The rest of the bathing time was spent in silence. Realizing that Lich may have gone a bit too far with the last part of his little "pep" talk, he decided to give Pyrrha some space. She did not need any reminders of death, but he just had to bring it up. The centuries of no social interactions has done a number on much of his social skills. That's right. Centuries. Even though he broke the water clock in despair, he still had a decent grasp of time after watching that droplet drop. Every second. Lich quickly shook his head. It seems that he needs to practice on subtlety and staying sane once more.

After another peek at Pyrrha to make sure that she wasn't thinking of committing suicide, he sighed in relief when she was simply washing her clothes. Suicide. What a word. So much emotion and despair crammed into one word. Lich no longer had the option of suicide sadly. He contemplated many times; however, he could never truly go through with it. However, the box decided to take matters into its own hands, removing the option for Lich. Pyrrha, on the other hand, was a lot more fragile. Lich hoped that she would be strong enough to avoid the suicide option. He would hate to lose the one alive companion he has finally obtained after so long to something pitiful such as suicide. At least until all hope is lost. If she could not escape… he did not have the strength to stop her if that was the case. If anything, he would envy her.

Lich went back into the cover of his boulder and looked at his skeleton hands. He probably should show Pyrrha his real body, but he had his misgivings for he was not used to his body himself. Even though he has been living as a skeleton for centuries, he has never gotten used to it. How could he think about showing it to others if he has not accepted it himself? Even so, if Pyrrha truly insisted on seeing his body he will show it to her. Until then, he has no reason to flaunt his body in front of her. It was one of the reasons he switched to plate mail armor. There are very few creatures who can puncture this titanium alloyed armor. He tested it against as many enemies as possible. Only 3 could truly go through it. The best the rest can do is dent it.

Since it seemed that Pyrrha was almost done, he began strapping on his armor once more. Since he also took the time to clean his armor, it had a certain shine to it. Lich was thankful that the light wasn't that good in the caverns or else he would be a walking beacon for all the Grimm that walked by. He was probably going to need to camouflage his armor though for the above floor.

"Lich? Are you done?"

"Yeah. Coming out."

He saw Pyrrha already with her armor on. He noticed that she folded up the rest of her clothes and placed it neatly next to the bag. Lich walked over and began organizing everything for the return trip.

"How is the armor?"

"Pretty good. You got the measurements pretty well."

"When you exist as long as me doing nothing, one of my entertainments was estimating stuff. I got pretty good at that. Then, I got bored again. You ready to go?"

Pyrrha merely answered with a nod as they began sneaking back to the main room. Thankfully, nothing blocked their way completely. Although there were still encounters, it was possible to evade most of the Grimm. The others were quickly dispatched with quick swings of Pyrrha's sword or a couple of well-placed spells by Lich.

When they finally managed to reach the main room, Pyrrha couldn't help but groan a sigh of relief. When Lich told her that the salamander was one of the weaker Grimm, she couldn't help but be afraid of what other horrors the caverns held. Following Lich to the kitchen, Pyrrha began eating while Lich got some things ready and began explaining his plans to get Pyrrha home.

"Alright, I am going to try to make this as short and as concise as possible. First, our goal. We need to get you to the top floor and through that door with the orb. If what the writing on that door is true, you should be able to pass with no trouble. Now getting you there is the real hard part. The path is going to be filled with Grimm and all sorts of terrors."

"You mean there are other enemies than Grimm?"

"Pyrrha, you have no idea. For example, there is like this slime in the above floor. Stay the fuck away from those. If we do have to fight those things, aim for the fleshy core they got. Now, where was I, yes, to get to the top floor, we have to fight through this floor, the hell hole of the above floor. Then, we would be on the top floor where we have to bypass this gigantic three-headed fuckin dog, and then you will be out of here."

"Is the above floor that bad?"

Lich looked at Pyrrha's, and replied with a dead tone, "It makes this floor feel like a baby zone."

"Oh."

"Continuing on, considering that the floors all have the same layout with only the size being different, with measurements from my scouts, I have concluded that it would take about a month to get you to our objective."

"Scouts?"

"Yes. I'll show them to you now."

Lich waved his hand, and a gust of wind closed the door. Pyrrha immediately went on guard as she reached for her weapons. Suddenly, this little scorpion exoskeleton crawled up onto the table and began dancing as best as it could with its little eight legs. Not what she was expecting, Pyrrha felt her mouth drop and the weapon slip from her grasp.

