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*Certain room in the castle*
A women dressed in barbaric clothing. She was wearing a unusual piece, it was a mix of animal hide wrapped around her waist and her chest. She had used a big chain as the belt, mixed with chainmail to guard her legs, and a solid iron shoulder guard made from shiny silver and iron. She was scrambling through what is seem to be a pile of yellow papers. as an axe is impaled in a dead knight in same room. She swiftly turn and turn the pages one by one as if she is desperately trying to find something, As the pile ended, she lets out a single "Tsk..", and grabbed her axe from the knight's dead body and swung it on her shoulder and walk out of the room. She walks through hallway dimly lit with half done lanterns, and as she approach the exit of the hallway, with heavy contrast from the dimly lit hallway to bright sunlight, the kind that will only be seen after a heavy rain. She step out in fresh soil with fresh smell of rain, she took a deep inhale while having a small stretch of her back. The washed down castle indeed looks like a beauty but due to the heavy storm, whole castle is a mess, canons are broke, few trees are broken, guard posts are unrooted from the roots cause of the intense winds, she look up in sky and said, "How long has it been since i was in there?? looks like storm did its number on the lands huh". She starts to walk toward the exit of the castle but was ambushed by multiple archers and knights, "Nepheli Loux, You are to stop and surrender if you want to leave from here in one piece. Any form of resistance will result in annihilation.", said the StormVeil Knight Captain, Dressed in a shiny armor engraved with designs, with the flag of the StormVeil as the cape and wielded a Iron Halberd as a weapon. While all other soldiers completely block any entrance and exit of the courtyard. Nephali cracks her neck and said, "*chuckle* surrender??? me?? did you forgot i am one of the tarnished undead?". Knight captain said in a straight tone, "Tarnished or not, you can not win against everyone alone."
Nepheli said while looking directly at the knight captain with a very monotone smile which quite never reached anyone's reason and said, "Try me". Everyone present there is worried but they can not show it. Knight captain scream his order, "Do not let her leave at any cost!". Just like that multiple arrow start to rain which she roll and dodge and start swinging her dual wield axes cutting everyone one by one in a way that it looked she is just dancing using her flexibility and the axes in her hands do the killing by themselves. With a well timed dodge she reach the platform of wood on which most archers were stations and stoke and cut the support pillar in one stoke making the platform collapse and most archers were neutralized just like that. Just as the happened, The Knight captain and other soldiers attack her at once. She roll out of the attack and said while effortlessly dodging multidirectional attacks continuously, "This many knights attacking a single women and still cant do anything...", she use her flexibility which helping her dodge at absurd angles. Nephali said, "Come on guys, its not even proper warmup". The soldiers are falling in number one by one very fast. The knight captain enter the battle with his Halberd and does heavy attacks on Nepheli, She is starting to struggle, the Captain is not like other fodder. She was now a exhausted from parrying captain's attacks, they were heavy even for her. She said in a bit heavy breathing, "Looks like you are not a fodder after all". Captain got irritated from her continuous trash talking and starts to attack faster and more harshly, she is now serious and fighting back properly. The whole scene was phenomenal, the multiple bodies lie in the ground some dead, some knocked out as the Nepheli's fight became a intense battle of continuous counter-attacks. As Captain got tired his movement slowed down a considerable amount and Nepheli took advantage of this and parried his halberd making an opening and slicing off his left leg.
He crashed in ground in pain and screamed and whimpered. Nepheli sighed and go sat on the rock nearby as she is now burned out, she didn't knew how much she could have held on as things were going. Her arm are already burning from the recent fight and so does her legs. But she just eat that pain up and said in stoic facade, "Didn't i said that you cant do anything? "why did you even have to had this futile struggle? look, you've lost your good ol' leg". The captain is still not over from his pain and is whimpering, Nepheli had no more strength let to be have even killed him properly so she just stood up and grabbed her axes and start to leave, "i wont kill you, its on your own fate wheather you survive or not". As she is moving out while hiding her ragged breath, she didn't noticed captain shooting a arrow from his crossbow, she noticed too late, as she turn behind, it was already in her face. She could have barely dodged it but on cost of getting stabbed by it in process, or so did she thought. Just before she was about to be hit, arrow stopped mere inch from her face. As the blur faded, she saw a hand covered in full silver gauntlet which had just caught the arrow mid-air just before it could have pierced through her very face. As she saw the face of the man who was her savior.
She exclaimed, "you!!!! why are you here???"
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