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Beyond the creature is a portal, and a glistening axe lays before it. Alzar gains 23k and then grabs the Ring of Tk he had around his belt for this. He uses it to pick up the Axe without touching it, and places it in a small chest from his OtherSpace. He checks around and there’s nothing left and he flings through the portal and arrives back in Pandius.
Alzar arrives and no time has passed at all. Azzil didn’t even notice him leave. Alzar orders that the corpse f the two leaders be brought out, after stripping them of their items, and the message sent to the goblins gathering in the barracks for an assault on them.
Alzar has the two dead bodies in front of him, and casts Mass Charm. He has his friends tell the others that the leaders have died. The goblins pass the message back and forth, and with the bodies of their two leaders cast down, it’s easy to see the truth, and soon enough, they break, not wanting to further go against one so strong.
Meanwhile, the shadows arrive downstairs and helped to bolster the defenses down there, and nothing more happened. Alzar leads a group of Elementals down, leaving his golems, and Imp here to guard to place, and they kill a few goblins that try to sneak in. A short while later, Alzar has rescued the group and brings them back up. They return to the area that he secured in the palace and sleep in the bedchambers. Alzar teleports over a few with a normal teleport and then hands the box with the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords to the locals here, and then uses Vanish to head back and spends the night there looting, sleeping, studying, and then Mass Teleports over the rest of the group to Hammerhelm, with himself one of the targets, and gives them another 30 dwarves.
A ceremony is held at lunch and Alzar is greeted as dwarf-friend and given a massive amount of titles, both for killing the leaders and the Abomination, as well as finding and returning the Axe. In fact, several leaders have suggested that Alzar is the reincarnation of the Lord of Wood and Fire, who gave the dwarves their first Forge of Power, millennia ago. The fortress still has too many goblins and they are too weakened for them to retake it, but someday, they’ll do it. so instead they’ll help to rebuild Hammerhelm for now. They have agreed to become a part of Alzar’s County officially, and unlike other holds, have sworn fealty to Alzar and will help to strengthen his burgeoning nation-state. (We’ll look at the particularly of that soon)
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