Lilia had been evenly matched with the undead mages, but now that Rhode had killed the Lich Lord and was free to deal with them, they could no longer hold out.
Lilia cut them down one after another, while Rhode summoned fireballs and Ice Arrows and sent them flying. The undead mages were either cleaved in two or blasted to pieces.
Once the room fell silent again, Rhode bent down, picked up the Lich Lord's stone, and held it in his palm.
"Is this Scourge Stone really that powerful?"
Lilia leaned closer. "Why not try it and find out?"
"The problem is..." Rhode took out the other two objects as well. "With this crystal, this gyroscope thing, and this Scourge Stone, how am I supposed to know how to use them?"
Lilia pouted. "Then why did you kill him? Couldn't you have asked first?"
"Silly girl." Rhode patted Lilia's head. "Liches don't feel fear, so he wouldn't have told us. But it doesn't matter. We just need to destroy these things anyway."
"What if the Scourge has more of these somewhere else? Couldn't they still make other fortresses fly?"
"Uh... you have a point." Rhode scratched his head. "Looks like I'll have to figure out how to use them after all. They might come in handy later."
"For what?"
"For... building an aerial fortress of our own! That would be far more impressive than building a keep on the coast."
"Wow, that sounds amazing!" Lilia jumped up. "Our keep could fly! They'd have trouble attacking us, but we could fly wherever we wanted. We'd be so mobile!"
"Yes... but who would know how to use these things..." Rhode tilted his head in thought, then suddenly slapped his thigh.
"Archmage Antonidas! He knows all sorts of things. He should have some