As Aethon began to make his way down to the capital, the sound of bells flooded his ears, and his eyes where filled with the sight of the Skyfins that glided above marble towers. He made his way towards the lower districts to get some medicinal tablets that have healing properties, they work quicker then healing spells. As he made his way down the staircase the skyfirns began to dissappear and was replaced by merchant holdings and houses that were much more smaller then the ones from the capital. They were also very cramped together which formed thin alleyways that people popped up from and dissappeared into.
As Aethon passed the houses he entered into Riviria, which is now known as the merchant part of the lower district. Has he passed the stalls and shops he spotted various creatures, some looked like deformed birds with wings and when it coughed it spewed fire, another looked like a blob of wet cement but when a tall dark looking man stuffed his arm into the cement blob, it would change into different weapons. He also saw entities from the continent of DAMNATION. The entities were been guarded by soldiers from house Meridien. He stopped and stared at its body that was as black as charcoal and instead of having a head it had a black flame. It was chained in magical chains which stopped it from morphing it's body and shooting it's flames everywhere. Despite it's appearance it is a highly intelligent creature that can manipulate the main four elements to attack its target or defend itself.
As Aethon stared at the entity he wondered to himself, :"Why is this thing here? Why would someone bring something this dangerous to the capital? Is this a means to create a problem in Riviria? How did they manage to catch this thing? How did they capture it?." but at the same time, another set of questions began to flood his mind, if in this very moment, if that entity had to break free from those chains, would he be able to attack it and defend himself? Would he be able to counter it's attacks? It's flames? It's ability to manipulate the four elements? Was it's ability to manipulate them greater then his? The more he though about it, the more his head began to pain so he turned around and started walking away.
As he made his way down he saw a crowd had gathered around something. As he got closer he heard the sound of a whip and splashes of water. As he got near the edge of the crowd he pushed his way to the front, he saw a young slave who looked no more then fourteen years old crouching on the ground in torn clothes been whipped by a man who had a whip made of water. As Aethon stared at the man he realized who it was. He stood at 6 foot 7 inches tall, blonde hair, royal blue eyes, and had a sigil of a water lily on his royal blue suit that had a thick cape made of wolf fur covering his back. It was the head of house Meridien. House of Meridien was held in high regard for their mastery and craftyness in using water and fire type magic alongside brute strength in battle.
As Aethon stared at the man whipping the boy, he saw the man's face was expressionless, the man then stopped hitting the boy and looked up at the crowd and said, :"It does not matter what age, or gender you are, if you commit a criminal act you will all be treated like this."
As Aethon stared at the man he understood why the slave was been hit but he thought to himself, :" Is this not abit extreme? Was it to stir trouble for no reason? To show the people that live here to not step out of line? As Aethon pondered this thoughts he continued to stare at the boy who's back was now bleeding badly and had whip marks all over.
The noble then turned around and told the onlookers, : "This is what happens if you want to act like criminals. RIVIRIA was created to house all the illegal activities on this continent in one place instead of it been spread across the continent, and everyone started coming here and living. I don't think that's a problem, but what becomes a problem is when the now residents of this town want us to stop making criminals into slaves? That's not going to happen. No one forced them to do these acts, they had a choice and they chose, so now they must accept the punishment. Order is born from consequences. And today I stand here before you as a voice of justice that many of you have abandoned. We gave you free rein of this 'Town' and it was all of you who chose to keep it has this and not change it. You all stare at me like I am in the wrong for doing this, you want me to free this boy... Hahahhaha... You lot speak of freedom? All of you used this freedom we have giving you to steal, murder, or traffic in despair. The lot of you that are murderers, have you ever once shown mercy to your victims? Chains are not cruel when they are used to restrain chaos."
As he said that the guards he had brought with him began to point there spears at the crowd who had began to walk away backwards fast.
As Aethon turned to walk away the noble shouted, :"Aethon? My oh my what a surprise?"
"Hi lord Vaerion."
