Ch.30 Here Cometh Light and Dark

"Put more strength behind your strike!" Master Bnar parried Zelon in the air, before pushing him back.

As Zelon landed back on the ground, Bnar closed in delivering a barrage of swift strikes. His training blade dance around Zelon's body, swiftly striking at his unguarded areas.

"Focus! The force will not fail you, feel the changes around you as my attacks rush towards you." Bnar separated from Zelon giving him an opportunity to catch his breath.

'Easy for the old man to say, it's kinda hard to focus when you have a blade flying at you at high speeds from multiple directions.'

Zelon caught his breath, breathing with a certain rhythm Bnar taught him. Once calm enough, he renewed his focus utilizing covering his senses over the area.

"Good, let's continue." Bnar readied his stance as he slowly closed the distance between them.

Zelon followed in kind, as he entered the Shii-Cho stance he too began moving forward slowly.

Once the distance was reduced to a meter, Bnar dashed forward opening with a vertical slash. Zelon sidestepped to the right dodging the strike; then countered with a slash.

As his attack flew out towards Bnar, he could feel the force scream out to him to jump. Trusting in the force's warning, Zelon jumped back dodging a sweeping kick to his legs.

"You did good, the force can help you in most situations; however, a time may come where you won't be able to heed every call of the force. We aren't the only ones that can hear the force's call and some can even manipulate the call you hear."

Listening to Bnar's words Zelon began to think about all the many masters of the force running around in the world. Just the thought of the amount of people at that level of skill, excited Zelon.

"Get ready, we still have some time left to practice your skills." Hearing Bnar's words, Zelon begrudgingly reassumed his stance.

A few more hours go by as the two continue to spar using Shii-Cho. Zelon could be seen on the floor, covered in a pool of sweat.

"Good! Good! Your form is steady and your able to react quicker to my attacks. At this point, there is nothing else to learn for Shii-Cho. Once you get more experience under your belt, you will be able to seamlessly execute the maneuvers."

Once the spar for the day finished, Zelon went to the showers and cleaned himself. His spars with Bnar were of great help; it's not everyday you get to train one on one with a Jedi Master.

Taking time from his busy schedule of organizing his people to better his skills would make all the difference down the line.

After a quick bath, Zelon made his way to the head office in the temple. Once the temple was returned above ground, many of the elves began clearing out covered rooms and buried corridors. The head office was found buried, but in decent order compared to everywhere else. The dwarves used some regular wood to refurnish the room, turning in into an office for Zelon.

Zelon sat at a desk over looking a holographic chart of his forces. While Zelon and the others were off conquering Ossus, the dwarves on Northor had made great progress in the development of more weapons and a few light vehicles.

"It seems those dwarves were able to figure out how to power our vehicles using renewable life-energy produce by the Hearthtree seeds." The design of a spherical energy reactor; etched in countless runic designs, and given life by the green pulsing energy of the seed within.

"Tiamat, how is the production of Treants going on Northor? Zelon closed his eyes making a mental link to Tiamat.

"For now the druids, have created one Treant with the available people at hand. With more druids and the support of a few elven wizards, Ms.Sylvas believes they can produce 200 more within a month." Zelon placed his hand on his face, lost in thought.

"I also have a request from Master Valin; he wishes to create metallic armor and weapons for the Treants to better protect them." As Tiamat relayed Valin's request, the armor and weapon designs for the Treants were uploaded to Zelon's datapad.

The armor closely similar to the armor worn by knights; fitted with a helmet, a pair of pauldron's etched with Zelon's future banner, a cuirass, vambrace and gauntlets, and a pair of cuisses to protect the legs. The Treant's would also be equipped with mixed wood and metal enchanted Lance's, that released a barrage of sharp wood spikes.

Zelon's eyes almost popped out as he went over every piece of the design's. With fully equipped Treant's running through enemy lines, almost nothing would be able to stop them.

"Tell Master Valin I am impressed, he can begin working on these designs. The only thing I ask is if the armor will not impede the Treant's ability to absorb sunlight." Tiamat remembered Zelon's words then released the mental link.

'With that out of the way, I can begin working on the next phase of my plan.'

"Horus bring me to the castle world, we have some new friends to welcome." Like a ghost in the night, Horus appeared behind Zelon before they both vanished from the room.

Inside the main hall of the castle, Zelon looked around noticing he was sitting in the King's Chair. To his right stood Horus in all his glory , smiling as crazily as ever.

"Are you sure you wish to bring them to this world, their evil is something even the most crazy of Sith wouldn't allow to live." Horus smile vanish as only worry was left on his face. Within his left eye were the outlines of light figures, shining bright in the dark. In his right eye, the light was surrounded by darkness and within this darkness countless figures stood watching.

"In this world, balance is the most important of things you can have. The world itself is ever trying to push itself back towards a balanced state. My army shall be no different than living aspects of the force." Zelon turned his head to Horus, his eyes steady with a determined look.

"Summon my avatars of darkness Valeera Sanguinar, Master Khainite Assassin Jahama, 100 Dark Elf Khainite Assassins, and 50 half elf Warlocks. For my avatars of light summon Tyrande Whisperwind, Lady Galadriel, 100 Priestesses of Elune, and 1000 Blood Elf Knights."

Horus's eyes glowed with power as two large portals began to open up within the castle world.