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Asis asked his questions all night. "Why would attack a monster like Ogrest? What provoked him? Why would you think you could take him on?"
Yes, Asis asked repetitive questions, but he couldn't understand logically why someone so out matched would dare think they could hurt what was basically a high tier deity.
Then Asis realized that mortals weren't logical. They acted on whims and fleshly desires. This would take some pondering. Though Asis had experience once being a mortal himself, that time had come and gone.
"So you see-" Percedal started, but was interrupted by Asis stating, "Love."
"Uh, what?" The young knight asked.
"Love is what motivates your people. Love of battle, love for family and friends. Admirable." Asis smiled, these, as the gods and other Alatreons would say, 'foolish' emotions often motivated heroes and champions to do the impossible.
Asis felt something…creeping. It moved as though- no three things. They were moving so close as to not be noticed. Their presence betrayed their intentions, as creatures of darkness. The forged by a dark god. But there was something familiar about them.
Asis was not one to act rash or inspire fear, so it would be best to wait for the mortals to be asleep. 'Dally' as he was called was a god by technicality, but seeing that the host was mortal, he was more of a deity.
Asis also noticed that Evangeline had dozed off to her partner's dramatic portrayal of the scene. This was the time move, "I have heard all I need. I will retire now." He stood from the couch and blinked outside, allowing the mortals their confusion once more.
The three presences were in the woods. Their dark power betrayed that much, but there was too much to pinpoint an exact location.
Oh well, looks like I have to do this the old fashion way Asis thought as he walked down from the porch into the woodlands. He strolled through, slowly, and radiated enough power to make sure that the presences knew where he was.
And Asis knew that they knew of his location, because he could feel the dark beings following him.
Asis led them away from the house, careful not to provoke a sudden attack that might have disastrous consequences for anyone nearby.
The creatures seemed to follow without making a physical form, as though literally moving through shadows.
Just a little further Asis thought as he approached a clearing in the woods. A small stream ran in front of him. A deer-like creature spotted Asis and continued to stare until Asis spoke with a calm voice, "Run along now." Causing the beast to turn around and run into the wooded area on the other side.
Asis smiled as the dark creature manifested a few yards behind him.
They rose with the shadows, appeared to be made of the darkness itself before taking on physical form. A dark grey cloak covered the heads, descending into brown and black furs held together by metal buttons. Their bodies were wide and thick, boasting physical mass, as thought to intimidate any foes before fighting even began.
The melting continued, and Asis wasn't going to stop it, if only to be courteous and respectful to these dark beasts last few moments of life.
Their morphing continued as leather-like boots formed, boasting silver spikes around the shins of the creatures. Hands manifested, at first like humanoid hands, but the tips boasted claws like that of a hawk.
And finally, the metal masks over the monsters' faces. They were uniform, each identical, and were silvery rectangular plates, which stretched out to form a snout like shape. Carvings appeared to cut out eye-like appearances into the masks, and carved out the straight lines around the mouths.
These were Faceless. They stretched their talons out to the shadows as thick blades appeared out the darkness.
Asis sighed, before releasing small orbs of light which surrounded the Faceless squad, earning their silent shock.
"Sorry, but you aren't the first of your kind I fought." Asis stated, causing the creatures to perform a unified silent roar. Though no magic could be detected, Asis feel there was an unnerving effect of seeing a battle cry, but hearing nothing.
When they returned to their neutral state, the two Faceless on the edges of the formation charged at Asis, while the center one-stepped back.
Asis raised his index finger with a straight arm and fired three beams at the charging Faceless. The beams punctured the masks, shattering them, causing the airborne bodies to slowly disintegrate in black smoke.
Now where is the third one Asis thought as he scanned for powerful presences. Nothing. The Faceless was keeping his power low, as though to avoid Asis's wrath. It was a clever tactic, if not for the fact that Asis could see the shadow that had no reason to be so dark in the clearing.
Asis groaned before firing another beam, only for the shadow to scurry into the forest before the beam struck.
Asis pursued into the forest, the Faceless's natural element. Asis followed the direction that the shadow went, but recognized that he should have easily caught up with the Faceless.
Asis had to stop a fire a pulse of energy to search the area-
Asis ducked and slammed his elbow backwards, colliding with the silvery metal plate, shattering it, while also avoiding the blade that was aimed for his neck.
The Faceless slumped down, raising its hands to watch as they began to dissolve.
