Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 04

The guys laughed. She held up the ring, "Got a very old red in this ring. Probably did not like the idea of being trapped in a ring. Another variant."

Jazzia looked at the ring and sighed, "I will take this back myself. Get to practicing aerial drills. She teleported back to the entryway with Wendia and saw the crystal. Jazzia looked at Wendia, "Get Traxxa and the Countess. I will be in the shower." She nodded and ran off while she rinsed off.

Jazzia came out and had two of them there The countess looked freshly fucked. She must have gotten the report from Grandaxxa. "One in that ring and one who came in from the air. Both reds. That ring is different."

The countess looked at it and dropped it, "Another variant?"

Jazzia nodded, "Two ring types. The guard was the older style hiding a red dragon. The other ring was a young dragon under the control of an older dragon. Kill the younger and then you had to fight the older dragon. It will force you to kill yourself, I am immune to mind control so it would not work on me. One of our mages that was looking to use a dragon ring, that would be a different matter. Do you have any prisoners ready for execution?"

The Countess looked at her, "You have a plan?"

Jazzia nodded, "I do."

The Countess left and came back with an orc, "Was captured on this side of the wall. We figured out how they got through. The same way your forces have control of the valley. They got a spy to set up a teleportation circle. They made it permanent but it is in the woods. She handed her the rod, "For when they want to get rid of it on this side of the wall."

She nodded and smiled. She took them out, "Unlock portal."

She took her into the house of spikes, "Grab Uncle John and Amy." She grabbed them and She put him in a cell. She handed her Crystal to Vivia, "Monitor those." They spend a few hours pulling information out of the unguarded dragon's mind. They wrote a small novel. She looked at them, "Got everything you need?"

They nodded. She looked in the other cell.

The Countess already took care of that body. She took the prisoner to her new home and set him on the floor and had everyone move, "Activate briefing room defenses." The spiked shot up through the orc's ass. That freed the dragon as the orc died in the spikes. It roared out but was at a safe distance from anyone. He was unconscious but not dead. Jazzia walked up and cut his head off. "Deactivate briefing room security."

She looked at them, "Had to test them out. It seemed like a good time. Do you know that one?" She nodded, "Was is the prison and loyal to the hybrid. Must have changed allegiances."

Jazzia nodded, "He wanted to be a dragon of bone."

She nodded and destroyed his body. She walked in back and fed the children. She looked at them, "We finish with the children and we will go to the palace. I am going to say I gave that new ring to you Traxxa. You are waiting to see if we get another experienced lancer before using it. You have a lot of reds already."

He nodded, "This will do what?"

Jazzia smiled, "Make him think they still have an agent in a ring and all they have to do is send us a volunteer lancer to test the ring. We are giving them a chance to sacrifice another spy thinking it will kill me."

They nodded, "Take us there but do not warn the King we are coming. He should be in the meeting with the General."

She walked out to Wendia and took her crystals. The Countess came out with Traxxa and her Great Uncle John. Vivia and Melia stayed with the babies at the moment. While Wendia went inside after she gave Jazzia a kiss goodbye.

She made all of the jumps and they entered the conference room. The King just stated, "That is the way it has to be."

Jazzia held up a hand, "Sorry to interrupt but I got attacked in the Far East. I killed two and captured another dragon in a ring. Traxxa said he will hang onto it until he finds another lancer who might want to try out. I cut the handoff of that one as it was on a dragon.

It will be weeks before he has all of his men back together to do a proper tryout. I told him if it came down to it, I would wear the ring so the guy could understand how that dragon moves, Your Majesty."

The King nodded, "I was just telling the General about the moving of his forces. To attack the valley."

Jazzia sighed, "Wish we could help you. I wanted to brief the King on this in person. I have my men inside secure shelters in the Far East trying to adjust to the change in the time. I need to get back."

The general growled, "I still do not like this, Your Majesty."

Jazzia held up a hand and threw up a fist. She walked over and threw the doors open loudly and then waved them back into the shelter.

The King came in with the General. She looked at the general after sealing the portal, "Need you to strip gentleman. I know you both got hit because there is one on each of your foreheads. You have more than one spy, Your Majesty."

