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Vali squares off against a small human military force.
I meant for this chapter to be longer, but it is now the shortest chapter in the series since a violent confrontation between someone like Vali and some humans doesn't exactly last long...
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Rows upon rows of human soldiers assembled before Vali like toy soldiers. They mostly stuck to the roads, only forming proper infantry formations once they approached his position.
A small army, quite literally and metaphorically.
Vali himself scoffed at the sight as he towered over them all. “Ugh. Is this really the best your baron can do?”
Only a stray knight rode toward Vali. Unlike the others, the lone knight had quite a regal appearance with plentiful blue colors and other decorations adorning his armor like a peacock. The knight stopped once he got close enough to Vali, pulled on his horse’s reins, then the creature stood on its hind legs and neighed for a few moments before lowering itself back to the ground.
“Attention mergich!” said the knight with a deep and commanding tone. “You have committed terrible crimes against the Kingdom of Intermaria! Surrender yourself peacefully, and return Alice Autumnfall to safety, otherwise we’ll be forced to strike you down!”
Vali let out a bellow of laughter at the horseman’s words. “I’d like to see you try. However, this matter can still be solved peacefully. If your baron simply pays me the bounty for slaying the hydra and the ransom for his daughter’s safe return, then I’ll gladly leave him and his lands be.”
The knight straightened his posture. “Perhaps the bounty payment can be arranged, but this ridiculous ransom payment you’re demanding for his daughter is nothing but criminal!”
“Then your baron should have honored the original deal.” Vali replied, raising his shield. “Now the deal has changed… and his daughter is my new collateral.”
“So you decided that the most righteous course of action was to slaughter and pillage innocent people on top of that?” said the knight, thumping his chest plate with a fist. “Where’s your sense of honor?”
Vali growled in return. “I avoid unnecessary bloodshed when possible. If I don’t get paid, I have to resort to… unsavory means to survive.”
The knight shook his head. “The one thing you sellwords, monster slayers, and brigands all have in common is a shared sense of greed. It’s nothing short of sickening if that’s your main motivation for fighting. It’d also explain your combined cowardice.”
“Cowardice?” Vali said, raising his voice. “Where were you and the other noble knights when a hydra rampaged in the countryside? Hiding in your castles? Because last time I checked, a real warrior slayed the beast, then your snake for a baron backtracked on paying the bounty he offered for it.”
“We have other duties as well…” said the knight, glancing at the ground. “I’ll admit, men like you can fill certain niches when needed, but that doesn’t excuse your actions.”
Vali huffed. “Whatever. Your sheer arrogance and ignorance astounds me nonetheless. You’re not only daft enough to try killing the one mergich who slayed the hydra that you couldn’t kill yourselves, but then you strut out here with peasant levies and some knights to demand my surrender… all while accusing me of exactly what you’re guilty of.”
The knight didn’t move a muscle. “Nonsense! We’re here to demand justice for what you’ve done.”
“What justice?” Vali asked with a venomous hiss. “I wouldn’t have retaliated or sought out retribution if I got paid the bounty to begin with! Now all you’ve done is lead your little warband directly to its demise. If you’re foolish enough to think this ragtag force can fight someone like me, it’s going to quickly turn into a massacre, assuming I don’t restrain myself once the survivors flee like rodents before me.”
The knight backed away with his horse, drawing his sword during the process. “That’s it then? All this violence you’re inflicting boils down to greed?”
Vali nodded. “If you’re talking about your baron, then yes. Absolutely. He needs to pay.”
The knight reeled. “And you’re going to continue to take innocent human lives over some gold?!”
“I only take what I need.” Vali replied, readying his mace. “That’s not greed. Mergich are almost never greedy. It’s humanity that’s the living manifestation of greed…”
“Is that so?” asked the knight, sneering. “What’s that even supposed to mean?”
Vali growled once more. “Your kind has always been so… short-sighted. We mergich require many resources to survive, but we try to nurture the environment that sustains us over the centuries. We’re guardians and stewards in that regard. Meanwhile, humans are more like a swarm of locusts. You consume everything. You spread like wildfire throughout the lands, chopping down entire forests and driving away any fish or fresh game if you don’t hunt something to near extinction. Absolutely no concern for the future if you don’t personally live to see it, dwelling in the hills below our mountains as you kill and kill and kill…”
The knight raised his sword and shield. “You know what? Spare me this pointless lecture. We have nothing more to discuss if you’ve already decided that this is going to end in bloodshed!”
