Enforcers

Jackson walked through the snow at a quicker pace. Behind him, Irene, and Cloud both followed after the man. "If that guy wasn"t lying then the Nest should be just up ahead!" Jackson yelled back to the two recruits as he walked faster.

Currently, the three of them were hiking up a ma.s.sive snowy mountain. If they were given the right information then they should find a Nest full of deadly monsters on the other side. Most people would probably avoid that... Than again Enforcers weren"t most people...

"This is insane..." Irene sighed out. "We"re miles away from the village at this rate..." She muttured out.

"Ken, Hero, and Kitsune have it easy..." Cloud said letting out a sigh. "They got to stay behind in the nice cozy village guarding it against deadly monsters..." He sighed out.

"Quit complaining you two..." Jackson yelled out over his shoulder as he marched through the deep snow. "If that village gets attacked it"s up to just them to hold the fort down. Meanwhile, with you two, you got me helping you out. I could easily solo an Earl level! I"d say you guys got it way easier than them..." He said letting out a slight laugh.

"Yeah but... We"ve been walking for at least an hour now..." Irene complained. "And my feet are starting to hurt, and blister, and it is really cold out here..."

"Suck it up!" Jackson stated.

Irene glanced at the man in slight fright. "What?"

"Just stop complaining and march forward. As an Enforcer, you must have the stamina that goes beyond the limitations of a normal human!" Jackson announced out proudly. "I mean just look at Cloud. He"s not even complaining."

Cloud simply let out a grunt as he gave a thumbs up.

"We should be nearing the top of the mountain now..." Jackson stated as they continued up the side of the mountain. "I see it up ahead." The three Enforcers walked forward at a quicker pace as they finally broke over the edge of the mountain. "Alright, you two... Move slower now. We"re at the top now, so we"re just gonna peer down the other side and scope it out. We won"t engage yet unless we have no choice..." He stated. "I normally would go in guns a blazing but I really, don"t want to get you two killed..."

The two teens both nodded as Jackson slowly crouched down and peered down the side of the mountain. He let out a quiet whistle of surprise as his eyes widened.

"What is it?" Irene questioned curriously.

"I think it is a Nest..." Jackson stated nodding his head. "Hand me the binoculars..." Irene pulled them out of the bag she carried as she handed them over. Jackson let out a low hum as he put them up to his eyes and peered down. "Grab a second pair North... This will be good for you to see what a Nest is like." He muttered out.

Irene nodded her head as she laid down next to the man. She pulled out a second pair of binoculars as she looked down the mountain. "Whoa..." She said with slightly wide eyes.

At the bottom of the mountain, she could see a ma.s.sive ravine down in the depth of the ground. It seemed to stretch on for miles going straight down, like a ma.s.sive crack in the earth. On the other end, she saw a second mountain. But what made it strange was how the ravine was sat up.

White bone looking spikes came down from it coming out of the hole and reaching up to the black sky. Several Bestia Macht could be seen swinging on these things using them to pull themselves up over the ravine and on to the surface... There was no snow around the area of the ravine. Rather there was this warm orange looking liquid that melted the snow around it. Down in the bottom of the ravine, Several glowing orange orbs could be seen as well as the skeletal remains of several ma.s.sive dead monsters. Each skeleton was almost the size of a small mountain. They were a blackened color from dust...

However. Most terrifying of all was the Bestia Macht"s themselves... There were at least a few thousand Baron levels, at least a few hundred Viscounts, and at least a few dozen Earls... And those were only the ones Irene was able to see for sure... Who knew what else was down there? Down in that dark hole...

"There... There"s so many of them..." Irene gasped out. "There must be at least ten thousand..."
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"Try a hundred..." Jackson said speaking softly as he let out a hiss.

"A hundred thousand?" Cloud stated shocked.

"A normal Nest is made up of at least three full-grown dead corpses of Earl level Bestia Machts... A normal Nest usually contains somewhere around 50 thousand to a 100 thousand Bestia Machts... I can spot nine dead skeletal corpses down there meaning this Nest is at least three times bigger... The cycle of Bestia Machts are a weird one... They can start anywhere from a Baron to an Earl when they are born. From there they can evolve as they grow up. If a Bestia Macht is born as a Baron then over one hundred gears they will slowly evolve into a Viscount, then into an Earl. A Bestia Macht can not be born a Viscount but they can be born an Earl... It"s usually rare though... If a Bestia Macht is born an Earl they can evolve past that stage over the span of a hundred years becoming a Marquess, then a Duke... A Duke is the last stage of a normal Bestia Machts lifestyle... However, if a Duke is strong enough... And they are hungry enough they will begin to attack their own kind. When this happens they actually begin to evolve to a stage beyond their limitations. They become a Prince. An abomination in the Bestia Macht world, and the human world. A Prince requires several Captains to even have a chance at hurting it... So to put it simply, you have Barons which will eventually become Earls then stop. Or you have a monster born as an Earl and will eventually become a Duke than stop. And in rare cases, you have a Duke that will become a Prince...It"s possible to find and raise a Bestia Macht as a pet but this must be done while it is a Baron... Anything above that will be far too strong to train. Luckily for us, an Earl is likely all we"ll find. Marquess and above will usually refuse to be near other creatures... A Nest this big won"t have any Marquess nearby. due to how many creatures there are. It"s a safe bet that an Earl is the hardest thing we will see... Still bad since I doubt even I will be able to fight more than two Earl"s at a time..."

