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Oric rose to his feet taking note of his various scrapes and bruises, just in time to observe Sekhmet's last ditch effort for victory. As the Destry General screamed in disbelief, Oric made a bee line for the door. He yanked on the handle, but found it was locked on the other side. The door leading back to his father's study was open, but was unaccesable due to the imense heat Sekhmet was giving off.
Oric backed into a far corner, searching for exits. The stairs leading downward were also blocked, and being on the top floor ment there was no escape to a higher section of the tower. One small window was off to Oric's right, but it would be far too small to fit through. He grabed his shield, curling himself into a ball and attempted to duck behind it.
That is when he felt metal brush across his hair line. The Ring! Oric tried to remember what the President of Conud had told him, but couldn't. He knew the ring possesed some kind of magical abilities, and figured it was his best change. He tried to focus on making a wall. A wall of steel to block off the space between himself and Sekhmet.
Nothing happened. Oric closed his eyes, trying even harder to focus on protecting himself. Sekhmet's body began to compress and then bulged outward with energy. Oric was out of time. In a brillant display of power and color, the room lit up and exploded. All of the power Sekhmet had been saving up was unleashed in one last attack. Oric braced himself for the worst.
As the glass around him shattered, a dull crimson, red forcefield appered around Oric. It emitted from the ruby in his ring, creating a perfect orb of light to surround it's wearer. Pieces of the tower, along with lightning from Sekhmet's body slammed into the shield. Each object that crashed into the force field felt like a huge uppercut to Oric. The ring drains my life force.
Halgern jumped up and felt for a pulse on Sekhmet, he found none and presumed he was dead. Oric's legs felt like jello, and he strugled to stand as he ran down the tower steps and into the street below. His head trobbed, but he tried to collect his thoughts as he approached a General, "Send a group of men up to the tower. Bring Sekhmet's body down and lock it up. I want around the clock guard on it, he should be dead but--well he's Sekhmet. Also give orders to the Conud rifleman to take positions along the ramparts. Have the rest of their army set up a perimator around the city walls. Also send a messenger to Conud to inform my parents of the news, make sure a peace treaty is signed and tell a few men to inform our army just outside of the Citadel not to engage any Cound forces. Tell them I can prove that Destry was behind the assinations and that Conud and Drosin forces are prepared to fight along side each other at the capital. "
The general nodded his head, doing as he was told. Oric made his way back into the tower, collecting his weapons, and taking notice that Sekhmet's body was gone. As he walked back to his room, a group of ants scurried across the floor. Oric took note the a redish light moved from their bodies into the ring, Oric immedetly felt better and tried to clear his head for the battle ahead.
Meanwhile...
Satra's forces of 100,000 had now crossed over the bridge into Drosin land and began to move north, unopposed toward Negliv. As its walls appeared on the horizon, she noticed a small force flooding out of the gates and into defensive positions. She didn't see any signs of Sekhmet, but judging by the haste these soliders acted with she assumed the Drosin's had grown wise to the real intentions of their alliance.
Satra Morta's advance on the Drosin capital's walls stopped a few hundred meters from the mass of men from Conud gathering in front of the city. At this point she knew the alliance her fellow generals had tried so hard to break apart had only grown stronger in the threat of attack. Before Conud would never send troops into Drosin territory to help defend their city. She wondered what had happened to Sekhmet, he surely would have tried to start a battle between the two armies, however there was no sign of a fight other than a large fisser in the ground.
These thoughts took complete control of her mind, not even noticing the colonel who had moved into her gaze, "My lady, what are your orders." Satra wanted to scream and yell ATTACK! KILL THEM ALL! But she didn't have all of the information she needed. Where was Sekhmet, how many men did Drosin's and Conud's army possess. She also had left most of their siege weapons back in Salfir, in their hast to leave. If her first attack was stopped, they didn't have the nessacary ladders and catapults to climb Negliv's walls.
Satra also knew she couldn't hastate. Her men were ready, she had the largest army ever assembold and gave the orders, "FORWARD! ATTACK, LEAVE NO PRISIONERS! BURN THE CITY TO THE GROUND!
Meanwhile...
The city of Negliv sounded the alarm. Every bell in every church rang over and over again, filling the air with noise. Oric rose from his chair, still sore from his last fight and strapped on his gear. He made his way out into the cold air. It was almost night now, the dying sun could be seen setting in the west. As the Destrian army approched, he took his position at the middle of the wall shouting out orders, "Archers ready! FIRE!" Just as the front of Satra's forces hit the wall of shields held by the Conud elite, a volly of arrows fell from the heavens. Volly after volly rained down killing many, but more importantly split their army in half.
Only a few lines of Destrian soliders could engage Oric's line at one time, the rest of the army held back by Drosins arrows. The Destrian spellcasters jumped into action. 1,000 of them all trained by Satra and members of Umbra Morbis. They were able to shield the infantryman from fire as they stepped over bodies and started to push back the small number of Conud's on the ground.
ooc; To be continued, I'm thinking this will take a few posts