< 3D: 2H: 59M: 59S>

  Following the moon:

  Eren ghosted between buildings, shadows bending to his will. Tonight, he wasn't the hunted - he was the hunter.

  Finally, he found more of them, Lys. Lurking within the darkness, only a crimson glint from their eyes betrayed their stealth.

  A quick dest upon the crimson pack; swiftly with one whip strike biseg through three.

  *Snap* Cutting off their gasps. Anroup; fuel for his ring's craving.

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  More bodies, more meat, more blood. Further in, more succumbed to his shadowy visage. More would fall before him.

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  <62%>

  <81%>

  <93%>

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  <100%>

  'Ah, is it ready now?' Just ohe s fshed before him.

  "How do I get 7?"

  ...

  "Yes?"

  <13/18 Soldiers, 7/7 archers.>

  A simple query and shadow soldiers transfigured into archers. Lag any distinguishiures from their sword wielding brethren, save for a quiver and a long dark bow.

  All examining their new gear, clearly excited by their transformation, showing off to their master. Although their master was more exacerbated by their childish exuberance.

  tinuing in haste. Eren followed the path, he se. However, if he khen surely the wolves awaited with anticipation.

  Finally, he arrived at a stru site; crete rings, stacked high. Long since abandoned, covered in the markings of crimson tags. Sts of treated wood and paint still lingered in the air.

  Red eyes betrayed their stealth, or was it a purposeful dispy. Toying with him before the finale.

  *GRRRR*

  Eren nded in the tre pit; unrefined gravel lihe ground; their stru never came to fruition. To his left was a high scaffolding; Lys filling each steel bar with eyes abze, gazing down upon the spectre with ravenousness.

  "Good evening, master Reaper. Someone has paid a great deal of credit for your head." Their alpha, hidden under a deep cowl. Red furred hands held tight to a buster sword.

  "You have been busy, killing all through our ranks. Perhaps you will be worth every gold."

  "..."

  "Very well, your stoicism is admirable. Warriors!"

  *AWOOOOOOO*

  Joining the alpha's cry, they answered back. Red eyes drawing in from the shadows; encirg the reaper, teeth bared, lig lips in anticipation for another's meal. ons of swords, spears, maces and... guns?

  "Fire!" Without hesitation the guns fired.

  *TATATATATATA*

  Bullets g against the scaffolding. Dried mud burst through the air as the pack kept up their suppressive fire.

  The reaper used his new ward to block all bullets. Crushed against the barrier.

  'This might actually be a challenge.' Eren thought behind the mask. Overwhelming numbers, numerous onries and possibly an assortment of spells. Against a lone reaper with a whip and a shield.

  A fair fight indeed.

  ***

  < Blood pack killed: 0/57 >

  The wolves reloaded their ons with cumbersome motions. Clearly a new addition to their arsenal, g familiarity. Fingers fumbling with the magazines, fiddling with the meisms.

  "Don't bring guns to a sword fight." Archers emerged from the shadows before him taking aim at the gun tootis.

  <6/57>

  The wolves ran in uhe volley of arrows, gravel barley disturbed beh their cws. 18 soldiers emerged, g with swords.

  *Crash*

  The ringing of steel against shadowed steel. Both armies battling with a vigour. Like a flurry of swords, swings and parries, bashes, and decapitations.

  Reaper swung from above, dispatg 3 in one fell swoop. Dropping to the ground and a dash towards a sed pack. Rending many in two, in the wake of his form.

  <12/57>

  Three wolves broke through the ranks of knights, charging straight for their master. A volley halted them, taking two in the heart. Their swords cttering to the ground; leaving a lone wolf howling to face Reaper. Caught by the throat, the reaper crushed its throat.

  *Snap*

  No, noise or struggle just limp against his metal grasp. Slumping to the floor in a pile.

  <15/57>

  The wolves regrouped, uo break the line; ref into packs.

  "Smart..." Eren muttered under his mask. The alpha stood and watched with cold intrigue, unfazed by his pack slow dee. Like a true wolf of earth, testing the prey, stalking with curiosity and tact.

  *Awwoo*

  Suddenly, their leader gave a subtle growl. Instincts going into overdrive. 'Behind!'