Has Aethon looked at Vaerion he could see how disgusted his face looked. Vaerion then let out a heavy sigh and said, :"You should have told me you where coming down to this backwater town I would have giving you a ride, you can't trust the people of Riviria, who knows what they might do?
" I should have. "
" What brings you here Aethon?"
"Ahh... I came looking for a specific type of medicinal tablets to help with my training. And you?"
Has Aethon began to wonder what type of response Lord Vaerion would come up with, Lord Vaerion turned around and looked at the shops that where surrounding them. He then turned around and walked towards Aethon and started speaking in a low pitched voice.
"I heard someone tried to smuggle in an entity from Riviria to the capital. The reason is unknown, and how they even managed to capture it in the first place is a mystery. As soon as I heard one was spotted here, I had to see it with my own eyes. Unfortunately the residents of Riviria did not know... So I had to make a scene which is why I made one of my young soldier warp his appearance in order to create a distraction while my assassin's raided the area and entrance of Riviria. "
Aethon looked in shock as the boy stood up and his appearance began to change to a young man who looked like he was around nineteen, 5'9, short black hair, a brown complexion, and light brown eyes.
As Aethon tried to make sense of what Vaerion had just told him, 3 people appeared infront of him, one of the 3 men that appeared infront of him had a man wrapped in chains and threw him to the ground infront of Vaerion.
Vaerion grabbed the man and asked him who had captured the entity and helped smuggled it into Riviria. Before the man could even speak he started screaming and then his eyes began to glow a reddish color. Vaerion screamed to his soldiers to run and he then inturn ran towards Aethon to shield him, who was lost in thought trying to process how that soldier warped his appearance and was unaware of what was about to happen.
As Aethon stood there lost in deep thought pondering everything, he looked up to see Vaerion running towards him who then grabbed him and pushed him down. The next thing he heard was a loud splat that was then followed by silence. Vaerion got off Aethon and stood infront of him with his sword drawn and started walking forward. Aethon got up and saw that the area Vaerion was walking towards was covered in red water, and there was a magical circle on the ground. At the center laid the man's clothes. But there was no man. The man Aethon had seen was gone. Aethon just stood there,confused, disturbed, he then turned around and started vomiting due to the odor that was beginning to fill the air.
Vaerion screamed out in a loud voice, :"Run!
As he screamed that he turned around and grabbed Aethon and started running towards the exit of Riviria that is followed by the gates to the capital. As Aethon was covering his mouth in order to not vomit on Vaerions back he saw sparks forming in the gas clouds that was beginning to fill the air, then next thing it turned into a bright blue fire that begun to swallow everything in sight.
Aethon began to scream to Vaerion, :"Run faster Lord Vaerion!!!. "
Vaerion turned around to see that the gas cloud that was covering that small area where that man exploded was beginning to spread all over Riviria and was turning into a huge fire that emitted the color blue.
As they where making their way towards the gates to the capital, Vaerion noticed that the flames began to stop,because now he was been chased by two men. As he noticed them, he began to run faster but was met by two more infront of him who had two heads in their hands. It was his assassins that he had brought with him. As he looked to his far left beyond the two men infront of him, he saw the body of his 3rd assassin.
He stopped and dropped Aethon down who had noticed that they were surrounded. Aethon pressed his back against Vaerions and they began to walk in a circle, each staring at the four men that were surrounding them.
Aethon said in a low but firm voice to Vaerions, : "Are we going to fight them or create an opening to escape?"
Vaerions responded back by saying, :"It's better if we try to create an opening. Maybe they wanted us to catch that man in order to create a distraction in order to reclaim the Entities. Maybe this was their plan all along. To draw us out and kill us in order to warp their appearance to get entry into the capital? Maybe? No. That man my team brought back didn't have any marks of resistance on him." Vaerion grunted and followed it by saying, :" Ahhhh.... Well... You ready kid?
"I don't exactly have a choice in the matter at this point."
Vaerion infused his sword with fire and said in a firm voice, :"We create an opening, if you see even a slight chance, take it because if either of us don't make it to the capital, alot of people are going to die."