The two goblin brothers continued to watch the minotaur Speaker regale the legend of his Icon before the Sacred Monolith. In the audience, the other encircling monsters listened against the cacophony of bestial noises echoing through the subterranean cathedral. The elder brother, Ballem Sak, picked his teeth with a shiv. He had started to lose the thread of the tale and was now merely ogling the beautiful women that sat upon the centaur's back. In contrast, the younger brother, Nutten Sak, was enraptured. The tale seemed to come to him like an old forgotten memory and the profanity of it all filled with a strength he had never before known. The small one-eyed goblin clutched his shoulder brand that every single member of the Emerald Horde shared. Something was building inside him. Something powerful and twisted. But he did not care. He wanted to hear the rest of the story.
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Vacaras, son of Garlan, arose in the necromancer's cabin and stretched his mighty arms. It had been a long day but the sun had finally set and he would soon be ready to travel. The cover of night served him better in these lands even if his snow white hide offered him little chance for concealment. The Great War still raged, even if it was at a stalemate, and there was no way of telling where or when an Axiom patrol might be passing through this part of Barthica. As he slung a heavy bag over his shoulder filled with rations and supplies for two, the minotaur realized he had forgotten something vital. He turned around. Burbling on the floor in a pool of his seed, quivering in the last aftershocks of orgasm, nude save for the depraved messages she wrote upon her own pale skin, pussy agape and leaking jizz, Valerie Duskal, necromancer of western forests, was in no state to travel.
"Sorry about that." The minotaur said, handing her a towel after moving her to the couch. "N-Not at all. It was my pleasure eheheh." The thick necromancer laughed as she wiped herself down. Vacaras still found the woman's laugh unnerving, like some crude wall protecting her sanity was rumbling apart, but in spite of this he had also grown to care for her. "You must be excited to find that other mage. You fucked me so hard this morning I thought my eyes were going to fall out...wait, never mind." Valerie quickly said after seeing her partner's genuine concern in not being able to tell whether she was exaggerating or her power over undeath had some new horrid surprise for him. "She's not too far. About a week's journey by foot. The forest is nice this time of year. Nobody out hunting. Nobody to interrupt us." On the last note the witch tossed her towel away revealing her plump naked body.
"Indeed." Was all the staring minotaur could muster. His arousal was obvious but he still was at a loss when it came to Valerie's voracious sexual appetite. That aside he was happy to have a traveling companion. He had no idea what he was heading towards but he gripped his greataxe in determination. Whatever this mage had he would bring her down.
Noticing her partner's thick muscles tightening in mental preparation Valerie smiled, "O-Oh. You don't have to worry about Cass. She's really not all that powerful."
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Vacaras, son of Garlan, dislodged his axe blade from the wreckage of a stark white suit of armor. The inside of which was empty but it had attacked him nonetheless. It had been animated by magic. The hulking minotaur grunted and looked ahead. No less than a hundred more white suits marched towards him in mechanical resolution. "Monolith lend me strength." he grunted and charged the battalion with a mighty roar!
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The elder goblin looked at this younger sibling. The one-eyed youth was fully entranced in Windrunner's tale and Ballem couldn't help but smile at this. Goblins had a hard existence, constantly under assault by adventurers and other stronger monsters. At least in the Emerald Horde nobody here would attack him outright. The larger shiv spinning brother felt reassured in this. His brother would be safe in the Horde even if he would not be around to see how long.
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The pair had found themselves in a valley before a large black and white tower that rose into the sky like a spear threating the heavens. It was surrounded by various plates of white painted metal littered about in the dry brown earth seemingly at randomly. When Vacaras asked Valerie about it she became sheepish. "S-Sorry I only know necromancy. I know it's not super useful. I'm sorry." Pale, sleep deprived eyes hid behind a large black brimmed hat that matched her long black gown. Not wanting to upset her further Vacaras let it go and proceeded forward.
Before long, the various pieces of metal vibrated and rose from the earth. They floated straight into the air and then shot into one another colliding with a sharp clang. They began assembling. With a final clatter of iron, a floating pile of white irons had formed a complete suit of armor and marched on the intruder. "I-I didn't know she could do this!" Valerie panicked more out of fear of upsetting her distracted lover than for her own life.
Vacaras shorn through the walking metal guardians in a roaring storm of battle. The ex-infantry beast was untouched in the melee. As he split a charging suit in half he saw one of the guardians stab another until it could no longer function. When it turned around Vacaras saw that it was only partially armored, underneath which was a shambling skeleton. He turned to Valerie who was quietly yawning to herself as her eyes glowed with foul magic. She waved at her partner as though she wasn't surrounded on all sides by animated marauders intent on bringing about their death. Vacaras wondered if the girl truly had anything to fear at all.
When the last of the white armored suits fell Valerie was exhausted. Two haphazardly armored skeletons supported her shoulders. Vacaras had sustained a few injuries. Though it was nothing serious, his white coat was bloodied. He too was feeling the fatigue set upon him but not nearly to the extent of his partner. "Are you alright? Do you wish to travel back and rest?" "No. I guess I'm just a little out of shape." She mumbled.