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...a few days after Tzelmavet disappearance...
...the Warlord was sitting on the bridge of the Hunters Headquarters, he seemed to be...waiting for something?
...Atar´Vhoul was confused, another Warlord had fallen and his master just sat here calmly...as he was about to ask what he was actually thinking, the Warlrod suddenly stood up...
W:"Is Extinction in position? ...did the augmentation work?"
A:"Yes milord but what are you...hm...the scouting fleets?"
...the Warlord held his open hand infront of himself...
W:"Indeed. a considerable amount of the Mainfleet is durrently seraching for us after we abandoned our borders so abruptly and disappeared, over the course of the last few days they went deeper and deeper into hunter territory, to a point were I can affect their senses, not control them, but it´ll be enough, now..."
...the Warlords hand closed, so quick the average human wouldn´t have even seen the movement...
"...I will spring that trap, I will provide a little distraction in the meanwhile, you will take care of the headquarters."
A:"Very well, milord."
...the Warlord disappeared without a trace...
...a few momets later on the bridge of the Sagittarius, Oracles flagship...
...the Walord suddenly appeared out of nothingness, he was just standing there, his face mere centimetres from Oracles..."Yo." ...Oracles eye lighted up in anger, "YOU! How did you get here?! You will regret this day, I will drain you of your power!" ...the overcharged crystal activated, covering Oracle in the shield and firing plasma at the Warlord immedietly though the warlord was already standing several metres away the next moment, though instead of atatcking he just stood there, apparently waiting..."Oh, such fancy toys you have, I did not know the Hivemind did allow you to play with those."
...Oracle appeared right beside him and tried to strike at him, though the Warlord simply ducked below the strike in aninhuman reflex, and now stood behind him, as the crystal fired it´s plasma salvo the Warlord disappeared once more, again reappearing several metres away and again, not showing any act of aggression, though as the Warlord was missing teh plasma burst hit the consoles behind his former locating burning them to crisp...
O: "Oh, is running away all you can do, you worm?" ...Oracle charged at him, though, the warlord was faster again, taking a few steps aside, as Oracle nearly ran into the Wall...
W: "Running away? I´m just taking an evening stroll on one of your ships I don´t know what you mean..."
...he walked to anotehr one of the Consoles...
"You know, this doesn´t quite seem right it´d be much better like...that." ...he ripped a part of the console out... and casually flung it at another... O: "What are you doing you imbecile!?" he teleported behind the Warlord trying to impale his chest with his hand from behind but... he actually seemed to success the Warlord hung from his arm his still beating heart in his claws...Oracle started laughing O: "HAHAHAHA YOU SEE THAT?! I AM THE SUPERIOR CULT LEADER!" he smashed the heart with his hand... when suddenly a voice was being heard from right behind him...
W: "Boo." ...Oracle turned around at an instant striking at the Warlord that was literally looking over his shoulder a moment ago and hanging from his arm another moment ago, but he was already gone again, standing at the next console while the crystal burnt the next console to crisp due to the Warlords sudden absence..., the man that had been dangling from his arm disappeared, apparently an illusion...
O:"YOU! I. WILL. KILL. YOU." His breath became heavy as he entered a state of blind rage...
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...while Oracle was fighting the Hunters Warlord on the bridge of the Sagittarius in blind rage he became distracted and lost track of the scouts he had sent into the Hunters territory to find out where their fleets went...
...though as the Mainfleet was rather coordinated and intelligent by now they kept carrying out their former orders, even though something felt odd, their senses were somewhat blurry so deep in the hunters territory which was now hostile them then suddenly...
...massive amount of Extinction ships which the Warlord ahd recently taken control of suddenly appeared around the scouting fleets, why didn´t they sense them?! ...then they noticed something...these were...RIFT SIGNATURES? The Warlord had apparently used the tech raided from the fall of the Hypatien Republic to build a Cult-Rift-hybrid drives, and combined with being already so deep in the Hunters territory they could not sense them anymore through the Rift and the interferences...
...immedietly after leaving the rift the ships started atatcking, swarming the smaller scouting fleets, unlike the Hunters they fought uncoordinated, but with a viciousness like a demon hunting a lost soul...
...the scouting fleets desperately tried to contact Oracle, to give him the information that the Extinction was using the Rift, but the message did not came through and all that returned was an overwhelming feeling of anger and hatred as he was trying to fight the Warlord...
...as the Lucifers found out that trying to contact Oracle in this state was useless they started to take controll of their designated scoutfleets themselves, trying to push back the Ambush of the Extinction fleet, but it was useless, every lost extinction ship got replaced with another, what the Extinction ships did not have in tactics, they certainly had in numbers and firepower...
...all scouting fleets sent into the Hunters territory at this time was assaulted in this way, severaly wounded beasts were drawn back into the Rift by others, or abandoned if they were beyond help, eventually even the heavier Cult beasts of the Mainfleet started wearing down, sealing the demise of the scouts, the only ones left the Lucifers which fought like berserkers until their very last breath, taking down several Extinction ships with them...
...eventually all scout fleets that dared to step into the Hunter territory were destroyed without exception, none of the messages came through to Oracle in his beastial wrath towards the Warlord, teh Extinction beasts dragged the remains back into the Rift and disappeared, the Extinction fleet had taken several losses taking down all of the heavy scouts of the Mainfleet, though compared to what the Mainfleet had lost in these few hours their losses were negligible...
...in the meanwhile the battle between Oracle and the Warlord was still raging on...even though the Warlord did not atatck a single time, simply constantly concentrating on evading Oracles attacks...
W:"Well, I suppose our time together is over for today, I bid you farewell...oh and you should watch your surroundings in battle even when you´re at the edge of exploding from anger..."
The bridge of the Sagittarius looked like a battleground, under normal circumstances it would take days until it was fully operational again...O:"YOU...I ...WILL..."
...the Warlord disappeared without a trace, Oracle screamed in anger, tried to track him but it was futile, slowly his anger began to wear down, as he saw what he did to the bridge, his anger flared up once mroe and he screamed another time...
...eventually he gained his self-control back, he began repairing the damages manually using the power of his Cultmagic, that´s when he noticed...there were no reports, no voices, the scouts that he sent into the Hunters territory...
...they were gone, all of them...
...he stared into the emptiness...the Warlord had planned this all along...
...he started calling back any ships that were still outside of the core territory, Sagittarius had to be repaired as quick as possible and he had to prepare for the assault that would come next...
...he knew it was coming, the Warlord was smart, but so was he, he would be prepared this time...