Chapter 72
By the time Morven and the others were at the yellow tree, Zmaug was already done with his preparations, he says to the chief elf;
"I need your help with something else now, i need to make the mercenaries think that our reinforcements are here. That will make them have their entire attention above."
The chief looks at him and asks;
"How will be doing that? They will know that we are elves, and not reinforcements."
Zmaug smiles and says;
"That's where our preparations are coming into play."
The chief looks at him and shakes his head, but he thinks, 'Well i only need to follow the plan and all will be ok.'
Then Zmaug takes flight, and he transforms in his full dragon form. He roars towards the mountain and the Earth starts to vibrate, the elves cover their ears, the sound so powerful that is heard even by the monsters from a thousand kilometers away, if the elves wouldn't have known form the start to protect their ears with spells, then they would have gone deaf immediately. Down below the mercenaries also feel the vibrations, all look at one another and then they see their boss also looking up, then he says;
"Activate the watch spells, let's see what is happening outside."
Then above them a hologram screen appears, and all can see the outside. They see a gigantic Black Dragon flapping his wings up in the sky, and then they see the Dragon smile. After, they see him opening his mouth and a Dragon breath fly towards the mountain. All just stares at the incoming breath and then they see the breath hit, and the feed is interrupted, the watch spell destroyed. After they fell the tremble of the entire mountain, is like an earthquake just hit them, after a few moments again quiet.
But the silence is interrupted by a soldier who says;
"Didn't we warn them that if they start attacking, they will see the people dying by the second. It seems they think we are joking with them."
The boss also is angry he says;
"Try to restore the watch spells, i want to see outside, to see what gave them the balls to attack us. And prepare the attacking spells."
The henchman who was controlling the system says;
"I will need a few minutes to restore everything."
The boss nods, but then he takes out a 'Golden Pagoda' that shines like a jewel. The pagoda being made from nine levels, and a tip like pyramid floating above the ninth level. Then he raises the pagoda above his head, and says;
"Protect all."
Immediately a golden light appears on every mercenary, all are starting to calm down. Now they know that even if the mountain crashes down on them, they will live. After a few moments of waiting the watch spells are restored.
They see that the dragon is not alone in the sky anymore, behind him are hundreds and hundreds of small ships hovering. Then he sees the Dragon smile again. He felt the watch spells being restored and activated, he says;
"So, you little underground rats, i have news for you. Our reinforcements have arrived, and if you all don't surrender yourselves, with the hostages perfectly safe, then we will come for you ourselves. You have ten minutes to decide your fates."
Zmaug sends another breath destroying the watch spells again. The Mercenaries are left in the dark. All turn towards the Boss. Some are angry, wanting to kill all the hostages and fire their world destroying weapons at the Dragon. Some are having second thoughts, they want to use the pagoda powers to flee. Some want to use the hostages as bargaining cheeps to make them back off, then take all the riches and flee to their home planet. But the Boss raises his hand, silencing all, he says;
"Prepare to fight, we will kill all of them and destroy this planet while taking all the riches, then we will go back home. And remember we can't die, as long as this artifact is in our hands. No one can kill us, and we have the world destroying class weapon with us, we will win. So prepare for battle, and the dragon is mine."
Some are willing to fight, but a few still feel something off about this. But with the majority being 'For', they can't do anything.
And when they start making their preparations, they hear an explosion on one side of the city, then they see monsters of all kinds barging in and destroying everything in their paths, all are shocked, where did all these monsters come from? And exactly at this bad time, when the Dragon is preparing to unleash hell on them from above. One of them says between the monsters screams and screeches;
"Oohh we're **cked."
Then they some monsters turn towards them, and they scream something to the rest, immediately all monsters are running towards them like they killed their mothers or something. Especially the ones who look like their kings or something. They look really pissed at them.
The Boss of the mercenaries screams after a few moments of shock;
"Make a line and don't let them surround us, go back towards the City Hall where we can defend against them."
The soldiers wake up and start to shoot towards the incoming monsters, then they start to retreat slowly inside the City Hall. The mercenaries taking control of the situation fast and easy, the experience of fighting almost every day it's saying it's word.
But the Boss remains on the spot, not retreating with them. He takes two swords that look more like great swords out of his space ring, and says;
"It's been a long time since i fought against thousands. Let's see if i lost my touch."
After, he starts running towards the incoming monsters, he raises his swords and sends a X shaped energy wave that kills the monsters in front of him like flies. The mercenaries look at their Boss and the know that now he won't stop until he will be the last one standing. He was always like that, a battle maniac and he looks like one too. His two and a half meters tall frame with a body full of muscles, and black hair that is long that reaches his butt and unkept almost like a cave man, scars all over his body, gray wolflike eyes with an aura that you can't tell him apart from the monsters. So wild and monstrous aura he has.
He alone against thousands, but the more he fights the stronger he becomes, then the kings take the stage, the minions being only a snack for the Boss. He also looks at the kings in front of him and a scary smile appears on his face he says;
"Raise the City Hall defenses, don't let them get in. Kill them all."
The men raise the magic defenses, and the monsters are stopped by a shield, then magic circles start firing arrows and lasers towards the monsters, plus the men inside are also firing their weapons, for now the only one in danger is him, the Boss.
But after the men see the Boss fighting against five kings by himself and laughing like a maniac, they know the ones in danger are not them, but the monsters.
The Boss doesn't need to defend against anything the kings throw at him, because of the golden light of the artifact, every injury and every fatal wound is healed in half a second. That means that the kings have an undying battle maniac not fearing anything, to fight against.
The Boss after taking a hit on his back he is sent flying towards another king, but that is what he was planning. The next second his back is healed; he puts his swords back in the space ring, and he raises his speed by another notch, the next second he appears in front of the Mole king, that looks like a Mole mixed with a kangaroo, but with a crocodile-like mouth filled with razor sharp teeth's. He punches his head with so much force that it explodes like a watermelon, his body twitches a few times and falls back.
Then he turns with his face full of blood and smiles. The other kings feel something wrong from this human, not only that they can't hurt him, but they can't even see a hint of fear from this human, the other kings, the centipede king, the minotaur king, the beetle like mixed with a grasshopper king, and the mantis like mixed with cockroach king. Their instincts telling them to back off, the kings having the intelligence of a six-year-old human child.
But that is not enough to think about hard problems. So, when the instinct tells them to run, they don't hesitate, and everyone runs in a different direction. But they are fighting against a battle maniac. The boss starts laughing and he takes out the pagoda and says;
"Trap them all."
A light barrier starts expanding around from the pagoda, the barrier faster than light, in a second it traps the kings. Then they hear a laugh infused with a wild aura that makes even the air vibrate;
"You all came when you wanted, but don't think even for one second that you can leave when you want. You can leave only if you kill me, Malakar Draugr 'The Barbarian'."