"That is my little scout. I think I should tell you about another ability I have. I can control dead things. It's why I chose a cavern full of dead skeletons as my base… You are taking this news far better than I thought."

Pyrrha folded her arms and stared back up at Lich. "I have been through a lot. I think being tired made this easier for me to accept. Is this what you meant by magic? If so, you have convinced me."

"Nope. I have something much more magical. So, you don't mind if I use this ability around you more?"

Pyrrha warily stared down at the scorpion making a fool of itself on the table. "I think I can handle it."

Lich heaved a sigh of relief. "Okay. But first, I want to desensitize you a little bit. Is that all right?"

"What do you mean by desensitizing?"

"I'll just slowly introduce you to them."

The door opened by itself, and a dead spider crawled into the room. "Now, don't get too attached to these corpses cause they are practically going to get destroyed in droves on our journey. Now, this little guy is fucknuts. Go to that corner over there, fucknuts."

After Pyrrha got a good eyeful of the dead spider, it moved to the corner along with the formerly dancing scorpion. However, her eyes went back to the doorway as another dead skeleton walked over. This time it was a salamander. "This little guy is named mofo1234. Wave hi."

The salamander did a sad attempt at waving with one of its front paws at Pyrrha before joining the other two dead creatures at the corner of the room. Pyrrha didn't get the chance to wave back since another dead creature quickly took its place. "This little guy is Drank2much."

The pattern repeated itself so many times that the corner quickly began piling up with all the dead skeletons piling up on each other, staring at Pyrrha. Normally, this would be unnerving to Pyrrha; however, instead of feeling nervous, she felt annoyance at how Lich was introducing them one by one to her. It was quite infuriating to listen to all the stupid names that Lich had given his little dead corpses and forcing her to listen to every single one. Eventually, she had enough.

"Enough! Just how many are there?!"

"A lot."

"Okay. Then instead of introducing them one at a time like that, just show it to me all at once!"

"You sure. Doesn't that pile over there scare you?"

Pyrrha looked at the corner with all the dead things piled up on top of one another simply staring at her. She swore that she saw this little spider wave one of its forelegs at her as the staring contest continued.

"No."

"Great. It worked. Alright. Let's go back outside. I am going to show you most of them at once now."

Pyrrha followed Lich outside the house and stood there shell-shocked as she saw the organized chaos in front of her. There were working undead little creatures everywhere. There were some moving containers of mushrooms and fish around while another line was tending to this fire. Some were taking out weapons and cleaning them, and another was working on making what looked to be this sparring ring.

"Are you serious? Why didn't I see these guys before?"

"Cause I hid them all." Pyrrha began staring daggers at Lich; however, he simply shrugged his shoulders and walked back into the house. She took one last look at all the new found workers before following Lich back inside.

"So how do these little guys work?"

"I don't know. I tried testing out my powers, but I could never reach a definitive conclusion to their inner workings. As for controlling them, I just control them like an extra limb I have. To be honest, I don't know how any of my powers work. I tried understanding it, but I couldn't wrap my head around it. In the end, I just gave up and that says something considering I wasted like a century and useless experiments to try and understand my power."

Lich was about to go on; however, he was interrupted by a large explosion. Pyrrha immediately went into defensive position, but Lich did not look surprised at all. At least, to the best of Pyrrha's knowledge considering his face was still covered up.

"Aren't you going to investigate?"

"Ehh. It's just my minions experimenting with the explosive materials."

"You mean Dust?"

"Dust? Dust doesn't explode."

"Uhh. Yes, they do."

"Look this is dust. Look. See? No explosion."

"Not that dust! The explosive things you are working on are called Dust."

"That is a stupid name and yep. Experimenting with Dust. Trial and error with explosives isn't that scary when you have already dead things working on it. I giving up with guns since all of my background knowledge comes from using guncotton or black powder to use a bullet. For some reason, these little pricks don't follow the same ideology as my world so my gun designs don't seem to work very well. It probably has to do with the metal or something, but right now, I am more focused on creating grenades. We are on a time crunch after all."

"Well, you are partially right. You do need specialized metal to handle the explosive force of Dust. Ordinary metals will get blasted apart."

"Good to know. At least, I can still make frag grenades or even incendiary grenades."

Pyrrha eyed Lich warily. She hoped that he did understand that they were in an enclosed area in a cavern. If he screwed up with the explosions, it could end with them suffocating or getting crushed to death.

