Ultimate Power

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Inside of a frozen fortress, unused in decades, has been re-purposed into a fortress of evil, in the main floor a giant yellow eye opened up releasing Asher from the tendrils, and the stowaway, Dali. Asher looked over at Dali "You vampire bastard, do you know the amount of pure dark magic you have been exposed to, there was a reason that was my plan B for escape. But no you decided to stop my first attempt, damn douche, and what did you accomplish nothing I still got away" Asher calls for his apprentice, a gloomy young lad dressed in a black cloak "You have preformed well in my absence, you powers have grown greatly!" the boy remained silent, Asher then thrusts his hand into the boy's chest and ripped out his heart. I boy cried out in pain and fell back into a pool of blood, then a ghastly orb rose from the corpse. "This is a quality heart" Asher crushed the heart and it exploded into a bloody mess, he then retrieved the ghastly orb. Asher held the orb in his left hand and absorbed it. Asher's face became euphoric "That's for you sir, a fresh powerful soul" Asher said seemingly to himself

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"I did accomplish something," Dali stated as Asher performed the ritual. "You used more magic to bring the two of use here than it would have taken for only you. Me being tainted by your pure dark magic is nothing compared to the greater powers I serve." Dali scanned the room and then looked at Asher. "What do you serve?"

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"Who do I serve? That's infomation I won't be sharing with you, well not today" Asher said turning away from Dali "I suggest you leave my fortress, because I'm about to raise the dead, and I won't be held responsible for what happens to you. Your master can't rage at me if I give you fair warning" Asher said walking outside into the graveyard in the back

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I arrived back at the site of countless deaths and resurrections, the fortress and the land around it wreak of death and defilement. "I never thought I would return here" I said examining the old stone fortress.

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Dali moves swiftly behind Asher and goes to grab at him as he leaves the fortress but a strange energy surges through him and he falls to the ground. Slowly, his body warms up and slowly acquires a light tan color. His eyes both change to a blue-green and his fangs shift into human teeth. When the transformation finishes, he gasps for air foreign to his body and then passes out as a faint aura of undeath explodes from his entire being.

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Kifa looks around the grounds as she steps up next to Koji and their company lingers slightly behind them. All but Rich seem uneasy in the area and Kifa seems to feel as if she is home and smiles. "This place is beautiful," she states, looking at Koji. "After we obliterate him, can I keep it?" The others look at the building.

"You expect us to live here," Erikson asked, looking at Kifa.

"I'm in," Rich stated. Cara looked at the castle and shuddered.

"It reeks of a power beyond evil, can't ye two feel it?"

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Asher heard Dali's body fall to the floor so he turned around and examined the collapsed vampire, kneeling down and lifting his head turning it and examining his features. "Well damn I didn't think that was even possible, he not a vampire anymore...now he is actually useful" Asher said with a sinister grin, he then tightly bound Dali with chains and carried him off to the graveyard. Asher drops Dali down new to a crooked smudged tomb stone "Damn you're heavy, lose some weight"

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Kifa walked right up to the front doors of the looming building and generously knocked on the door and stood their patiently as if expecting someone to answer the door. After a brief silence, she started pounding hard on the door with her fist. "HELLO!? IS ANYONE HOME!?"

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When Dali hit the ground, he let out a slightly pained grunt and his eyes fluttered open. "Where...am...I?" He looked up at Asher and fear filled his eyes as he felt the pure dark energy surging through him.

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I stared at Kifa banging on the door, with a dopey look on my face, as if her doing that was COMPLETELY out of character. But it wasn't, so I wiped that stupid look off my face and said "We probably shouldn't draw to much attention to ourselves, but to late for that now huh"

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Asher heard the banging at his door and frowned "Seems like Koji and his slut are here," Asher glanced at Dali "Unfortunately you're not dead. Well that's a bummer, but clearly I must dispose of you quickly before your master and that traitor contaminate the sanctity of my home." Asher stated turning his frown upside down. He then picked Dali up again and carried him out towards the edge of the cemetery, dropping him behind one of the larger tombstones. "Now, I'm gonna get to work, and when I'm finished you'll be dead and your soul belonging to my...uh...let's say employer" Asher grinned flashing his crooked teeth and placed his left hand over Dali's face and tendrils covered his mouth. "That's so the only thing I hear are the moans of the disturbed dead and the last breathes of your friends" Asher then patted Dali's cheek and said "You got that pumpkin?" and walked back towards the front of the cemetery. He began raising the dead, he placed his hands to the ground, and spoke a long spell it would take him at least 6 minutes to complete, when raising this many dead.

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Dali looked at Asher and attempted to stand using the tombstone as a support while Asher was distracted with his spell. He looked at Asher and then judged how long it would take him to get to Asher. He would get there moments too late but he knew he had to try and took off as fast as his human body could run.

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Kifa looked at Koji and shrugged. "Maybe he's out? Let's check around back!!" She skipped off, aura flashing on and off like a child playing with a light switch for the first time. When she got round to the back, she halted and let out the most dreadful scream she had ever let loose as she watched Asher casting his spell and seeing an somewhat familiar yet completely unfamiliar person running at Asher.

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Asher looked up when he heard Kifa scream, but still focused on his spell "Damn it, if they get to me before I'm done, and who am I kidding they will I'm dine for. I still have another 4 minutes for this spell, damn it all" Asher said to himself, now that he was 33% done with the spell the cemetery was filled with the terrifying moans and groans of the disturbed dead as they emerge from their graves.

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I would have told Kifa to wait but she rain off so fast it was no use. When I heard her scream I ran to meet her and saw the horrors of the undead being raised. "Asher! You can't do this! There's a reason why necromancy is outlawed the undead are uncontrollable you'll be eaten stop now!"

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Kifa looked at Koji. "What's so bad about him getting eaten?" She had a dead serious expression on her face as she threw her knife through Asher's left hand. "I mean, we'd be rid of him. I'm more worried about what to do about his apprentice. If the ass is this powerful, we don't know how powerful he is."

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Asher look up to see Koji talk but he ignored all of Koji's words, until the knife went through his hand, the useful one. Asher reared back in pain, with his hands off the ground the spell was canceled, Asher grimanced. "You whore! I was almost done! Now we're all in trouble!" With the spell canceled the undead are masterless now, seeking to kill anything living, the undead lunge at Asher and Dali, Asher rolls out of the way gripping his hand. "Damn you!" Asher's left hand starts dripping a thick black nacous fluid, "Damn, he told me not to get it puntured, it'll take days to heal" Asher starts dodging the attacking undead heading for the forest at the end of the cemetery

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"I care because Asher is my friend! He may be crazy but I can still save him! We trained for years together!" I shout, hurling a lightning bolt at the undead attacking Dali."Damn it Asher! Why!"