Let us help please!
She’d look over the information in the reports; thinking over how best to tackle this sort of situation. The one that she was now in command of. Many gangs were around and many of them were the sort that would apply pressure on the families of those that were here. So lucretia had a thought. She would pick two of the most deadly gangs that not even captains would touch…
And clear them out herself. As a testament and example to all those underneath her. She’d ready her spear, ready her armor. The helmet sat on her head awkwardly for a moment before she tugged it down. None here spared her a second thought. Some of those that were placed in her care wondered why she had taken so long.
”Captain commander wolfenstein; if I may ask what took you so long to make up your mind about this?”
Her eyes flicked to one side, a stern looking captain with many scars on his face and one that she could see trailed down his neck and into his armor was the one to ask the question. She’d adjust a bit and pop up her visor. Her body was unfamiliar to many but she had lengthy conversations with the captains that were placed under her to what she expected of them all.
”I had to read and understand the largest threats. Today I will be taking out one of them. Tomorrow I will be taking the next. You and your other captain that they placed under me are to have the Lieutenants and seated knights keep the civilians away from the fighting. Take your squads of pages and have them escort them out of the blast zones.”
Blast zones? Lucretia didn’t sport any magic at the moment even though the necklace she wore was to be reputed to give her the powers of the dragonslayers. The fact she took command in such a way and with such a caring idea about the civilians put her in a surprisingly good light of those that thought her nothing but a wild beast the crown had placed into command.
She had risen from captain rapidly upon her entering of the rune knights and it was no joke. He seemed to hesitate for a moment but nodded his head, barking commands as lucretia took towards the city.
It was a bustle of activity, knights escorting the elderly, the young, even those that didn’t need it. She’d pause when she saw the other captain, a grizzled old man with an eyepatch. She’d tap him on his shoulder; he’d whip around and look up. Paling as he recognized her.
”Captain commander! I wasn’t expecting to see you so soon. We’re still getting the civilians out of the blast zone but we’ve cleared the street of the hideout as you asked. It’s a little slower than we’d like-”
”It’s good enough for me to get started don’t worry.”
Lucretia twirled her spear for a moment and glanced at it; lately the lion had been less and less responsive to her commands and she couldn’t blame it. Her inner beast was frankly more powerful than it and it was slowly going back to being a simple weapon for her rather than a conduit of her power. Soon it would be time for her to pass it on to another or let it go all together.
The street was silent as they watched her walk towards the hide out. It wans’t long before some from within yelled some explicit statements causing her to snort. As she approached they warned her not to come any closer. But as she came within a stones throw the windows would be blasted open. An array of magic and other things launched at her. The citizens and her knights barely blinked as lucretia was already in motion.
The door was kicked down along with the wall that seated it. It had been reinforced but lucretia’s strength passed all standards of what safety brought to helm and it wasn’t long before she got to the nitty gritty of the culling of the dark mages or gang members that lay within. It was grisly work.
The slaughter lasted long into the evening and then eventually as night fell so too did the noises. Dead silence and many knights seemed worried as there wasn’t anything moving around the entrance or about the hideout. A few thought to approach after a few long minutes but they seemed surprised as lucretia appeared at the entrance. Dusting herself off.
At some point she had taken off her helmet and she’d take a moment to survey the area. It had been a good twenty or so gang member… with about half as many dark mages. She’d give her report to one of the Lieutenants that came to her and she’d eventually send him off.
”Captains! The citizens can return to their homes. Get the pages in here and have the seated knights meet up to sweep the area for stragglers. Any lieutenants that are available meet me for a moment.”
It had been her time spent as a hunter that led her to have such knowledge of how to handle individuals enmasse like this. Sure while her teams had been smaller this was no different. She was presented with a good chunk of the Lieutenants. She spent the next hour or so explaining what she had done there and how she went about clearing it out.
She wanted them to practice the same sort of events with the pages and seated knights to better deal with gangs in the future. They’d nod and some of them started to take notes; the ones that didn’t she’d ask to find her some more of the places. The tough gang that was in there was more of a threat because of the dark mages. She’d eye the fact her fur was singed in a few places and the end of her long mane of hair was sooty.
”Something wrong Captain commander Wolfenstein?”
”It’s fine. Fire mages often give me some issues. But that one was inexperienced. Powerful. But inexperienced.”
She had to rate him around a B or A rank at best; but he was more intelligent than physically powerful. She’d ponder about the idea of how she’d go about clearing the second hideout…
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