Sanctuary IC

[wonderweiss]

Toran crawled on the roof like a spider. He saw her.

"Hehehe, at long last! I've been Longing to finish things! Now then, die, my love!"

He used his feet to stick to the roof as he clasped his hands together. Two pillars came from the walls and collided. They were a mixture of clay and limestone, so when they collided, a giant smoke screen that made everyone nearly choke appeared.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Somewhere inside the Gensei Woods

The general Rem had been riding for quite a while aback his flaming horse. the thick trees made it difficult to follow him by way of air, or land for that matter. the woods blocked out the sunlight making it very dark within the woods. Only a fool would willingly venture out there. While Rem was still oblivious of his follower, the gardian of his home was not. Suddlely a massive sword jabbed into the ground directly in front of Lucas. The blade was black as if made of basalt and had a chard skill connecting the blade to the handle. Even thought little was known of Dante the paladin slayer, his weapon was unmistakable. As Rem turned his head to see what happened, his fellow General dropped from the thick leaves preventing the Yaju male from following Rem any further into the forest. Dante could not be seen for the armor he wore, but it seemed he had a large frame. He wore bulky black armor made from the same materials as his blade, which was decorated with skulls and some fragments of bone. The eye holes in the skulls of his armor had creepy green glowing eyes that seemed to follow the Yaju. On his hear was a helmet with tusks covering his mouth, and he had a dark purple glow for eyes and an expression that looked as though he was always pissed off. It was hard to tell where the helmet ended and his head began actually. In order to follow Rem to the entrance to Seiiki, the Yaju would first have to go through Dante. The task however was not one to be taken lightly. Of the two generals Dante was easily the strongest. Perhaps of the Yaju ran he could live to fight another day? if nothing else he had found the general area in which the entrance to Seiiki was located. That in of it's self was a huge deal, but it would mean nothing if Lucas were to die now.

[Kristia]

Tempus

Nera felt how the herbs were affecting her injuries, thei natural elements sipped into the vivid flesh of her as she was greeting her teeth. It was a direct treatment to heal the quickest way, yet it could make a person faint because of the pain.

"Gah.. just a bit.. more" she mumbled to herself holding her now recovering shoulder, the arrow injury disappeared leaving only a thin line on the sckin covered in fur.

The fox knew the time was small, so she decided to start walking forward to regain her energy, first a calm step, then another, slowly feeling better, the shoulder wound was gone by the time she managed to get to the corridor out of the medical ward

Nera then noticed a strange man walking around and disappearing on a corner, but she didnīt have time to focus on that as she was now searching for the mercenary abain

Finally findind the mercenary, the vixen spoke "Looks like you seem better, are you ready to meet the king?" she asked stretching her now healed arm

[bookdragon2000]

Somewhere inside the Gensei woods (1-4)

Due to the tree cover, Lucas had been forced to drop down to the ground in order to continue pursuing General Rem. He had been concentrating on weaving through the trees and keeping hidden when suddenly a black blade appeared in his path. He immediately jerked to a stop and retreated a couple of meters and saw another general drop down from the tree into his path. Lucas did not recognise the General but the sword was unmistakable, this would be Dante. Lucas hesitated, Dante guarded the entrance to seiki didn't he? so for him to appear would mean the entrance was nearby. Lucas knew he did not have a chance against Dante, and sullenly backed away, making use of his ability to fly backwards. But he was extremely annoyed that he was stopped so close to his goal and once he retreated only to a safe distance, still in sight of Dante. Then Lucas grabbed the three knives from his belt and sent those three one after another speeding towards the Generals, aided by a little wind. One aimed at the general's head, one aimed at his wrist of the arm wielding the sword and the other aimed at the eyehole of Rem's skull. Then he quickly fled upwards, into the sky, then above the trees, where they probably could not attack him easily, he flew back towards silverwood grove.

