Battle in the mansion

Sanryu makes his way along the main path of the noble district, among the rubble of buildings, which for some absurd reason, ended up in the middle of the street. 'Everything is on fire, I have to hurry. I can't rest until I see Fenrya.'

Sanryu also has to deal with skaven who are in his path, but for some reason, they are fewer in number than on the roads he traveled before. 'Maybe most of them are converging on the square, or are scattered around civilian homes, given that many more people live in those areas than in this neighborhood.' After several minutes, Sanryu arrives at the Floga mansion, recognizes the emblem of the noble family, since he saw the same emblem embroidered on Zaria's clothes.

*BOOOM*

Explosions come from inside the mansion, the flames from the explosions fill Sanryu's pupils. 'It must be the Marquis's spells, Zaria told me he is a magician too.' Sanryu hurries to get inside the mansion, to see what is happening.

"What the hell..." As soon as he enters the room where those explosions are taking place, he sees in front of him, a stunning scene. The patriarch of the Floga is currently fighting a ten meter tall abomination, which walks on four legs, with multiple heads on its back and mechanical parts. 'Fenrya!' Meanwhile, Fenrya is his companion, they are fighting against some skaven, wearing assassin's clothes. 'They are more skilled than the Skaven we have met so far.' Sanryu runs towards the two Tabaxi.

"Fenrya! What are you doing here?" Sanryu corners a skaven while asking the tabaxi for explanations.

"Sanryu?! I should ask you this!" Fenrya slices a skaven in half with her two-handed greatsword. This broadsword is almost as long as the girl's height, but it is very particular, the tip of it is not sharp but is round, it seems as if it were made to split the enemy, rather than pierce him. The blade is black, with veins in the middle of it, where yellow energy seems to flow, as if they were lava flows. These flows arise from a disk of veins, which is positioned above the sword's guard.

"I've never seen you with that sword...where did you get it?" Sanryu has to admit that she feels some envy towards Fenrya, after all it seems like a great weapon.

"Because I never needed it, she kept it well hidden, she has accompanied me for a long time, she is a trusted ally." Fenrya seems proud to show off her weapon.

"When you stop bragging about your weapon, can you tell me who the hell this human is?" Borz smashes the head of an oskaven, and asks his tabaxi companion who the boy she is talking to is.

"This is Sanryu, I met him here in the city. He and I have a challenge promise to keep, so I didn't kill him as soon as I saw him." Fenrya doesn't specify everything, but she believes there is no reason to do so, she purposely omits some details.

"What the hell did you do?! A promise to a human? Ahhhh, if I find out the one from the tribe." Borz cannot believe that Fenrya has befriended a human, that is, an enemy of their tribe. "Okay now all this doesn't matter anymore, what are you going to do, human?" Borz speaks directly to Sanryu.

"The intention that you also have, to survive all this, you called me an enemy, but don't you know the saying; the enemy of my enemy is my friend? I think you should apply it at this time." Sanryu kills the skaven she was facing.

"Do you think we need your help? You're very confident, which is strange since I don't remember the moment you overpowered me." Fenrya faces two skaven at once.

"Details, for now let's just think about repelling these rats, I have never fought against similar enemies, do you have any ideas?" Sanryu tries to ask if they know this enemy.

"They are called skaven, they are a race dedicated to plundering and conquest, they usually move underground through tunnels and underground, or even through the Underdark. They are scum of the worst kind, they have a strange power called "warp energy", this The energy is emanated through the warstone, minerals that fall from the sky, and by strange chance, they fall right near the Skaven domains. The warpstone is fundamental for these rats, they do everything with it; they draw power from it, they enhance their bodies, they build machinery with it and they also use it as an engine for it, in short, Iskaven society revolves entirely around the warpstone." Fenrya begins to explain who their enemy is. "Sometimes they attack our jungles, but one way or another, we have always repelled them, their strength is their numbers, they never stop and reproduce at an inhuman speed." Sanryu now knows a lot of information about this race.

"Simply put, your city is lost, and most likely, all of you with them." Borz thinks this city is gone forever now.

"I don't care about the city, I care about the people who are close to me, or who I have met, so Fenrya, you are part of them too. So try to work hard, so you won't die and in the future I will make you my woman ." Sanryu shamelessly announces that he will make Fenrya his wife.

"Hahaha you have to beat me first, Sanryu." The two seem much more motivated than before, to Borz's surprise.

While the three look after the murderous skaven, Berdo faces that beast alone. 'My spells don't cause the damage they should. This abomination is slow, it is not very agile in its movements, but its defense is strangely high, and those enormous legs, they are a problem if they get close.' Berdo looks at the four upper limbs of the beast, the two on the right have menacing rat claws, while the two on the left have tools instead of paws. The upper one has a kind of spiked club, but instead of the iron ball there is a ball made of an emerald green material, the lower limb instead has a single, but large, iron claw, which seems made to grasp the prey. 'It appears to be a creature designed to capture and torture victims.' Berdo dodges an attack from the abomination, keeping his distance, but two skaven take advantage of this and attack him from behind. 'And then there are them, they never end.' Berdo avoids the skaven's blades.