Vali took a single step forward, stomping against the ground. The world itself quaked at his feet. “Then come forth, children of death.” He paused and raised his mace high in the air, allowing the sunlight to glisten upon its glasslike and icy material. “Come forth… and…”
A sudden swing collided against the ground. Jagged, sharp teeth from the massive mace simultaneously punctured, crushed, and mangled the knight and his mount within mere moments.
Vali let out a low hiss as blood and viscera adorned his mace. “Die.”
The other assembled human forces recoiled and reeled from the knight’s immediate demise. Vali didn’t waste any time as he moved towards them with his bloody weapon in tow, raising a shield at their ranged infantry positioned on the left flank. Several peasants broke ranks upon seeing the mountain of a man rapidly approaching their ragtag force, fleeing away from his wrath.
Another knight pointed his longsword at Vali. “Stand firm! OPEN FIRE!”
Matchlock muskets answered the knight’s call with an orchestra of sporadic gunfire. Vali’s shield blocked a majority of the subsequent tiny projectiles, chipping away at the shield’s strange material at most. Crossbows also sprung into action. Although some bolts managed to strike Vali from a different angle, they simply embedded themselves into his armor rather than doing any real damage.
Meanwhile, other peasant levies aimed their pikes or spears at the oncoming giant. They could do nothing but try to hold their ground in the face of certain death, albeit some faltered with shaky grips on their weapons, practically shivering in place.
Once Vali found himself within striking distance, he swept his mace across the ground. It promptly pulverized multiple men and shattered a formation, culminating in a dozen dead or wounded within several seconds. Some others screamed, yelled, or ran away. The sheer force of the blow also knocked some soldiers on their asses with one launched away like a rag doll, causing the affected human to slam against a nearby tree from the forest behind them.
A knight looked left to right to assess the situation. Entire units of peasant levies and even some more professional infantry started retreating en masse in the face of Vali’s overwhelming assault.
Vali then stomped against the ground, crushing an unfortunate man beneath his armored boot. “Useless...” he said with a more venomous hiss. Another volley of gunfire caught his attention before he raised his shield once more, prompting him to raise his bloody mace into the air again. “Vermin.”
His next swing eviscerated the line formation of musketeers. Not even stray trees protected the musketeers as the jagged mace cleaved through them, resulting in the wood itself erupting. Trees simultaneously started falling to the ground with wooden splinters spreading in all directions like shrapnel during the aftermath. As if that wasn’t enough, Vali followed this up with a more powerful overhead swing, killing and maiming several more men in a near-instant as the impact left a crater in the dirt.
Another knight attempted to rally the other soldiers as he rode forward. “CHARGE!”
Any remaining peasant levies didn’t hesitate to run away. Only the professionals stayed behind, following the knight into battle with some crossbows still making futile efforts to harm the giant.
Vali’s massive tail covered in armor similar to chainmail swept across the area behind him. It knocked a knight off his horse and pushed several other tiny men back before he turned around. The way he looked down at the soldiers with his intimidating helmet carved to resemble a roaring tiger said it all as he let out another reverberating growl…
A subsequent stomp ended a life with a sickening crunch. Slamming his shield against the ground created a shockwave that uprooted grass and dirt, stunning anyone nearby if it didn’t injure them outright. Several more fast and unrelenting swings cleaved and crushed anyone else that dared to defy or stand against his might, annihilating knights and lowborn men alike.
After that… it was over.
It wasn’t even a fair fight. Everything happened so fast.
Dozens of men were now dead. Any others scattered before Vali like rodents or vermin. The once regal knights were rendered into mangled and bloody bodies in less than a minute with nothing to show but needless death for their valor.
Vali didn’t even bother pursuing stragglers such as some soldiers armed with crossbows. He just looked down at his hands and feet, finding warm blood and other remains staining his boots and gauntlets. Not to mention body fluids still dripping from his mace. Although his armor and helmet hid his resulting facial expressions, he looked down at the battle’s aftermath with nothing but contempt. Fresh corpses and stray limbs littered the general vicinity. Craters created by his feet or his mace dotted the landscape, where wounded survivors left for dead by their comrades remained next to one another or any trees his mace fell to the ground.
The way Vali sighed at the sight contained just a bit of pity. “What a waste.”
From there, the massive man began walking away, leaving the tiny humans to their individual fates.
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I meant for this chapter to be longer, but it is now the shortest chapter in the series since a violent confrontation between someone like Vali and some humans doesn't exactly last long...
First Chapter
Previous Chapter | Next Chapter
Chapter Selection
Rows upon rows of human soldiers assembled before Vali like toy soldiers. They mostly stuck to the roads, only forming proper infantry formations once they approached his position.
A small army, quite literally and metaphorically.
Vali himself scoffed at the sight as he towered over them all. “Ugh. Is this really the best your baron can do?”
