Noticing that no other had taken it upon himself to find and secure the very explosives that the Horde had come to this rathole to acquire, the Master decided that he would do it himself. Walking at a casual pace through the streets, no decimated remnant of a defense was left to challenge him. The dwarves were all either fleeing or dead at this point. As he rounded a corner, the warlock's gaze found itself looking down a dark tunnel in the side of the cavern wall, with perhaps a dozen ragged soldiers fleeing towards its safety. He knew not whether they intended to hide and wait out the attack, find a more defensible point, or escape through some secret passage; but that was irrelevant. They would die anyways.

Out of curiosity, he reached out with his mind, probing to see what was down the tunnel. The warlock could sense elaborate stone sarcophagi and an air of death. It was a tomb. How convenient. [i][b]"Your pitiful Afterlife ends now,"[/b][/i] the Master muttered to the dead before raising his staff. A sepulchral wind suddenly and violently blasted out of the tomb, knocking down even the stocky and surefooted dwarven soldiers that had been moving to enter. A caucophony of wailing souls followed, the spectral dwarves carried along by the unholy wind. The souls of those dead interred in the tombs as well as a fair few of the slain dwarves that littered the streets were drawn together into one singularity of pure darkness, and then the void began to grow. The distant sound of thunderous footsteps echoed from within the dark portal, and then suddenly a demon of huge proportion stepped out.

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With a triumphant roar, the demon bellowed, [color=Red][b]"FREEDOM!"[/b][/color] Unfortunately, that freedom was short lived for the demon. In the next instant, the Keeper forced his way into the demon's mind and began to grasp at it, binding it to his will. The giant demon howled and convulsed wildly as it tried to fight back, but in a few seconds it was over. By its Master's telepathic command, the demon stooped down and raked his great claws across the dwarves that scurried at his feet. Those that weren't torn to pieces attempted to impale it upon their spears. Vile blood poured out of the wounds that they inflicted, but it was to no avail. Seemingly just enraged, the demon opened its mouth and a cloud of smoldering ash billowed out to engulf the dwarves.

Driven onwards, the demon moved towards one of the other tunnels to intercept more of the fleeing dwarves. Not even bothering to take the streets, the gargantuan demon crashed through every building in its way and left a trail of utter destruction. On its way, it indiscriminately butchered several of the friendly antlions and myrmidons, cackling the whole time. Unfortunately, the Master had already gone off, and hardly even noticed as his tenuous grasp over the demon began to slip away...In his characteristic shortsightedness, it was only a few minutes until the dreaded thing finally managed to break free, alarmingly close to the street with Torrens and D'Artagne. The thing, like many demons, reveled in destruction and violence just for the sake of it, and on top of that it now had a desire to obtain vengeance upon the trifling ones that had so foolishly tried to enslave it. Naturally, the demon moved to attack the Horde.

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While the tumult outside had just gotten far more interesting, the Master had finally made his way to what a sign revealed to be the alchemy shop. Throwing the door open, he found half the people inside already dead, the one surviving alchemist being gripped by...something. Admittedly the Master did not recognize Mars, but then again some of his more boring minions were easy to forget. Coming to the conclusion that this was just another member of the Horde that he had forgotten about, the Master addressed Mar, [b][i]"Well, be done with that fool and help me find the explosives. They must be kept somewhere around here, and the Horde will not leave empty-handed!"[/i][/b]