Summoning

[Konstantin K]

Another Troll attack on the city with a fortunate name Troll's Bane went unsuccessful for the attackers. Many great fighters were wounded, several casualties were suffered.

Brave men died and bleeded to defend their land. Others - just saved themselves from boredom. Others yet - had other motivations.

Trolls advanced batallion after batallion, the arrows were raining, poisonouse wasps were flapping their wings in the air, ogres marched the streets, but still.... still - wave after wave, monsters transformed into piles of bones and guts, melting under the force of brave defenders.

Many swords went blunt, many bows got misalligned. Holes in armor, dents in shields, broken helmets and broken ribs - but the city was not taken.

....

Luckily, receiving no serious wounds during the long battle, the wanderer in black - Konstantin, finds himself walking north, like awakening from some meditation. His attempts to find Iekka failed, and he decided to visit his hidden private stash in one of the caves, to replace the trigger mechanism on his trusted crossbow.

Konstantin's crossbow took many precise shots today, and Konstantin was proud of it, since the new poisonous potion he mixed with his bolts - was excellently working against ogres and trolls.

He put a few poisoned bolts on his belt and stepped upon the damp, moldy doorsteps of the dark cave, where his hidden chest was placed.

Upon entering a cave...-Oh my god!

Konstantin's instant thought gave an effect of freezing time.
His sensitive eyelid scanned the darkness in a split second, as he recognized what is in front of him.

The usually empty cave entrance was now surrounded by 4 ogres and 3 demons in shiny red skin. Horrible spikes on their backs, horns on their heads, teeth like sabres, and eyes gleaming with evil.

All of this, Konstantin recognized in one second, and immidiately dodged the horrible mace blow of a furious ogre.

-Oh my God this is a trap! Help me God!

Immidiately at this moment Konstantin realized that he is invisible.

No time to lose.

He took a gigantic two step leap to an ogre, and stuck a silverdagger all the way into his heart, in another long leap, dodging a demon's claw, he jumped to the second Ogre, to stab him in the tample.

Two demons tried to hit Konstantin with their claws, but at this moment, Konstantin pulled himself up on his dagger, stepped on the ogre's head, and made a long jump forward and up. Demon hits landed on the ogre's head, where Konstantin was a second ago, and ripped the ogre apart, splattering blood on the cave walls.

His face covered in ogre blood, Konstantin jumps to the third Ogre, dodging three more demon hits, and one ogre hit. He jumps up and fires his loaded crossbow into the ogre's chest.

The special poisonous bolt works well, the ogre starts to shake, and falls with a thud, demons step on his dead body.

Konstantin jumps up, grabs on a few rocks, climbs up, swiftly, almost like an elf, on a little elevated spot below the cave ceiling, hides between the rocks, and occupies a proned position.

Demons start setting ogre corpses on fire with their eyes of red full of evil and hatred. It's getting hot.

Konstantin reloads his crossbow, and fires into the head of the last ogre - right between the eyes.

Demons seem to not be able to find Konstantin, but they are not losing time, quickly destroying everything in the cave, probably intending to crash the roof.

Konstantin prays now. He knows that Ronagan is now with him. But he is not sure whether Ronagan will help him or not.

-O, Heavenly Father... I hope it works as well as on ogres...

Konstantin puts a heavy load of his special potion on his bolt, and shoots right between the eyes of a red horrifying creature. The potion was made specifically for ogres and trolls, but the effect on the demon was unexpectable. The creature started itself on fire, and in the agony of pain, attacked two of its brothers.

Demonic creatures started an insane fight among each other, full of terror, screams, and fear. The strongest Demon left in the end - made a few steps forward towards Konstantin and his hideout, waving a huge weapon.

At this point Konstantin jumped down from the nook in the wall, his crossbow fell from his hands, and broke into pieces.

The demon saw him and immidiately unleashed a hellish attack at a blazing speed. But this attack had never reached its target.

Konstantin stood straight, sidestepped, took out his right silverdagger, and threw it with force, driving it into the Demon's heart precisely.
He whipped out his left dagger, and threw it into the Demon's head.

With a roar, the creature collapsed on the burning floor dead,
and Konstantin stood straight.

He walked to the corpses and picked up his daggers, wiping off the blood, and holstering them.

In this second - all bodies, and bones, and blood, and guts - disappeared like an illusion.

Konstantin looked around, looked at his wasted broken crossbow, and shook his head.

His heart was pounding like a mad horse, but he did not show it in his face or his stance. He calmly said outloud:

-Bravo, thee, summoner.

Konstantin took a saw out of his hidden stash, and wandered off into the forest, to find himself a working place to build a new crossbow. After that, he was going to visit Ronagan's Shrine to say a deep "Thank you".