We open up in a room inside the fortress. The meeting room where a bunch of chairs surround a giant round wooden table. Torches light up the room as king Drogz sits on his throne that overlooks the room. Goblin guards leave the room when everyone has seated.

  "So how was it running in to Ilyanna, she is a fearsome foe, but you guys managed to escape unscathed?" Drogz asks grinning, his sharp teeth flashing in the torchlight.

  Evelyn's eyes met Drogz. "You didn't ask us here to talk about her, so tell us what you are planning"

  Drogz sighed heavily. "You try to be nice and this is what you get, anyways, Azril is planning to attack Evertide"

  Khatar snickers. "You think they are going to attack the most powerful and dangerous city to exist, you can't be serious"

  Vodden nods in agreement. "Yeah that place is impregnable, it will not only require a lot of time and money, but it will also require far more manpower then any army could possibly make up"

  Evelyn glares at Drogz. "How would you even know what she is planning? Have you been working with her?"

  Drogz briefly stares at Evelyn. "She offered me money and land in exchange for my help in a war, that she is about to start"

  Namato stands up. "If it's just the both of your forces against Evertide, then surely you are at a disadvantage"

  "We were not the only ones she asked, every single other race except humans, orcs, and the Seraphim's were all asked, and they aren't just going after Evertide they are going after every single place that has human's"

  Evelyn responds with a shaky voice as Namato sits down. "You can't tell me that every single other race has agreed to that?"

  "No I know that the giants never responded and while they have that Zmue with them he probably doesn't agree to it either, the elves did not want to involve themselves with other countries, and the dwarves are almost all gone"

  Khatar stands up. "But that still leaves the lizardmen who have some of the best fighters in the world, Orcs which they already have one of them on their side so it's safe to assume they have all of their forces, and Ogres even though their numbers are short they still are extremely difficult to deal with. With a force that massive they could easily destroy Evertide. But that raises one huge question, how come you are telling us this and not joining them?"

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  They all look over at Drogz as he stands up. "As you already know the goblins are the weakest race, So yes, we should take the offer, but if we do that we look even weaker and cowardly then we already are, so this time at least for the goblin raiders, we choose to be with the underdogs on this one. If we succeed we will look stronger to everyone else for helping the underdog and maybe, just maybe you all will stop looking down on us for being weak"

  Namato with a angry voice says. "The child named Raz who saved me and Khatar was brave, but you, you are only choosing to side with us if it makes you look good, Raz did not care about looking cool or getting famous, he risked his life for strangers he barely knew, to me he was strong and proved to me that goblin's are awesome"

  Drogz intensely glares at Namato and before he can say anything a Goblin guard bursts in to the room. "Sir we have a problem, Ilyanna the bounty hunter is here and she is too strong for us"

  Evelyn sighs and looks at Namato. "I told you she would come back, Namato this time, I will kill her"

  Meanwhile outside of the fortress dozens of fireballs rain down on to the group of goblin raiders that are left standing. Ilyanna who is still woozy from their last encounter stumbles her way closer and closer to the fortress. Ali is close behind her and looks very worried. "Ilyanna you have to stop, why are you even going after him?"

  Ilyanna sweating and panting stops for a second. "I could tell in our last fight that Khatar is my idiot older brother, and I am going to beat his ass for leaving me and mom"

  "I thought you told me your brother died"

  "Well he is clearly alive and yet he never came to find me, then those Lizardmen made me kill so many"

  Flashback to Ilyanna in Palaerus being thrown in to a cage by Unax. He locks the cord as Ilyanna stands back up.

  Unax smiles at Ilyanna. "You are going to be my greatest creation"

  "What are you going to do to me?" Ilyanna asks sniveling as tears start forming from her eyes.

  "I'm going to make you strong, strong enough to kill those four horsemen"

  Unax starts to walk away as Ilyanna continues to cry all night long.

  The very next day Unax works on Ilyanna. Changing body parts with other races. She is being formed in to a perfect being. While she is being worked on she feels everything. Every little cut and pull. She can't help but scream for help but no one will come.

  Then finally after 5 years of experimenting and testing. She now had gills of a Lizardmen allowing her to breathe underwater. One eye of a goblin to see further. Arms of a Dwarf making her super strong. Then finally a heart of a devil making her regenerate. While still having her elf abilities.

  She was sent to a small little town close to Evertide. She was going to be sent to Evertide to destroy as much as possible. Unax knew she wouldn't survive but this was just another test to see how well his experiment went. After being experimented on for that long she couldn't feel much anymore. That was until Unax brought another kid to use for more experiments. That kid was Ali, a human child who reminded Ilyanna of herself. Scared, hopeless and needing help. She did her best to make the kid happy. But soon he would be experimented on and used just like her.

  As night fell she took her chance to strike Unax. Killing him and freeing the boy. Together they fled and to keep them afloat, she has been working as a mercenary all these years.