A Forsaken Land

by boronium

Introduction : Never Cross An Unstable Portal

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Deathwing may have been defeated but they were still many Twilight devotees trying to bring the end of the world by trying to summon powerful demons or liberating Old Gods meaning that even though the threat had been severely cut down there remained one possible armageddon for Azeroth.

Near the settlement of Venomspite sitting atop a cliff, an undead warlock was slaughtering his way through the Twilight's rank with a mad laugh as he set on fire the warriors and made magicians run in fear. There never seemed to have an end to the ranks of these degenerates. Cephas always wondered how a such an crazy cult could have so many followers then he rememered that the Royal Apothecary Society couldn't really be called "sane" either. He just had enough time after musing this to dodge the swing of warhammer from a tauren enemy before exploding his head with a well-placed chaos bolt.

As Cephas was gazing quickly around the combat zone he saw that the battle was taking its turn in the favor of Venomspite's undead defenders. Cephas glimpsed to the edges of the battlefield to see a group of cultists fleeing as they also understood who'd win this day.

"I wonder where they are going in such a hurry.." he muttered before lighting on fire two rogues rushing near him. He then conjured a fiery steed as he got on Cephas casted a spell to make a fiery path admist the battlefield and led his mount swiftly across the newly opened exit to follow the cluster of cowards.

"You won't escape." he stated.

As the warlock tracked the company of purple robes for a good hour as they reached a cave he made his mount disappear so he could approch the lair of these sorcerers. Even though he wasn't a rogue he could still move stealthily as undead don't need to breathe as much. He moved carefully trying to avoid making any noise while exploring the cavern he noticed a purple and light blue glow emanating from the confines of the grotto and as he advanced, he discovered that the cultists were creating a portal to escape.

"Stabilise this portal quickly before we are found!" said a tall orc wearing a more ominous robe and aura than the others which logically meant he was the leader of this bunch of spineless welps.

Cephas casted a small incantation on the ground. He continued by preparing a immolating spell in one hand and a chaos bolt in the other he moved cautiously between the rocks sneaking his way before suddenly running in a full sprint while realeasing his spells. The neophytes had barely enough time to hear the prowler charging them before their leader had his body separeted neatly in half. An acolyte next to him was light on fire like a torch and running around shrieked in torment .

Cephas then used his powers to rot two of the cultists insides. He counted that there still was about eight adversaries for him to slaughter two still stabilising their escape route the rest having recovered from the initial shock had charged at the brutal assailant who smirked before conjuring a rain of fire killing one and injuring four of them, the executioner then proceeded by teleporting his way back to the invocation he put beforehand and concentrated to unleash an array of shadow bolts in the confused melee leaving only two survivors who ran to the portal.

"He's too powerful let's get outta h..." one of them yelled before he and his colleague vanished in ashes.

The mages maintaining the portal widened their eyes before releasing their spell and running to step through the portal not caring where it would take them as long as it was far away from this butcher.
The blazing butcher then sped through the 50 meters that separated him from the conjurers' exit route and chased the invokers as they went through the portal.

Cephas had gone into his fair share of magic gates and after a few of them the disquietude eased off but was still present, however this time it was replaced by another feeling, a feeling of unbalance of the arcane hole itself instead of just the bodily reaction.

"I hope they had enough time to stabilise it or I am going to be shattered into pieces...again." he thought.

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