"Anyway, so where were we? Ah yes, the trip to the top floor. It's going to take a month. Now, there is something I will have to warn you about. The floor we are in right now is completely different from the terrain above floor. The floor above which I will now dub the Deadly Floor or DF is a lot more 'alive' than this floor."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it has a fake sun up there with a bunch of trees and plants. Other than that, the rest is mainly Grimm and deadly monsters like a fuckin giant crocodile. Everything tries to kill you up there so when we get to the DF you need to be a lot more careful. Like seriously, the river was once fucking acid. A RIVER OF ACID. WHY? It looks like water, and it wasn't like eroding the banks or something. But no, as soon as I decided to jump in that river to escape a bunch of annoying cockroaches, it turns out to be fucking acid!"

Pyrrha was starting to get a bit nervous from the ranting Lich was giving off. It seems that he really hated the DF, and his rising voice was not in any way contributing to Pyrrha's understanding of the DF's dangerousness. Instead, it only made her more confused as to what is up there. Deciding that staying on the topic of the DF wasn't a productive move at the moment, Pyrrha decided to move things along by asking about what to expect on this floor.

"Well, nothing new really. Just a bunch of caves and tunnels. The enemy aren't as diverse as the freaking DF. Just mainly bugs and salamanders. Stay away from the bodies of water though. Go into the wrong ones and all sort of nasty shits are hiding in the water. It's not this floor I am worried about. It's the DF I am worried about. We could clear this floor in like a week max. It would normally be a day's jog for me, but unlike me, you will get tired, and you will need sleep. Rest areas can be made quite easily by me so no need on keeping checkpoints. Also, we would probably get targeted by a shit ton of Grimm which I won't be able to one-shot so we will be slower. A lot. Heck, if we get lucky, we might even reach the end in only 5 days! Any other questions?"

"What will the top floor be like? You mentioned a giant dog?"

"The top floor will probably be the easiest. From the stories you have told me, the top floor will have the Grimm's you are familiar with, and it is the smallest out of all the three floors. If you follow this path, you can get over there in like 2 days. The only problem is that well the three-headed dog… leave it to me. I can deal with it. Any other questions?"

"The DF floor. What type of enemies do we have to expect?"

"You know what dinosaurs are? Giant monstrous lizards from the prehistoric times."

Pyrrha shook her head as a negative. Much of the history before the four kingdoms were unknown so there was no prehistoric history class in school. Once Lich heard that, he merely shook his head.

"Imagine them as a wide variety of giant reptiles that would love to eat you. I think you should also expect a dragon because I am pretty sure I saw one of those flying around. Anyway, dinosaur Grimm are the main threat. Look. If I tried to explain all the enemies to you, I would probably confuse you more. I do have a list of the threats we can encounter. It's written on the wall in the room with the green door on the right hallway. Anything else?"

Pyrrha filed away that information so she would check it out later. "Next is supplies. How are we going to deal with food, maintenance of weapons, water, and other essentials."

"I've sent my little minions ahead to plant food and water ahead of us. They'll hide them on these little clefts in the ceiling so if we need any food or water we just wave, and they'll carry it down toward us. I'll have them plant sufficient food and water for the entire trip. As for the maintenance…" Lich picked up the metal clothe hangar in the room and began twisting it up using his magic as well as creating a hammer out of the dirt.

"I am a walking forge so…"

"Okay. Is that everything?"

"Yep. I think. It's been a really long time since I had to communicate plans to someone else, but I think I communicated all the important bits. Now let's spar. I need to know about your combat potential to see how much slack I have to take up."

"That is just rude."

"Still true."

"I don't think its fair though. You can use all those cool spells, and I haven't even unlocked my semblance yet…"

"Oh don't worry. I won't use spells against you. This will purely be a close combat spar. No spells with only weapons." Lich walked out of the house and towards the sparring ring that his minions had set up while Lich and Pyrrha were inside chatting.

"Wait. I thought you don't use weapons." Pyrrha noticed how the sparring ring was finished and the skeletons were now bringing in weapons from the weapons building.

"I said I was a spellcaster and that I don't need weapons. Not that I can't use weapons. All those weapons you saw in that building, I can use them all really well. Everything was self-taught with some basis in some fighting techniques that a friend of mine taught me. Heh. Good times. He still was a douchebag every time he stabbed me with that fencing sword. Anyway, in the DF, I met these velociraptor Grimm that were really good at dodging ranged attacks so most of my spells were practically useless. Not to say that all my spells were useless against them because I could still use homing spells or large AOE spells against them. Mainly AOE spells because those bastards quickly learned to use those homing spells to try and hit me with my own spells. So I decided to try out close combat against them, and I probably spent a good century or so getting my ass beaten by them until I got good."

