to normal or are we going to kill the zombies?" he asked. He made it sound like something easy and that he didn't care about the lives of the citizens.
@NoobCW

"The rebels will arrive by morning, or so I heard." The Mayor said, his pair of eyes darkened a bit, letting out a sigh, "But its better to kill & survive, rather than to get killed and then more people killed..."

"Kill...?" Rammus gulped his saliva down the throat, he had this conviction of slaying the Empire, but to kill his own kind, he wasn't sure whether he could do it. "But seriously... the invasion's totally different this time... not like thousands of soldiers marching in..."

"Alright, I will survive until the morning." Rammus held on his bow tightly, his hand shaking a bit from that hesitation.

"The number of zombies are fewer than what Atticus is capable of, so, don't take them lightly..." The Mayor stated, "And, this building ain't build to last something like this, I will split up when they breach, I will head to the watchtower, all your best~"

With the collapse of the door like some explosive burst, the zombies charged in. ('safe time's over...') Rammus drew his bow, firing at the team of zombies that is concentrated towards them. It hit the zombie's leg, and he felt that energy's sapping to his bow, Strangely after hitting, the zombie stood there for the moment, then collapsed by the other charging in zombies.

@Zatoshi

Irita almost didn't seem to care about killing the people. "To think that I could try the power up already~" He almost sounded happy about it as he slashed down the zombies that was pouring through the door. But just keeping them in the doorway wouldn't really help. He needed to get out to be able to fully test the new power. "Rammus, if you could stop shooting until i've made it through the door that would be great." he said.

@NoobCW

@MonsieurShade
The numbers of the invading bandits got reduced by half smoothly, the odds of the battle is towards the Payon's favour. But, At the halfway point of the siege, the horses that they're riding grew black wings conjured of magic, as they started taking off to a higher height point than Payon villagers. The bandits as they went brandishing their set of revolvers and arrows, and with their height advantage, started to fire towards the villagers. Strangely, as the numbers fall, the invading cowboys seemed to get stronger and accurate consistently.

@Zatoshi
"Alright~" Rammus felt a bit off when he saw him killing a bit of the villagers, but pretended to ignore at such a situation. "Ima split up too, I will get to the rooftop to have a better grasp on what the hell's going on right here~" Rammus said, climbing up the stairs to the roof. Meanwhile, the Mayor jumped out of the window and hopped onto one of the tree branches, soon disappearing from sight.

Irita's staff emitted a black oozy fire, but it drains more of his mana as a tradeoff for the enhancement.

Rammus reaches to the roof, firing his arrows towards the oncoming, gathering zombies, hitting them on their non-vital parts like legs or arms. The zombies he shot stopped to their heels and fainted on the ground, unconscious. Seems that his bow have a stunning effect, which is essential for reducing casualities... and to make him easier to shoot...

@Diabolic
"tskk... and I almost forgot about the villagers." Rammus noticed some zombies nearby some unsuspecting villagers, including the girl he met (and ran away) just now. Shooting and stunning one of the zombies nearby Ellison, he signalled her and the other villagers to approach the safehouse. By then, hopefully, his friend would wipe out the nearby zombies to make it safe enough.

@NoobCW Ellison noticed all the zombies coming through the village headed for anyone with a pulse, Rammus ran up the treetop and onto a rooftop, firing arrows at zombies as he did so, there were a couple headed straight for some nearby villagers, Ellison grabbed Aesik and threw him in the direction of the incoming zombies. Aesik zipped through the zombies and cut off their heads with one clean sweep, Ellison snapped her fingers and brought Aesik back immediately giving her to time move close to some villagers cowering near a street corner.

"Everyone, move towards the safehouse!" - Ellison

Ellison, moving as she spoke; made her way across the village, dodging zombie after zombie trying to save time instead of wasting it on these dispensable creatures.

Aesik being a magical blade had the power to move through space and time, sort of. He had a more practical teleportation ability, he could use it only when and if Ellison were to call on him or snap her fingers to summon him. The magical sword gleamed with ancient power the likes of which had never been studied by even the highest of magi. She was born with the power to hold him, however she never knew until the day they met. Aesik now thinks of himself AS a sword, instead of the soul of one of the greatest warriors to live. As he is, but as time went on and again he merely forgot his past; physically. He isn't sure how exactly his soul permeates the sword gem, but it is as it is.

Time would feel slowed down to Aesik at most time, and since Ellison had the power to control him at will, she also possessed the ability to read time as he did. In a crisis this would give her more time to react. A faint voice in the not so distant distance shouted for Ellison's attention, kept on and on until she realized she had been thinking instead of fighting. People moved to and fro in the tide of living dead. The person speaking was a man Ellison had met in the shop, he was alive and assisting the fleeting villagers. A zombie was hot on the trail of Ellison and he needed to get her attention. Ellison gripped the hilt of her blade and spun on her left foot raising her right as she did, holding Aesik behind her neck ready to swipe. How graceful the fatal dance of a warrior. She spun like a dancer almost, tantalizing almost, or as a nightshade blooms. She spun on her toes behind her and flattened her feet to land on the ground once more bringing the edge of her sword through the neck of the living corpse. She aided some remaining villagers near her and grappled a pulley leading to the top of a building, a rope in front and a rope behind to lift something or someone high through the air. She threw Aesik at the rope nearest the wall, holding he counterweight above and dropping it as he sliced the threads. Ellison gripped the rope and soared through the air onto the edge of a rooftop, nearby Rammus. She snapped and Aesik returned sheathed.