  Pig up the wolves’ sword the reaper rolled forward, narrowly avoiding a surprise attack. Sparks flying off the cold crete. Turning in desperation to face this new foe. A rger Ly, like the alpha but not as huge. Smaller and lithe, wielding a twihat dahrough the air with each cleave. 13 more joihe fight.

  <17/70>

  Arike, Eren blocked. Both sword and twinbde grinding against each other's bdes. Eren could feel its iy, breath hot with hunger. Fnking to his right a robbed Ly, hands out turning to fire.

  Fmes flew, lig and biting as it struck Eren. Thankfully he got his ward up just in time. Barriers only hold for so long, another joined, palm of the ground a fist of crete pummelled through the ward, knog Eren against the steel beams behind.

  'Broken. Ribs...' Through haggard breathing, Eren did not know whether to curse or praise these meraries fiving him such a good fight.

  The lithe Ly charged in once more. Twin bde a blur as it dahrough the air. No time to waste on words; instead, the lithe Ly charged again and again. Sparks crashing with every failed blow. Owo more attacks that the reaper dogged under. Fire, crete, even lightning struck at the reaper. Every ward faltering with each blow.

  His knights intervened, four carving their way through the fodder. Bashing the two mages off band finally g with the lithe wolf. Eren could breathe, reassess the situation.

  The whip danced like a viper once more; cutting through the elemental spell casters, bashing into the heads, and splitting skulls. Quickly into a pack. Two, then ahree, a another.

  <22/70>

  A wolf mace strue archer down. Steel bendih a blow,

  *g* *BANG*

  Crushing against the scaffolding. These beasts could make an impact against shadows. All the while, the twinbde would swish, dang through the air. Eren was waiting, the right moment will e. 2 wolves repositioned on each side, using the mace wolf’s death as a diversion.

  'NOW'

  In the half sed between, Eren shot himself toward the twin bdes. Just before the lithe wolfs blow he bde was knocked out of her hand. Wielding its own bde against itself. A sword plunging through her gut, pinning it against the steel behind. Blood coating the once pristine bde.

  With that the knights and archers got a sed wind; seeing their master deal with such a foe. Carving through more of the wolves. This pack had lost their best and they k. Each being reckless with desperate blows, leaving holes in each other’s offense. Wolves faltering with the growing corpses of their allies.

  <37/70>

  One knight all by itself, waved to the reaper.

  "What?" Was it trying to get his attention?

  *Sm*

  A breaker sword split the foolish night in two, "Enough!"

  The Alpha finally dropped to the pit; eyes abze like ruby coals. "You fight well master Reaper. With or without your knights I suspect a mighty foe to felled."

  "Not a word spoken; truly an adversary to be feared. Withdraw your forces reaper and I the same, let us determine who has right to the other's head." Motio his surviving crew. Already his knights were breaking rank, returning to their shadows.

  "Fight me, alone and if you best me thehers shall stand down." No response. her could backdown, Eren would like troup and regain his health.

  'They would chase me down the sed I got the ce.'

  Accepting with a single nod. Reaper shifted his whip in anticipation. The Alpha's cloak removed; a fur bck as night, red lines engraved. Scars yered upon scars, all healed poorly, the true prince of war before him. Bde shining like starlight, even uhe moon's veil.

  Both Ly and Reaper spriowards one another. Battle once more ensued, as their ons cshed. Sparks flew with each swing. Parry then thrusts. Parry and thrust.

  1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. Swords g in a tinuous beat. Each blow resounded with a symphony of steel.

  Using a salvaged sword in one hand to parry and block. Another; his whip, to sh out. Yet the alpha fought on. Keeping up with the onsught of strike after strike. Cleaving the very shadow. Finally, a li the alpha's heel. Colpsing before his foe with a stinging whip gashing through fur.

  'Finish this.' Ere for the jugur until. *Pull*

  "You need more tricks, master Reaper." One hand, gripped like a vice around the whip. Dragging him into the air, sending him with a solid thwato the maze of beams.

  'Breath...' Dazed from the Alpha's throw.

  *CRASH*

  Steel wailed as they began to colpse, Eren barely missing the debris.

  *k* *k*

  The alpha used his sword as a walking stick, barely able to support himself. His heels cut down to the bone, red dripping to the cold crete. Both heaving with heavy breath. A csh of red eyes with none. Again, they ran in, slower than before.