"So we won"t encounter anything above an Earl... Of course, even that will be too much for us..." Cloud muttered out. "I doubt even if all five of us recruits teamed up we would be able to take one down."

"I know what you mean..." Jackson said nodding. "Right now even a Viscount would be deadly for you... This is frustrating though since we are all this village has..." Jackson punched the ground slightly out of anger as he gritted his teeth. "Katrina is so gonna kill me!" He hissed out.

"Umm guys..." Irene said suddenly as she stared at something in confusion.

"What?" Jackson asked turning to the sixteen-year-old girl as she stared at something with the binoculars. Only? She wasn"t looking down at the Nest anymore. Instead, she stared over to the second mountain that overlooked the ravine. "What do you see?" He questioned curiously as Irene brought the binoculars down.

Irene looked at Jackson for a second then looked back at the second mountain. "There... There"s someone out here? A group? They"re doing something..."

"Please be a little more specific," Cloud stated. "Not all of us can use the binoculars."

Jackson placed his binoculars up to his eyes as he stared out. " What the h.e.l.l..." He muttered quietly. His eyes furrowed in confusion as he slowly pulled his binoculars away. "What?"

"What!" Cloud questioned.

On the other side of the mountain, clear as day was a second group. They had a large metallic warm looking building set up on the mountain. Currently, three people could be seen moving around outside. They were too far away to tell any features of the men but they all seemed to be trying to place something on what looked like a large metal sled. The thing was a small round metallic looking ball that was flashing a dark pink.

"What are they doing?" Irene questioned.

"What are who doing?" Cloud questioned.

"Wait a minute..." Jackson said quietly as he stared at the metallic ball.

"What is it?" Irene questioned.

"What is what!" Cloud asked getting more frustrated as the two ignored him.

"I think I recognize that thing... I"ve seen it before..." Jackson said as he tried to remember it. "But where..." Currently, the men were dragging the metal sled over to the cliffside of the mountain.

"What is it?" Cloud questioned.

Jackson let out a quiet hum. "That almost looks like a Shimmer-" The men suddenly pushed the seld down towards the ravine as they all turned around and made a break towards there metal building. "Get down!" Jackson screamed out turning around and jumping over Irene and Cloud.

"What!" Irene yelled out in surprise as Jackson tackled the two recruits to the ground.

Then suddenly-

"Boom!"

The entire mountainside shook as there was a bright pink flash as a ma.s.sive pink pillar of light rose up reaching the backend sky and sending a ma.s.sive pillar of heat. A ma.s.sive wind pressure was unleashed as everyone tried to hold onto something. Several loud howls were unleashed as a wave of heat rushed by incinerating all the Bestia Macht that were on the surface. The nest was filled with fire as several thousand Bestia Macht were burnt alive almost instantly... Then suddenly it all stopped.

Jackson jumped up to his feet as he peered down the mountainside. His eyes were wide as he stepped back. "Holy s.h.i.t!" He said cursing out. "I think I know why the Bestia Machts are p.i.s.sed off!" Down the ravine smoke rose up as the howls of several Bestia Macht raised up to the sky. Then suddenly several Bestia Macht came flooding out of the ravine as they all ran North... Where the village was...

"They"re heading towards the village!" Irene said horrified. "But... That is a pretty small horde." Only around five hundred could even be seen running now? "That blast must have killed many of them off. Speaking of which? What the h.e.l.l was that blast!"

"A Shimer Star..." Jackson said letting out a hiss. "Those bombs are used sometimes during wars... But what kind of a.s.shole would be dumb enough to throw one down a mountainside into a cave filled with scary killer monsters! Seriously! It"s like they are trying to blow a hole through the Nest or something?"

"What now?" Cloud questioned as he tried to find his cane which had fallen in the snow.

"We need to head back to the village. If we leave now we might be able to get there just as the battle is starting..." Jackson said slowly.

"So we"re leaving?" Cloud questioned.

"Yeah. We need to get back now-"

"Umm guys?" Irene said suddenly. "Do any of you guys hear that?"

Suddenly the air was ripped upwards as a ma.s.sive beast suddenly flew up. Its head turned down as it stared at the three Enforcers.

"Oh..." Irene stated as the things white eyes peered at her.

"s.h.i.t..." Cloud finished for her...

In front of the group now glaring at them was a flying Earl...