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07:58] Laid on the branch unoticed?
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[08:05] Seeing female feels within himself this one was dangerous like the other human. Holy magic was dangerous to him since it hurt him badly the last time. He didn't want to chance it so he stare at the lady and toss a strange stone which he found at the lady feet.

"Do not come closer too... I wish to speak with you puny wing lady."
(Reap)
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[08:05] Niclous Runeclaw says, "........"
[08:07] There's a sigh which spills past parted lips, his blade is drawn and occultic mana flares about Lugh's form as he seeks to.

"Good luck."

He strikes.
(Lugh Kaehler)
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[08:12] "puny?!" she'd blur out, seemingly taking much offense at the demonkin's insult.

she'd glance down at the crystal by her feet for but a mere moment.

she could always make use of those but she just could not possibly trust the demon's offer. if anyone the morally ambiguous businesswoman has known very well not to let herself owe anyone anything even if as little as a single crystal.

she'd stomp on the crystal, shattering it into pieces.

"do you even know who you are talking to?! I am Beatrice mooney, oyabun to the doragón company. I will not stand and be disrespected, especially by your kind!" she explained before smashing a few smokebombs under her feet and disappearing into the thick of the woods.

"I suppose it is better to rid meranthe of you once we're here~" her words rang across the woods around reap before she'd suddenly appear next to them, attempting to cleave them down with her blade
(Beatrice Mooney)
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[08:14] Sat atop of a rock watching the battles from the safety of the darkness, his mind focused on his thoughts for the time being.
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[08:15] An clash begone behind him as he spoke with the wing lady. Seeing how this was something rather interesting he notice that they both were using swords and he feels within himself learning from them would make sense to him if he was to use an weapon in the future. He was quite sure this one interesting battle indeed seeing how the one with the oocultic aura was seriously strong. As he shift back his attention to the winged lady he wondered if testing her strength would make for an good challenge. He needed to improve his fighting and build more new was in which he uses his magic.

Seeing how he continuously losing all his battles he feels within himself he might as well try to see what this person got. "Hmm Yes indeed.. You are puny in size." He said trying to get on the person nerves some more.

"I do not know who you might be but I am certain you are not Ram whatever that human was named." His hand starts to burn up as he was ready to fight with lady.

"You shall be tasty... I want that mana.."
(Reap)
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[08:18] He notice this person was moving oddly and feel something was off.
(Reap)
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[08:31] Seeing how Beatrice was moving around oddly, he notice something was off. Was something she scared didn't seems so or was it fear? He really didn't care much and felt like speaking as he burn this person with his magic. "You must tell me do you know the holy flame puny human..." He said as he dodge and uses his imps to do some serious amount of damage to the person leaving them in shock seein how much damage they had taken. He watch as his imps made the wings human lady drop to the ground and only to shake his head.

"You wanted to cut my head off now I shall be taking that tasty mana from you pure magic." He said as he summoned some minion to assist in his fight to make sure the mana which he was about to take from the person was well enjoyed. As he as the person using an quick burst of light magic it blind him for a second but his minions would take over to assist him while his vision was impaired.

He smiles seeing how this go his way, seeing how minions grab the person he would dash toward Beatrice and bite the shoulder draining some of the person mana.

"LOVELY! PURE MANA!!!!" He said as he come off the person. He drop the person and slowly wake away. "I need more mana.." He said depress.
(Reap)
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[08:37] soon after her initial assault the drakanite has came to realize that something was off, perhaps she has grown rusty in her office with no real threats to face, or it might have been old age getting to her?

no, she could clearly feel a disturbance in her time magics, causing her to lose control over her mana from time to time, however that couldn't stop her, not now.

she'd do her outmost to stay vigilant and keep pursuing her foe.

her weaponized arm constantly trying to cut off the demon's route of maneuver, however she has soon found herself overrun by reap's imp minions, setting her up for a fate of being feasted upon.

"AAAAARGGHH!"

a loud screech was let out of her lungs as she felt both her mana leaving her body and the burn it has left on her.

