’My guess is that Night’s strength depends on the lack of sunlight. Just like Dawn feeds upon the light element, Night is likely to feed upon darkness.’ Solus thought.
’And just like Dawn’s undead were immune to sunlight, Night seems to be immune to darkness magic.’ Lith completed the phrase for her.
"I’m much better than any woman you’ll ever meet, my knowledge surpasses that of any creature you met, and with me, you’ll experience intimacy as no one else can offer you.
"We’ll become one in mind and body, as the lovers you heard about in legends. We-" Night once again attempted her pitch.
"Been there, done that." Lith cut her short and pointed his finger at the woods. "Now get out of my hair because once my armies get rid of yours, once the air sealing arrays are gone, I’ll kick your ass with all the might of the Kingdom at my side."
"What army?" Night turned around, noticing the four tribes of magical beasts coming out of the Trawn woods and exposing her back to Lith who didn’t miss the opportunity to backstab her.
War pierced through armor and flesh until its hilt struck the black crystals, yet the Horseman seemed to barely notice the inconvenience.
"Do you really call that bunch of fleabags an army? Magical beasts can barely put up a fight against the undead. You-" Night chocked on her words as War’s enchantments attacked her from the inside, ravaging both her flesh and mana core.
Orion didn’t lie when he said that those struck by his masterpiece wouldn’t live long. Unlike a normal weapon, War had the ability to twist energy on contact, making it possible to turn the very body of its victims against themselves.
The Counterflow ability allowed the blade to infect with its own energy signature any means that a powerful creature might employ to mend their wounds and use them as a weapon.
The Black Night’s tried to fly back and escape the angry blade’s bite but Lith charged forward, making it impossible for her to pull War out.
"I said armies. Plural." Lith threw Solus’s stone gauntlet onto the ground while it held both the black eye of Trouble the Balor and the only tier five Necromancy spell Lith had ever created, Demons of the Fallen.
Neither the undead nor the beasts cared for the small crater the impact created, at least until the ground below their feet started to shake.
Just like she had failed to take into account Lith’s meticulous defenses of his home, Night had also overlooked that while Lutia was known as "the Graveyard", Lith’s home was known as "the Death’s Door".
Over the years, many people had tried to harm his family and all of them had failed. Most of the time, the Verhens didn’t even notice the members of the Queen’s corps or the magical beasts killing the intruders from the shadows.
Lith’s relatives were also unaware that he had left precise instruction to turn the flesh of the assailants into first-class fertilizer and to bury their bones nearby the house with earth magic, leaving no trace of the deed.
The ground split and only the Hush arrays surrounding the area kept the inhuman screams of a few hundreds of skeletons that rose from their grave from breaking the silence of the night.
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