127 Sigfrid Vs Nightmare (1/2)
Sigfrid traveled with his team in the back of 4 level 40 Winged Lions that were extremely powerful and made their team eight strong. The plan was simple, Sigfrid and the others were to delivered the message of Ivan Pendragon to the leaders of the abyss and request for the Criminal Rahz a.k.a The Behemoth,a.k.a the leader of the Demon Squad to be turned over into their custody so he could be judge for his crimes against their organization.
The hidden agenda was to kidnap or kill Rahz if their request was denied and then flee the abyss while obtaining the enchanted pouch in his possession as an offering to Lord Odos for all the souls that had been lost.
Sigfrid knew that the faith of his team had been decided and that it was very unlikely that they could kill the target and make it to the portal in one piece, somebody had to buy time for sigfrid to leave or the whole thing would be for nothing. It was no surprise that he was call the Righteous Fool as only him would take this sort of missions.
The team flew in a diamond formation and made their way to the portal of the Abyss with Sigfrid leading his team as the vanguard. The team had a Rogue, a Priest, a Mage and a Paladin. They had been fighting together and looking over each others backs for more than 100 years and had close to 90% completion rating on their missions for the organization and they were savages when it came to fighting.
The team had flown to the abyss a few times before and they didn't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen since the abyss guards only care about what happen inside the portal under the Chaos Moon.
Sigfrid's team left in a hurry and were being brief about the mission in plain flight using communication runes inscribed to their wrist. This was a practice commonly used for special forces in the realm as communication was of utmost importance. The background information regarding their target and the events that led to the Mission were all transmitted by their captain.
The Information given by Omega told them that everything happened thanks to the Son of one of the Silverwing Auction House directors of a town called Naas who was killing infidels that rejected lord Odos Grace. The so called Demon Squad were friends of one of the victims and had managed to killed Ross Moriarty and escaped with the help of a Coercer according to the testimony of the Guard Captain that showed signs of memory tampering.
The information given continued by saying that the killings of their members were retaliation against Mycroft Moriarty who was the father of the Ross Moriarty and had placed a bounty on all the members and couldn't let go of his revenge. According to the Information provided by the Thieves Guild, the members of the Demon Squad were at most in their 20s in terms of levels and did not have a backer when they left the town almost 5 years before.
”This is where the story gets interesting guys, It turns out that the Demon Squad fled from the Bounty Hunters and end up in the Abyss where by some sick joke the Leader and our target ended up as the direct disciple of our good friend Giant Blade” Said Sigfrid while wearing a serious expression on his face.
The moment they heard the name Giant Blade, all the faces of the team got sour. That explained why omega was defeated and why a level 20th had managed to kill hundreds of third tiers. Even the people that they were cursing as incompetent before allowing the Sword of Justice to get stolen now look pitiful in their eyes. Giant Blade was a pain in the a.s.s to deal with, specially if he had his 3 wives backing him up and providing him with buffs only Sigfrid was able to content against him.
”Wait a second…Isn't Giant Blade friends with Nigh... ” Before the Priest could finished the sentence, an enormous FrostBall 10 ft wide broke through the clouds like and anti-aircraft missile heading their way.
Sigfrid's team turned left to avoid the blast but very soon 6 more Frostb.a.l.l.s came their way.
”We need to split up Guys, our position has being compromised looks like Frost Wyverns are heading our way… ”
”s.h.i.+t I can see 7 of them and oh s.h.i.+t is that an Undead Dragon …”
”f.u.c.k!!! is Nightmare!! We have been set up”
The Wing Lions were a lot smaller than the Wyverns but in an aerial fight they had the advantage in terms of speed, what they lacked was in terms of destructive power. Sigfrid's team was highly experienced and after evading the first round of Frostb.a.l.l.s they went in different directions, one broke hard right , one broke left, one decreased their Height while Sigfrid went above the clouds.
The maneuver turned out to be the correct course of action as it force the wyverns to separate at the rate of 2 enemies per each member of Sigfrids group. The Idea behind Sigfrids move was to use the superior speed of his mount to get into a position in which he could see the battlefield and help his friends with covered fire by doing a loop high in the air and coming behind the enemy and shooting Fireb.a.l.l.s from behind.
Nightmare's Undead Dragon was ma.s.sive and even though it was slow, its blast covered a wide field which Nightmare used to his advantage by shooting the area were Sigfrids was going to perform the flip upside down stopping him from even attempting the loop.
WHOOOs.h.!.+ WHOOs.h.!.+
The powerful wings of the dragon could be heard flapping and moving upwards while shooting ma.s.sive Frostb.a.l.l.s as if they were missiles.