"this is not the last time you seen me! enjoy a short life of hiding and fear, for my men willbe on your heels until you stumble" she said while conjuring for her last reserves that was left in her after having her mana drained.

she'd call forth a sudden and bright flash to cover her tracks as she has made her escape
(Beatrice Mooney)
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[08:42] Niclous would sit in the darkness his gaze resting on the battle before him. A long tired sigh came from the ookami as he would then stand up. The draknite warrior holding her own but losing ground as the battle raged on. His right hand reached to his back to pull forth his bow as he would slowly open his right eye. Whisps of darkness could be then seen converging onto the ranger, wrapping themselves around his form and entwining with his very person.

"This endless cycle, it is ever so tiresome...." A long pause was then held by the man, dark clouds began to form overhead swallowing up the sky as the man's mana began to surge forth. The air around him vibrating intensely. "Come forth Ragnarök. Tear through the skies and show this world... Destruction."


Lightning then would begin to rain down across the forest, a pale red orb being seen piercing through the darkness looking onto Reap. A slightly maniacal laugh echoing in between the thunder as lightning rained down around them.

"Tell me demon, what's the point of this endless cycle.. This torment we must go through."

His left hand then moved up to his bowstring, a long bolt of mana being harnessed and condensed down into the shape of an arrow. The ookami's gaze looking far off into the distance for only a moment before his sights rested back onto Reap.

"Tell me... I need answers."

An arrow was let loose flying through the wood as the ranger then began his assault, his words ringing out coldly as there was no emotion in his stare only a deep fathomless darkness to be found.


(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[08:57] Hearing what been said the person. He felt pleased, seeing the person scream out slowly walked away. "Hmmm." He heard someone continue to say something off and puzzling. He didn't like the fact that he was talking less like himself and Reap was only thinking about growing for some reason.

"What is endless... " He said to Niclous clueless about what is happening. "If you speak of fighting I do not care about that I only seek growth."
(Reap)
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[09:01] Reap says, "Grr strong puny human"
[09:11] Arrows of lightning and shadow would be flung across the wood's, Niclous would be seen moving about diving from shadow to shadow between every shot. Using an arsenal of different techniques to try and confuse and disorient his target.

"This pointless struggle... The endless fight between darkness and light... The line of right and wrong... Where is it drawn.."

Nic was not even sure the demon understood what he was asking, in truth he was not fully sure of what he was even asking. The constant plague of question's hounding his mind and soul lately. Trying to differ what was right and wrong and the very reason he sought out power in the first place.

His cold gaze snapping to Reap as a short break in combat was taken, the demon having been pushed back. "I am no human..."

"You said you seek growth, for what purpose.... Is that why your kind hunts down children.. Taking their limbs and leaving them to die in the wood... The things your kind does are disgusting... Yet humanity itself can be disgusting as well.."


The string of his bow then drawn back once more, as a face he had not seen in year's would appear behind the demon. His eye causing the illusion's to surface once more. "You....."

He said as he looked to the floating witch that his mind had created behind Reap. "Your going to pay."

From those looking onto the ranger it would apper he was talking to the demon, though in his mind the conversation was lost on him. Letting loose his arrow he then would then look to dispatch the demon and focus on his real target.

(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[09:28] Wounded. He notice that something his ways of fighting was improving. He didn't know what expect of himself, as he continue to hear the impressive wind human continue to speak he wasn't sure about something. "I do not care about the darkness or light. wrong or right, even good from the bad." He states reaps would do something which he never do throughout his evolution talk a lot or even reason out some stuff with an human.

"In life you seeks what important, I could be joy, lust. Some people seeks from children, pain, drugs or whatever." He didn't care much to go into further. As he notice the person was fighting serious saw waves of magic of nothing seeing before. Wing magic was rather rare and this person was using an various amount of them.

Blocking and trying to avoid most of them he notice this person movement were stupidly sharp. As he saw the gaze of the human he notice he stated what he was not 'An human', it madehim wondered but he really didn't care much due to the fact that he was still gonna call this person an human.