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Chronomancer's tower (1-5)

Amurei had been wondering for quite a while already, she had just stumbled across a tower next to a lake, it looked extremely old, but was in good condition. She could feel a faint stirring of recognition as she looked at the tower, but she could not remember, it had been a millennium since the last visit, there was a lot she had forgotten. But this tower seemed familiar, but looked to be still inhabited, maybe she had been here before. She decided to look around, and first hid herself once she became as close to invisible she was likely to get, she approached the tower's door. Once again her intense focus betrayed her, she was so concentrated on the tower that she did not notice the golden blur speeding towards her until it flashed right in front of her, barely missing her. She gave an involuntary yelp and backed away, a guardian of the tower?

[S121]

(This image is of Azeruk's armor, only his is shinier and is sort of bronze-gold in color.)

Spoiler:

Lakeside Path - Near Chronomancer's Tower - Gensei Woods 7:25

Azeruk dashed past the tower when suddenly he heard a yelp. As soon as he heard, Azeruk skidded to a stop in front of the tower, sending dirt into the air, but not enough to hamper his vision. Azeruk looked in the direction of the noise as he got into a low, sort of wide stance, confused and trying to figure out the yelp's origin. Was it an animal? If that was the case, then why was there nothing there? Azeruk's confusion and slight fear was masked by a bronze-gold helmet with an angry, disgusted face on it. As Azeruk continued to stare in Amurei's direction, the helmet stared daggers through Amurei. Azeruk quietly waited for another noise as his breathing slowed down and became almost completely silent, leaving only the sounds of the forest to fill the air.

Finally, Azeruk spoke.

"Hello?"

Azeruk's voice and tone betrayed his intimidating appearance. The voice that came out sounded like a young man's, not harsh, but soft, not angry, but confused.

[Cucoo5]

Land of Cinders and Ashes (4-3)
Dalia coughed and squinted through the debris and dust. "Damn geomancy! Enough, no more subtlety!" Dalia went for her drink, but thought better of it with the dust settling in it. "...and he ruins the best whiskey I had in a long time. HE IS SO DEAD!"
"Dalia! No!" Kiara coughed lightly and pulled the scarf up over her mouth and nose. "Don't!"
"Kiara, he's mad. I'm going to do him a favor. Put his soul to rest." With that Dalia pulled out her bow gun and cocked back an arrow. She paused for a moment and grabbed the ruined whiskey. "Zombie decided he wants to play with fire. Now, zombie gets burned~!"
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Tempus - 7:25 (3-2)

Aion heard Nera but was preoccupied with his own thoughts. He sat with Mercurius in its sheath.
"Why me? What am I to have...earned...the responsibility of bearing this cursed sword?"
"Section 1 - Paragraph 4...The Silver Blade of Heaven's Forge...Also Known as Mercurius...Channels energy...The first owner...The Goddess of Bounded Time...or more commonly...Inevitable Destruction"
"...Yes, I'm ready. You, Nera?" Just as he finished speaking, the guard returned already.
"I bear news from the King. He says he will grant audience for...the mercenary and the...Yaju..."
"Well that's just wonderful! Ok then how-"
"He also has a message for the mercenary. He wishes to speak to you about a possible assassination attempt on his life which it is believed will be done by poison...it is supposed to be related to...uh...Hyperion?"
Aion suddenly became attentive to the guard. "What...did...you...just...say?!" Aion was moving quickly through the medical ward. "I need supplies to cure poison NOW!" He quickly went through cupboards scanning through for anything that might be useful. He then turned to Nera. "A rumor I heard once, an aquamancer could purge the body of poison, is this true?" He grasped Nera's shoulder (consciously making sure it was her good one as to not cause her pain) "If it is, I need to know NOW."

[Kristia]

Tempus

Seeing the sudden emotional explotion from the mercenary surprised the Yaju, even more when he ran to the medical ward searching for potions

When the abain grabbed her shoulder and asked about the healing properties of water magic, she nodded "Yes, water magic can purge poison out of the body, I only need fresh water which-" she stopped and looked at her garments

she only had 1 bottle filled with water left, but she was happy to see it.