Pyrrha merely shook her head at Lich's exaggerations with time and continued watching him pick out a weapon. While he was picking out a weapon, she decided to spend some time stretching. Suddenly, she stopped when Lich asked if she was comfortable sticking with her weapons or if she wanted to switch. Pyrrha replied that the sword and the shield were her favorite weapons since it was what the hunter she looked up to used as well.

He merely nodded before he strapped this massive ceramic plate around his chest plate and picked up a tiny little dagger as he got onto the sparring ring and got into a fighting position. Pyrrha began glaring at Lich.

"I thought no spells."

"No spells. Nothing. I promise. Everything will be purely physical for me. Although you can use your aura." This only made Pyrrha tighten her grip on her weapon even more.

"Are you looking down on me? I was at the top of my class at Sanctum Academy. You seriously think you can beat me with that dinky dagger without any aura?" Lich merely tilted his head and shrugged.

"When I saw you fight that salamander Grimm, it wasn't all that impressive. There was this one show that I watched that said you don't fight rabbits with cannons. I think that was how it went. I'm not sure. This dagger should be enough for you." If there was one thing that Pyrrha hated, it was being looked down upon. Even though she won every single match at her school, she made sure to treat every opponent with the respect they deserved before and after the match even if they fought dirty. It seemed that Lich needed a lesson in showing respect to his opponents after all those years without any human contact.

"What's the rules for this match. You don't have any aura so we can't use aura as an indicator."

"The rules are you win if you can crack this ceramic plate. Pretty easy to crack. Just a tiny scratch would be enough. I win if you…uhhh…" Lich tapped the plate as he said it.

"Run out of aura?" Lich nodded in affirmation.

"As soon as this rock hits the floor, the match will start." He threw a rock into the air, and Pyrrha waited for the rock to reach the floor. As soon as the first click was heard, Pyrrha charged forward with her sword as she attempted to quickly gain the initiative to crack the ceramic. However, her blade was suddenly stopped. Between Lich's two fingers.

"Tut. Tut. You are too impulsive. I am a lot faster than you are." Lich quickly pulled in Pyrrha as he kneed her in the stomach and while she was lifted into the air from the sheer force, she felt numerous stabs from the dagger all over her arms and legs before she was kicked once more in the same spot and hurled away. Pyrrha began nursing her arms and legs. Surprisingly, her stomach didn't hurt as much.

"I see so pain does go through. However, why aren't you coughing then? I am pretty sure that I hit your diaphragm… Ah… Must be the armor. Spider silk is quite a good material for reducing shock. Told you that armor would be a good investment. Well then. C'mon. Show me more." Lich once more got into a defensive position as he began taunting Pyrrha to come at him.

This time Pyrrha was far more cautious in approaching Lich. She edged closer, bit by bit with her shield raised high and braced it on her chest. With the shield between her and Lich, she tried to edge closer to Lich while keeping a close eye on him. He was incredibly fast with excellent reaction time which meant that she had to guard her front well. She had to force him to spend more time and energy in trying to attack her flanks which would give her more time to counter. In addition, she had the range advantage. Once she was in striking distance, she feigned an attack on the legs before lunging for his helmet. She couldn't go for the ceramic plate yet since it was what he was expecting. What she needed to do was stun him with a quick stab to the helm before shattering his plate while he was stunned.

However, her plan went out the window when Lich punched Pyrrha's sword arm and used his dagger to twist Pyrrha's sword away from her grasp while she was trying to recover from the pain. Immediately, Pyrrha pulled back.

Pyrrha could simply feel the disappointment radiating from Lich. He tossed Pyrrha her sword while looking down at her. "Seriously, you just made like the noobiest error that a shield/sword user could make. When you strike with that sword, your shield should also move with your sword arm to prevent counter attacks like that. What type of fucking instructor did you have?"

The rest of the fight was completely fruitless since Pyrrha could not get a single hit on Lich. Even if he wasn't using his semblance, he was too quick on his feet and he hit like an Ursa. In addition, he kept berating her for fighting like an actor. Halfway through the fight, Pyrrha could tell that he was just about done with this fight as he simply started toying with her by throwing away the dagger and attacking with his bare hands as he started ranting about how real-life fighting isn't remotely close to the fighting shown in something called anime which Pyrrha had no idea about. He even went as far as asking if she really was at the top of the class causing her to lose her anger as she charged forward which resulted in a punishment of a kick to the face.

