Samudra's Journal

by vren55

Entry 139: Victories?

Today we won perhaps the most significant victory in nearly four hundred years of fighting. Today, I killed Tethys and eviscerated her body.

I’m not so naive to think that she will be permanently killed, but given that I’ve yet to catch and defeat her in years, I’m quite happy to take this success. I am… utterly exhausted by the effort, but I killed her. I still can overpower her.

It helped that I had backed her into a corner. We had located a school of kelpie fry that had been hunting surface-worlders, and had been tracking them as they fled toward a major abyss. I intercepted them personally, knowing that Tehtys would want to protect the critical kelpie young.

She did, and she fell into my trap. I had no compulsion to hold back the hydromancy and magic that I unleashed at the surrounding area, but that monster was pinned down by the need to guard the young. She perished, and allowed some of the fry to escape, but my soldiers helped to hunt them down and ensure only a few managed to swim away.

All in all, a crushing victory over the kelpies.