Asis knew this wasn't over, the decaying beast in front of him was hardly the source of the issues that had come to this world. Not to mention, how many other faceless could there be out in a world so large. Asis had already acted out against his position to not heavily interfere in mortal affairs, He could't do much more.
Asis would need a champion to deal with these threats, at least until Asis found him.
Yugo rested his head against the pillow his father had laid out for him. His eyes were not staring at nothing, they were staring at the empty bed space that had once been Adamai's.
His brother had made an ultimatum.
"Your friend or your brother Yugo!" Adamai shouted.
Yugo turned away before saying, "If I side with you, I won't have a second option."
He opened the portal to the Sadida kingdom and walked toward it. Slowly, too slowly to avoid the doubting sensation in Yugo's heart.
"IF YOU WALK THROUGH THAT PORTAL," Adamai shouted, causing Yugo to stop, "You'll never see me again!"
Yugo, shouldn't have said anything, yet he couldn't stop himself, "I love you bro."
He did not need to turn to feel the betrayal, the pain, and the anger that his brother felt. Their connection ensured that well enough.
Yugo walked through the portal.
He still waited for his brother to return, to go back to yelling at Grugal, to laugh at Alibert's misfortunes, to see Ruel's dismay at the mention of his tab. Yet the bed remained empty,
Yugo had to shift his head to keep his cheek dry. He was crying yet again. It wasn't like Yugo hadn't tried to "be a man" or "Suck it up." Yugo had tried several different approaches, but the feeling of the rift between his brother still existed, no matter how Yugo looked at the situation.
Between the two options, certain eventual destruction or possible immediate destruction, Yugo knew in his bones that he had made the right choice. But He would gladly admit to being wrong if it meant that Adamai would come back.
Yugo sighed, closing his eyes as he drifted off to a hopeful sleep. Yet he couldn't, in addition to Adamai being gone, the visitor they had today still tugged at the fabrics of his mind…and the imagination.
Was this mysterious visitor a mighty wizard, out for the world? Was he a god, testing Yugo. His mind went to less glamorous, more likely options, like some homeless fool who'd picked up a magic artifact. Or maybe a thief.
His eyes began to imagine various stories, which, quite frankly, Yugo just wanted to ignore. He wanted to sleep, and wake up to find the family reunited, or dream about it. A light flashed against his eyelids, probably Chibi lighting a lamp to go get some water. But the light didn't go out or move.
Yugo groaned, "Chibi, either blow out your lamp or go do what ever you were going to do."
There was no response. Yugo opened his eyes.
The light was coming from the window. Yugo got out of bed and walked over to see what was going on.
His face erupted in horror as His eyes were greeted by the sight of burning buildings. Yugo dropped a teleport beneath himself to lead outside.
Yugo's ears were greeted by screams and wails of agony.
Yugo quickly set out a string of teleporters to lead to the village, landing in the streets between two burning thatched houses. People were running away from the center of the village, away from the burning buildings, but their faces didn't look distressed… they looked terrified, like the people were running from something.
Yugo heard a cry from a woman and turned to see a house engulfed in flames, with a woman crying as two men held her back. He fired a teleporter over to the group, who were trying to drag the woman away. Yugo could hear the cries of a child from inside the building.
He could tell from the situation what was going on, and teleported inside the building. Fire burned all around, and smoke clouded his vision, but Yugo was an Eliatrope. He closed his eyes and laid down on the ground, seeing a small mass of Wakfu over the smoke.
Yugo crawled over, careful to avoid the flames, and rose over what appeared to be a cradle. He picked up the child and Opened a teleporter to the outdoors, finally opening his eyes.
The woman surged forward, "My baby!" She practically tore the baby from his hands and held the child close to her chest.
Yugo looked around and noticed few people running towards the houses as well. Yugo ran immediately to help, teleporting in and out of houses, doing whatever he could to save lives. He saved a couple dogs, a few children, an old woman who thought 'the fire place looked pretty' while starring at a burning wall.
After the woman, he dropped to his knees, feeling the weight of teleporting multiple people. He was exhausted, and the lack of sleep wasn't helping.
Yugo struggled to his feet, and looked up to find a crowd of terrified victims running away from a house at the center of the village. Surely everyone else was safe now?
Suddenly, the house in front of Yugo burst into pieces, the flames scattering in all directions, knocking Yugo onto his back.
