Waning Gibbous

During this dark night, a lone figure stood at the very top of Sir Solitar's fortress.

This shadowy figure was the only living being in a wide area all around, it was like nature itself had told the animals to escape.

The plants couldn't run, but they had made themselves small, as though the push gravity had been increased.

Despite the night lacking a moon, moon light was casted upon the singular being present, a dark blue light reflecting off the perfect floor Solitar was so proud of.

With no crickets or owls to animate the night, everything was deadly silent.

Axiolypito's sigh was thunderous amongst the quiet, silence wasn't king here, there was only one monarch and the monster had the spot reserved for himself.

Garbed in his abyssal coat and crown, his expression was neutral.

Neutral for him, his face showed nothing but contempt and a sense of superiority that couldn't be shaken.

Silence retreated from Axio's domain as the deafening sound of something enormous pushing the air aside appeared in the distance.

He didn't move or turned his head, simply waiting as a slight smile appeared on his face, the same sort a father would have seeing his son playing in the garden, it was sickening for him to make this sort of expression.

Landing on the ground, The Condemned still had to lean forward and lower his body to meet face to face with Axiolypito.

The dragon's tentacle-like beard wriggled as he settled on the ground, the very earth cried out in pain, his mere presence putting incredible strain on the environment.

His four eyes wandered around the empty fortress before landing on Axiolypito.

Axio didn't seem affected by the overbearing presence, in fact, he looked amused.

'The Obsidian Queen really must have given the numbers at random, giving the sixth position to him...' he suppressed a slight laugh and instead smiled at the fellow minister.

There was no doubt that The Condemned could give anyone a run for their money.

Even with wings, the dragon could soar through the sky with nothing but his disgustingly high strength.

There was no doubt that one swipe of his claws would be able to crush the greatest of champions of any lesser species.

Perhaps not Sir Solitar...

"Condemned! Glad you could make it all the way there" Axio extended his arms as if to welcome him.

"You are not the sort to be jovial for no reason, Axio" the dragon didn't let him continue his little act.

"I have already delivered you dragons and more, what more could you want from me? You should be busy working your wonders with what I got you, why call me all the way over here?" he was quick to catch onto the weirdness of the situation.

He didn't appear very friendly right now.

"Cradled Lich and Faceless Lord may have been swayed by you, but not me, so answer me, why bring me all the way here?" his tone was calm, if the imposing and crushing vocalisation of power of a dragon could ever be considered 'calm'.

"Heh, why, aren't you very perceptive!" Axio applauded.

"I'll admit, I have an ulterior motive, no need to be so threatening, aren't we allies?" Axiolypito swiftly turned around and began walking a distance away.

Calling forth one of his offsprings, he stepped on its back as it took off flying.

He flew right next to Condemned's head and spoke again.

"Destroy this fortress, what is hidden beneath will grant us an even swifter victory and the ability to hold off any threat"

"Don't give me that look, I didn't just call you here to do some demolition work, what is hidden underneath this castle is alive, you see, it is a monster, but one not under the queen's influence, you see what I am getting at?" Axio had his trademark cheeky smile.

"Mmh, a monster of equal influence over others as the queen then?" the dragon was intrigued and dropped his guard.

"Exactly!" escatic that he was going along with his bullcrap, Axio nodded his head.

"But why only you and me? Do you not think this could be too much for us too handle? You surely envision to subjugate it to force it to bow to the queen, meaning that we will have to restrain ourselves"

'He thinks too much...'

"I sure at one hundred percent that it was sealed there, the seal was meant to slowly kill it by absorbing its power and also preventing it from recovering naturally, it will be weak and confused, honestly, only you are needed" Axio reassured him with a tidal wave of lies.

The Condemned strongly breathed out of his nostrils, causing the high tower to collapse as if struck by a meteor.

The reflective floor Solitar liked so much was gone and as if picking up on what was going to happen, the calm ocean behind the two monsters began to grow violent.

Seems like the weather was playing in with Axiolypito.

The sixth minister rose one of his paws and as if swatting a fly away, blew the entirety of the fortress away.

It had endured the hardships of countless years, but it was just a building.

"Huh?" The Condemned wasn't expecting to have his sight filled by crystals, purple crystals.

Crystals colored in purple he had never seen before.

'Is that...?' that purple was offputting but also familiar, he looked over at Axiolypito, but he was already gone, having sped away without a sound.

'When did he get so fast?!' the dragon was truly shocked, Axio had vanished and reappeared so fast in the center of the crystal cavern that it had seemed like teleportation to him.

Sensing impending danger, he readied himself to shoot his lava breath and bury Axio alongside the crystals.

"Dramentia, your meal is there" calling upon the melting dragon by name, Axio held his crystal up, causing all of the cave to light up with a dark purple glow.

The glow of Mov.