"I only seek growths for ones self purpose. You think I only hunt humans? I hunt my own as well.. I must stand on the top no rivals. Until I reach the point of no more growth then I will take my rest." He stats. He didn't know why this person was talking to him as if he was the cause of all of his problem but he smirks only to ask one thing.

"Then what is your purpose? You hunt or hurt others for what reason? You fine joy? love or whatever doing it? Why should I pay for your entertainment." He states as he got on his feet and called forth back his demons.
(Reap)
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[09:31] {Won Dangerous RPB against Reap}
[09:31] ** Niclous Runeclaw has inflicted an injury upon Reap. ("Permanent Injury", "Permanent Injury", "Permanent", "Severity: MODERATE (-10 Vit)") **
[09:41]
{LOAD GAME}

[09:53] Niclous would fight and fight, the tired look upon his face being hidden beneath a cloak of shadow's as he would weave in and out in between the tree's. His frame being carried by the very wind as he silently moved about drawing closer to the demon. Raining down shots onto him, with each arrow that hit their mark the ranger could feel the battle drawing to it's finish. "My purpose.. Is long forgotten... I am only good for one thing and one thing only.... This is all because of.. You."

The words of the demon being blurred together now as the image of Eclipse had overlapped the creature's. A veil of shadow blocking what was really there as his mind was plagued with the nightmare's of his past. An arrow was shot forth and lodged itself into the demon's arm, hindering it's movement as an explosion of sound was set off at point blank range.

The demon's sense of balance then completely disoriented, it's vision more then likely blurred as Nic would close the gap between them. His mind not in it's usual calm and collected state, instead plagued by nightmares and shadow's. In his eyes he saw one person and one person only. Using this chance he would knock the demon to the ground while thinking it was the witch Eclipse.

"This.. All started with what you did... Now it's time to pay back favor."

A cold laughter filled the air of the wood as the ookami's right eye would start to activate. The runes etched into the orb activating with a light blue glow as black symbols could be made out in the finer workings of the eye. His sight then switching back to normal as the whisps of darkness from the demon's form thus faded making the illusion of Eclipse fade.

With his eye activated already he would simply laugh once more. "You are not the only thing that goes bump in the night."

The runes finishing their sequence as a shot of pain would be felt burning into the demon's eye. The sight of it being altered and nearly lost as it was forced to view the world through a different perspective. When the demon would see any influx of demonic or occult mana the eye would react and flare up in pain. The very sight of itself and it's own mana causing the sequence of runes to activate.

"May you be able to use this to look onto the light, to see what other's see."

With that being said the man would begin to be covered in shadow's and aim to disappear. His mind slowly continuing to break.


(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[10:28] Reap fights with Niclous. He notice something was off with this person. As he saw the dark art infusing with wind magic he felt like this was gonna be quite interesting. As he notice that the person which was trying to ask him some series of question was actually losing his mind, due the dark arts. After some time looking around seeing how things were doing he smiles loving what was going on.

"I see now you are travelling that path of darkness.. I see why you ask strange questions indeed.."

He stated understand what was going on. He feels that this battle which was been taken is to enlighten the person darkness. He received some damage and feels like he should go take some rest. He left to recover.
(Reap)
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[10:39] As the last remnants of battle conclude in the jungles south of Vdalion's mountains, a mind like no other stalks through the tree-line, its presence falling upon Niclous as they begin to depart. The world around them seems to dim as an itch builds at the back of their mind, something poking and prodding at their skull, probing the defences of their mental barrier.

Eyes begin to illuminate in the surroundings trees, a legion of demonic creatures and lesser imps making themselves known as a voice echoes out into the Elzara's mind.

"[What brings you this far east, one of the Elzara? Hunting demons for sport? I find that you humans quite enjoy that pastime.]"

If one were to look behind them, the scenery previously seen has greatly shifted, the clearing expanded to far larger than it was before, the tree-line fully enclosing the area and seeming to be quite a bit thicker, dense, and packed with demonic creatures.