The spar finally ended when Pyrrha's aura broke under Lich's onslaught of rapid punches to her face after he pinned her down under him and began wailing on her. He got off of her and silently watched her drag her feet underneath her, pick up her weapons, and got into a fighting stance once more.

"You're done. I felt your aura break."

"I'm not done yet. I can still fight."

"I applaud your tenacity, but it seems that your society has a long way to go in fighting actual intelligent human beings. All those unnecessary moves and stuff may have worked on Grimm, but it won't work on other humans. Well, I guess I shouldn't be that surprised. You guys only had like what… One great war, and everybody is taught to fight like that? Hunters were probably used as propaganda material with all those flashy moves you are showing. Jeez. Give it up. You won't win against me."

"I can still fight!" Pyrrha could feel tears of humiliation run down her face. She has trained from dawn to dusk in an attempt to be the best huntress she could possibly be. Even before she met Lich, she knew of how dangerous her path would be, and she knew of the importance of having strength to back up her beliefs. And yet… Here was this aura-less person who was not using any spells beating her, a prodigy and the top of her class, bare-handed. It was humiliation to the ultimate level, and it spat on all her effort.

Lich saw the determination in her teary eyes and decided to oblige her request. He charged forward. She tried to retaliate by blocking on of his punches towards her sword arm, but it was merely a feint as he pulled back his arm, stomped on Pyrrha's foot, and while she was flinching from the pain running up her leg, she saw a fist aimed at her face before everything went dark.

When Pyrrha woke up, she woke up on the same bed that she always woke up on. The bed of moss. She was still in her armor as well, and her entire body was sore. Particularly her face. Pyrrha began reviewing the spar in her head, and she sighed in defeat at how quickly she lost. She saw Lich begin to rise from his chair as he walked over to her.

"I realize that I may have said some really hurtful stuff to you yesterday. I just wanted to apolo…" Lich was cut short when Pyrrha grabbed Lich's hand, bowed her head, and yelled, "Teach me."

"Hah?"

"Lich. Do you believe in destiny?"

"Pgasdfh. Uh."

"Well, somebody once told me that destiny wasn't a predetermined fate, but some sort of final goal or something you work towards your entire life. I think that is what destiny is. So, I have made it my destiny to be the best huntress I could possibly be. A hero to the people. I think I finally know why I ended up in this cavern. Recently, I felt that I have met this sort of wall. No matter how much harder I trained, I couldn't get much stronger. However, now that I met you. I think I was sent here so that I could meet you so that you could help me with my destiny. So, please teach me everything that you know."

"Uhh… Pyrrha. Everything I have is based off of some stuff from my home-world plus a bunch of self-learning through trial and error. I won't be able to teach you about training your body to be as strong or as fast as me. That is like impossible since well I am kinda unique. Also, I would only be able to teach you some techniques and flaws in your fighting style. Anything else would be more of me throwing you into tough situations for you to fight out and learn for yourself. I won't even be able to teach you much about aura control since I don't have it myself. Yes, I can help you with interpreting it from a different viewpoints or help you with some experiments, but nothing more. I am not going to be the teacher you think me to be."

"I don't care. Please help me with my destiny."

"Sigh. Fine. Fine. We'll start after I get all your equipment repaired. I sort of went a bit overboard yesterday. I wanted to apologize about that."

"Forgiven. Just please teach me."

"Okay. Sheesh. I already agreed. I guess we will have to delay the starting point of our journey. I should be able to delay it to about maybe 2 more months at the maximum before we have to go or the food will start rotting. I hope that is enough time to break your bad habits cause sheesh there were a lot. Anyway, I wanted to show you something. If I delay it anymore, I might lose my courage at showing it to you, but then it might be considered a breach of trust which isn't a good thing."

Lich began rambling about the importance of trust in a team as he brought out this small strange glowing box with four keys and placed it on the table in front of Pyrrha. Now, she understood what Lich meant by magic being real. The box was literally magic. There was no other explanation for the pressure she was getting from the box and its keys. Obviously, the box had far more presence, but the keys did have some ghostly glow to them.

"What's inside?"

"Something extremely important to me. In fact, you could say that this box is connected to me and my powers. In fact, I even think this box is sentient because of how much it changes without permission." Lich took this time to glare at the box as his hands tightened around it.

"What do you mean?"

