An immense sea creature sprouted its tentacles out of the moat when Amanta’s soldiers began to rush across the earthly bridge. The Rectifiers kept it at bay on one side while the Crownguard covered the other. With their combined might, the Rectifiers slashed away several of the appendages and dealt a grievous blow to the beasts head, killing it. Once it bellied up, the moat even began to clear to its uncorrupted blue shade water should have. With the beast defeated, Amanta’s knights and mages safely made it into the eastern square to set up a defensible position for the various heroes of Matar to filter in and out of the city.
Zola and the Rectifiers assigned both Amantan forces to hold the eastern square, Gora Thu’s minotaur mages to set up a medical checkpoint in the square, Garlan’s hunters to scout the south and west of the city, the Luxen forces to assist the southern groups, and the townspeople to help the dwarves build a defense. Once that was settled, the Rectifiers decided to march northward first, bringing Mira’s mages from Haven and Creft and Daren to fight alongside them against whatever captain awaited. The group marched north toward the observatory with Mira and her mages easily burning away any enemy that dared leap out from the alleys.
The observatory was covered in a thick purple mist and crystals of Doom sprouted from the stone. Mira had her mages set up in the courtyard, conjuring magical barriers to keep enemies off the Rectifiers’ backs. The Rectifiers and their two allies journeyed inside. They found the receptionist they met long ago, but she was now corrupted by the Doom herself. She ominously welcomed the Rectifiers, and ushered them up the magical lift to meet their foe: The Lord Hunter.
The Lord Hunter was a finely-armored, highly decorated Archmage. At his side were other, intimidating mages. All were far-corrupted by the Doom. The Lord Hunter offered words of discouragement to the Rectifiers, saying that they all would soon join them in Doom. He also mentioned offhand that though they have defeated plenty of Candidates, they have never faced a full-fledged Doomlord like the Lord Commander. Hearing enough of his evil predictions, the Rectifiers drew their weapons to slay the mages. The battle was harrowing, and the mages threw master-level spells at the Rectifiers. They suffered wounds, but the Rectifiers eventually prevailed over the first of the three captains. As the blood left his body, his entire being dematerialized into purple mist, and it fled out of the observatory’s open roof toward the center of the city. Mira was disappointed the Rectifiers did not choose her to fight alongside them, but she said she would not hold a grudge for too long. The lot of the heroes spotted Garlan’s hunters fire their two flares: one in the southern market, and one in the colosseum to the west. Mira, her mages, Creft, and Daren would hold the northern section of the city while the Rectifiers continued to sweep Luxen.
The Rectifiers marched back south, picking up Donnell’s Triven mages, Talla, Calathan, and Revelrae. Donnell’s mages, much like Mira’s, eviscerated any minions of the Doom that crossed their path. As the group reached the southern market, another heavy purple mist covered this section of the city. A battle was already raging, shades, Beckett’s knights, and Vint leaping out between buildings to avoid arrows raining down from above. Vint grouped up with the Rectifiers in a side alley, informing them that he and the southern forces had been split in two by the Doom Captain. He was an archer, commanding his forces from the rooftops. The Rectifiers would have to battle atop the roofs of the southern market. Letting Revelrae and Vint reunite momentarily before rejoining the battle themselves, the Rectifiers allied with Calathan and Talla to climb to the roofs.
They found their next captain a few buildings away, similarly decorated as The Lord Hunter. He was an archer, wielding a finely-crafted, crystalline bow. He had a few intimidating archers at his side. The figure was The Lord Capturer, and he seemed almost insulted it took the heroes so long to face him. Jokingly, the Rectifiers said they went for the weakest last. The Lord Capturer replied that flattery would not work here, but it was indeed appreciated. With their jests concluded, the two sides entered battle.
The archers fired explosive shots, deadly cloaked projectiles, and even rained fire over the heroes. The Rectifiers made much quicker work of this group than the previous one, partially thanks to Talla, who performed exceptionally with her dual-daggers. She even slayed The Lord Capturer himself, driving both of her daggers straight into his neck. This Lord dematerialized similar to the Archmage. With this Lord defeated, the blotted Doom storm raging above cleared away from the south, and the mist abated. Many of the Doom archers fighting below even fell dead at the destruction of the archer captain. Two of the Lord Commander’s captains were slain, and next, the Rectifiers would journey west to slay the final…