Cyril headed directly to the Bloodwolf headquarters with Thor while Kyra and Skadi continued down the road towards Elendil to deal with any other Bloodwolf mercenaries on the road.
The captured mercenaries by the road were tied up and left to the villagers to decide their fate. They were the lucky ones, as at least they were at the mercy of the villagers and had a slim possibility of living.
Thor charged up the mountain path to the headquarters, wiping out anyone in his way, encountering every ambush head on, while Cyril mopped up any survivors. "This is just like the good old days" smiled Cyril as he followed the path of destruction his brother made remembering his youthful days in Asgard.
Thor smashed through the barricaded thick door of the fortress like tissue paper and immediately started slaughtering mercenaries. Thor calmly smashed through the fortress walls, not bothering to look for doors. His orders were simple, eliminate all enemies, rescue the villagers.
Thor has the power to defeat giant dragons, fearsome giants and the most powerful demons. Mere men with elemental attacks could not even scratch Thor's godly body. The mercenaries that came into contact with Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, instantly turned into meat paste. Thor's punches and kicks that can knock out dragons smashed human bodies to pieces.
By the time Cyril arrived, he walked through a broken fortress dripping with blood and meat. Cyril went directly to the dungeon where the women were kept, dispatching whoever was in his way that Thor may have missed.
When he arrived at the dungeon, he smelled the stench of dead bodies. In the middle of the room was a pile of human bones. They looked like they were eaten raw.
At the side of the room were cages with a few remaining naked women. They were silent with terrified looks in their eyes.
Suddenly, out of the shadows, something incredibly fast attacked Cyril, so much so, he managed barely to put up a wind shield to protect himself. The impact of the attack flung him across the room, smashing him into a far wall.
Luckily Cyril cushioned his fall and was not injured. However, the creature packed quite a bit of power and together with its speed, would have killed Cyril if not for his reflexes.
As Cyril got up, the creature attacked him again but he managed to dodge and repelled it with a mini tornado. By now, he could see was facing a werewolf.
The creature was sleek and lithe and moved with supernatural grace. "Is it a female?" thought Cyril.
His wind blades could barely cut the creature's rough hide, so he formed a wind tunnel around the creature's head, sucking all the wind out of its lungs. It trashed around the room, desperately trying to get air, but Cyril bound him up with a cage of stone. Eventually, it keeled over and died.
He threw the werewolf's body into the Nexus then he broke open the jail cells and released the girls. He found them some clothes and led them out the way he came in. It was a large fortress and Thor's battle could still be heard throughout the building.
After he led them out, he reentered the fortress to look for Thor. He followed the path of destruction further into the fortress.
When he reached the site of the battle, he witnessed Thor surrounded by hundreds of mercenaries, as well as about a 3 werewolves. There were dead human bodies everywhere, splattered meat everywhere. There were also around 10 dead werewolves.
At one corner was a large 9 foot tall werewolf who seems to be the leader, commanding both the mercenaries and werewolves to attack Thor. Although the werewolf was weaker than Thor, his agility and speed allowed him to survive Thor's attacks without major injury.
Cyril opened the Nexus and summoned Drasul, the Lich King puppet. Immediately Drasul emanated an aura of terror whereby everyone nearby froze in terror. It was so strong even Cyril felt a small twinge of fear and panic standing next to Drasul.
Drasul then unleashed his death energy killing several dozen mercenaries nearby instantly and cast a reanimate dead spell. All the dead bodies came to life and started attacking the living mercenaries and werewolves. The more people died, the more undead rose to attack.
Cyril paused to admire Drasul's work. In his own way, Drasul was as much a weapon of mass destruction as Thor was.
Cyril went immediately to all the remaining 3 lesser werewolves, suffocating them with a wind tunnel on their heads. One by one they trashed around until finally dying, due to lack of oxygen. Cyril turned his attention to the rest of the battle.
Within a few minutes, the undead outnumbered the living enemies and eventually killed all the mercenaries. Then Drakul's army & Thor surrounded the large werewolf.
As the undead army surrounded the werewolf, suddenly Thor's mighty arm entered the werewolf's body and he yanked out its internal organs roughly. Cyril immediately set to work and within minutes, the large werewolf was his puppet.
The werewolf's name is Beowulf and he is the leader of the Bloodwolf Mercenary group. They are an infamous mercenary group known for their savagery in battle. In their homeland, they were known to sadistic and inhumane murderers sent to butcher and create fear.
All the other werewolves were his female mates, whom he kidnapped from the nearby villages and made into werewolves. He only chose the prettiest girls in the surrounding villages to be his mates where he could completely control once they became werewolves.
He never turned any of the mercenaries to werewolves in fear of anyone challenging him to be the alpha male of the group and taking over.
Beowulf was sent to this region around 4 years ago with roughly a
small army of around 500. Their goal was to recruit, infiltrate and eventually conquer the
region in preparation for a foreign invasion by his masters, the Dread
Lords.
It was the Dread Lords that ordered the elimination of the Silkweaver estate and whole family, although the reason is unknown to even Beowulf himself.
As Cyril tried to dig deeper to find out more about the Dread Lords, he encountered a fear so strong that Cyril started sweating beads of sweat.
Cyril opened a portal to the Nexus and threw the other dead werewolves in, closed it as Beowulf walked in. Including Beowulf, he collected 1 King werewolf and 15 female werewolves to make into puppets.
He searched the fortress and found a treasure room full of gold stolen from the villages. He added the gold to Krakatoom's gold in the Nexus, as it would be used to rebuild all the towns and cities affected by Krakatoom and the Bloodwolf Mercenary group.
The large fortress was actually very well built and could probably withstand a dragon attack. It was built to withstand a siege from the army of Eurathia. It was located an equal distance from Cemeteria, where Hela is building her home, and Elendil. It was also very well hidden, and if Cyril didn't read the minds of the mercenaries caught earlier, he wouldn't have been able to find it. So Cyril decided to make this one of his bases.
He left Drasul there with a Nexus bag, and commanded him to clean the fortress of all the bodies and destruction, and guard the base until further notice. All the dead bodies under Drasul's command immediately went to work.
He sent Thor out the door to catch up to Kyra and Skadi on foot, and to sweep up any mercenaries that might still be alive.
He mentally commanded the dwarf brothers, Sindri and Brokkr to make a stop here to make repairs and reinforcement before meeting up in Elendil.
Cyril himself entered Drasul's Nexus bag and going through the Nexus, he exited Kyra's Nexus bag. They were in the midst of battle...
