[@Shadow Dragon]

[color=ed1c24][i]"I don't think you understand, little wraith. I'm not here to receive your adulation. I'm here to receive the two of you as raw material for my banefire furnaces. Oh, I seem to have frightened the living one."[/i][/color]

"B-banefire?! If you didn't know, that's a bright green flame which causes whatever it touches to rapidly decay, apart from certain metals, and even then, they have to be magically-treated to resist the decomposition effect."

[color=ed1c24][i]"Indeed. The banefire will break you both down into your basest components, which I will then use to fuel the creation of my new army to reclaim the lands which are rightfully mine and restore my kingdom as the necrocracy it ought to be."[/i][/color]

"He's telling us this to delay us! We've got to move quickly!" Ophion ran down the hall towards Polybius, who only growled in anger as his ploy to slow the two of them down had come to nothing.