He did so and she watched as one of the spiders transferred its wards onto the King. Jazzia shook her head, "I know how he is doing it; the spiders. They get onto you and dissipate.

Probably while transferring the wards to you. They look like they work in pairs. One tracking and one listening."

The Countess removed the wards as Jazzia pointed out locations. As they got dressed, "Everything he told you is true. I am on a mission in the Far East. The mission is to draw him out and expend resources. He will likely send dragons to Fort Ash. When he does, we will teleport in and take them out.

You can discuss this aspect with nobody. Express your frustration at having to move your troops without any aerial units being available to watch your backs. At least not any trained to take on dragons. While I have you here, they have another new ring type.

The dragon is in the ring but he controls the mind. The person even if it has not been wiped. He can cut the host body's own throat. Then you are getting blasted by a big dragon. We killed the dragon and an infiltrator. That was a dragon ring on a younger red dragon. My Uncle John has his information as we stuck it on an orc."

Uncle John looked at her, "They want your ass badly. They know of Bahamut's involvement. They apparently have another shadow dragon assuming the mantle of a champion to the other god. He is an adult and not the monster your father went against. He has different powers. Including the ability to go ethereal.

In order to avoid that shield attack that killed the last champion. They had a spy on the island who fed them information back on what was found of the champion. That was when the Dragon of Bone split ways with the other. Dividing his forces. He has fewer than 80 dragons on the field right now. Some young adults will be ready in 5-10 years to enter the battle. About 100 of them."

Jazzia nodded, "We need to keep chipping away. We take the leadership away and those young adults will have no strong leadership to guide them."

Uncle John continued, "The orc we found got onto the other side by a permanent teleportation circle in the woods south of the old dwarven trade route. He came in with 9 others who have been killed, thanks to the herd finding them. This one we captured alive. Until she killed two in one room."

Jazzia nodded, "My new home has some defense systems built into it. The orc died on the three-foot spike that came out of the floor and ceiling. It pierced his heart by way of his ass. The dragon was almost killed by all of the other spikes. It is not nearly as compact as my one-room design.

But I cut the fuckers head off. It was a very old red. The other was a young red. We need to get the body removed out by the embassy for the young red. Thought you should know, Your Majesty. I have the deathward on the saddle but I will need a belt. That also means the communication we wanted to check on. The spy network is accurate and active."

Great Uncle John nodded, "He is in a hidden section of his old home. Heavily warded." Jazzia looked at Traxxa, "Feel like helping to kill a lich?"

He nodded, "How?"

Jazzia smiled, "We find a communication crystal?" He nodded. "Then the Countess could take us in Dimensional anchor, a wall of force, I have a stone to block teleporting away once we are inside."

The Countess sighed, "Risky with just three?"

She shook her head, "I will fumble my weapon toward him and you put up a wall of force. Encircling them both. He disintegrates it, I repeat it. I have a crystal teleporter blocker.

With that massive sword that Traxxa carries? He will be waiting for him to take down the next wall he might grab my sword. Regardless, we keep him busy enough. He goes to activate another crystal, we drop the wall and disintegrate him. She nodded, "Drop the teleport and take us out if we get into trouble?"

The King shook his head, "Get a few more caster to go with you before you do this."

She nodded as Jazzia looked at the Countess, "Take us to the gate we will have the others meet us there. Your Majesty, get to your secure shelter, please. We do not know what those spiders will do or how many of them there are. We may have to come back in with a wand of fireballs and blast the entire area. Hopefully, they just stop and circle an area or DIE!"

He sighed and nodded. They stepped out and teleported out to the main gate.

Jazzia contacted her men, "I need someone to bring every sorcerer minus horses to the Capital main gate. I want all units to recall back to Quatarsia barn. Seal the doors and wait there until contacted. Bring all of the horses to that location."

A few minutes later and they had them all with them. "We are going after a lich, an elven lich! Work to counterspells. Wall of force and disintegrates on him. We will be blocking teleport. If he has company unload on them."

She put delayed poison on the countess, Traxxxa, and the head sorcerer. The Countess activated the crystal and teleported them into his layer. Jazzia fumbled her sword toward him. She tossed the active teleportation blocker twenty feet beside him. One of the sorcerers threw a wall of force around him and the blocker. The sorcerers were fighting 7 drow in the room. Traxxa helped with them. The Countess cast up the next wall of force as he disintegrated the first one.

