Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 11

He bound a creature to himself to become immune to critical strikes. The only way to kill him was to bypass the tournament." Nova took the ring off. "I spent 5 years after the explosion at the enemy camp building up the skills to do what needed to be done."

Nova put her alter-self ring on. Her human form with snake tattoos on my wrist and used her voice, "I became Viper. I learned seduction and assassination skills to help me."

Nova switched back to herself. "Played the bard he wanted to get to know. I fucking wore his ass out in bed. I killed him slowly while pinned to the bed by the polymorphed form I assumed."

She had two probing her mind and she shut them down.

Nova looked at them, "For those in the know. I am Sanity's replacement. I am the champion of Corellon Larethian."

She looked around at them, "Which two were trying to probe my mind?"

One of them raised a hand and she sent him her initial encounter with Sanity. She then switched it up to his goodbye."

She looked at them, "I spent one week with him."

He looked over at another and nodded. "I need a few changes to the resistances approach. Tell every moon-elf that something is in the works and to stay out of the Palace District. This will filter back to the King. The message is to be clear. Dark Nova is coming.

Change the resistance symbol to a Dark Nova with a pair of Crescent Moons. Let them start hearing this and trying to figure it out. Have them running in circles looking for something that is not there; yet. It will take time to get everything in place, at least a month.

When we come, we will come with more than 5-blade wielders. We will come with all of them and Corellon Larethian having our back. Our approach may save a lot of elven lives. The Goldeagle family will be taken down to the wielder and his children. The rest will be executed.

Children will be disowned and allowed to finish the Academy. They will be stripped of their name and their assets. Send them straight into the army as privates when they come out. I have a meeting coming up with all the blade wielders. We will decide from there how to reform the government. Here is the thing about Blade Wielders.

We can get corrupted. If we do; the blade will kill us. The blades have many purposes, protecting the elven people, keeping corruption out of our houses, and dealing with a corrupt King. The whole Capital will get to watch his execution. As long as they are outside, they will see and hear it. The oppression will be stopped with him dead!"

Nova paused and looked around, "Any questions? Are you with us on this? The least bloody solution to cut corruption to the core. There is a waterfall in the back toward the dining room. Talk amongst yourselves. Then come back and see me."

They went in back and Nova went into the master and used the chamber pot. She came back out and they were already gathered.

One of them looked at me, "One Question. How is the entire capital going to see it?"

Nova nodded, "IF I show you this then you have to agree to play by our rules. Let us, with the Gods backing us, deal with the King and the corruption."

He looked at Nova, "IF what you show us is game-changing then we play by your rules."

Nova chuckled, "Can you all fly?"

She had 3 shaking their heads. She looked at them, "Get tack, you got mental abilities. Tell the herd Nova sent you and you need horses. The rest of you if you have Elven War Horses get them. Meet at the northern end of the pasture. If you just plan on flying then you should be ready to go."

She walked toward the door and one asked, "What if we do not have the funds to get tack?"

She walked out and pulled out handfuls of gold from a bag of holding. "Divide it up."

She gave them a few minutes to get set and looked over, "If you are ready to take the portal. If you need a horse then take it and I will drop you at the pasture near the tack shop so you know right where to gather."

She looked over at the portal as it appeared. They walked into the Royal Suite. She portaled them into the pasture behind the tack shop, "Hurry. I will be back in 10 minutes."

They stepped out and she opened the door. They walked to the control room first. "I captured his flying fortress as well. This is Nova Base."

She started to walk out and went to the control room. One looked at her, "Is that Overwatch?"

Nova shook her head, "No that is a direct feed into Gods' Eyes. Overwatch only gets a limited set of data by design. It is self-contained and over the Elven Kingdom. Alliance Overwatch gets a limited set of data from Gods' Eyes. Gods' Eyes gets just about everything."

Nova walked over and centered over the Palace and then the throne room. She then put the higher definition on and they watched people walking around in the throne room. She zoomed it back out.

"We could watch everyone fucking at the local brothel or their homes if we wanted to but this is for threats not to get your jollies off. That is why Gods' Eyes is restricted to the House Silvertree Blade Wielder only. They paid for it, built it, deployed it, and we took over before the dragons departed.