As time goes by, the four seem to lose more and more stamina, and Berdo is running out of mana. But the abomination also seems to have received some damage, some parts of his body are burned, and some mechanical parts that he has on him have been detached, due to the intense heat of the magician's spells. Of the seventy skaven assassins, there are still fifty left, for Sanryu, these assassins are more complicated to kill than their unarmored counterparts.

"ARGHHH!" Suddenly, Sanryu hears Berdo's screams, and turns towards him, the magician has been thrown against the wall, creating a hole in it, apparently, the abomination has managed to strike a blow against the patriarch .

'Damnation! He managed to hit him.' Sanryu believed that Berdo would be able to defeat the abomination without getting hit, but apparently, the skaven assassins managed to distract the marquis. 'He cannot fight both the abomination and the murderers.'

"Damn rat, aarghh!" Borz also screams in pain, one of the skaven managed to stick his blade into the side of the large tabaxi.

"Bortz!" Fenrya calls her name, and tries to come to her aid, but some skaven get in the way. "Damn you, I will kill you all!" Fenrya does not fear them, she is starting to face them.

Sanryu sees that the abomination is approaching Berdo with slow and heavy steps. 'And there it is again, one of those situations.' Sanryu sighs at what he's about to do, then throws himself at the abomination, trying to buy enough time for the patriarch to get back up. "I'm here, rat!" Sanryu attracts the abomination's attention, the latter turns its main head's gaze towards Sanryu, noticing the presence of further prey. The abomination throws itself at Sanryu, and the latter avoids the blows of its clawed paws, and also manages to launch a slash against what appears to be the creature's belly, but unfortunately for Sanryu, the beast's skin is too tough for a simple iron sword. "He didn't need it!" Sanryu's sword breaks, now finishing its job, before Sanryu could think of anything, the abomination strikes a blow with the arm that has the green spiked ball, hitting the boy. Discharges of green energy are emitted from the ball, adding a strange energy to the blow of the bat, Sanryu is thrown for many meters, until he crashes into a wall, and then collapses on the ground. Some beams, which were already in bad condition, end up collapsing and falling onto the body of the roof.

"Sanryuuuu!!" Fenrya is shocked by the blow the boy received, but now she can't do anything, since she has been surrounded by skaven, and Borz is kneeling on the ground, resting on one knee, the knives of these skaven are obviously poisoned, it's the poison is already having its effect.

Berdo is about to get up, but his body is in bad shape, he feels most of his bones are broken, and he is losing a lot of blood, but he shows no signs of giving up. Some of the skaven, seeing that their strongest enemy is wounded, take advantage of this and throw themselves against the marquis. "Step forward, rats." Berdo faces them head on, feeling no fear towards these beings.

Meanwhile, a murderous skaven heads towards Sanryu, seeing that he no longer moves, if he is not dead, he is unconscious, it is the skaven who wants to make sure.

The skaven gets close enough to see that the boy is still breathing, so he has to move to give him the finishing blow. "Die, monkey!" it is with these words, the skaven strikes a blow with his dagger towards the boy's head, but unfortunately for the skaven, it is not his lucky day.

From the unconscious boy, a blue glow spreads, blinding the rat, it is also the skaven nearby. Suddenly, a blue sphere, the size of a fist, appears above the boy's head, attracting the attention of those present. When this sphere manifests itself, it immediately begins to attract everything in its vicinity, including skaven and wooden beams.

"AHHHHH!" The skaven scream, not wanting to be attracted by this sphere, but it is all useless, since the force of attraction is superior to them, the macabre thing is that while they are attracted by that sphere, they are all compressed, so as to be able to enter into the sphere, becoming like small pressed meatballs. The same thing happens to the wooden beams and objects nearby, they are all pressed and then absorbed by the sphere.

'What's happening now? Who's that boy?' Berdo doesn't understand what's happening, and his gaze is drawn to the boy, who was previously crushed under the beams and now stands up, as if nothing had happened.

Sanryu stands up, a blue glow around his body. His eyelids open, showing those present his eyes radiating a blue glow. Sanryu without saying anything, throws himself near the skaven who were out of the reach of his sphere, in this way, he also attracts them, transforming them into meatballs, only to be absorbed by the sphere, which currently follows Sanryu like a pet . What's impressive is that Sanryu's movements have become much faster and almost imperceptible to the human eye, surprising Fenrya. 'Why didn't he use this power when we first met?' These thoughts fill the tabaxi's mind.

The abomination lunges towards Sanryu, wanting to eliminate this threat, and the boy throws himself at it. As the abomination approaches, the sphere begins to attract it towards itself, but apparently it is not powerful enough to reduce it to a meatball, but it still manages to cause a secondary effect, the sphere manages to slow down the monster's movements.

Sanryu welcomes this opportunity to easily avoid the blows the abomination delivers. With the strength of his fists alone, the boy manages to pierce the beast's flesh, creating many holes in it, causing pain to the latter. Sanryu climbs onto the abomination's back and with a powerful kick, smashes the creature's main head, smashing its skull and causing red blood, mixed with green fluids, to squirt.

The abomination that had given the wizard problems died in less than a minute of battle against Sanryu.