Nhieling was hid into the shadow of the ruin. When he saw William coming, with another one, he used his puppet to scout the surrounding. Seeing that no one except from them was here he went out. Hi, you two, said him looking at Ken, without being able to say who it was, the first disciple is... currently unable to speak, I went... a little overboard and I damaged him too much.
He show them the bloody corps tied behind them. He's alive, but we'l have to provide him somes healing to at least keep him alive, because if he die his master will sense it and enter the fight.
Anyways, I can't stay here too much, if you have something to ask say it now.

[Bump, William, Ken, Mortimer, or everyone that want to join]

"Wait, why are these people doing the murders?" Ken requests an answer, Will hadn't told him much and he may have missed it as he skimmed the letter as he read it. He didn't need to know much except that he had to defeat those little brats at the same time without having their leader join.

"Then, if we defeat one, the master will come into play? What if they decide to finish themselves off to call the master?" William questions Nhieling. It was risky and definitely hard to pull off a consecutive simultaneous defeat of 7 different enemies. Well 6 now.

The charm was finished now. The mercenary-police could track Nhieling down now. Mortimer and the others were each issued compasses which they would follow towards the puppet master.

After five minutes of travel Mortimer could already tell where they were heading, Everlast magic school. Nhieling had to move fast now. There were at least five policemen ready and willing to take him out on their way.

They were approaching by broom so if Nhieling didn't want to get captured right away he'd better head somewhere that magic became easily scrambled. Otherwise he would find himself embroiled in a fight that at his level he could not win.

Actually, all of them are a lot too selfich to do it. I must keep on mooving now. I already found two others : One is a police officier, a thin one with a red scar under one eye. Another one is the director of the hospital.
Then Nhieling got into hole in the ground, and went into the sewers.
Nhieling was walking fast into the tunnel. Sloth disciple wouldn't be able to find him here since the sewers were like a gigantic magic distortion. Most of the experiment of the young wizard got here into the past, since this, the sewers were like a magical mess.
Thinking of a plan, Nhieling finally decided the next part : He had to start big mess into the city, one that could allow him to move more freely, and why not accidentaly killing some of the disciple. If their death stayed an accident Sloth wouldn't react.

[Bump too : It isn't a guided topic, for once you have a LOT of liberty, so just go on with what you feel like :(]

(OOC: I swear I posted, anyway, we need more people. Me, you, Al, Ken, Micah. We need 2 more, since I don't like the idea of hogging the spot light and taking on 2 by yourself).

"Ken, the best plan is to find some allies. If there's Nhieling doing something, I'm sure he's already got someone else helping. If we assume he has, there's four people. We need to find 3 more people." William thinks, heading back to the city. At the same time, they should look for the enemies and if you find one, restrain them and gag them.

Taking the plan to opportunity, he sees Micah resting around slovenly, "Micah!" He rushes over to her, as if he was meeting her. He wouldn't know if there's spies or anything. Especially the way Nhieling acts, he never hides his actions... However, thanks to his information, one was a director of a certain hospital, the other a policeman. Meaning, there were four more unknown disciplines they were unsure about.

Ken nodded, walking off looking for someone to add to their so called group. "Damn, I just want to fight those enemies." He mutters under his breath as he sees a man with a 'X' scar across his cheek walk into an alleyway with a woman. Both were enjoying themselves, making Ken slightly jealous at his single status. As he walks onwards, he stops at a window, looking inside at this luxurious looking suit.

He turns to his right seeing the man with the 'X' scar walk out casually, oddly, without the girl. Suspicion rising, he rushes over to the alleyway. It was a dead end, no one was there either. "...I better spy on his guy. Enemy found." Ken grins maliciously to himself, cracking his knuckles in anticipation.

(How strong are the enemies?)

[Their strengh his variable, just remember than if you sleep or fall inconcious you're dead. The difficult point is to take out all the three of them at the same time.]