We own Alliance Overwatch also but I am wanting to turn that over to whoever takes leadership. We built but the crown paid for Overwatch as it is a smaller system for the Kingdom only. It has its own smaller set of sky diamonds.

Getting Alliance Overwatch shut down was an imperative we lucked into. It gave us the details we needed on the previous holder of this base. Details we needed in order for me to infiltrate it."

Nova walked them all back down to the portal room, "Pasture."

Those three rode in, "Close it!" Nova closed it.

They sighed, "Guards in Quatarsia were coming because we got horses."

Nova walked over pulling out her tack. She thought, "I need to ride my stallion around this rock."

Shi'Trika strolled up and Nova saddled him up. She looked at them, "The new head of the herd."

Nova mounted up and took them out of the main door. "You are inside of a Force Sphere so you can fly in here."

She took off and thought, "Normal speed. My first time around; I want details that I will never forget."

Nova heard him chuckling. They rode around the rock and met up in the courtyard. Nova looked around, "Game changer?"

Nova saw them gather. She heard 'Gods' Eyes' once or twice. They came over and one of the psions looked at her, "This is monumental. Who knows how to run Gods' Eyes?"

Nova smiled, "I do. The detail is too fine. It could lead to corruption and spying on the average person. Things my ancestors left out of the other systems, just for that reason. I am using it directly from here to aid in this fight. Follow me."

She rode up to the control room, "One will remain on this rock. Nova Base. I can disconnect it from Gods' Eyes at any time. This collects nothing. It sends the request and the display is sent back from a console secured in another location and warded to the nine hells. This is more powerful than the system the dragons used; according to the Journal. Here is the battlefield, the Palace District, Quatarsia, and here is my location."

She zoomed back, "You are here and moving. The elven people are over here."

He looked at Nova, "That is thousands of miles."

Nova nodded, "It has a system to broadcast. Open relic vault." She rode back to the relic vault and dismounted.

She looked at them, "Everything in there is a relic and dangerous. The Moon Blades that have yet to be activated are in there. Monnius Goldeagle is married to a stepmother of mine. He is the ONLY safe adult Goldeagle; he wields the blade. The blade is here at the moment because he still appears in court. If it is said in open court, he will let us know. He is our spy into the court. Close relic vault."

They nodded their understanding.

Nova looked at them, "Any harm comes to him there will be hell to pay. I know of the activities going on in the capital. Do not mess with our Army at all. Make it all quiet. No attacks, just get the symbol out there and the rumors. Let them chase a ghost without risking your people."

She walked them downstairs to the cold room, "MY motivation."

She opened the door and they gawked at what was in there. She closed it, "He used this kitchen to consume them."

She walked them all up to the dining room, "I want 13 Sivertree deer steak meals still sizzling they are so warm. Apple pie, Elven wine, mead, and water."

She sat down, "This is a proper dining area and not elves or humans being consumed."

They ate with her and had their fill. She looked at them, "I left you access to the shelter in Quatarsia. If you need a secure meeting spot you have one."

They smiled at that. She took them all back to the portal room and looked at Trika, "I will ride later."

Nova looked at the others, "I will put you on the west end of Quatarsia. You can split up from there. Unless you have a spot, you want to go to that I know?"

They shook their head. The one doing most of the talking, "You got our support and we will work with the others. We will convince them."

Nova nodded, "Here is a communication crystal. This one goes to one within the control room. It can handle three conversations at once."

She held it out and he took it. She looked at him, "If a quick strike is needed, let me know and know where. I can use Gods' Eyes and find out if it looks like a setup for an ambush. I can portal in, grab, and portal out if need be. Brocken your wife has one as well. The third will go to House Silvertree when I rise from the dead."

They chuckled at that. She opened the door. She looked at the other 4 Moon Blade wielders, "Wait here we will have a fight on our hands soon enough."

They nodded.

She thought, "Send them to the west side."

They went. She changed forms into her lieutenant cousin Senna in the army. Teleported into House Silvertree Estates and knocked on the door. Nearon answered and he picked her up and kissed her with such passion. She pushed him back and closed the door. "Nova, I am not Senna. I guess now I know who you married."

