ch4 takeover

"in the last week a suspicious group wearing black armor has been active in the 'shadow forest' and hunting every creature there is, this is causing even the originally calm creatures to attack everything. for your next mission you are entering the shadow forest, any questions?" a man wearing heavy armor said to a field full of soldiers.

upon hearing this the soldiers looked unhappy.

many complaints were made, but they all basically meant the same thing.

"why do we have to go, that forest is too dangerous!"

"silence! these orders came from the lord himself, you do not have a choice." the words of the heavy armored man were full of killing intent.

upon hearing these words the soldiers immediately stopped talking, since they knew of the heavy armored knight and his loyalty to the lord.

"however, you will be rewarded for your efforts. 1 gold piece per person each day you are in the forest." after the knight said this all the soldiers were completely on board.

"1 gold per day!? i only make 20 silver a week!"

"i know, its amazing!"

"all hail the lord!"

upon hearing this the knight sighed, not understanding why these soldiers are acting like money hungry mercenaries.

the reason why the knight did not understand is because he had a good income of 10 gold a week, and for those soldiers who could barely earn enough to sustain their families earning that much was just a dream.

"thats all, dismissed!" the knight said as he left.

While this happened, a lot of things changed in the shadow forest, like an army of a hundred black armored knights and even more shadow wolves running around the forest hunting every beast they could find, and in the heart of the forest there were hundreds of humanoid shadows building a castle out of black shadowy materials being guarded by even more black armored knights.

in one of the already built rooms a strong elderly man with long ears was sitting on a chair next to a bed with a girl lying on it sometimes sleeping peacefully and sometimes having nightmares, but not waking up.

"sir geron, we are building faster than expected, according to our calculations the castle will be done in 2 weeks!" a black armored knight said outside the door.

"very good, and the hunting?" the elderly man named geron replied.

"just barely on time, the humans are interrupting our progress but we can handle-" as the knight was speaking it was interrupted by a soft yet powerful sound from inside the room.

"urg... what happened?" a young voice from inside the room was what interrupted the knight.

"immediately call all of the commanders to the main hall!" the elderly man yelled with an expression like a child whose parents had just given him a whole bucket of candy.

hearing the man the knight saluted and immediately ran off to give the information to the others.

"my queen! are you alright?" the man asked worriedly.

"i could be better..."

"then thats no good! I shall immediately prepare some medicine for you!" as the man sad this the door opened and 3 humanoid shadows entered and brought a cart with alot of things like parts of weird plants and different bones with them.

without saying anything the man starts mixing the materials until it turns into a black goop, after its done the man gives a bowl of black goop to the girl who hesitantly takes it while asking herself "do i have to eat this? no, wait, can i even eat this?"

[no master tyrah this is 'shadow cure' its supposed to be applied to the skin to heal any abnormal status you have] as she was asking herself those questions she could hear the voice of g explaining the uses of the goop.

[you simply stick a bit on both hands and then rub them together for the effect to appear]

as tyrah put the goop on her hands she realized that it did not feel as gross as it looked, instead it felt like a parent holding a childs hand, it was a warm feeling, a feeling tyrah had forgotten. as the warm feeling spread throughout her entire body she could feel all negative things wash away.

as tyrah felt better and the goop turned into disappearing black particles she remembered things she did not experience, after looking through the memories she learned a lot about what happened after she fainted.

"so thats it, i see, lets go to the main hall then." tyrah said to geron.

"very well my queen." geron bowed an anwsered

because of the memories tyrah did not get lost even a single time on her way to the main hall, when tyrah arrived she could see 20 powerful shadow knights bowing on the ground beside an empty throne.

"our queen please take your place upon the throne and rule over us!" all of the 20 shadows said in unison.

as tyrah sits down on the throne all shadows even the ones outside the castle stop what they are doing and started saluting and cheering shocking everyone in the surroundings

"all hail the queen!"

"all hail the queen!"

after cheering for a bit all shadows that were hunting returned to the castle in an orderly manner, when all of the shadows had returned they all bowed down silently, paying their respects to their queen.

as the shadows were bowing a voice was transmitted into the minds of all the shadows.

"very good, those who are working on the castle continue your work and those who were hunting will help building the defense." the voice said.

as if awakening from sleep all the shadows moved in many directions to do what their queen asked of them.

even when hundreds of shadows were disorderly walking in each direction there were no accidents as if the shadows are a hivemind, sharing every bit of information they have with each other. though this guess is not wrong it is also not completely correct, since the shadows have a kind of connection to a network in their minds, from that network they can share information, opinions and even talk through the connection.

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