Slavery & Shadows

Sixty years passed by in what seemed like a blink of an eye, Cassius, Fran, and Eridan have done a lot in this time.

Eridan was made Captain of the Guard, he upholds the growing list of laws and makes sure no one steps out of line.

Fran was busy most days handling business matters within the settlement, he settled diplomatic disputes while Cassius handled the physical ones.

Cassius, on the other hand, started enslaving the other races, he forced the Dwarves to mine him valuable ores and jewels.

Elves were enslaved to harvest thousands of herbs per day while also being used as his personal blood bags.

Gnomes were made to brew a variety of potions day and create amazing swords, if they refused, they would watch as he skinned one of their own alive.

Lastly, while he got the power to control shadows and darkness from god and the ability to learn everything from those he drinks blood from, he also acquired another unique ability but not from god.

Each Higher Vampire is special and unique since they have their own abilities. After over fifty years had passed, Cassius finally found his unique Higher Vampire trait.

His ability is Persuasion, he can put power into his words that can force weak-minded individuals to do whatever he says.

Which brings us to the current night, Cassius over the past three years had selected a few rare individuals that he found to have amazing talents to form a small military force to work directly under him and do his bidding.

He is currently sitting atop a high hill overlooking a large even settlement, he continues to observe the settlement as he talks to his Shadows.

"I've had this place scouted for two weeks, there are two hundred elves. Your job is to kill every single one of them without any of them noticing, causing panic, or sounding the alarm"

He turns to his dozen vampires that are dressed in all black fro head to toe, "I handpicked each of you and trained you for this moment, show me my time was not wasted... If you fail, punishments will be severe"

They all nod before launching a coordinated attack, the massacre was going smoothly. they quickly got rid of the sentries and night guards before moving onto the sleeping innocents but one of the guards wasn't fully dead and let out a horrifying scream that woke everyone in the camp.

Cassius pinches the bridge of his nose, he does this when witnessing severe stupidity, rising to his feet, he gathers his power, "KILL THEM ALL!"

The voice surrounded throughout the valley causing everyone including his own soldiers to quiver in fear before doing as commanded.

it takes a couple of minutes to deal with stragglers but eventually the settlement is lit on fire and his dozen soldiers standing at attention in front of him.

Cassius looks at them gravely, "Kill each other until there are half of you left, hesitate and I'll kill you all"

A female Bruxa takes the opportunity to strike the first blow and swiftly beheads one of her teammates.

After a short battle later, six out of the twelve remain, "Good, the group will remain just the six of you. you should train diligently because if you fail me again, I'll kill you myself"

The remaining Shadows engrave his words into their minds before bowing their heads.

[Two Days Later]

Sitting around a stone table, Cassius and Fran are discussing random things, "We've been here longer than I thought, damn the Conjunction of Spheres, I just want to go home", Fran says while drunk on blood.

Cassius ignores his rantings and informs him of his eventual resignation, "I'll be leaving permanently in a couple of decades but before that, I'll find someone you can trust to take my place", he receives a nod from his drunk friend.

"I knew you wouldn't stay for more than a century. I can sense it, your stronger than me by miles and even I wouldn't want to be second in command to someone weaker than me"

Days passed by without much hassle, Cassius' dimensional storage was constantly being filled with herbs, potions, and swords.

A scout returned one night in a hurry, informing us an army of the Elder Races was coming to put an end to them, their numbers in the tens of thousands.

War was coming and Cassius was loving every second of it.