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They were both bloodied pulps of meat and death. Lucian could feel a dozen injuries that should have been the death of him. Let it be the numerous cuts to his spine or the blows to his knees and pelvis. The Scythe of Ruin in his hands once again, it was just enough to let the Knight keep standing against the fiend who had done all of this to him.
The Red Duke was no different. His entire face was burnt with the burning light of Morr’s servant. A purifying effect that was amplified as Lucian’s blood fell upon the Vampire, the same blood that was mixed with Morr’s. He sported several cuts in his armor from the Scythe as it cleaved through the armor.
Both of them were ruined. Another moment’s brawling would have brought a victor but neither of them knew who they would be.
Lucian was willing to take that chance. To put his life in the hands of Morr and hope that death would come to El Syf instead of him. Yet the Knight accepted the truth that things might not have gone the way he wished for it to, but the was willing to have taken the chance.
The Vampire did not however.
“I…” He spoke not with the mightiness of a seasoned warrior or a monster but a worn down piece of flesh, “I tire of this farce!”
As he spoke the Black Grail Knights flew down from above. The earth trembled in fear as the twelve mighty warriors of Nagash placed themselves to the side of the Red Duke once more. But there Lucian noticed that they did not take another step more. Their eyes looking upon Lucian but not doing anything more.
<span class="mu-s">“You fools!”</span> The Vampire’s eyes glowed as he asserted control over the Black Grail Knights, <span class="mu-s">“Do as I will! That is your Duty!”</span>
Lucian could see it. There was hestitation as those Knights made their first steps. Their honors each being tarnished in death as the self-preservation of a Vampire’s instinct overtook his will of honors.
Yet in doing so the El Syf, Red Duke, Scourge of Aquitaine, Kin Slayer, broke his oath to the duel as witnessed by the Gods of both Chaos and Order. To do so in the Lands of Chivalry is but the greatest mistake one could make.
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