Inf: HEY EVERYONE! Welcome to another chapter of SPOE!

So I got a few words to say

First all of Ain's job paths are now revealed. Yay!

Second, I just have to point out that my OC Harmony, and Ain have so many similarities that it's surprising. I just don't want anyone to think that im ripping off KoG after she becomes part of this story OTL

So first off their job paths. Ain's Arme path and Harmony's Archangel path are similar in the fact that they both are dedicated to their jobs. Not only that but they become serious and lost faith in humanity. I always planned on having one of her jobs like that so...ya! AT and AA are strangely alike in that ways, Preferring using their godlike powers rather than anything else.

Now Emotion and Unorthodox are more connected to humanity. They use more materialistic (as in physical world) powers and are just flowing with good vibes. Instead of blending in and trying to stay hidden from interrupting humanly affairs, those two are much more involving towards humans. EE and UA also believe in humanities goodness so there's that.

And last but not least the newly released Apostasia and Abbadon. They are both corrupted. In a sense, you could say that they are both Fallen Angels who strayed from God's influence. Apostasia who was corrupted by Henir and Abbadon who was corrupted by the Dark El. Henir being the opposite of the Goddess of Light Elia, and the Dark El being the opposite of the El. Both use corrupted godly powers and have had their personalities changed to be more...idk. Evil? Chaos driven? You see AP is driven to put things in a state of nothingness. Since everything all ends with death, what is after death? life after death? well what's after that? Nothing, and that's the kind of world AP wants to bestow. AA is driven to make the world into a living hell. She feels as though the source of all evil are humans and that through destruction and chaos a better world would be born. Both abandoned their paths as a messenger of god and are both sorry for the person that they devoted their life to. Ishmael for AP and Sencho for AA.

today I will start background information on my OC's classes to show what lead up to their promotion so look out for Harmony's maybe? I just didn't want anyone accusing me of ripping of KoG qwq

I do admit though that I did rip tiny insignificant things off of them. Now don't misunderstand me, I didn't do it out of the blue, there were reasons for it. You see I had a plan on how I want Harmony to be, and I just couldn't come up with a way to implement it into her design until Ain showed up. For example, I wanted Harmony to have wings and a halo. But I didn't want it to be part of her casual clothing, rather I wanted to make a way to let Harmony have wing's and Halo's without keeping them in her signature dress style. That's when Ain came. When he awakens he goes into spiritualism form, which gives him a crown and wings. I already planned on giving Harmony a Celestial form upon awakening so I thought, "Wow! gaining wings and crowns upon awakening?! That's a good idea!" and so there we go.

anyway dont think im a rip off who cant think of his own idea ;-;

Without further adu. let us began


Elsword and gang had just returned from their scouting mission of finding some clues as to Banthus' whereabouts.

As usual, Elsword had no ounce of politeness in his tone. "Hey Lowe! I found this." He holds up the letter that one of the bandits they defeated had with them. "One of the bandits had it."

"I found it to be precise" Aisha gloated

"Why you little..." Elsword was starting to get annoyed with Aisha's know-it-all attitude.

"L-little?! You're the one who's tiny!" Likewise, Aisha was getting tired of Elsword's rudeness.

Ain who was observing the group in non-intervention sighed quietly and thought to himself. "Why all the fuss? There's just no point..."

Rena was getting more annoyed than anyone else, tapping her foot repeatedly on the ground as a dangerous aura flowed around her. "Now now. Both of you shut up before I throw you outside."

"..." Both Elsword and Aisha immediately kept quiet, lest they want to invoke the wrath of an angry Elf Warrior.

"So what does it say?" She asked politely.

"Mmm...Instructions for Banthus...it seems that they have been planning to steal the El Shard in Ruben Forest for a long time!" Lowe revealed.

"What should we do, Mr. Search Leader?" asked Ain.

"Go inform the Elder of Ruben. We tried to keep this from going out but the creatures of the forest have suddenly become hostile towards us. Eventually the Townsfolk will find out, so it's better to consult with the Elder."

"Alright! Let's go!"

As if he was waiting for this moment, Elsword took off towards a house in the very end of this small village. The rest had no choice but to follow him as he knew Ruben Village better than anyone here. The party caught up quickly to Elsword before he reached the Elder. The Elder of Ruben Village looked like a semi-old man with a full long, Santa beard dyed in brown. Contrary to what you'd expect, the Elder didn't look much older than 50. Regardless he stood with his hands behind his back with a look of wisdom in his eyes.

Elsword impulsively called out to the Elder as they got within earshot. "Hagus! Hagus! It's an Emergency!"

"Elsword? What did I tell you about being rude to your elders?" Hagus sighed as though he was teaching the child about respect for an immeasurable amount of time, only to find that he gotten worse.

"He really is feisty haha." Ain laughed as Aisha sighed.

"That's not important right now! Banthus ran off with the El Shard in Ruben Forest!"