He chuckled, "Fair enough I did not tell you who."

Nova opened the portal and the wall. She walked in and had the Patron talking to 12 casters and clerics.

She changed forms right in front of them as she walked toward them, "As you can see, I am not dead. I reclaimed our family blade and the other 11 Moon Blades. We have a creature called a Protean. Shapeshifter from the plane of chaos. It will work to attack me initially. I need you all to cast a quickened dismissal and a regular one. Heightened if you have it. With that many casters, we should be able to send it away.

Now you know what I got, partially for the last 5 years. In a minute you will see the rest of it. This creature can cause all kinds of chaos damage to you. If we fail to dismiss it will be one hell of a fight. I have 4 other Moon Blade holders. It can dimension door at will. It cannot be critically hit."

Nova changed forms, "Follow me." She walked out and smacked his ass, "I will see her again soon. She and I are going to talk."

Nova called up a portal as he lowered the teleport blocker.

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Nearon smiled at her weakly. Nearon had felt damaged after losing those 5 years. He believed she was dead and never believed she was a champion until her return. Senna had helped to bring him back into caring about life.

They had not been married long and he knew she wanted another wife. The problem he had was he had loved Nova until he ended up jailed because of her. They kept saying she was a champion and he kept denying it. She would have told him and she never did.

She lost her mother and sister in childbirth and was raised in relative isolation. She had learned to sing and fight inside the house. She was a beautifully gifted bard with talent with swords. An avid reader, especially when she was young that he had hoped to marry before her death.

When she was old enough to perform for others and then taken to different locations throughout the Kingdom to perform for the locals. She lied to him and it cost his father and him 5 years of being tortured in prison by one sadistic fuck of an interrogator.

Then he learns she was also an assassin who killed others while having sex and he saw the same sadistic nature in that confession she gave him. He did not want her in his relationship. He did not know if he could ever truly forgive her.

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Nova summoned the portal and took them inside and away. He went and blocked teleport and saw an invisible intruder who had jumped in right before he shut it off. He disintegrated the intruder and then found the garb for members of the Royal prison. The King's assassins or spies he was subjected to. There was banging on the outer door. He collected it all and went into the home. "Seal portal!"

He went back to the Patron, "I just killed a royal spy or guard. They teleported in invisible as I shut off access."

The Patron opened the portal. He used a crystal, "All homes on lockdown until further notice. Remain indoors. We will contact you when ready. This could take months."

He went back inside and sealed the portal. He looked at those that had gathered, "We wait on Nova. At least with me having been in prison, we have no young in the Academy for another 5 years. We only have one in the Army right now. Jan and Brocken live far enough away. They all know how to escape if needed.

It will take the King some time to make a call to go after them. They destroyed the outer doors as the portal closed. We cannot risk contacting them. The house is sealed to all but me. Nova can override it with the House Blade."

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Nova opened the door, "You have to Portal here instead of teleporting because we are inside a flying Keep with permanent Dragon Shields."

She thought, "Spell catcher if you do not talk to me then I am not going to use you for this."

She got nothing. She went and got Ice Reaver. She stuck the rapier in the relic room for now. She thought, "Did Corellon Larethian strip the intelligence from that blade already?"

She heard from Varus'Nor, "No, but he knows what is coming."

Nova thought, "Varus'Nor set that rapier's Critical Multiplier. That makes you a magi slayer in the future. For any caster."

Nova heard, "It is set. Another unique and powerful choice."

She smiled, "The other blade's ability will be added as a dead run to the blade. When that happens what I just added will become active."

She heard, "A gift from the Gods?"

She smiled, "Something like that. Probably feeling at least a little guilty in what they had me doing." They got to the entrance to the bedroom. "Spread out blade wielders at the ready. If it grabs someone then attack. It does have some spell resistance. I studied information on them."

She had her blades at the ready and her arms spread wide, "Open portal."

It wasted no time grabbing ahold of her. Nova stabbed with her blades as she ensured her arms did not get pinned. The caster went to work and she attacked again as it hit her with some form of chaos wave as it worked to crush her. The other four Moon Blade Wielders started stabbing it as well.

