Siblings and horror of soul

"Sir I think you should see this" Turning to the source of the voice he saw one of the more experienced adventurers waving him to over.

Looking over the last of the supply reports quickly he waved for the man to lead the way.

"So while we walk why don't you give me a breakdown of what I can expect?" The man seemed to hesitate for a second before talking. Then with what seemed to be a heavy breath he spoke.

"The scouts sir, they found what they at first thought was the creature asleep but upon closer inspection by a archer with high perception noticed differences"

When the man stopped he took a second to formulate a response before saying, "What were these differences?"

"The creatures horns different sir, they had no splits of any sort instead they were smooth and curved like that of a ram"

Quickly turning toward the man as the implications of this hit him full force he grabbed him by the shoulders and said, "Do you mean to tell me that their is another of these things?"

The man looked physically sick as he nodded his head in affirmative. After less than a second of hesitation he grabbed the man, threw him over his shoulder and sped as quickly as possible in the directions given by the man in his hold.

Arriving not ten minutes later he came across the clearing that the scouts were located in and saw the creature sitting there as if asleep. As stated by the adventurer their were differences from the one they had been dealing with up to this point. It was shorter by about a foot compared to the other one possibly pointing towards it being lower in power.

It's horns were as advertised curved and smooth in a way that caused the light of the sun to glint off the pale material of its mask like a light show. It had another feature in addition to those stated already. The holes which he assumed were its eyes were more numerous.

With four eyes that were narrowed as if glaring it presented a truly horrific form to all those not used to seeing something like it. Considering he had already dealt with another of its species though he could look upon it with only cold curiosity.

Turning to one the scouts next to him he ordered the woman to bring him her squad leader for this assignment. With a nod she disappeared in a burst of barely catchable speed.

After a short wait she returned with a tall women kitted out in light leather armor and just an insane number of daggers.

"You called for me sir?" She spoke quickly and with a voice like shadow that seemed to simply slip from the mind.

"Yes I did, what can you tell about the creature other than the obvious?" When he finished with his question the squad leader looked upon the creature for a few scant seconds and then turned back to him.

"The mages of my team have scanned it every way they know how and all they could get from it was static and strange whispers that sent some of them raving about a lord of shade and shadow." Thinking she was finished he went to speak but she interrupted him, and with a much more haunted expression continued.

"Of course we quickly had them knocked out, but they would wake up right after being knocked out screaming of there dreams being infected by abyss and void." She clenched her hands in obvious distress as she continued.

"It wasn't long after that one of the mages of the group focusing more on soul magic tried to delve into one of the less frantic ones to see what was going on. All went well at first with her seeming to be almost serene in her investigation, but then she started screaming and yelling about the infernal silence and eyes of things of shadow" Before he could speak to try and calm her down she was speaking once more.

"Shadow and silence she would yell. A great shadow that radiating a screaming unending silence that render the soul, and killed the mind."

A silence descended as the impact of those words hit him like a truck. The dream from two nights before coming back full force and the things that haunted him in it becoming more and more clear as he though on what they could be.

"She killed herself you know, as soon as the spells effect had ended she brought out her own knife and slit her throat"

The words were the final nail in the coffin. He knew that what they deal with here were not just powerful magical creatures that could influence people slightly. No these were something else, not monsters and not one of the races.

These were something else, beings of void, shadow, and dreams based on everything he had figured out so far. Which is why he knew what needed to be done about this one. Screw the other one it could rot in hell for all he could care.

This one in the clearing though was a ripe opportunity for study and it was very vulnerable in its sleep like state. Which is why he ordered the scouts to go back to camp and gather everyone up and tell them they were leaving this cursed forest.

They would be back though oh yes they would. Nothing would do the things these things did and get away with it.

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Watching as the male seemingly told the others around him to do something as he stayed behind to observe the SIBLING it couldn't help but know that this was its moment that it had been waiting for.

The male was alone, he was in a clearing were it could make full use of its ability's and if the male turned out to be more powerful than he seemed it could awake the sibling quickly enough to help it.

Which is how it ended up in the air falling towards the seemingly oblivious male with its nail ready to impale him. Right as it was about to impale his though the male moved to the right completely dodging its attack and looking upon its form with obvious hate and fear.

It spoke some short words that it did not understand before summing a large war hammer from somewhere it could not detect. Then with a roar he attacked it with a ferocity that matched and even surpassed that of ogrim in its strength.

Dodging a swipe from said hammer it then quicker than a ambushing spider stabbed the pure nail forward full force into the metal shell of the male. Only to have the male move in just the right way to deflect the nail off of the material and make it over extend itself.

Then the male while it was still overextended slammed the hammer full force into its mask causing a shockwave as it felt the void inside of it start to leak into the surrounding area. Of course it was much too durable to really be in danger of its masking breaking from a single blow, but the threat of the hammer being able to cause actual damage to it in a way even greater than the hit it had taken in the beginning of this ordeal.

moving quickly after the hit it jumped upwards and leveraged its nail in a way that threw the hammer of the male backwards, and sent the male off balance. Taking advantage of this lapse in form it stuck full force into the metal.

The force Of the blow was like an explosion as pure ore met a metal it did not know of. Though unfortunately for the male the metal was the one to ultimately give in. Unfortunately for it though while it did shred the metal shell it didn't actually harm the warrior underneath in a major way.

After regaining his bearings the male stopped its next attack by parrying with his hammer. With that parry the male swung with great strength into its side causing slight damage but since he didn't hit its mask said damage was muted. Obviously the warrior expected more of an effect because when it struck back he clumsily backed up instead of the smooth dodges of before.

Taking advantage of this it swung its nail full force into the face of the male causing a gushing of blood and a yell to come forth from the male.

Right as it was about to finish off the male though sounds came from behind it as the rest of the things came into view. Foreign Magic's and projectiles were already coming its direction and unlike those that came from the smaller and less wrinkled of these things these attacks could very much so hurt it.

With one last look at the male it retreated away from the battle. The strike would cripple the male anyways if it's observations were correct. Thus it doubted it would see the male as a credible threat again, and if it did then next time it would let loose more than just its nail.