"This box was supposed to be a simple titanium box with four locks until it turned magical. Then, it started changing and placing restrictions on me as well. For example, these keys don't work anymore. I made the damn box and the keys, and I made damn sure that they work. At first, for the first fucking 29 years, they worked just fine, but then they stopped working." To illustrate his frustration, Lich rammed in one of the keys and began jiggling it around. The key did not even move an inch. Sighing, he took it back around and began twirling the key around his hand.

"Not only that, this box and the keys used to have teleportation abilities! If I get too far, they will just warp to me. The keys still do, but not the box anymore! Instead, I can't go more than a kilometer away from the damn box without moving it with me!" Pyrrha looked at Lich, obviously not believing him.

"I heard that liars get their pants set on fire."

"No! It is true! I seriously can't go more than a km away from this box! I can prove it to you." Lich quickly ran out before Pyrrha could say anything else. She found Lich at far end of the wall. How he got over there so quickly without him having any aura as he has claimed confused her. Pyrrha activated her aura and sprinted over to when Lich was.

"Okay. I'll place the box right here. Now, see that tunnel over there. You're not going crazy, my minions made them while we were bathing. We needed more room so we started connecting the next door rooms. I didn't do it before since more room means more places to defend, but we are leaving so… Before you say anything about digging our way up there, the caverns don't like it when we dig too far. Sure we can dig a little bit like this, but if we dig too much… earthquakes happen." Lich began sprinting towards the newly made tunnels at speeds that even Pyrrha had difficulty keeping up with even with her aura activated. They passed numerous rooms that were simply crammed with undead little corpses slaving away at gathering dust, minerals, or mushrooms. Until suddenly, Lich abruptly stopped with Pyrrha running straight into him. The plate mail armor did not cushion the impact at all.

"That is as far as I can go without that box." Pyrrha tried pushing Lich forward; however, something surprising occurred. Some type of force was preventing Lich from moving forward. It was definitely not Lich since she would feel the resistance from the foot; however, this was a force coming from the center of his body.

Then, Lich had this fantastic idea to make this into a training exercise for Pyrrha with her goal being her trying to get him through the 1 km line. Pyrrha tried numerous ways to get Lich to go even one more step further even going as far as lifting him up and throwing him. He wasn't that heavy surprisingly. They all ended in failure. He even surprised Pyrrha by ordering one of his minions to start moving his box the other direction, and he laid down. Pyrrha assumed the box was being moved when Lich was quite literally dragged by an unseen force in the assumed direction the box was being carried. Pyrrha could only watch this in shock as she placed a hand on her forehead and sighed. She felt lightheaded after all the energy she spent trying to prove Lich wrong. She thought it was him cheating by him using spells at first, but she quickly dismissed it since there was a certain atmosphere that could be felt when Lich used his spells.

"Okay. So. Let me catch my breath. Whew. So, you weren't lying when you said you couldn't go any further."

"Nope. Let's go back."

"Can't we rest a bit more?"

"Not here." Lich ignored Pyrrha's cries of surprise and protest as he picked her up like a sack of potatoes and began dashing towards the box once more, scaring Pyrrha into silence with how fast he was going. Very few people could achieve the speeds at which Lich was going, and the few people who could go that fast was because of their semblance. It was almost as if Lich was flying towards the box.

They quickly reached their starting point as Lich gently let Pyrrha down to let her retch in peace. The metal jabbing into her stomach did not help with the speed at which they were going. Lich patiently waited by sitting on the rock next to the small box. Out of the corner of Pyrrha's eye, she could see him chucking the keys at random directions to see them returning to him after some time. After one last heave, Pyrrha smoothed out her clothes and drank from the water a little undead spider brought to her.

"Okay. Anything else I need to know about the box?"

"Other than how it can change by itself, how the box and I are connected, and how it is also really precious to me? Nothing that comes to my mind really. Oh, wait. It is like anti-Grimm. Seriously, if they so much as touch this, they start dissolving. That said, I don't use these things as weapons because if it suddenly changes characteristics while I am chucking this thing at the Grimm… I don't want to think about it."

"Can I touch it?"

"Sure."

Lich handed the box and the keys to Pyrrha. She noticed that he got a bit tense when she started shaking it, but other than that there were no words of protest from him as she fiddled with it. However, it wasn't until Pyrrha took one of the keys and plugged it in to one of the locks that things turned interesting. She turned the key expecting it to fail, but it turned with a corresponding click. Lich and Pyrrha both froze as the box suddenly began glowing once more and this time some sort of writing appeared on the box. Pyrrha quickly puts down the box, puts her hands in the air, and steps back.

"You told me that the keys don't work."