  Buster sword, swung overhead. With as muentum as possible the alpha cut through the beams; cleaving frht to left. Dug uhe strike, the reaper retaliated with a vicious kick, colliding with the alpha's injured leg.

  *CH*

  Arike, another roll. Despite a wounded leg the alpha kept pace. Buster sword would csh against shadow whip, crete is caked the arena. A byrinth of sorts that decreased with each strike. Parts of the scaffolding groaned, creaked uhe strain of the battle.

  *THWACK*

  Using the shadows, Eren maneuvered around the arena, always on the alpha's blindside. Aims ing the structure down upon the alpha.

  "You learn quick Reaper. Trying t down all of this, on both of us."

  "..."

  "But not quiough." The alphas shoulder charged Eren; knog him into a crete pilr, proceeding to then cut more scaffolding and supports.

  *Groan*

  *Crack*

  *GROAN*

  *CRAAAACK*

  Finally, the remaining structure fell.

  Crushing crete fell and dust billowed through the air. Alpha evacuated, watg the dust cloud settle. Eyes sing with intense fury. Only himself remained, Reaper; o be found.

  "It has been an honour, master Reaper." a short bow, the alpha would return to his pack, having siorious Reaper. However, his pack members were filled with dread.

  "You missed." The reaper whispered into his ear, he had climbed onto the armoing unnoticed by the sensory overloaded wolf. Within an instant the whip curled around the alphas neck.

  "Good fight, master Reaper." a resigned sigh.

  *Slice*

  Like paper the Lys throat split, just above his crimson red armour.

  ***

  The wolves stood in shock, looking at each other. The remaining 33 unsure what to do now. Leaderless, an exorbitant tract broken. Soon all eyes focused on their alpha. Loyal eyes moviween the Reaper and Alpha. One by one gripping ons once more. About to do something stupid.

  "Don't." The alpha had asked for their them to stand down; to leave, to which the reaper would agree. Unless, they stayed and risked a worse fate. Hesitantly, they primed themselves, feet shuffling forward. ons at the ready.

  'Loyal till the end.'

  With a flick of the wrist the shadows swooped in. Arrows flew and bdes sshed. Without a leader, with dwindling numbers; it only took 3 seds to finish off the remaining. They fought for their leader and their pay. Now with her, only death remained.

  Like clockwork; the knights went tathering all the bodies and piling them for easy dev. Whilst Eren stood over the Alpha attempting to cim him. A worthy addition to his growing army.

  'What? Bonded... maybe Baelor will know.'

  Looking back the soldiers were nearly done; a role for them once done.

  ***

  "Be careful." Eren was thhly annoyed with his knights; carrying the corpse of a giant wolf man was no easy feat with regur humans. Yet somehow these shadows struggled. Wobbling bad forth, from left tht.

  Too ma they would trip over each other; too few would be some crushed uhe weight. Thankfully; before a camity; they finally arrived at Baelor’s base. Dragging the wolf down to the main hall, loud *Thumps* and *gs* reverberated.

  "Eren... Wele back. What have yht me?" Baelor came in with his usual eloquence, however stilted with fusion.

  "Him." Referring to the Ly, still dressed in that crimson armour. Ihe chamber of dles and elvish finery, a Ly trasted heavily.

  "A fruitful night I take. What is the purpose ing him here?" Iing the fallen.

  "I couldn't cim him, it's bound to something. Could you break that bond?"

  "A bond... If it is what I suspect, I'm afraid this goes beyond even my magic." Baelor announced. Sullen words escaped through, that he wished he did not o utter.

  "Expin."

  "Most likely the bond y spoke off is a tract with a god. If such a being has bestowed power to this Ly then no magic within this realm could even attempt."

  'Shame. Such a powerful corpse should not be left unused.'

  "This beast, I reize it. It had a hand in taking the guild from us-" The door to the chamber opened with a sudden burst.

  The bearded homeless man who had so often led him into Baelor’s camp approached with quied steps.

  "Your ward has been taken." Words quick, but no ounce of fear.

  "Jun?"

  "Yes, the crimson bandits took him. I don't know where."

  "Shit."