-I got right here, lets go to see him before anything worse can happen" she finished now thinking on the process of liquid exchange

What she knew about poison treatments was to exchange liquids from the poisoned being with the userīs own liquid, using the fresh water would low the risks of the user getting poisoned by the venom to a point. Many people think water magic was a simple element, but it has many other uses that are extremely complex to achieve

"Ok, Im ready, lead the way sir" the fox requested to the guard

[Cucoo5]

Tempus - 7:25 (3-2)

"It may be too late if this is an incident related to Hy-...to that..." Aion raced ahead of the guard, vaguely recalling where the throne room was.
"Hyperion...worse than damnation. The king may well be dead already."

As the three went by, Aetheron lingered for a moment in the shadows. Then he noticed another guard, the one that had accused Nera and Aion of being traitors. "Perfect." Aetheron focused on the approximate location of the man's heart. Then...the man chocked for a moment and fell lifeless to the floor. Aetheron casually walked over to the man and placed the empty vial of poison in his hand. Then he slipped a note into the man's bag and vanished again...

[wonderweiss]

Toran found her. He smiled widely .

"Yes, I've got you now! It pains me to do this but- oh wait, no it doesn't! Die, die, DIE!!!"

Toran jumped from the wall and charged at the woman. He used the debris to form a clawed gauntlet around his hand. He looked very happy. Maliciously happy. But then suddenly, he missed the woman... On purpose. His malicious smile faded.

"Wait a minute... How could she even be here? Even if she were alive, it would be a wonder that you would make it here so soon in such perfect condition, much less before me..."

He then disarmed the debris. The room was cleared. The debris returned to the ground. He returned to the woman.

"But she looks unmistakably like her. The only other person I know that looks like that is... Oh no..."

The woman looked at Toran in glee, as if she received a Christmas gift.

"Toran?! Is that really you?!"

"Hello... Esmeralda."

[Cucoo5]

Land of Cinders and Ashes (4-4)

Dalia and Kiara looked at what was transpiring in a sort of stunned silence. They then looked at each other and back to the two.
"Well damn. I thought I saw everything..." Dalia poured the ruined whiskey from the glass she was holding and then dropped it. "BARTENDER! ANOTHER BOTTLE OF YOUR STONGEST WHISKEY!"
"Uhm...uh...we're all out."
"Is that so~?"
"Yes...uh...you drank...it...all..."
"Oh c'mon now~ stop toyin' with me~! It ain't nice to tease a lady!" Dalia realized the whole time she was waving around her armed bow gun. She quickly put it away. "Seriously. I don't drink THAT much!"
Everyone else in the pub said otherwise.
"Oh, fine lot you all are!"
Kiara then regained her nerves while Dalia went on about her own problem. "Toran? You recognize this lady?"

[wonderweiss]

Toran heaved.

"Well, see-"

Esmeralda interrupted him.

"Ha! Who am I?! Why I am no other than Esmeralda Megrande, younger sister to the great Dorothy, the first to create the smartest zombie in all of the land, also known as Toran and-"

Toran looked worried now. "Don't say it-"

She went on anyways in quite a surprising way. "MY FUTURE HUSBAND!!!"

Heads turned, noises stopped, and Toran was pretty sure that somewhere out there, worlds collided.

"... You had to say it."

[bookdragon2000]

Gorck's camp

Lucas hurried to Gorck to report his findings. Once he was done, he requested 9 more knives from the armory like the last 3 he had to make up a full dozen, and then to await further instructions.

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Lakeside Path - Near Chronomancer's Tower - Gensei Woods (5-2/1-6)

Amurei froze as the golden blur skidded to a halt to reveal what looked like a suit of armor carrying a bag that looked to be extremely heavy. The face was a mask of anger and Amurei dared not move. It seemed to be staring at her, but its lack of action seemed to indicate that it was uncertain. She dared not reveal herself, if this was really a guardian of the tower, then it would probably attack first and ask questions later. She knew she could not be harmed by it, but it seemed angry enough already, no need to infuriate it even further. Then a confused voice came from the helmet: "Hello?"

