As I entered the palace, I looked left and right. Which way do I go? I was lost, so I flipped a coin, heads the right way, tails the left. As the knights looked at me like they were looking at a monster, it landed on their heads. So right it is: my drones started firing at the group on the right as I walked down the hallway.
The left side group let out a sigh and began to retreat; they wanted nothing to do with me right now. The hallway wasn't wide, so only two Artorais drones could walk in front of me as the others walked behind me. But with this confined space, the knights couldn't get close without being mowed down. They realized, after a while, that it was a death trap and chose to withdraw.
I came to a stop in the hallway and picked right again as I walked down the hallway. I crossed a giant golden door. "This looks important," I said as I pushed it open and smirked. "Jackpot," I said, walking inside as ordered, with two drones to guard the door, and the rest followed me.
"Looks like I found the Empire's treasury room," I said, looking at the hundreds of gold and platinum chests and over a hundred chests of crystals. What I liked more was a chest of a few hundred mana potions. Like the ones I had before, as I smiled, storing all of the stuff in this room and rearming my drones as I spent the next fifteen minutes spamming ammo creation.
Prolonged fights aren't my strong suit, so I needed to get out of the palace and on my way soon. But now I know what it means to go to war for resources, with this supply. I am one step closer to my goal, and all it cost was to slaughter a few thousand humans. As I left the room, one could almost see a tumbleweed blow across it if you look really close.
Stepping back out into the hallway, I noticed a maid spying around a corner, scared. "You there, please guide me to the front door," I said with a smile, but she took off as I fired at the wall near her and yelled. "Don't run!" I said, making her freeze as she turned around.
"All I want from you is to lead me, do that, and I will let you go," I said, and she nodded, leading me and my drones to the front of the palace. It didn't take me long to reach the area where I first entered and smiled. "You may go now," I said as she ran down another hallway, wanting to get as far away from me as possible.
As I opened the giant door, a fireball flew towards me, but little did that magic user know that my plate carrier was holding a front and back plate of Mythralis Veil. The shield expanded out of me as the flames covered it, and I clapped as I spoke. "Good idea, to ambush me as I left. But you didn't have the information about my equipment. That is where you failed." I said, looking over the ten thousand knights.
My drones started to walk out from behind me, taking crest moon formations, with the Artorias A2s in the front and the Alexander A2s between them and me. "Shall we begin?" I said as the knights started to rush forward and mages cast their spells. The Alexander A2s targeted the mages in the back, mowing them down.
The ten thousand-man army fell within a few minutes as my drones ripped them to shreds. By the time I left the palace, half the city's Knights had dropped. Reloading my drones again and summoning the Caesar drones once more, as I had space for them, I made my way back to the mansion, which was the meet-up point.
The drones guarding them showed they still had half their ammo, so fighting must not have been as intense, which makes sense, since only a few people know about my connection to the Empress and princesses. And they most likely died at the beginning, I didn't see that other prince, though.
That bothered me a little, but after tonight, he would be more scared to attack me so boldly. Knights tried to stop me on my way, but they grew fewer in number. I take it word has spread through their ranks, breaking some of their will to fight. No one wants to be slaughtered in a losing fight; only the extremely loyal would do that.
I could see the mansion in the distance as a few hundred Knights and the prince I was looking for entered the courtyard along with someone I knew. So, more people from my world have powers, as I don't see why the prince would have a male from my world unless he had something to offer. As their slavers slaughtered the ones on the beach.
I increased my speed as I noticed the guy from my world destroying one of the drones. Okay, that was a first as I signaled the Caesar units to open fire on the knights, blowing them to pink mist as I slowed down. "It's best if you leave now, Jamal," I said, making the guy turn his head and laugh.
"Well, if it isn't John Colt, the forever loser. So these things are yours?" He said, pointing to the destroyed Artorias drone. "That would be mine," I said in a split second. He disappeared as the metal in my plate carrier activated, and a loud strike rocked the shield. Pulling out the Sig Spear loaded with Raging Tempest rounds, I fired.
He dodged as my drones targeted him and opened fire as he activated a skill, creating a shield that deflected the rounds, pushing him back fifty feet, making him squint as he spoke. "How did you get so strong? And what is your ability?" He said, looking at the drones.
"Why the hell would I tell you?" I said as the prince and the other Knights watched. Things didn't look good for his side, as the other worlder he'd taken under his wing seemed to be losing ground. But now he knew that the man he met at the Elven capital was also another otherworlder.
Yavanna and her family and guards watched from near the mansion as Prince Obataiye walked forward and spoke. "I think there has been enough death tonight. Why don't we call it enough? I will let you leave the city as long as you stop killing my people." He said, looking at me. Realizing he was on the losing end, he chose to bow out before he died.
I looked over at Yavanna, who nodded, and then I spoke. "Fine, but you need to make a magical contract that you won't chase the elves and let them enter their lands without anyone tied to you doing anything to them. That includes Jamal." I said, looking at him, I didn't want to risk fighting another unknown after dealing with a demon already.
"Fine." He agreed to my terms without asking for any, as he wasn't in a position to ask for them and just wanted me gone. Yavanna brought the magic paper, and he drew up the contract as I read it and nodded. Signing it as he spoke.
"Everyone, fall back to the palace. They have my blessing to leave." He said, making Jamal glare at me, but didn't argue with the prince as he couldn't.
So ended the bloodiest night in the Warish capital's history; it would go down in the history books as the night the Empire lost 3/4 of its nobility and almost all of its royalty. The elves mounted the carriages as I made the Humvee, and Natasha and her group mounted it.
Jamal's eyes focused as he smirked. He thinks he knows what my ability is, and he would be partly right. As we left the capital, I stopped the Humvee 2 km from the city, and Yavanna looked out of her carriage, mouthing 'Thank you.' I didn't want them to stop and say goodbye, as they need to make it back to their lands.
The goddess said that they couldn't war with their lands, meaning that the moment they are on their lands, any hostile action against the Empress and her family would be an act of war. As I couldn't see them anymore, I stored the drones and mounted the Humvee.
"Let's head to your Queendom," I said. Knowing that the Warish Empire would still try to do something to me as I left it open so they could focus on me to vent their anger instead of trying something with Yavanna and her family, I made haste towards the Dark Elf tunnels.
As I turned on the headlights and we drove through the night, I absorbed the crystals. It would take three days of driving nonstop. I had made enough gas to get us there, and we won't need the Humvee until we make it through the Dark Elve kingdom.
"Girls get some sleep," I said, making them nod as they tried to sleep.