When Yugo raised his head, he saw a figure standing where the house used to be. The man had a long cloak that reached down to fur jacket, going further down with dark furs covering legs. Yugo also noted the talons instead of finger tips and face mask the figure wore.
Yugo rose to his feet, "Did you do this?"
The figure remained silent, seeming to scan the area. Then it lunged forward, attempting to grab one of the shocked bystanders.
Yugo acted quickly, firing a beam of Wakfu at the masked man, hitting him in the shoulder. The man stopped, before turning in a wide stance to Yugo. His talons opened up, causing the night air to seem to bend into his palm. Yugo had a split second to recognize what the figure was doing before creating a portal to avoid the blast, which transformed another burning house into coals.
Yugo felt his legs ready to give out, his lungs sore from breathing heavily. His eyes rose from the ground to see the figure's left arm outstretched, a hilt appearing in his hand. The darkness around the figure seem to morph into a wide guard, followed by a wide blade that stretched out several feet. The Blade didn't have tip per say, like Rubilax, but rather, a round blade on the end that gave a sort of hour glass shape to the blade.
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Asis walked through his new palace, generously created by the gods of this realm. All over the marble walls were engravings of tales and myths.
He walked towards the throne room, before noticing the nearby doorway's engravings. He saw dragons, wyverns, and other winged beast bowing, all bowing higher and higher with ascending rows, where at the top was a-
Asis summoned a sword from his treasure and immediately slashed the top of the carving seven times in rage. He hated that legend. Asis didn't want to be reminded anymore about his past. He needed time to think.
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Yugo Rolled again, dodging the blade that was swung with surprising ease from the masked figure. Before Yugo could recover a burst of the dark energy hit Yugo, destroying a chunk of his shirt, causing his shoulder to erupt in a tear-jerking pain.
Yugo could hear an acidic sound and turned to see his skin bubbling and popping where the blast had hit.
Yugo clutched his shoulder as the sizzling began to subside. Yugo only had time to looked up before the flat part of his opponent's blade struck him in the face, knocking Yugo to the ground. Yugo found it impossible to keep his eyes open, and closed them, just for a moment.
"GET UP!" An Eliatrope girl shouted as Yugo opened his eyes in her arms.
She pressed her forehead against his, her pink hair clashing with his golden.
Yugo blinked, feeling a massive pain in his head. The masked figure was starring down at him, the sword raised. Yugo had one shot to end this. Yugo fired a full power Wakfu beam at the metal mask, knocking his opponent back.
The masked figure clutched his face, though he still remained silent. The figure removed his hands from the mask, revealing no damage, aside from a light scuffing of the metal.
Yugo was exhausted and ready to accept death at this point. He was sore, and he couldn't really do anything to stop his foe, who walked slowly towards him.
Yugo slumped down. At least the people had escaped.
The Figure's sword gleamed a sinister intention. He raised the blade would end Yugo's life, staring down at the young boy.
Then the masked figure suddenly jolted, as though he had been shocked. The figure backed away from Yugo, looking around, searching for something…or someone.
The Figure seemed to get more panicked as each second passed, before his figure sank into the dirt, seeming to melt into the darkness, disappearing.
Yugo waited, before crawling back to the inn after a couple hours.
He opened a portal to the roof, and crawled through the window…to find the same head band wearing stranger standing over Chibi, stroking his hair lightly.
Yugo mustered what little strength he had left and took a fighting stance.
The stranger raised a finger to his lips, shushing Yugo, "You don't want to wake him, he's having a good dream."
Yugo looked to find Chibi chewing on his hat with a happy smile and raised cheek lines.
Yugo asked the question, "What are you doing here?"
The stranger gave a sad smile, "I'm here to take you to train."
Yugo shook his head, "I told you, I don't want your training."
The Stranger sighed, "Yes, but now it's mandatory. If you don't a lot of people are going to die, good people."
Yugo stared at the stranger as he continued, "You'll also disappoint your training partner. They really want to see you."
"My training partner?" Yugo asked, confused.
The Stranger nodded, "Yes, you apparently have quite the unfair history together."
Yugo thought, it must be Adamai, I can finally make up with him and we can get on with our lives.
"So, are you coming." The stranger opened a black portal that had white specks in it and was surrounded by a purple hue.
Yugo hesitated, before thinking Adamai is waiting for me, I won't make him wait any longer. He nodded and followed the figure through the portal.
Wow, that was fun to write.
I also discovered that three underscores don't equate to a line break.