26 Gift of death

Smith just looked at Cyrus. "what do you mean invade?, you want to conquer the whole forest?"

"no not exactly, we want to just have the small part that separates us from the humans."

"and why do you think that will work?, they have a very strong beast." Smith said.

Cyrus eyes narrowed "what do you mean strong beast, the strongest one there is the elven 'priest' of nature, and he is on my and Izotz level."

"I'm talking about the huge lizard with wings."

"w-what?!", "you mean that they have a dragon?" Cyrus then turned around to the mirror like stone.

-"sir, our new elite says that they have a dragon" -

Smith could see the lizards face on the mirror contort, and for some reason this one looked even more humanoid.

??? Face quickly went back to normal - "have you asked where his wings are coming out of?, it could also be a wyvern ." -

Cyrus turned back to Smith. "where do the wings come out of his body ?"

Smith didn't have to think long as he could still vividly see the beast in front of him.

"from the side, he didn't have any front legs, the wings were his front legs if I remember correctly."

"then it's a wyvern."

Cyrus back around to inform his boss.

-"it's a wyvren sir" -

-"okay, continue with the operation, wyverns normal don't mess with other races other then their own so you should be safe.", "and if you aren't just try to escape" -

The mirror like stone then slowly started to loose color and a few seconds later the lizard was gone.

"okay so the invasion is still a go, then I'll quickly explain the plan to you Smith."

Cyrus then explained the plan, they were going to trade some stuff with the elves but instead of the normal goods most would be replaced with lizards and the 3 elites and if they saw that the elves didn't expect a trade then they would just change it into a gift.

Once they were inside of the city, in a good enough place to attack, they would hear two knocks as a signle, the lizards would then come out and immediately attack.

It was a simple plan and it could be effective, and if it didn't work Smith could just run away.

...

A few days later all preparations were complete, so they started to move towards the elven forest.

The twenty carriages filled with trading supplies and lizards took a few weeks to reach the normal trading spot.

The elves who were stationed here were quite supprised that the Paraginions had arrived with trading supplies as they hadn't heard of any trading that would take place.

The lizards quickly explained that it actually was a gift, so that there relationship would last longer.

The elves didn't think much of it and happily accepted these gifts, they still inspected some of them but found nothing out of the ordinary.

The elves then escorted them towards the city. After another few weeks of traveling they arrived in the city.

...

While Smith was hiding in the carriage he found out something new, which actually wasn't really new. As he ate food he thought that he would have to, at one time let it out, but everything that he ate and didn't really need would turn into mana.

Which was a really fascinating thing, and it was useful in many ways.

...

The journey itself was quite frustrating as he had to lay between two planks of wood with three other lizards for almost four weeks.

But it was finally time to strike, as the carriages arrived in front of the cathedral two knocks could be heard coming from every carriage, a lever was then pulled and the bottems of the carriages opened up.

Releasing a total of eighty battle ready lizards, and with another twenty lizards on top of the carriages, so a one hundred lizard operation.

Cyrus who was hidden in the front carriage bottom immediately rushed towards the priest, Izotz aslo immediately rushed out and attacked the guards who were protecting the elven priest.

As those two were occupied with dealing with the stronger ones Smith rushed towards the crowd that had formed for receiving the Paraginions gift.

Smith leaped up in the air and transformed into his first form. His 7 meter body would be more useful for killing this big group than his smaller body.

And so the killing started, the other lizards admired Smith as he was something they strived for.

Smith killed everything that came across him, everyone's face which was first lit up with joy was now plastered with fear.

Smiths tail was moving from left to right, swiping elves high up in the air killing them on impact.

Some of the elves got impaled and stuck on his tail spikes. So Smith started to swing it more aggressively, most of the impaled elves bodies flied back into the elven crowd that was trying to run away, but some of them only got half their body off the tail.

So intestances and blood started to fly around. Some of the elves who saw this gruesome sight passed out right then and there.

Smith started to feel euphoric, slashing elves with his claws, biting of their heads, impaling them with his tail.

It felt so good. Some sounds could be heard coming out of the monster that was killing the elves.

Smith was laughing, but too the elves it sounded like a demonic sound, something that shouldn't exist.

Smith kept on killing and killing, the lizards who were watching him also started to feel a bit scared.

The aura around Smith slowly started to change, every elf in the vicinity could see a huge reduction in stats.

The ones who were trying to run away couldn't anymore as their legs gave in, some of them started to pray as they knew that they wouldn't make it out alive.

...

The streets we're way too crowded to actually try to get away in, most of the elves actually got trampled to death, dieing by their own kin.

Some of the elves tried to hide behind things hoping to not get spotted.

...

A female elf and her small child were hiding behind a cart, the mother held her small child close by trying to hide her from the gruesome things that were happening.

But unfortunately, the child could see everything that was happening, all her fellow people were screaming for their lives.

She saw people getting trampled in front of her, elves calling out for help, and even a friend she had spend her whole childhood with had died right in front of her, as another elf was throw against her.

The elf who was thrown against her had broke her friends neck, she could see her friend's eyes slowly losing their light.

She wanted to cry, but she went silent as she saw her stats getting reduced.

[-90% in stats] .

Her whole body couldn't function because of this. The tears that would normally stream down her face didn't come, the sounds that she wanted to make couldn't come out of her throat.

She could then see a beast appearing only a few meters away from her and her mother.

The beasts eyes were scanning the surroundings and its eyes slowly met her eyes.

Her eyes wident until they couldn't anymore.

The beast in front of her smiled, it smiled, showing its razor sharp teeth, blood started to slowly drip out of its mouth.

It then came closer towards her, the beast, no the monster came closer and closer.

It felt like decades past just in mere seconds, she could see the monsters jaws slowly opening.

She could see the abyss down its throat.

It's mouth than slowly closed around her and her mother. It's teeth impaling her back, cracking her spine, she couldn't feel her legs anymore.

She then passed out, never to awake again.