Jazzia thunder waved the group of drow giving Traxxa a couple of prone targets to slaughter. He tried to teleport away but could not move. The Countess got off her scroll and the piece of bone it created went and pointed straight into a brick in a wall. The lich disintegrated the wall again. Jazzia put up the next one and held him in the wall while they finished off the drow. He went for a crystal and Jazzia dropped the wall and started disintegrating him as the other turned and started unloaded.

Traxxa went toward him. He grabbed Karti'Ros to block. With that epic fail he got slammed into the ceiling and his life drained away. She summoned her sword back. She thought, "No touching me as the last one did to my Grandfather you fuckers!"

The sword chuckled, "You knew he would likely pick me up and I would repeat the same method of destruction."

She smiled and thought, "Yes my friend. You got to repeat your role in history."

They blew through the wall and he had another room with his family and another 12 drow. They stood to cast and they blasted through the hole with fireballs and acid explosions. Traxxa found a lever to open a door into the room. They went in. Two of his family were still alive, but barely. They put them in manacles as they surrendered. They saw another crystal, "They know he has been taken out."

They looked over and saw an adamantium walking stick. It had a 100 million gold piece diamond if not more for a handle on it. The countess removed the wards. She looked at Traxxa and he tried to smash it with no success. Jazia hit the shaft with disintegrate. The shaft was destroyed easily enough. Jazzia looked at her. The diamond was intact, "Still in there?"

The Countess nodded. Jazzia tucked it into her bag of holding. "Take us back to the palace."

She took them in and they looked around. The spiders were evaporating. They walked out to the guards, "Contact the King and let him know we are back and need his healer for a couple of our men."

Jazzia pulled a couple of potions of neutralize poison and poured it into the men. They nodded to her. The King came in, "Well?"

She pushed the two family members they captured to the ground. "They were executed already!"

She shook her head, "He had more of his family and a whole slew of drow. Time to have Uncle John talk to these guys. The spiders evaporated. I have the gem that is the phylactery. I need you to drop the teleportation and the same in the Dwarven Kingdom. The forge is where it will need to go to be destroyed. It is a diamond worth 100 million gold pieces easy."

The King looked at her wide-eyed, "I want to see it."

Jazzia pulled it out. He contacted his guards to get his Aunt. Jazzia looked at him, "The Queens Sister?"

King Goldeagle nodded, "John wait until she gets here and I need to know if she was involved in the coup attempt."

Jazzia sighed, "I know Eldar found her daughter involved in the overthrow of the Queen and they had planned to even kill her. You think she is that bitter about it? Because you married a half-dragon and not just that but one named Silvertree?"

He nodded, "Very possible. She challenged my mother about my marriage at the time. Wanting to know if we were out of our minds. Mother calmed her down. Her husband who died had a walking stick just like that."

Jazzia groaned, "It was on a walking stick. General Goldeagle and his children?"

He got on a crystal and got in touch with security and had the shield lowered and ordered the General straight to the palace conference room.

He arrived and he closed the portal. He looked at the King as his mother came in and saw Jazzia with the diamond in hand and her son standing there. She went to cast against the King.

Jazzia reached over and cut off one hand while jumping between them. She hit Jazzia with a disintegrate.

Jazzia grabbed her other hand. flipped her finger back and cut off her arm at the elbow. "Fucking bitch!"

She staggered back hurt pretty bad.

The King's cleric looked at the scene. He asked the King, "Who do I start with?"

The King looked at Jazzia, "The Champion. She saved my life with that move."

Jazzia shook her head, "My men. I will regenerate. It might take an hour or 10 but work my men first."

He walked in and took care of the injured and then came back and hit her with a strong healing spell.

General Goldeagle looked at Jazzia, "What in the hell just happened?"

Jazzia looked at him, "She gave the walking stick used by another of your relatives to become an elven lich. They were working with the drow. Uncle John will be questioning her and finding out her involvement. She was against his marriage choice. The fact it was a Silvertree was probably a dagger in the heart.

Given what happened to your sister, who planned to have her own mother killed even. Yes, I know about that. It is in an encrypted entry in the journal with the words let nobody ever read this to anyone. He said he informed you of the situation."