Nhieling got into the darkest place of the city. Here were living the gang, the mafias... He had done some information gathering beforehand, and knew exactly where to strike... Most of the group here were already on the verge of starting an all out war at any time, but with the recent death in both camp, caused by Sloth disciple, the situation was explosive.
Explosive was exactly what Nhieling used too : Charging his puppet with some of the strongest bomb he had. All he had to do was to wait. He hide into an abandonned building, staying the farther away from his puppet that he hided into on of the few neutral zone that still existed : The black market.

Ehe...

Then a terrible explosion occure, blasting indiscriminaly person of each side.
Soon after, gunshot and scream of rage could be hear everywhere.

This will occup them~

[Bump ! Since there is no chronology on this topic, even the one that have join the forum after can join]

Waiting for Mortimer.

Nhieling was out of hiding now and they were back on his trail. His magical signal shining like a beacon to the tracking spells as the group rushed towards his new location. Loosing him had thrown them for a loop and sent them randomly searching around the everlast ruins... Some had tried to follow him into the sewers only to get lost themselves. But with the scent clear again the mercenary-police force was converging on Nhieling. It would still take them time before they could all successfully mobilize and surround him. Apparently by escaping Nhieling had only incriminated himself further and now there were wanted posters at every other intersection in the city. Had he the unfortunate pleasure of being spotted at one of these intersections a nearby person could easily tell he was wanted and contact them immediately.

However unbeknownst to the police, the disciples of sloth were equally interested in Nhieling. Concealing their presence, two of them had disguised themselves as a husband-and-wife pair of bounty hunters under the polices employ. With the resources of the mercenary police at their fingertips, it wouldn't be long until Sloth had located the puppeteer and the rest of his party... and then who knew what would happen then!

"Ah, William... are you here for those murder cases? Just joking of course." Her voice was sincere and beautiful. She knew that William always went on silly missions for other people, but of course, the murder cases that had been happening were far too dangerous. "Why are you here, anyway? A mission?" She questions him, putting on an innocent smile, glad that someone came to entertain her.

"What do you mean, 'you're kidding'? Of course I'm here for the murders." He looks at her, as if it was normal to do such things. "Actually, you want to help? You'll get paid and we do need allies." He tries to convince Micah to aid in his-- or well, Nhieling's cause.

It was armageddon. People were fighting and running everywhere. The scream of women and children could be heard too.

I may have overdone it... No matter.

Nhieling stop, in a storehouse, and start concentrating. He started by sending a magic signal to William :

"Change of plan, slay them all, just make it look like it's due to the fighting into the city, there is no point into trying a discret intervention anymore."

Nhieling went and hide into the shadow, and started by meditating, trying to find the last one. The main door was open: Come on, poor little thing, come and meet your nemesis.

"Great, right..." William received Nhieling's message, then repeating it out to Micah, hoping she'd accept. He had gotten information on some of the people, so it was best to start his hunt now, as long as he doesn't kill them with magic and instead by an accident. Meaning, he could possibly set up some things, but William isn't the person to kill like Nhieling. Restraining them isn't his best specialty, but he may have a plan for the thing he wanted to do.

"Alright, I'm off. Good luck," He says, passing her Nhieling's note that may answer any questions as he rushes off.

Ken had also gotten the message from Nhieling. "Action time!" Ken smiles cracking his knuckles as gunshots from a gang could be heard in the distance. "Arrow Stream." He follows the man, as he approaches the gun battle beginning to shoot him in the back. Of course, he purposely created these arrows out of ki, making them disperse leaving no evidence of them behind as the the man stumbles right into the gunshot outburst.

"Perfect." Ken smiles as he's barraged with bullets. He hoped this killed him.

Nhieling heard someone entering the warehouse. The scene was movie like : A gigantic abandonned warehouse, poorly lighted as the window have been condemned. Since Nhieing was hided deeply into the shadow, the onlt thing that could be heard was the sound of water dripping. Regulary, without any error... Tic... Tic... Tic....

