Rulek Sea

Barik oceanic outskirts, Mer territory

Jacky stood at the helm of his group’s transportation, ahead of him flew two heavily armoured Griffins being ridden by two Mageks, Seren and Woody controlling one each. From each Griffin trailed back two long and thick metallic white bars, a bar was connected to the Griffin’s armour on each side. The bars were part of a massive and even more wide carriage to which they connected to it’s front, the carriage -or ‘Chariot’ as they had named it- was more than twice the width of a single Griffin’s wingspan, more than twice as long and almost twice in height.

The two set of bars each connected to the edge of the Chariot’s front giving each Griffin more than enough room to bat it’s wings freely. The Chariot itself was something of an odd shape, it’s front was triangular, like a race car’s to allow for minimal air resistance. The triangular front took to a half as long rectangular area and edged in a flat back. The sides of the Chariot were also flat.

The Chariot had no windows visible, it’s white walls seemed metallic in nature but did not gleam or reflect the moonlight. Runes glowing a fiery red were etched all over it’s entirety, similar to the Griffin’s armour and the Mageks’.

Jacky was inside said Chariot along with Skill, CH, Sparta and Lilior on her shoulder. The inside of the Chariot was fairly spacious, more so than a carriage due to it’s width and also had two levels to it. Jacky was currently staring at several large monitors of sorts, similar to the VCD’s these were enchanted with runes to show each direction of the Chariot along with anything the two Griffins and their Magek riders saw.

There was ten monitors in all inside a sort of table arrangement and each within a rune etched black frame that was built onto the front wall which was slanted back at a 45 degree angle due to the Chariot’s shape.

Jacky watched each carefully until out of Seren’s view he saw what they were hunting for, it was already night time but the ship’s lights were clearly visible over the dark ocean along with the lights of several other larger ships further off.

He grimaced at this “His guess was correct, Elven war ships, four of them.” he pointed out the ships on the monitor “Turn and align properly, give us a fly-by between them and the target.” he spoke mainly at the two Griffins who were intelligent enough to comprehend him and act on it.

Jacky then turned around to face the others, a large table with a map of Chaoz was prepared there and they were all sitting about waiting. “Skill, Sparta, Lilior get ready, Ch you’ll be in charge here once we’re off.” He told them and each nodded, he then turned back around to face the monitors.

They were quickly approaching the ships, the four Elven ones still a few dozen meters short of reaching the smaller less vine covered one. None of the ships noticed their approach, not solely of it being night time but mainly because of the cloaking spell currently covering the entire Chariot thanks to Lilior’s dungeon core set in place.

In fact, the entire Chariot was Lilior’s personal dungeon or as Death had called it, her personal and sentient flying battle ship. As large as the team set under Death’s lead was, the Chariot’s creation was way out of their league at the moment so Lilior’s existence as a half-dungeon was the only feasible way to create such a thing in such a short amount of time.

Under a minute the Chariot had turned harshly, Griffins were very powerful flyers and capable of making incredible shifts mid-flight even Dragons weren’t capable of. A certain ability Lilior’s dungeon core had developed allowed for physics not to kill every single person inside the Chariot however.

As the Chariot began to make it’s way to fly in between the four war ships and the cargo ship Jacky signalled Lilior to drop the cloaking spell, he then spoke in a very harsh and mana infused voice “Elven Military ships, you are trespassing on Mer territory. Turn back now and leave this ocean at once, you will not be per-” his speech was cut short as all four of the Elven war ships emitted a shockwave of mana that utterly disrupted their cloak making them visible.

Jacky cleared his throat before continuing “You shall now be blown the fuck up.” He stopped infusing his voice with mana “Seren, Wood, fire away.” He turned to the others “Lilior open fire.” Before turning back to the monitors “Fly us over the cargo ship.” He told the two Griffins who turned the Chariot.

Lilior who had moved from Sparta’s shoulder was now hovering in the very centre of the room with both her palms pressed to a large aquamarine blue crystal core that was connected to the floor half-way and poked out to the floor below just as much.

Seren and Woody from within willed their Mageks to turn to face the war ships as they flew away at an angle, holding a massive shield in their left arm they aimed their long staffs around the shield with their right and opened fire with their spellcasting.

"In a flurry of fire and beneath radiating light you shall fall! Wisp Blast!" chanted Seren as she laughed wickedly.

"Burn mother fuckers burn! Evaporate before my light! Rainbow Ray!" chanted Woody estatically.