Although they make no move forward, simply staring ahead, blankly, occasionally twitched or jerking like some sort of puppet.

Mind-thralls.

The telepathic communion lingers, expecting a reply.
(Talguth)
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[10:46] Niclous would slowly turn to face the voice that had pierced the veil of his mind, his eye's falling onto it in the darkness. From across the way a glare of one deep yellow eye for his left and a faint red glowing orb with a light blue center on the right. The gaze rested onto the demon for a long while as silence filled the forest. "Oh, what do we have here.... Another one... Maybe you will know... Maybe you will have the answers... Tell me... What is the point of this endless struggle..."

His eye's flicking back and forth between Talguth and Sankya now, the ranger fully aware of both their presence but less weary of the woman. His attention coming to rest onto the demon after some time.


"Why do both humanity and demon kind alike do such atrocious things... Are people's lives really so meaningless to you all..?"

The stare held now as his bow was drawn from his back once more, readying an arrow on the string as bolts of plasma and darkness erupted from his hands. Bit by bit the common sense of the man continued to crumble to bits, darkness taking hold of him now as he let his arrow loose. His mind losing itself to the past like before.

Battle's from over the decade changing in and out in his eye's the scenery a constant flux of illusion's and darkness. At this point Niclous was falling and fast with nothing to slow his descent into the madness. The influx of the occult plaguing his mind with the thickness of it being about the air.
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[10:53] Sankya watched as the young boy, her friend... Now a man, fought off the first demon. Her brows furrowed and her eyes narrowed as she started to not recognize the person who now stood in front of her.

sure it spoke with Nick's voice, sure it looked exactly like him... A few limbs less perhaps... But still... That laughter, that darkness that now surrounded him, that thirst for blood that she only saw rivaled by the demons, undead, and witches themselves.

He- He was not acting like himself... The man was losing it.

And either due to luck or fate, she was there to witness it, to help- to try and maybe remind him.

"Niclous- My dear- Listen to yourself..."

she would step up from the darkness, bringing forth her pink light.

"You know you -HAVE'- a purpose, you are a Knight... Always has been... 'Pay back' is not your job- PROTECTING the innocent is."

she would acknowledge the demon's presence- her eyes quickly darting towards it and its minions... Worried.

"You should not be asking such questions to demons- and if you want answers do not attack them."

Her hand goes forth, reaching out.

"Come home with me, stop this nonsense crusade of yours..."
(Sankya Etchel)
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[10:57] His eye's shot to the woman now with an empty stare. "My home... Is slowly crumbling away... "

No more words were then said as he would ready himself to face off against the next demon.
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[11:03] As the first arrows let loose towards the direction of the larger demon, a collection of its thralls intercept the missiles with their own bodies in silence, immediately slain to protect their master. A few pierce through and strike Talguth only for it to disperse a cloud of illusionary mist.

The voice continues to speak, solidifying within their thoughts.

"[Why does the rabbit hate the hawk? You may call it 'atrocious', but it is only the natural state of things.]"

The first wave of imps and thralls charge forward, some taking to the air while others lurk through the underbrush whilst still more simply barrel headlong at Niclous. And as they do, the mental pressure in the area spikes, a psionic lance digging into their mental barrier, seeking to shatter it entirely.

"[You've such hate and anger building with your mind, Niclous. I can extract it, return you to as you were, if only you were to simply let go. Don't you wish to be normal, free of what has broken you, free of what has brought you so low?

Open you mind, and you shall.]"

It seemed to be a demon of the mind, something unique to its race. It was quite likely it was speaking the truth, but, with the arrows continuing to fly at it, combat would ensue.

Perhaps its temptations would influence their behavior in the battle.
(Talguth)
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[11:04] Talguth pops the cork off a bottle, guzzling it down before refocusing its mind on breaking theirs.
(Talguth)
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[11:09] {Lost Dangerous RPB against Talguth}
[11:09] ** Talguth has inflicted an injury upon Niclous Runeclaw. ("Temporary Injury", "Temporary Injury", "Temporary", "Duration: Medium (2 days)") **
[11:26] The arrows that fly against the demon continue to be largely intercepted by its horde of demonic thralls, those that slip by its defensive network of sacrificial minions bursting an illusionary clone of Talguth, the mastermind continuing to hurl Occultic bursts of mana and psionic spikes of mental pressure at its opponent from angles one might not expect.

