69 The Fallen Gate (1/2)
Elune had a face like she ate something really sour while she cursed Rahz underneath her breath. Even Riddick had his hands across his chest and was shaking his head at a loss for words.
Rahz looked around at the angry faces of all his companions and all he could say was... Oops!!.
The Old Warrior looked at the atmosphere and cough a couple of times to get everyone's attention and then said.”Don't worry guys, the cursed will only last until Lord Darick is defeated or you died in which case you'll be just like me… not too bad right, is a win win in my book...Huhuhu”
Crickets...
Seeing the none laughing faces around him made the Old warrior a little embarrassed.
”Tough crowd..Tough Crowd indeed”
The Old warrior shook it off and continue the tale”Anyways, Lord Darick was our fearless leader and a very powerful warrior appointed by the queen herself as the protector of the Fifth Gate.They were dark times, dark times I tell you!! The Dragonkin forces were gaining ground and had manage to reach the door steps of our precious city.Our city's name was Newport...”.
”No way!!! The Great Dark Elf City” Said Elune flabbergasted.There was not a Dark Elf tribe in all of Elysian that didn't know of the great city of Newport which represented the height of their achievements as race.
”Good for you little girl!! You do know about your ancestors!! ”The specter puff up his chest and continued, ”Our city was protected by a six point magic formation that nobody could penetrated, it had amazing defensive capabilities as well as a very powerful Arcane beam that could devastate thousands of those overgrown lizards.The formation was call the six point formation for a reason, it need it the energy of 6 God crystal to operate and if one was to be destroyed, it would created a domino effect that would prevent the entire thing from working.Each of the powerful God crystals needed to be protected by very powerful Lords and they were kept in the basement of very large structures known as gates.As you probably know by now Lord Darick was the protector of one of the structures 'The Fifth Gate' ”.
”I was working as a Royal Guard when it happened... Tens of thousands of Dragonkin warriors and a few of their generals opened a Teleportation gate and appeared out of nowhere right in front of our city and attacked us with full force.The First gate was caught unprepared and the pressure was mounting at an extremely fast pace.The queen knew that we had to slow the Dragonkin down and prevent them from doing damage to the gates while we waited until the allied forces arrived and turned the situation around.As long as the gates held, the formation would keep the city and its citizens safe”
”I knew that I was going to be leading a troop of my fellow Dark Elves to one of the gates, I just didn't know which one.When the Orders came I opened the enveloped the wrong way and... (mumble) rahh thh numbbrr wrngg”
”Sorry I beg your pardon”
”rahh thh numbbrr wrngg (mumbling still)”
”Sorry I still didn't catch that...”
”Damn it!!! I SAID!! I READ THE NUMBER WRONG”
Four people gasp and a snake Hiss in surprise at what the Guard in front of them had said.
With his head down in shame the specter guard continued, ”I went to reinforce the Second Gate instead of the Fifth and by the time I corrected my mistake it was too late.With the Fifth Gate in imminent danger and to keep the Dragonkin from destroying the God Crystal, Lord Darick authorized his Counselor and practitioner of the necromantic arts to use a death cursed with a terrible price to pay, not only did it consume the levels of everyone in the Fifth Gate, it also cursed them to be reborn as Undead until their souls are release from the Grimhold Doll”.
”Where is this Grimhold you are talking about?”
”Is in the hands of Lord Darick, he believes that an eternity is not enough to repent for causing the fall of the city he was supposed to protect.Since their souls are all in that Grimhold, each and everyone of them revives after 3 days and continues their duty to protect the Fifth Gate”.
”How did Lord Darick get a hold of the doll if he was one of the people being sacrifice to the curse and died in the invasion?”
”The Counselor never died, as soon as he used the curse to kill 20,000 of the dragonkin he disappeared before the Fifth Gate fell.When Lord Darick woke up as an undead on the third day, the doll was waiting for him in the place the God crystal used to be”
”We want to help...we really do, but we don't even know where this Gate is, it had been 5000 years” Said Elune trying to look for a loophole that could let them avoid the mission.
The guard sneered and said ”Thank you!! The location is not a problem, you are standing on it”
The team look underneath their feet and gulp, It was for real now, they had to go and try to defeat this Lord guy that judging by the level of the guard (Level 35) who knows what Level Lord Darick was.