So it must be a person in there, well at least humans could think for themselves. But he had been moving at such a high speed. Could he be an undead? Undeads, unlike humans could harm her, so she decided to conduct a small test. She took out one of the darts and moved right in front of the person, and jabbed the dart through the eyehole. nothing happened, no sound and no resistance, so it was a live human. She was so relieved she materialized fully so that she nearly looked like a live human too, but she did so in her current position, right in front of the person, holding a dart in his eye.

" Hi, do you know who lives in this tower? "

[S121]

(Azeruk's swords)

Spoiler:

Lakeside Path - Near Chronomancer's Tower - Gensei Woods 7:26

Without even so much as a warning, a woman appeared, holding a dart inside of his helmet's eye hole and only a few centimeters away from his eye.

"Hi, do you know who lives in this tower?", the woman in the black kimono asked.

"AAHHH!"

With the same speed as before, Azeruk jumped back and pulled out his swords, ready to attack. He was alarmed by the woman just appearing out of nowhere, and holding a dart to his eye no less. Was she a threat? She didn't seem like one. How did she even turn invisible? What kind of magic did she use? Despite the fact that the woman almost gouged his eye out with a dart, Azeruk eased his stance ever so slightly, but still maintained a combative presence, just in case she attacked.

"Who are you? Is it normal for you to greet people by gouging their eyes out?", Azeruk asked the woman in a slightly sarcastic, yet tense and serious tone.

[bookdragon2000]

Lakeside Path - Near Chronomancer's Tower - Gensei Woods (5-2/1-6)

"who am I? I was sort of hoping someone here actually knew me, I'm Amurei Burade, sound familiar? And can you put away that sword? This dart would not have harmed you anyway, unless you are an undead, which as I already tested, you are not. see?"

She moved forward at inhuman speed, not as fast as the man had moved, but still extremely fast, and pushed the dart through the man's chest without leaving a mark. But what would probably alarm him more was that she accidentally allowed her hand to follow the dart halfway through his chest. She let go of the dart and it landed on the ground behind him.

"Ooops, well since you already saw that.." She leaned through him and picked the dart up and after wiping the dirt off, put it back in the quiver. " So, who lives in this tower?"

[Kristia]

Tempus

Reaching the Kingīs main room, the Yaju hoped that the guards wouldnīt attack her the moment she walked towards him

Nera calmly showed both hands with no weapons at all and talked "Im here to treat the Kingīs poisoning with my water magic" she then took out her bottle of fresh water showing it was clean

"Let her treat him, we donīt have much choices, proceed with the treatment Yaju" a guard said giving her space to start her work

The black fox kneeled close to the King who was sitting on a chair and explained the process "Im going to open a little wound on your upper arm and purge out the venom from your system by exchanging it with my blood, there wonīt be side effects because of blood types and the water will lower the risks of me getting poisoned too"

Slowly the vixen used one of her sharp claw-like fingernails to cut a bit of skin from the manīs arm, a little trikle of blood appeared as she also cut her palm to start the process.

Taking the water out of the bottle, the Yaju used her magic to cover her hand and planted it on the manīs arm. Both wounds connected as she focused on the venom, it was on many areas of his blood system. The fox then chanted small words as she started exchanging the venom out of the kingīs wound with her own blood. Nera felt her body reacting to the venom as it both mixed with the water cleaning most of it, only a bit of poison got in her system as she finished the treatment.

Cleaning the kingīs wound, the Yaju stepped back suddenly feeling both a heavy nausea and dizziness "Give sme space.." she said running to the closest bucket and letting throwing out the venom out of her system.

Sitting on the wall, the heavy breathing Nera only said while recovering from the dizziness "The poison is out.. just give him fesh water"