Just as Seren’s blasts of radiating and fiery light along with Woody’s rays of multi-coloured light assaulted the enemy war ships, the Chariot went through a slight change. The bottom of the Chariot opened up and three platforms descended to fill the space, each platform had a long cannon-like cylinder that ended in an aquamarine blue pointed crystal.

To Lilior’s will these cannons had been moved into place, and to her will they turned to face the warships. She chanted "You who stand and block master's path shall face my icy wrath! Ice Age!" The crystals each shined a bright blue briefly before thick Frost began to collect at the point of each, the Frost was like a white mist that formed into a very unstable sphere before suddenly being propelled forward.

Seren and Woody missed some of their attacks at first but eventually they began to hit a sort of barrier that surrounded each ship, it was a light green hue of a sphere that bubbled around them. The Chariot’s attacks on the other hand each collided with a barrier each, they exploded into a mass of white fog before quickly dissipating. The three attacks left behind a frozen sea and a frozen mould of the barriers they hit.

Jacky huffed in annoyance “Resistant fuckers aren’t they?” he said while turning around “CH I leave you in command of the bridge, Skill, Sparta on me.” CH nodded at him and moved to watch the monitors as Skill and Sparta stood up to follow Jacky.

The three moved to the back of the Chariot and faced the wall “Lilior open up.” Jacky barked back the command at the fairy who without a response willed the wall to turn open like a door. Jacky glanced back and watched the monitor that showed the bottom front and waited to see the ship come into view before “Now!” he shouted out and leaped out of the Chariot.

Jacky didn’t look back but he knew Skill and Sparta had leaped out after him, at least he hoped for their own sake that they had. As he fell he watched the cargo ship below quickly closing in “Shade Form!” he chanted and suddenly his body burst into shadows.

His descent did not slow down but he did watch as out of his left Sparta descended down into the ship like a meteor, she crashed straight through the first deck and down into the bottom one. Jacky landed nearby her crater, his formless body of shadows unaffected by the fall as he reformed. He glanced up to see Skill gliding down ever so slowly as magical wind blew around his feet, bow and arrow already in hand he waited for him to land up on the bird’s nest.

Jacky glanced down into the crater and watched Sparta stand back up surrounded by knocked out or groaning deckhands, rubble and planks scattered all around her along with them. He heard doors opening from the front top deck, looking up he saw multiple acquainted faces along with Zeeke, the REKT members and multiple others.

Author: Ya all thought I forgot about the other characters ;P?

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Jacky smirked up at them “Zeeke! Running away? And here I thought we were starting to become friends!” his voice was altered by [Shade Form] making it sound deeper.

Up above Zeeke paled considerably as he recognised Jacky but before he or anybody else could respond several arrows embedded themselves into his companions killing them immediately. He looked up to see Skill nocking arrow after arrow down at them, each briefly shining a green light before blasting forward and disappearing only to reappear inside it’s target.

Jax and his contingent were the only ones quick enough to evade the invisible arrows, even those wearing helmets were killed on the first shot. Seven adventurers in all were quickly put down “Bastards!” cursed Jax as he stepped over the railing and leaped up at Skill.

A crash below caught everyone’s attention as suddenly the wooden floor burst apart underneath the leaping Jax, Sparta soared through the floor with shield ahead of her and crashed into Jax who parried with his two sabres. Both of them flew upwards propelled by Sparta’s magical metallic wings.

Zeeke was so astonished by the Valkyrie that he did not notice Jacky appearing behind him, the other five members of REKT though did. Jacky lunged to stab Zeeke in the back but was parried by multiple swords forcing him to back off.

“Not cool guys, you don’t just cock-block a bro like that.” Joked Jacky as he faced the two REKT adventurers who blocked his attack.

Zeeke turned around to also face Jacky, still pale but he managed to equip his massive shield and sword from his inventory as he spoke “Two of you deal with the ranger!” he told the Rekt members. Two of them did leap off and engaged Skill, one was also a ranger while the other was wielding a pole-blade.

Jacky smirked at his three foes, Zeeke who wielded a large shield was standing in front of the mage of the group who held a long staff. The last Rekt member, seemingly a warrior wielding a large battle axe was stepping to the side to surround Jacky.

“You should of stayed home, creepy twat!” exclaimed the warrior “Three on one here, two on one back there and your bitch can’t beat the boss!”

“And the Elven ships will be here soon!” added Zeeke, his tone less sure than the Rekt warrior.

Jacky’s smirk faltered turning cold and distant as he glanced up “She seems to be doing just fine.”

Up in the air Jax had disengaged from colliding with Sparta when suddenly his arms morphed into wyvern like wings ending in long sharp claws, a tail from his backside had grown also ending in two long claw like blades. He flapped his wings to remain air-born as he turned to face Sparta.