Only a stray knight rode toward Vali. Unlike the others, the lone knight had quite a regal appearance with plentiful blue colors and other decorations adorning his armor like a peacock. The knight stopped once he got close enough to Vali, pulled on his horse’s reins, then the creature stood on its hind legs and neighed for a few moments before lowering itself back to the ground.
“Attention mergich!” said the knight with a deep and commanding tone. “You have committed terrible crimes against the Kingdom of Intermaria! Surrender yourself peacefully, and return Alice Autumnfall to safety, otherwise we’ll be forced to strike you down!”
Vali let out a bellow of laughter at the horseman’s words. “I’d like to see you try. However, this matter can still be solved peacefully. If your baron simply pays me the bounty for slaying the hydra and the ransom for his daughter’s safe return, then I’ll gladly leave him and his lands be.”
The knight straightened his posture. “Perhaps the bounty payment can be arranged, but this ridiculous ransom payment you’re demanding for his daughter is nothing but criminal!”
“Then your baron should have honored the original deal.” Vali replied, raising his shield. “Now the deal has changed… and his daughter is my new collateral.”
“So you decided that the most righteous course of action was to slaughter and pillage innocent people on top of that?” said the knight, thumping his chest plate with a fist. “Where’s your sense of honor?”
Vali growled in return. “I avoid unnecessary bloodshed when possible. If I don’t get paid, I have to resort to… unsavory means to survive.”
The knight shook his head. “The one thing you sellwords, monster slayers, and brigands all have in common is a shared sense of greed. It’s nothing short of sickening if that’s your main motivation for fighting. It’d also explain your combined cowardice.”
“Cowardice?” Vali said, raising his voice. “Where were you and the other noble knights when a hydra rampaged in the countryside? Hiding in your castles? Because last time I checked, a real warrior slayed the beast, then your snake for a baron backtracked on paying the bounty he offered for it.”
“We have other duties as well…” said the knight, glancing at the ground. “I’ll admit, men like you can fill certain niches when needed, but that doesn’t excuse your actions.”
Vali huffed. “Whatever. Your sheer arrogance and ignorance astounds me nonetheless. You’re not only daft enough to try killing the one mergich who slayed the hydra that you couldn’t kill yourselves, but then you strut out here with peasant levies and some knights to demand my surrender… all while accusing me of exactly what you’re guilty of.”
The knight didn’t move a muscle. “Nonsense! We’re here to demand justice for what you’ve done.”
“What justice?” Vali asked with a venomous hiss. “I wouldn’t have retaliated or sought out retribution if I got paid the bounty to begin with! Now all you’ve done is lead your little warband directly to its demise. If you’re foolish enough to think this ragtag force can fight someone like me, it’s going to quickly turn into a massacre, assuming I don’t restrain myself once the survivors flee like rodents before me.”
The knight backed away with his horse, drawing his sword during the process. “That’s it then? All this violence you’re inflicting boils down to greed?”
Vali nodded. “If you’re talking about your baron, then yes. Absolutely. He needs to pay.”
The knight reeled. “And you’re going to continue to take innocent human lives over some gold?!”
“I only take what I need.” Vali replied, readying his mace. “That’s not greed. Mergich are almost never greedy. It’s humanity that’s the living manifestation of greed…”
“Is that so?” asked the knight, sneering. “What’s that even supposed to mean?”
Vali growled once more. “Your kind has always been so… short-sighted. We mergich require many resources to survive, but we try to nurture the environment that sustains us over the centuries. We’re guardians and stewards in that regard. Meanwhile, humans are more like a swarm of locusts. You consume everything. You spread like wildfire throughout the lands, chopping down entire forests and driving away any fish or fresh game if you don’t hunt something to near extinction. Absolutely no concern for the future if you don’t personally live to see it, dwelling in the hills below our mountains as you kill and kill and kill…”
The knight raised his sword and shield. “You know what? Spare me this pointless lecture. We have nothing more to discuss if you’ve already decided that this is going to end in bloodshed!”
Vali took a single step forward, stomping against the ground. The world itself quaked at his feet. “Then come forth, children of death.” He paused and raised his mace high in the air, allowing the sunlight to glisten upon its glasslike and icy material. “Come forth… and…”
A sudden swing collided against the ground. Jagged, sharp teeth from the massive mace simultaneously punctured, crushed, and mangled the knight and his mount within mere moments.
Vali let out a low hiss as blood and viscera adorned his mace. “Die.”
The other assembled human forces recoiled and reeled from the knight’s immediate demise. Vali didn’t waste any time as he moved towards them with his bloody weapon in tow, raising a shield at their ranged infantry positioned on the left flank. Several peasants broke ranks upon seeing the mountain of a man rapidly approaching their ragtag force, fleeing away from his wrath.