It continuously speeds through the battlefield as more and more of its thralls fill the forest, the arrows struggling to keep up with the chaos of the clearing as their purplish ichor paints the ground with each body piled up, their own sense of survival usurped by the demon's intense psychic control.

Soon, one loses track of Talguth in its entirety, the indistinct shape blurring into the background until they are completely lost from view. But the attacks never let up, the mental assault only intensifying as cracks build on their mind's barrier.

Something has to give from this unending stream of attacks and it soon does. The sound of glass shattering is heard in the minds of both Niclous and Sankya, the world falling into darkness as key mental switches were simply flicked off within the mind of Niclous, now open to Talguth's manipulations.

Sankya witnesses what happens next.

The horde suddenly ceases all movement as the demon reveals itself close to Niclous's now prone body, a collection of writhing tendrils hanging loosely from its maw. They wrap and constrict around the soldier's skull, pulsating for a brief moment as something is forcefully extracted from the confines of their mind.

And just as quickly, they retract, Niclous coming to with a thin layer of slime coating their head as the demon turns to face Sankya, their mind switching focus to fall on theirs.

"An expected outcome, would you not agree? The prey is hunted by the predator; the natural state of things."

The legion of demonic creatures begins to fall back into the forest as Talguth starts to fade away, its intent to depart after this clear.

But this is still a time to act, if one wished.
(Talguth)
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[11:35] The ranger continued to fire one arrow after another, each creature felled two more taking it's place. The ookami continued to struggle and resist the best he could though the numbers of creatures far out numbered him. The crippling illusions altering his already breaking mind and broken senses. Still thinking he had a chance in this fight but being completely mistaken he channeled a large amount of mana into his bow, his sights set on a false figure of Talguth off in the distance.

His arrow then released with maniacal laughter fallowing. "Since when should life be a constant battle of life and death... Are we all just destined to s-"

His words cut short as his right eye caught sight of the creature behind him, to late to act as Niclous was grabbed up by the demon's tentacle's slim soon starting to cover and bury itself in his fur. "Get off of me!"

His yelling and resisting holding now avail his body weakened from the lack of sleep and previous battle. Completely in the demon's grasp at their mercy his mind would start to grow dark not sure what fate would befall him next. As darkness soon reigned over his sight and all noise soon fading the man would feel a strange calm wash over him as if something that haunted him to this day had simply vanished.

As to what though that was for the ranger to soon find out.
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[11:40] Sankya witnesses the fierce battle, that unfortunately rendered unfruitful for the knight- Nick was, as expected, too weak from previous battles to definitively fight off the demon.

And as he got to Nick- she was too stunned and too much in shock to act in time... His tendrils wrapping around his face- for a moment reminded her of Wra'Gul... Her face went pale, and her hand fell on her stomach.

Feeling suddenly sick, as the thin layer of slime dripped down Nick's head-

And upon seeing the many heads turn her she would gulp down, but her fiery gaze met his, determined, as she slowly made her way forward- to get herself in between the demon and Nick.

"An expected outcome indeed."

Her vines would sprout out of the ground, picking Nic up and cradling him.

"But don't be mistaken, you are no predator, this was merely a battle of chance... And it just so happened that the boy was too tired and far gone to fight it."

But she has no intention of pursuing the fleeing demon, she had a promise to keep, so instead, she watched him slip out of sight.
(Sankya Etchel)
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[11:41] Was knocked out completely at the woman's mercy
(Niclous Runeclaw)
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[11:42] The demons fades from sight entirely with a last telepathic message, the forest's brightening now that its psionic blanket has left the area, its horde of demonic thralls taken with it.
(Talguth)