General Goldeagle nodded, "He did."

Jazzia sat down and waited to heal while they questioned the prisoner. Jazzia looked at the King who waited outside. The general went in. Jazzia walked over to the King, "You drop the shield and get the dwarves to do it, I can get this thing destroyed at the forge, Your Majesty."

The King nodded. He got onto a crystal, "General delay your plans by one day. Hold forward deploying."

The general sighed, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

He ordered the elven shields opened and got the dwarven King to open his. Jazzia teleported to the forge and saw the new dwarven paragon. Jazzia looked at him, "Smash this on the forge."

He looked at Jazzia, "That is quite valuable."

Jazzia looked at him. "It is quite a lich inside."

He took it over and grabbed an enchanted hammer and smashed the diamond to pieces. Jazzia threw the rings into the forge. She grabbed some of the bigger diamond pieces. She looked at him, "I took those 6 pieces that looked to be over 10 million gold pieces. I can use those to craft something."

He nodded. She teleported back to the edge of Quantarsia. She contacted the King, "I am almost home they can activate the shields. Feeding time, Your Majesty."

The King chuckled, "Thank you again, the shields are locked down."

Jazzia walked in and then teleported to the fourth floor. She walked inside and saw Vivia could tell Jazzia was hurt, "Get my men from the barn. Keep them out here in the main room. Send Wendia back. I have to feed the kids."

She pulled off her armor top and Vivia saw the section missing out of her side. She ran for the barn. She picked up two and sat in her rocker. Those two came running back in.

Wendia looked at Jazzia, "What did you do?"

Jazzia looked at her, "Stepped in front of a ray of disintegration."

She looked at Jazzia, "Why!?"

Jazzia looked at her, "It was aimed at the King. By his Aunt. General Goldeagle's mother."

They sat down. "I disarmed her. One at the wrist and one at the elbow. With the General trying to figure out what was the fuck was going on. Great Uncle John was digging into her when I took the phylactery from the lich to the forge. That led us to the King's Aunt. I had it smashed. I picked up 6 of the bigger pieces. To make a few more shields. Find Staria for me."

Wendia healed Jazzia up and helped with the last of the children. She showed Staria and Vivia the diamonds, "Will those work for shields?" They both nodded.

Staria asked, "Yes. Why?"

Jazzia smiled at Staria's appearance as she looked a little haggard and smelled of sex.

Jazzia thought to her, "What are the odds of both the Countess and you both looking haggard and smelling of ex this early in the day. Did she find you after getting the report from Grandaxa?"

Staria turned 12 shades of red. Jazzia smiled, "I figured that would keep her out of my bedroom and into someone else's bed. Now I know who."

Jazzia looked at her, "Does the shield extend from the controls to the crystal and then down to where?"

Staria recovered after that 'conversation' and looked at Jazzia, "Several hundred feet to the ground."

She looked at her, "What if there was no ground?" Would it create a sphere?"

She shook her head, "No. It would form more of a cylinder until it found the ground or something solid. Going out for miles potentially."

Jazzia nodded, "Any limit on size? Can you reverse it to make it like a bowl?"

She looked at Jazzia, "Theoretically yes. You could. We have gone pretty large with the elven Kingdom with no issue."

Jazzia looked at her, "What about the crater in your homeland. Could we make it that big?"

She looked at Jazzia, "That would be bigger than anything we have done so far. What are you thinking?"

Jazzia looked at her, "A platform; force wall made permanent. Then another over it. We lock out teleportation to it once the battle starts. We lock it down as the controls would be built into a structure. We fly a section of land with the building on it between the platforms.

We have two more spheres around it to keep anyone from getting to the controls. One set of controls going up and another down. Or two sets with the inner one being smaller. Like two halves of an egg. One to catch the land. Keep it from hitting completely. Another to control the fight. To contain it."

She looked at Jazzia, "Not sure the controls to the diamonds would work through a wall of force. I am fairly certain you cannot put a shield in a shield."

Jazzia nodded. "Easy to check the first one. We go to the island shut it off cast one. Activate it. If it does not work then we remove the wall. Activate it. Find out what it will work through. We know rock and stone Even adamantium ore does not block the communication from the controls to the sky diamond."