Another knight pointed his longsword at Vali. “Stand firm! OPEN FIRE!”
Matchlock muskets answered the knight’s call with an orchestra of sporadic gunfire. Vali’s shield blocked a majority of the subsequent tiny projectiles, chipping away at the shield’s strange material at most. Crossbows also sprung into action. Although some bolts managed to strike Vali from a different angle, they simply embedded themselves into his armor rather than doing any real damage.
Meanwhile, other peasant levies aimed their pikes or spears at the oncoming giant. They could do nothing but try to hold their ground in the face of certain death, albeit some faltered with shaky grips on their weapons, practically shivering in place.
Once Vali found himself within striking distance, he swept his mace across the ground. It promptly pulverized multiple men and shattered a formation, culminating in a dozen dead or wounded within several seconds. Some others screamed, yelled, or ran away. The sheer force of the blow also knocked some soldiers on their asses with one launched away like a rag doll, causing the affected human to slam against a nearby tree from the forest behind them.
A knight looked left to right to assess the situation. Entire units of peasant levies and even some more professional infantry started retreating en masse in the face of Vali’s overwhelming assault.
Vali then stomped against the ground, crushing an unfortunate man beneath his armored boot. “Useless...” he said with a more venomous hiss. Another volley of gunfire caught his attention before he raised his shield once more, prompting him to raise his bloody mace into the air again. “Vermin.”
His next swing eviscerated the line formation of musketeers. Not even stray trees protected the musketeers as the jagged mace cleaved through them, resulting in the wood itself erupting. Trees simultaneously started falling to the ground with wooden splinters spreading in all directions like shrapnel during the aftermath. As if that wasn’t enough, Vali followed this up with a more powerful overhead swing, killing and maiming several more men in a near-instant as the impact left a crater in the dirt.
Another knight attempted to rally the other soldiers as he rode forward. “CHARGE!”
Any remaining peasant levies didn’t hesitate to run away. Only the professionals stayed behind, following the knight into battle with some crossbows still making futile efforts to harm the giant.
Vali’s massive tail covered in armor similar to chainmail swept across the area behind him. It knocked a knight off his horse and pushed several other tiny men back before he turned around. The way he looked down at the soldiers with his intimidating helmet carved to resemble a roaring tiger said it all as he let out another reverberating growl…
A subsequent stomp ended a life with a sickening crunch. Slamming his shield against the ground created a shockwave that uprooted grass and dirt, stunning anyone nearby if it didn’t injure them outright. Several more fast and unrelenting swings cleaved and crushed anyone else that dared to defy or stand against his might, annihilating knights and lowborn men alike.
After that… it was over.
It wasn’t even a fair fight. Everything happened so fast.
Dozens of men were now dead. Any others scattered before Vali like rodents or vermin. The once regal knights were rendered into mangled and bloody bodies in less than a minute with nothing to show but needless death for their valor.
Vali didn’t even bother pursuing stragglers such as some soldiers armed with crossbows. He just looked down at his hands and feet, finding warm blood and other remains staining his boots and gauntlets. Not to mention body fluids still dripping from his mace. Although his armor and helmet hid his resulting facial expressions, he looked down at the battle’s aftermath with nothing but contempt. Fresh corpses and stray limbs littered the general vicinity. Craters created by his feet or his mace dotted the landscape, where wounded survivors left for dead by their comrades remained next to one another or any trees his mace fell to the ground.
The way Vali sighed at the sight contained just a bit of pity. “What a waste.”
From there, the massive man began walking away, leaving the tiny humans to their individual fates.
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Doesn't seem like they adequately prepared for this. It's like they honestly thought he would bow down to their demands because they were noblemen.
Oh well, bring some canons next time, if there is a next time.
I do wonder how Alice or Fari would react upon seeing the aftermath of all this.
Oh well, bring some canons next time, if there is a next time.
I do wonder how Alice or Fari would react upon seeing the aftermath of all this.
Hey man. I know that your hands are probobly full right now but i have had this story idea that i just really wanted to share and have nowhere else to put it so im sorry if it may come of as ennoying.
So the story is in a world wher micros and macros are living in a so called co-exitance however there is an ongoing political war on if tiny deserve rights or no. The protagonist is a tiny in an active reletionship with a macro who is a leading name in the war for micro rights
So the story is in a world wher micros and macros are living in a so called co-exitance however there is an ongoing political war on if tiny deserve rights or no. The protagonist is a tiny in an active reletionship with a macro who is a leading name in the war for micro rights
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