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Suddenly the boy appears ne cog and touches him. Life flows into him from the boy. The boy shakes as he seems to be boosting him.

 Ahead of him, he sees a cloud of Fire, Fear, and Flesh.

Burning motes whirl around in a veritable storm, and The Swarm surrounds him, whispering and screaming in trillions of voices, a swirling fog of madness. 

 The boy covers his ears. Then a cloud of dust and ash swirls around cutting and stinging the swarm.

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 The Swarm fights back.

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 Faltros calls out, "Swarm! After the boy, deal with Herionidus! It will satisfy your end of the deal!"

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The clerics have surrounded Cogintius. It seems the same shields the warlocks wield (with a silver and blue rune color scheme instead of red and orange) are in the cleric's hands. 

Faltros is still walking up when an iron golem charges him. A foolish mistake. Faltros casually just fires a ray of fire directed at the construct, melting it, then keeps walking. He hasn't seen the clerics yet. 

*boinkity boink boink, boinkity boink*

Faltros arrives in front of the clerics and noticed their silver shields. "Ah, stealing my techniques, are we? I am going to ask you once-- step out of the way, or I will force my hand."

*just so you know, there's a whole story arc going on rn lol. It's probably gonna end soon tho, as we're basically at the climax of it all*

*You should totally join. Gibber's story arc doesn't effect most things if you don't want it too.*

*yeah, don't worry. If you don't want to get involved with it it's perfectly fine to stay out of it*

*hi*

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Faltros is confronting the clerics. "If you do not move out of the way, things shall be very, very bad for your little alliance..."

The clerics slightly tremble in the fear demon's presence, but one speaks up boldly. "We have our shields. You cannot get past us."

"Ah, yes, your pathetic copying. I can't get past... But they can." He summons another dragon that charges at the clerics, and they begin falling one by one.

If Herionidus can, roots and vines will leap out of the ground, grabbing onto the dragon and restraining it, growing thorns to harm it. The vines and roots don’t burn and only get stronger with time.

The dragon struggles. It cannot escape. 

Faltros looks around. "Herionidus! Stay out of this!" He shoots fire at the vines but it doesn't work.

“Uhm, No! Why on earth would I do that? You literally just told the Swarm to kill me!”

He takes a handful of dirt from the cliff (he’s still on the edge of his domain) And sprinkles it over the edge. They magically enlarge into giant boulders which strike the ground, causing massive shockwaves and cracking the ground around them, before breaking apart. From the cracks in the ground emerge hundreds of emaciated, tall and scaly froglike creatures with wicked claws. Then, following that, one of the boulders splits open to reveal a scaly creature of his own, a creature with bright purple chitinous plates, a gaping maw of horrid spines instead of teeth, and a horrid stinger dripping black venom at the tip of its tail. The creatures charge, and the monster from the boulder burrows, following them from beneath towards the battle, ready to rip and tear at Faltros’ army.

Herionidus has created the first Troglodytes, and the first Purple Worm.

"You shall die, all of you gods! Fate demands it!"

One of the dragons dies. But then, Faltros gets an idea... The dragon begins shaking again. Scale and hide fall off to reveal bone as the dragon comes back to life, dark purple fire glowing in its eyes. The newly formed dracolich charges at the forces of Herionidus. 

While the dracolich attacks, more dragons appear in new varieties and colors, breathing lightning, acid, freezing cold. Faltros laughs. "Fire is not the only trick up my sleeve!"

“THAT IS A TERRIBLE EXCUSE FOR TRYING TO KILL ME,” he yells at the top of his lungs, creating more purple worms and more Troglodytes.

he then teleports back to his tree and instructs his Gravediggers about something very specific and secret.

He rolls his eyes and turns back to the clerics (as well as the remaining 3 elders, who have now appeared). "Do you see what will attack you if I can't? Step. Aside." 

Herionidus shows the Gravediggers the deathbloom, and tells them what to do when he dies. He then summons another feast and calls his followers for what may be his last party. And it is the grandest. The food is better than before, there’s more decorations, and fireflies flit about. Animals and Fey creatures he made called Dryads serve drinks and food, and there are games and activities, spirits and mortals dancing and eating and laughing together. It’s a shame it’ll probably be over soon.

Most of The Swarm appears above the Feast, and begins filling the creatures' heads with fear. Food appears rotten or raw, the fireflies start to look like hornets, and each of them sees monsters instead of the other party goers.

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Most of The Swarm appears above the Feast, and begins filling the creatures' heads with fear. Food appears rotten or raw, the fireflies start to look like hornets, and each of them sees monsters instead of the other party goers.

 Herionidus looks up at the swarm.

”leave, or I wipe you off the face of the earth.”

*hi*