Earth's Heavenly Demon [Mission Topic]

The sun was slowly falling over the horizon as the demon, known as the Fallen Angel, stood upon the hills of the overlooking mountain that watched the village with its shadow. Behind this black winged angel were thirty troops. Ten archers, ten foot soldiers, and ten scouts. One would ask why the scouts were here. Well, that was to be revealed once the fighting commenced. However, the village was warned of the attack, and thus the people of the village stayed within their homes. The scent of battle was in the ear, and the troops were completely silent. There was no use giving up the advantage of surprise against this beast, and thus they took their time proceeding on the situation. Hiding behind the obstructs of the mountain, this not only gave them a vantage point, but a equal opportunity location to stage an attack from all sides. What Fallen had learned was this. Golems were creatures created without a soul or mind. They were controlled and willed from abnormal means, which was usually magic, to do a certain job. In this golem's case, it was stealing children from villages. It was their job to end this idiotic beast's reign, but even the Angel knew things were much more than they seemed. Her troops, and herself, would remain silent in the shadows of the mountain, waiting for a bit of movement or noise.

Black Magic walked next to the Empress and looked at her. "Your majesty. I've been told the Golems aren't far from here. All the preparations are ready. The troops are prepared." He said, as he put his hands up and lightning began to surround them.

Black Magic was highly excited compared to everyone else. This was the first time he could prove his own strength to the Empress. This was the first time someone could truly his magic. The adrenaline must have been pumping wildly in Black Magic because he couldn't keep smiling. He was actually hoping the Golem would hurry up.

He began to stretch his arms to warm up for the upcoming forces that were about to invade. "Empress, I will protect you with my life. The Empire will not leave her today unless they have achieved victory. I shall fight to the death for you and the Empire." He said while he was warming up. He turned around to face the troops, and put on a serious face. "All of you, get ready. This is a serious fight, and if you wanna get out of this alive, follow your instructions."

"There is movement." The cloaked woman spoke under the metallic plate covering her face. It appeared to be a mask, but in reality it was much more. Slowly, she'd raise her left hand. The scouts would look towards her initial movement and then give a nod of the head. Then like that, they took off into the shadows like a blur. Flipping from the protrusions of the mountain, the men scattered across the village, moving to surround the beast in the epicenter of a radius they chose. It would only be around thirty feet. They knelt on rooftops, and stuck to the darkness, as they examined the monstrosities movements. Looking over her shoulder, the Fallen Angel would 'glance' towards the dark skinned fellow. "Release your lightning down upon the beast. We shall see if it lives up to its reputation." Her words were nothing but as whisper, as she began to walk down the dirt trail of the mountain, and down towards the village below. The archers readied their bows, as the footsoldiers would stand guard. Slowly the troops began to spread out across the mountain that surrounded the small village. It was obvious they were trying to get the golem in the complete center. That was the area where most of their attacks would go unheeded. However, they were not foolish enough to believe their arrows could pierce the beast. That was not the plan. Instead, each archer had tied a rope to their arrow. They were to serve a different purpose this time around.

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Black Magic looked at her when she stated the movement of the enemy, and back down at the path they were told the target would be coming so they could anticipate it. Black Magic began to levitate in the air with the use of his flight, as he started to take a deep breath. "No mistakes Black." He mumbled under his breath. He was still level with his allies and looked as the scouts left. Black Magic raised his eyebrow and looked back at the Empress. "Yes mam." He said as he began to fly into the air. He right above the rock beast, as he smiled. "Bolt!" He shouted as he charged lightning into his fist. He smirked and sent his fist downward, aiming at the golem, as a lightning bolt was fired straight down toward it. "Feel the wrath, of the Black Magic's BOLT!"

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Their motions are not easy to follow, no. Even their very presence hurts. All of them have dipped their hands in the blood of Mother Terra. All are equally guilty, he was charged with rectifying the scales, even if marginally. And so the Golem walks onwards with all the hesitation and duplicity of a rampaging earthquake. Thusly, it does to directly hinder the path of the scouts scurrying around it beyond smashing it's clubed fists against the trees surrounding it, sending them flying into the path of...not the scouts, but the foolish mage who had chosen to take to the skies in an effort to smite the earth with accursed gifts.
The trees came, their ruffled bases and plumage bouncing with all the energy they had been hurled with. Beyond this, it would equip both arms with the trappings of the trees it had previously thrown. It's appendages embedded deep within the plantlife. If the so called 'Magi' had avoided the initial assault, he would still be dodging the five strong barrage of trunks that had been thrown in his direction. And the creature then 'jumped' to meet him in the air. The strangely empty legs bulging with previously hidden sinew before launching it into an arc designed to meet the magician as he moved away from the trees. Here, his lightning did not posses nearly as much bite, and the jump would cover the distance nicely between the two, especially as his original intention had been to float directly over the beast and launch his attack from there. The avatar of Earth would swing it's extended clubs at the paranormal soldier of the forces he was soon to encounter. But the jump would take it past the magician, again moving towards the town. From the opposite side of the commander of the enemy forces, the Golem similarly approached, parallels of a sort.