"What? How could this happen...? That El shard in the forest was like a symbol of Ruben! It is protected by the forest...There are even rumors that Banthus has an amulet that can control the Holy Beast. What do we do...?" Hagus stroked his beard as he pondered about the situation.

"He didn't look smart enough to use a magic device...maybe he's not such a meat head unlike someone I know." Aisha added.

Elsword scoffed and dismissed Aisha's word, choosing to put his attention at the elder instead. "No matter. We have to track down Banthus! We are wasting time!"

"I'll alert the townsfolk to watch the entrance to the forest. Elsword, you go and search the El Tree. They could be hiding in the forest. Take care of the two ladies for me."

"Leave it to me!" Rena reassuring Hagus said.

"Oh, before you go, a while ago there were a few Townsfolk who found some bandits in the Forest Ruins while venturing in the forest. They might be related to Banthus. Would you kindly stop them before they cause any more trouble?"

"Ruins huh? Alright! Let's go everyone!"

As the party left for the Forest Ruin near the El Forest, Ain followed dissatisfied and confused. He didn't get why they were helping out on some tiny mission that the townsfolk have easily handled themselves. This only wasted precious time that could have been used to track and capture Banthus. Although he didn't understand it, he followed regardless. It wouldn't happen again...right?


A few minutes later

"No more mischief understand?!" Rena commanded of a pleading rat-like creature on its knees.

"Waaa! Yes yes I'm sorry! I won't do bad again!" The creature said before getting up and running away from the group that had defeated it so easily.

"Listen wimps! Stop wasting my time!" Elsword yelled out

Rena sighed as she watch it flee. "A Phoru, calling itself a great thief? Delusions abound among the members of other races, it seems"

"At least William's plans are all topsy-turvy now. That's something right?" Aisha added

"Well, let's get back to the village and report our findings"

The party returned back to the town from their expedition mission. It wasn't a relatively hard task as it turned out that the Phorus were the one that were causing trouble. These Phorus, were small and cute in appearance, still retaining the fat rat-like appearance however. Some of Banthus' bandits were also there but their information on his whereabouts were less than useful. The Forest Ruins was once inhabited by the sacred Elves, but it's fallen into ruin since they left. The Phorus there apparently were scavenging the area for treasures in a similar manor as thieves and bandits. It seemed like they picked up the behavior from the Banthus and his crew. Not only that but the forest beasts were becoming violent. The team concluded that it was due to the Power of El fading within the area. They gave their report to Hagus.

"Phorus? Those docile creatures are causing trouble in the ruins?"

"Docile? Didn't look docile at all." Aisha retorted.

"This Phoru called William was leading other Phorus to steal like bandits. I've smacked some sense into them and got their promise to never bad it again." Elsword assured.

"Ahh good work, they won't be able to cause any more trouble then."

"We got another problem however." Lowe with a timely arrival held up a piece of paper. The paper contained a map with directions. On one side was Banthus' face with a trail leading to Ruben Forest where it had the El clearly expressed on the paper. From there it is shown that the trail goes past the El Forest and the Forest ruin straight back into Elder.

"This map seems to suggest that Banthus' is heading to Elder next" Rena deducted.

"We left as soon as we knew that Banthus was headed for Elder. Fastest way to get to Elder is to go through White Mist Swamp. And just as we caught up to him, we suddenly got attacked by a Phoru and lost him."

"Tsk...So you couldn't catch him after all?" Sighed Elsword.

"Yeah" followed Aisha.

"...Shut up! We tried our best!"

"Ah...I'm sorry on their behalf, Lowe."

"Anyways! From how it looked. It seemed like that Phoru is the Holy Beast. The Ancient Phoru."

"There's a myth that the Ancient Phoru that resides within the White Mist Swap is actually created by the El Shard to protect itself from harm." Hagus informed.

"A 'life form' created by the will of the El.." Ain thought quietly.

"With the power of El?" wondered Elsword.

"From the current situation...it looks like its going rogue because the El Shard went missing." As an Elf, Rena is greatly knowledgeable about instances such as this. As her world relies on the El to maintain itself, creatures around the El Shard and creatures made by it will go berserk if the very foundation of peace and balance is stripped away from their presence.

"Can we leave it to you to take care of the Phoru? It's only enraged because of the stolen El."

"Alright! We'll get the El back! Let's go guys!" Elsword yelled out excitingly.

"To the White Mist Swamp!"


Inf: JESUS! I mean ISHMAEL! Uh. idk. LADY OF EL! that was a long chapter! im so sorry guys ^^;

I didn't want to make this a two-part chapter as I wanted to get through William and have them camp out but. Ya know...

Also I wanted the next chapter to focus on Sen's situation so there's that. I'm kinda rushing to be honest. I don't want to bore you guys and I want to get done with Ruben as soon as possible.

After Ruben I can get started with some core aspects of the story such as adding more OC's in there! o/

but anyway I wasted enough of your time. R&R guys kayy?~

buh-baiiiii!~