Nhieling vision through his puppet wasn't constrained by the darkness, Nhieling was waiting everything : Cops, thug, refugee... But it's two persons that enter it. Both were Sloth disciple.

Letting his voice resonating through his puppet, coming out of nowhere, Nhieling said : Oh ~ Really nice of you. Two mouse that came to feed the cat eh....


[Al, I'll let you NPC them, William, you're free to act your way. Ken, same here, you can auto-NPC your opponent.]

William carried them, three full tubs of petrol. Placing them in an alleyway, all he had to do was find the enemy. He knew it shouldn't be that hard as they're the one's supposed to be taking advantage of this chaos. William had to give some signals or a lure or something... "Alright, I got it." William grins, rushing out of the alleyway in search for one of the enemies.

Micah obviously walked off as did William, she wasn't' going to put herself in danger like that. As she walked off, she felt a slight thrill as she looked past the alleyway. "Maybe, I should help... I'd be saving a few people." Micah jumps in glee, rushing into the alleyway, kneeling on the wall, looking like she was a tattered poor kid.

In less than thirty minutes, a man approached her. Micah feigned being unconscious, "Crescent Strike." Micah smiles, delivering a powerful backflip kick from her fetal position rather remarkably. The man looked in astonishment as she quickly follows William's advice, sealing the man's mouth with duct tape and glass.

"I got him, I got him!" Micah pumps her fists in the air, not realizing the man getting up...

"There he is." William glares at the man that Nhieling had told him about. Chanting a few words in Latin, he releases a small ball of flame from his finger. The ball was light, had no flame intensity or anything, it was more like a small orb that one couldn't hear, feel or touch it. William ran down the stairs, the ball of orb slowly floating in front of him.

The man curiously follows him, it would seem he was armed or something because every now and then an iron clang would echo through the air. "A gun?" William wandered as he made his way to the alleyway, bringing his orb right into his hand, as he dashes in the alleyway, the doctor following.

"Kokkuu Shundo." William says, jumping up at the top and taking aim at the barrels he set before. As the doctor arrived in, William shot out three flame shots at the barrels, intending for them to explode and destroy the enemy.

As the man lunged at Micah, her fast, agile and rather profound reflexes easily got her out of the way. "Eight Arm Strike." She closes her eyes, bringing her arms up in a certain stance that made it look like she has eight. With a swift blow, she delivers 15 quick successive attacks, while grabbing a few creates nearby and throwing them, knocking the man out. "One down." She smiles, making the scene look like a complete accident as she heads off.

[Seem like Alberio don't feel like posting]

The two of them were now looking around, nervous. The woman started speaking : We know you're here, stop toying around. You're done for, you can't flee anymore.

Oh... And you think that I've fled from sleep for so long just to loose once I've finally encountered my nightmare?... DO YOU REALLY THINK I'VE SACRIFICED SO MUCH JUST TO LOOSE TODAY?

Nhieling voice resonated through the building. Using this as a cover Nhieling started some preparation.

Not like you'll have any choice... Then started the difficult part, Sloth disciple have learned how to attack both on the spiritual realm and the real one at the same time. The danger would be to kill them before defeating their mental projection, if they were to die, they would receive a terrible power up for a few moment on the spiritual realm and Nhieling would be in danger.

Nhieling was worried about the other through. At first he intended to kill all of them at the same time to take care of the spiritual fighting himself. He just hoped they would be fine...

Here the battle started : Nhieling puppet surged out of the shadow, sweeping the leg of the man, but bouncing on the shield of the woman.

On the mental level, both of their projection have broken into Nhieling mind. he didn't hope to block them out anyways, here started his long prepared trap : Nhieling mind was like a castle, his last fortress, once you get in you were lost into the endless place that was his mind. Door could be seen everywhere, each of them leading into others place, of into deadly trap.