The Fallen Angel watched the display of lightning rain down upon the beast, as the monstrosity made sure to return with its own attack. The angel took this time to begin her advance. The soldiers, and scouts, in the meantime, made sure to stay clear out the way of the stray debris and massive beast that seemed so eager to crush the magician in the sky. There was one thing the Empress did know, and that was simply using common sense. What went up, was to come down. Something as massive as that beast would surely come down with much force. It'd be surprising if its little legs could support the force of such a landing, with the amount of mass it was tugging about. Well, either way, this move was surprisingly in Zalia's favor. With the Black Magician taking the creature's attention, she was off in what appeared to be a sprint. Using her agility, she moved flawlessly through the pathway. She had already started on her way down the path, so she was practically in the village already. It wouldn't take more than a few seconds to cross the terrain with some well placed steps and shuffles. The Empress would have soon found herself in the landing area of the massive creature. With it jumping towards the magician, this meant it was also jumping towards her. That helped cut down the time to get to the destination. Though within the village, the small plot of land, also known as the landing area, was almost asking to be braced. The fallen angel stood, watching gravity take its course and bring the creature down upon the land. She made sure to activate her ability far before danger would come to her safe haven, and if all went well, the beast would land directly on top of the Empress, seemingly squashing her. Though, the trained eye would be able to tell its frame had passed through her like she was never there, and thus her body was now within. With control over this power of hers, she made sure to phase the appropriate body parts to make her way within the creature of the night.

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Black Magic stared down at the monstrosity in complete and utter disgust. "Your disgusting. You deserve to be blown apart." He said as he saw the creature take trees out of the ground. He instantly began to fly downward to avoid the incoming trees. He saw, as the beast began to jump into the air and try to attack him itself. "Phase." He mumbled, as his body would become intangbile. The beast's physical attack would simply phase right through him. He flew back down while the rock monster would still be stuck in the air, as he looked over at the empress. He saw, as she was standing right under the incoming monster's path of landing. He raised an eyebrow and simpyl crossed his arms. "What does she have planned. Well, let me prepare plan b." He said, as he put his hand up, awaiting for the monster to try anything funny so he could strike him down again.

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And so it was the the former blood curses vanished from his sight, ghostly apparitions in their place. And so instead of when there would have been gore flying from any which location. But instead, they stayed firmly intact, even if they had given up solidarity to become ghosts. Landing on his huge spiky appendages afforded the golem a safe and sound arrival. Lowering it's weedy legs down to terra firm again was accompanied by the simple acknowledgement of the presence of his objective, and swinging his mighty forearms around, two logs were launched with ungainly accuracy at the houses of the village, the sheer strength of the golem enough to easily rip through the houses, killing any who had been foolish enough to stay behind. That was the true goal of the golem.
It did not need to directly attack the people, but destroy their homes and houses. Demoralise them.
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And thus the monster had landed, and the young Empress was within. The moment she passed within the creature, it's frame would being to explode from the inside out. This was simply because of her disturbance in his physical make up. The main offensive tactic to those who phased was disrupting matter's specific build, thus making it incoherent and unstable. This beast was nothing but walking matter. It had no soul. It was ripe for the picking, in other words. Before it had the chance to attack, the Golem's frame would explode. It's main source, being the body, but the Empress would not stop here. No, she would spread her wing and use it to pass through its head. Its arms..It's entirety until there was nothing left but explosions of its matter, and rubble in the aftermath. By the end of her agile twirls and phasing expertise, there would be nothing but rubble left of the monster itself. Her scouts, remaining nearby, would move in after the creature was successfully destroyed from the inside out, and would begin to gather the rubble and rock that was used in its creation. They made sure to keep it separate from one another. It'd be nice objects for research in the future. Perhaps the Empire could make their own Golem's with the technology they could potentially get from the magic imbued stone.

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Black Magic would view the monster attempt to grab some logs and launch them at the nearby village. Black Magic, had a soft spot for innocent people and didn't want them to get hurt, so he decided to get to work. He put his hands in the air, and looked in the sky. "BOLT!" He shouted it up to the heavens, and as he did, the cloudy skies would return his blessing and shoot a lightning bolt down upon one of the logs causing it to shatter before it even reaches the village. The force of the explosion of the first log, would cause the other to be knocked away from it's path straight to the village, and into a forest nearby the village. He turned back to Zalia and the golem, and cracked his knuckles. "Partner, are we almost done here?" He asked, looking at them waiting so he could get out of here. He was growing tired of the golem.

With the beast destroyed, the people of the village were spared and the mission was complete. The woman, and her soldiers would make their way back to the palace that awaited them. The soldiers kept the beast's stones separated and withheld in satchels just incase. No numbers were lost. The battle was won.

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