Nova stabbed it a third time and it dimension doored away to one of her Cousin Merriad, another caster as he landed a scorching ray on it.

Nova saw rays flying in from all directions. Some landed others didn't then it fell to the floor like a puddle and she kept stabbing it until it disappeared.

She thought, "Returned to its plane?"

She heard from the Lady of Dreams, "Yes."

Nova asked, "How did the sword know?"

Nova heard Varus'Nor chuckle, "Because you talk in your sleep when talking with me."

She sighed, "Alright."

Nova looked at them and she emanated healing for herself and her cousin Merriad. He looked at Nova in shock, "What was that?!"

Nova looked at him, "Healing, follow me. The creature is dead and back on its plane."

They walked in and they saw the decapitated half Dragon with his stretched and shredded nether hole on display with all the blood cleaned up. She rolled his corpse over and saw the large stain of seed under him. She shook her head, "Could not self-clean under him. Looks like he blew one last time before or shortly after his head came off."

They looked at her in shock. She glared at them, "I had to seduce my way up here in order to assassinate him. He could not take critical damage so it took some time. The last 5 years of my life has been fucked up shit like this. He liked to shred the asses of his victims in his bed.

He would remove his ring and his dragon scales would rip him apart. Once I saw that in his head I got vengeance to all those he did it to over the 1,000 years of his life. This is tame compared to some things I have done to train the skills to take him down. I convinced the guy who looked for performers that he would want to see me because of my skills and looks."

She placed the head on the body, "One of you disintegrate it please."

She walked over to a chest in the room and looked at the locks. She pulled out some tools and disarmed the trap and then picked the lock. She ran the gambit of auras through her true seeing. She started casting dispel magic until the wards were gone. She opened the box. It had his records with some very impressive jewels.

She pulled the records out and looked them over, "A detailed journal of who he dealt with in the Elven Kingdom. The King and two gold house Patrons for something they sold to him. It has got just one number and a series of letters."

Nova thought, "Do we know what those numbers are Varus'Nor?"

She heard him chuckle, "It is a relic. The one number is his designation for the vault and a drawer. The other is the item number in the vault. You can get a description of it from the book in the vault-bedroom."

She walked back. She looked at everyone, "Wait out here. Everything in this room is a relic. I do not want anyone to get hurt, possessed, or anything. Open relic vault."

She walked back to the room and grabbed the book and walked straight back out. "Close relic vault."

One of her aunts, a battle mage bard named Orea, asked, "Just relics here?"

Nova shook her head, "No, A lot more."

She grabbed Nova by the shoulder, "Show me."

Nova asked her, "Why?"

She looked at Nova, "I want an idea of what my share might be."

Nova shook her head, "You remember the thing with this sword. Greed and corruption?"

She sighed, "Alright. Let me ask this then. Will the house as a whole benefit from this?"

Nova nodded, "Yes when I get time. Gold will not go into the bank it is in vaults here. Close the bedroom door."

She recalled the jewels. Orea looked at her, "The house has taken a hit and a lot of it was because of your activity."

Nova looked at her, "Every houses' finances will be looked at and corrected when new leadership is in place. I got to have all of the blade holders together to go over options. We are still missing 5 and Janella is working on getting them. The house will be fine on finances. That does not mean some gold will not find its way down but this is complete corruption money. The sword keeps me honest."

Nova walked back to the hallway. "That is everything I have 'earned' as an assassin that I did not have to spend. Over half a million in platinum, gold, jewelry, and jewels. That will go to the house Patron and his son. For the years in prison, they truly suffered because I was made a champion. You knew the previous head enchanter."

She nodded, "Great-aunt of mine."

Nova nodded, "She died to put this amulet in me."

Nova sent her the images of her birth. She thought to her, "Four lives lost to create me and what I can do. One of those is mine. I remember every kill, the method, the smell in the room, and even the size of the guy or guys' cocks I fucked before stabbing them to death or castrating them. Try living with the fact that you will never forget those things. I cannot forget them with the way my mind was built."