Sparta hovered mid-air, her shield facing Jax and her longsword aimed around it as she charged forward “Valhalla’s smite!” she exclaimed and her entire armour, shield, wings and sword shone so brightly they blinded Jax.

Jax was caught off guard by the spell but did not panic and cast one of his own “Wyvern breath!” he lurched forwards and opened his mouth as a dark green flame gushed out engulfing Sparta’s charge.

Sparta was completely engulfed by the flame but her shield repelled most of it, what little did hit her was absorbed by her armour and she continued her charge crashing straight into Jax again. Jax immediately ended his breath attack as Sparta’s shield hammered into his torso and face making his sight blur.

She carried him along continuing her charge forward, at the same time rapidly stabbing her sword into his left wing before suddenly stopping. Jax continued flying backwards, stunned by the shield bash and bleeding profusely from his torn wing as he descended down into the water.

“Can’t beat him huh?” asked Jacky as he looked down at the warrior coldly who had charged at him engulfed in a fiery blue aura.

“Martial slash!” chanted the warrior as his aura formed around his battle axe and sharpened into an exact shape along the blade. He sliced downwards fully intent on chopping Jacky in half.

“Blur” quickly chanted Jacky as his form blurred into shadows, the battle axe going straight through and crashing into the floor beneath “Strangle” he then chanted while formless and his shadow form engulfed the warrior entirely. Strangled groans and panicked choking screams were heard from within as the shadows slowly shrunk.

“Shit!” cursed the mage as he stepped from around Zeeke and aimed his staff “Behold true power, bow beneath true mastery! Final Light!” he chanted as his staff shone brightly blinding everyone within range and dispersing Jacky’s shadows. Once the light had dimmed down the mage had to rub his eyes a few times before he could see again, once he could all he saw was Zeeke doing the same to his left and the warrior on his knees furiously coughing.

Jacky was nowhere to be seen.

“Did you get him?” asked Zeeke as his vision returned, only to be startled by a choked scream from his right. Zeeke quickly turned to face the mage only to find Jacky holding the mage by the shoulder as he pulled out his dagger from the man’s neck.

Jacky was immediately sprayed with blood as he pulled the blade out, the mage fell to the floor choking on his own blood and bleeding out “Annoying”.

“You-You k-killed him!” exclaimed Zeeke with wide eyes and colourless expression.

Jacky shrugged as he suddenly flicked the still bloody blade with his hand throwing it forwards, Zeeke turned to see the warrior fall backwards with a dagger protruding out of his right eye. Zeeke whimpered at the sight before slowly turning to face Jacky again who was glaring at him murderously.

Zeeke took a few steps back as fear ate away at him “M-Monster!” he exclaimed before suddenly glancing to the left after hearing a loud thump on the main deck.

The other warrior with the pole-blade was lying in a pool of his own blood, his body peppered with arrows. The ranger on the other hand who’s left leg and torso were pierced with arrows was struggling to nock his own when suddenly an arrow pierced through his forehead. He fell forwards snapping the arrow once he hit the floor.

“Headshot, bitch.” Mocked Skill from up above as he wiped a cut below his left eye, before nocking an arrow and aiming down at Zeeke.

Zeeke immediately turned to cover himself with his shield when suddenly a loud crash behind him made him jump and look back fearfully. Sparta had landed harshly behind him, rising up from her kneeling position she took a stance and faced him with bloody shield and blade up.

“As you can see.” exclaimed Jacky with arms wide open “You’re fucked.” A wicked grin plastered on his face.

Zeeke turned to face his shield at Jacky as he slowly stepped back “W-what the h-hell!? Why!? W-why are you here?!” he demanded, his tone panicked and eyes wide as he hid behind his shield.

Jacky lowered his arms and stepped towards Zeeke who suddenly took three more steps away “Nothing personal bud, just taking care of business.” His form suddenly burst into shadows and he rushed at Zeeke.

Zeeke was suddenly engulfed in a mass of shadows that swirled all around him, it was as if a whirlpool of darkness had surrounded him. Tendrils of shadow lunged at him but tendrils of even darker energy clashed with them pulling them back into the whirlpool.

Slowly the whirlpool came to a stop before two masses, one made of foggy shadows and the other of blurry darkness reformed and took humanoid shape. Before him stood Jacky yet again looking annoyed, in between him and the assassin stood another man.

“You dare conspire on assassinating a Chosen!?” exclaimed Priest Nolin as he reformed out of his dark energy and glared coldly at Jacky.