"She's okay. Fortunately, it didn't harm any internal organs except for some intestines, but we've both patched up." Litha had already began the process of treating herself before Temur reached her, but he helped her and made it faster.
They turned to the crying Awakener. "So you that inflict pain can't even handle it. That's a twisted Irony if you ask me." Temur kicked him in the ribs, the force lifted him to face them.
Kaidos still held his bleeding hand, his face sweaty with blood. "You...I'll kill you!"
Jael looked at him curiously. "I don't think you can, not in your current state at least."
Kaidos huffed, the ring in his right hand shimmered and medical instruments poured down – potions and some bandages. "Just wait till I patch things up. I'll show you!"
Jael and Temur looked at each other and they couldn't hold back a dry chuckle. "We should wait till you patch things up? Are you kidding? Besides, this is not just flesh wounds. You can't treat broken bones with just potions."
Temur stepped forward and stepped on the wounded hand, his feet squishing on the wound. Kaidos let out a scream, griping Temur's legs like a vice but he didn't let go. "That's for doing that to Litha; now you can feel the pain, too."
Kaidos screamed until his voice was almost raw before Temur ground his legs into the wound and heard with satisfaction Kaidos's painful moan. "He's your kill, Jael. Make it quick so we can get out of this cursed zone."
Jael nodded and brought out a sword, he covered it in Unholy magic and lifted it. But it was then that Kaidos began to laugh and he paused.
Kaidos began his gasping laughter speech, his mouth covered in foamy blood and his eyes wild. "You think I'm just going to go down like that? Oh! But you see it's time! It's finally time! Yes!
MASTER!!!!"
The whole castle shuddered and the air quickly filled with tension. From one of the rings arranged on Kaidos's hand, one was a blazing red, but now it was throbbing with power– it was an artifact, the Gold one that caused the time-space to rip in the first place.
It was from this ring that an intense aura poured out, so strong and powerful it slammed Temur and Jael away like toys. The ring lifted from Kaidos and hung in the air, and then an intense, concentrated red beam shot upward into the sky.
"It looks like a portal. But one I've never seen before." Jael said.
He hadn't finished speaking when the pillar of light suddenly unfurled, and they finally understood that it was indeed a portal. They couldn't see who was on the other side but they felt the person as their aura pressed against them.
It was blood and Iron with the lingering cold of death. Jael shivered because he knew this aura. He had felt this power before. "The Necromancer."
Temur looked at him sharply. "What?"
"That's the same kind of power as the Necromancer from the goblins fortress. It's felt so similar."
Temur felt a chill then. If that's true and it's Kaidos's master then they might just be fucked because the power coming from that isn't Iron rank.
They saw movement from behind the portal and Kaidos crawled into view, dragging him into the front of the portal. "Master...!"
There was silence, and then a voice came out from the portal; it was the same as Jael expected from a master of the beastman– cold and expressionless.
"Ah. I see you failed Kaidos."
He flinched. "No, master. It was just that it was more difficult than I thought. They are more..."
"No?" The cold voice interrupted. "But you haven't secured the sacrifice, have you?"
Kaidos was silent so the voice continued. "I gave you every advantage. I even gave you an artifact that lets you use my stored power, and you create some blood goblin. But it was suddenly cut off." The voice remained calm but they could feel the anger in it.
Jael and Temur looked at each other, blood goblins. Are they talking about the one in the fortress?