@NoobCW
Irita could feel his mana drain. Luckily for him, he knew an efficient way of reducing the output. Once he got outside the dorr he could see an ocean of zombies to which he grinned. He knew the perfect type of magic he'd use for this situation. e held his scythe horizontally behind him and then slashed it in front of him. A black wave of magic cut right through the villagers, making them split into two. He grinned even more at the sight of it. "So strong~" he said.

Rammus looked at the area nearby, zombies around the area are suppressed well enough, either by force or diversion.

@Diabolic
":O its you, we meet again, midget o.o ~" Rammus stated in sarcasm. "Didn't know you're that strong O_O ~"

The uninfected villagers of the village square evacuated to the safehouse, and its a good thing that the internal conflicts have been controlled, despite the number of casualities. "Tsk... not sure what happened to the guards in midst of this shit, hope they're still alive somehow..."

@Zatoshi @Diabolic
"Lets go check the outer area, I've a bad feeling on their side... hope it weren't wrong..." Rammus descended and suggested to the two people.
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Meanwhile, in the village edge, dozens of horsemen charged in, towards the heart of the village, stepping through the defenders' bodies. The battle had reduced the cowboys' numbers significantly, but their skills seems to outweigh their numbers.

@NoobCW
Irita nodded excitedly. He still hadn't tried all of his techniques yet, so he still needed some training with the new power he had aquired.

Rammus reached the nearby area and saw a bunch of horsemen charging in through. They aren't near enough to cause much harm though... Drawing out his bow, he reached and fired at one of the cowboys, and taking cover. He is glad that he did so because he heard echoes of gunfire with bullets hitting nearby his area. "Tskk... just what the hell is that thing... loud as fk... and doesn't seem friendly too..."

He readied his bow as he got up for a moment, releasing it as it hit one of the cowboys and knocked him out. He got back to cover from the bullets. ("Damnnit, its preloaded like a crossbow...") He thought.

At the back of the team of cowboys, was a person distinct with a silver mask, as a shadowy smoke emitted around him. ('what is that thing...?')
@Zatoshi

@NoobCW
Irita ran from cover to cover, blocking the bullets with his scythe until he reached Rammus. "They're using guns. They're basically high tech crossbows with much more penetrating power. Get hit by one and it might fly straight through you." he told Rammus who seemed to be confused as to what it was.

"Alright, I got it," Rammus replied as he predrew his bow on cover, then getting up and firing at another one of the
cowboys, then drawing and firing another arrow to another one, after that, he took cover from the gunshots. "I'm getting the hang of this now, I will support & loosen the numbers from the back lines. And... you think of something, maybe using your black wave whatever magic attack~"
@Zatoshi

@NoobCW
Irita smirked and stood up. They started firing at him, but he blocked the bullets with the scythe. It seemed like child's play to him as he started going towards them. They were all focusing their fire at him now so Rammus had time to attack. "Is that all you've got? I thought you were better than this~" Irita taunted the men that was firing. They almost started to look a bit worried.

@Zatoshi
The plan gone well, or it should be said, 'too well'. So smoothly as if they're actually intending to lower down their own numbers. Rammus'd got to shoot the gunmen one by one, but he felt something weird, like their overall battle power has not decreased by a bit. Its like, their magical force is increasing the lesser their numbers. ('Never mind, ima just continue shooting...') He thought.

"Stop," The masked man from the back lines of the horsemen stated with an unnatural deep voice, and the cowboys stopped immediately without delay. He walked towards the front, meeting Irita face-to-face. "I shall deal with 'them'" his dark hoarse voice echoed with a dark magical aura. "First Shadow, Black Moon." The masked man swung out a scythe which was screaming literally, sending out a strong wave of magic towards the direction of both Irita & Rammus.

('Tsk... I knew this was coming...') Rammus fired his bow at the magical blast in an attempt to intercept the magical wave. But, the masked guy seemed to be strong enough to 2v1 the defenders on equal footing, and a mere arrow of Rammus', seemed to only weaken the magical wave.

@NoobCW
Irita froze at the sight of the man. He could feel that he was definatey strong. Probably stronger than the both of them... He couldn't believe that he didn't notice him earlier... The scythe he carried was not a joke either. Irita swung his own against the blck wave and managed to block it at the last second, but his hands wouldn't stop shaking after it. He couldn't look back to see if Rammus was okay since that would leave him wide open.