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Part 3

In every Raid, Maliath taught his squad everything he knew about the tactics and strategy, he trained them the way of the Sword, as Drazhar did. His sqaud was always first amongst the other squads, Maliath's mastery of war have allowed him to capture much greater number of slaves then the others. He had always shared his part with his Warrios, and tried his best to catch as many slaves as possibel for the Archon to offer.

The Trueborns of the Kabal felt that Maliath's actions had stained their pride, and thought to kill him. One of them made haste to decline such foolish decision, considiring that the Archon may behead them for killing such valuable Warrior. The same Trueborn offerd the group to make a deal with Maliath, he offered to train under Maliath's guidence, believing that if the Trueborns skill of swordcraft could get improved, than their Archon would honour them much more gratefully. A lot of Trueborns did disapprove this idea, seeing it as blow of their pride to doo such a thing. Only a few units did join the same Trueborn in his quest for power.

Those Trueborns did request from Maliath to teach them the way of the Sword. Maliath had agreed to the offer. In return, the Trueborns would teach him everything about the Dark Eldar ranged weapons. This would solve Maliath's lack for the Kabal's ranged weaponry.

After a years of trainings and Raids, Maliath and his Trueborns became more powerful and famous. He became so connected with the Trueborns, that Dracon Val, who was incharge of the same group of Trueborns, started to envy Maliath. On one occasion, Val have sended a group of his retinues to assassinate Maliath. What the retinues didn't know, is that Maliath wasn't used to sleep...

Val's retinues were all killed in the fighting. Eventually, those news came to the Archon's ears, and he orderd to execute Val for trainng to assassinate his favourite Warrior. But Maliath begged for different... Maliath requested the Drakal to let Val live, and fight him in a duel,  so that Val would be killed by his hand.

Drakal gave Maliath premission to fight Val in a duel to the death. And once more, the young have challenged the Elder. Even though Val was better equipped than Maliath, it didn't held Maliath for a long time. Maliath was quite familiar with the Dark Eldar Technology, he saw how Dracons and Hierarchs used their "tricks" on the Battlefield. But this time it was different, Val used everything that he could throw at Maliath: Clone field,  Vexator Mask, toxics and poisins, grenades and other weaponry...

But all of this was for nothing... as Maliath saw through every trick. Maliath dodged every shot that Val had hoped will kill him. Eventually, Maliath couldn't penetrate Val's Shadow Field, so he used the Soul-Trap to defeat Val, and he did. After Maliath had captured Val's soul inside the jewelled skull, he droped the Skull on the ground, by that, he released Val's soul into the Warp, were Slaanesh could feed upon his favorite kendred...

By killing Val, Maliath took the position of Dracon. He had appointed one of his best disciples to the rank of Sybarite, and took the control over the Trueborns Kabalite Warriors. Some of the Dracons and Hierarchs whispered that it won't be long before Maliath would be ascended to be the new Archon. Yet one Hierarch thought differently, Hierach Byleth was interested in the origins of this great Dark Eldar, and so he had requested the Haemoncuil to find out who Maliath was...